Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country

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Other than Zelensky firing two of his generals for treason, there hasn't been too much surprising going on.  He said, "We don't need random generals", and that doesn't have time to deal with them now but they'll probably be punished later. Oh, and Ukraine (probably) attacked oil tanks inside Russia, and boy did they whine about how it had "nothing to do with the military". Russia attacked a Ukranian oil refinery today, as a show of "backsies".

Putin is making the same mistakes that doomed Hitler when he invaded the Soviet Union from CNN.  A lot of what we already talked about: he thought his Slavic enemies are so weak he forgot to deal with logistics.  Some interesting points, like tanks don't inspire fear when half of them are abandoned without fuel.  And, killing civilians in an obvious manner may inspire terror, but it also makes people fucking hate you.  Finally, The Big Lie.

Historical note: The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey on Wikipedia.  Some of the ancestral inhabitants of Ukraine had a few choice words in response to the Ottoman vassalization request.  To get an idea of the tone of the letter, at the bottom of the page there is "See Also: Russian warship, go fuck yourself".

Russia may yet win some land from Ukraine.  But the longer this war goes on, the more likely a Russian warship grounds itself trying to sink a Ukrainian lighthouse.