Ukrainian MMA fighter-turned-soldier returns home to Irpin, retrieves belt

Украинский боец терробороны Ирпеня Ярослав Амосов, а по совместительству боец ММА и первый в истории Украины чемпион Bellator в среднем весе, освободив вместе с побратимами родной город, достает из подвала, припрятанный мамой от мародеров, чемпионский пояс.

Fighter profile: https://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Yaroslav-Amosov-104911

Intercepted Call: Russian Soldier’s Mother so High on Propaganda, she Won’t Believe her Son

https://twitter.com/Den_2042/status/1507429077883535366

S: What the heck we are doing in Ukraine? OK, what if we took it, what next?
M: We took what?
S: Ukraine. What would have changed?
M: Wait. They have nukes.
S: OK. So if they shoot us, they would be leveled too. There is no sense in it.
M: I see. You are so politically shortsighted there. I wish I’d come there and explain.
S: Well, yes. That the case. You are such a political.
M: You are defending your people, your country. How you don’t know what you are doing there?
S: Which people? Do you really think Putin cares about the people? His main aims are land and power.
M: You are such a fool.
S: Did you ask? Do they need help?
M: We are not defending anyone there. Understand. We defend our borders, so they won’t deploy nukes there. Also, do you know about labs in Ukraine? That’s why our livestock was falling ill. And COVID. All this comes from there.
S: All this is nonsense. And how the could possibly do all this? Their livestock would fall ill, would that matter?
M: That was done by Americans together with Ukrainians.
S: But all that happened in Ukraine, did it?
M: That’s correct.
S: And what next? What did they want to do next? There are people who live here.
M: But that is politics.
M: But so much of our livestock died. Do you know that?
S: I see. But here for some reason livestock lives, does it? They have to test it somehow, do they?
M: That’s correct. NATO runs the tests.
S: But it does not affect here?
M: Somehow apparently it does not. It all being well thought of.
S: But this is impossible, isn’t it?…
[END OF THE EXCERPT].

Zubok’s (dense) new book on the collapse of the Soviet Union

It’s inconceivable to much of the Russian psyche that Ukraine is independent. (And to the Ukrainian psyche, that we aren’t.)

Excerpts by Casey Michel: https://twitter.com/cjcmichel/status/1506317658001588231

Right before his death, Andropov began putting together plans to completely change the internal structure of the USSR—scrapping national territories, and creating states organized around “population and economic rationale”.

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Putin the Monster

“While the world is chasing Bin Laden, behind the Kremlin walls another monster like Hitler poured with blood. If he is not stopped, perhaps this maniac in the near future will lead civilization to another world massacre, millions of lives will burn.”
~ Alexander Litvinenko, Oct 21, 2006

Reminder about what kind of a man we are dealing with.

The Russian nuclear submarine “Kursk” sank during an exercise in 2000.

Putin initially turned down British help that could have saved the 118 sailors.

Later, he said “she sank” on CNN with a weird smile on his lips.

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The West has never understood the Russian Civilization. The value of human life is different there.

Case in Point: http://romaninukraine.com/bragging-about-mh17-mascara/