Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country

[Dartz]

3 Weeks into the 3 Day war

--Negotiations towards peace continue
--Russia's demands amount to a 15-point plan of Neutrality
--Includes No Foreign bases, recognition of Russian language and No-Nato
--One step back from The Button
--The words 'Swedish or Austrian' model are used.
--Sweden warming to NATO as a result.
--Terms rejected, but progress is being made
--Ukraine being tight-lipped, but security guarantees involving multiple gurantoors may be the result
--American vets are training Ukrainians. Russians will be well neutered
--Letters of Marque and Reprisal being floating in US Congress. Yarr?
--Russian media and TV, and Belorussian media a TV experiencing Regan-like layoffs
--UN - 13 million may go hungry due to war
--Chinese envoy to US 'We would've stopped the war if we knew"
--They knew
--Boris Johnson in Riyadh to convince the natives to open the taps by jove
--Russia now one week before official default.
--Putin claims sanctions 'blitzkrieg' has failed and that special military operation a success
--Muhammad Saed-Al-Sahhaf no longer the biggest government bullshit artist in history
--After 20 years I still remember is name. That man, the meme, Comical Ali
--Putin also making noises about Fifth Columns and Traitors, and cleansing society
--US Congresscritters annoyed Zalensky wore a t-shirt to their Zoom call
--I only wear a t-shirt on work zoom calls
--Moscow Mitch calls it an effectice address, and a spur for the President to up his Game
--Not sure what president he's talking too there
--President Impeached for withoiding Military aid to Ukraine, takes credit for situation in Ukraine
--The same President who called NATO obsolete, and Putin a genius
--Say one thing about Trump, he knows which way the wind is blowing
--EU still moving forward with plan to sync energy grids.
--A theatre being used by a thousand peeople as a bomb shelter was destroyed
--Apparently the Ukrainian word for Children is a Cognate for 'Target' in russian, it seems. It was on the path outside the theatre
--A hospital and its staff have been taken hostage - supposedly to force Ukrainian military to open fire
--Ten people killed by Russian soldiers while waiting for bread. US Embassy confirms
--Two Russian soldiers killed by their own side while trying to protect civilians.
--Someone in Russia thought it'd be amusing to abandon tanks in people's back gardens - as you do
-- Orpah Winsky -- You get a tank, you get a tank, you get a tank.
-- And unlike Oprah, they get to keep the tank and not get fucked by taxes.
--American Cosmonaut may get a lift home. Space does not care what part of Earth you came from
--Even if the director of Roscomsos is a bit of a prick threatening to Colony Drop the Station
--World Court orders Russia to stop being dicks.
--Does anyone listen to the World Court?
--Russian Embassy in Finland asking for reports of abuse of Russian Citizens
--Most Russians in Finland are 6ft under
--Chinese ambassador may have praised Ukraine. But the news stayed off their website - or of China's domestic news
--Biden announces sending 'longer range' antiaircraft weapons to Ukraine. Calls Putin a War Criminals
--Kremlin bitches and moans.
--Seems like he's actually doing a decent job. Supporting, without hovering the finger on the button
--Elon Musk and Chechen Leader shitposting at each other on Twitter.
--Zelensky calls on army to retreat and surrender in video
--It's a Deepfake
--Explosions in Belarus. Or a Sonic Boom?
--Ukraine is fucking up Kherson airport with artillery
--Another raid has destroyed more helicopters
--Someone has suggested sending A10's to Ukraine
--Amusingly, this is the only true war where they would ever be effective
--Russian military basically All Shiny, with nothing to back it up - a Rice-Rocket military
--Russia trying to reinforce the assault on Kyiv by pulling from other areas
--US supplies 800 million dollars of shit to Ukraine including suicide drones. This is pure Sugar-daddy shit now
--Has Ivan Federov, Mayor of Melitopol, been rescued by Ukrainian special forces?
--Fuck me this is just Tom Clancy shit
--Ukrainian artillery is obliterating Russian supply trucks.
--Ukraine claims to be counter-attacking and bringing the invasion to an end?
--They still have most of their airforce, more ammunition than they can shoot, more anti-tank weapons and all the good NATO sugar
--Using Commercial, Off The Shelf drones for artillery spotting to meter-accuracy.
--Reports of either explosions, or supersonic aircraft in Belarus
--Belarus opposition calls on international community to recognise Belarus as Illegally occupied
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