Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country

[Labster]

I'll just leave this here.

It must be nice to be in a free country like Ukraine, where the media is allowed to report in real time, unlike in Canada.

-- Military air parade portion of Victory Day canceled due to slight breeze.  No, really.
-- Flyboys had been practicing flying Z formation for weeks.
-- So it turns out the big Victory Day speech by Putin was just a speech.  No declaration of war, no moves toward peace.  Just another day, and mad ramblings about how NATO caused the war by making the Ukrainians into Nazis.  It's like that time Geraldo opened the vault.
-- Meanwhile, Ukrainians opened an abandoned refrigerator train car, and found stacks of dead orcs abandoned by their homeland.
-- Ukrainian army tells its soldiers not to tell media about its gains before they announce them
-- Biden calls meeting with intelligence agency heads to tell them to stop leaking how we're helping Ukraine.  One wonders if the secret agents are angling for more funding by being less secret.
-- Ukrainian flag still flying over Azovstal.  All living noncombatants have been evacuated.
-- Azovstal defenders realize that there is no way out for them, and surrender could only mean death after torture.  So they fight on, until the very end.
-- Just a reminder that most medieval and early modern sieges ended with the defenders marching out with their flags and arms.  You have to go back to the classical world when defenders routinely were tortured, killed, and sold into slavery.  At 75 days, this is not even a long siege by medieval standards (though many ended within a week as defenders realized they were overwhelmed).  Russia is assumed to not follow the Geneva Convention at this point, nor the code of chivalry.
-- Russian-installed governor of occupied Kherson says they will not form a (puppet) republic, but will "take advantage" of the "offer" to join the Russian Federation.
-- US planning to send more military aid to Ukraine than most countries spend on their own militaries.
-- Biden asked for $33 billion for Ukraine, Congress said no and demanded $40 billion instead
-- Biden suspends Trump's tariff on Ukrainian steel
-- Ukrainian cities are tearing down statues commemorating Russians, and renaming places like "Leo Tolstoy Station" to derussify their country.
-- In occupied Luhansk, Russians are restoring Lenin statues taken down by Ukrainians a few years back.
-- Maybe this war was about cancel culture all along?
-- Historic home of poet and philosopher, and Ukrainian nationalist Hryhorii Skovoroda destroyed by artillery.
-- Ruzzia hitting key military infrastructure like schools, hotels, shopping malls with high tech hypersonic missiles.
-- Some Russian officers not following orders to advance into Donetsk

Finally: Someone actually made a David Attenborough style voiceover for this video of a destroyed Russian tank.