When your war is going badly and your soldiers are complaining that they are underfed, under supplied, freezing, lied to, not paid, used as cannon fodder and generally abused, how do you fix that?
Do a better job? Nah.
Yep. Throw those whiners in prison. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Not only is the Russian army full of complainers, it is eaten up with “women” and freeloaders too. And I always thought the Russian army was full of manly Cossacks.
Train in Vain? Sounds like these whiners are good candidates for the all-new Russian military prisons.
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Other reports of this attack say it was in the Soledar area.
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Lesson of the Day: Don’t leave your radio laying around where a drone can steal it.
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Meanwhile, in Belarus, the rightful president of the country is put on trial in absentia.
The government in Belarus is just as complicit in the deaths and destruction of Ukraine as Putin. Lukashenko needs to be tried as a war criminal and the country should be sanctioned at the same level as Russia.
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Look who is no longer a tankie.
U.S. elder statesman Henry Kissinger on January 17 said Russia's invasion shows there is no longer a point to keeping Ukraine out of NATO, the long-held aspiration of Kyiv that he once opposed. The 99-year-old former secretary of state and apostle of realpolitik has for months advocated a cease-fire in the Ukraine war that would in effect accept some military gains by Russia. But speaking virtually to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Kissinger said that NATO membership for Ukraine would be an "appropriate outcome." "The idea of a neutral Ukraine under these conditions is no longer meaningful," he said.
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Russian propagandist gloats over missile attack on Dnipro apartment building. Russia will never rejoin the path to peace and stability until attitudes like this are no longer running the nation.
The Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent known as Sergei Mardan (in fact, Sergei Leleka) does not, strictly speaking, admit that Russia was behind the carnage, only to his pleasure at viewing the “wonderful fireworks”. “Even if”, he claims, this proves to be a Russian attack (as was indisputably the case), it would have been “much more pleasant to see the Dnipro Bridge destroyed.” Having thus admitted to delight at seeing a missile attack on innocent civilians, he goes on to show photos of Russia’s destruction of Mariupol, and to assure this viewers that the same will happen in Kharkiv, Dnipro and Kyiv.
On his VKontakte page, Mardan claimed that Russia never deliberately targets civilians “regardless of their political views, level of support for the Kyiv regime and attitude to Russia. But the principle that “Ukraine must suffer” remains unchanged.”
He ends with the following: “Therefore the missile strikes will continue until the full enlightenment of Ukrainian minds and realization that peace comes from the East, and from the West only Leopards and HIMARS”.