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Has there been any analysis made about Putin's state of mind? What's with the large tables for example? He looks more puffy than usual and I'm wondering if he is on a litany of medications.

They really underestimated who they were messing with.

My mom was a Russian-speaker living in Western Ukraine her whole life. She was bilingual, obviously, but she identified more with "soviet" culture than "Ukrainian". She never really understood or shared the nationalism me and my dad displayed.

After that 1-hour speech where VVH declared a war of extermination on Ukraine, she wants to tear his throat out.

very few people are actually scared; most are furious . With that cold, tempered fury where we realize this won't end until that regime is shattered.

Molotovs, people stopping ATPs unarmed, 37 thousand volunteers who picked up guns in the first 2 days (there's loads more willing, but cities need more guns)... Millions being transferred to the Army, insane info presence, thousands of the diaspora members coming out worldwide, being joined by so many other communities.

And, shockingly, Zelensky was the populist we needed. The one who had nothing to lose and publically called the West out on the bullshit hypocrisy we've seen since 2014. The one who was able to shame the West into being the West.

The sanctions are absolutely nuclear. With quarter to a third of Centrobank's assets frozen, RIP ruble on Monday. There's already a report that 5k contract troopers in Belgorod are mutinying, because they don't want to go to Ukraine and get fucked up like everyone before them.

they're asking for talks already. At this point the general mood is "Zelensky'd better not fucking DARE make any deals until we finish messing them up so that they scramble out of Donbas and Crimea to boot". People want this fucker buried, and he's got nothing. The vaunted VDV paratroopers, Kadyrov's personal guard, the legions of their armor corps... It's all gonna be scrap and meat if it keeps coming.

Huge rally in Toronto tomorrow. I was at one at the consulate yesterday, and there was over a thousand people there; tomorrow there'll probably be a lot more, since it's a Sunday.

They woke up a slumbering anger over 9 years of dehumanizing slurs, bullshit fearmongering, and very real war that cost our people 15 thousand lives; I oughta thank VVH for so comprehensively forging the Ukrainian political nation; but he's a psychopathic shitheel, so I will wish him a quick and merciful death instead.

Half of my paycheck got sent back home. I'm gonna keep spreading awareness, since that's all I can really do, being so far away.

But just as in 2013-2014, I feel part of something much greater. We are making history, and we will keep making it, and those who think they can stop us better be ready to jump out of our way, because once Ukrainians start to collectively organize to get smith done, we've been quite literally unstoppable, until we decide to spread out again ourselves.

I take a different view of things than many here - there's several people posting about how they hope Putin realizes this is a mistake and stops now/soon. That's not how he works. Take a look at the apartment bombings back in 1999, FSB agents were caught putting explosives in buildings and Putin just spun that into the invasion of Dagestan, which went on for 9 months and turned into 9+ years of sporadic fighting before he made a deal with the Kadyrov clan.

Stopping now isn't what a thug like Putin does, even if it's a disaster. He will keep going because in the past, the pattern was that the foreigners get tired of dealing with him and kinda cave, so he gets most of what he wants.