thegreatdivide wrote Yesterday at 10:55am:


Crimea has a long history of being a contested territory, starting with neanderthal tribes.

In the 10th century BC, the area of Crimea was inhabited by the Cimmerians, nomadic tribes of Iranian descent, who gave the peninsula its earliest known name.

Around the 7th century BC, the Scythians from the steppes displaced many of the Cimmerians.
The Cimmerians were eventually replaced by the Scythians, and by the 7th century BC, the Scythians began to establish permanent settlements in the region.

The recorded history of Crimea begins around 5th century BCE when several Greek colonies were established on its south coast.

The southern coast gradually consolidated into the Bosporan Kingdom which was annexed by Pontus in Asia Minor and later became a client kingdom of Rome from 63 BCE to 341 CE.

In the 13th century, some Crimean port cities were controlled by the Venetians and by the Genovese, but the interior was much less stable, enduring a long series of conquests and invasions. In the medieval period, it was partially conquered by Kievan Rus.

(1238–1449) The north and centre of Crimea fell to the Mongol Golden Horde.

In the 1440s the Crimean Khanate formed out of the collapse of the horde but quite rapidly itself became subject to the Ottoman Empire.

In 1774, the Ottoman Empire was defeated by Catherine the Great who incorporated Crimea into the Russian Empire.

In 1921 the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was created as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

During the days of the USSR the head of communist party Khrushchev illegally gave Crimea  to Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic but majority of population remained Russian.

Tatars were shipped to the place of their origin for collaboration with  Nazi during WW2 but it would be better if they were shipped to Tasmania where they would exterminate poofters who can not spell words Russia or Russians 

tallowood wrote Yesterday at 11:50am:


What crap!

I don’t like nazi countries invading peaceful neighbors. Especially when the nazis are monsters like the ruzzians have proven themselves to be: killing civilians, stealing children and many other atrocities.

War is never nice, ruzzians make it way worse than it need be. ruzzians are not civilised.

ruzzians are also idiots! The war has ruined the ruzzian economy and actually decreased the population, destroyed the future for ruzzians etc.

ruzzians are nazis, not saving anything for anyone.

pissweak comeback, go backto your Kremlin masters for fresh propaganda.

Defeat, political implosion and civil war – those are the jeopardies that Volodymyr Zelensky faces as Ukraine heads into the most difficult and probably the last winter of the war. Evermore effective Russian strikes against Ukraine’s energy and transport infrastructure are likely to plunge swaths of the country into cold and darkness. Russian troops continue to push forwards slowly and bloodily in Donbas and, more dangerously, on the southern flank in Zaporizhzhia. Desertions from the Ukrainian army are up four times since last year and the number of deserters now matches the number of active fighters. The US has turned off the money taps and Europe struggles to produce the cash Kyiv needs to keep its war effort going.

But the most damaging crisis of all is a $100 million war profiteering scandal that has implicated many of Zelensky’s closest political allies and personal business partners and rocked faith in the government to the core. ‘It’s difficult to overstate the popular anger in Ukraine over this case,’ reports Jimmy Rushton, a Kyiv-based security analyst. ‘While all of the country suffers blackouts, members of the political elite stand charged with stalling efforts to harden energy infrastructure because they weren’t receiving big enough bribes.’

Zelensky’s public trust has fallen to under 20 per cent, down 40 per cent since the beginning of the year, claims the opposition parliamentarian Yaroslav Zhelezniak. And while the Ukrainian President voiced support for the National Anti Corruption Bureau (Nabu) investigation, so far no senior figures have been arrested. Timur Mindich, co-founder of Zelensky’s Kvartal-95 television production company and the man at the centre of the scandal, fled Ukraine just hours before Nabu raided his flat, leaving behind packs of cash and a golden toilet. Clearly tipped off, Mindich is now reportedly in Israel, which does not extradite its citizens. Herman Halushchenko, the energy minister also named as a suspect by Nabu, has been dismissed but not charged. He has said he will defend himself and ‘prove his position’.

What makes this scandal into a political crisis is that since the summer Zelensky has done everything in his power to shut down Nabu’s investigation. After Nabu surveillance equipment was found in Mindich’s apartment, Ukraine’s SBU security service and the prosecutor-general’s office – both headed by Zelensky loyalists – began aggressive investigations into top Nabu officers, jailing its lead detective, Ruslan Magamedrasulov, and his father. In July Zelensky hurriedly pushed through the now-infamous Law 12414 which sought to bring Nabu and its judicial arm Sapo under government control. Ukrainian civil society was horrified and major street protests against Law 12414, the first of the war, rocked Kyiv. Ukraine’s western backers, which had set up Nabu and Sapo back in 2014, were also appalled. Zelensky was forced to scrap the law – and Nabu’s investigations continued.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/11/ukraine-is-on-the-verge-of-political-collap...

Monk is masochist as most of pervertas but not enough to go to fight Russians in Ukraine so he, or is it she, furiously misspell the word  "Russian" just to get his anal hurts but not to be killed.

I predict Putin will 'disappear' much like how Rasputin did.

...with Putin gone. China will close in like a predator, to a sick and injured Russia from its original USSR conquest with Communism oppression and servitude.

Watch China Darth Vader pick up it's Slavic Emperor Palpatine and throw him off off his back.