Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country

[Dartz]

Day Eighteen

--Tucker Carlson. Useful Idiot? Kremlin document indicates his show is to be heavily promoted
--Treason has a very specific meaning in his home country (But we're all thinking it).
--Speaking of the next Vidkun Quisling - Melitopol has a new Mayor, who is already quoting Russian talkingpoints
--While the actual Mayor's been arrested and Vanish
--Russia attempting 'Referendum' in Kherson to legitamise itself
--5 people show up to "Anti-Fascist" protest
--Hundreds line the roads with a banner-like Ukrainian flag
--Abandoned vehicles continue. Such oddities as a field kitchen with a meal half uncooked and an electronic warfare vehicle (Still functional)
--Borisoglebsk 2 is hard to say.
--A pontoon bridge collapses while a Russian tank is crossing it. Tank go Splash.
--A Tu-141 drone wandered off course and crashed in Croatia. Fuck knows where it came from
--A Russian missile strike hits Yavoriv International Center for Peacekeeping and Security 10 kilometres from Polish border. (That's inside Ukraine! else it would've been a pleasure shitposting with you all)
--2200 now confirmed dead in Mariupol from Russian bombing raids, every 30 minutes
--Russia announced that it would be meeting its international debt obligations in Roubles, having lost access to half it's currency reserves.
--The word they're looking for is 'Default'
--A Chinese Think-Tank suggests to the Chinese government that the only winning move is to play - and within the next week or two drop the load that is Russia before it drags them down
--Would let China appear as peaceful mediator, and be 'in-character' as China describes itself respecting state sovereignty and shit
--China may be Russia's only option for Cash.
--Talks continue to negotiate a peace. Russian demands don't seem to have changed
--Russia's plan may simply to demilitarise Ukraine, then murder all opposition, and try again in ten years
--Zalensky obviously feels abandoned by NATO
--Nobody in NATO wants to court annihilation by risking completion of the World War trilogy
--Ukraine is already staring into the abyss. They have nothing further to lose by upping the risk of World War III
--A local Holocaust, at the risk of a global Holocaust?
--Chinese analyst mentioned above sees this as a very real probable outcome
--The UK home office comes up with a truly satisfying idea. House Refugees in seized Oligarch mansions.
--(Even a stopped clock is right twice a day)
--A common talking point that continues to be posted by Pro-Russian sources -- Why the Double Standard between Ukrainians and 'Other' refugees
--There're two answers - and both of them are true. But they don't matter now.
--Brent Renaud, s Journalist for the New York Times has been killed in Irpin
--Missiles from Iran have hit a US Consulate in Kurdistan. (Emphasis on 'From Iran' not Iranian -- I haven't read up on this)
--Russian Ambassodor to Ireland, Yuri Filatov, about as popular as a can of Surstromming on a Space Station
--Russian State TV shows plans for invasion of Estonia, Lithuania and the other Baltics
--Fans of Mil-Sci-Fi appalled at how divorced from reality and illogical it is. You could never put this in a book
--Ukraine still resists.

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It occurs to me that, on some level, the above is the first draft of History. It's not What happened, it's what I think happened from what I remember reading

Like all first drafts, it probably sucks.