Russia v Ukraine - WWIII or Putin's cliff dive?

I was in Mongolia last year and more than a few people i spoke to said they were sick of the Russian tourists because its basically the only place still accepting them. I cant see them arresting him given they’re still so closely tied to them.

Apparently Bali is overrun with Russians now as well.

I mean more likely they wouldn’t do it because they don’t exactly have a good army and Russia, even in its weekend state, would probably role right over them… Going by a quick google, they have 2 Mig-29s a few hundred T54s and 50 T-72s with a standing army of 35,000 including operations personnel. Russia would role through there in about 5 minutes.

Although they’d be at a technological parity when it comes to tanks…

He sounds like a recalcitrant

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Bali, Phuket, Cancun, San Andreas, Marbella, Alanya.

Well basically anywhere with sun and warm sea water.

We didn’t see any Russians in Bali recently.

There’s also tons of Russian Mafia in Korea.

We found out walking into a bar near the red light district, bouncer checking out our hand tattoos to see what gang we were in or what prisons we had been to.

Quick chat with him and we decided to head somewhere else.

There was an exponential rise in the number of Russians in Phuket from when I was there in 2022 to when I was there last month.

Gone from no Russian language signage to it being as prominent as English.

Direct Aeroflot flights obviously help, was a bit weird seeing them and the aircrew given they have been banned from pretty much all Western airspace.

Can’t blame the average Ivan of millitary age from wanting to get as far away from home at the moment.

Yeah, I have never seen this many families and young people travelling so much. Just wasn’t in the culture to holiday far.

Most families end up in Turkey and Spain but as of recent, perhaps Tiktok, we are genuinely swarming every place possible.

The shock in my face when there were street grifters on an island in Colombia speaking Russian in order to sell to Russian tourists.

Cancun was fair enough but San Andres was taking the piss.

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They’re there.

My mate just came back from Bali last month and was telling me a story about a couple of Russian girls he met. Ended up doing his own special military operation with them.

Many laughs were shared at the multiple euphemisms to describe his experience.

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Really random, Byelorussia has now shot down 3 Russian drones in total, after flying over their airspace. You would assume they’d be trying to pull it off as a false flag operation, considering their build up on the border with Ukraine. The vehicles there have gone with the Russian way and are all painted with a B. Whether they attack or not will be a different matter.

While there’s ZERO evidence to even suggest this, considering the general hatred toward the Russian and Byelorussian parliaments by Byelorussian locals, it would be interesting to see if it’s just a rogue AA operator claiming they’re being “overcautious”

A Russian drone just crash landed in Latvia… interesting to see what happens there. The Baltics have definitely been very aggressive towards Russia…

Also reports that Ukraine is steadily reinforcing Kursk for further attacks, while at the same time bringing in heavy engineering battalions to create defences in the area. Looks like they’re in for the long run. If Ukraine attacks, will most likely be to the West of the salient created as they’ve been steadily destroying all bridges and subsequent pontoons that have been built, isolating Russian troops there.