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Also a DDP pick, though I'm not sure whether of this year or last year, so either LotL or LotM.

Replacing Catherine Wybourne with C.W. McCall.

Some say, the polish president Lech Kaczinski in the airplane crash. Wikipedia says that it's Vazgen Sargsyan, prime minister of Armenia assissated by a terrorist in 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_and_government_who_died_in_office#2000–present Edit: Yeah, arghton is right, seems I was partially blind.

Sean Penn is currently in Ukraine because he's filming a documentary about the Russian invasion. It wasn't supposed to be about the current one, but about the conflicts that already existed: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/24/sean-penn-ukraine-documentary-russian-invasion

Very sad, a really nice person it seemed. She almost died a couple of times lately, as she was on oxygen full time (in a different way from everyone else). Still, I hope it's not going to be the third non-obit that Spade and I share. Spade would go to the DDP top if a QO arrives. Wybourne was in her 60s.

Zelensky basically says that Russian kill squads are looking for him right now: https://www.businessinsider.com/zelensky-says-that-enemy-sabotage-groups-have-entered-kyiv-2022-2?utm_source=reddit.com

Let's not forget that Trump was impeached (the first time) because he withheld Ukraine aid for Hunter Biden or something. It's all connected. Putin has always wanted the whole of Ukraine - he just didn't know if he could get it - and used Trump to destabilize the country. I think Putin was the "Trump whisperer" for a while. He made Trump believe that their interests aligned (which they did, because Trump doesn't know national interest, only personal interest). Trump's election loss might have been a trigger for Putin to conclude that he did all the damage to Ukraine he could do, and put the plans into motion. So yeah, Joe Biden might be a reason, but in a different way.

Embattled stand-up comedian Louis C.K. is not going to cancel his Kyiv appearance: https://nypost.com/2022/02/24/louis-ck-to-perform-in-kyiv-in-the-midst-of-russian-invasion/

Irish journalist Paddy Murray dead after a long (and public) cancer fight at 68: https://m.sundayworld.com/news/irish-news/journalists-pay-tribute-to-veteran-former-sunday-world-columnist-paddy-murray-41380787.html His last column was in 2019 already but he lasted long enough through lymphoma and COPD that we, and I, forgot about him.

Ha, yeah, he's been very vocal about not retreating.

Where hasn't there been a suspicious death with Russian connections lately? The last one in Berlin was not so long ago.

Bald and Bankrupt hasn't posted in a while. I was kind of curious to know his opinion. His last videos were from right around the corner, here in Berlin. He liked it a lot, and how modern and clean the former GDR was.

Somewhat schizophrenic thought of mine: Vitaly Klitschko, the former boxing champion and now mayor of Kiev, might be a Cup possibility...

By the way, Russia is now trying to capture the Czernobyl nuclear power plant. I mean, a radioactive cloud is just what we're missing right now... a nuclear war without nuclear bombs...

Yes, this is what I wonder as well, though maybe this is just another step in a general "restore the Russian Empire" plan, no trigger, just a date like any other. I mean, I'd say Putin did reasonably well? Oligarch money is safe in London, where the city is rather dependent on it, the EU was weakened through Brexit, Nord Stream 2 was almost done, why now? Does he think that this was the best possible time to strike? A kind of "peak Russian gas dependency" before renewable energy makes the russian economy obsolete? The attempted Lukashenko removal might be one factor, but considering Lukashenko was only saved because of Putin's intervention, Belarus had already become an official part of Russia. I wonder if Trump's failed re-election might have been another trigger. That and the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, which means that US attention was returning to Russia once more. And then maybe Putin's 70th birthday this year? He's afraid of losing his "Russian bear" image which is so important for his "fans" across the world?

I think he's running out of time to do this, though he might give a potential successor a blueprint for a plan. He won't attack them directly as long as they're part of NATO, but de-stabilize them through the Russian minorities in these countries. If a pro-Russia party takes over the government in these countries, that government will then make their country leave NATO. Some pundits have said that Latvia might be a target for that. It's a plan that needs 10-15 years of planning. (if I compare that the Ukraine timeline where Russia lost it's grip on Ukraine around 2007).

That account is now also mentioning air sirens in Lviv and an attack on the airport in Ivano-Frankivsk, both far in the west. I wonder if it's to overwhelm the Ukranian defenses to expand the separatist areas without resistance, or whether the purpose actually is to conquer the whole country. There is no endgame. A Ukranian rump state will be a very anti-Russian entity. It would be a continuous threat to an occupied Russo-Ukraine. The conflict in the separatist areas have been, well, "established" as an end goal, but beyond that, Russia basically cannot stop until they've got it all, and then continue towards Transnistria.

Yeah, he was a Deathrace unique pick for me that obviously didn't pay off (sad, considering I ended up 1 hit short of the finish line). I haven't heard anything about him since then and I've looked again and again. There might be some chance he died off the radar. He's based in North Carolina, if anybody wants to dig deep.

Lol... well that's more than half done.

Yeah, saw the pictures, it's a bit of a meme now. I thought the pictures were a little photoshopped??? I mean, this person looks pretty dead and rotting.

The February pace is accelerating. Presuming that the ISIS boss will be confirmed dead eventually, and that Johnathan and "UK opera singer" get a QO, February has 22 hits so far.

Well, they need some time to check whether he's actually dead or it's just a magic act of disappearing.

ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus splits from his wife after 41 years: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/leute/abba-bjoern-ulvaeus-und-seine-frau-lena-trennen-sich-nach-41-jahren-ehe-a-b3f853eb-5d54-4b35-8e86-cf4628365ca4 A bit weird, at age 76?

Of course, now that you made me focus on that person, I just realised that Porter Bibb is also 85 years old, the first publisher of the Rolling Stone Magazine, and he invited the band The Rolling Stones to the Altamont festival: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Bibb Seems just about notable enough for our purposes.