Get your country the fuck out of Ukraine, and you won't have to live like that. Boo. Fucking. Hoo.

was a bit strange

Can’t replace the battery in her key fob
Can open the hood of her car

Puts on makeup and does her nails to wait in the queue for gas?

I know the the wealthy class have continued to visit The Crimea for their vacations,
as the State has not warned the public about the conditions there lately

And throughout Russia and the Occupied Territories fuel is scarce

The state chat app the public has been forced to use is now blocking any chatter about tracking where gas is available

Things are getting worse there

Right now? Didn’t think so.

yes

My better half told me her fob has a key in case of battery failure. I'm old school and won't give up my actual key.

Still, most folks don't plan for this. In our modern society, even the least bit of inconvenience paralyzes them.

has the actual key and the buttons for locking and unlocking (or I can just use the key) and I do have a spare battery

This feels almost like parody of the entitled, sheltered and priviledged.

A German friend of ours is a former news correspondent who was stationed in Moscow for years. He had met a Russian girlfriend (30 years ago!) who never moved here to live with him because she only speaks Russian. For four years, due to embargoes, they have only talked on the phone. He is careful not to tell her anything she might not have heard from Putin’s media, since the FSB monitors phone traffic to the west. But she is free to tell him what she “knows,” which is what Putin’s propaganda factory is churning out. She is now in her 70s, holding down two (or more) jobs to survive. She talks to a news correspondent, and still has no earthly clue what is going on. She still thinks the Ukraine attacked Russia, and the whole line of BS that Putin is feeding to his people. Imagine the USA if the ONLY source of news was Fox Noise. She is not entitled, privileged or sheltered. She just has no way, as an average working class Russian, to be better informed.

A disinformed public who have no idea what's really going on, but toil ceaselessly for the good of the ruling class.

Worse, told things like Ukraine has suffered 20 million casualties etc. The censorship is bad and so is the propaganda.

I really feel for this elderly lady in Russia - 2 jobs or more just to stay alive - and for so many others. Since the beginning, I've felt bad for the Russian soldiers, most of them poor boys from the backwoods used as cannon-fodder.

I think what I have a problem with is the imperialistic, supremacist bent prevalant among ethnic Russians in particular. That outlook does not lend itsrlf to empathy or understanding toward the Ukrainian perspective. So instead of being aghast at 20 million Ukrainian casualties, it is celebrated and cheered. Or at least comfort is found in it. So I wonder how strong an anti-war movement would be, even if allowed to develop.

Maybe I've been influenced in my views by the fact I lived behind the Iron Curtain as a child. Listened to many stories from my elders about what the USSR did to Hungary and how my relatives suffered.

Thank you for sharing this, very important to know.

Wouldn't they be afraid that the drones are dropping bombs close to them? I'd be getting out of that building very quickly, and looking for some place else to hide.

a target so they felt safe to observe the drones?

I'd be leaving that area too.

But, Ukraine is targeting oil supplies. Maybe there is, or was, an oil storage supply that the drone was heading for and the filmer knew it?

... Russian AA don't fall on their heads.

so, while I can unblock X for Democratic Underground--I won't. I read the comments but can't see what anyone is talking about in the comments. DU doesn't block X and we have a number of users here who feel the same as I do and would prefer not to use X in any capacity but communication is what it is.

And that was 82 years ago.

I'd like for them to include a batch in every drone in case it was shot down. That would serve Russia right.

resulting in destruction in a 50 foot radius.

The entry for the Ukrainian AN-196 ‘Lyutyy' drone claims a 75kg payload. Not enormous but with precision delivery, on an oil storage tank for example, quite effective.
I wonder what was burning in the background on that video?

Regarding the key fob, maybe Russian cars don't work like others where you can put the fob in the glove box (Kia) or place it near the on-off button to start. Either way, knowing how to replace the battery in the fob is covered in the owner's manual. But that would require taking the time to actually look it up.

Blame Putin and tell your friends. It is 100% his fault you can't get gas.

You could only buy gas on odd or even days depending on the last number on your license plate.

I ran out of gas while waiting on a gas line. Luckily my little Datsun was light and it wasn't hard for me and a couple of others push it all the way to the pump.

These Russians are too soft.

we're great little cars. I had a 1972 240Z, and people would tease me about buying, "Jap Scrap," or a "rice burner," or "how often do you have to stop to twist the rubber band," and all the similar "quips."

I wish I still had it. It would be worth around $75K now.

While on a Gray Line tour in a car (pretty sure) in the high AZ desert - Navajo or just inside The Hopi Nation (July 1980) memory's a bit fuzzy... I think the water pipe burst, I'm pretty sure we didn't run out of gas...
Anyway the four of us had to get out and push it ?4 blocks or so to the small town. We sat in restaurant for 2-3 hrs till it was repaired. Then our guide took us on the rest of our tour.

I block Musk.

had run low, or "out" of drone interceptor devices. The Moscow drone vid makes
sense of that allegation...

Or did DOGE kill off VOA?

Blew through the vaunted Soviet defense system and landed on a bridge close to Ref Square.

and stop being cowards.

It's about time Russians experienced what life has been like for Ukrainians for years. Maybe they will pressure Putin to end his illegal war in Ukraine.

While enroute to blow up putin's stuff?