Never heard of phenylephrine but we have shit over in Europe too that does fuck-all, like that "homeopathic" bullcrap. Last time i went to visit my grandma i happened to have a cold and she immediately tried giving me some stuff called "oscillococcinum". I got suspicious when i looked over the packaging so i looked it up, and turns out it's basically nothing but sugar claiming to be imbued with some magic properties thanks to "trace" (read ZERO) amounts of something or other.

Pisses me the fuck off...they advertise the shit out of it on TV and they get gullible old people to waste their money. And their pensions are already meager in eastern Europe, they don't need to be scammed out of their money with placebo pills. Tried to convince my grandma to stop buying the stuff but i think all i managed to do was make her mad at me :(

Either way it's an act of terrorism.

Here's a map to put things into perspective:

I won't try to predict how far they can still go or how long until Russia kicks them out (it's only a matter of time), but what's clear is that the more resources they throw into this incursion the faster Russia advances in the Donbass.

Same. Right now all i have is a snapshot of the current situation. I need more context and a primer on Bangladeshi politics and recent history to understand what's really going on.

As always, we should wait and see what happens. We will be able to tell a lot about what forces are behind this based on which direction the country takes in the coming weeks and months.

Yes there is: "as Zelensky's legal term expired and he became an illegitimate unelected dictator".

NGOs and western educated elites, backed and funded by the NED or other such intelligence agency cutouts (Heinrich Böll Stiftung is another extremely dangerous subversive entity that has its tentacles deep in South East Asian politics), can and do cause many countries to act against their own best interests.

I guess every now and then some truth manages to slip through the dense net of censorship the West has woven around its people. Though i don't know how large the readership of this publication is...

Personally i find it hard to get too excited about these sorts of articles, because when Russians and people living in the Donbass say this exact same stuff they are immediately dismissed. And they have been saying this for years. It takes putting a "civilized European" face on a piece of information for it to be believable apparently.

The same happens in other parts of the world too. Whether it's about China or any other part of the global south, nothing is taken seriously if it's not a Westerner (or someone on the West's payroll) saying it, until it's confirmed months or in some cases years later by some Western source, long after it's ceased to be topical or politically relevant.

It's really tiresome how blatant the chauvinism is. And some parts of the "left" are guilty of this too (not the ML/anti-imperialist part but the "do you have a better source than RT or CGTN" type of "leftist"?).

It's also a very quick descent which saves time (which, i am told, is equivalent to money), and you don't need to keep the engines running anymore for the descent so you can save on fuel too. Always look on the bright side.

Britain in particular has absolutely loathed and wanted to destroy Russia since the 1840s. This is a generational hatred that Anglos have for Russia and that just isn't going away. They will never stop dreaming about dismantling Russia, regardless what Russia does or how it behaves toward the West. And the US elite for all that it is the senior partner in the imperialist partnership with the UK still continues to take many of its cultural cues from the British aristocracy.

Maduro congratulates Putin on his presidential election victory, Venezuela's Foreign Ministry says

I don't think they were indiscriminate at all, i think the evidence is pretty clear that they purposely and carefully targeted civilian objectives to cause as much devastation as possible...hospitals, educational facilities, mosques and churches, bakeries, residential and civil administration buildings, any infrastructure that allows people to live in Gaza. They also laser focused on targeting reporters, and when they couldn't get a reporter they massacred their entire family instead. Doctors and emergency service workers were also high priority. This wasn't a campaign of indiscriminate bombing, this was a targeted campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing aimed at making an entire city of 2 million people uninhabitable while wiping out as much of their history and culture as possible. They knew exactly what they were doing.

This is still probably just a limited hangout. The intelligence services sometimes allow the selective release of some information on already compromised/burned or used up assets. This is essentially that. I strongly suspect it's meant to give the impression that this is clearing the air once and for all about the whole Epstein affair but in reality it's meant to protect the deeper underlying networks while throwing a bone to the masses to pacify them. They are ok with sacrificing a few end nodes that are no longer useful, and embarrassing some people who they know are too powerful to ever be held accountable anyway, like Clinton and that old inbred British degenerate.