Mamoulian War
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Oh yeah, that’s why the Russian officials tried to do such a show, that the shells did not fly from Russian occupied territories but from Ukraine, but just before the impact, it did 180, to falsely frame them, right? https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-official-tells-inspectors-rocket-uturned-before-hitting-ukraine-plant-2022-9?op=1
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FF franchise died with SE merger. Unfortunately. For me the best is and always will be FFIX. That game is pretty much exactly what I imagined at that time as the game about fantasy should look like and play. Despite some flaws, for me, up to this day, only very few games have beaten or get on par with the presentation of "real" fantasy world. I have played and finished every single FF game, with the exception of FFIII, which I never finished due to circumstances, and up until i played FFXV, I was sure, nothing can beat FFII in terms of haw bad that game was. Unfortunately I was wrong. FFXV is pretty much 100+ GB of mediocrity on a HDD, with pres X button to win "action" mechanics and sub-par story-line. The only exceptions are last few Chapters and the DLC challenges. In all honesty, the only reason, why I have played the game so long and wanted stubbornly, to get all of the trophies was, that I was so stupid, and spent more than 170EUR on collector's and royal editions, before I knew, how bad this game turned out. Yes I had my share of fun, while finishing it. Was it worth the money? Definitely not. Especially, when I started to feel the joy of playing the game for the first time somewhere around the 50 hours mark, when I arrived at Chapter 9 or 10 🤷♂️ After finishing it, and seeing that it took SE 10 years to make this game, I am 100% convinced, that SE is unable to make a good FF game anymore, and I'll be skipping FFXVI unless they start selling it under 10EUR and release it for PS4 as well. For me new FF game, was always the reason to buy next-gen console. Not anymore. /end-of-rant
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And this os the reason, why many people/analysts think, that this deal significantky weakend both Putin and Prigozhin, and that there might be a possibility of similar events in the neare/mid future. @Gorth I have not read all the stuff around current situation yet, but from what I understand, that only Prigozhin is going to Belarus, and most if not all Wagnerites have to sign contract with Russian MoD, as it was planned before the rebellion. But there is definitelly something brewing in Belarus, as Kaustas Kalinovski Battalion had a long speech yesterday targeted to Belarusian army, to not meddle into Russian in-fighting, and that the people should wait for some kind of signal. edit: one of the sources on the deal: On the other hand 3-4 hours ago have some Russian Telegrams reported, that the airports at Milerovo and Rostov on Don are still fully under Wagner control 🤷♂️
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@Lexx anyway, when looking at the information from Russia it is always required to be sceptical at least. In the end, considering the Russian history, this still could be a perverse Ukraine Exit Strategy, during which, every officer, politician and oligarch joining Wagner will be sooner or later eliminated, then after few months Prigozhin “flees” to Africa, and then Putin victoriously announces another “free and democratic” presidential elections 🤷♂️
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From the videos from Rostov, it looks like a lot of local soldiers joined him and there was almost no resistance against him, while taking over. Allegedly, some helicopters destroyed some vehicles in the column on their way to Voronezh (more than 70 counted in the column) and Wagners shot down two helicopters. FSB is raiding Wagner’s HQ in St. Peterburg and Moscow has implemented anti-terrorist measures. Rostov city is allegedly fully under Prigozhin’s control now.
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In the next hours/days, we will see more lies than ever coming out of Russia, although statements like this give it some kind of weight In the meanwhile a lot of Prigozhin channels have been blocked on some Russian social medias, and his former ally General Surovikin was making an appeal to him, while holding the automatic weapon, to stop. Girkin is talking about coup already, Lukashenko allegedly have left at midnight Minsk by plane. All that is missing now, is Kadyrov 🤷♂️
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Oh yeah, by whole 0,1% or by 7200 people, what a dramatical increase... Mostly from the people of United Russian affiliated Tatars, which are helping to get rid of the Mejlis activists, which despite being outlawed in 2016, are still trying to fight against the colonial oppresion... Also unsurprisingly, you are completely ignoring, that after Ukrainian independence the figure of Crimean Tatars rose from 1,6% up to 12,6% (by 240k by absolute numbers). And also completely ignoring that in 1939 there were 218k Crimean Tatars and in 1979 5422 Crimean Tatars. One wonder, how that could ever happen in such a peaceful country as Russia?Whenever I read something about peace solution, something like this immediately jumps up my mind 🤷♂️ PS. Speaking of Crimea being a compromise, everyone ”for some reason” forgets about the way, how Crimea became “Russian”. Since Stalin laid his hands on Crimea, after conquering it, he started to deport and murder indigenous Crimean Tatar people since day one and then repopulating the area with loyal Russians to communist party and him. The latter continues up until today (just exchange Stalin with Putin). As a result, the number of Crimean Tatars dropped from 90% of local population to 5% of local population. Most of people are simply not able to grasp, that the what happened in Africa and Middle East after WW2, is slowly happening at ex soviet republics. Decolonization, and restoration of their cultural heritage. And Crimean Tatars would definitely love to end decolonized as well. Leaving them back in Russia as an appeasement for peace deal, would destroy this ambition for many decades again…If that is a quiz, my guess would be 2. What have I won?
