Russia - threadbanned users in OP

No thanks.

The preview doesn't appear so worth posting an edited version here!

We really have to give credit to the new Argentinian President for the seating arrangement that allowed Zelensky to finally corner and tear into obese ratf****r Orban, totally unencumbered.

Putin has always lived a healthy lifestyle and probably gets healthcare and nutrition on the level of the queen. If he lives another 20 years it wouldn't surprise me.

Let's hope not. Hopefully he dies in the next 5 to 10 years sometime. The sooner the better. I hope he even dies before this War he started in Ukraine is over and without a succeser appointed because Russia will be in disarray then and there war efforts will collapse and they will have to pull back.

Out a window the best option, it's the only way to peace, everyone can blame dead Putin and get better terms.

Everything has a breaking point. It's inconceivable that there aren't growing widespread mutterings and discontent among families & neighbours affected. Morale whether military or public is crucial.

That's the thing. Granted, I'm no specialist in Russian history, but from a brief look at both the 1905 revolution and the February & October revolutions in 1917, all broke out rather suddenly following periods of low-level discontent with few outward signs of trouble. I could easily see this pattern repeating itself once the general population has reached a point where they feel they have nothing less to lose.

Sadly your first paragraph is probably correct that it will change nothing with that wannabe dictator Orban.

Only at one crossing, the local mayor revoked permission sighting protesters not adhering to the writing agreement of the protest.

I would say the rest will follow in the coming days week's.

New incoming government doesn't support the protests.

Yeah I think the average Russian just seems to have the right cocktail of indifference and resignation that makes it highly unlikely that anything will happen. As long as Putin doesn't try and send the children of the urban elites to Ukraine he can rule as long as he wants to. His biggest short-term challenge is how to end the war and call it a victory. With the full power of the state media behind him that's not really a challenge at all.

The only part of Ukraine that most Russians seem to actually care about is Crimea and he's extremely unlikely to lose that now. They can just mine the full length of the line of the front-lines and leave it as a frozen conflict - which is just exactly the sort of messy state that he loves to leave in other countries - an open wound that he can prod at whenever he likes.

He killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of young Russian soldiers, showed his military to be severly less capable than everyone assumed, united and expanded NATO, turned his country into an international pariah, gained increased sanctions, further weakened Russia's position relative to China, faced a credible coup attempt, and got himself targeted by the ICC. In the cold light of day I wonder if he thinks all that was worth it for the gain of parts of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. I think he would have been satisfied if he had got Kyiv and Odessa but in the end he couldn't even take Kharkiv. I do believe that history will see it as a monumental geopolitical blunder, in much the same way that the Iraq war was.

More ammo. please

With the most genuine empathy I can muster: please go seek psychiatric help. Your grip on reality has been lost.