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Recent stuff.

Flooding the thread with stuff from a year ago. Marvellous.

Can we keep this thread to its intended purpose, which is a discussion of the war. There are other threads for Israel, WW2, and the rise of the right wing in Europe.

That Szoboszlai fella isn't bad. Which is nice.

And Nazi Germany. Now an economic powerhouse.

More likely he'll get a bullet in the back of his head and then everyone can pack up and go home.

Yeah, Putin has a lot to answer for. Hopefully he'll be held to account for all their deaths.

And long may it continue. Worth every penny. It was missiles from the UK that flattened the Naval HQ in Crimea.

Indeed. The House Speaker, Rota, fucked up there and should resign.

Believe me it isn't. I've been in SAA for 8 years. Sex addiction is no fun at all.

The Kerch bridge being target number 1. But tactically, it will force the Russians to move their supply hubs even further away from the front lines.

Depends on the offence, at least in the UK, although sex offenders are never allowed to work with the young or vulnerable ever again. When it comes to rehab, UK probation runs courses for offenders, but outside of that there is also SAA (and similar groups) and plenty of sex psychotherapists. There is help for those who want it. The problem is people don't usually seek help till their lives and other lives have been wrecked.

Which ironically sums up just about every daily mail reader.

We are just lacking a wee bit of everything.

They need their PEDs at half time.

It's a diesel sub. Or was.

Tragic. So many losses, that all you get is a bag of potatoes now. At least they can make vodka out of it.

Boring How about this instead - visual confirmation that Russia has lost a 3rd of its active IFV's. Vehicles that it is struggling to replace.

Sounds familiar This reply made me laugh

Diesel Problems

This bit is chilling https://www.ecpmf.eu/putins-russia-how-propaganda-bolsters-corruption/

https://www.ecpmf.eu/putins-russia-how-propaganda-bolsters-corruption/

Another good article on Russian corruption. https://www.ecpmf.eu/putins-russia-how-propaganda-bolsters-corruption/ And a good conclusion

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-muratov-independent-journalism-is-over/32588093.html Russian journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov believes there is neither freedom of the press nor freedom of expression in his home country. "The history of independent journalism is over, [it's] finished," the 61-year-old said on September 11 at the start of the first Hamburg Press Freedom Week. The editor in chief of the Novaya gazeta newspaper, which is banned in Russia, told Germany's NDR public broadcaster that, since he still lives in Moscow and will return there, he can only say in Hamburg what he can also say there, and "in Moscow, I can't talk about anything anymore."

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-guard-putin-flees-ecuador/32586511.html A guard at one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's residences in occupied Crimea has fled to Ecuador, calling the Kremlin leader a war criminal. Vitaly Brizhaty, who worked on the Ukrainian peninsula for the Federal Protection Service (FSO), the Kremlin's bodyguard agency, told Dozhd TV in an interview that he opposed the war in Ukraine. Brizhaty is the second member of the FSO to flee and publicly criticize the president over the invasion of Ukraine. Brizhaty worked at Olivye, one of Putin's two palaces in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. RFE/RL's Crimea. Realities revealed the massive palace in Olivye in a 2021 report. In the interview, Brizhaty said that Putin didn't trust his own guards. He said the Kremlin would announce Putin's arrival at two different airports in Crimea but that he could very well end up arriving by sea. "That's how much this man fears for his life," he said. Brizhaty claimed that FSO personnel were banned from communicating with Ukrainian relatives, citizens of the United States and European Union, or any people who oppose the war, under threat of criminal prosecution. He said he feared punishment because one of his friends, a former classmate with whom he has remained in contact, now resides in the United States and has come out against the war. Brizhaty claimed that if his friend liked a pro-Ukrainian post on Instagram, he could come under investigation. "It's just insane," he said. A few months after the start of the war, Brizhaty said he tried to quit the FSO but was told he would be sent to fight in Ukraine if he left the service. In the meantime, his wife, a native of Crimea, applied for a residence permit in Ecuador as a qualified worker and received it. The permit extended to him as well. As FSO and other Russian security-service personnel are not allowed to hold a foreign passport or residency permit, Brizhaty was dismissed and he immediately left with his wife for Ecuador.