Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

Paranoid fuck, isn't he?

It’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you.

Boru

just because you are paranoid that does not mean they are not really out to get you.

[arewethereyet]

Putin meeting with his top advisors today.



He seems scared even of his advisors.

Maybe his advisors are scared of him.

[Anomalocaris]

there is a rumor that Russian ministers and head of government had a tradition of pranking eachother by sneaking ripe tomatoes on to the chair of the one who has bad news to report, just before the victim sits down.  so if the one reporting the news failed to notice, he would be waking around with giant tomato stain on the seat of his pants for the rest of the meeting.

rumor has it that started with joseph stalin.

I suspect either putin or all of his ministers had bad news to report.

[onlinebiker]

It's simpler than that.

It is reported he is worried about Covid...

[Anomalocaris]

It's simpler than that.

It is reported he is worried about Covid...

it would have to be some supersonic virus to travel that far.

[onlinebiker]

I can dig it. I practice anti- social distancing..

Get too close and I tell you to get the fuck outta my airspace...

[Rev. Rye]

Frankly, I have no troublie believing that these absurdly long tables are either an extremely backassward attempt at keeping COVID away or a means of intimidating anyone he has a one-on-one with. I've heard a lot of stories about how he's paranoid about COVID, but the use of a table like this is a long-established means of expressing dominance; one that very much suits his style.

[The Grand Nudger]

Whatever his style might be, it's looking alot like empty suit shit.

With 8 years of planning, at a minimum - the russian army still manages to be ill equipped, undertrained, and unmotivated. The invasion of ukraine has been an abject failure on every conceivable level. Putin was either high on his own supply, or his facile yes men couldn't bring themselves to tell him how pathetic the state of his invasion force was in mere reality. Probably both.

[Anomalocaris]

Nitpicking aside, in all likelihood, the Russian army is good enough.     one does not need to exhibit customary signs of excellence to be good enough.

The 40 mile nose to tail truck convoy is probably an intentional expression of confidence abs contempt, because it shows the Russians have zero concern for NATO interference, which could have annihilated that column in a few minutes, and also none for the Ukraine drones attacks whose success have been so heavily trumpeted on social media present a concern for the Russians when such interference would have counted because just taking out a a few vehicles would have bogged down the entire column.

[The Architect Of Fate]

Good at failing