TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
Of course he hates Taylor Swift. She is smart and she is a woman
🇺🇸🇺🇦 With only four months left in the Biden administration and little hope of Congress approving additional funding for Ukraine no matter who wins the presidency, the White House is debating how best to help Kyiv given its limited toolbox, -WSJ
🚀 That includes potentially lifting some geographic restrictions on Ukraine’s use of certain Western weapons to strike back against Russian cross-border attacks.
🚫 Biden’s top aides are under no illusions that Ukraine can win the war by Jan. 20, when a new president will occupy the White House.They aren’t pushing Ukraine to conduct peace talks or trying to dictate battlefield plans, U.S. officials said.
🇺🇦 The goal, said one senior administration official, is to “improve Ukraine’s strategic position to the greatest extent possible between now and the end of the term.”
🇺🇦💔 Ukraine has the highest mortality rate in the world and the lowest birth rate, — CIA
🙏 The mortality rate is now 18.6 per 1,000 people — the highest rate among all countries in the world. In terms of birth rate, Ukraine ranks last with 6 births per 1,000 people.
The reasons hardly need explaining.
Russian Primorsky Krai Health Minister suggests making children during "Work Breaks"
Primorsky Krai Health Minister Yevgeny Shestopalov called on residents of the region to engage in procreation "during work breaks."
In his opinion, this will help improve the demographic situation.
"We cannot divide society into those who give birth and take care of children, and those who make the economy. And being very busy at work is not an excuse: you can engage in procreation during breaks, because life flies by too quickly," the minister said in an interview with FederalPress at the Eastern Economic Forum.
He added that you need to have as many children as "God sends."
Shestopalov noted that work is not a reason to refuse procreation, and children can be taken to the workplace with you.
"Who will forbid it if my child wants to sit in the office and draw?" the minister explained. He also emphasized that he took his child to work with him when he worked as a doctor: no one was against it.
A burning Russian T-90M "Breakthrough" that tried to fire on Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region
So sunny this morning I thought the remnants of the hurricane were gone. Blue skies are gone.
The forecast says rain tomorrow morning but I am not so sure.
❤️🩹The returnees need serious rehabilitation, because during their stay in captivity, their health deteriorated significantly, - Lubinets.
In total, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, it was possible to conduct 57 exchanges of prisoners of war and return 3,672 Ukrainians.
😭Can't hold back tears! Two siblings hug after returning home.
Welcome home, our Defenders!❤️
Some points an admin from our sister channel Free Russia Report noted while monitoring ruZZian and russian channels:
Comments on various russian channels have been increasingly pessimistic, full of despair, black humour, and a sense of impending doom. Fascinating and revealing.
The lack of social empathy is startlingly clear. There is a certain delight in the misfortunes of others; the suffering of other Russians is particularly relished - they're probably vatnik scum anyway is the attitude. (Ethnic and religious tensions and rivalries are another layer of complexity on top)
There's mutual hatred between and within all groups. Putinists hate anyone not supporting the regime; zetniks hate everybody and are beginning to direct this toward the regime; those who oppose the war are a disparate and divided group, and both sides despise the vast apathetic blob in the middle who ignore it all.
There's more resentment and open anger at the regime since Kursk invasion - particularly the blatant lies told by all levels of the authorities. There is not a great deal of sympathy for the affected population, same for any russian affected by the war in Belgorod or elsewhere. Instead a kind of satisfaction - "you wanted war, well here it is.
I'd say there's a growing anger not just at this regime but everything else that came before it in all russian history. . There's no hope that change will bring anything better; they simply can't comprehend how russia can be anything other that what it is. Everything and everybody is rotten through and through, beyond all repair. Unless everything is completely destroyed it will always be so. They know everything is headed toward collapse one way or another. An increasing number expect massive destruction from a wider war, and some welcome it.
Fear of the 90s is palpable, which creates a kind of inertia. So far life isn't as hard hungry and violent as those years but it's getting there. The hunger games will begin, says one russian. The 90s will seem a picnic in comparison, says another.
Anger is rising, a kind of generalised rage at life and everybody else, and it's increasingly directed at the elite and those in authority. There's an element of anger at the sheer stupidity of the regime, its theft, cruelty and lack of concern for citizens. Bloody ends for various public figures are discussed with pleasure.
Notable - there are a LOT of Ukrainians in russian channels. On anti-regime channels I've seen many discussions where Ukrainians explain their history, and the real russian history, to Russians - who ask more questions. They tell russians truth of the war and their own regime.
There are always waves of angry Ukrainians in the channels after particularly savage or tragic actioñs by russian forces. They make it abundantly clear that the old fraternal bonds between russians and Ukrainians are broken beyond repair.
However -- there are civil discussions with russians who support Ukraine and not Putin. The Ukrainians clearly understand that it's too dangerous to openly oppose the regime, but there's an element of contempt for all russians for allowing putin to take total control, and not stopping him long before 2014.
There's a lot of families inside russia broken by opinion on the war. Relatives no longer speaking, children estranged from parents. A lot of comments from people in despair because their whole family believes the propaganda. The general estimate is at most 10% don't believe it, and there's mutual hatred on both sides.
Russians fear the end of the war because it means 'heroes of the SVO', who they despise, return home to terrorise them. As the relative few who returned already are. In return, soldiers are full of rage and resentment towards the citizens 'living their fat life' at home. The general expectation is that life would become extremely violent ....
Kursk Evacuees Say Still Awaiting $100 Payment Promised By Putin
Many of the evacuated residents of southwestern Russia’s Kursk region have not yet received payments promised by President Vladimir Putin over one month into Ukraine’s surprise incursion, the independent news outlet Agentstvo reported Monday, citing regional volunteers.
On Aug. 8, two days after Ukrainian forces crossed into the region and captured settlements there, Putin promised one-time payments of 10,000 rubles ($110) to residents who were forced to evacuate from parts of the embattled region.
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I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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