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That train has done run faster than Herschel outrunning those South Carolina DBs.

Is there any way Putin comes out of this stronger?  I think he made a huge miscalculation.

he aint out of it yet

Nope, but I can't conceive of any future where this is to his benefit even if Ukraine magically caves today.

• significant military losses
• significant damage to the country he would now somewhat control
• sullen perhaps rebellious subject population
• enmity from the West
• more military spending by Germany
• Finland and Sweden considering NATO
• very bad imagery for his own military capabilities
• taking over a poor country needing rebuilding at considerable cost to someone
• sanctions
• very bad internal economy

On the plus side ....???

C'mon the commoners eagerly await

Children, we're children, and I suppose commoners as well.

Absolute insanity. Might be using it as a tool/ploy to squash dissent. Don’t see how that could possibly do anything but backfire if they actually tried to do it.

Unsubstantiated rumors coming from Russia right now, so I won't bother posting links, but the word on the street is that Russia plans to institute martial law as soon as tomorrow.  It is known that they have a meeting tomorrow to discuss "crisis management" which could just be their economic plans to weather the storm of sanctions, but some people inside the country have suggested that martial law will also be considered, and implemented, as a result of that meeting.

After a whole day of this thread infighting and finger pointing over geopolitics still wasn’t long enough for the Russian’s to get their stalled convoy sadly back on track for Kyiv. It’s really turning into the Kremlin’s own Fyre Fest.

Anyway, Wikipedia has a page for Pets of Vladimir Putin:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets_of_Vladimir_Putin#Pasha

Putin apparently has another 10 unlisted hounds in his basement: “In total silence, Putin led the Americans through some corridors and down various sets of stairs into the literal basement of the Kremlin, a place where bad things had happened over the years, as John, a student of Russian history, knew well. There, the grimacing Putin showed them roughly 10 of the fiercest-looking canines that John had ever seen. There were restrained in large cages. Putin then looked at the Americans and said simply and sternly, “This is what a real dog looks like. Tell your president.””


https://twitter.com/amspectator/status/1498889180394528771

I think Russia is at the point of martial law, though in reality that is kind of the norm for them anyway.

Yes, the distance traveled for Russia to get from normal, to martial law, is certainly a lot shorter than here in the US, that's for sure.