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23 minutes ago, Parliament said:

I am surprised by this. When did Russia turn so bad?

It's an interesting question.  Recent tendency has been to blame Soviet communism, but that ignores what a complete shitshow Tsarist Russia was.

It seems the very thing that made Russia ripe for the Bolshevik revolution, massive poverty and wealth-disparity, is exactly the thing that turned Soviet Russia into its own dictatorship where the people were mere pawns.

The big answer seems to be that in Russia life has always been very cheap.  In the context of Stalinism, Arthur Koestler in Darkness at Noon described it as a "vivisection morality," a willingness to experiment on live people that tends not to exist or to a lesser extent in other developed nations.

And that seems to be the thing that is transcendent in Russian politics and society:  their leaders are more willing to sacrifice a lot of life, and the populace to tolerate it, than other countries.

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3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

And that seems to be the thing that is transcendent in Russian politics and society:  their leaders are more willing to sacrifice a lot of life, and the populace to tolerate it, than other countries.

You sure about that? "It could have been worse"

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It was a trick question.  Russians have been shits since Moscow was founded.  Everything they're doing to Ukraine they've done to each of their neighbors for 300 years.  It's a feature, not a glitch.

 

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with the uptick in stories about "entire command units/buildings/meetings" being blown up in the last 2 months or so, I think we are going to find out in a few months that either the Russians reverted back to their un-coded cell phone use communications we saw from Feb-May of 2022, which resulted in 6-ish Generals being killed. --I know the KIU twitter page only shows 10 total killed since 2022, but there were multiple instances in that timeframe where known Generals in command have never been mentioned since May of 2022.   

Or Ukr somehow found a way to track high-end command units and blast them when they meet in a critical mass  (4 or more Majors or higher).

 

 

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5 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

with the uptick in stories about "entire command units/buildings/meetings" being blown up in the last 2 months or so, I think we are going to find out in a few months that either the Russians reverted back to their un-coded cell phone use communications we saw from Feb-May of 2022, which resulted in 6-ish Generals being killed. --I know the KIU twitter page only shows 10 total killed since 2022, but there were multiple instances in that timeframe where known Generals in command have never been mentioned since May of 2022.   

Or Ukr somehow found a way to track high-end command units and blast them when they meet in a critical mass  (4 or more Majors or higher).

 

 

Or (CR) they have their own Pete Hegseth.

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9 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Or (CR) they have their own Pete Hegseth.

He’s lucky he’s not in Russia.  Putin deals with such people in a harsh manner.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/europe/russian-minister-suicide-intl

 

Former Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit died by suicide on Monday, just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin fired him from the job, officials said.

Starovoit was dismissed by Putin on Monday morning. The decree announcing his dismissal was published on the official Kremlin website, with his deputy Andrey Nikitin appointed acting minister.

Asked by reporters for the reasons behind Starovoit’s dismissal, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov denied this was due to a “lack of trust,” but he did not give any alternative reason.

The Investigative Committee of Russia said in a statement that Starovoit’s body was found inside a car in Odintsovo, a suburb of Moscow. He was found with a gunshot wound, the committee said. It said the circumstances of his death were being investigated but the “main theory is suicide.”

Before he became a minister in May 2024, Starovoit was the governor of the southern Russian Kursk region. While he left the post before Ukraine’s surprise incursion, he was partially blamed for security failures in the Russian region.

The dismissal came amid a multi-day disruption to air travel in Russia. Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport said 485 flights were canceled, 88 were diverted and 1,900 were delayed over the weekend and into Monday.

The agency said the cancellations were down to “external interference,” without giving any specifics. But the Russian Defense Ministry said more than 400 Ukrainian long-range strikes were intercepted during the same period of time.

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1 hour ago, AUS-97HORN said:

with the uptick in stories about "entire command units/buildings/meetings" being blown up in the last 2 months or so, I think we are going to find out in a few months that either the Russians reverted back to their un-coded cell phone use communications we saw from Feb-May of 2022, which resulted in 6-ish Generals being killed. --I know the KIU twitter page only shows 10 total killed since 2022, but there were multiple instances in that timeframe where known Generals in command have never been mentioned since May of 2022.   

Or Ukr somehow found a way to track high-end command units and blast them when they meet in a critical mass  (4 or more Majors or higher).

 

 

Guess the orcs aren't aware of zoom.

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