The crown was later found on the pavement, there are a few earrings and pendants still to be found. For the values of the gems: gems from that time often have quite a crude cut by today’s standards,and they are not individually of a high value. As with tea sets, it’s the full original set that has priceless value. The more you break it into bits, then individual gens, the more the value goes down.
Clearly not a pink panther level job, though kudos for the ballsy heist.
It’s the kind of quotes that gets more recent with each passing day.
See Vladimir Soloviev (journalist, presenter on the public funded Rossiya 1 channel), Dmitri Medvedev ( current vice president of the Russian federation security council), Margarita Simonian (public servant at Russia Segodnia).
Do your own research, it should be easy enough.
Yes, multiple declarations and menaces made on Russian Public channels by Russian Public servants. It’s important to know that the Russian state has power over the editorial choices of those channels.
Exactly, the FANGS want the media to push that “social media victimhood” narrative forward. The real reasons are much more down to earth, and encompasses much broader subjects.
But you gotta do what you gotta do to please those who direct clicks towards you. Appease your masters.
I concur and it’s playing against current politicians in the EU. But, we don’t have enough air defenses, we still don’t produce enough ammo to arm those that defend our eastern side. So we are, for the time being , limited in our actions and can only issue strongly worded letters while getting those things to move.
The humiliation of it isn’t lost on many European voters, I’m just afraid their rightfull anger at the situation will get channelled by those that obey US and Russian interests.
Yeah they didn’t beat him to death, great. KICK can revert back to it’s usual self.
His last video was a marathon one where the others induced him into a severe lack of sleep while making him absorb all manners of substances.
His last message to his mother (because the two torturers randomly opened his message app to read out his private conversations to the public) told her he was sick of this video, wanted to stop it, but the two others held him captive.
Fuck the media for bowing to the pressure of big tech who want this story out of people’s mind before it sets a precedence. I’m not saying kick puts pressure, I’m saying the FANGS are doing it.
Georgia wasn’t even in talks with joining NATO or even the EU when Russia invaded it.
NATO isn’t a war bait for Russia. It has never been. Russia hasn’t decided to start this war because of NATO expansionism.
The only reason the US is getting into this is because the EU is their best client. The US has no interest in defending Ukraine. I understand that, it has been made perfectly clear ( not by you, specifically but by representatives of the US nation.)
Oh yeah…
The ever expansionist NATO that keeps pulling the breaks whenever a new candidate appears because this or that already existing member puts up last minute conditions.
That Against the secluded empire that pulls no breaks to fuck up it’s neighbours until they accept the membership with the gun barrel pointed at their forehead.
Anybody who isn’t an oligarch feels betrayed, constantly, by the actions of those who consider themselves to be Ubermensch.
Those two Dofus, and others like them, don’t get we know what they are doing and see through their bullshit 100 miles ahead.
What frightened them with Luigi will only multiply, no matter what control they think they are applying through their surveillance capitalism. It’s simply not possible to control what goes on between our ears. It’s possible to control personas that we all use on the internet but it’s much harder to control the being of meat and thoughts. And this is what will get those monsters as it often got others in history.
Russia and china are only using failures in western policies against us. They don’t create them. It’s up to our nations to resolve those tension spots so they cannot be used against us.
The Russian argument is understandable because it’s what our governments point to as the origin of their failures. It allows them to keep pointing at that “outside interference”, invest in surveillance while not investing in what the subjects used by the interference reveal about the real wants of the population are.
Russia certainly is no friend of democracy and hatred towards the Putin regime is healthy but to fight it does take more than just saying a third of your citizenship is dumb and brainwashed, you have to remedy what they use against us.
It’s going to be worse than you have. Not the same, living there, seeing the things: Europe is on the verge of going the hardest right wing way again, trumpism will look like amateur far-right compared to what is about to go down here.
It sounds like another ransomware gang.
But it’s not cats or dogs they are asking for, it’s rabbits and chickens… Pets you can find in any supermarket.
RMS warned of this a bit over 20 years ago. This is why you should get Free and Open source software and not Open Source Software. Preferably with a GPL licence which allows you to download, run, read the code, modify it and share it. Open source can mean you only have the right to read the code and signal to the dev code you’ve saw that could have been better or errors you saw.
He’s got a great GI tract! The best ever!
In the meantime, Russians and Chinese are building bases all over the area, once French and US bases close down and evacuate. So the “live freely and peacefully” is wishful thinking at best. They close down their bases because those are at risk.
It’s a bit less than 1% erosion per year but yeah… They got bakmut two years ago and now they are at chassiv yar, 4 miles further according to Google maps.
None of that matters, what matters is engaging up to the level of trust. To german eyes, as most European eyes, both are now interchangeable ethically. So commerce has to be done on the basis of numbers, not ethics.