Turns out the Saudis, including Bone Saw himself, brokered the release.
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Sending undesirable ethnic minorities to kill despised ethnic enemies, and to die in the process. Future historians will need help from theoretical mathematicians to describe n-dimensional genocide.
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So, less a mobilization, more of a purge.
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The fact they’re drafting the protestors as well really doesn’t make sense.
“You there, who hates me and the government, here’s a gun for you to shoot the enemy…”
*BANG BANG*
“NO NOT ME, YOU IDIOT!”
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They hope that the news will discourage protests.
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Have they forgotten the the naval mutinies pre october revolution and during the october revolution. Seriously, you’d think Putin, someone who supposedly has a degree in Russian history, would know this is a bad idea. Even if you leave them only to dig ditches and peel potatoes behind the war front, they’re still there and could conspire and sabotage the war effort. Seriously, this is like bad comedy.
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From the Guardian liveblog:
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban wants EU sanctions on Russia lifted by the end of the year, a pro-government daily newspaper said Thursday.
Orban, who has sought close ties with Russian president Vladimir Putin in recent years, has frequently railed against the sanctions which were imposed onto Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
According to Orban, the sanctions are more damaging to Europe than to Russia.
Magyar Nemzet reported that Orban urged members of his Fidesz party at a closed-door gathering late Wednesday to get the sanctions lifted.
“According to our information… Orban called on the members of the Fidesz faction to do their utmost to ensure that Europe lifts these sanctions by the end of the year at the latest,” the newspaper said.
The government said it confirmed the content of the article. It comes as Brussels looks to impose further sanctions on Russia.
Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjarto said further sanctions would only “deepen the difficulties”.
“Europe is suffering more from the restrictions imposed in response to the war in Ukraine than Russia, and therefore the eighth package of sanctions should be forgotten,” he said at the UN General Assembly in New York earlier this week.
Hungary has been hit by record-high inflation. The country is highly dependent on Russian oil and gas, and there are fears for its energy supplies.
Orban’s ruling Fidesz party meanwhile announced it would soon launch a national public consultation on the issue of sanctions - a method previously used to denounce EU migration policy for instance.
It would aim to give Hungarians the chance to voice their opinion, Mate Kocsis, head of the party’s parliamentary group, told reporters.
“It is not normal that sanctions are only decided by the Brussels elite,” Kocsis said.
EU foreign ministers held an emergency meeting Wednesday to discuss the issue after Moscow mobilised reservists for its war in Ukraine.
A final decision needs to be made at a formal session.
Every mention of Péter Szijjártó should be followed by the phrase “who was awarded the Russian Order of Friendship in December 2021”.
Russian president Vladimir Putin is giving directions directly to generals in the field, CNN reports.
According to two sources familiar with American and western intelligence that spoke to CNN, the direct orders from Putin to generals “hints at the dysfunctional command structure" that has affected Russia forces on the battlefield.
Other sources who are familiar with US intelligence told CNN that there are significant disagreements on strategy with military leaders who struggle to agree on where to focus their efforts in Ukraine.
Additionally, a senior NATO official told the outlet that senior officials in Moscow are struggling to assign blame for Russia’s setbacks in the war.
“Kremlin officials and state media pundits have been feverishly discussing the reasons for the failure in Kharkiv and in typical fashion, the Kremlin seems to be attempting to deflect the blame away from Putin and onto the Russian military,” the official said.
Catching up:
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called on the international community to adopt a five-point formula to achieve peace and security in the Ukraine-Russia war. In a pre-recorded video address to the United Nations general assembly, the Ukrainian president said the five points included punishment for crimes of aggression, protection of life, restoration of security and territorial integrity, security guarantees and the determination of Ukraine to continue defending itself.
‘Ukraine wants peace, Europe wants peace, the world wants peace, and we have seen who is the only one who wants war,’ Zelenskiy said. ‘There is only one entity among all UN member states who would say now if he could interrupt my speech that he is happy with this war, with his war’
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That strategy worked so well for Hitler. I can’t understand why it wouldn’t work here… (/s)
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https://twitter.com/b_nishanov/status/1572906547285721089
https://twitter.com/b_nishanov/status/1572926493038374912
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Russian politicians shouldn’t be drafted to fight in Ukraine because they need to stay and explain the war to citizens, a lawmaker said Wednesday, according to multiple reports.
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At this point there don’t seem to be a lot of good ideas for how he can win…maybe he’s looking for ideas to shift the blame instead?
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This sort of thing has been reported before, and it still speaks of the sort of dysfunction that leads to defeat. Fingers crossed.
Russian president Vladimir Putin is giving directions directly to generals in the field, CNN reports.
According to two sources familiar with American and western intelligence that spoke to CNN, the direct orders from Putin to generals “hints at the dysfunctional command structure" that has affected Russia forces on the battlefield.
Other sources who are familiar with US intelligence told CNN that there are significant disagreements on strategy with military leaders who struggle to agree on where to focus their efforts in Ukraine.
Additionally, a senior NATO official told the outlet that senior officials in Moscow are struggling to assign blame for Russia’s setbacks in the war.
“Kremlin officials and state media pundits have been feverishly discussing the reasons for the failure in Kharkiv and in typical fashion, the Kremlin seems to be attempting to deflect the blame away from Putin and onto the Russian military,” the official said.
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Somebody can’t protect his subs anymore. Looking weak, Vlad.
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Statements like this tell us how badly Russia needs a change of leadership.
Russia has far more to lose than would ever be gained were they to actually follow through.
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I’m learning Cyrillic by osmosis this year
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TFW you’re voting for an independence that lasts from the end of the first clause in your referendum question, to the beginning of the third clause. The Zaporizhzhian “referendum” is the most absurd of the four now taking place - Russians never reached the city of Zaporizhzhia, the capital and major population center, and yet the “votes” of the occupied parts will supposedly represent the whole region. And so Putin’s magic wand will turn a Ukrainian region partly occupied by Russia into a Russian region partly occupied by Ukraine.
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