RUSSIA BANS IPHONES & BLAMES UKRAINE FOR COVID

[Warpy]

Did I say Russia was becoming Kafkaesque? I take it back, it's more like a play by Ionesco.

(Ivan does a mix of things, from travelogue to car culture to politics. Obviously, he's determined never to go back to Russia)

[AllaN01Bear]

1. snork.

[Lovie777]

2. The similarity between Putin and shithole.....................

both are nuts.

[Tetrachloride]

3. i might have heard that iphones are in use by the elite

[Warpy]

4. What they don't want are the Russian randos taking high quality videos

of things like drone strikes against ammo storage on the border of a Baltic country posted to Telegram. They want the crappy, grainy, crummy stuff no one will look at.

will always get the best of everything, although they're having to pay a lot more for it these days. The bit about the Chinese cars is striking more at the aspirational class. The i-phone ban is striking at most people under 30, who might have third hand phones, but they're still better than anything produced by Russia or China.