#Russia fail

[actualadvocacybruh]

The Ukrainians continue to be funny in the midst of a war ….

During their special military operation into the Kursk Oblast they are using local stores and gas stations for topping up on supplies and then leaving ONLINE REVIEWS

So you got some Ukrainian tankers buying gas, food and then leaving a positive review on yelp for your shop

We are also seeing them maintain discipline and not abusing civilians or targeting civilian structures so contrary to Russian and Israeli belief you can actually fight a war without doing a genocide against local populations (who knew that was an option)

Plenty of third party footage of relief supplies being sent out to locals in need

Thousands of conscripts have been captured abandoned by their officers with orders to “fight to the last man” allegedly … proving that the fascists don’t even care about their own soldiers enough to evac them with the officers and police forces

We have confirmed capture of at least TWO T90 tanks as well as shoot downs of even more helicopters

Haven’t seen this level of incompetence since the first days of the war

[mariakov81]

[kan-be]

bunch of very old and not so comms I never posted for some reason but still like 😇 the more recent ones were made for @raven6229 and @frog-frussy !!! the owners of the old ones are lost in IG im afraid......

[the-paris-of-people]

Also it's fucked up to yell at members of marginalized communities for acting within the two party system and not burning it all down when you don't have a plan. People are not your fucking sacrificial lambs to skewer and roast on a stick

[cowboy-robooty]

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[nopanamaman]

Going back to what you said before about the country that PAFL takes place in being the worst of the USSR and modern federal Russia mixed together, ¿in that case does that imply that it's kinda like a dystopia? ¿Or just a developing country?

Real life federal russia IS a dystopia lmao

[sunflowerpieivan]

Me and my friend vent to the flea market to find something interesting. I was hoping to find something for cosplay (maybe some real vintage props or details), but I found him! And brought him home. I like this doll on it’s own, but it also reminds me of Italy and Russia I drew long time ago (mostly Italy)

I wish I could do similar dolls of them, but I am afraid that I don’t have enough skills for this, but at least I have Pierrot now~

And I also bought myself some old pins (couldn’t resist buying one with borthoi, just because I kinda like them)

[finsulover]

I give up. (THIS LOOKS LIKE SHITTT)

[liberalsarecool]

Biden leads. Trump would have licked boots.

Both parties are not the same.

[tomorrowusa]

« [W]hat has long been evident is that Putin’s presidency has been little different from the Soviet era, in that he has made Russia a military giant but an economic dwarf. His gangster state has never been able to diversify; while the world buys Chinese cars and American software, the only thing we buy from Russia is oil, and the gradual turning away from hydrocarbons will eventually expose this as an appalling waste of a country’s potential. »

— Will Dunn at The New Statesman.

What is now tanking Russia is essentially what tanked the Soviet Union – a lopsidedly bad economy. And what barely keeps the sputtering Russian economy from totally collapsing is oil.

So Russia is now a badly run petrostate under the control of a nostalgic dictator who is trying to restore the Soviet Union in all but name – as miserable as that sounds.

One irony of Donald Trump's "drill! drill! drill!" policy (if it actually works) is that it would help undermine Russia's only major source of income.

For the Russian economy, however, Trump represents a looming risk, because however exceptional Putin believes his country to be, Russian prosperity ultimately depends on Western consumers. The reason for this is that Russia runs on oil. With most of its gas exports to Europe stopped by pipeline closures and sanctions, it has become an economy dependent on a single commodity, and while oil prices are high, money flows into the Russian current account. What scares the Russian central bank is the risk of a global financial slowdown that reduces consumer demand around the world, and therefore the price of the oil that is intrinsic to manufacturing and trade. That is exactly the world Trump is promising: a world of de-globalisation and trade barriers.

As I mentioned a few days ago, people in the West need to stop overestimating the strength of Russia. It has a couple of million people involved in its military or military industries, but they are poorly trained and not particularly motivated. Russia may have a lot of weapons, but those are almost always inferior to Western equivalents; many date back to the USSR and are even physically rusty.

At the beginning of this century Russia had the potential to become another Germany in economic terms. It had the talent and adequate infrastructure. But under Putin, Russia has become a parody of the Brezhnev-era USSR – but perhaps even worse. Putin's disaster in Ukraine makes Brezhnev's debacle in Afghanistan seem like a day at the beach. Putin has unintentionally let the world see how pitiful his military is and put on full international display the decrepit nature of Russia's economy.

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

The Thingol to Dior pipeline is the same as the First French Empire to Second French Empire pipeline okay I’m right

[actualadvocacybruh]

Serbians - “heh we shot down a stealth plane”

Russians - “heh we destroyed your Abraham tanks”

Americans - “cool cool … we have thousands in storage and we don’t care”

Serbians and Russians barely holding back their tears - “ LOL LOOK AT HOW MAD YOU AMERICANS ARE THAT WE DID A THING”

This is the real cope economy of the military enthusiasts world and it’s been booming recently

They don’t seem to understand that outside of some anime and military weirdos we don’t fetishize equipment like they do

[11chasty11]

Something about Khabarovsk chapters in This Weapon Wants by @cleveradjacent

[ammy246]

Grifters Back Then: The Veilguard is woke trash and the poor reviews will prove Bioware is dead!

Grifters Now: Anybody who is positive about The Veilguard is a paid shill and is lying to you!

[transitofmercury]

KATHERINE AND PULITZER - UNTIL ONE OF YOU FORGETS

The Return of the Prodigal Son - Eric Rimmington // The Average Fourth Grader Is a Better Poet Than You (and Me Too) - Hannah Gamble // East, West - Salman Rushdie // Newsies Script - Harvey Fierstein // Watch What Happens - Newsies // Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong - Ocean Vuong // Steve Blanchard and Kara Lindsay as Pulitzer and Katherine in Newsies // Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power - James McGrath Morris // Under the Burden of Misery - Teodor Axentowicz // Folding a Five-Cornered Star So the Corners Meet - Li-Young Lee // A Portrait of Maya Angelou - Maya Angelou speaking to Bill Moyers

[kropotkindersurprise]

I was just watching a documentary on the US space program, and after the Soviet Union beat the americans to getting the first successful manned space flight, with Yuri Gagarin doing a full orbit of Earth, a year later the US finally managed to get their own first kosmonaut into orbit, John Glenn, who took these photographs of the Earth.

Now is it just me or is there a beautiful Hammer and Sickle cloud floating over the coast of Africa, just to rub in the fact that the USA lost the space race?