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[EuchreJack]

But that statement is the most chilling thing I've heard so far in this conflict... I mean seriously what is happening.  Can we just send these leaders that want to fight into a big arena and let them have it out?  The rest of us "general population" just want to live our lives peacefully...

Deciding a war based on duels between national leaders would be fun, yeah, but what happens when Vladimir Putin rides into the arena on a grizzly bear while Biden has a stroke before making it through the doors?

Assuming the duel was to the death, all Americans would consent to Trump being Returning President For A Day.

But seriously, Putin's been quite deliberate with his body movements, indicative that he's trying to hide more serious health issues. And Biden would pass out before the fight, leaving Putin to face Kamala Harris. I hear she's a biter...

(The question of why don't the leaders just duel comes up in every war I think)

[EuchreJack]

The question becomes which Nation's leader is issuing orders on Sunday?

[TamerVirus]

Can’t have a military coup if the military leadership is all dead

[martinuzz]

The Worldbank agreed to a support packet of gifts and loans to the Ukrainian government of 723 million dollar (666 million euros)

[Starver]

Can’t have a military coup if the military leadership is all dead

I'd previously had half a thought that some of the cannon-fodder losses by the Russians were 'deliberate', or at least typical Great Patriotic War zerg-rush-against-overwhelming-odds tactics (even though that shouldn't have been necessary), but I can't rationalise the reasoning behind this.


Except for the stalled convoys. Surely not, but still conceivably, engineered as such a tempting target for US-/whoever-led strikes so as to draw in the international community and 'prove' their own status as provacateurs to justify some pre-intended escalation. It's not a sane plan, but it is a plan. An attempted Xanatos-/Thanatos-Gambit, possibly.

[martinuzz]

I really worry for the refugees that are 'evacuated' into Russian territory.
How is Russia going to deal with people that they just shelled and schocked and that want to drink their blood?
I'm kind of afraid that they will send them to death camps.

[Robsoie]

Wasn't expecting this to happen considering how popular that serie of games have been in Russia, but the developers of it are from Ukraine and while not really important in comparison tothe war losses of live, this shows that while Putin is losing the propaganda war worldwide, he's still winning it in his own country ...
https://old.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/t9en89/stalker_franchise_is_getting_review_bombed_on/

[MaxTheFox]

Wasn't expecting this to happen considering how popular that serie of games have been in Russia, but the developers of it are from Ukraine and while not really important in comparison tothe war losses of live, this shows that while Putin is losing the propaganda war worldwide, he's still winning it in his own country ...
https://old.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/t9en89/stalker_franchise_is_getting_review_bombed_on/

Even a moderately large minority of nationalists can do this. If anything his support is dropping slowly as sanctions mount, from my experience.

[EuchreJack]

It may also be the Russian people are feeling the sanctions and lashing out.  Not everyone on the review bombing is necessarily a Nationalist, some could just be pissed off and are attacking something. Some could just be trolls getting in on the fun.

[nenjin]

Or people that think S.T.A.L.K.E.R is a Russian game and a Russian national icon are review bombing it.

[brewer bob]

Was there ever any confirmation on the death of the chechen general Magomed Tushayev?

I'm also interested in this.

[nenjin]

Semi-related.

My boss has had a Ukrainian exchange student for like 5+ years now, living in his home while she goes to college here. She's practically his daughter at this point.

Both of her parents were in Kyiv. Her mother finally evacuated over the border to Moldova but it sounds like the Russians are moving there next. She's older but still of working age, but has no travel companion and so my boss is basically paying for her to get to Budapest. He's going to fly down there next week to travel with her and, US immigration policy withstanding, see if he can't bring her to the US.

AFAIK her father is still in Ukraine and is or will be drafted into the fighting.

[TamerVirus]

Apparently Zelensky has ‘cooled down’ on NATO membership for Ukraine.
Opening the door for future compromise with Russia? Is Russia even open to compromise at this point any more?

[Telgin]

I would imagine it's more a combination of realizing that there's no realistic way for Ukraine to join NATO and frustration with a lack of help from NATO.  I could possibly see Ukraine using that as a bargaining chip in negotiation with Russia since it was one of Russia's latest peace conditions, but whether they'd cede territory is another matter.

[Strongpoint]

Cold weather is coming to Ukraine... Up to -17C at night. I don't even want to think how many civilians will freeze to death in cities with no heating and no electricity

I would imagine it's more a combination of realizing that there's no realistic way for Ukraine to join NATO and frustration with a lack of help from NATO. I could possibly see Ukraine using that as a bargaining chip in negotiation with Russia since it was one of Russia's latest peace conditions, but whether they'd cede territory is another matter.

Lack of what? Yeah, sure, Zelensky is a little too whiny about lack of the no-fly-zone but without NATO's recon and aid this would be a very different war (Still unwinnable for Russia but way more bloody for Ukrainians).

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More lack of help - #BREAKING: Poland says it is ready to deploy all its MiG-29 fighter jets to Rammstein Air Base in Germany and put them at US disposal free of charge in exchange for them being replaced with “used aircraft with corresponding operational capabilities”