Yes, he knew he would go to prison on bogus charges. And when his current sentence is almost up, they'll slap him with some other fictitious crime. It was quite brave of him to return despite the knowledge that Putin's justice system is entirely corrupt.
Good call, I never thought to try that as I always had a vpn anyway. For those that don't know how to ping...
Hah, get fucked Russia. Sweden seems like a good choice to conduct a truly independent investigation into this, as obviously Russia, the US, Germany, and Ukraine would all be too biased.
The 8th of the last few months has been interesting.
You forgot:
They found something in the sewage of London, let me check..
I'd call the bombing of cities an escalation, and it looks like it will continue to get worse.
It doesn't matter what Putin does anymore, the west have already compared him to Hitler etc, so he may as well do what he wants now as it makes no difference anymore. Still considering what weapons and soldiers he has at his disposal, I'd say he's been rather reserved when he could have gone all scorched earth, like what USA does. He could have used biological weapons, nukes, destroyed critical infrastructre such as, main supply roads, airports, communications systems, energy systems etc - but he hasn't
Yes, he's held back a lot of the heavy stuff, but I wonder if that's his call or the military leaders. If they go scorched earth in Ukraine they would use up anything that could hold off their friends the Chinese and North Koreans from making moves and annexing territory.
TBH it's not really a full blown war that's happening, if it was we could see carnage and lots of death. The MSM is making this out to be a lot worse than it is, still they do have a narrative to push.
Russia doing that was quite an unrealistic stretch before, and betrayal seems the more likely case.
