Wow, that’s a first one to say it publicly. Shame other EU leaders still either have their heads in the sand or are Viktor Orban.

Help will come right after Europeans will be done with prosecuting Ukrainians for blowing up Nordstream 2.

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Long before full-scale invasion, few Russian social security offices were closed or merged and retirement age was increased. That’s while country wasn’t under harsh sanctions and kept making humongous profits on its extraction economy.

There isn’t any secret to how it’s so bad - it’s simply overwhelming corruption, and they’ll keep increasing pressure on their own citizens because asking oligarchs to share their assets would be bit too much.

Russia already once had a say in Ukrainian security guarantees. Some may say that results are a little bit unsatisfactory.

I once had to push this much updates (not to production tho) because QA monkeys kept finding (or making up) issues. Am I evolving faster than any other AI?

Well, how can Russia be Ukraine’s security guarantor?

Lavrov suggested it too, of course, after “root causes of conflict” would be dealt with. China is just joining Russia in their attempt to throw sand in people’s eyes, while they both want Russia to succeed in its invasion.

Ceasefire is a matter of just one order to be issued, and Russia purposefully avoids that and instead proposes to first cede Donbass and then have “peace talks”.

One has to be an utter idiot to not see through that, and unfortunately there’s no shortage of these.

I’d expect to get fired. I’d expect it to be disqualifying for public office.

Yeah, but that’d be the better world (not ideal one though, in ideal one there is no lobbying), and we’re now in situation where people made careers lobbying different stuff, while being in positions, that are supposed to serve the people.

Tulsi Gabbard is my favourite example with few episodes of taking money from Assad regime at some points and that is like lowest low, lower would probably be lobbying for DPRK, and I feel like she wouldn’t turn down that offer too. And that is the person choosen by Taco Don to lead national intelligence.

That’s why I specified “methods” and “worst parts of worst attempts”.

So there’s the irony of still existing Red Scare in US, and how building iron smelter in every backyard would probably sound like great idea for leadership, but free lunches in schools are socialism and therefore bad.

People often compare MAGA to Maoism in terms of methods used, so there’s that.

Attacks on intellectuals and academia, attempts to foster local manufacturing (that will turn out to be shit in quality), cult of personality, having some outsiders do the dirty job for you (Red Guards gangs compared to Elon and his minions), that were later dumped in somewhat Machiavellian fashion.

So yeah, for now it looks like he picked out the worst parts of worst attempts to implement socialism.

Damn.

Turns out 40 years ago it was just as easy to piss in his ears. Just flatter him and push whatever agenda you might need him to repeat

You’re romanticizing dinosaur’s situation tho. Most weren’t fatally hit by asteroid, but slowly perished from consequences of that hit afterwards, including worsening of air quality due to smoke and ash, different cataclysms like volcano eruptions and floods, and due to food shortage that happened due to aforementioned things.

So kinda what we’re about to get anyway minus the asteroid.

It will also be mandatory that from September 1, Russia’s domestic app store, RuStore, which is pre-installed on all Android devices, will be pre-installed on Apple devices.
A Russian-language TV app called LIME HD TV, which allows people to watch state TV channels for free, will be pre-installed on all smart TVs sold in Russia from January 1, the government added.
The push to promote homegrown apps comes after Russia said this month it had started restricting some calls on WhatsApp, owned by Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab, and on Telegram, accusing the foreign-owned platforms of failing to share information with law enforcement in fraud and terrorism cases.

There have been jokes about potential establishment of Russian version of Kwangmyong years ago, maybe even decades, called “Cheburnet” (after Cheburashka - Soviet stop-motion cartoon character), and it seems like they’re actually pretty close to finally sealing off from outer world.

Did Pooty give him a few tips on that recently? Cuz he is kinda an expert in that, beginning from the very first his election where he didn’t yet “sanitize” the ballots from unwanted candidates or those that could come close to beat him.

Also worst part - it was done for everyone to see, in broad daylight, and as you can see - nothing was really done with it, just gradual democratic backsliding and eventual self-coup with term limit removal.

I am sure that in the West and above all in the United States they understand perfectly well that seriously discussing security issues without the Russian Federation is a utopia.

His quotes are sometimes golden. Always that little funny hint of self-awareness.

White House has now basically become a museum of trashy anyway. Next sane person in charge, if ever, will be having a hard time removing all those tasteless golden ornaments.

Oh noes, economic sovereignty of Hungary and Slovakia has been attacked… in Tambov.

Especially if sacred seal of blue electrical tape is stamped there.

Exactly in years mentioned there most notable example would be Bahais - largest non-Muslim minority in Iran. What was done to them? - well, they were being killed, although I won’t be able to point exact ratio in overall number of victims in that massacre (~2500), but massacre was generally directed at minorities.

While Iran is an asshole and regularly gets its own people regularly disappeared or executed for any signs of dissent - minorities are targeted disproportionately, be it Kurds, Arabs or Baluchis, with 2022 riots, for example, being situated mainly in Kurdish regions.

United Nations Human Rights report on the matter