[chechnya]

Originally Posted by Roosta ↗

Democracy shall Prevail, yet your sentiment is quite the pro ruskie anti west rant that we have seen on this site & your no different.
Your suggesting that the genocide tactics of the ruskies is democracy in progress & that the west is domed ect ect ect. for lack of hardware & munitions

Let me inform you that russia has been cut off from the rest of the world.
The great majority of the world is supporting Ukraine with combat systems, money & aid hand over fist so if you think that the combined efforts of the world will exhaust all the hardware & munitions being sent to Ukraine, as that will not happen & democracy will prevail as that's what the Ukrainian ppl are fighting for & that's why they get the support that they do, because their cause is just !

Your "Hope that time is on the side of the west" is more than RONPMSL, as what the fuck do you think the NATO alliance is, some kind of scout group.

I didn't sat anything remotely pro-Russian but I guess in your mind, if you say anything negative or give off the perceptive you don't support Ukraine no matter what, you're pro-Russian.

But what will the Ukrainians do when they burn through their Western equipment in their failing offensive? Sure, NATO block countries will send a handful of APC's here, some tanks there but no where near what they sent prior to the offensive. Then what? Taxpayers will only go so far without seeing results. What about manpower? What happens when Ukraine blows through its NATO trained soldiers? Then back to conscripts and quick trained locally trained men. Russia still hasn't officially declared war, that potentially opens up massive amounts of warm bodies to put in the 30,000 Soviet tanks that are waiting in storage.

I want Ukraine to have its land back like everyone else here but don't let confirmation bias cloud your mind.

[WonderMomma]

⫸"Wagner PMC mercenaries have booked most of the hotels in Krasnodar, Russia. Police and National Guard of Russia regularly come there: the mercenaries organize fights and pogroms - Russian media ASTRA.
"PMC mercenaries stayed in many hotels in Krasnodar. By to preliminary data, they are spending their vacations there. Most rooms are booked until August.
Mercenaries fight among themselves, with hotel staff and local residents. National Guard of Russia came to one of the hotels this morning because Wagner attacked a hotel employee.
"In the morning, three Russian Guards cars came, the doorman was almost strangled by a guest from among Wagner fighters, he thought he had stolen money from him, but it was in the safe in the room. There was a case when the military went to the toilet right on the bed. Maids didn't want to clean it up," an employee of one of the hotels.
"They drink alcohol from 7 a.m., have fun with prostitutes, there's unsanitary conditions in their rooms," an employee of another hotel told ASTRA.""

⫸"Belarus school camp.

And how are your kids entertained on their school holidays?"

[Guns N' Coffee]

Originally Posted by Roosta ↗

Moving on from the pro ruskie bull shit,

Reuters

Exclusive-Danone reviews legal options after Russia seizes local business.

PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) -French dairy group Danone is reviewing its legal options after the Russian state took control of its subsidiary in the country, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Monday.

The source said Danone would write to the Kremlin and was in contact with French authorities, including President Emmanuel Macron's office. The letter will ask for explanations, but Danone does not yet know what is legally feasible, the source added, declining to be named because the matter is confidential.

According to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, foreign-owned stakes in Danone Russia, along with beer company Carlsberg's stake in a local brewer were put under the "temporary management" of government property agency Rosimushchestvo.

Moscow's action highlights the vulnerability of other consumer products companies that still have operations in Russia, some of which have announced plans to leave. Dove soap maker Unilever and Swiss food giant Nestle remain in Russia, as well as British American Tobacco, which is trying to sell its unit.

Reckitt last year said it had begun a process to transfer ownership of its Russian business, which if successful would make it the first major personal goods maker to do so following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

Western firms face tough exits from Russia after the government in December said they must sell their operations for at least half price and pay 10% to the state, Reuters reported.

Danone said in October it would relinquish control of its dairy food business in Russia, which could have led to a write-off of up to 1 billion euros ($1.12 billion). Global companies had at the time been announcing costly exits from Russia.

The source close to the matter said Danone had been weeks away from achieving an agreement to sell its Russian subsidiary, which has 7,500 employees spread across 13 factories.

The source said Danone, like everyone else, had learnt the news when the Russian presidency announced it to the media and had been very surprised, especially as the company had "initiated a very organised process to leave the country".

Nestle, BAT, Reckitt and Procter & Gamble declined to comment on Monday's news, while Unilever did not respond to a request for comment.

Unilever had in February said there was a risk it might have to stop doing business in Russia, and that it might have to take a loss or write down its assets there.

Kellogg in December said it would divest its business in Russia to a local Russian company, Chernogolovka. "Local government regulatory approval has been granted and the sale of our Russian business has now closed," a Kellogg spokesperson told Reuters on Monday, adding that the sale was finalized last week.

P.S There's your democracy right there, Chechnya.

Putin wants to make sure there is no outside investment in Russia for at least the next 20 years

[Faust]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

And how are your kids entertained on their school holidays?"

Would you happen to have a link to the full performance?

[Guns N' Coffee]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

⫸"Belarus school camp.

And how are your kids entertained on their school holidays?"

The irony is these are actually kidnapped ukrainian children

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...n-via-belarus/

Exclusive: Belarus abducts thousands of Ukrainian children
Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'

Thousands of Ukrainian children have been forcibly deported to Belarus in an alleged war crime that could implicate president Alexander Lukashenko.

Some 2,150 Ukrainian children as young as six are estimated to have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with the number expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year. Some are alleged to have been given military training.

Evidence linking these crimes to Mr Lukashenko and other Belarusian officials has been submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC), The Telegraph can reveal.

“We want to show the world that such activity [being] organised precisely by Mr Lukashenko is a war crime,” said Pavel Latushka, head of the opposition group National Anti-Crisis Management, which submitted the accusations.

“In our opinion, [he] is the main [individual] responsible for the forcible displacement of these children to Belarus … he directly gave instructions on organising the financing of these processes.”

Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, already face an ICC arrest warrant, announced in March, for the alleged forced deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children into Russia.

The ICC’s investigation could now widen to include Mr Lukashenko and other Belarusian officials. The court said it assessed information received, and was “duty bound to protect the confidentiality” of such communications.

It comes weeks after Mr Lukashenko, described as Europe’s last dictator, cut a deal with the Russian president to host the troops from the Wagner militia that led a mutiny against the Kremlin.

Mr Lukashenko, increasingly believed to be a puppet leader of a Russian vassal state, has also this month taken delivery of Russian tactical nuclear warheads in a further threat to Europe and the West.

Moscow began systematically transporting children from Ukraine into Russia in the weeks before it invaded in late February 2022.

The practice has continued and the Ukrainian government now estimates that more than 19,500 children have been forcibly transferred by Russian authorities.

Only 361 of them have been returned to Ukraine, Darya Herasymchuk, the Ukrainian presidential commissioner for children’s rights, told The Telegraph.

More than 100 criminal cases have been filed in Ukraine regarding the illegal forced deportation of children, including to Belarus and Russia, the Ukrainian prosecutor-general’s office said.

Purported orphans are “evacuated” from eastern Ukraine by Russia into holding camps. Some of those children are then “adopted” into Russian families. Other children are sent to “holiday camps” by Russian-aligned officials, never to return.

Some of the children held in Belarus are believed to have been sent on to Russia, including in the far eastern reaches of the country, nearly 4,000 miles from Ukraine.

Ukrainian children being held in Belarus typically travel through Rostov-on-Don, a Russian city two hours from the Ukrainian border – from where Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner chief, recently launched his armed rebellion.

From there, they are transferred by train to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, then taken by bus to various facilities, including at least four locations identified by researchers and human rights lawyers.

Camps of lost children
One document seen by The Telegraph is signed by Dmitry Mezentsev, chairman of a Russian-Belarusian body and former Russian ambassador to Belarus. It requests the co-operation between the Belarusian and Russian state railway operators to organise the “transportation of the children of Donbas for rehabilitation to the brotherly Belarus”.

The document has been submitted to the ICC as evidence by the National Anti-Crisis Management, run by a group of exiles who oppose the Belarusian government.

The organisation has also submitted other material, including Belarusian state media reports that explicitly state the movement of children by order of Mr Lukashenko.

Three “camps” are in the Minsk region, including the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp, owned by the Belarusian state fertiliser company Belaruskali.

A fourth location is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.

Families searching for missing children “may not even know their children are in Belarus”, said Kateryna Rashevska, a lawyer at the Regional Centre for Human Rights, a Ukrainian NGO.

One video submitted to the ICC as evidence shows the Gruzdev sisters, Belarusian pop singers, speaking to Ukrainian children at what is believed to be the Dubrava camp.

“So that we live in peace, so that Biden dies, God forgive me, so that Zelensky dies too, and Putin prospers and takes control of all of Ukraine,” the sisters say to dozens of children seated in the audience.

The number of children to be deported into Belarus is expected to top 3,000 this autumn, according to internal documents and Belarusian state media reports.

Russia says it is legally removing children from the threat of war. Authorities offer money to incentivise parents to “adopt” Ukrainian children.

The Telegraph has also found that children detained in holding camps in Russia are forced to undergo re-education and beaten if they refuse to comply.

Ukrainian children are often told they are Russian, forced to learn the Russian national anthem, spoken to only in Russian, and taught to denounce Ukraine before being adopted or fostered.

In rare cases, there have been instances of children undergoing training in the use of firearms and military vehicles. Mr Latushka’s group has also alleged that children held in Belarus are being taught how to use weapons.

Human rights activists have highlighted concerns regarding Ukrainian boys in their late teens – if they turn 18 after being forcibly deported to Russia, or Russian-occupied areas, they would fall in the mandatory age range for conscription.

“The situation is very dangerous for teenagers; if they are 17 years old, and boys, it is catastrophic,” said Ms Rashevska.

“After turning 18, they will be transferred as cannon fodder for this war; this is the Russian strategy.”

The Belarusian government did not respond to a request for comment. Mr Lukashenko in June said that he had offered to Mr Putin to host children in Belarus.

The Belarusian leader said he has reached out to Putin and they agreed to fund the children’s stay in Belarus from the state budget.

“This is how we started taking them here,” Mr Lukashenko said Tuesday. “We help improve their health and they leave. They actually don’t want to leave.”

[Faust]

An Ukrainian tries harassing a Russian woman in Italy. When her husband bitch-slaps the Ukrainian around (as he should) the Ukrainian calls for Nato intervention, or something to that extent:

[scorpion9]

Originally Posted by Faust ↗

An Ukrainian tries harassing a Russian woman in Italy. When her husband bitch-slaps the Ukrainian around (as he should) the Ukrainian calls for Nato intervention, or something to that extent:

If the Z-patriot actually hit the guy with the camera then he will probably get an assault charge...or at least he should.

Also, faust, if you think that someone should be attacked and beaten for speaking their mind then you can kindly go fuck yourself. A single punch to the head can kill someone...as we have seen on this site quite a few times. In fact, the first funeral i ever witnessed as a kid, was of my uncle who was punched in the face and died as a result of a brain hemorrage few hours later. Just a single punch from a pesant. I dont tolerate shit like this at all.

Infact, anyone who responds to a verbal assault with a physical one can go fuck themselves imo. If you can't defend yourself against an argument with words, then you have already lost.

[duntez]

Originally Posted by Guns N' Coffee ↗

Putin wants to make sure there is no outside investment in Russia for at least the next 20 years

Well shit, tbh they actually took too long to start taking foreign properties. I mean west took billions of Russian $ and properties already, so why not do the same? I think they don’t give a fuck at this point. Or almost don’t care

[Faust]

Originally Posted by duntez ↗

Well shit, tbh they actually took too long to start taking foreign properties. I mean west took billions of Russian $ and properties already, so why not do the same? I think they don’t give a fuck at this point. Or almost don’t care

Russias business is now with nations of which their citizens comprise 85% (6.8 billion) of the world population. Nations/people that were colonised, enslaved, genocided, waged war upon, all those will prosper along with with China and Russia. The West is not a stable partner and will eat itself at one point, just like the Roman Empire before it

[DrKGSmiff]

Originally Posted by Faust ↗

Russias business is now with nations of which their citizens comprise 85% (6.8 billion) of the world population. Nations/people that were colonised, enslaved, genocided, waged war upon, all those will prosper along with with China and Russia. The West is not a stable partner and will eat itself at one point, just like the Roman Empire before it

Wait… are you suggesting that Russia and China don’t have a history (even a RECENT one) of “colonization, slavery, genocide and war”?