No leeway whatsoever, just moved?
Look above post was the introduction.
The man is in the epicentre of news today.
This thread seems like a general, maybe historical introduction to Putin.
If we filled the news section with contextual threads, it'd be completely cluttered.
The Biden/Trump/Obama threads were created to collect news concerning their administration. Any news concerning Putin nowadays can easily fit in the Ukraine war thread. No need for a second one.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
I am going to treat this thread for news about Putin's threats.
Russia's Medvedev: Strategic nuclear weapons can be used to defend new regions
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that any weapons in Moscow's arsenal, including strategic nuclear weapons, could be used to defend territories joined to Russia from Ukraine.
Medvedev, who also serves as deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said that referendums planned by Russian- installed and separatist authorities in large swathes of Ukrainian territory will take place, and “there is no going back”.
“The Western establishment and all citizens of NATO countries in general need to understand that Russia has chosen its own path,” Medvedev said.
We have a thread for the subject in WN. Better post there.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
How is a gallery of Putin "world news"? Do you believe there's a single humper that don't know what Putin looks like?
Who??
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Vladimir Putin has urged Russian women to have eight or more children and make large families “the norm” amid soaring numbers of casualties in his war against Ukraine.
Russia’s birth rate has been steadily falling since the 90’s and the country has suffered more than 300,000 casualties since the start of the Ukraine conflict, according to data maintained by Kyiv.
In a speech via video link at the World Russian People’s Council in Moscow on Tuesday, Mr Putin said boosting the Russian population will be “our goal for the coming decades”.
“Many of our peoples maintain the tradition of the family, where four, five or more children are raised,” said Mr Putin. “Recall that in Russian families our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had both 7 and 8 children. Let us preserve and revive these traditions. Having many children, a large family, should become a norm, a way of life for all the peoples of Russia.”
The conference is led by the head of Russia’s Orthodox church, Patriarch Kirill, and was attended by representatives of other traditional religious organisations of Russia. Its theme was “The Present and Future of the Russian World”.
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Does putina plan to have a very enticing state family allowance system for this?) Or considering the average Russian's eonomic state.
Maybe he took a peak at some of andrew tate's content who claims that every woman's dream is to grow a big family, and not be in the job market (and those who claim otherwise lie )
Some further searching, the BBC (22 November 2023):
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Russian authorities are limiting access to abortions in an attempt to confront the country's longstanding demographic crisis.
Measures include making it an offence trying to persuade a woman to have an abortion and pressuring private clinics to stop carrying out the procedure.
Feminist groups say the campaign is putting the lives of women at risk.
The Russian Orthodox Church, which has close ties to the Kremlin, is playing a key role in the anti-abortion campaign.
"As a member of the clergy, I testify that an abortion is a disaster and a tragedy for the woman those close to her," Patriarch Kirill, the Kremlin-backed head of the church, said in January 2023.
"Officials, ultra-right politicians and the church are actively forcing women and girls to give birth to unwanted children," said the Urals Feminist Movement group, which has organised small-scale protests in favour of abortion rights.
"These initiatives will only lead to a dramatic increase in the number of illegal abortions and a huge number of maimed and killed Russian women."
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Starting a family ain't cheap. Especially if you live in a dictatorship and the best you can hope for is a $400-500 a month salary with inflated prices for everything.
There are only two kinds of people who start families these days:
a) Those with the means to provide a good environment for their babies
b) Those too retarded to know wtf they're doing. dick keeps meeting vagina and consequences "just happen"
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) Or considering the average Russian's eonomic state.
