Starling – see also commenters here on BC “poul” and “AI” for wanky-sounding pro-Russian posts.

Anyone else been wondering what happened to rubyak (or however he spelled his name which I don’t want to take the time to go back and look up now). Poster who hijacked EVERY thread for several weeks before the invasion shouting “beware beware the sky is falling!” stuff, promising us that Russia was big and bad and coming to get us?

He posted some interesting stuff during the first day of Russia’s invasion and then fell off the planet. I’m wondering now if he was KGB and trying to get us to roll over and play dead with fear once the attack started. A softening up process, so to speak.

Or maybe he just gave up on Belmont Club and went somewhere else where his audience is more receptive and credulous, like KosKidz.