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2022-09-22 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

‘The Time Has Come': Top Putin Official Admits Ugly Truth About War

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-22 09:26|| || Front Page|| [22 views ] Top

#1 "At this point, we are really at war with the collective West, with NATO," Shoigu added.

And you are getting spanked

Posted by DarthVader 2022-09-22 09:51|| 2022-09-22 09:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Who picked that fight?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-22 09:59|| 2022-09-22 09:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Hard to believe the incredibly bad advice he received.

Posted by Croque Fliting8030 2022-09-22 11:58|| 2022-09-22 11:58|| Front Page Top

#4 You are playing the Junior Varsity, coached by the Varsity.

If you rattled your nuke sabre at the Varsity, DEFCON would already be in red.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-09-22 12:18|| 2022-09-22 12:18|| Front Page Top

#5 The Pentagon has long had the Pizza Index to assess when serious events are keeping the lights on and staff working far into thenight, a sure signature of dangerous times.

I wonder if a Vodka index exists around the Kremlin these days. I suspect the delivery might reveal delivery is in pallets by now!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-09-22 13:02|| 2022-09-22 13:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Hard to believe the incredibly bad advice he received.

He received exactly the answers he demanded.

Posted by Angstrom 2022-09-22 13:46|| 2022-09-22 13:46|| Front Page Top

#7 You're probably right about the Vodka Index. Not the kind of decision you make sober.

The Soviet Union ain't coming back.

Posted by Fred 2022-09-22 17:59|| 2022-09-22 17:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Kremlin officials 'have hit the vodka', with Putin 'worried by drinking among his inner circle' as senior staff 'fret about disastrous Ukraine war'

Posted by Snash Shairt9621 2022-09-22 18:50|| 2022-09-22 18:50|| Front Page Top

#9 I doubt they're stopping at vodka.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-09-22 20:22|| 2022-09-22 20:22|| Front Page Top

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