A Political Thread pt. 2

[Bada-Bing!]

My concern is how he will spin this with the Russian people though. It’s not like he will say ‘interest rates have doubled up and it’s all my fault’. It will be ‘see what the West is doing to us’.

Money/cash to buy food etc talks at the end of the day/hence the run on the Russian banks. I suspect most ordinary Russians don’t trust him, but too afraid/can’t do anything. They are acceptable collateral damage to Putin.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

How can you be so aware of something and yet be totally disconnected from the reality of the situation?

 

[Bada-Bing!]

How can you be so aware of something and yet be totally disconnected from the reality of the situation?

I just think some people have a very sick sense of humour or it’s just their way of handling such horror. I am leaning towards the former in this particular tweet.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

I don’t think it’s even hun our I just think people especially on Twitter lack zero awareness of stuff they post.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

I don't think it's a sick sense of humour, I think it's naivety bordering on infantilism

They want to relate everything to whatever media bubble they're engulfed in and have no empathy for anyone outside of their own experience - to them the deaths are just numbers and the cities are places they've never heard of and couldn't point out on a map, it might as well be fiction

People are dying fighting an oppressive regime? Oh that's just like Harry Potter! Putin is such a Slytherin

 

[Deleted member 53362]

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Belarus kowtowing to Russia and looking to send troops into Ukraine as well as ditching its non-nuclear status. I wonder if the west will line them up to face the same sanctions as Russia?

 

[Bada-Bing!]

I don’t think it’s even hun our I just think people especially on Twitter lack zero awareness of stuff they post.

You’re right it’s certainly not my kind of humour. I think it’s like going back to Carr’s joke on Gypsies/holocaust joke. The difference is they are posting such nonsense whilst it is happening and peeps are suffering. And yes they are doing it for “likes this/thumbs ups” on Twitter.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Russia blaming Liz Truss for putting up the nuclear issue.

Somewhat funny given how often Russia has said the UK is irrelevant.

Mind anyone believing the kremlin is deluded

 

[Bada-Bing!]

UK only irrelevant, apart from when the very rich Russians are washing their money in Londongrad and poisoning ex Spies in Salisbury.

 

[General Melchett]

Russia blaming Liz Truss for putting up the nuclear issue.

Somewhat funny given how often Russia has said the UK is irrelevant.

Mind anyone believing the kremlin is deluded

Her remarks were very reckless TBF and someone in her position should know better.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Her remarks were very reckless TBF and someone in her position should know better.

There is no TBF lol

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Russia blaming Liz Truss for putting up the nuclear issue.

Somewhat funny given how often Russia has said the UK is irrelevant.

Mind anyone believing the kremlin is deluded

Russia just engage in a massive gaslighting campaign throwing out as much **** and seeing what sticks. Big fans of the Uno reverse card it seems too as pretty much every accusation levelled at them, they just fire the same thing straight back.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Putin definitely living in a parallel universe based of paranoia and grievance. Take note America if you do decide to let Trump back in.

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

there seems to be a growing sentiment to place sanctions on the Russian people that the same people calling for those sanctions would have thrown a fit over if they'd been invoked over the invasion of Iraq.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

the same people calling for those sanctions would have thrown a fit over if they'd been invoked over the invasion of Iraq

 

[General Melchett]

Bald and Bankrupt escaping out of Ukraine at the weekend. Crazy seeing actual footage of the journey out of Kiev with people respecting each other and not panicking.

 

[Bruce_ma gooshvili]

Reports first round of peace talks have ended with no ceasefire. Putin's demands of denazification of the Jewish led country and demilitarisation are completely ludicrous and a million miles away from a genuine attempt at resolving any issues.

Russia does appear to be making significant inroads in the south and there is a major underreporting of that in all main UK news outlets. They only need success on one front out of their four main ones and Ukraine will be in a dire position, risking huge swathes of their military and population being cut off.

I think the reporting is ludicrously overblown and bullish. We are not even a week into a war. It is always hardest at the start when the defending country has supplies, fresh soldiers, functioning infrastructure and entrenched positions. It will only become easier for Russia. At the current rate of progress I would say Russia will conquer 80%+ of Ukrainian territory within a couple of months yet to watch the telly you'd think Putin will give up because it's too hard.

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

It's harder as the war goes on for invading forces traditionally, especially with the economic sanctions in place.

In all the footage I have seen and heard from the kremlin stuff none of it look like people who are confident yet, maybe that will change if Russia send in the rest of their force but who knows.

 

[Reiser99]

I don't think anyone believes Ukraine can win in a straight fight. It's whether Russia can hold onto Ukraine and govern it peacefully.