What a time to be alive
Kadyrov claimed Thursday that the vehicle, which he said had been outfitted with a machine gun and was “performing well in combat,” had been shut down, adding Friday that he had sent two additional Tesla Cybertrucks to the frontline.
Interesting, thanks for the reply. As an American, I can't help but think of what you wrote about the Kadyrovs as sort of like a parallel to HW and W Bush here. (Well, not the independence movement part, but a dumb brute son of a former ruler owing everything to his last name.)
I feel like if the average American had a better understanding of the horrible austerity and neoliberalization of the Russian economy and their effects on the quality of life for the average person in the Russian Federation and former USSR under Yeltsin, they'd understand why Russia is the way it is now a lot better. I don't think that'd make US government policy towards Russia any better, but it might temper some of the ridiculous McCarthy-ish Russiagate conspiratorial paranoia of American liberals. The recent would-be golf course Trump shooter was made completely unhinged by that kind of media fixation and tried to start a foreign legion group to get Afghans to fight for Ukraine and travelled there to hang out in Kyiv and was so vehemently anti-Russia that he was a cheerleader for the Azov Battalion.