russia is a fascist state
it has not become one recently, or by accident
it continues to gleefully reveal itself as one daily
it will not stop being one while it exists

he was dead the moment his flight from Germany touched down
everything since was watching him being stuffed into the grinder and the mechanism then doing the work it was designed for

(wonder though what is it that she has to say
to have been offered no jail time at all

well, we'll find out, I hope)

I am always willing to admit that I was wrong when evidence points that way

I was sure that their stupidity had no bounds
apparently, fantastic though it seems, it does have them

oh, right
there was one battle with NATO, actually
at Khasham

russians ended up giving medals to those who managed simply to survive it

nineteen ninety freaking six

russians keep getting totally shredded by surplus stocks of last century's technology
and keep being totally surprised by it

but sure, they're gonna fight NATO

"russia gave the world pushkin, tolstoy, chekhov!"

it tried, yes
and the world didn't take them

pushkin is nowhere, since he doesn't make sense outside the language
tolstoy is a synonym for a thick tome
chekhov is "we'll show you how we stage uncle vanya"

you are a footnote

go look at the numbers
seriously
https://t.co/BlXHlJdUz7

any canceling that is going on is done exclusively by russians themselves

and the result warms my heart
I like it when things are in their proper places

when it's been 5 minutes and your public stupidity hasn't cost you another billion dollars in losses

"average russians becoming increasingly angry at the continuing decline in living standards and finally rising to overthrow the oppressors", they said

crap
this means that ill-wishers provoking him into surrendering is not going to work, since it will not hinder russia's development, and he's only interested in succumbing to provocations that do

people who went to live in their own private universes should be isolated from the real one

russian lunar probe people knew that their 30+ years of bullshit will be exposed (same with tanks, planes etc.)
russian nuke people know there will be no questions about theirs (whether there is an attempt to use them or not)

to quote miles: do not fear nukes - there aren't any

"I served for two years in the Strategic Missile Forces," he said, "they have a very similar guidance system, only using stars. And no radio contact – you have to do it yourself, with a calculator. You make one mistake, and you're fucked."
"And if you don't?"
He didn't answer.

> teen is actually Christian, wears a cross
> My son is a good boy
> Get that gay s--t out of here
> Dmitriy Popov was arraigned as an adult defendant on murder charges

yeah, totally tracks
https://t.co/MiLDEAY5mO

just get russia away from people

"In Agnes’s case this had manifested itself in a tendency to wear soppy black lace gloves and pale makeup and call herself Perdita plus an initial from the arse of the alphabet."

it was a freaking joke!

guess goodrussians should make prigozhin an honorary chairman, now that he's been exiled for his fight against corruption

start inviting him to their shindigs
you know, those round tables discussing the future of russia

"at least he tried to do something", n'est-ce pas?

mayor of moscow declared monday to be a holiday

that's the spirit
whoever wins, we're gonna party

case in point
https://x.com/BrynnTannehill/status/1672616004537524226
"It was always an underlying assumption"
(only one of the similarly accepted assumptions, btw)

yes, it was
still continues to be

except it's demonstrably wrong

the first russian empire lasted 200 years and ended with a whimper
the second russian empire lasted 70 years and ended with a whimper
the third russian empire is 30 years old
what else can it possibly end with

all the thoughtful, logical, self-assured and confident analytics I'm seeing (and not only now) starts with "they can't really be that stupid" and/or "people in charge would never permit that"

they can
and no one is in charge

Ukrainian nationalism: we are Ukrainians, so we are going to have Ukraine in Ukraine
russian nationalism: we are russians, so we are going to have russia everywhere

yes, we need different words for these two notions
and yes, it's the second that gets the other one

russian culture has only ever produced three things
russia, russian and russians

russia, russian and russians have only ever been instruments of russian world

russian world has only ever been slavery, misery, death, erasure of identity and zeroing out of the value of human life

this was totally obvious https://x.com/a7sharp9/status/1569008225663569920

and for all that he least of all could unrussian his universe

oh, and brodsky got his nobel not for being a russian poet
but for being an american essayist

quote, "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity"
it makes no sense to note "poetic intensity" in poetry

the notion that there is a russian culture is built on a circular argument

there is no culture produced by russians that is of any value to anyone who is not russian
but no russian can imagine how it is not to be russian

the latest Snyder is somewhat about the same thing
snyder.substack.com/p/politics-returns-to-ru...

https://t.co/GKE2gLDmDr
I do not buy the "freedom for russia" narrative

russians had freedom
they went and bought themselves imperialist slavery with it
and topped it off with a genocidal dictator

and now that it went all manky, they discuss the next purchase at the same store