On CBS-TV Late Show with Stephen Colbert reports Russians conscripted to deployment in Ukraine are being instructed to bring tampons, so if they're shot, they can plug the bullet hole. The idea is the tampon will expand, and help seal the wound
why should they help them AT ALL?
I'd like to add Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. A few days ago MbS was named the kingdom’s prime minister. He's the one who ordered journalist Jamal Khashoggi hacked to pieces.Putin is the biggest threat right now and needs to go, but plenty of other aligned politicians also need to go; Modi, Bolsonaro, Xi, Kim Jong Un etc - they're all incredibly dangerous to the rest of the world.
We can't rule out the obvious. But part of the explanation may be what's known in psychology as "mirroring", to do what we would wish to be done if the roles were reversed. It basically helps keep the peace.Why do we help our neighbours?
But of all the bad guys, Putin included, Putin is the only one of them that's explicitly threatened nuclear war.
Rhetorically you may say so. Reality is more complex."Isnt the entire purpose of nuclear weapons the implicit threat, making the implicit explicit is hardly a huge step" m #49
I disagree. I think even if unspoken, or informal, the standard that's prevailed my entire life (born '54) is that responsible sovereign nations can have nuclear weapons, BUT !! the only legitimate use of them is non-First Use, meaning only for retaliation to a nuclear attack. M.A.D." hardly a huge step" m #49
"Shoulda woulda coulda""Note not only is the US the only country to ever use nuclear weapons (and against a country already on the verge of surrender) it also threatened to use them against USSR in 1962 and at least some historians claim that the US had planned to use them against Germany towards the end of the war against Germany
So whilst compiling a list of the bad and the mad shouldnt Putin come lower than several US presidents?" m #49
Rhetorically you may say so. Reality is more complex.
a) History: I don't recall the U.S. offering Japan much warning before nuking Hiroshima. And I've long perceived the warning for nuking Nagasaki was nuking Hiroshima.
The U.S. tightened the noose around Japan's neck methodically, one Pacific island after another. Japan had been fighting these numerous battles "to the death". There were even reports of Japanese civilians committing suicide rather than being captured or conquered.Japan was already on its knees and close to surrender.
The U.S. tightened the noose around Japan's neck methodically, one Pacific island after another. Japan had been fighting these numerous battles "to the death".
This is a lame proposal. If it's the best Musk can do he should stick to rocket science.MOSCOW, Oct 4 (Reuters) - The Kremlin praised Tesla boss Elon Musk on Tuesday for suggesting a possible peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, after Kyiv rebuked Musk for proposing terms it views as rewarding Russia.
In a Twitter poll posted on Monday, the Tesla boss proposed Ukraine permanently cede Crimea to Russia, that new referendums be held under U.N. auspices to determine the fate of Russian-controlled territory, and that Ukraine agree to neutrality.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...aine-settlement-denounced-by-kyiv-2022-10-04/