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Preface: This is a Nevermore thread. Please read the following carefully on order to avoid answering a question I didn't ask. I'm asking a very specific question, so please make sure you understand the question I'm actually asking. If you think I'm going overboard with this, I'm speaking from...

Here are some good Russians. Unfortunately, they all had to flee their country.

That's again assuming Russia's apparent "failure" in Ukraine isn't just a ruse in order to hold back the real strength of the Russian military for the real war that follows the training exercise in Ukraine.

Barack Obama has tested positive for Covid-19. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/13/barack-obama-positive-test-covid-19

So there's currently a lot of Russians fleeing their country because they don't agree with the war and don't want to live within the agressor state any longer. Sadly, I view this as an opportunity for Putin to further his agenda. "Russia is wherever Russians live." Citizens flee the country and...

The latest crackpot theory being thrown around by German anti-vaxxers: "The war in Ukrain is just a distraction so we forget about the restrictive Covid regime." Yes, the German chancellor called his buddy Bill Gates and asked him to have Putin invade Ukraine to distract the public from their...

So there's this growing concern that the Russian troops that have seized two nuclear power plants (including Chernobyl) have absolutely no clue how these things work. Oh joy.

Former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky suggests that we have our idea of "oligarchs" backwards. They're not actually Putin's financial backers. They're just his henchmen whom he uses for money laundry. They have no say in anything.

There's a very dark theory for why the Russian military appears to be faring so badly: Putin is deliberately withholding his full military power for the subsequent war against NATO. Ukraine is just a training exercise.

Oh great. Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, aka Putin's #1 lobbyist in Germany, is travelling to Russia to talk to Putin. https://www.politico.eu/article/gerhard-schroder-in-moscow-to-meet-putin-in-ukraine-peace-bid-sources/ I rarely agree with German right-wing pundit newspaper BILD...

The problem is that Chernobyl no longer has any significant output. The last reactor was shut down in 2000.

According to Russia, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant has electricity needed for powering the pumps to cool spent fuel again.

Although to be fair, said Polish mayor is himself a member of a populist right-wing party.

That cynical jackass seriously offered to allow for the evacution of civilians... but only to Russia and Belarus. Obviously his plan is to use the footage as "evidence" that Ukrainians are fleeing from their own government.

So here in Germany, the anti-vaxx and anti-mask crowd is seeing media interest in Covid dropping instantly, so they're switching over to their new talking point: Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Alternatively, Putin is the good guy and Ukraine and the West are evil, or the entire war is fake and...

Man. Imagine Putin does press the red button, and it turns out none of Russia's nuclear missiles are working.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/staff-ukraines-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-under-russian-orders-iaea-says-2022-03-06/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/06/ukraine-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-staff-under-russian-orders

Hey, remember when the most important news in the world was a dangerous pandemic? Good times.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/04/politics/mike-pence-republican-putin-rnc/index.html