OT: World Politics

[LeafGm]

Will be shocked if Erdogan doesn’t win.

When he engineered that fake coup a few years back and followed it with some aggressive purges, he did the last bit of work needed to transform Turkey into a purely performative democracy with himself as President-for-life.

 

[axlsalinger]

 

[TheCountofMonteCristo]

I don’t have the emotional or mental capacity to do twitter or telegram.
I rely on y’all for Uki news.
what’s been happening beyond what the BBC is telling me?

pretty much a stalemate, Artyomovsk fell a week ago, Zelensky flew the world begging for weapons and money, Ukraine demanded an apology from a French network for calling it Zelensky's circus, an attempted incursion in Belgorod failed with 70 dead to 1, pretty much the same front line.

 

[Wayward DP]

pretty much a stalemate, Artyomovsk fell a week ago, Zelensky flew the world begging for weapons and money, Ukraine demanded an apology from a French network for calling it Zelensky's circus, an attempted incursion in Belgorod failed with 70 dead to 1, pretty much the same front line.

These are some of the current Putinist talking points, yes.

 

[manny]

I find it helpful to know what the fools are lapping up, so consider Count’s contributions a service.

 

[zeke]

 

[zeke]

 

[zeke]

pretty much a stalemate, Artyomovsk fell a week ago, Zelensky flew the world begging for weapons and money, Ukraine demanded an apology from a French network for calling it Zelensky's circus, an attempted incursion in Belgorod failed with 70 dead to 1, pretty much the same front line.

Sounds like the invasion is going well for russia.

 

[zeke]

 

[zeke]

 

[Wayward DP]

I feel like in order to actually win oppo guy needs to beat Erdogan by enough that he cannot claim shenanigans, which ain’t happening. Too bad.

 

[Volcanologist]

all Erdogan had to do was make it look credible. mission accomplished, at least thus far.

 

[lecoqsportif]

He should be attacking woke bike lanes.

 

[Wayward DP]

He should be attacking woke bike lanes.

Helluva lot better than attacking the sleeping ones

 

[lecoqsportif]

Let sleeping bike lanes lie.

 

[lecoqsportif]

Hmm. Nasty border skirmish between Iran and Taliban?

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Is he handing out Trump bucks?

 

[MindzEye]

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Sounds like the invasion is going well for russia.

Count has convinced himself that Russia is actually winning and not being routed.

 

[LeafGm]

I’ve seen reports of this floating around all day, but nothing from any reputable sources yet.

Anyway, hopefully he dies. Though I’m not sure how much it’d change things in Belarus.