“Why do you think the Russian MoD uses it.”

Well exactly and I’m beginning to think that Telegram may never have left the Motherland as  assumed. How very  interesting if that is the case!

I guess this topic is a light relief from the atrocities of war, and I don’t really think Durov is going to personally suffer too much, i hope not.

They say that the IMF loans always come with  agreements to privatise state assets.

LOL Caitlin is so sharp and always right on the money.

Sorry this is reply to Mr P on lead:  Definitely and its how the poor people always live beside major highways, toxic industry and agriculture and the like,  and the well of get as far away as possible from all of these including the poor. I don’t see paint as a diversion but a subset of the highly profitable industry of poisoning all life. Military-Industrial-Chemical-Medical-Pharamacetical-Agricultural etc
Personally i can only use low toxic paint or i get headaches for months after from the off gassing.  They claim low VOC but the worst poisons are odourless. That said house paint has improved to a degree but its still mostly composed of plastic. Home made Lime render and the like  is a better alternative but people don’t have time for such and you can’t lime wash plasterboard.

I’m not a fan of such videos mocking the North Koreans, they are all over You Tube and  it does not take much to consider who might be behind them.  Maybe it would be ok if there was a plethora of honest reporting of the reality in DPRK, but there isn’t so such videos can only be propagandistic.

Yes it is strange, but normal for US/UK controlled governments.  here in Australia the fake leftist labor party would rather eat nails than form a coalition with the more socialist left Greens (Greens in OZ are not  fake as in the EU)
In practical terms we have a right wing uniparty like all western governments. This is what the West wants for SA.

And yet there are good people in the ANC like Nellie Pandor.  I wonder how she lost her seat?

Regarding PC Roberts  being prescient: an American war monger predicting an American instigated war is not prescience, it is just like the broken clock that is right twice a day.  He has been dying for this fight since the start of the SMO.

The man gives me the creeps and I  pray (and believe) that Russia, China  et al will continue to display the courage of restraint unknown to the US / UK military in all of its history.

Well he lost a daughter so he gets to be extreme, but we should not follow his lead. All humans are fallible and fallible to  the darkest degrees, that’s all that happening here. I think its right to characterise behaviours as subhuman, that is a subtle difference that does not damn people from any possible redemption. This is even why there are rules about how wars are fought.

Putin’s speech is far more even handed even still claiming brotherly love for ordinary Ukrainians. it does not seem to be reciprocated but we will see.