Vladimir Putin’s advisors may be too scared to tell the Russian leader the truth about his botched invasion of Ukraine, and Stephen checks in with the newest political contributor at CBS News. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
Is Twitter trolling us now? https://t.co/YtOzspA7tR
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 1, 2022
Colbert is much more important to CBS (actually the parent company) than Mulvaney will ever be.
So Colbert can do this.
But the underlings in the CBS News department? Not so much, at least not in public.
CBS spelled it out in its explanation for taking Mulvaney on: they fully expect the GOP to retake the house and want to be in a better position to get news out of them.
Germany sold off a lot of the East German military equipment it inherited when it took over East Germany. In doing so, it put a clause in the sales treaty that it had to approve all transfers to third parties. It sounds like Germany has finally removed its ‘hold’ on the transfer of this equipment to Ukraine.
🇩🇪🇨🇿🇺🇦 Die Welt: Germany has approved a shipment of 56 infantry fighting vehicles PbV-501 from Czech Republic to Ukraine. (illustrative photo) #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar pic.twitter.com/fYjX5k9dzi
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One of the folks looking for a reason why the hold was removed, found this :)
Ah. So that’s why Germany suddenly agreed to send more lethal aid to the Ukrainians. https://t.co/EIRK2xyvxs
— Jimmy (@JimmySecUK) April 1, 2022
Whine, whine, whine. All these right wing clowns ever do is lie and whine. https://t.co/rUINHhSmLc
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 1, 2022
re: #6 Charles Johnson
I’m sure Tucker never, ever calls anyone “far left.”
This is of course an April 1st post.
Some personal news. It’s time for a change. While teaching law has been great fun for just over a decade, I’ve decided to go back into private practice. Starting today, I will be in-house counsel for Truth Social. #FollowTheTruth
— Jennifer Taub 🌻 🇺🇸 (@jentaub) April 1, 2022
A good time was had by all. https://t.co/l63TAlfnKB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 1, 2022
I don’t believe helicopters are supposed to bend like that…
#Ukraine: An Mi-28N of the Russian Air Force was shot down by a direct hit from a MANPADS over #Luhansk Oblast today. Reportedly, the crew survived. pic.twitter.com/ogLTpoAL7O
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) April 1, 2022
re: #6 Charles Johnson
It’s a substitute for what we really want to call you, Tucker.
re: #9 Charles Johnson
The 1984 edition of the Thomas Guide had streets in the valley that terminated with a small graphic of an alligator with open jaws. Here there be ‘gators!
re: #6 Charles Johnson
I agree with Tucker, we should call them by their proper noun, Nazis.
re: #11 Belafon
It’s a substitute for what we really want to call you, Tucker.
My preferred term for Tucker is only one letter off from his actual name.
April 1st: the day of the year when we find out how terrible most people are at comedy.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 1, 2022
As you’ll probably notice, Ginni seems likable (and she was)! After she left Lifespring, she got heavily involved in the movement to HELP former cult members exit cults. She also organized a cult awareness briefing for congressional staffers in the late eighties.
— Steven Hassan, PhD (@CultExpert) March 31, 2022
For more on Ginni Thomas’ time in a cult, her cult activism in the 80s, and her turn to right-wing causes, this @washingtonpost article from 1991 is surprisingly thorough. https://t.co/A6PvRenIHF
— Steven Hassan, PhD (@CultExpert) March 31, 2022
To see the FULL video from this 1989 cult member support group conference, you can see that on my YouTube channel here (Ginni Thomas appears at the 17:30 mark):https://t.co/zZgLEvxVnn
— Steven Hassan, PhD (@CultExpert) March 31, 2022
The “Republican base” won’t care, but it looks like Herschel Walker has been lying about being a valedictorian and graduating in the top 1% of his graduating class in UGa.
BREAKING: Trump-Backed GOP Senate Candidate Herschel Walker Didn’t Just Lie About Being Valedictorian at University of Georgia—Didn’t Just Lie About Being in the Top 1% of His Class—He Lied About Graduating at All, Then Lied About Returning to Get a Degree https://t.co/1VYTu0GmK2
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) April 1, 2022
Of course, CNN, merely calls it overstating his credentials, as if he added on a minor or claimed he had a 4.0 GPA when he had a 3.0 GPA.
There’s nothing wrong with not having a degree — I’ve worked with plenty of great people who started but couldn’t finish college for various reasons, either financial, or because their could never catch up from their high school background.
But not having a degree and claiming you graduated in the top 1% of your college graduating class…. Now, we know why Trump endorsed him.
re: #6 Charles Johnson
Far right is far less accurate than the term we should be using: fucking fascists. Or goddamned Nazis.
What day is today?
Big if true @BulwarkOnline https://t.co/IKACNawZ3Y
— Charming Bastard (@StarlingBuchan1) April 1, 2022
re: #20 A Cranky One
with harvey weinstein as executive producer
At least a thousand Russian national guardsmen are disobeying orders to go fight into Ukraine, wary of meeting the same fate as others wiped out in the war’s early days. @polinaivanovva reports: https://t.co/aINtBg3gto
— max seddon (@maxseddon) April 1, 2022
re: #16 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Ginni found a new cult.
Shashank Joshi is the Defence Editor for “The Economist” and is reasonably credible rather than just an internet rando:
An important update: I am told reliably that this isn’t the case. Discussions on this issue are at a very nascent stage, but Western allies are broadly on same page on this issue now. https://t.co/bqeYKQ6QYC
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) April 1, 2022
re: #20 A Cranky One
Be thankful David Cronenberg wasn’t directing or else we’d be truly fucked.
re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
with harvey weinstein as executive producer
And Bernie Madoff in charge of financing.
re: #22 darthstar
Something to consider…
The Rosgvardia/Russian National Guard are basically militarized police. They are organized and trained with the mission of suppressing mostly unarmed, untrained, and unorganized civilians.
As has been seen, fighting a determined, well armed and organized military is a very different mission. And, not unexpectedly, they have fared poorly while attempting it.
re: #27 Eclectic Cyborg
And Bernie Madoff in charge of financing.
And donald trump authoring the original screenplay
re: #22 darthstar
At least a thousand Russian national guardsmen are disobeying orders to go fight into Ukraine, wary of meeting the same fate as others wiped out in the war’s early days. @polinaivanovva reports:
The Rosgvardia are Putin’s Praetorian guards. They got stood up a few years ago when the cops got cleaned up enough that they might not reliably beat up babushkas and children at demonstrations, so Putin needed a more reliable force.
A bunch of them were sent into Ukraine and got chewed up, on the assumption that the whole thing was going to be a cakewalk and they just needed some bullies to keep the Ukies in line. So, it depends on how far up the food chain this little rebellion goes, but getting into a fight with your own personal guards is not a good thing.
re: #28 ckkatz
Something to consider…
The Rosgvardia/Russian National Guard are basically militarized police. They are organized and trained with the mission of suppressing mostly unarmed, untrained, and unorganized civilians.
As has been seen, fighting a determined, well armed and organized military is a very different mission. And, not unexpectedly, they have fared poorly while attempting it.
So stopping a kid from skating on the sidewalk in front of the Kremlin is something they are comfortable doing, but digging a trench in radioactive dirt to die in isn’t? Makes sense.
The GOP is now the COP - Cocaine Orgy Party. https://t.co/MpYUvNutdD
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 1, 2022
re: #32 Charles Johnson
Well, I guess we know where the party’s going to be.
As far as Cawthorn being invited to sex parties, I would bet money that they were from people in Roger Stone’s orbit. He has long had a reputation as a swinger, and since he is not an elected official he does not worry about voters rejecting him over this. Politicos will ignore his sex life if they need him to work on dirty political shenanigan’s.
re: #10 darthstar
I don’t believe helicopters are supposed to bend like that…
If the crew survived that, Ivan is good at autorotation.
re: #34 KerFuFFler
As far as Cawthorn being invited to sex parties, I would bet money that they were from people in Roger Stone’s orbit. He has long had a reputation as a swinger, and since he is not an elected official he does not worry about voters rejecting him over this. Politicos will ignore his sex life if they need him to work on dirty political shenanigan’s.
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EXCL: China staged a huge cyberattack on Ukraine’s military and nuclear facilities in the build-up to Russia’s invasion, according to intelligence memos obtained by The Times https://t.co/2JMkcl2iac
— Larisa Brown (@larisamlbrown) April 1, 2022
As far as NATO, US, and Russian security strategy goes, that would constitute an act of war by China on Ukraine. Assuming it’s true, of course. Also makes you wonder what Russia promised them for it.
re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they fully expect the GOP to retake the house and want to be in a better position to
get news out of them[ not be thrown into a concentration camp ].
re: #31 darthstar
So stopping a kid from skating on the sidewalk in front of the Kremlin is something they are comfortable doing, but digging a trench in radioactive dirt to die in isn’t? Makes sense.
Yup. They are far better against babushkas than a real army.
I suspect that they were also useful running checkpoints and guardposts when a few poorly armed and poorly organized groups of the terminally dissatisfied were attempting to randomly attack innocent passerby in the Caucuses.
re: #37 ericblair
As far as NATO, US, and Russian security strategy goes, that would constitute an act of war by China on Ukraine. Assuming it’s true, of course. Also makes you wonder what Russia promised them for it.
What’s interesting to me is that, despite that explicit assistance from China, Russia is still losing. We all wondered where Russia’s vaunted cyberattack capabilities were at the beginning of the war; it seems like Ukraine managed to weather the attack, but also that Putin’s forces were so weak that even a Ukrainian military bogged down by IT issues was able to beat them back. That might also explain the early successes before Ukraine was able to get its feet under itself.
re: #34 KerFuFFler
My eyes may never forgive you for that.
re: #24 ckkatz
So, once again the UK bigging itself up by claiming Europeans are weak on Ukraine.
You left, get over it you wankers.
Since things seem so shitty lately, I have to be at least appreciative of the uppers I’ve been able to find to keep me from flatlining lately.
I’m sure he’s been linked here before, but I guess I only found out about him thanks to the curiosity of Youtube algorithms, but yeah, a bass solo by Charles Berthoud using piccolo strings and a bass with some tuner extenders. I dunno why but it’s something that I’ve had to play on repeat for a while lately just because it keeps sticking with me.
re: #41 Eclectic Cyborg
My eyes may never forgive you for that.
i think it was pictures like that that crashed lgf.
re: #40 Dopamine Fish
What’s interesting to me is that, despite that explicit assistance from China, Russia is still losing. We all wondered where Russia’s vaunted cyberattack capabilities were at the beginning of the war; it seems like Ukraine managed to weather the attack, but also that Putin’s forces were so weak that even a Ukrainian military bogged down by IT issues was able to beat them back. That might also explain the early successes before Ukraine was able to get its feet under itself.
We probably won’t know for a long time how much help Ukraine got from Western powers here, both as training and upgrades beforehand and as operational assistance during the war. I agree, I expected Ukrainian networks to go down hard and stay down, but it didn’t happen.
re: #45 b.d
i think it was pictures like that that crashed lgf.
Probably. Comments tables don’t just kill themselves for no reason at all.
It’s long past time that we acknowledge the sure handed, effective, grace under fire, success of Joe Biden’s Presidency.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) April 1, 2022
Word.
re: #46 ericblair
We probably won’t know for a long time how much help Ukraine got from Western powers here, both as training and upgrades beforehand and as operational assistance during the war. I agree, I expected Ukrainian networks to go down hard and stay down, but it didn’t happen.
Didn’t I read somewhere that Estonia has developed state-of-the-art cyber defenses? Also really good at identifying and defanging Russian bot-nets?
re: #31 darthstar
I read somewhere that members of The Rosgvardia/Russian National Guard were objecting to crossing the border into Ukraine. They said it was an illegal order since they are supposed to work within their national borders.
re: #34 KerFuFFler
But Stone, reportedly has a tatoo of Nixon on his body. What kind of sick fuck is going to screw him while looking at that?
re: #25 lawhawk
Be thankful David Cronenberg wasn’t directing or else we’d be truly fucked.
Cronenberg has a significant presence on Star Trek: Discovery as Dr. Kovich
re: #52 John Hughes
But Stone, reportedly has a tatoo of Nixon on his body. What kind of sick fuck is going to screw him while looking at that?
Not just reportedly. We’ve seen it. I’m not going to post a photo of Stone with his shirt off, but Google will find lots of pics for you.
The Chef’s kiss.
I love the tractor billboard in the first shot. Ties everything up.
— Bill Hoover (@daHoovster) April 1, 2022
re: #29 sizzzzlerz
And donald trump authoring the original screenplay
starring Steven Seagal and Susan Sarandon
I hope this is just an April Fool’s Joke, but it probably isn’t.
There are reports of Jen Psaki leaving in May to go to MSNBC. She had said she would stay on for just a year or so as Press Secretary.
JUST IN: Jen Psaki plans to leave her role as White House press secretary to join MSNBC as a pundit later this spring, a source tells NPR.https://t.co/9raGwkoqii
— NPR (@NPR) April 1, 2022
re: #50 sagehen
Didn’t I read somewhere that Estonia has developed state-of-the-art cyber defenses? Also really good at identifying and defanging Russian bot-nets?
Yep, Estonia is very good. They have put most of their government functions on line, and have been attacked for years by Russian and Russia-adjacent hackers and survived just fine.
re: #52 John Hughes
But Stone, reportedly has a tatoo of Nixon on his body. What kind of sick fuck is going to screw him while looking at that?
Not “reportedly”, it’s an absolute proven fact.
re: #56 No Malarkey!
As someone pointed out, those Russian tanks got too close to a tractor birthing area…
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Seriously though, which model are those Russian tanks? I think those are more likely to be T-72s than T-80s or even T-90s. The rear of the turret just seems off for a T-90.
A couple of air war datapoints that may be of interest:
1. As the Ukrainian counter-offensive around Kyiv succeeds, Ukraine will need to move it’s forces to other fronts. When these forces move, they will become much more vulnerable to Russian air, drone and missile strikes.
2.All militaries tend to shoot down their own planes and bomb their own troops during combat…
Russia though, may be even more of an overachiever in this area. In the Georgia War of 2008, 3 or 4 of the 6 Russian aircraft lost were likely shot down by Russian air defense.
As they say, “Friendly fire isn’t”. Or as the old Air Defense saying goes “Shoot them all down and sort it out on the ground”.
I would suspect that the Ukraine raid on Belgorod is going to make Russian Air Defense even more trigger happy.
Additionally, both are using essentially the same equipment.
re: #62 lawhawk
Destroyed Russian T-72B tanks, K-53949 Typhoon-K MRAP, MT-LB, and trucks previously recorded. 736/https://t.co/a8oYYkbfQ2
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) April 1, 2022
re: #63 ckkatz
A couple of air war datapoints that may be of interest:
1. As the Ukrainian counter-offensive around Kyiv succeeds, Ukraine will need to move it’s forces to other fronts. When these forces move, they will become much more vulnerable to Russian air, drone and missile strikes.
2.All militaries tend to shoot down their own planes and bomb their own troops during combat…
Russia though, may be even more of an overachiever in this area. In the Georgia War of 2008, 3 or 4 of the 6 Russian aircraft lost were likely shot down by Russian air defense.
As they say, “Friendly fire isn’t”. Or as the old Air Defense saying goes “Shoot them all down and sort it out on the ground”.
I would suspect that the Ukraine raid on Belgorod is going to make Russian Air Defense even more trigger happy.
Additionally, both are using essentially the same equipment.
After the weeks of hard fighting, the Ukrainian units around Kyiv will need a lot of R&R before redeploying to Donbas. I expect the Russian units retreating from Kyiv and northern Ukraine are in much worse shape, however.
What’s funny about @ggreenwald criticizing me today (i mean, it’s always funny but today specifically), is that I’m critiquing the media. Which used to be his bag. But you can see he’s no longer in it for the *journalism* just the pushing of white wing storylines.
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) April 1, 2022
Anyway, every time Glenn comes after me it’s an opportunity for me to reach one or two of his followers as I expose how their hero is a paper tiger long past his sell by date.
I’m the Clarice fucking Starling to the lambs on Glenn’s farm. :)— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) April 1, 2022
re: #62 lawhawk
As someone pointed out, those Russian tanks got too close to a tractor birthing area…
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Seriously though, which model are those Russian tanks? I think those are more likely to be T-72s than T-80s or even T-90s. The rear of the turret just seems off for a T-90.
So, the reason I point this out is because T-90s are the most modern variant of Russian tank in widespread use, and if they’re destroying Russian T-72s in numbers, that means that the Russians are in trouble on the equipment front (obvious, I know). The Armata was their front line tank, and not deployed in significant numbers. T-90s should be their primary tank, but if they’re into T-72 supplies, that bodes badly, and it’ll take decades for Russia to rearm.
re: #67 lawhawk
Or, the T-90s were never deployed, because the generals in charge knew that whatever they sent in was going to get ground into dust because they had been skimming off the top since 1991, and exactly none of their equipment is serviceable enough to fight an army that isn’t utterly deficient in every way, like theirs.
Kazakhstan openly refusing to support Russia in its war in Ukraine, as well as unequivocally declining to recognize Crimea or Donbas annexation/’independence.’ This despite being in alliance with Russia and receiving CSTO support just three months ago. https://t.co/Wuff8mNAHY
— Neil Hauer (@NeilPHauer) April 1, 2022
That feeling when the kids figure out that the schoolyard bully isn’t that tough after all.
re: #65 No Malarkey!
After the weeks of hard fighting, the Ukrainian units around Kyiv will need a lot of R&R before redeploying to Donbas. I expect the Russian units retreating from Kyiv and northern Ukraine are in much worse shape, however.
I agree with you that many Russian units around Kyiv appear to have lost much of their combat power.
You bring up several interesting points.
First, I suspect that you are correct that the Ukrainian units are organized on the European rather than the US model. Which generally dictates pulling a unit out of the line for refitting.
Second, there is also the question regarding where such a unit could safely refit. Ukrainian bases have been hit multiple times, with large loss in life and equipment.
The Russians have large conventional warhead missiles that can reach all bases in Ukraine. They also have the satellite and drone coverage to see where Ukrainian units would stop to refit.
Third, do the Ukrainians have enough military resources to take major units out of combat for significant periods of time.
My answer to all three is:
I don’t know. I guess we’ll see.
I’m speechless. Delivered in a sealed envelope and she ran before I could read it. pic.twitter.com/ufU1MMHwcT
— Amy Milstead (@amyomilstead) March 31, 2022
Remember: Ben Shapiro was such a shitty screenwriter that not even nepotism could get him a job in Hollywood pic.twitter.com/4Ml1IdPrxS
— Right Wing Cope (@RightWingCope) April 1, 2022
re: #67 lawhawk
According to the ever reliable Wikipedia they have:
435 T90 (+ 200 “reserve”)
480 T80 (+ 4000 “reserve”)
2,030 T72 (+ 7000 “reserve”)
The “reserve” numbers are bullshit, broken and half built rusting tanks in fields that they might be able to fix if they had a working economy.
TL;Dr
Almost all of their tanks are T72s.
Missed this bit:
The Armata was their front line tank, and not deployed in significant numbers.
Last I heard they had 14 [sic] Armatas.
re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Every episode will have an angry disciplinarian parent say “this will hurt me more than you!”
re: #74 Barefoot Grin
Every episode will have an angry disciplinarian parent say “this will hurt me more than you!”
WHY IT’S OK THAT DADDY IS SHORT, PART IV
US Navy announces that they are naming a new fleet replenishment ship (oiler - T-AO class) the USS Notorious RBG.
Okay, that’s just a wee exaggeration. Officially, it will be the USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But you know damned well that the sailors on board will call it by the Notorious RBG instead…
re: #76 lawhawk
US Navy announces that they are naming a new fleet replenishment ship (oiler - T-AO class) the USS Notorious RBG.
Okay, that’s just a wee exaggeration. Officially, it will be the USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But you know damned well that the sailors on board will call it by the Notorious RBG instead…
They’ll call it the Gasburg.
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re: #49 ericblair
Word.
“Since Biden has handled the virus, Ukraine, reinvigorating NATO, spending, getting minorities appointed as judges, he should have fixed my problem so I don’t support him.”
re: #52 John Hughes
But Stone, reportedly has a tatoo of Nixon on his body. What kind of sick fuck is going to screw him while looking at that?
“Tell me I’m not a crook again, baby…”
More proof this is all complete horseshit:
“Thousands of emails purportedly from the laptop computer of Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, are authentic communications that can be verified through cryptographic signatures from Google and other technology companies, say two security experts who examined the data at the request of The Washington Post.”
That is techno-babble that without expanding on, sounds like to someone who works in this field as bullshit meant to confuse the non-technical.
“The verifiable emails are a small fraction of 217 gigabytes of data provided to The Post on a portable hard drive by Republican activist Jack Maxey.”
A hard drive from a partisan hack. Really?
There is no laptop. This is bullshit. End of story. There’s no reason to dig further but every paragraph of this “story” makes the case even worse.
re: #70 ckkatz
I agree with you that many Russian units around Kyiv appear to have lost much of their combat power.
You bring up several interesting points.
First, I suspect that you are correct that the Ukrainian units are organized on the European rather than the US model. Which generally dictates pulling a unit out of the line for refitting.
Second, there is also the question regarding where such a unit could safely refit. Ukrainian bases have been hit multiple times, with large loss in life and equipment.
The Russians have large conventional warhead missiles that can reach all bases in Ukraine. They also have the satellite and drone coverage to see where Ukrainian units would stop to refit.
Third, do the Ukrainians have enough military resources to take major units out of combat for significant periods of time.
My answer to all three is:
I don’t know. I guess we’ll see.
It will be definitely interesting to see since it’s been the CIA training the Ukrainian military for the past however many years.
re: #80 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Unless an email was end to end encrypted or used S/MIME or PGP/GPG signatures (something rarely done on routine messages by anyone other than security freaks and definitely not done by anyone doing anything remotely shady), the only “crypto signatures” involved here would be DKIM or TLS in the server-to-server connections when it was sent.
The only thing that verifies is that the email was sent from the organization or domain it claims. Not from any specific person.
LOLOLOLOL
Claire is running for Massie’s seat
Did MIT reinstate the SAT / ACT requirement because they met their woke quota, or because the overall lower caliber of students they output began to tarnish their brand and cost them those sweet, sweet tuition fees?
— Claire Wirth🇺🇸🍊 (@BuilderClaireKY) March 29, 2022
Kentucky’s own version of MTG.
re: #82 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Unless an email was end to end encrypted or used S/MIME or PGP/GPG signatures (something rarely done on routine messages by anyone other than security freaks and definitely not done by anyone doing anything remotely shady), the only “crypto signatures” involved here would be DKIM or TLS in the server-to-server connections when it was sent.
The only thing that verifies is that the email was sent from the organization or domain it claims. Not from any specific person.
In reading the article, it also says the emails CAN BE verified - not that they HAVE BEEN. The article is also very explicit that the experts offered no substantiation of any of the contents as a whole; they basically only said, “Yeah, the emails? These look legit. We can’t even say if they were put here by somebody else or if they came with the hard drive, but they look like his emails.”
re: #69 ericblair
One thing that I have been watching is the effects of the Russian invasion on the 12,600 miles of Russian land border.
In Kazakhstan, three months ago, the Kazakh forces were not enough to suppress anti-government protests. The Russians had to send in thousands of their troops in order to successfully suppress the protests.
I understand that the Russian forces were pulled out and sent to participate in the invasion. I suspect that the leadership of Kazakhstan is not enthusiastic about sending out of the country even more of the forces propping them up. Killing off already scarce loyalists is not a good way to ensure continued governance.
Several other Central Asian FSU (Former Soviet Union) “‘Stans” also have violently suppressed civilian protests. And are facing militant Islamic group pressures.
The Russians have also pulled out many of their troops and supporting paramilitaries from the Caucuses, including around Georgia and Armenia. I wonder how long things will remain ‘stable’ there.
Moldova is becoming more vocal about the separatist Transnistria region and the Russian troops propping it up.
Sweden and Finland are seriously looking at joining NATO and upgrading their militaries.
Russia also just tried, for some stupid reason, to bully Japan over the Kuril Islands. And that went about as could be expected.
Finally, China seems to be hedging its bets right now.
Not a good strategic position when over half Russia’s combat power is tied up in Ukraine. And not performing well.
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