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  1. gral

    Russia-Ukraine War Politics Thread Mk. 2

    Also, the average Russian seems to be for it(they just don't want to be in the frontlines). Amusingly enough, this is one of those times an authoritarian government does something that its popular(another recent example is Burma expelling the Rohingya).
  2. gral

    Russia-Ukraine War Politics Thread Mk. 2

    Looks like the Russian Penitentiary Service just reported Alexei Navalny has died.
  3. gral

    Russia-Ukraine War Politics Thread Mk. 2

    My guess it's the Portuguese - they owned a strip of land on Iran's coast - including Bandar Abbas, IIRC - in the later 1500s-early 1600s. EDIT: Ninja'ed.
  4. gral

    Russia-Ukraine War Politics Thread Mk. 2

    Because the Russian ships and submarines are some of the main launch platforms for land attack missiles(Kalibr cruise missiles, as said above), so there is a military reason for that.
  5. gral

    Russia-Ukraine War Politics Thread Mk. 2

    The problem with Prigozhin wasn't that he picked up a fight with Gerasimov. It was that he picked a fight with Shoigu. When Yeltsin decided 'third time was the charm' and picked yet another former chekist for a Prime Minister, that largely unknown guy had to get elected, in order to get...
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