“Pilot Roma floated to the surface, probably to celebrate May 9th. He couldn’t just sit around at home. ‘The holiday is sacred!’ A good example for all Russians. Better to stay at home than become accomplices in war crimes.”
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(Tweet embeds badly for me, so a link only.)
Dmitri
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“All against all…complete disunity of the front” - Russian volunteer Anastasiya Kashevarova explains what happened between Wagner and the 72nd Brigade in Bakhmut in a long Telegram post.
She says Russian Forces are not allowed to communicate with Wagner. Wagner was forced to retreat in one area as Ukrainians exploited weakness and broke through. She says the 72nd had no idea and no troops in the area to cover.
She also says Russian sides all hate each other, making fun of each other. She calls for unity or the war will not be won.
The video from Bakhmut indicates 
forces doing a full-on “Sir Robin” in the face of a 
attack on the flanks.
There’s no doubt disinfo in all of this from both sides, but this bodes well for an outright collapse of forces.
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Russian milbloggers: We’re fucked.
Igor Girkin: We’re fucked.
Yevgeny Prigozhin: We’re fucked.
Western pundits: The counter-offensive will be slow, difficult and bloody. There will be no miracles. Let’s hope that the Ukrainians liberate a significant amount of territory and retain the support of Western governments.
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If a mighty Soviet Union is not an existential threat to the West then a lot of people, including media dowsers of politics and international relations, will be unemployed.
(And remember what happened last time there was mass unemployment in the 
! The subsequent New Deal and massive public employment efforts led to a build up of wealth among the working classes and development of public infrastructure and national parks from which America is still recovering. /s)
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So the sort of Chekist thugs who were tasked with implementing Order 227 and with assassinating local leaders who were also fighting against the Nazis. Totally on-brand for Putin.
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According to journalists, the man sitting to Putin’s right was 98-year-old Yury Dvoikin, who enlisted in the army as a volunteer in 1942 but was never sent to the front. In 1944, after finishing sniper school, Dvoikin was sent to the Lviv region as an NKVD agent to “carry out operations to liquidate the nationalist underground on the territory of western Ukraine.”
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As long as Russia has a large nuclear arsenal, it is potentially an existential threat to the West and the whole world. I’m sure the Russian nukes aren’t at perfect working order – nothing seems to be, in Russia – but with nuclear weapons, if even a fraction of them work properly, the end result is a holocaust of unimaginable death and destruction.
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A bridge too far for Russia, as it were.
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It is a sensitive issue.
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Man, wherever do you suppose Poland got this “madness of hatred” toward Russia from?
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The Russian government and its cheerleaders are very committed to the idea that “Russophobia” is irrational and inexplicable, and certainly not provoked by any recent events.
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From the BBC News article linked to by @GagHalfrunt :
“Mikhail Kalinin was one of six Soviet Politburo signatories to the order to execute more than 21,000 Polish prisoners of war in the forests of Katyn and elsewhere in 1940.”
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I wasn’t going to post this earlier because it seemed superfluous to the war but it has taken on a life of its own today…
It’s funny Russia, deal with it.
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