Thereâs an opportunity for any would be breakaway countries.
The face of PTSD and trauma, right here.
Is Belarus still not officially a belligerent?
Horrific⌠though Iâd say that the Yugoslav wars were this brutal, by all accounts. And all sorts of conflicts since the end of WW2, but those have been in the global south, so we just donât think about them as much.
I hope he gets the help he needs.
Lukashenko is an Olympic-grade fence sitter. Even if the fence has toppled over and is lying flat on one side, he will still keep sitting on it.
Whoopsies. Someone forgot to let her betters wet their beaks.
So many possibilities:
(a) She discovered that money was being embezzled
(b) She was embezzling money herself
(c) She wasnât kicking up to the right people
(d) She wasnât kicking up enough to the right people
(e) She was kicking up to the wrong people
(f) She reported fraud to army headquarters
(g) She didnât report fraud to army headquarters
(h) One official bribed her to report another official
(i) Any combination of the above
I donât think itâs G). The military faction prefers car bombs to punish those it deems naughty. Defenestration is more the hallmark of the siloviki faction.
For further reference, Putinâs ruling faction is partial to poisons and radioactive material. Prigozhin and Kadyrovâs warlord faction goes with the thug-life favourite of drive-by shootings and bullets to the head.
Russiaâs foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has said that the US is inciting Ukraine to strike directly at Russian territory, after comments by US under secretary of state Victoria Nuland about Crimea. [See 8.43 GMT]
Tass reports that in her weekly press briefing, Zakharova said:
Once again, we have to state the involvement of the US in the conflict in Ukraine. They supply weapons in huge quantities, provide intelligence, simply participate directly in the planning of military operations, train Ukrainian armed formations.
Now the American warmongers have gone even further: they are inciting the Kyiv regime to further escalate, simply to transfer the war to the territory of our country. Like this, direct strikes. This is what we warned about before, and what we were because of forced to launch a special military operation. Now they, US officials, are talking about it openly.
Nuland had said that the US supported Ukraine striking at targets in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014 in a move which is not widely recognised by the international community.
Zakharova said âCrimea is reliably protectedâ, according to the Tass report.
Somebody should ask Maria Zakharova what she means by âthe territory of our countryâ, because the Russian government has already declared all the occupied territory to be part of Russia.
Hitler embodied.
