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I'd be interested to know the Russian take on all this, I mean the normal people. Anyone got a link to an article or something from that perspective?

It's unlikely any significant dissenting opinion is going to be allowed isn't it? Apart from those out of the country already.

from the graun

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According to the excellent Doomsday Watch podcast (highly recommended) who have done one Ukraine episode (and will probs do another shortly) Russian opinion is broadly split between a more rural population who buy the state propaganda lies and more connected younger urban peeps that are embarrassed and opposed to Russian military action.

They also correctly predicted in an earlier episode on Putin that he would launch a major test to Biden and NATO.

Putin's language bizarrely mirroring Trump on North Korea

https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/trump-fire-fury-improvise-north-korea/index.html

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It was a Russian paper that examined the metadata of Putin's declaration of war and told the world that he'd recorded it on Monday.

Oligarch WhatsApp group chat must be en fuego

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According to the excellent Doomsday Watch podcast (highly recommended) who have done one Ukraine episode (and will probs do another shortly) Russian opinion is broadly split between a more rural population who buy the state propaganda lies and more connected younger urban peeps that are embarrassed and opposed to Russian military action.

Sounds similar to Brexit!

This is ridiculous, I never thought it would actually happen. I still think it'll be over in a week or two and that's it, just like Georgia or Crimea, but hopefully this time the Russian government actually falls. I can't imagine a majority of Russians support this.

Sounds similar to Brexit!

Kinda, except in Russia nearly 75% of people live in cities.

Over by Christmas.

Surely Truss is on a plane to Moscow as we speak to settle it all down by the weekend?

Like they didn't short everything beforehand

This is a problem for Joe Lycett

Like they didn't short everything beforehand

For people to be able to short Russian stocks on a decent scale there would need to be enough people believing that Putin either won't invade or that invasion would not hammer Russian stocks. Not to mention that Russian Central Bank has banned short positions.

I think this might be a weighty enough topic to warrant its own thread:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/373380/

You can go short synthetically & in dark pools with relative ease. And the idea the regulation applies to the big players is laughable.

Over by Christmas.

Sad lol

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/362213

Johnson addresses the nation as wartime leader 5pm.

Damn search.
@hippy/@Velocio can we merge the two?
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/3622­13
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/3733­80/

His wet dream come true

Stuff of his wet dreams.

Oop too slow.

Are we in an episode of black mirror again?

In serious'ness though, game with a few Russians (mostly living in towns, but remote towns, the UK equiv would be Hartlepool, or Oldham) who are just completely aghast and embarrassed for Russia as a whole. And yeah would say they reckon only village folk/farmers/remote people really buy into the main TV news broadcasts, the rest know better. Most Russian's I've ever met have their heads screwed on very well, they are just (like us a bit) powerless to do anything about it. There was something on TV a few days ago showing 'Ukraine town's folk' shooting fireworks and waving a russian flag as a celebration of their #liberation#, only there are like 8 people at this party, and its on some waste ground no where near the town its mean't to be at, i.e. back of the vehicle paddock on the russian 'side'.