#путин – это лжедмитрий iv а не пётр великий

[tomorrowusa]

« Putin has done something far worse for his country than initiating an unwon and unwinnable war: He has compelled Europe to organize itself as a military counterweight to Russia. Germany is rapidly rearming; new patterns of military consultation and cooperation are spreading across Europe; Finland and Sweden have joined NATO; and Brexit has been sidelined by a meaningful security agreement between Britain and the European Union. Formidable resources are being gathered to keep Russia out of Europe. Russia’s only path to a future partnership with Europe is to end the war on Ukrainian terms, which Mr. Putin will not do. »

— Historian Michael Kimmage at the New York Times.

There are still people who consider Putin to be a powerful genius – including one celebrity who considers himself to be a "stable genius".

But few people have harmed Russia more than Vladimir Putin in the past 80 years. And the only people who are responsible for more deaths of Russians than Putin since World War I are Joseph Stalin and Adolph Hitler. Putin is not a Russian success story – except when it comes to lining his own pockets.

Those who claim that Ukraine can't win simply don't understand the extent and sophistication of Ukraine's defense and tech industries.

This is from Foreign Policy (archived)...

The new ace in the hole is Ukraine’s superlative defense sector, which has blossomed into one of Europe’s most ingenuous and advanced arms industries—and produces much of what its military requires (including roughly 40 percent of all weaponry) at a fraction of the cost and twice as fast. For every billion that the United States has paid out to its own industry, the Europeans can get several times as much from the Ukrainians—and without the same transfer headaches and costs. In addition to its hailed drone production, Ukraine reports that it produces more howitzers and artillery systems than all of Europe combined. The Ukrainians know exactly what they need and are constantly tweaking their hardware to conditions on the battlefield.

Putin picked the wrong country to bully. Ukraine has the tenacity and resolve to go along with its defense production. After the war Ukraine could become the European economic equivalent of South Korea while Russia stagnates like North Korea.

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Poland's Foreign Minister Sikorski has a great point. Russia with its alter ego, the USSR, has a case of pathological expansionism going back half a millennium.

Prof. Gary Saul Morson of Northwestern University describes, in The New Criterion, the almost incessant rate of expansion since the time of Ivan the Terrible.

Putin fears that he's getting behind that centuries-old Belgium a year timetable for Russia.

A number of countries in the global South give Russia a mulligan because they fail to recognize that even though Russia didn't have colonies in Africa, South & Southeast Asia, or Latin America, it was indeed a classic colonial power. Russia's colonies were in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and the brutality it exercised in those regions was not that different from what Western European powers did in the developing world. There was genocide, economic exploitation, and political repression. Ukraine was under Russian/Soviet control longer than India and Nigeria combined were under British rule.

Putin is trying to revive Russian colonialism as an alternative to actually modernizing Russia. Russian troops famously steel toilets from Ukraine largely because almost a quarter of rural Russians still depend on outhouses.

Russia is largely a feudal society where Putin is the tsar, the oligarchs are the boyars, and the bulk of the impoverished population are the equivalent of serfs.

As for the matter of size, some perspective...

• [I]n the thirteenth century, Russia was a tiny principality around Moscow. They've grown to the largest, territorially, state on Earth. And yet still they crave other people’s land. Whatever for? Don't they have enough land? —Radosław Sikorski

"A conversation with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radosław Sikorski" Atlantic Council "A conversation with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radosław Sikorski" Atlantic Council (at Internet Archive)

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Trump has a habit of overpromising. Remember how he said he'd end the war in Ukraine 24 hours after taking office? It's now 4 months and 5 days since that 24 hours ran out. He's even lashing out at Putin for not cooperating.

Trump says Putin has 'gone absolutely CRAZY,' considering more sanctions on Russia

Trump should be careful, Putin still has those pee tapes.

Germany has had enough and is letting Ukraine use long range missiles

Germany and Ukraine’s other allies scrap range limits on arms sent to Kyiv

The German chancellor has said that Germany, along with Ukraine’s other main western supporters, will remove range restrictions on weapons delivered to Kyiv for the first time, to enable it to defend itself against Russia. Friedrich Merz said Germany, Britain, France and the US had lifted the restrictions to enable Ukraine to be better able to hit military targets on Russian territory. “There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons delivered to Ukraine – neither by the British, nor by the French, nor by us, nor by the Americans,” he said on Monday, following Russia’s largest drone attack on Ukraine of the war to date. “This means that Ukraine can now defend itself, for example, by attacking military positions in Russia … with very few exceptions, it didn’t do that until recently. It can now do that.”

GOOD.

Russia has been the clear aggressor from the start and Ukraine needs to defend itself to the fullest.

I don't know how far long range missiles go, but it would be great to see Ukraine take out the rail connection between Russia and North Korea. I'm sure Ukrainian Military Intelligence (ГУР) already has some good targets in mind.

Ukraine is inflicting heavy damage on Russia's military even now. It blew up a Russian military train in spectacular fashion in the Russian occupied Ukrainian region of Zaporizhia.

The clearest way to peace is to defeat Russia. Putin doesn't want peace, he wants Ukraine. He's a psychopath who won't stop until somebody stops him. There needs to be a clear tangible message, once and for all, that he can't have it his way.

And an end to the conflict is in the best interests of Russians. Russian losses are approaching 1,000,000.

The war really will end 24 hours after the Russian invasion of Ukraine ends.

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Monkey see, Monkey do.

When the US is bogged down on Prince Edward Island, Panama could send its special forces to seize Mar-a-Lago.

If you thought Trump was terrible at pandemic mitigation, just wait until the disaster he creates as a wannabe Napoleon.

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Putin needs more cannon fodder for his disastrous invasion of Ukraine.

Putin calls up 160,000 men to Russian army in latest conscription drive, at crucial moment in Ukraine war

Putin places no value on human lives – even Russian ones. Russia now has over 930 thousand casualties. This war is all about Putin's ego and his effort to restore the decrepit old USSR in all but name.

It's not clear how many of those Russian casualties were killed by fellow Russians.

'Shoot them' — Russian commander ordered troops to open fire on their comrades, intercepted call suggests

Russians gain nothing by fighting for Putin except, maybe, a bullet in the back from other Russians. Anybody of conscription age should try to get out of the country ASAP.

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Homophobia is a reliable metric of derangement, and the Putin régime is officially homophobic. 

Putin has delusions of grandeur. He regards himself as the 21st century version of Peter the Great. And like other narcissistic authoritarians, Putin surrounds himself with advisers who only tell him what he wants to hear. So nobody was around to tell him that invading Ukraine was a dumb-ass idea.

So Putin and his clique dredge up bizarre excuses for Russia’s miserable failures in Ukraine. The three-day “special operation” is now in Day 547 (or is it 548?).

Ukrainians are tougher because they are smart and because they are fighting for their existence; Russia’s army is poorly trained, poorly equipped, and requires convicts to keep it from shrinking. Hundreds of thousands of tech savvy Russians have fled the country – leaving the dumbest and most corrupt people behind.

Ukraine’s ability at innovation is world class. You get an innovative mindset in free countries – in dictatorships you think what you are told to think. Ukraine manages to develop new weapons like sea drones while Russia relies on decaying crap left over from the decrepit USSR.

Let Putin’s lickspittles make up zany alibis for Russia’s continuing failures. They are losing the present and will lose the future. This era in Russian history will be remembered most for assassinations, gross incompetence, rampant corruption, and depraved leadership.

Markov said the U.S. and Ukraine will use “neuro-linguistic programming” and other brainwashing techniques to turn Ukrainian soldiers gay against their will. In reality, there’s no evidence that psychological methods can change a person’s sexual orientation.

“They have an artificial political science fascism created by American and British political technologists. They will turn them into zombies, into cult members. I think they will force some to become homosexuals,” Markov claimed.

“These renewed troops of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, zombified and unified through gay sex, along with cult members ready to sacrifice themselves. This is what they’re preparing for us in the spring 2025,” he added.

^^^ concept image by @ethansowls

[tomorrowusa]

"Fecal rivers" flowing through the Russian city of Korolev (often transliterated as Korolyov).

Some people see Russia on maps and assume that its power and wealth correspond to its enormous geographic size. But it's far poorer and weaker than it appears.

Russia's GDP is about the size of Italy's and its population is the size of about three Spains or less than two Germanies.

Russia's military is a major shambles. The "3-day special operation" in Ukraine is now into Day 1,264. The country has suffered over a million casualties so far.

Russia's diversion of money to its flailing war effort and imperial ambitions means less money for basic essentials.

A startling example of that occurred in the city of Korolev (Королёв in Russian). Korolev is a city of over 225,000 in Moscow oblast. It is about 25 km northeast of the Kremlin. But despite its proximity to the center of Russian power, its streets have been full of poop.

This is from the paper Московский Комсомолец with major help from Google Translate.

For five days, residents of Korolev, Moscow Oblast, have been suffocating from an unbearable stench after a major sewer rupture. Rivers of feces are flowing through the city streets. At first, municipal authorities tried to explain the problem as a tech failure at the sewer pumping station, but later they were forced to admit that the problem was far more serious. The city's sewer infrastructure, which had not been updated for more than 70 years, could not withstand the current load, which is growing every year due to increased housing construction.

It gets worse. A contractor damaged a water main and much of the city was also without clean running water for two days.

At the same time as the sewer break in Yubileiny, cold and hot water suddenly stopped flowing in other parts of the city, where more than 200,000 people live. At first, local authorities explained this new emergency by saying that utilities were trying to reduce the load on the sewer system in order to begin repairs. But the area hit by the water supply outage clearly exceeded the scale of the sewer rupture, and then another ugly truth was revealed. It turns out that during repair work on the main water supply, the contractor damaged a cast-iron pipe that had not been replaced for 70 years! While workers were fixing the water main failure, the city with a population of 226,000 people remained without water for two days.

Putin has been in power for a quarter of a century but the country is still run as incompetently as the USSR was run during the Brezhnev era. And in a post-Soviet twist, oligarchs are buying superyachts plus prime property in London with looted money made possible with Putin's blessing. So the filthy rich get even richer while the residents of Korolev just get more filthy with sewage.

Here is a picture of raw sewage oozing onto Korolev's streets.

Again, Korolev is not a remote backwater. In terms of distance, it is to downtown Moscow what suburban New Rochelle is to the financial district in downtown Manhattan.

The image of a strong and powerful Russia is largely a Potemkin village meant to hide failing infrastructure, rampant corruption, and a mafia-style government. In the United States, we need to avoid following in Russia's footsteps.

EDIT: Here's another example of Putin Russia's shabbiness – foreign kids are being recruited to make drones for Putin.

Study Abroad And Build Drones: How Foreign Children Are Serving Russia's Military Machine

Russia may be "large" in one sense, but it is also dilapidated.

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A reality check on the war from Yale Prof. Timothy Snyder.

The bottom line...

"You can't stop the killing by giving up. The only way to stop the killing is to win the war. The only way to end the war is to win the war."

People who urge "compromise" like Elon Musk have probably not been paying attention to Eastern Europe for the past 300 years.

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Putin has not been great for Russia's economy – except the funeral business.

As Moscow's invasion of Ukraine heads into its fourth summer, Russia’s funeral industry is experiencing a sharp and telling boom. While official combat death statistics are hidden from public view, some Russians have taken to social media to highlight the skyrocketing cost of burial services in a funeral market that is growing fast. According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, the funeral services market in Russia grew by 12.7 percent in the first four months of 2025 compared to the same period the previous year. Nearly 200 new funeral-related businesses opened in that period with the fastest growth reported in Tatarstan, the Moscow region, and St. Petersburg.

One downside to this business is funeral inflation.

The price of grave digging, coffin construction, and headstones have all soared. The cost of a coffin in April increased by 9 percent to roughly $100, and grave digging was up 15 percent to about$150,according to the Russian government statistical office, Rosstat.

The stats come from official sources in the Russian government – not from the decadent West.

The Russian government is trying to lure kids just out of high school to sign up for suicidal combat duty.

School-leavers losing their lives for Russia in Putin's war with Ukraine

Vladimir Putin has repeatedly promised that no 18-year-olds called up to serve Russia will be sent to fight in Ukraine, but a BBC Russian investigation has found at least 245 soldiers of that age have been killed there in the past two years. New government rules mean teenagers fresh out of school have been able to bypass military service and go straight into the regular army as contract soldiers. They may make up only a fraction of Russian losses, but cash bonuses and patriotic propaganda have made signing up an attractive choice. Alexander Petlinsky enlisted two weeks after his 18th birthday. He was killed in Ukraine just 20 days later: one of hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed in Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine which has also claimed the lives of at least 13,500 Ukrainian civilians since Putin launched the invasion in February 2022.

Alex died so that Putin could claim he was a 21st century version of Peter the Great. His death did Russia absolutely no good.

Russian governments going back to the tsarist monarchy have encouraged Russians to think that sacrificing themselves for the government is a natural and even expected thing. Putin takes advantage of this mindset. What little territory Putin has gained has been as a result of what has been called "kamikaze tactics".

‘That idiot Putin wants to take it all’: Russia’s kamikaze tactics fuel a slow advance in Ukraine

Alex Budilov, a (Ukrainian) combat officer with the brigade, said the Russians exaggerated their battlefield gains for propaganda purposes, in order to spread fear and panic among the local population. They had sustained colossal losses in manpower to achieve the “fleeting appearance of success”, he suggested. “A couple of dickhead Russian soldiers raise a flag next to a village. Minutes later we wipe them out,” he said. Speaking in a rear forest camp, Budilov called Moscow’s assault tactics “insidious” and said it involved sacrificing hundreds of soldiers to achieve success. First, it sends in a heavily protected tank, nicknamed “the barn”, which is covered in bulky metal cages to repel Ukrainian drones. Other military vehicles accompany it. They include tanks, armoured personnel carriers and trucks loaded with assault troops. [ ... ] According to western estimates, Russia has suffered more than one million casualties, killed and wounded – a toll far higher than Soviet losses from the war in Afghanistan. “It’s a very Russian idea that you are a small part of something bigger. You sacrifice your life to do something for history. It’s a totalitarian mind virus,” Budilov suggested, arguing that Russians and Ukrainians were “very different”.

Putin and his commanders place little value on human life. Nobody has killed hundreds of thousands of Russians like this since the time of Hitler and Stalin.

Any Russian males of military age still in Russia need to quickly take this advice from a popular US film from the previous decade.

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This meme requires some familiarity with Game of Thrones.

Without any major spoilers, let’s just say that The Golden Company was a disappointment as mercenaries.

Considering how poorly Russia's military has performed, The Golden Company might be an improvement for Putin.

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If you're in Moscow, you might wish to avoid walking too close to buildings over the next few weeks to avoid having somebody fall on you. Putin doesn't handle setbacks and failures very well.

Russian generals, security officials, and senior intelligence officers should avoid going above the ground floor. Flying is also to be avoided. And if Putin doesn't eliminate them, they still need to worry about Ukrainian drones and scooter bombs.

Yeah, Putin is threatening revenge like some unhinged villain. blah blah blah. 🥱

Everybody needs to be reminded daily that Putin started an unprovoked and illegal war on 24 February 2022. Putin's "3-day special operation" is now in its 1,197th day (or is it 1,198th? – IDK).

So Putin is having a neverending hissy fit because his shit army has failed him and that he has to import mercenaries from starving North Korea to keep his useless war going. He can throw all his senior military lickspittles out the window but he still won't win.

Putin started this war and he can end it in a few hours by getting the fuck out of Ukraine.

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Sadly, a majority of Americans are almost completely ignorant about Eastern Europe. They probably don't know the difference between Budapest and Bucharest. (Spoiler: They are capitals of two non-Slavic countries in the region)

When Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, Americans were surveyed on the location of Ukraine on an unlabeled map. Just 16% got it right. This map shows one dot for each response.

Yes, a couple of people thought Ukraine was in Memphis. Not sure what's up with those many folks who thought it is in Greenland. Maybe that's why Trump tried to buy it from Denmark.

In history in US classrooms almost nothing is mentioned about Eastern Europe that happened before the 20th century. This short list of items is typical.

A few (usually exotic) personalities like Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler, and Peter the Great.

Copernicus (real name: Mikołaj Kopernik) sorting out the Solar System. And that is actually more science than history.

The Siege of Vienna (1683). Vienna is not exactly in Eastern Europe but the siege was lifted by Polish King Jan III Sobieski.

A passing reference to Tsar Aleksandr II freeing the serfs – but only because it happened within two years of the Emancipation Proclamation.

So if you know almost nothing about the location and history of a country, you certainly won't understand its importance to international peace and security.

And that's the case with Ukraine which Putin sees simply as a piece in his country collection in his effort to restore the decrepit Soviet Union in all but name.

As Brendan Simms writes in his linked article up top...

It is worth reminding ourselves what is at stake. If Putin is not defeated and forced to withdraw from Ukraine, this will endanger much more than just the viability of that country. It will enable the Russians to reconstitute their forces facing the Baltic states and Finland, constituting a threat that we will have to face without support from Kyiv. The Ukrainians are thus fighting not only for their own sovereignty but our security as well. Their army is one of the best guarantors we have against future Russian aggression. All they ask is our help. We should give them what they need.

About those so called "red lines" we hear about from tankies and Trumpsters – those lines apparently don't really exist.

Robyn Dixon and Catherine Belton at the Washington Post write:

Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion keeps crossing President Vladimir Putin’s red lines. Kyiv’s lightning incursion into Kursk in western Russia this month slashed through the reddest line of all — a direct ground assault on Russia — yet Putin’s response has so far been strikingly passive and muted, in sharp contrast to his rhetoric earlier in the war. On day one of the invasion in February 2022, Putin warned that any country that stood in Russia’s way would face consequences “such as you have never seen in your entire history,” a threat that seemed directed at countries that might arm Ukraine. If Russia’s territorial integrity were threatened, “we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. It’s not a bluff,” he said a few months later in September. “The citizens of Russia can be sure that the territorial integrity of our Motherland, our independence and freedom will be ensured — I emphasize this again — with all the means at our disposal,” making a clear reference to Russia’s nuclear weapons.

In other words, Putin has been bullshitting.

Ukraine’s Kursk incursion “proved the Russians are bluffing,” said Oleksandr Danylyuk, a former Ukrainian intelligence and defense official, now an associate fellow with the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London. “It shuts down all of the voices of the pseudo experts … the anti-escalation guys.”

Vladimir Putin can bluff only so much before people see that he's full of shit.💩 We're already past that point. His imperialist fantasies make him think that he's back in the Soviet Union and all he has to do is say something bellicose to get whatever he wants.

There are now Ukrainian troops on Russia's soil and over 133,000 refugees fanning out from the area telling other Russians of what's really going on near the border without censorship from Russian state media. The weaker Putin looks inside Russia, the sooner his invasion will end.

As I've said before, give Ukraine whatever weapons it wants – except nukes. Ukraine is doing NATO an enormous favor by keeping Putin at bay.

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Like Trump's promise to "end inflation on Day One", his promise to end war in Ukraine was just typical MAGA bullshit.

Autocrats aren't good with timing. Putin's "3-day special operation" in Ukraine is now 1,174 days behind schedule.

Russia seriously doesn't want peace, it wants Ukraine.

Ukraine reportedly accuses Russia of undermining peace talks with last-minute demands

Peace would damage the Russian economy.

Can Putin afford peace? The end of the war could also mean the end of Russia’s economic illusion.

Putin is stuck with the mess he created.

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« [W]hat has long been evident is that Putin’s presidency has been little different from the Soviet era, in that he has made Russia a military giant but an economic dwarf. His gangster state has never been able to diversify; while the world buys Chinese cars and American software, the only thing we buy from Russia is oil, and the gradual turning away from hydrocarbons will eventually expose this as an appalling waste of a country’s potential. »

— Will Dunn at The New Statesman.

What is now tanking Russia is essentially what tanked the Soviet Union – a lopsidedly bad economy. And what barely keeps the sputtering Russian economy from totally collapsing is oil.

So Russia is now a badly run petrostate under the control of a nostalgic dictator who is trying to restore the Soviet Union in all but name – as miserable as that sounds.

One irony of Donald Trump's "drill! drill! drill!" policy (if it actually works) is that it would help undermine Russia's only major source of income.

For the Russian economy, however, Trump represents a looming risk, because however exceptional Putin believes his country to be, Russian prosperity ultimately depends on Western consumers. The reason for this is that Russia runs on oil. With most of its gas exports to Europe stopped by pipeline closures and sanctions, it has become an economy dependent on a single commodity, and while oil prices are high, money flows into the Russian current account. What scares the Russian central bank is the risk of a global financial slowdown that reduces consumer demand around the world, and therefore the price of the oil that is intrinsic to manufacturing and trade. That is exactly the world Trump is promising: a world of de-globalisation and trade barriers.

As I mentioned a few days ago, people in the West need to stop overestimating the strength of Russia. It has a couple of million people involved in its military or military industries, but they are poorly trained and not particularly motivated. Russia may have a lot of weapons, but those are almost always inferior to Western equivalents; many date back to the USSR and are even physically rusty.

At the beginning of this century Russia had the potential to become another Germany in economic terms. It had the talent and adequate infrastructure. But under Putin, Russia has become a parody of the Brezhnev-era USSR – but perhaps even worse. Putin's disaster in Ukraine makes Brezhnev's debacle in Afghanistan seem like a day at the beach. Putin has unintentionally let the world see how pitiful his military is and put on full international display the decrepit nature of Russia's economy.

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We told you something like this might happen.

In 1994 the US, UK, Russia, and Ukraine signed an agreement which became known as the Budapest Memorandum. Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear weapons in return for security guarantees.

Of course Russia violated the Budapest Memorandum with its illegal invasions and Trump is in the process of cutting off aid and intelligence to Ukraine.

The lesson learned is that the US will not honor its security agreements and the only way to prevent attaick by neighbors is to acquire nuclear arms.

So Poland, a victim of Russian aggression in the past, now wants access to nukes.

Poland will look at gaining access to nuclear weapons and also ensure that every man undergoes military training as part of an effort to build a 500,000-strong army to face off the threat from Russia, Prime Minister Donald Tusk told the parliament on Friday. Poland's dramatic military expansion comes as fears grow across Europe that U.S. President Donald Trump is aligning with the Kremlin and turning his back on America's traditional western alliances — a geopolitical shift that Warsaw regards as a potentially existential threat. Tusk said that Poland "is talking seriously" with France about being protected by the French nuclear umbrella. President Emmanuel Macron has opened the possibility of other countries discussing how France’s nuclear deterrent can protect Europe. Tusk also stressed that Poland cannot restrict itself to conventional weapons. "We must be aware that Poland must reach for the most modern capabilities also related to nuclear weapons and modern unconventional weapons ... this is a race for security, not for war," he said. He pointed to the example of Ukraine, which gave up is nuclear arsenal and is now being attacked by Russia.

Poland will also withdraw from some conventional arms treaties.

He also said Poland would take steps to withdraw from international treaties banning the use of anti-personnel landmines and cluster munitions.

Ukraine may not currently have nuclear weapons but that doesn't mean it can't make them.

Ukraine Can Go Nuclear — Should it?

Trump's abandonment of Ukraine is setting off a chain reaction which could easily spiral out of control.

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True leaders don't willingly become flunkies of crazed imperialists. And somebody who make a fashion statement out of baggy suits and XXL red neckties is in no position to position himself as a clothes critic.

Trump said he would end the conflict in Ukraine on his first day in office. It is now 96 days since Trump's inauguration. Putin's three-day "special operation" in Ukraine is now into Day 1,158. Authoritarians often have a hard time bending events to their wills.

Trump or no Trump, Ukraine will continue to defend itself. A few days ago Ukraine blew up an arsenal about 85 km NE of the Kremlin.

Satellite images reveal extensive damage to Russia’s 51st GRAU arsenal in Vladimir Oblast The major ammunition depot 530 km from Ukraine caught fire and was rocked by massive explosions on 22 April.

It's hilarious how Russia tries to blame explosions at military installations on careless smoking or safety violations. 🤣

Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed an explosion resulted from a fire allegedly caused by safety violations during operations at the facility. Militarnyi noted that explosions were also reported in fields and on roadways in surrounding areas. Militarnyi reports that recent reports suggested the explosions at the 51st Arsenal may have resulted from a drone attack during ammunition unloading from railway cars, contradicting the official safety violation explanation.

Here are before and after satellite images of the arsenal and a ground view of the explosions.

The attack set off secondary explosions.

Additionally, fire hotspots were detected near reinforced bunkers in the central and western parts of the arsenal. Although such structures are less vulnerable to direct drone strikes, they may have suffered damage from secondary detonations, according to Militarnyi.

Several nearby towns had to be evacuated because of the danger from exploding ordnance.

Ukraine is also able to blow up senior Russian generals in Moscow and its suburbs.

Russian Army General Killed in Moscow Car Explosion, Investigators Say

A senior general in the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff was killed in a car explosion east of Moscow on Friday, police investigators confirmed. “According to preliminary information, the blast killed Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik,” a spokeswoman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said in a statement. “Early reports indicate the explosion was caused by an improvised explosive device packed with shrapnel,” the law enforcement agency said, adding that detectives and forensic experts were examining the scene of the blast in the Moscow suburb of Balashikha.

Another hilarious explanation from the Kremlin.

State media initially reported that a parked car exploded due to a gas leak. Security camera footage shared by pro-Kremlin outlets showed a powerful explosion near an apartment block as a pedestrian walked past the vehicle.

Gas leak my ass.

This is the second time in less than six months a senior Russian general was taken out in the heart of Russia.

In December, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his assistant were killed while walking out of a Moscow apartment building early in the morning after an explosive device attached to a nearby scooter went off.  At the time, Kirillov was the highest-ranking Russian military official to be assassinated since the full-scale invasion.

Trump's "peace plan" regarding the war is mostly bullshit. Ukraine won't let Trump do to their country what he's currently doing to the US economy.