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@0x815
I've never been a fan. She seems to be very self interterested. A political operator.

@andrew_bidlaw People in the US also have a low life expectancy and it's falling. In the US it's 76 years for whites, and 73 for blacks.
20 years from now the political scene will be different because of that generation dying out. They're still stuck in 1950's family values and thinking.

@andrew_bidlaw
Men's average life expectancy in Russia is 69 years and Putin is 71. He'll probably be around for another ten years. He won't be deposed or replaced. He'll die of natural causes, and maybe have his own mausoleum, like Lenin. He'll be revered as a Hero of Russia. He's fit and active and gets the best medical care, so he's got years left in him. I'm sure that Biden will make it to 80 as he's very frail.

@andrew_bidlaw @mozz
Things will get better when the current crop of befuddled geriatric leaders die. That generation needs to go. It's like the old Soviet Union when it was ruled by political fossils. They don't have a useful idea in their heads, and want to turn the clock back to their glory days.

@hanekam
They told the Russian population that they could defeat Ukraine very quickly.

@mozz

George Orwell - 1984. 'It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms."

@zabadoh @qarbone
Russia can not conquer and hold Ukraine. No one could. I believe that the real purpose behind the war, is to return political control over the Russian population to Stalinist levels, and to undermine Western democracies. Both are achievable and partly done.

@qarbone @Five
Putin is just one member of the Kremlin elite who control Russia. The war was a collective decision.

@0x815
Chinese spies are plentiful in the UK and have high-level contacts.

https://youtu.be/7aeBj6DgRLc?si=B8OaYyo624H0ymgF

@werefreeatlast
No photo. I haven't heard that there are any circulating.

@Thorny_Insight @0x815
Ukraine intelligence say that they are very sure that he did. There is a video of Starlink terminals in Russian hands. I can't vouch for its authenticity.

@fluxion
More significant than what we've seen so far.
Lets see what happens.