Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-23 and Invasion

[Admiral Yi]

Asoka.

Nice work agent Z. 

[Zanza]

Russian mobiks need warm tents, sleeping bags, and food to survive the winter.

What they get:


 

[Legbiter]

The sugar rush Girkin experienced following mobilization has gone it is safe to say...

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1604425636671627271

I can't figure out why he hasn't tragically fallen out of a window yet or down a steep staircase for speaking the way he does. He must have a powerful patron that keeps him alive.

[The Minsky Moment]

Russian mobiks need warm tents, sleeping bags, and food to survive the winter.

What they get:


 

If they want to send circus performers, why not save money and effort and send the general staff?

As a bonus, if some of them get knocked off while visiting the front, military performance should improve.

[Admiral Yi]

I suspect they are providing mobile brothels.

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SMLHPn4_yg

Another oligarch falls down stairs and dies.  This time in France.

[Barrister]

I never knew the Christmas carol "The Carol of the Bells" was based on a Ukrainian folk song, then popularized by a Ukrainian composer in 1916.  The Ukrainian song, Shchedryk, was a spring-time song.  New lyrics were then written up in English in the 1920s and it's been popular ever since.

[Valmy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SMLHPn4_yg

Another oligarch falls down stairs and dies.  This time in France.

[Sheilbh]

I never knew the Christmas carol "The Carol of the Bells" was based on a Ukrainian folk song, then popularized by a Ukrainian composer in 1916.  The Ukrainian song, Shchedryk, was a spring-time song.  New lyrics were then written up in English in the 1920s and it's been popular ever since.

Same - I just knew it as the Home Alone carol which I absolutely loved. Always been a favourite but never went to any church ambitious enough to attempt a round

[Caliga]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SMLHPn4_yg

Another oligarch falls down stairs and dies.  This time in France.

Russians are such clumsy people... always falling down the stairs, out windows, etc. 

[Barrister]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SMLHPn4_yg

Another oligarch falls down stairs and dies.  This time in France.

Russians are such clumsy people... always falling down the stairs, out windows, etc. 

And all the crazy stuff they keep putting in their tea...

[DGuller]

I wonder what the motive behind all these accidents is.  Is it Casino-style clean-up of people in the know, is it NKVD identifying a real conspiracy by oligarchs against Putin and offing the participants, is it a civil war among elites?  It seems too organized for the last one, so I assume it's Russian intelligence at work, but for what reason?

[Admiral Yi]

Maybe the confiscation of assets to shore up finances?

[viper37]

I wonder what the motive behind all these accidents is.  Is it Casino-style clean-up of people in the know, is it NKVD identifying a real conspiracy by oligarchs against Putin and offing the participants, is it a civil war among elites?  It seems too organized for the last one, so I assume it's Russian intelligence at work, but for what reason?

Pre-emptive strike?

[The Brain]

"Russian intelligence"?