Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Twas the stare - many a covid denier can testify to it

Fair play to her and the camera man - said a few days ago, so much Russian money in London...Johnson gives with one hand and takes with another

You seem to be permanently banging the same pro putin drum.

What's your point? That you reckon Putin was right to invade, bomb the **** out of and ethnically cleanse an entire nation because of a relatively small number of far right interests? Germany has similar far right groups, England has far right groups, even goddamn Russia has some far right groups even working for Putin on his Soviet era fantasies of recreating the USSR.

https://en.respublica.lt/signs-of-neo-nazi-ideology-amongst-russian-mercenaries

You like videos? Here is a video of far right elements in Russia - these ones differ from the Wagner group only in they don't seem to be fans of Putin. Maybe he should go after them first before using the existence of far right groups elsewhere as an excuse for attacking others

Link please.

Edit: have found several now

You probably are one..considering the language you use

There are hundreds (~450 as of 2017, which by all accounts rose sharply after Trump took over) of disclosed white supremacist groups, which each have hundreds of members, and then of course there's all the undisclosed groups.

Also particularly interesting that you picked out that one line of the chaps post, completely ignoring the actual point of the post itself. Comes across like you didn't want to deal with the actual content of the post, so instead picked whatever you could to deflect with.

I may as well re-add it here; "Right now the invasion is a far far far bigger issue. When Russian troops leave the Ukraine entirely it can get discussed. Till then no one actually gives a f and this is just an attempted distraction from Russia invading."

This Russian war is very quickly running out of steam and completely exhausted. Kharkiv, Mariupol and Sumy still in Ukrainian hands.

The massive negative is the Ukrainians only fight defensively. To end this war they will need to learn to attack Russian held areas.

To be fair I don't think they have any choice but to fight defensively now and for who knows how long. The longer they hold out and inflict serious damage on the Russians the better as it also allows more time for more arms and weapons to arrive and get to the right places. The next few days look scary though for the Ukrainians as it looks like the Russians are more and more each day looking to just bomb and level Ukraine's cities. How and or in what shape will the Ukrainian military and resistance be after that will be telling.

People seem to be forgetting that they can ignore anyone claiming to be pro-russia or pro-putin. Anyway, they are not pro anything, for God's sake.

They are all basically bored keyboard Simps, working normal jobs in a normal part of the Country with limited experience of the world around them. They're not influential, they do not have any connection, either politically or economically to Russia nor have never set foot on Russian soil. The people you are wasting your time arguing with probably spend most of their free time reading obtuse articles, live at home with their Mums or by themselves ( they definitely do not have a family or kids) and either work in Aldi or in a lower paid Civi Service job, like a Library.

Putins curren whereabouts has me concerned, with a slight pinch of optimism. If true, that he is hiding out in the Altai Mountains, then it seems that he is preparing for the worst.

To give you some perspective, the area he is said to be currently residing in is called Altayskoye Podvorie. This is a small resort-like area right in the foothills of the mountain. They key thing here is how far he is from Moscow.

Putin is over 4000km from his centre of operations! It takes hours to fly there or 55 days if you're driving. I

It's in an area that would be extreme well protected, whatever the weather conditions, should there be Nuclear fallout and you can bet that his bunker is built similar to NORAD in the US.

However, this also means that whomever he left behind is running the show. I hope the US et Al are discussing means and ways to connect with these surrogates behind Putins Back, so to speak. It would be a good exercise to monitor any flights operating to or from the nearest airport to Putins granny flat over the coming days.

Here's a few pics to put it into perspective. He couldn't get further away from the theatre of operations. Christ Russia is vast...

In the south of Ukraine the Russians seem to be heading towards Odesa and Rybnyy Port ( contains large quanties of oil and grain)

Once they have captured all of Southern Ukraine, the will head North to close all of Ukraines Westerly borders to the outside World.

This might be their tactic to stop and Arms or Aid coming into Ukraine

They don't need to close the borders; and they don't really have the personnel or equipment to do so anyway.

They'll likely just surround cities and larger suburban areas to make sure nothing can get in or out and just try to pound and starve them into submission. Russia has form for this during the Second Chechen War and the Battle of Grozny. Granted Kyiv is significantly larger than Grozny but I think even just the possibility of another Grozny will be enough to force Ukraine to capitulate long before then.