StringJunky

If it's spin, it's my spin. The ensuing military catastrophe that is the Russian Plan appears to bear me out. The last 4 days of troop movements:

The author was a Cambridge mathematician. I think memory plays a strong part in supplying mind's eye data for visual construction.

Apparently, weapons are in such short supply in Chechnya they have been handing out 1930's Mosin-Nagant rifles, used in WW2, to its conscripts. This seems to indicate that its ally has a dire shortage of available modern arms, as I'm sure they would supply the Chechens if they were available. I think it's possible Russia may grind to a halt purely through lack of adequate logistical pre-planning, supplies and poor morale amongst its ranks.

Would Alexender Fleming's accidental discovery of the antibiotic action of Penicillium notatum qualify?

Why don't you fuck off to Russia and enjoy the delights of their state media. Stop dragging this topic into irrelevance. If you've got an axe to grind, make your own thread. We don't need your bile making a difficult subject more difficult to navigate. You are making this thread stink of red herrings.

Top marks for using a YT video... not. You need to stay away from QA sites. NATO and our MOD is releasing daily intelligence commentary, which they often corroborate with evidence, which can also be corroborated by MSM, and you're calling it 'spin'? You seem to have an axe to grind.

The USSR collapses, you expect its ex-satellite countries not to exercise autonomy who they collaborate with, regardless of whatever the US told Gorbachev?

But what if they are stuck in a government-mandated information bubble, as geordief's video shows. How can they honestly condemn something they are oblivious to?

Simple answer, yes. The soap is to help you remove attached debris, along with the pathogens. Note how long and how rigorous hospital theatre staff clean their hands and arms. The mechanical aspect of washing hands and how long you do it is very important.

Situation as released today by UK MOD. Click image to enlarge: Lithuania started that ball rolling on Saturday by stopping Russian gas imports. If we do, we are going to feel the impact even more at home.

Yes.

I sense he's already made his mind up, when the situation is still completely fluid. I've seen a similar attitude on another less disciplined forum. If they don't like someone, everything they do or say is wrong.

"Phenylacetone is the immediate precursor for clandestine production of amphetamine and methamphetamine." - Sigma Aldrich. Don't think you will get help in possibly making illegal drugs.

I should have added "to Russian controlled areas" Not once have I read in reputable news sources that the Ukrainians have used its citizens as a shield. WALOB. Do you seriously think 35 countries would be militarily aiding Ukrainian forces if Zelenskyy was supporting that?

Some 'shield' the inhabitants have been. They've been quite the opposite because they wouldn't be where they are now, giving Putin spirited resistance, if the able citizens had been passive. Putin been bombing/killing them regardless. Until Putin has taken Mariupol there is no land bridge. He's after a consolation prize. You need better news sources. If Belarussian soldiers join in, the Ukrainians have a bespoke regiment waiting for them to join, when quite a few of them are expected to defect. It is suspected that Lukashenko knows this and wants to keep them in his oppressive bubble. It appears that much of the Belarussian people's struggle and goals are the same as the Ukrainians: democracy.

Not keeping it real or sincere. An analogy would be those building facades you see in the old spaghetti westerns... they are all front with no depth.

Jefferson and Washington had slaves.

Alcohol addiction is a very serious state to be in. Government mandates can't change that, although it may reduce new users in the long term. Same with gambling addiction, it will have just moved underground. This is not a uniquely Russian problem, it's the same everywhere. Prohibition solves nothing... it's cosmetic.

@MSC Thanks for your thoughts. He does seem to be a bit of an anomaly. Here's some of his views he has expessed on race: https://justicethomas.com/justice-thomas-jurisprudence-on-racial-preferences/ Social engineering in order to aid minorities appears to be anthema to him. He has a strict notion of 'equal'. He appears to have an absolutist position on ethnic matters.

Also you'd have to be at least mid-forties to remember it, so the soldiers out there now wouldn't likely know about it, especially given the tendency towards secrecy in the communist bloc at the time. There would be know reason for modern Russian youngsters to know about it now. Some of them, unfortunately, are going to learn that history hard way.

This all assumes Chris Rock knew she had alopecia. I don't think it would be hard to spontaneously come up with an association and make that joke.

Talking about nukes, Russian soldiers are driving through the 'Red Forest' around Chernobyl kicking up the dust and raising radiation levels; I suppose there will be a rise in cancer cases in the coming years.

You do like wasting server space.

They are just buying time with the talks.