Saturday, May 28, 2022

Wanted: Foolish Older Ruscists

Russia scraps age limit for new troops in Ukraine push: 

Russia is presenting it as a move to recruit more technical specialists. The new law says specialists are required to operate high-precision weapons and "experience shows that they become such by the age of 40-45". More medics, engineers and communications experts may also be recruited.

Ukrainian and Western military experts say Russia has suffered heavy losses in the war: about 30,000 killed, according to Ukraine, while the UK government estimates the toll at about 15,000. In comparison, Soviet losses in nine years of war in Afghanistan were about 15,000.

Russia gave a total of 1,351 dead on 25 March, which it has not updated.

Poor Pooooooooooooooooootin is growing desperate.

Слава Україні! Slava Ukrayini! Слава героям Slava heroyam!

Saturday, April 16, 2022

Commemorating the bleeping of Moskva

22-4-16 Ukrainians flock to buy stamp telling Russia to go [bleep] itself | DW > .

"It's well-known around the world. The moment at the beginning of the Ukraine war when a border guard not so politely refused to surrender Snake Island to a Russian warship – using some very colorful language. A new postage stamp depicts the guard and the Russian ship – the Moskva. Now, Ukraine claims to have sunk that very ship and the stamp has become a collector's item." [Predictably, despite retaliating against the factory that produced the successful Neptune missiles, Pootin's contemptible mob are lying and denying]

Saturday, April 2, 2022

Russia deserves WORSE ---- MUCH WORSE



[Vlad the Terrible was warned. Murdering Ukrainians on a power-mongering pretext, the Kremlin deserves much, much worse.]


The governor of the central bank of Russia – famed for sending coded messages with her attire – had chosen to dress in funereal black as she warned about the devastating hit to the Russian economy from sweeping sanctions imposed by western governments in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine.

With the rouble plunging by more than a quarter and queues forming for foreign currency, Nabiullina announced last Monday that the central bank’s key interest rate would more than double to a record 20%, to curb soaring inflation. In steps to cushion the blow for ordinary Russians, capital controls would be put in place, while the stock market would temporarily close.

22-3-5 Ukrainians defy Putin’s hopes of swift victory as 66,000 return from overseas to fight: US says Ukraine ‘absolutely can win’ as Russia bombs multiple civilian targets

The image is one of the most evocative of the war so far. Ukrainian self-defence forces surround a man in a blue uniform. His T-shirt is bloody. The captive is a Russian pilot. His plane was shot down on Saturday while on a bombing mission in Chernihiv, north of Kyiv. He catapulted to safety and was taken prisoner. His co-pilot perished.

Defiant Putin warns the west: your sanctions are akin to an act of war: Ukraine told: your statehood is in doubt as Russian bombs end ceasefire in Mariupol

[Think yourself lucky that the West has not actually gone to war against you, Little Big Ego. A military that can't prevail against Ukraine would suffer very badly.]

Saturday, March 5, 2022

Feeding the Croc

""An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last."" ~ Winston Churchill (adapted from a speech on January 20, 1940)