Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Saw it a few weeks ago, it’s actually sad the way the ordinary man/woman in the street was fcuked over and a country set on a path of slow decline.

Are there 7 parts?. I failed to get parts 4 and 7. I also listened to the interview re Adam Curtis being interviewed by , I think , Brand. A big playable was made on we are becoming more individualistic and this flies against trying to organise the running of a country on a communistic or democratic basis. It came across as a case or either or.

Butif we all behaved as individuals, all out exclusively for ourselves, had no interest or empathy for our fellow woman or man, I wonder how , for example , could order be maintained? , how would we resolve disputes, how would we handle disruption eg employees walking off the job when they felt like it and coming back on the job when they also felt like it, how could we hold meetings if everybody felt like turning up at different times and leaving when they felt like it and so on and on and on

IMO there would be utter chaos . So we would fast come to the conclusion that a certain amount of ‘ORDER ‘ is required in order to get things done, to move forward, more benefit is delivered all around, etc, etc.

is there not ROOM for individual behaviour BUT within a certain set of rules and regulations.

the more ‘Individual’ a country/population behaves the better Russia would like it as it leads to uncertainty/ class division/ utter chaos, etc

Here’s a YouTube link to the full 7 episodes

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9eKQjNu1CogsfzC8DvZM0SgpujW2hVUD

The rot was already there well before Gorby came to power. As I said it’s sad to see the ordinary Russian Fcuked over during the 90’s but they had 20+ years to reform their country and it’s just gotten worse. Hard to have sympathy for them now.

Its even worse that’s it’s taken a “partial mobilisation” of the general populace to even raise a small resistance to what Russia are doing in Ukraine. It smacks of a “ as long as I’m alright “ attitude. I doubt that can be changed whilst the current lot are in power.

BTW thanks to the regular posters in this thread who give updates of stuff going on in Ukraine that don’t make the headlines here it’s really appreciated. If only the ones who are so clearly brainwashed by Putins misinformation machine could be weeded out before they post their drivel and “but but the west” crap.

I was reading a military expert yesterday outlining in detail how no war crime had been committed by the Ukrainians. Just because a number of Russian soldiers had laid down on the ground, their group can not be said to have actively "surrendered", as they hadn't been checked for weapons yet and then another member of their group appeared out of nowhere and opened fire on the Ukrainians at very close range.

In other words, one of the Russian group opening fire on the captors (and hitting one of them) turns it back from being a surrender situation into an active combat one again.

It worked in the 90s and gave Europe and the western world 20 year of peace.

I know this is wrong of me, but I actually couldn't care less. Couldn't kill enough of them war criminals IMO. Just wish it was putler receiving a bullet to the head......

It could be that the Russian mobilized soldiers were ordered to shoot their way out of a surrender. I vaguely remember something about them being given grenades 'in case of capture' or something along those lines.

Stop avoiding the details.

What of Crimea?

What should the negotiated peace look like and why would both sides accept it?

What concessions should be made to get people around the negotiating table?

Just shouting "Peace!" goes nowhere, bring your solutions, again, stop being a putin apologist and outline what putin should give up on and why he would.

Or just admit you don't have a clue or waffle around it again, up to you.

"A major fire in the center of Moscow, near three railway stations connecting the Russian capital to several major cities of the country including St. Petersburg."

Meanwhile Russian are enjoying a night at the Theatre. Absolutely bonkers.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1590072232285335552

With any luck this is only the start.

Let them get a taste of their own medicine!

At Slobozhanschyna direction Russian army shelled Starytsya of Kharkiv region, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the morning report

5 years old, not even the time of the first impeachment. Probably not up to date; doesn't show the convicted ones (Stone, Manafort) or the ones on the run (Kilimnik). Kind of old news