General Winter at Russia's doorstep and the war continues to bo badly

#Russia #Ukraine

This Winter Will Be Russia’s Biggest Nightmare

SYSTEM COLLAPSE: Generals Steal, Factories Explode

Russia Just LOST the War - USA Sanctions Oil Giants

Jake, Jake, Jake. Please Pretty please ask someone to help you pronounce Russian place names correctly.

Interesting comment about change in restrictions on use of long range missiles. 

Putin faces severe sanctions damage as Russia's Pokrovsk pockets begin to collapse

Putin RUNS AWAY from Kremlin as Storm Shadow Missiles KILL Russian Military

Russians calling on Ukraine to just aim at the Kremlin (?!?)

Something Bigger Is Hiding Behind Trump’s Latest Ukraine Fail

The summit that was and now isn't

Crimea under siege: Putin’s fortress will fall soon – Warning from UK

And the latest in internet...

IT'S BEGUN: Russia Plunges Into DARK AGES. Putin Orders to SHUT DOWN the Internet on Demand

President Stable Genius poops on the populace

#NoKingsDay according to the President

Nicolle Wallace reacts to Donald Trump’s vile social media post over No ...

President #StableGenius is not even competent to vet a propaganda video much less operate so much as a golf cart never mind a nuclear arsenal. I read the video as a dementia patient with overflowing diapers who doesn't even have the sense to put his oxygen mask on correctly. It's like he is begging, pleading for help from the 25th Amendment

Wounded Knee: the difference between "battle" and "massacre"

Tribal Leaders Push Back Pete Hegseth Decision on Wounded Knee Medals

Mehdi Hasan on the current "cease fire"

#Palestine #Gaza

‘You Will Not Silence Me’: Watch Mehdi’s Defiant Speech on Gaza

and at #NoKingsDayOctober18th

Mehdi Hasan’s Fiery Speech Against Trump at ‘No Kings’ Rally, “We Will Outvote Them!” | AC1G

Massive Street protests in St. Petersburg. Meat grinder continues. Ukraine keeps hitting Russian Oil refinery.

RantWoman apologizes.

RantWoman has been busy with Projects and with trying to have a  reasonable sleep pattern.

There is also the upcoming #NoKingsDay as well as the doings of the local dementia patient with severe authoritarian tendencies. So, although RantWoman has a whole queue of mean to post items about #Russia, #Ukraine, Belarus....

This post is an attempt to catch up. 

Additional videos in abundance on YouTube

FSB Announces Coup Plot in Russia: Putin is About to Be BETRAYED!

A bold protest against Putin's Russia in St. Petersburg: Young people demand change in streets

Protests in Russia: Young Russians are Threatening Putin's Rule

"Let the swans dance"

Something STRANGE Is Brewing Inside Russia

Paranoid Putin TERRIFIED of Coup as St. Petersburg ERUPTS in Protest

Putin's Home town

"Swan Lake."

The Russian antiwar committee

Russia EXECUTES Soldiers as Army COLLAPSES

Z-Propaganda Just Dropped a HUGE BOMBSHELL! Kremlin Promises 'a Bullet for Every Russian'

Putin's Favorite Puppet State is About to Collapse

Belarus

IT FINALLY HAPPENED! Putin's Favorite Minister of Economy DELIVERED BAD NEWS. Upcoming Debt Storm

Who else's economy is cratering?

Russia's Oil Industry is Collapsing

DUTCH DISEASE Is Killing Russia… Putin Is POWERLESS to Stop It

explanation of the "Dutch disease," see also Paul Warburg.

Random things in titles that RantWoman has not even looked at:

Ukraine strikes the Kerch bridge

US arms shipments, UK stepping up to arm #Ukraine...

18-year-olds in the latest mobilization despite Putin's promise not to do that.

A department of DEFENSE protects everyone. A department of WAR on the other hand....

Let's talk about the GOP taking a holiday instead of paying troops....

I am steamed that our witless #SecDef has proclaimed the department he heads the Department of WAR. He is also cancelling important programs such as the cyber security command. Do not forget firing leaders left and right for being the wrong color or gender. So anyone who wants to contain the defense budget might be forgiven for saying well, as long as the administration is weakening national security in myriad ways, let's not pay the troops either.

If we still had a department of DEFENSE that applied to all of the US, ordinary working people and military families should BOTH get affordable health care. The #GOP leadership needs to grow spines, STOP lying and STOP SENDING THEIR HOUSES ON VACATION and sit down. Get back to work and work across the aisle

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New faces and Conscientious Objection

RantWoman posts this info FYI for anyone facing considerations about possible unlawful orders.

Anyone considering decisions should consult legal counsel 

UPDATE on US troops DISOBEYING Trump’s ILLEGAL orders

Illinois National Guard begins to push back against illegal Trump deployment

Some Chicago moments

Neighbors push back as Trump's ICE army terrorizes Chicago suburbs

"Zip-Tying Children": Outrage Grows in Chicago over Trump Immigration Crackdown

"There's no emergency. There is no justification..."

ACLU Director reacts to 'out of control' ICE agents in Chicago

How Chicago is resisting Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown | Anywhere but Washington

And in other news

How ICE Spies On American Citizens | Incognito Mode | WIRED

How ICE Spies On American Citizens | Incognito Mode | WIRED - YouTube

How Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It | Incognito Mode | WIRED

About Face Vets

Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is just New Jersey, but You go then I'll go.

Two Lawrence O'Donell vids to keep us somewhere near sanity at least as far as elegantly summarizing outrage and excoriating the current administration.

Lawrence: How many flashes of insanity from a president should we tolerate?

Lawrence: We are clearly seeing madness pouring from the darkness of Donald Trump's mind

Epstein AND the Budget????

Trump DESTROYED as 70 Republicans QUIT to BLOCK His Budget Bill!!

IHIP News: Mike Johnson VISIBLY PANICKING Over Shutdown NIGHTMARE as It All BACKFIRES!!

🚨Johnson RUNS AWAY As Jeffries Issues BRUTAL CHALLENGE

As an aside, RantWoman thinks the best way for the Epstein survivors to get somewhere near justice would be civil lawsuits against everyone even vaguely connected with DISGUSTING Epstein world. RantWoman has ZERO expectation that justice will come from Congress. But RantWoman is not a lawyer and is perhaps missing something.

Kaliningrad Kaliningrad

#Russia #Kaliningrad #Chernobyl #AssymetricWarfare

"Russia is ABOUT TO LOSE Kaliningrad": The Kremlin is VERY CONCERNED Abo...

includes GIANT ad for an AI notetaker

Aside from questions of strategery, ASK THE PEOPLE of Kaliningrad what they want.

Rockets with love from Kazakhstan?

And actual, probably low, accounting of casualties

Putin FLEES to his Bunker as Ukraine Attacks Putin's Secret Meeting in Sochi

Ken Harbaugh on a visit to CHERNOBYL

Meidas Releases EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE from FRONTLINES of UKRAINE WAR ZONE

Fascinating economic turn. Along with serious SPIN from Putin.

Putin Seizes $55 Billion From Oligarchs as Russia's Economy Bankrupt

And another war criminal done in by a Ukrainian drone.

Putin Fears DEATH Is Coming After Ukraine Kills Putin's Executioner & Russian Colonel - YouTube

While we're at it, 312 days of protests in Georgia, not MTG's Georgia; the other one.

Putin's WORST FEAR is Here as MASS PROTESTS Erupt

"Kaliningrad is NEXT TO FALL": The Baltic Trap Putin Pretends Doesn't Exist

Friendly reminders from the state of Georgia and also VA

Why this historical overview now?

And is this partly AI?

Hidden Plot EXPOSED Against Trump – Georgia Bombshell Unveiled! 🇺🇸''|| R...

And about getting around to Letitia James and a brave VA Prosecutor who said no to political prosecution

Letitia James Just Got The FINAL LAUGH On Trump. IT’S OVER🚨

Fish got away with a little help....

Warning: a generous helping of unQuakerly language, but FAR more digestible content than the military raid on the apartment building.

Note with particular scorn the reference to dollar signs for every detention. DISGUSTING that COngress cannot come up with tax credits so ordinary working people can afford health insurance, but it has for YEARS been funding, excuse me over-funding the vast detention apparatus

The Feds Are OUT OF CONTROL in Chicago… People Have HAD ENOUGH

Send in the feds--for a FROG?

Laugh! Breathe. Drink Water Touch Grass. Laugh

Trump Sent Feds to Stop a FROG in Portland... and LOST BADLY

PORTLAND MOCKS Trump’s "Living in Hell" BS

ANd from a few weeks ago

White House TikTok gets OBLITERATED by users INSTANTLY

Portland DESTROYS Trump’s Guard Fantasy

Good news: Things are getting much worse

#Russia #Ukraine

Will posting all the ways that Russia is getting clobbered do amnything for humanitarian relief? Will it create psychic conditions for steps toward PEACE? 

Putin's Industrial Collapse: WORSE than you think

Ukraine Strikes 3 Russian Refineries in 3 Days!

Ukraine BURNS Russia's Fuel and Ammo Supply

Ukraine RAINS HELL on Russia AND Crimea in Biggest REVENGE Strike of the WAR!

Ukraine’s Drone Blitz Shreds Russia’s Defenses in Crimea

And speaking of battleships, Russia? 

Russia’s “Superweapon” Warship Is a Floating Chernobyl Wreck

Shaman, Shaman?

#Russia #Ukraine 

Will culture help Russia end it's STUPID war?

Is all this just the latest in historical Russian mysticism?

Is it just an indication that RantWoman is HOPELESSLY out of touch with the youth of more than one culture???

He Was Trolling All Along

Cultural icons of Russian youth, autotranslated, with layers of irony and mystical symbolism

RantWoman WILL go look up the YouTuber mentioned toward the end.

RantWoman, WHY are you posting this link to a rather different video about Charlie Kirk?

The theme in common: quest for Truth and belief, while also bursting bubbles.

SAXX - Maxx Crosby Limited Edition Prints

OMG. Pope Leo calls out ....

WATCH: Pope Leo CALLS OUT MAGA Christians In VIRAL MOMENT

Has RantWoman mentioned that she is a GIANT fan of Pope Leo.

It was an Act of GOD that he got elected pope. 

He has so many messages that anyone with a soul should relate to.

There are also plenty of moments that remind RantWoman why she is cannot pull off appropriate veneration of the Divine in Catholic terms.

Russia has already lost?

#Russia #Ukraine

While President #StableGenius and the #DUIhire #Secdef are assembling hundreds of military brass for lectures about hair, #DEI, fat generals, as well as the President's generic word salad, THINGS ARE HAPPENING in Russia's war on Ukraine.

Crimea's Countdown to Collapse

Russian Army Collapses as Crimea Rises Up Against Putin

The great escape from Crimea: Chaos is growing on the peninsula

🔥 URGENT! RUSSIA’S MAIN ALLY BETRAYS IT! STRIKE FROM KAZAKHSTAN! CHAOS ERUPTS IN THE STREETS!

Kazakhstan suspends oil shipments to Russia

Russia’s Oil Crisis is Just the Start of Something MUCH Worse

Ukraine BROKE Russia... They Won’t Survive What’s Coming

Russia Struck Kyiv… Ukraine’s REVENGE Was SAVAGE and RUTHLESS

Ukraine Waited for 200,000-ton Ship to Be Filled with Oil – Then 1,200kg of Bombs Hit the Port

Ukraine Drones Cripple Russia's Fronts and Refineries

Addresses Russian drones flying over Europe and French boarding of a ranker from the Russian shadow fleet: drones shot off the Pushba.

Poorly qualified crew, lack of insurance, 

Kremlin Propaganda BACKSTABS Putin... DECLARES Russia Has Already LOST the War

Pro Kremlin voices saying Russia is losing far too many troops.

26% of Russian oil refining capacity has been disabled.

Christopher Hitchens gets us started with opinions about #Quantico

Dear Readers

Pick any one of the links below. 

If one is going to sneer verbally, RantWoman aspires to do so with at least as much panache as Christopher Hitchens even if the accent won't work.

Other reviews

Let's talk about Hegseth's Pep Rally Policies....

🚨General QUITS🚨 After SecWar Hegseth’s EPIC Speech 💣😱

Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey discusses Trump, Hegseth meeting at Quantico

It was one of the strangest and most incoherent addresses ever.

Woke Military Stunt Backfires on Trump & Hegseth

"It's a whole lot of 'n's that (the President) can't say.

FURIOUS Navy Commander SPEAKS OUT After Trump Military Stunt

Trump is Prepping for War! Malcolm Nance GOES OFF!

It was a monumental wall of idiocy

The Parts of Hegseth’s Speech Nobody’s Discussing

Some of this nonsense will not work.

Bringing back hazing?

Ending the zero-defect mindset / risk averse command culture

currently less yelling, more teambuilding.

Trump & Hegseth ABSOLUTELY BOMB In Front Of PISSED OFF Generals | The Kyle Kulinski Show

Climate change is literally a safety issue

Reaction to Hegseth & Trump’s Strange Speech to Generals

Trump Goes FULL “Fat Elvis”! Generals HUMILIATED at Quantico! Hegseth's MANIC Tuesday! | Next Level The Bulwark for over an hour

FURIOUS Retired General DESTROYS Trump’s Military STUNT

Early in the vid: really disgusting claim about pacifism

Trump Hid Sinister Message in Speech to Generals | The Daily Beast Podcast

More General Hertling

scathing comparison of Hegseth proposed training practices to the horrors of the Russian army.

Hegseth worldview limited to only his own experience, no sense of all the different forces.

The President is oblivious about drones and wants to talk about battleships.

Former Generals React to Trump-Hegseth Quantico Speeches

Undermining current composition of armed forces

Undermining "disagreement is not disrespect"

What Trump & Hegseth's Lecture to Generals Really Means

Friendly reminder that President #StableGenius is way too happy to claim credit to a whole bunch of war, some of which, such as Afghanistan vs Azerbaijan, do not even exist.

Hegseth ROCKED By Crushing Fox News Surprise After Military Disaster

The WORST white privilege

GENERALS TURN ON TRUMP AFTER DISASTER SPEECH

Hegseth plans widespread use of polygraphs, NDAs to stop leaks

There is NO WAY RantWoman can stomach the whole video.

BOO sectarian references.