Russia still has too much money, alas
08.02.2026 14:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@richtranslator.bsky.social
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Russia still has too much money, alas
08.02.2026 14:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Unfortunately Putin couldn’t give a flying whatever about Belgorod. I’d love to see Moscow or St P go out
08.02.2026 14:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Code for “will likely put pressure on Ukraine”.
07.02.2026 12:12 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Terminally unbombed
02.02.2026 16:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is Europe’s response to genocide in Europe
31.01.2026 21:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think if you try to negotiate according to principles of negotiation but fail miserably, you could be described as a bad negotiator. But if all you do is bully the party you perceive to be weak, and facilitate the strong in pursuit of a particular result, that’s something else.
31.01.2026 05:05 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Is this pathetic orange fool actually unable to know how this sounds?
29.01.2026 20:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is beyond strange. Is it verified? I thought I was used to Trump, but this is another step.
19.01.2026 12:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🤡🤡
14.01.2026 17:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0💯
12.01.2026 17:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ye-e-e-s, it’s true that peace depends on Putin, in the sense that there won’t be peace until Russia stops fighting. But Russia won’t stop fighting until it’s forced to stop. Our part in this is to do much more to help Ukraine force Russia to stop, instead of making speeches while Ukrainians die.
12.01.2026 17:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0First sign of a successful takeover - telling your own citizens it’s not safe to go there.
12.01.2026 17:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A “duty to remain non-aligned” might conceivably include refraining from repeating the lies of one side?
10.01.2026 13:48 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Need to keep a room free for Trump
10.01.2026 10:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Er … if deployed “after” this current war ends?
08.01.2026 13:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Can trump, I wonder, make that giant reach up and learn to spell the name of the prize he wants so badly?
Also, has anyone ever told him that nominations close in January each year? He’s whining that the “Noble” Prize committee didn’t sufficiently recognise his first 11 days in office.
Kudos to Alaska for causing such anxiety
07.01.2026 12:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0She wasn’t scared of him when he was head of intelligence??
07.01.2026 12:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The most invisible regime change in the history of regime changes
07.01.2026 12:17 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A tiny person, whose name means “the little one’s daughter”, demonstrates her tiny mind and tiny soul with these tiny, tiny words
06.01.2026 17:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“the Western Hemisphere neighborhood” 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
03.01.2026 18:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Provocative comment: the CIA used to install puppet regimes; trump is openly doing do. Does he receive points for honesty? Don’t get me wrong: the world still needs him DEAD. Just asking for a friend or family member …
03.01.2026 18:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I can’t get excited about Trump apparently downing putin’s man. Venezuela has passed from one Russian asset to another. Nothing bad’s going to happen to Russia from this. Всё идёт по плану 😉😅
03.01.2026 18:41 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hmmm … Budanov is a lynch pin right where he is now
02.01.2026 12:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Anton, I'm desperately sorry. Thank you for the work you do, keeping us informed. I so hope that 2026 will be the year Putin's overreach reaps its due reward, and he and his whole regime and the Russian Federation all collapse. And I hope he doesn't do too much more damage to you on the way down.
02.01.2026 10:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When I was making acquaintances in the artistic communities in various Russian cities, I met interesting and talented people. Maybe the bright ones aren’t the most active in the war? My circles were possibly not representative, but I know one guitarist who joined up (and was killed); no one else.
02.01.2026 07:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good luck with forcing Volodymyr Zelenskyy to do anything. Four years on and people still have no idea who they’re dealing with.
01.01.2026 18:07 — 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Найшвидшої перемоги!
31.12.2025 20:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Russian overreach and ultimate collapse just got a step closer. But still the questions remain “When?” and “How much further damage will they do now and on the way down?”
30.12.2025 12:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Путін - хуйло
27.12.2025 19:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0