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It's crazy how much it start to seem like Russia and the US are like 2 sides to the same coin. It's almost like a small minority of persons with highly lethal weapons give them some sort of complex that leads them to believe they can make decision for everybody else at the cost of other people's livelihood.
if russia is going to civil war, thier troll farms will be silent on social media for a while, thats a good thing.
Why are you, Mr Kharichev, so interested in windows?
Incoming headline:
senior Kremlin official dies of suicide after shooting himself in the back of the head 3 times after falling out of 10th floor window.
It's especially impressive that he mananged to do that with his hands tied behind his back. Some people are just determined I guess.
I hate the idea, because short term everybody loses, lose loved ones, lose their own lives, but one does wonder if a civil war would finally be able to break Russia into smaller normal independent democratic states that can take care of themselves
Yes please. Something good for once.
What's incredible is this wouldn't be the first time Russia has spent such an insane amount of money on a futile war they absolutely collapse.
Collapsing is a proud Russian tradition. And now the US gets to do it with them!
As soon as it became clear how much russia botched the invasion initially, I've thought of vovka as Tsar Nicolas III
So it’s a race, is it? USA! USA! USA!
Wouldn't it be great if all the empires collapsed and everybody just like, learned their lesson?
literally everyone when an empire collapses:
omg what a happy world if both the US and Russia balkanized.
That would be pretty neat, which means it won't happen.
According to Vlad Vexler, in Russian political/bureaucratic culture this is not to be understood as real analysis and more to be understood as functionaries pitching themselves as useful to Putin: https://youtu.be/ZJryUKULZ_E
Anyone hoping this means they stop funding scammers to trick Americans into voting against their best interests, too bad, that's one of their best revenue streams.
Yeeaaaahhh, no, that won't stop unless indeed a civil war breaks out in Russia.
I think Mr. Kharichev is about to get window'd.
Defenestrated
Onto a trampoline where he bounced back in, and was refenestrated.
And then they injected polonium in his veins, the end
Every once in a while a story like this gets published and it occupies the news cycle for a little bit. They always end up being nothing.
A few years ago Putin was reportedly on his death bed. Prior to that he had aggressive Parkinson's and would resign in 6 months.
I suspect this is just a smoke screen for something else.
Good. Die faster, Russia.
Sources: Reuters, BBC, AP, Express
This article is made and published by Jens Asbjørn Bogen, who may have used AI in the preparation
haha okayyyyy
Putin and Trump, and their respective countries, have lots in common. It's almost like they're marching in lock-step.
Yes. But trump isn't sending thousands of soldiers every week to die in the meat grinder... yet.
I've been hearing this for 2 years. How's Putin's cancer doing, by the way?
it was, and remains, a real consequential threat of Putin's course of action. but these things are rarely quick, until they begin.
Finally some clever words about reality. But I doubt that he will listen anyway.
That guy better stay on the ground floor for the rest of his life. Anything higher up than oh say about 30 feet gets so darn slippery this time of year in Moscow that you just wouldn't believe it.
Russia is a colonial abomination that shoud not exist, so that's pretty decent news.
It's not so much a nation as it is a very large swath of land nobody wants to live in, controlled by a somewhat organized crime syndicate who gained control of some production and defense capabilities like petroleum and nuclear weapons.
Calling them "colonial" almost makes it seem more systematic and organized than what it is, it's kleptocracy and they are trying to steal land with resources from targets of opportunity.
Hooray!
I’ll believe it even I see it, just like any Trump news.
Seriously. Russia was supposed to collapse in 2023. Then in 2024. Then in 2025. Putin was sick and he was about to die. Endless supply of hopium. At this point I consider it all fake news until proven otherwise. Also there was the recent Money & Macro economic analysis that contradicts a lot of the hopium theories. And there's the whole contradiction between impending economic collapse and lauching war on NATO countries. The two are mutually exclusive.
