It’s not.

The red line was placed by US itself as a response to Russia threatening using nuclear weapons if Ukraine gets any help.

Russia of course didn’t, but adopted that red line itself and used it on its propaganda.

As they started offensive on Kharkiv, and started bombing Ukraine from behind the border so Ukraine wouldn’t be able to respond, they essentially forced change of that red line.

US allowed to use of its weapons in that area.

Now the problem for Russia is:

• it was easy to say “no Western weapon can be used on territory of Russia”, but now they can’t say “it was fine to use Western weapons on Belogrod, but Rostov-on-don is a red line” that doesn’t work well in propaganda, is putin saying Belogrod isn’t Russia?
• other Western nations gave permission to use their weapons anywhere in Russia with no restrictions
• the actual agreement where Ukraine can hit and where it can’t are secret and known only to US and Ukraine

This means Russia (including maga politicians) once it stops with this sabre rattling, won’t really have much way to use propaganda about future changes.

The agreement being secret will also allow to be modified without much headlines. We will only learn after the fact. For example Russia reporting they saw fragments of US weapons in different areas. Most won’t care anymore.

Oh, don’t worry, there will be full permission. In a few weeks, and it will be without headlines.

The initial plan of US was to weaken Russia and make putin withdraw on its own.

With recent delivery of long distance munition, changing policy on hitting into Russia and imposing sanctions on banks it is clear that the policy changed to let Ukraine defeat Russia even if it would result in a collapse of RF.

Also to add that Raisin was groomed to take his place, and apparently the guy Raisi was grooming to take his was also in the helicopter.

Khamenei is 85 years old.

This is true. Russia saber rattling about using nuclear weapons, doesn’t mean much. Putin knows this would not lead to victory and likely would end up with him losing power and likely life.

The scary time is what he will do when he will see his power slipping. Thankfully in 1992 Gorbachev managed to handle it peacefully. Hopefully when it happens it will end up similarly.

upvote for a programmer joke :)

And the best thing, is that one doesn’t even have to mention “cybertruck”.

BTW: I just had someone say when I showed them this picture: “no, this is not cybertruck, is it?”

When you talk to Slovakians they say that his death would be one of the best things to happen to the pro putin movement, as this would make him a martyr.

I personally wonder how it will be as it looks like he survived and these news paint an interesting picture.

Read “Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America” it gives a real reason why this is happening.

What do you mean? It’s Ukraine that is destroying Russia’s refineries, to reduce the mobility of the Russian military. Why would you want them to stop defending?

That’s not true, in 2022 people weren’t sure about, especially since there was a gossip that putin had cancer (now looks like it was likely spread by FSB)

We know now it was BS and just a strategy to let the West have him what he wants. putin’s ultimate goal is to control Europe and Asia, and unless the West wakes the fuck up, he will achieve it.

He knows Russia has absolutely zero chance in conventional warfare with NATO, so that’s what hybrid one comes in that includes disinformation, sabotage, destabilization.

I highly recommend book: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder which covers history of putin’s Russia. The war already started over a decade ago, we were just sleeping through it.

I think this would be a great feature request: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

I would definitively use it if it was implemented. Make it work like it is in GPG, where you can rank users based on your trust, and that is then propagated to others.

Isn’t this why we should embrace EVs and other cars that can use renewable energy so we don’t have to worry about the middle east and other petrostates?

It’s addictive…

Wasn’t that why the League of Nations failed?

While there are conditions, you seem to imply that not having a border dispute is one of them, but that’s actually not true, other countries with border disputes did join NATO in the past (see Greece and Turkey for example). It ultimately comes down to votes.

The nickname of the main character in Cyberpunk 2077

NY should go after other fuckers too. Starting with the ones that said “victimless”. Could provide some funding for the state.

What about ISIS admitting it, even sending a body cam from the attackers.

It reminds me of the Onion: https://youtu.be/Q_OIXfkXEj0

Yeah, it is political, when your politics come down to “woke” vs “antiwoke”.

I’m starting to understand why today’s “conservatives” see a brutal dictator like putin as a hero. It doesn’t matter what he does, since he is “antiwoke”.