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Sorry, that's a Metal Gear joke.
Because in Metal Gear, "The Patriots" aka the Illuminati, were apparently SO SECRET you couldn't even say their name, it just came out as nonsense words aka La Li Lu Le Lo. Apparently in Japanese it's supposed to be "words that don't exist" or something like that.
Metal Gear is really fucking wierd at times. MGS2 especially so.
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Sounds like a BLM Crisis Actor, tbh.
Russian paratrooper who fought in Ukraine says troops are deliberately shooting themselves in the leg to escape the war and get a $50,000 payout
Pavel Filatyev's 141-page memoir is the most detailed account of a Russian soldier fighting in the war so far.www.businessinsider.com
A Russian paratrooper, Pavel Filatyev, has published online a 144-page account of his experience in the invasion force, before he was sent home with an infection and subsequently fled Russia. There's some incredible (and harrowing) details of the pressures they're under.
* Some soldiers were unaware until months after the invasion began that there was no war on Russian territory.
* Filatyev was present for the incursion into Kherson. He reports that soldiers had been unable to eat properly, shower, sleep regularly or change clothes for days or weeks, which resulted in frenzied looting of kitchens and shower facilities in Kherson. Looting appears to have been a result of utter desperation as basic living standards were denied to the soldiers.
* Some soldiers were deliberately shooting themselves in the limbs to get sent home.
Just goes to show that the only country strong enough to defeat Russia is Russia itself.
Or the only country Russia is weak to is also Russia.
Something along those lines. It's just unfortunate that Russia seems to have a lot of really careless smokers that keep flicking their cigarettes' into the ammo and fuel depots.
So apparently a car bombing on Putin's chief ideologue, Aleksandr Dugin failed and they got his daughter instead. The assassins could have been been Ukrainians or oligarchs pissed off that the war Dugin wanted is making them less rich. Or even Putin himself.
Dugin's daughter seems to have been just as fascistic and crazy as her father, as well as being an official Russian propagandist so my sympathy lies primarily with the car.
Dugin's daughter seems to have been just as fascistic and crazy as her father, as well as being an official Russian propagandist so my sympathy lies primarily with the car.
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This assassination attempt(or, well, success though probably on the wrong target) makes me curious:
Imagine if Putin were to drop dead, either via a car bomb or some disease. Who will then be the president of Russia? Russia is on paper a democracy so there probably is some line of succession, but I am doubtful that procedure would be followed. Which spurs the follow-up question of who is likely to take command in Putin's absence.
Imagine if Putin were to drop dead, either via a car bomb or some disease. Who will then be the president of Russia? Russia is on paper a democracy so there probably is some line of succession, but I am doubtful that procedure would be followed. Which spurs the follow-up question of who is likely to take command in Putin's absence.
According to the Russian constitution, the Prime Minister would become interim president until an election. So it would be Mikhail Mishustin.
The President of the United States of America grabbing someone by the crotch isn't that weird.
Interestingly, the line of succession after the PM is a giant gray area, though. There's defined rules for succession for the position of PM (one of the deputies), but there's nothing that says the deputy PM would serve as President if both positions were empty.
Darya Dugina, daughter of prominent Russian fascist philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, has been killed in a car bombing, which was likely intended for her father.
Darya herself acted as her father's press secretary, as well as chief editor for a far-right disinformation site owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the neo-fascist mercenary Wagner Group. She was also an outspoken denier of war crimes perpetrated during the invasion of Ukraine.
The DPR has blamed Ukraine for the attack, whilst Ukraine has denied involvement.
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In other news, a Ukrainian drone struck the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, in a significant continuation of the targeting of Russian emplacements in occupied Crimea.
Darya herself acted as her father's press secretary, as well as chief editor for a far-right disinformation site owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the neo-fascist mercenary Wagner Group. She was also an outspoken denier of war crimes perpetrated during the invasion of Ukraine.
The DPR has blamed Ukraine for the attack, whilst Ukraine has denied involvement.
Daughter of Russian ideologue killed in suspected car bomb attack
Darya Dugina, daughter of prominent ultra-nationalist Alexander Dugin, was killed on Saturday evening after a suspected explosive device blew up the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving, investigators said.
www.reuters.com
In other news, a Ukrainian drone struck the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, in a significant continuation of the targeting of Russian emplacements in occupied Crimea.
Yeah, I'd forgotten that part until I watched KC and Marty play it and everyone was "Wow, that part feels strangely relevant".
Though the fact he apparently thought Raiden was a girl somehow doesn't make it better.
The open question though is how much of that equipment still works?
If we've learned one thing about the Russian military, it's how incredibly proactive its personnel are at implementing cost saving measures, often to the point of forgetting to tell anyone about it.
Even assuming maintenance crews haven't just ripped out whatever components have a black market value, it seems highly probable that on more than a few occasions people have just pocketed money set aside for maintenance or spare parts. After all, who is going to notice if a bunch of T-62s in a vehicle pool in Siberia rust out a bit faster?
Probably almost none, not least for the reasons you suggest. However, I also think that 10,000 tanks in storage means that they can shunt working stuff from one to another, they can probably rustle up a couple of thousand.
On the other hand, logisitics matters. Russia seems to have terrible logistics capability, and undoubtedly a huge proportion of its military engineering capacity is busy maintaining AFVs on the frontline, so I suspect a major problem is lacking the manpower to bring their obsolete shitcans back into operation.
At last, someone has finally done some real de-Nazification.
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Russia entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb Ukraine and nobody was going to bomb them back.
I'm not sure Ukraine would bother killing Dugin, though. It could also be an angry Ukrainian working on their own initiative, but it could also be a Russian - a political enemy of Dugin or other dissident.
Also, contextually, Russia has carried out peacetime revenge murders in my country using chemical and radioactive weapons (including someone completely innocent, they were so careless), so their outrage rings phenomenally hollow in my ears.
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True. We don't know who caused it, and since Russia has shown itself to be full of liars on this war, we shouldn't believe anything they say.