I could never understand how Kalingrad is part of Russia.
Lol. They really are floundering in their own self-made sea of delusions. @ArthurD is right, they have towed their master’s line and peddled his lies so hard they are backed into the same corner as him. The only truthful thing to pass her lying lips during her sob/rant was that the western world is “…powerful, successful, well-armed…”
Margarita Simonyan Urges Russians to Choose Death Over Defeat in Ukraine on Kremlin State TV (thedailybeast.com)
In his latest speech last week, Vladimir Putin was desperate to convince foreign audiences that a so-called “new world order” was on the horizon. In his remarks, given at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, the Russian president dropped some key messages to those who dared to question his vision of the Kremlin’s new place on the global stage—both with what he said out loud, and what he didn’t.
Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, asked Putin about comments he made four years ago on the potential use of nuclear weapons. “You said that we would all go to heaven, but we’re in no hurry to get there, right?” In response, Putin held a long theatrical pause. He wouldn’t answer the question. Lukyanov noted: “You’ve stopped to think. That’s disconcerting.”
In a response that seemed to spotlight the descent of Russian foreign policy to nuclear terror tactics, Putin scoffed: “I did it on purpose to make you worry a little. Mission accomplished.”
Lol. The pause WAS telling. It told of a man in front of a camera who’s bluff has just been called and didn’t have a reply but who was conducting an internal search for one but coming up blank. (Or he just realized that his previous statement was wrong and that they were all going to die and go in the opposite direction…)
Putin’s answer stumped his own media mouthpieces. So much so that Margarita Simonyan, head of state news agency RT, decided to take the non-response as an opportunity to reaffirm her readiness for martyrdom for the sake of the Russian president.
During the latest broadcast of Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov on state television, where Simonyan is always the first guest to deliver her monologue and the only queen bee who is allowed to sit down in the studio, she gushed over Putin’s remarks in Valdai.
… She went on: “I don’t want to live in this kind of a world. It’s better to go to heaven right away, as Putin said: We’ll go to heaven and they’ll just croak.”
While they are spouting this tripe, this is what their criminal rabble called an army is doing in the neighbouring country:
So much for being staunch upholders of Orthodox Christianity and the global bulwark of social conservatism against the evil West. It’s all bullshit. Same for Russian Mir and Moscow, Third Rome. All are false and hollow ideologies promoted through Putin propaganda…
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Poor old Macaroon, the international community is organising his appeasing ■■■■, not the other way around!
They’re at the “defeat preferable to death” stage, hey?
Which is particularly silly given that defeat in Russia’s case would just mean withdrawing from foreign territory, and giving up on the self-and-other-destructive need to be one of the world powers. There’s still a possible and much better future for everyone, particularly Russia, where they just let that centuries old desire go.
Is it really that strange?
Many countries have territories elsewhere. Alaska seem strange?
When USSR broke up, I guess Russia wanted the port on the Baltic Sea, but still seemed strange to me that Belarus didnt claim it, as it had no real Russian history. Even stranger that it was part of Germany before 1946. But I guess borders in Europe have been fluid for centuries.
Well it was Prussian for eternity, but once all the Germans were either expelled or killed, who were you going to give it to?
It’s not Russian or Polish or Lithuanian, but the population is entirely Russian now.
Kaliningrad is Russia’s only warm water port.
The Baltic ports of other countries are currently closed to Russia and Belarus ( which used to ship its potash from them).
Russia sought the re-opening of those ports as part of the Black Sea grain deal. When it suspended the Black Sea grain corridor, it offered to use Belarus as a land route to move UA grains to Baltic ports, on condition that it could ship its own grains and fertilisers from the Baltic ports.
In the event, this proved impossible to negotiate.
Russia has however claimed that, in agreeing to continue the Black Sea deal, it has secured an undertaking that UA will not use its Black Sea ports to attack Russian ships.
The Black Sea deal expires on 19 November. It has a rollover clause. By then most of the UA grains from the current harvests should be exported from the Black Sea and the rest could go inland.
Russia continues to seek the ammonia pipeline
Well they do have Vladivostok - but it is on the other side of the planet and a long way from their immediate spheres of influence.
Vladivostok and Nakhodka have ice flows and at times need icebreakers for access, which limits some commercial shipping.
Additionally, as Vladivostok is also a military port, commercial shipping comes second.
Navigable shipping routes also need to be negotiated with the likes of Japan
Russia is attempting to open an Arctic route from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but this would need different merchant ships.
“It was a good 24 hours: Ukrainian Armed Forces kill almost 1,000 Russian soldiers”
What have we become when we celebrate death. When its kill or be killed its excusable, you know, when its actually “WAR”.
But Putin would not mind, in fact thats why he puts untrained young men into battle. He clearly wants them dead.
Vladivostok?
Looks like this guy has pinched NLWartracker’s work:
Kind of side related, but this is a good takedown thread of this Briahna Joy Gray video that has been doing the rounds on twitter:
They could have given it to me. I would have done a solid job. For a little while at least. By now I’d be pouring most of the area’s finances into Star Citizen’s however.