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Russian soldiers have low morale for a variety of reasons, including the perception of poor leadership, heavy casualties, stress in combat and little pay.
“Many Russian personnel of all ranks also likely remain confused about the war’s objectives,” the U.K. defense ministry said.
“The famine will start now and they will lift the sanctions and be friends with us, because they will realize that it’s impossible not to be friends with us,” - said Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan
“Propagandist” in Russian seems to mean “one who says the quiet part out loud for the Russian people”. Don’t they realize the rest of the world can hear them?
“Friends” in Russian must imply something different from the generally accepted meaning in English. No matter the outcome, no one is going to be friends with Russia for a long, long time.
What’s interesting to me is that there have been articles about support forRussia outside the west, particularly in Africa. This will hurt them the most.
The Russian establishment shares the “alt-right”'s love of trolling and joking-not-joking routines. In the clip Margarita Simonyan introduces “All our hope is in the famine” as a “very cynical joke” she has heard, that is not “not even a joke, just an outcry”.
I was with him until the very end. He falls into the fallacy that individual actors are going to be the ones to save us - which are inevitably, white men even when their actions are clearly misogynistic. Much like he says that we can’t ignore racism in the class struggle, we can’t ignore misogyny either. 
Sorry Slavoj, you mostly got it, but try again.
Agreed. If we’re looking to save liberal democratic values, Assange is not going to be the first choice of anyone who opposes either Putin or misogyny. This is a group effort, and rapey enablers of autocrats aren’t going to help.
He only helped Putin because it ensured that Hillary Clinton would not get elected. Wikileaks is better off without him.
This right here is going to be a doctoral dissertation in the not to distant future. “How the Anti-Hillary Fuck-All Misogyny Opened The Gates To Fascism in the US.”
It really is. And some dude will be on the person’s commit and roll his eyes and proclaim that it’s wrong…
My defense featured a guy who wanted to hold everything up because I claimed that one of my subjects was from North Central Mexico, when apparently the subject was from Central Northern Mexico. It was 20 minutes of arguing between him and my advisor. So, yeah, I do see that happening.
I can remember, way back when, Bill Maher had him on his show and Assange triumphantly declared that he could prove that Bill had donated $1 mill to Hillary’s campaign, like it was a huge gotcha thing. Bill’s response was “Oh, really? Like, by replaying the show where I announced that to everyone?” I love asshole-on-asshole violence! Assange is not anywhere near as smart, or charismatic, as he thinks he is.
Mine went very smooth, except for the fact that one of the members died a week before my defense… 
RIP, Denis…
Guardian liveblog (as ever) - but my screenshot here links to Twitter.
This is just a direct lift from the liveblog from 5 hours ago.
Ukraine launches strikes on Snake Island
Ukraine’s army said it had launched airstrikes on Zmiinyi Island, also known as Snake Island, causing “significant losses” to Russian forces.
In a post on Facebook, the military’s southern operational command said it had used “aimed strikes with the use of various forces” on the island.
The command added:
The military operation continues and requires information silence until it is over.
As Guardian links are not oneboxing, image below links to full story.
