Putin suggests putting Ukraine under UN-sponsored external governance, boasts battlefield gains

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1. This dude is such a scumbag, so comically villainous that it defies belief.

   Even more despicable is the shambling, deceitful sycophants that either, out of severe poverty or simple, barbaric malice, crawl from their nests to screech support for Putin’s every action (and the actions of his peasant orcs in the field). If there are war crimes, they are justified. If there are crimes against humanity, the same.

   Before this war, I held little ill will towards the Russian government or its people. But now, observing the same behavior that I see gleeful Israelis display in regards to the suffering of the citizens of Gaza, I cannot help but feel a profound disgust for any Russian that does not wholeheartedly disavow their government and its actions.

2. Putin is a classic brutal villain but he seems to know exactly the hand he holds at this moment and I don’t think the trajectory will or can change. Not without a direct intervention from European neighbours.

   Justice for Ukraine would be to see Putin and his cronies on trial for war crimes but that would involve a long and bloody war with a lot of countries and that doesn’t seem to be coming.

   I am really not sure what the future holds for Ukraine outside of a lot of debt and a demographic crisis.

   My estimation is that the war ends this year with Ukraine simply giving up the territories that Russia now controls and focusing on building up the rest of the country and maybe getting it in the EU.

3. Putin has achieved results he couldn’t have dared believe with the USA turning on its allies and Ukraine almost losing Kursk…. even with these gains he has a total inability to stop dick measuring and shooting his mouth off. 

   He has spoken out about not “allowing” the USA to take over Greenland – My guy, you can’t bowl Ukraine over you gonna stop the American juggernaut??

   Now he’s mouthing off even more about putting UN in charge of Ukraine. 

   For gods sake, didn’t they teach him in supervillain school to just enjoy the win and shut the fuck up and don’t interrupt when things are going your way? 

4. >Under Ukraine’s constitution it is illegal for the country to hold national elections while it’s under martial law.

   It’s actually not. It’s a **VERY** often repeated claim, but not a real thing.

   The constitution only says that the parliament’s powers are extended during the martial law, but there’s no similar clause about extensions to the president’s power, nor is there any explicit ban on elections.

   >In the event that the term of authority of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine expires while a state of martial law or of emergency is in effect, its powers are extended until the day when the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine elected after the cancellation of the state of martial law or of emergency convenes its first meeting of the first session.

   https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Ukraine,_2004

   That’s the only part in the Ukrainian constitution where elections and the martial law are mentioned together.

   The ban on presidential elections and the extension of the president’s term is a separate law (which can easily be amended or retracted even during the martial law), not an actual constitutional ban. That doesn’t stop the majority of articles published in the last 3 years from pretending that it’s real.

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