🇷🇺🇺🇦 Discussion: Relations with Russia and the war in Ukraine

[squeekness]

As much as I'd love to see Ukraine get Chrimea back, I just don't want to see them do it so soon they get wiped out instead.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Top 10 Everyday Things That Are Banned in Russia

 

[:eek:]

Russia's Medvedev: We'd have to use a nuclear weapon if Ukrainian offensive was a success (yahoo.com)

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

Surprised they waited this long to do it.

 

[squeekness]

Russia takes a dangerous turn in its war on Ukraine | NewsNation

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Pro-coup protesters in Niger shout 'long live Putin' as new leaders face calls to cede power | CNN

Business Insider - Kim Jong Un has plastered his walls with bizarre, giant portraits of Putin, images from North Korean state media reveal

Russia Edges Closer to Abortion Ban in Quest to Preserve ‘Traditional Values’ - The Moscow Times

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[squeekness]

It should be considered an act of aggression by Russia, Wagner acts on their behalf.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[squeekness]

Scary stuff.

 

[:eek:]

Putin faces another revolt (newsweek.com)

 

[squeekness]

Putin faces another revolt (newsweek.com)

We could use more of these to slow Putin down.

 

[:eek:]

Alexei Navalny braces for new verdict as Kremlin clamps down - BBC News

 

[:eek:]

US and Western officials fear Putin unlikely to change course in Ukraine before 2024 election | CNN Politics

 

[squeekness]

US and Western officials fear Putin unlikely to change course in Ukraine before 2024 election | CNN Politics

He's pouring money into GOP PACs as we speak, hopeful.

 

[Iceman]

This is disgusting.

Ukraine war: The Russians hunting for cheap flats in occupied Mariupol

 

[squeekness]

This is disgusting.

Ukraine war: The Russians hunting for cheap flats in occupied Mariupol

Hope all those flats are violently haunted.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

ABC News - Woman arrested in plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine says

 

[squeekness]

That's scary, I don't want anything bad to happen to him.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Ex-FBI counterintelligence chief in talks to plead guilty over work he did for Russian oligarch | CNN Politics

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Striking up a continental war is exactly what Russia also wants to do to all of Europe eventually. Putin has the belief that for him to succeed, every else out there has to made to fail.

Daily Kos - Ukraine Update: Russia's destabilizing efforts in Africa may soon spark a regional war

 

[Morg]

Vladimir Putin’s luck may be running out now that the ruble plunged below one cent, the lowest level against the U.S. dollar since the early days of his war in Ukraine.

The Russian president, who briefly faced down a coup attempt in June, could long point to the resilience of his currency in the face of sanctions as a propaganda victory that proved just how impotent western economic reprisals were.

More than 500 days since his army invaded Ukraine, it looks as if Moscow’s highly-respected central bank governor can no longer perform miracles for her boss.

The ruble that Elvira Nabiullina manages crashed through the psychological support of 100 to the U.S. dollar and on Monday is now worth less than a penny, the first time since March 23rd of last year.

“They’re laughing at us,” scathed Vladimir Solovyov, Russia’s most well-known state TV personality and a chief Putin ally, already last week.

 

[squeekness]

Gee that's too bad.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Reuters - Breakingviews - Russia’s jumbo rate hike leaves Putin in hot water
In Russia, what Vladimir Putin wants, Vladimir Putin gets. So it’s no surprise that a day after prodding by a Kremlin official, the central bank announced an emergency rate increase of 350 basis points to 12%. The move was designed to halt a plunge in the rouble, but the currency hardly moved.