RE: Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country
07-31-2022, 03:14 AM
07-31-2022, 03:14 AM
By the way, don't watch that video of the castration. There's actually more than one video, and apparently it keeps getting worse. I should have tagged it NSFL. People have been getting really angry, but I want people to keep in mind that stuff like this happens in a lot of wars -- the psychopaths decide they can get away with it, so they do.
-- 50+ Ukrainian POWs die in an explosion at a Russian POW camp. This twitter thread has a good take on it. The summary:
---- "Russia used a thermobaric weapon to burn the POWs in their sleep. The fire damage to building and victims, and the missing impact crater and the lack of blast damage proves this. This was premeditated murder, just like at Katyn."
---- Also the POW camp itself is a war crime because it's only a few miles from the front lines.
-- Russian ambassador to the UK tweets that Azov Battalion should be hanged humiliatingly instead of executed like real soldiers. They like war crimes over there.
-- A lot of Western people online call for retributory war crimes against Russia. Don't be like that, because Sailor Says.
-- Meanwhile Ambassador Filatov in Ireland gave an interview to the Irish Times where he's not calling for war crimes, just being normally infuriating.
-- Russian press gangs find 30k new volunteers for the special military operation.
-- Map of Russia showing per capita deaths in war special military operation. There's more than one ethnic cleansing going on in this war.
-- Also keep in mind that Russia is drafting soldiers from places as far away from Ukraine as the US east coast -- while keeping ethnic Muscovites out of the fight.
-- Zelensky orders a full evacuation of civilians from Donetsk. A prelude to intense fighting, I fear.
-- Lots of videos online of helicopters flying at the tree line. The air is pretty dangerous, as always.
-- /r/Moscow has fallen to pro-Ukrainian forces. IRL Kherson still occupied.
-- Russia bans Kiwi mayors of Auckland and Wellington from entering Russia, because that was definitely a thing that was going to happen
-- Russia cuts all gas exports to Latvia. Not sure what this is going to accomplish, Latvia will suddenly want to rejoin Russia to get gas? Cut funding to the Hanseaten? Maybe they really can't produce as much gas as they used to?
-- Latvian response: EU should declare Russia a state sponsor of terrorism
-- UK, as runner-up, gets to host Eurovision instead of Ukraine.
-- Last time, I posted a video of Russians attacking a yellow-and-blue crosswalk sign. Well, have another video of a Nazi crosswalk sign being liberated by Russians! (ignore the NSFW tag, it's just people being dumb)
As we talk about the atrocities, I think it's important to remember that these things feel all very exceptionally bad -- but historically these things were common. Stealing all the food and valuables from villages, raping the women, and burning the buildings were a strategy in pre-modern war. Russia, while it still clings to an eighteenth century mentality, still feels it needs to make excuses for all of these things. Because it seems so dark to us -- so exceptional -- it means the world is really a better place than it was.
-- 50+ Ukrainian POWs die in an explosion at a Russian POW camp. This twitter thread has a good take on it. The summary:
---- "Russia used a thermobaric weapon to burn the POWs in their sleep. The fire damage to building and victims, and the missing impact crater and the lack of blast damage proves this. This was premeditated murder, just like at Katyn."
---- Also the POW camp itself is a war crime because it's only a few miles from the front lines.
-- Russian ambassador to the UK tweets that Azov Battalion should be hanged humiliatingly instead of executed like real soldiers. They like war crimes over there.
-- A lot of Western people online call for retributory war crimes against Russia. Don't be like that, because Sailor Says.
-- Meanwhile Ambassador Filatov in Ireland gave an interview to the Irish Times where he's not calling for war crimes, just being normally infuriating.
-- Russian press gangs find 30k new volunteers for the special military operation.
-- Map of Russia showing per capita deaths in war special military operation. There's more than one ethnic cleansing going on in this war.
-- Also keep in mind that Russia is drafting soldiers from places as far away from Ukraine as the US east coast -- while keeping ethnic Muscovites out of the fight.
-- Zelensky orders a full evacuation of civilians from Donetsk. A prelude to intense fighting, I fear.
-- Lots of videos online of helicopters flying at the tree line. The air is pretty dangerous, as always.
-- /r/Moscow has fallen to pro-Ukrainian forces. IRL Kherson still occupied.
-- Russia bans Kiwi mayors of Auckland and Wellington from entering Russia, because that was definitely a thing that was going to happen
-- Russia cuts all gas exports to Latvia. Not sure what this is going to accomplish, Latvia will suddenly want to rejoin Russia to get gas? Cut funding to the Hanseaten? Maybe they really can't produce as much gas as they used to?
-- Latvian response: EU should declare Russia a state sponsor of terrorism
-- UK, as runner-up, gets to host Eurovision instead of Ukraine.
-- Last time, I posted a video of Russians attacking a yellow-and-blue crosswalk sign. Well, have another video of a Nazi crosswalk sign being liberated by Russians! (ignore the NSFW tag, it's just people being dumb)
As we talk about the atrocities, I think it's important to remember that these things feel all very exceptionally bad -- but historically these things were common. Stealing all the food and valuables from villages, raping the women, and burning the buildings were a strategy in pre-modern war. Russia, while it still clings to an eighteenth century mentality, still feels it needs to make excuses for all of these things. Because it seems so dark to us -- so exceptional -- it means the world is really a better place than it was.
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