BBC reporting that many were bussed in from work, told attendance and compliance was compulsory etc
Also some media reporting that it was cut short because Putin limped off the stage
So back to China, these things are always subtle but Chinese State Sponsored TV in the US has started showing destruction in Ukraine on TV and apparently they have started to do so in a limited way in China too. They hadn’t done this at all before yesterday. These shifts always have more significance than they seem to have on the surface
Also that turn around appears to have been around the same time this happened (which also seems to be rather unreported)
Newsweek
Which is just another reason why I find the US's line about China going to help Russia to be a tad bizarre
Bild in Germany are reporting that Russian FM Lavrov was over half way to China last night and had to turn back 2800 miles to Moscow whem he was already over Siberia
Sounds like Xi was doing his hair or something
An awful lot of what you are seeing in this war are precision strikes and they are very precise
Russia is not launching indiscriminate cruise missiles at military targets and missing, it is going for precision strikes on civilian targets
They could do the same at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr but just plug the patients into the mains on arrival and save wasting energy on the days before they kill the patient by accident anyway