Olifant

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[–] Olifant@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Within the context of this single aid package, of course Ukraine is not going to be winning anything, other than perhaps the objective of stabilizing their frontline situation. Hopefully this is a return to form after too many months of deliberate stalling by Putin's wing of the GOP.

[–] Olifant@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Cool. Now all they need to do to occupy those flats is to release more people from the prison camps.

[–] Olifant@lemmy.ml -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Especially when invading your neighbouring countries.

[–] Olifant@lemmy.ml -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well... yeah? The world needs less humans and more elephants.

[–] Olifant@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Whether it's the persecution of minorities by labelling them as terrorists, clamping down of freedom of speech, punishing people who even dare hint at war criticism, shutting down any remotely viable opposition to dear old Vlad or slowly killing his political rivals in penal colonies, publicly dismissing warnings of actual terrorist attacks until it's too late... yeah, they're living in clover.

I'm sure the victims of the most recent terror attack would gladly agree with you.

[–] Olifant@lemmy.ml -2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The Russian people have never had a regime with their best interests at heart so that's nothing new.

[–] Olifant@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Unfortunate reality in war. Even though it's a just fight for the Ukranians it's an incredibly difficult decision to make for many.

[–] Olifant@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Funny, that just makes me eat even more. How can I learn your power?

[–] Olifant@lemmy.ml 60 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Here I'm still waiting for an official vertical tabs feature.

[–] Olifant@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Do I have to point out that this title is misleading? Don't get me wrong, I'd be glad if it were true... one less child killer roaming the world but if you read the article it hasn't been confirmed by western sources he was on that plane.

[–] Olifant@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

"Vahukomm" in Estonian with the same literal translation.

[–] Olifant@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

From what I heard it was a bit more nuanced than that. The russian government deliberately ordered the army's air defences disabled which allowed American air power to have free reign in that battlefield. I've no doubt the americans would have beaten them back regardless but with casualties.

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