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  When beer is involved, we don't joke around.
  How else would you transport beer to remote areas?
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  Surovikin is a competent commander. respect for Putin's role in Russia and the war has been tainted since he took over, due to the contrast. this is a move to preemptively dethrone Surovikin. >
  
  Slava Ukraini! >
  
  Putin is always saying: 
  “I have to return some videotapes” >
  
  Losing Soledar was unfortunate, but the heavily urbanized Donbas makes it possible to set up a good defensive line not too far behind the previous front. 
  All-in-all, yesterday’s more significant news was the commitment of sending western MBTs. The defenders of Soledar today will be avenged by the Ukrainian counteroffensives of tomorrow, in which these western weapon systems will be decisively utilized against the Russians. >
  
  Soledar isn't confirmed lost yet. The video is specifically talking about the retreat from the Western part of town. There are no official or reliable unofficial UA accounts that claim the entire town has been abandoned (which is likely a prudent thing to do). >
  
  Hopefully Wagner lost a ton of troops taking Soledar. >
  
  It is now time to once again say “fuck putler” >
  
  Furthermore, I am of the opinion that Putin must be defenestrated. >
  
  Day CCCXXIII, Part I. Thread CDLXIV. >
  
  Slava Ukraini !!!
  Fuck Putin >
  
  God I hope our timeline eventually leads to Navalny in charge over there…🙏
  Edit:What’s with the downvotes? Navalny is against a war. >
  
  He whole heartedly supported the Crimea annexation, he is just the lesser of 2 evils I'm afraid. >
  
  He was acting as a politician trying to win political support from a public that strongly supported the annexation.  I wouldn't hold that against him.  Especially since it's likely to be a moot point if he ever gets any power. >
  
  so he's full of shit? got it. >
  
  Are there any estimates on the number of Americans fighting for Wagner? There has to be some shitheads out there doing it. >
  
  i dont think so, not sure they pay enough TBH. we have other options for contractor work. >
  
  Next month? So won't happen this month >
  
  As was explained last year when the sanctions were first implemented and adjusted later on in the year: immediately cutting off everything is a logistical nightmare for the world. You have to give time for people to establish new trading routes and agreements.
  This morning they said Russia was losing something like 170m/day and the math was done on how much they'd lose by changing specific things, which I imagine is what's being planned out now. >
  
  BADA BOOM! >
  
  Construction workers who’ve come from Russia or Crimea to Mariupol to “rebuild,” have instead been sent to the front, Bakhmut, 0629 reported yesterday. 
  Similarly, Verashuk has just today warned that Russia will mobilize the men remaining in Melitopol. >
  
  
  Construction workers who’ve come from Russia or Crimea to Mariupol to “rebuild,” have instead been sent to the front, Bakhmut, 0629 reported yesterday.
  
  This is the most Russian thing I've ever heard. 
  Its like a dark comedy >
  
  Yeah one Russian wife, back in Crimea, is raising hell about it.  Her husband was promised a large wage for construction work in Mariupol, instead she gets word he’s been injured in Bakhmut.  Can’t get disability pension “bc he’s construction, not military.” But also, can’t get that construction wage, bc didn’t do the work, bc sent elsewhere.
  Why do Russians trust their government? >
  
  Woah hold on there no Russian has ever trusted his or her government ever. Let’s not be too naive here lol >
  
  Yet they comply to whatever the government wants of them. Every single time. 
  Those goddamn lemmings. >
  
  As some context. In the US and UK we don’t have a living memory of an autocratic government that can and did take millions of its own people and gulag/mock trial and execute or just starve them. We don’t fear our governments. Europe has a healthier understanding of what a government like that can do but the key thing is they overcame it. Russia never really did. 
  In Russia the atrocities committed against the people by their own government are still well remembered, it would certainly frame your feelings if you had lived through a similar regime. The Stalinist purges are only seventy to eighty years ago and events like that leave a lasting legacy on a countries consciousness. Unlike with the Nazis no one was ever really held to account for the Russian atrocities. If I lived there I would be a lot more circumspect about voicing my displeasure. By the time you’re at the front and actually facing death it’s too late to complain. >
  
  
  If I lived there I would be a lot more circumspect about voicing my displeasure. By the time you’re at the front and actually facing death it’s too late to complain.
  
  But the thing is there's no difference between a russian living in Europe/overseas and a russian living in russia. They are complacent and passive towards their regime regardless of their place of stay. >
  
  That’s touching. I watched the video as well. The insight on why some people are staying in Bakhmut made sense, but was still difficult for me to hear. I get that some people don’t have the ability to leave, but just feel nervous for them. So with that, it’s great that this doctor continues to stay. It’s dangerous, but I respect it. >
  
  He really doesnt give a shit. He just needs his public to a) think he gives a shit and b) know it is someone else's fault. >
  
  And oh he is such a "strong" and "big" leader putting these people in their place... 
  What a pathetic actor and fool he is. Maybe he put this out because the whole putin is a "little man" thing. >
  
  If it turns out that Russia can't take and hold it after all of this, I really don't know what Putin's next move will be. >
  
  There is talk that this is Prigozhin's game. He promised to deliver Soledar and if he will be succesful, it will mean more power points to him. Apparently there is quite some infighting between the army, Wagner, Kremlin factions, some say the command changes are related to this too.
  If he is succesful, Wagner will probably be expected to repeat the performance at Bakhmut too. They apparently have run out of cannon fodder at Soledar so in these conditions Bakhmut does not seem to be possible unless they get 30 to 50000 meat sacks. >
  
  My fear is that their BS propaganda machine is so powerful around the world that they can actually find cannon fodder outside of Russia and expend it in human wave attacks without inflicting losses to Russian people. >
  
  No way can they get meaningful numbers of people from outside Russia. >
  
  I hope you are correct. So many people use aggressive rhetoric portraying western reaction to the war in Ukraine as neo colonialism, imperialism, hypocrisy and so on, and there's so much resentment everywhere in the world that I think it doesn't take that much for Wagner thugs to recruit cheap mercenaries abroad. >
  
  Lets go Baerbock, I had zero faith in her as foreign minister, but she is miraculously doing good out there >
  
  That’s a jab at the Swiss, isn’t it? >
  
  I don't think so, it seems that he expects the issue to be genuinely controversial within the German government. >
  
  Killed by Wagner terrorists probably. >
  
  Well, they are aid workers providing aid to civilians, so essentially targets for russian orks. >
  
  Haha, and people say Germans don't have any sense of humor