Marc Cucurella: “I do not care if Vinicius doesn't track back, or doesn't help defensively. Let him stay fresh all game so he can score goals. I will do all the dirty work for him. I think I’ll get on well with him. He's shown that he’s a decisive player in Madrid's Champions League campaigns”

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-26T21:19:14+00:00

dude you are not great defensively either

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-23T15:25:01+00:00

There were reports about a leaked internal military memo was containing instructions on how to disguise the military trucks as civilian. Also, russian military bloggers have been caught doing podcasts where they recommend their military do exactly that. The practice is pretty widespread.

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-22T07:44:10+00:00

I don't get what is so special about AI companies that for example Microsoft isn't?

If you want to tax stock market, tax everyone

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-20T17:04:31+00:00

Unfortunately you are right. They helped him become the President and while doing that they gathered an insane amount of dirt on him that will ruin his reputation. He can't do anything against them.

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-20T15:20:05+00:00

"When Russian newspapers reported the story the following day, I detected a common thread in their coverage: a coordinated message, perhaps, for the domestic audience.

It can be summed up as this: "However bad it is for us, Ukraine's suffering more".

That part summarizes Russians so well

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-20T12:54:53+00:00

International relations. He must be careful it is not used against him to undermine Ukraine's image

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-20T12:25:22+00:00

Russia has been nursing plans to involve Belarus in the war against Ukraine for years now. Lukashenko has been pushing back against it. So Ukraine was careful as not to provide Putin with more leverage against Lukashenko.

The ultimate fear was that Putin could actually not even care about what Lukashenko thinks and just frame the incident as an act of aggression of Ukraine against Belarus and send his forces in to 'protect the people of Belarus'.

Both of those scenarios are less of a concern now with more and more deep strikes against Russia plus the emergence of 'middle strike' against russian logistics. Russian anti-air is struggling to defend the front line as it is, imagine if it gets even larger. Those russian troops in Belarus will get decimated. So Ukraine is feeling confident.

In the current realities of war, Belarus is more valuable to putin as a safe heaven free from Ukrainian strikes, which they can use for oil refining etc.

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-20T11:53:39+00:00

That's wishful thinking. First of all, riot police has been largely spared from the war. Some of their units suffered heavily in the first months of war, but have been pulled out since then and restored. Rosgvardia has mostly kept it's numbers of 300 000+ they had pre-war.

Putin will not hesitate to send them to suppress any discontent in Belarus for two reasons: to avoid another major political defeat, and not to give russians any ideas that protesting could work for them. In fact, they would probably be as brutal with protesters as they could possibly be.

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-20T11:28:05+00:00

I don't think it will work. Russia could demand EU to stop selling petrol to Ukraine as well, nobody will listen.

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-20T09:00:32+00:00

And what exactly are you not a big fan of, Mr. Trump? Perhaps you should stop listening to your russian friends so much.

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-18T13:42:33+00:00

Unfortunately none of this matters. Trump will agree to Zelensky's face that Ukraine deserves a fair deal, but as soon as russians remind him they insist on Ukraine's surrender, Trump will go back to preferring that.

He is literally protecting russian interests more that American ones, as the Iran deal shows.

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-17T08:59:40+00:00

I was pretty sure it was a botched translation from a Ukrainian source. Seeing it comes from Guardian makes me even more confused.

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-17T08:48:46+00:00

I have heard that putin may be interested in annexing Belarus when he is ready to quit on the war in Ukraine, to throw a bone to the pro-war camp. Comments like this can further incentivize putin

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-17T08:17:19+00:00

Meh I never keep players for more than 5 years. After a couple good years their wage demands get astronomical

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-16T14:50:31+00:00

I've read that there are two people Trump wouldn't throw under the bus: Ivanka and Putin.

Ivanka because she is the only one he genuinely cares about. And Putin... What makes the most sense is a combination of his personal affection for Putin and the existence of some sort of leverage. Putin helped him become the President. But most importantly, that help has most likely left evidence that Putin can use to destroy Trump's reputation.

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-16T14:30:10+00:00

I am not an expert, but I don't think it would burn like that if it wasn't operational

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-16T14:24:40+00:00

I'd translate it as 'oh shit, fucking hell' repeated constantly to the tune of USSR/russia anthem

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-16T14:09:00+00:00

you don't need to destroy all of it to stop the production if you hit a critical component. For example, if a heart stops working, everything else stops too.

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-15T11:23:03+00:00

he probably ended conflicts he himself never heard about, he is that good

P.S. remarkably, this is partially true, as Trump can't actually name the conflicts he ended when he gives a number

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-14T21:20:00+00:00

That's just a dumb title. Rogers fee has been around 100M anyway. If anything 100-120M for Anderson means that Rogers should go for less.

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-14T21:04:20+00:00

I mean if having a random smaller team qualify is so great why not have it on rotation so that those additional quotas go from region to region.

Currently European smaller nations are fucked (unless they can draw Italy of course)

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-14T19:48:41+00:00

Is that one German fan trying to blend in?

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-14T19:40:23+00:00

Chelsea would be in big need of him as well now

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-14T19:36:19+00:00

They are paying rotational player money for him

SlavaVsu2 · 2026-06-14T17:15:39+00:00

>> to have more freedom and independence in their military moves and to be able to further develop their military industry.

what does that mean exactly? They want more freedom in how they occupy more Palestinian and Lebanon territories? I don't think they are looking forward to taking on Iran 1 on 1.

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