Prediction Thread: When Will Ukraine Conquer Russia

[Berzerker]

oh cabbie!

[Berzerker]

https://youtu.be/CIJLhHcxp7k

Ukrainian children hailing cabs again

[PLATO]

Z would be an even easier "carve" then a swastika.

[Dauphin]

Russians have seen Inglourious Basterds. They know what will happen to them if they watch that movie in the cinema.

[BeBMan]

Looks like the first Russian movie about the war is going as well as the invasion itself:

(...)

It was a Friday evening and Alexei had come to see The Witness, Russia’s first feature-length film about its invasion of Ukraine that premiered across the country on 17 August.

The Witness centres on a fictional character called Daniel Cohen, an esteemed Belgian violinist who arrives in Kyiv to perform in February 2022, days before Russian troops entered Ukraine.

As Russia launches its war, Cohen gets caught up in the fighting, witnessing a series of “inhuman crimes and bloody provocations by Ukrainian nationalists”, according to the movie’s premise.

At one point, a Ukrainian commander is seen walking around with a copy of Mein Kampf, while other Ukrainian soldiers pledge their allegiance to Adolf Hitler. As a witness to these unspeakable horrors, Cohen sets out to tell the world the “truth” about the conflict.

In two hours of screen time, the film covers a wide spectrum of falsehoods that the Kremlin has used to justify its invasion of Ukraine. On the eve of the invasion, Vladimir Putin said Moscow had to “denazify” its neighbour, the lie that Ukraine was infiltrated by dangerous “Nazis”.

The release of The Witness comes on the back of plans announced by the Russian authorities to boost the production of movies glorifying Moscow’s actions in Ukraine.

But The Witness is a box-office flop. Set to a budget of 200 million roubles (£1.5m), it has grossed less than 14 million roubles (£110,000) in its first two weeks, with viewers across the country reporting empty cinema halls.

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Snip-snapped from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-empty-cinemas

[BeBMan]

Yeah, certainly.

Watched it a bit, his point is more that there is not even the usual effort anymore to hide behind a barrage of misinfo/disinfo (aka lies) to have "deniability" since Putin needs to show that he's da boss again.

[BeBMan]

Here's how pettiness looks these days:

"Gutsenovich expressed his sympathy for Ukraine on social media, “liking” posts containing information that contradicted reports made by the Russian Defense Ministry. These “likes” led to felony charges."

Found way down in: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/08...il-my-obituary

[Thoth]

Interesting video

I haven't watched the video, but Putin killing g off his opponents hasn't been new since the 90s if not earlier.

[Berzerker]

Mitt Romney offered an interesting moment of clarity, as he ran down a list of the great things achieved by such a small % of our defense budget going to the war in Ukraine he ended with the greatest of all - 0 lost lives

[BlackCat]

Interesting video

[Thoth]

I wouldn't be selling him life insurance.

[pchang]

Shall we add him to the Deadpool thread?

[Berzerker]

sounds like he's unhappy with Putin's timid approach

[pchang]

His opening campaign event will be falling out of a window.

[pchang]

I expect future maps of China to reincorporate Outer Manchuria.