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Speaking of DWTS I’ve been following Maksim Chmerkovskly’s Instagram account since Thursday and IMO it’s pretty incredible. He’s stuck in central Kyiv at a hotel and I believe was supposed to fly out Thursday but then the war started. He posts regularly.

The importance of social media from him and from anyone else in Ukraine has never been seen before during a war conflict. The entire world can see, every person with a phone becomes a journalist.

I haven't seen that social media but the UK should shut down the London Laundromat for Putin cronies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/26/roman-abramovich-russia-sanctions/

Lots of fine stuff and money to add to UK and USA assets. Meanwhile a brewery in the Ukraine has a special edition product for sale https://www.pravda.beer/en/pravda/ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224940967928849&set=a.10211702079244906

A prior regime, the USSR, ran into major difficulty after hiding Chernobyl and a hideous 10 years in Afghanistan. Putin sent his own troops into Belarus through and into the Cherobyl exclusion zone.

Meanwhile under new NYC voting laws, will the G visa types in the Russian UN goon squad get to vote in local elections?

Good question.

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Speaking of DWTS I’ve been following Maksim Chmerkovskly’s Instagram account since Thursday and IMO it’s pretty incredible. He’s stuck in central Kyiv at a hotel and I believe was supposed to fly out Thursday but then the war started. He posts regularly.

The importance of social media from him and from anyone else in Ukraine has never been seen before during a war conflict. The entire world can see, every person with a phone becomes a journalist.

I haven't seen that social media but the UK should shut down the London Laundromat for Putin cronies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/26/roman-abramovich-russia-sanctions/

Lots of fine stuff and money to add to UK and USA assets. Meanwhile a brewery in the Ukraine has a special edition product for sale https://www.pravda.beer/en/pravda/ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224940967928849&set=a.10211702079244906

A prior regime, the USSR, ran into major difficulty after hiding Chernobyl and a hideous 10 years in Afghanistan. Putin sent his own troops into Belarus through and into the Cherobyl exclusion zone.

Meanwhile under new NYC voting laws, will the G visa types in the Russian UN goon squad get to vote in local elections?

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Speaking of DWTS I’ve been following Maksim Chmerkovskly’s Instagram account since Thursday and IMO it’s pretty incredible. He’s stuck in central Kyiv at a hotel and I believe was supposed to fly out Thursday but then the war started. He posts regularly.

The importance of social media from him and from anyone else in Ukraine has never been seen before during a war conflict. The entire world can see, every person with a phone becomes a journalist.

Anonymous wrote:I hope he let the US evacuate his wife and kids.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:It is interesting seeing Russians practice very restrained RoE

Very unlike Georgia, Chechnya, Syria or Afghanistan.

I wonder why.

Maybe because the Russian soldiers realize this is wrong. From accounts I have read, many did not know what they were doing at the border and some believed Putin's propaganda.

And, it's a lot harder to shoot someone in the face when they have your shared ancestry, look like you, and can talk like you.

Spoken like someone who’s never been to war. It’s hard to shoot anyone in the face, we aren’t pretty crammed to be ok with shooting anyone in the face, especially if we don’t know them personally, hard to get that angry at someone whose done nothing personal to you.

PTSD and suicide in the military community are a thing for a reason. Men coming back from WWII didn’t talk about what they did for a reason.

Also, Civil War, plenty of blood was spilled by people who not only looked like each other and spoke the same language they were countrymen, shared the same religions and were neighbors.

While this has not been the American experience, sometimes TV personalities can be good Presidents.

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when morale is this low, the military leaders have to stand up

The same leaders who lied to their troops?

when morale is this low, the military leaders have to stand up

I hope he let the US evacuate his wife and kids.

Anonymous wrote:THIS is a leader.

Wow. Thanks for posting. What a lovely family.

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Anonymous wrote:What would an acceptable, face-saving exit even look like for Putin?

Unfortunately there isn’t one. Means that a whole country has no future now. I know it can’t be compared to what Ukraine is going through but I also feel sad for the kids of Russia who have been deprived of their future.

No this is a positive for Russia.

Regime change, hopefully ukr/us/fr/uk break the country up and re-educate and administer it until it is safe to hand back over

Sadly, Russia is too massive for other countries to do that. Much more likely is a sort of post-WW1 situation where the Ukraine debacle bites the Russian leadership in the ass and the people storm the Winter Palace (or Kremlin, I suppose). There is a struggle for power and some level of civil war as the pro-Putin and anti-Putin forces battle it out for complete control. Partisans, rebel-held territory, refugees being caught in between, poet doctors being forced to fight, the whole nine yards.

And youporn shutdown

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Anonymous wrote:What would an acceptable, face-saving exit even look like for Putin?

Unfortunately there isn’t one. Means that a whole country has no future now. I know it can’t be compared to what Ukraine is going through but I also feel sad for the kids of Russia who have been deprived of their future.

No this is a positive for Russia.

Regime change, hopefully ukr/us/fr/uk break the country up and re-educate and administer it until it is safe to hand back over