@dominique @praticablecoop C'est pas une parodie ???

@archaeohistories Polish, Latin and Old Belarusian (at some point)

@noelreports Thank you for being back on Mastodon.

@Tendar I hope Russian elites need a couple of more serious Ukrainian victories to begin thinking that waiting will lead to more problems. I think it is possible that one Kremlin faction might already think that it is time to stop the war. It could possibly explain Prigozhin video (the morning before his big move) where he burned the whole Russian propaganda (Russians are plundering the Donbass, Ukraine was not destroying the Donbass, no threat of Ukrainian or NATO attack against Russia in 2022)

@Tendar Hi! I guess your evaluation is ahead of Russians. Russia wanted to control the whole Ukraine, then understood it won't work (March 2022), so they hoped to take the whole Eastern Ukraine, then understood it won't work (May-June 2022), so they hoped to take the four oblats they partly controled, then understood it won't do (October 2022), then to keep what they have + the remaining part of Donetsk oblast, then they understood it failed (March 2023). Now they hope to keep what they have.

@Euan_MacDonald Dear Euan, I'm afraid it is hardly avoidable, although as a citizen I often find it depictable. We can just see how Qatar, Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia feel embolded to do what they want because Europe need them to break from Russian energy resources. I think the best we can expect is that European countries will keep doing compromises (but not any kind of compromise), but not just throw away all values for the sake of business.