Convoy of folks having said: “Damn, the war is real.” Almost as if somebody turned the lights off at FoxNews here in the US.
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I know, right? Ukraine blows up a base or sinks a ship, and Russia is like "No, no, one of our soldiers mishandled ammunition and caused that explosion. But it’s okay because…
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Tangentially Related…
The Pentagon is speaking out against Russia’s launch of a spy satellite believed to be shadowing one of its American counterparts closely in the same orbit.
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(Hey - the Guardian’s oneboxes are back!) 
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“We’re not attacking the nuclear power station, and if you don’t shut up we’ll do it to yours as well.”
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Putin’s dancing bear is just another gangster.
ETA: based on a read of the threads about the deceived Russian conscripts and about recruiting convicted murderers from prisons and the article about the the gouging middlemen in the Western goods grey market, this war has made life under the Putin regime more infused with criminality and fraud than it used to be (which is saying something).
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I see what you did there.
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Steven Seagal has an exciting new career.
Putin was especially unwilling to accept the challenge posed by Presidents Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelensky. It was not because he was terrified of Ukrainian democracy or feared that Russia might catch the ‘democratic virus.’ Far from it. Russian strategic thinking dismissed Ukraine as a semi-failed state (an important reason why so many in Russia underestimated the strength of Ukraine’s resistance). The real reason was that Putin could not accept that his exceptional right could be so insolently rejected by trembling creatures that he so disdained.
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He was always an arsehole. No surprise form me.
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Ryan Hendrickson lost his own leg to an IED and now defuses mines around the world. He’s focused on Ukraine right now.
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Stab in the back is perhaps not a great phrase to use, with its German nationalism/Nazi roots.
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