Posts by Jessica Peterson2

Michael Davis9 said:@Jessica Peterson2, I was wondering, how is the media landscape over in Russia actually portraying this Ukrainian offensive near Kupiansk? Is there any actual coverage at all, or are they just completely ignoring it?

Absolutely nothing. Just me and my wife celebrating.

Kate Cook27 said:There’s this specific faction in Russia—call them a movement or just a fringe group—that tries to claim the Holocaust is a myth. Their whole angle is that it was some Satanist fabrication designed to make everyone who isn't a Jew feel guilty. Some people take it even further, claiming the whole thing was staged by Jews themselves. Honestly, does it surprise anyone that Lavrov would mention Hitler having Jewish blood? They love the idea that every single atrocity was just filmed on a movie set with actors, or that Ukrainians are actually killing their own people. Even that ambassador's take on Bucha fits right into that pattern.
It’s the same logic they use to claim the attack on the Theater in Mariupol was just a freak accident caused by nationalists blowing themselves up. To them, everything is a false flag. At this rate, they’ll probably start claiming Russian soldiers are just seeing ghosts in Ukraine too.

About a year and a half ago, I ended up getting detained because I spat in someone's face. I basically leveled the guy after he started openly spitting on the Jews in our neighborhood. I have Tatar roots, but I told him straight up that I'm a Jew and asked what his problem was with my ethnicity. He went on such an aggressive tirade against me that it gave me enough opening to smash his "Great Russian" nose into a bloody mess.
P.S. Right after the scuffle, I had to sprint to a lab to get my blood tested. I wasn't exactly sure if my opponent was playing it safe regarding COVID, AIDS, or even hepatitis. 🤦

Kate Cook27 said:Yeah, I get that—but in a setup like this, it's sometimes hard to believe anyone with a different perspective could actually "stay in power."

Unfortunately, they aren't really "in power." This whole concept of "local municipal government" is mostly just theater rather than anything substantial. It feels more like a fossilized relic left over from a brief period of genuine democracy back in the day.

Kate Cook27 said:Is this actually their position—or just a little performance to make it look like they tolerate dissenting voices?

As far as I can tell, they've always been the opposition party.

Nancy Gomez26 said:Do these representatives actually possess any legal immunity from prosecution? If they don't, then asking "sensitive" questions is a futile exercise. Still, one has to respect the courage shown; they were simply performing their duties as legislators.

The local committee members don't have immunity. That privilege is reserved strictly for those in The Hague, within the various state legislatures, or in the major federal hubs like Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and San Diego.
But let's be honest: that so-called "immunity" isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Buddy Voight and his whole crew have turned it into a complete joke—much like they've turned the entire concept of a "referendum" into a farce.🤷

Timothy Williams5 said:Saint Petersburg representatives have petitioned the State Duma to charge Putin with treason

The Smolninskoye district councilmen in Saint Petersburg have decided to take their grievances to the State Duma, formally proposing that Vladimir Putin be charged with high treason due to the war in Ukraine. These officials intend to file their official request by September 15th.

According to the language used in the appeal, the president's decision to invade Ukraine "undermines the security of the nation and its citizens," specifically noting that the military is losing its most combat-ready units while the civilian population faces a rising number of disabilities. The economy is also taking a heavy hit; the mass exodus of foreign corporations and the brain drain caused by educated citizens fleeing the country will inevitably "leave a mark on the economic well-being of the people." Furthermore, the councilmen warn that rather than achieving its stated goals, the conflict is simply driving NATO expansion further east while Ukraine continues to receive increasingly sophisticated military hardware.

The authors of the complaint argue that Putin’s actions fall under Article 93 of the Constitution, which provides a mechanism for the State Duma to impeach a president based on charges of treason or other grave crimes.
Speaking to the agency, Smolninskoye deputy Dmitry Palyuga admitted he isn't expecting any "miracles" from the State Duma. "Our goal is simply to voice our position and make it crystal clear to everyone else: we believe President Putin is harming our country, and we are prepared to speak openly about that," he remarked.

Another deputy, Radislav Poluikov, noted that the Saint Petersburg officials are hoping for support from "other municipalities across the country." He added, "We are utilizing every available legal instrument for protest, hoping to at least sow a seed of doubt among those who support this special military operation. Right now, we are doing exactly what any municipality in the country would do in this situation."

This stands as one of the rare instances where official domestic authorities have voiced such public criticism regarding the actions taken in Ukraine.

Back in early March, the Smolninskoye councilmen sent a formal inquiry directly to the president. In that document, they criticized the "special military operation," suggesting that the world was, without exaggeration, "on the brink of World War III." By August, one of the district deputies had even requested that Putin order an immediate end to the hostilities, only to receive a standard bureaucratic dismissal: "We inform you that the special military operation for demilitarization and denazification is being carried out."

https://www.agents.media/gosizmena-putina/

One representative already found himself detained for supposedly "discrediting the armed forces."
🤦
https://zona.media/news/2022/09/08/vyzvali

The Russian governor of Crimea, Aksyonov, is making quite the claim: apparently, there’s no need for referendums in the newly occupied territories of Ukraine. His reasoning? He argues that nobody is going to recognize them anyway—much like how the world refused to recognize the referendum held in Crimea, which he insists was conducted in an entirely honest and legal manner.
🤦

Michelle Young50 said:This isn't a good look—especially if they are flooding into smaller nations like Georgia, Armenia, or the Baltic States. That creates long-term friction. If those countries lean toward the West, they'll eventually face pressure or feel threatened by these influxes. They should just head to Germany or France instead.

It’s not like they’re Taliban militants or anything; they aren't exactly being welcomed with open arms in Germany or France either. 🤷
The Baltic States are part of the European Union, so Russians can't just wander in whenever they feel like it without a Schengen visa or applying for some kind of temporary or permanent residency permit.
As for the rest of those former Soviet states, the people moving there tend to be less wealthy and less educated; most of them are fleeing Russia because they can't stomach Putin's regime. You don't see people flocking to Georgia or Armenia just to immediately sign up for unemployment benefits, let alone wandering around Yerevan sporting a "Z" symbol or a shirt featuring Putin's face.

James Phillips92 said:Back during the war here in the States in the nineties, we had former convicts serving in the military. For the most part, they were the types who were ready to fight and actually followed orders—they respected their officers.

I previously mentioned that we are dealing with a total monster—the leader of a gang of villains who personally took part in the murder of five people.
I honestly can't decide if "respecting the chain of command" is actually an asset when you're dealing with that specific breed of individual. 🤷

James Phillips92 said:Sure, prisoners can make decent soldiers, but recruiting the mentally ill? That’s usually just a recipe for endangering your own troops.

It’s essentially the same group of people we're talking about.
When someone cold-bloodedly executes five people, how can we possibly argue that they aren't mentally unstable? As such, they pose a massive risk to their own men—though it would be a real service to humanity if they just focused on eliminating the monsters surrounding them instead—and, most importantly, to the civilian populations living under occupation.

Putin’s emissaries aren't just looking for "volunteers" among the convict population; they’re casting an even wider net, targeting the homeless and—get this—even the mentally ill!

The St. Petersburg psychiatric clinic actually posted a call on its website for volunteers to join armed units stationed at the Neva River, Kronstadt, and Pavlovsk https://theins.ru/news/254707

P.S. Just a few days ago, Putin posthumously honored Ivan Neparatov, the leader of a gang of killers who was sentenced to 25 years for murdering five people and running extortion rackets before deciding his true calling was joining the Wagner mercenaries https://theins.ru/news/254656

In hospitals within the occupied Donetsk region, representatives of the Russian occupation forces are forcibly recruiting patients and wounded individuals into the "DNR army." This forced conscription is also reportedly underway in Luhansk. https://theins.ru/news/254700

And they call this the second most powerful military in the world... quite a feat, isn't it? 🤦

Nancy Gomez26 said:Federal states... which ones exactly?

The federal states... 🙂
It doesn't seem like they just made this up out of thin air; rather, they are simply relaying news reported by the rnd.de portal, which is quoting a statement from an anonymous spokesperson at the federal Department of State.
https://www.rnd.de/politik/ukraine-f...Q2IFFXIQQ.html

Over here in Putinistan, the state-run media is having a field day, gleefully reporting that 12 out of the 16 federal states have officially run out of both the capacity and the funds to take in refugees from Ukraine.
What a pathetic excuse for human beings... it’s honestly hard to believe 🤦

Over the last three days, not a single one—and I mean not one solitary soul—from the mainstream media has bothered to mention the tragedy in Beslan back in September 2004. Not even a passing 🙂

Arthur Watson4 said:Russians are claiming Ukrainians have struck Enerhodar again, this time using a fleet of 15 small boats.

Those Ukrainians sure seem to have all the luck.

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/st...21309636022272

*it’s hardly surprising they draw such an audience across Europe

That isn't accurate. If you look at Kadyrov’s TikTok, there were actually closer to a hundred vessels out there, packed with those Ukrainian cannibals. The brave Chechen forces took them all out—every single one of them. And of course, there's plenty of footage showing the actual strikes.😬

hollowdriver13 said:Solovyov is still just running his mouth

https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/st...17738226192390

Honestly, this is just more proof that we aren't seeing any real reconciliation anytime soon. I mean, for things to actually change, the Russians would have to be able to admit they’re actually the bad guys in this whole mess—and let's be real, that's basically pure fantasy.

In their heads, they're ALWAYS the heroes or the victims, while the rest of the world is just some big villain out to get them...

Can we really be surprised by this behavior from someone who had two villas on Lake Como seized by the Italian authorities, saw millions of dollars frozen in their accounts, and then had their residency permit revoked?🤷

hollowdriver13 said:https://twitter.com/ItsArtoir/status...86465080377344

If those Belarusian commandos weren't feeling so lonely, maybe they wouldn't need a little backup from the Russian troops—especially when they show up blasting the 🙏 Mortal Kombat theme song 🙏 just for the vibes.

Aaaaaaa ..... they certainly aren't easy to ignore, are they?🙏

brightheron64 said:The Sultan sends along the Katul-ferman and a silk tie...

A window latch...

Jack Smith12 said:Back in early 2000, I was visiting Moscow and spent some time over on Broadway, checking out the high-rises and the working-class neighborhoods. It turns out those apartments don't have any gas connections whatsoever. Not for cooking, not for heating. Everything was done with electric stoves and space heaters.

Relying on electricity for cooking works perfectly fine for the Capital and other major metropolitan areas that possess their own power plants and a robust, well-developed grid infrastructure.
I don't have gas in my apartment either.
As for heating, nobody actually tries to heat an entire apartment solely with electricity, unless we're talking about supplementary radiators or small convector heaters. In Moscow, centralized district heating is everywhere, powered by plants that run on gas.
But just imagine some tiny village out in the middle of nowhere, hundreds of miles from any major power station or a reliable high-voltage transmission line.
The same logic applies to a small town where the local plant was built back during the era of Lenin’s electrification efforts and now only manages to generate power for maybe two or three hours a day.
It is precisely in those kinds of remote villages and struggling towns that roughly 40 or 30% of households reside.☕

Thomas Walker84 said:In the next scene, explosions are going off everywhere while some crazy dictator screams at his last two generals in a bunker, jumping around a big red button.🙂 😵🙂

Sometimes reality actually beats fiction. 🙄

End credits: that red button is flipped at the last second, saving the Ukrainian fighter (Bruce Willis), who didn't actually die but managed to escape the hell of Azovstal.🙂

No, absolutely not.

The dictator opens a "nuclear briefcase" sporting a label that says "made in USA by NASA"...
Then comes the close-up... the briefcase is completely empty!!!

The final shot:
- A close-up of a hand slowly flipping a red switch... BLINDING WHITE LIGHT!!!
- An establishing shot of a lavish mountain cabin where Ragozin turns on the lights.

The end credits roll: The dictator failed to destroy the country, thanks to the fact that Ragozin and a few billionaires stripped the entire nuclear launch system years ago! Even that "nuclear briefcase" wasn't authentic—just some cheap knockoff...

The End