“Life in Russia is always difficult.”

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Mar 062022
 

The hope among many is that the sanctions on Russia will cause the Russian people, or business class, or military, or *somebody* to pull their thumbs out and give Putin the boot. And it’s starting to look like those sanctions are really making a mess of sizable chunks of the Russian economy and daily life. but… as has been noted here and elsewhere, many, MANY times… Russians are kinda used to trouble. No boom today. boom tomorrow. Always boom tomorrow. Consequently, if the Russian government can adequately spin this mess as being the fault of EEEEVIL westerners, rather than their our bad behavior, chances are pretty good that the Russian people will simply muddle through as they’ve always done. The effects of sanctions are hardly likely to make things worse in Russia than they were during the Soviet years, at leas after the initial confusion settles down, and Russians lived under communism for 70 years without overthrowing their dictators.

Some relevant videos on the subject. The first one is the source of the title of the post:

The next one, if the translation is to be believed (I don’t speak Russian beyond “blyat” and “suka,” so for all I know they’re actually debating the merits of Cardi B vs. Justin Bieber), is some rather brave soul doing vox pop in Russia, showing locals photos of the attacks in Ukraine. A distressing number think – or at least express – that Putin is doing the right thing. Disturbing that the dangerhaired girl is on the side of right and reason here…

 Posted by at 5:29 pm

Pretty sure this is part of why Putin chose *now*…

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Mar 042022
 

And this was *Texas.*

How much did Mom, Dad and the taxpayers have to pay to send these lunatics to university?

An explanation of this extrusion of Clown World into reality:

 

 Posted by at 8:58 pm

Take with a grain of salt… Russia may be planning increased supervillainy

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Mar 042022
 

Russia Drafts Plans For Public Executions In Captured Cities: REPORT

Russia devised plans to stage public executions in cities its forces conquer as a way to cut down the morale of Ukrainians, a European intelligence official told Bloomberg.

The idea apparently is to use these executions as a way to dissuade Ukrainians from carry out an insurgency. The evidence for this claim is – as is traditional at this point – shaky to the point of non-existence, but it’s not like there isn’t historical precedent. This tactic has been used by conquerors since basically the invention of conquest. Probably the most famous practitioners of it are, of course, the Nazis… once again demonstrating that those who scream the loudest that they are fighting Nazis or are anti-fascist are the most likely to actually emulate the Nazis.

So far Ukrainians can still largely communicate with the outside world, and they have a bagrillion cameras… so if these executions actually happen, the world will know in a matter of moments. These sort of executions can be effective if the population is already conquered, subjugated, beaten down into submission…  but if there’s still fight in ’em, all they’ll do is piss off those most likely to grab a rifle or a Molotov cocktail or just a pointy stick and go find an enemy to rub out. And these videos will be flashed around the world, even into Russia… and they’ll likely do a *fantastic* job of demoralizing the Russian population (“Are we the baddies?”). So on the whole, the idea is not just bugnuts, it’s *dumb.* Unfortunately, neither  of those has ever prevented tyrants for doing whatever it is that comes into their weird little heads.

 Posted by at 1:44 am

WTF: Russians reportedly shelling a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

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Mar 032022
 

Europe’s largest nuclear power plant on fire after Russian attack

A spokesman for Europe’s largest nuclear plant says the facility is on fire after Russia attacked the power station in the southern Ukrainian city of Enerhodar.

“We demand that they stop the heavy weapons fire,” Andriy Tuz, spokesperson for the plant in Enerhodar, said in a video posted on Telegram. “There is a real threat of nuclear danger in the biggest atomic energy station in Europe.” Tuz told Ukrainian television that it is urgent to stop the fighting to put out the flames.

From the AP:

Europe’s largest nuclear power plant on fire after shelling

Firefighters cannot get near the fire because they are being shot at, Tuz said.

A government official told The Associated Press that elevated levels of radiation were detected near the site of the plant, which provides about 25% of Ukraine’s power generation. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the information has not yet been publicly released.

This map might prove useful:

https://www.windfinder.com/#5/47.0252/47.3730

Shows current wind directions. At the moment, the winds in the region of the reactor under attack are circling around a region in north-eastern Ukraine, then seemingly drifting south-east over Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran. If the reactor pops, the Caspian Sea is likely to get trashed. Tomorrow the wins is to be more generally easterly, but Saturday the wind will come down from the north and then hang a right straight over Greece. From then on it looks like the region of Greece and Turkey will get a constant flow from the area of the reactor.

 

 

 

 

 Posted by at 7:06 pm

And there’s confirmation that the Russians trashed the Mriya

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Mar 032022
 

UPDATE: A better look, courtesy Russian state TV:

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Here it is, on fire. You can see the blue, yellow and white nose laying cocked at an angle.

Good job on deNazyfying the Antonov 225. Bah.

 Posted by at 4:19 pm

SLS, Orion: Nope. We can’t afford them.

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Mar 022022
 

Finally, we know production costs for SLS and Orion, and they’re wild

…the operational costs alone for a single Artemis launch—for just the rocket, Orion spacecraft, and ground systems—will total $4.1 billion.

…$2.2 billion to build a single SLS rocket, $568 million for ground systems, $1 billion for an Orion spacecraft, and $300 million to the European Space Agency for Orion’s Service Module.

…NASA will spend $93 billion from 2012 to 2025 on the Artemis program.

Gosh, If Only there was some alternative launch vehicle program that we could turn to that could potentially launch at a rate higher than once a year and at vastly lower cost…

 Posted by at 7:41 pm

Russia liberates Ukraine from big box home improvement stores

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Mar 012022
 

In Putins quest to save the Ukrainians from Nazis, the Russian military successfully bombed an “Epicentr K” store in Chernihiv, Ukraine, which is apparently the equivalent of a Lowes or a Home Depot (which means there are probably a gaggle of dubiously-legal immigrants lurking around waiting to get picked up for some day labor). So be proud, Putin-bots! Your Great Hero is proving just how valid his invasion is.

Russian attack of Ukrainian home-improvement store seen in satellite image

 

 Posted by at 11:18 pm

Is this “ironic” or “inevitable?”

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Mar 012022
 

When a racist who advocates for the enslavement of other races and the destruction of her own society is grievously and permanently wounded by one of “her own people,” how should other people feel about it? Especially when “her own people” refuse to help the police investigate the attack, leading to those who did it getting off scot-free? Before you answer… consider an alternate case where a Klansman or a neo-Nazi gets almost-whacked by one of their fellows. Who would be too upset about that?

Charges dropped against suspects accused of shooting British BLM leader after witnesses refuse to cooperate

As a reminder, this is who she was and what she advocated for:

The linked article starts off with a photo of her in her hospital bed. I’m no brainologist but I can say with some fair certainty that her days of rabble-rousing have definitely come to a serious slowdown.

Moral of the story: get your priorities straight. Shrieking about a kind of violence so rare that it makes international news when it happens, when get capped in the head by your own associates is an everyday possibility, seems an unwise expenditure of effort.

 

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