btw there's no real counter-offensive, just wagner terrorist group and/or regular russian mordor army who are more likely naturally collapsing in some areas and are in need for an excuse.

Non. C'est Bakhmut



This post was edited by Norlander on May 11 2023 06:13pm

Huge fire has broken out in russia, catastrophic scale, wonder if this will have any effect.

The title of the video is poor. Basically he is outlining the continued escalation, misinformation, and that we dont have a John F Kennedy among us to dial it back.

This post was edited by ferdia on May 12 2023 03:17am

Looks like several countries started expropriating various Russian assets. Interesting to dig into the legality of those actions:

1) Americans used usd5.4m from a sanctioned pro-Putin media magnate Malofeyev from a consideration from a sale of assets whereby US allege he backdated documents to make the sale go through as he got sanctioned. This happened back in 2014-2015.
https://www.ft.com/content/1334537c-7146-4a4d-afce-ebed58bba0ea

2) Polish state expropriated assets of Russian diplomatic mission (in violation of 1961 Geneva convention on diplomatic relations?). Unknown amounts, but interesting precedent - breaking diplomatic immunity? I understand Russians have expropriated all bank accounts of the Polish mission in Russia today.
https://tass.com/world/1610869

3) Belgians promised eur200m from Russian assets frozen (at Euroclear?) I understand most of these assets are coupons/ dividends held by millions of common Russians as retirement savings at NSD that got sanctioned - and therefore their retirement savings are - wel basically gone it seems.

https://www.oreanda-news.com/en/v_mire/belgium-has-decided-to-transfer-200-million-of-income-from-russian-assets-to-/article1474284/

Let’s see where this goes as I highly doubt the legality of eg 2) and 3). Not sure how Russia can enforce those under international law?

yea I was reading about that recently, as an Emperor once said "i will make it legal". I am convinced that its a done deal. Russia is quite methodical when it comes to tit for tat, so the West just has to accept it/live with it, when Russia returns the favor. Its pretty stupid to weaponize assets/money like this (in my opinion).

This post was edited by ferdia on May 12 2023 05:10am

To be honest i think the vast majority of European think that russians can fuck off to death considering the "legality" of the horrors they did in Ukraine..
On a side note the russian assets also -vastly- coming from stealing the russian people too, Jesus they are really in a bad position.

This post was edited by Meanwhile on May 12 2023 05:49am

Any news from Bakhmut ?

there was news earlier to suggest that (more) Ukrainian forces were moving into the area.

also

From the same author:

"China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Asia