Over the years things haven’t changed all that much
Measured by column centimetres and video footage the Russians are top of the slobs – though likely to be dethroned by Okkers winning infamy by posing naked in culturally important places and loading their capers into social media.
Source: The ‘Ugly Aussies’ rubbishing our reputation in Indonesia – Pearls and Irritations
Pro-Putin pollsters maintain that most Russians support the “special military operation” against Ukraine. But artificial efforts to stir public enthusiasm can’t hide the disastrous effects the war is having on ordinary Russians.
Source: Vladimir Putin’s War Spreads Resignation and Despair Among Ordinary Russians
Putin’s Democracy, Putin’s War, Kill Russians
Thousands of Russians have been arrested for protesting the war in Ukraine, but can the country’s jailed, exiled, or marginalized dissidents deter Putin?
Source: Anti-War Voices in Russia Fight to Be Heard on Ukraine
Trumpers are individual privateers just doing it for themselves. There is no Trickle Down only a Trickle Up end game as far as they’re concerned. Trump is playing that out through the Capitalist Democracy of America. It’s institutional court system allows payment for justice and appeals after appeals and can be bought. Russian Oligarchs thought they were safe in that enviroment, but are now looking for safer, more hidden and dark harbors. Their DNA like Trump’s is the same and completely transactional.
The appearance of superyachts near the Maldives and Seychelles this week illustrates the degree to which Russian oligarchs are panicking in response to the sanctions the West has imposed on Russia and the ultra-wealthy businessmen seen close to Vladimir Putin over the invasion of Ukraine.Superyachts belonging to billionaires Victor Rashnikov, Oleg Deripazska, Alexei Mordashov and Andrey Kostin are floating around the island nations, according to Bloomberg reports.
Source: Russia-Ukraine war: Russia’s oligarchs rush to put wealth beyond sanctions
The hard drive, obtained from a Delaware repair shop owner by Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, has become a damaging story for Joe Biden, who has seen his national poll numbers slip. That’s despite social media platforms suppressing the story over worries of it being factually unverified, and Biden himself slamming the entire thing as a “smear campaign.”
‘Disaster for Joe’: As Hunter Biden’s lawyers allegedly ask for his laptop BACK, Trump calls its explosive revelations ‘REAL DEAL’ — RT USA News
MSNBC’s Joy Reid debunks right-wing media claim Kushner’s approaches to the Russians were “completely normal”
Trump told Russians that firing FBI director, James Comey, had relieved “great pressure”: document.
Source: Donald Trump told Russians firing ‘nut job’ James Comey eased pressure from investigation
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