Where Do Things End With Vlad? (h/t romad1)

[smr-nj]

45 minutes ago, romad1 said:

This is not a well man

 

Doesn’t look well at all.  Also has a “shot full of steroids” look. 

[gehringer_2]

13 minutes ago, smr-nj said:

Doesn’t look well at all.  Also has a “shot full of steroids” look. 

yeah - that's a good observation. If the silly fool was still playing at the Judo master thing into his 50's he may well have fried his back beyond repair -  you've got to know when to back off certain things, and we don't need much more evidence Putin doesn't.

Edited April 21, 2022 by gehringer_2

[Tigerbomb13]

His shirtless on a horse days seem to be over. Did he play in the annual hockey game recently when they allow him to score like 80 goals?

[CMRivdogs]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

This is not a well man

 

 

[pfife]

[CMRivdogs]

Something smells a bit rotten in Moscow...

This after testing a new intercontinental weapon

[Motown Bombers]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

This is not a well man

 

It looks like someone with diarrhea from IBS who cannot stand up because it will all come flowing out. 

[romad1]

really?

[Tigeraholic1]

 

 

[gehringer_2]

4 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Something smells a bit rotten in Moscow...

This after testing a new intercontinental weapon

Two facilities in Moscow went up in flames today. Very Interesting...

[romad1]

This is interesting speculation

[chasfh]

20 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

His shirtless on a horse days seem to be over. Did he play in the annual hockey game recently when they allow him to score like 80 goals?

You’re exaggerating. It’s only 30 or 40 goals.

[chasfh]

15 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Two facilities in Moscow went up in flames today. Very Interesting...

What’s the implication? Ukrainian sabotage? Internal sabotage? Putin covering tracks? Something else not leaping to mind?

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

What’s the implication? Ukrainian sabotage? Internal sabotage? Putin covering tracks? Something else not leaping to mind?

Who knows? I would guess sabotage. Something like the Al Qaeda sleeper cell model? If you step back it seems reasonable to believe there are people in Russia who hate what is happening enough to act on that hatred. 

[chasfh]

31 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Who knows? I would guess sabotage. Something like the Al Qaeda sleeper cell model? If you step back it seems reasonable to believe there are people in Russia who hate what is happening enough to act on that hatred. 

Or it could be the result of an American cyberattack. We keep hearing news stories about how the Russians are going to cyberattack us, but of course, we never hear about American counter-efforts. It's not as though that's not even happening, right?

[gehringer_2]

10 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Or it could be the result of an American cyberattack. We keep hearing news stories about how the Russians are going to cyberattack us, but of course, we never hear about American counter-efforts. It's not as though that's not even happening, right?

fair point. It's not as obvious what would be subject to that kind of attack at the research institute, it's not as obvious anyway as a facility with a large hackable distributed instrument control system like a chem plant.  But that is one of Russia's disadvantages in this war - There are many Ukrainians with deep personal knowledge of things within Russia that has good intelligence value so there may be a lot of non-obvious vulnerabilities the Ukrainians will be able to exploit. OTOH, Ukraine has already been hardening their assets against Russian intelligence for years.

[romad1]

best guess on the sabotage inside Russia is Ukrainian efforts.  They have the least amount to lose.  Also, Putin might do it to his own facilities to drum up outrage.  He's done that before. 

[gehringer_2]

9 minutes ago, romad1 said:

best guess on the sabotage inside Russia is Ukrainian efforts.  They have the least amount to lose.  Also, Putin might do it to his own facilities to drum up outrage.  He's done that before. 

he's in a funny spot. Sort of the same problem with Moskva - he'd love to use the outrage factor but it makes it hard to maintain the fiction that that this is not a serious war with serious potential consequences for Russia. My guess is sooner or later he drops any remaining pretense that Russia is winning a non-war and pivots to "we are in an existential struggle to survive" at which point it probably becomes more dangerous on all sides. Oddly enough the population probably won't even flinch at any realization they were being lied to initially - in their hearts they know they've always been lied to.

[Tigerbomb13]

Add to the list of war crimes 

[1984Echoes]

On 4/21/2022 at 11:29 AM, smr-nj said:

Doesn’t look well at all.  Also has a “shot full of steroids” look. 

So he...

Attacked Ukraine out of 'Roid Rage?

Consider the possibility...

[1984Echoes]

So far, Biden is getting an "A" in his handling of this war:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/results-world-handling-war-ukraine-002317312.html

[romad1]

53 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

So far, Biden is getting an "A" in his handling of this war:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/results-world-handling-war-ukraine-002317312.html

he assembled a great team. 

[Tigerbomb13]

Not bad for having dementia!

[mtutiger]

Continued movement toward Macron... 

It'd be great if he managed to push or exceed 60%, which would put him close to his 2017 numbers. 

[romad1]

Incredible from the perspective of 2014 or any point during the Soviet era.