Fires in Russia
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The rhetoric coming out of the Kremlin has changed slightly the past 5 or so days. Earlier it was an operation to denazify Ukraine and rescue Russian speakers. Now the rhetoric is that Russia is engaged against NATO and is rescuing the world from the NATO’s global reach.
Regardless of the the total NATO membership, in the mind of the most Russians NATO exclusively means one country, the USA.
Right now it’s WWIII, lite.
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Wonder if they're gearing up to pin it on us.
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There might be a growing “Hell no, we won’t go” movement cropping up in some regions of Tsar Vladimir’s fiefdom. A rather militant one at that:
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Again, this has gone so spectacularly badly for Russia that I have to wonder if it was not somehow orchestrated by the outside.
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Tyumen is way inside Siberia.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Fires in Russia:
@Mik said in Fires in Russia:
Tyumen is way inside Siberia.
Yeah, about 3,000 km from Ukraine.
I've seen many people thinking this may be sabotage by Russians opposed to the
special military operationwar."Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Fires in Russia:
@Mik said in Fires in Russia:
Tyumen is way inside Siberia.
Yeah, about 3,000 km from Ukraine.
I've seen many people thinking this may be sabotage by Russians opposed to the
special military operationwar.@George-K said in Fires in Russia:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Fires in Russia:
@Mik said in Fires in Russia:
Tyumen is way inside Siberia.
Yeah, about 3,000 km from Ukraine.
I've seen many people thinking this may be sabotage by Russians opposed to the
special military operationwar.I honestly think the Russian people might have the most agency here. If Putin has to deal with significant in-fighting in addition to WWIII, that might be enough to stop this.
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I wonder how many of these fires, like at a mall, are just normal occurrences. They may be portrayed as more than what they are. The munitions depots and such are of course a different story.
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I wonder how many of these fires, like at a mall, are just normal occurrences. They may be portrayed as more than what they are. The munitions depots and such are of course a different story.
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What the Hell Is Going On in Russia?
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The weirdness got going in a normal way, with reports earlier this week of Ukraine’s “embrace of the British special forces model” to strike targets inside Russia that the regular Army (or even Ukraine’s inadequate Air Force) could never reach.
The Washington Examiner’s Tom Rogan reported that a major oil depot was hit on Monday in Bryansk, more than 60 miles inside Russia’s border with Ukraine. That’s outside the range of most of Ukraine’s drones.
While interesting, it isn’t exactly a “what the hell?” moment. British troops have been training Ukraine’s special operators since Russia annexed Ukraine and armed insurgents in Ukraine’s Donbas region back in 2014....
Last week in Tver, about 100 miles northwest of Moscow, a Russian missile research facility caught fire, killing 17. Russian authorities claimed the blaze was an accident, but they claimed the same thing at first about Moskva.
At nearly the same time, Russia’s largest chemical plant burned to the ground in Kineshma, about 150 miles east of Moscow.
On Wednesday, Newsweek reported on “mysterious explosions throughout Russia,” including an ammunition depot in Belgorod, well north of Kyiv. Almost at the same time, nearly 200 miles away in Voronezh, more explosions were reported in a neighborhood near Russia’s Baltimor military airfield. And in Kursk, about halfway in between Belgorod and Voronezh, more explosions were reported.
That would be a busy night even for the special forces of a much larger country than Ukraine.
Then this bit of weirdness happened in downtown Moscow on Wednesday:
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On Friday, a Russian train engine derailed in the Bryansk region that was “reportedly traveling on the same line used by Moscow to send equipment and ammunition to Russian troops in Ukraine.” The track had been somehow damaged before the derailment.
Also last week — and this one slipped completely under my radar — the fifth of five military enlistment offices in Moscow was hit by arsonists since the start of the war.
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Meanwhile, another oddity: Russian executives turning up dead in apparent murder-suicides with their families. That fate recently befell former executives from energy giant Gazprombank and Novatek, Russia’s largest independent gas producer. Their deaths are among a number of high-profile oligarch deaths in recent weeks.
So once more, I must ask: What the hell is going on in Russia?
A string of bad luck? Surprisingly effective Ukraine special forces? Popular resistance to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin?
Some combination of all three?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
