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Sep 5 • 2 tweets • 1 min read
Kadyrov unresigns: “I, of course, simply don’t have the right to up and leave. The people have entrusted with the region’s leadership.”

What a, don, surprise.
Watch the whole 13-minute unresignation ramble on Telegram t.me/RKadyrov_95/27…

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Sep 1
Textbook fascism: the only good thing the young can do is die for their country's spiritual destiny.
All the Soviet symbolism the Putin regime has resurrected is window dressing. It's nostalgic. It's appealing. But the ideology is all about forcing the young to sacrifice themselves, en masse, for the state's wars. It's fascism.
And, of course, it's also all charged with imperialism, racism, misogyny, and homophobia.
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Aug 31
Dmitry Muratov's hagiography of "bloodless" Gorbachev for Novaya Gazeta. It feels like nobody in Russia is capable of producing nuanced takes on anything or anyone.
Gorbachev definitely more good than bad. Leagues ahead of every other Russian leader in the last century. But a bloodless pacifist saint? Please.
I mean...what? Russia's been at war almost constantly for the last thirty years.
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Aug 21
🧵 Simonyan going full fash over on Telegram: “I’m sick and tired of talking. I don’t understand why the animals gloating over Dasha’s death aren’t under arrest. I don’t understand why our sleeper agents in Kiev aren’t woken up…”
… “I don’t understand why you can openly collect money for the Ukrainian Army in cities in my country. I don’t understand why there are still buildings standing in Bankovaya St in Kiev [the government district].”
So Simonyan’s response to the assassination? Hunt for traitors, bomb the shit out of Kyiv. Let’s not forget this nasty propagandist still has a Twitter account to go with her 350,000 Telegram followers.
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Aug 18
Zaporizhzhia to Russian border: 170 miles
Zaporizhzhia to Berlin: 1,000 miles

And yet it doesn't seem to have occurred to the Russian warmongers on Telegram and VK that nuclear fallout from a blast might hit them harder.
I guess Zaporizhzhia only produces magic "anti-fascist" fallout.
On a serious note, it's easy to mock the pro-war crowd's stupidity about the risk of a nuclear blast to Russia. But it does tell us something about their apocalyptic mindset: "saving" Donetsk and Luhansk from the "fascists" may necessitate destroying them (and parts of Russia).
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Aug 5
🧵 RIA article of the day: "Morale is more important than skill" in training 'volunteers' for Ukraine. A little window into how Russia's army is fighting on vibes, not technique.
The article looks at the Spetsnaz training school in Chechnya, where 'volunteers' attend 2-4 training courses.

No problems with supplies here: the writer confidently declares that over 4,000 rounds are fired by troops every day.
"If we feel troops aren't ready, we send them for extra training," says one of the instructors. But don't worry, because he also says that never happens!
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Jul 31
Russian media all over reports of Serbia-Kosovo tensions. All in on messages of Orthodox and ethnic brotherhood.

Favourite state propagandist Solovyev just shared this very weird high five/handshake clip to his Telegram without comment.
Lots of positivity about Vucic’s very conciliatory “we want peace, but also Serbia will be victorious!”
More war. Just what 2022 needed.
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