You play with an overview that isn't true. Nations don't survive by using direct force against their own people. And that is what Russia was doing before 1990.
And today it's rainbows and unicorn farts? Why don't you go to Russia and try to tell them about the 6th commandment like this woman did and let us know how that works out for you.  |
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What do you think Russia was doing with the free trade that they were engaged in around the world?
It was buying stuff from the countries that actually have viable economies because it can't make anything of its own. The major reason the US pushed against Russia through Ukraine was because Russia was having so much success, that they were breaking up the USD as the world currency. And the Ukraine was a handy US satellite for it to against Russia use at the moment.
They're were getting USD for oil/gas and spending it. By that logic I'm breaking up USD every day too, such evil me. Now that the sanctions have backfired, have made Russia stronger than ever faster than ever, and have ignited nations around the world to join against the US (BRICS), the only thing that is stopping Russia is time. Just a little more time and Russia will break the US stranglehold.
Just like the Soviet Union defeated the rotten capitalist West in 1990. I thought that was enough excitement for me for a lifetime but now I can't wait to see it again. Good times. |
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And that's where we fundamentally disagree, i see this conflict as a done deal, so I'm concerning myself with what comes after it, and I'm not seeing many good options. Majority of scenarios push Russia and China uncomfortably close together. I am not a fan of China or communism in it's current implementation. This would be a terrible outcome for everyone in the free world, so I'm dumbfounded why US tried to snatch UA out of RU sphere of influence with soft power and their freedom cookies. The outcome for EU is pretty gloom, and it's hard to believe that it's coincidental
From the creators of a fiction novel "Russia's economy will get stronger under sanctions". Russia couldn't do shit before sanctions, couldn't build up it's economy (other than selling hydrocarbons); couldn't establish this magic union with China, Iran, or Eritrea; couldn't make neighboring countries love it. But now at war and walled off from the rest of the world, yeah it will do all those things very successfully LOL. Well, the good news is that you'll run out of glue you're sniffing at some point. Russia is not a world power anymore. It doesn't have a "sphere of influence". It has a bunch of territories and nations that it plundered over the centuries. It has a gnome dictator at the head of a corrupt government and a dysfunctional army. I'm struggling to think of anything else of any significance. Natural resources won't get it far - there are a plenty of resource-rich countries in the world that have become absolute shitholes for the same reasons why Russia will join their ranks (e.g. Venezuela). |
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Population of LPR and DPR is around 4mil, Kherson is 1mil, Zaporizhzhia 1,5mil, Crimea is at 2.5mil for a total of around 9mil, when someone calls for mass murders with obscure criteria, why are you not even interested in clearing up how many people exactly they calling to physically eliminate? Is this not a concern to you?
If definition of collaboration is so obvious to you where you feel the need to interject when someone tries to clear it up and asks follow up questions, mind explaining it to the Kyiv-based regional center for Human Rights?
I'm concerned about many bad things happening to the millions of people, but collaboration being a voluntary action puts it near the bottom of the list. However no matter how you prioritize your concerns regarding this war, there is one thing and one thing only that's causing all this trouble and it needs to end in order for all these issues to be resolved. It's the Russian invasion. That's why your concern is not genuine. You just keep looking for new ways - including made-up / straw man / otherwise fallacious "arguments" - to blame Ukrainians for defending their country. Putin is killing Dobas residents by the thousands, you're "concerned" about someone's definition of collaborator. If you were otherwise calling for an immediate end of the occupation AND were concerned about the fate of collaborators then perhaps I could give you the benefit of the doubt. But as it stands now, it's just deflection/trolling/etc. Using well-known Kremlin propaganda tropes is a dead giveaway. |
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Just curious if anyone else has any week one observations like that?
From the diaries of Captain Obvious: Mahomes is in top shape again this year (which is great as long as he keeps targeting Kelce), and niners will... how shall I put it without offending the OP... not be very good LOL. Which is why I didn't go out of my way to get Deebo and may or may not regret it because they'll likely make him run again because they haven't got anything else going. |
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Mercs work for patriotism but mostly money so double it to $4k/m spend just $4B open up to Kazakhstan, Belarus, Syria, Iran, Armenia etc... and you get 165k contractors for 6months
Again, they've been trying really hard for months now. In a country of 140 million. Paying $3-4k per month already (170k-200k rubles plus signing bonuses) for regular contractors, not just wagnerists. Failing miserably. Genius plan to "open up to" some other shitholes that have their own problems to deal with will not make hundreds of thousands of trained (or any) soldiers magically appear. IIRC the Russian MOD recently claimed that Ukrainian forces outnumber Russian forces eightfold. Bullshit of course but puts your absurd claims into perspective. If they could hire 165k they wouldn't be whining, would they. I mean they're considering paying out $20B just in dividends this year
Right, the oligarchs will pay for the war LOL I thought the Ukrainian counter-offensive would help kremlinists to return back to reality but it seems to have done the opposite. Too far gone I guess. |
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Right. so now you're trying to say that I'm acting like I'm advocating to physically eliminate all of the collaborators?  you're desperately scrapped the bottom of the barrel here think it'd be wise to throw in a towel Add red herring / tone complaint / ad hominem to the endless list of fallacies you're exhibiting in this thread. It'd be wise for you to look outside of urban dictionary for definitions of words you don't understand. I take it you have nothing else to substantiate your totally genuine concern absurd attempts to imply that children and people who used rubles are collaborators?  |
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At average of $2k/month for 6months that's $12k per contractor. So just that money from EU and US $1,98B, would get Wagner 165.000 contractors for 6months.
It wouldn't. Wagner has trouble hiring as it is. Earlier in the year they were taking only people with military experience, now it's open to anyone with a pulse basically... including people with criminal records. Even Russians don't want to die for $2k and the ones that do aren't much better than the cannon fodder from Tatarstan or ORDLO.  https://t.me/grey_zone/14946 |
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I didn’t know that BPIP got a factoid slot in forum advertisement section. Since when they got this? And did suchmoon requested or theymos considered or both? It’s just my curiosity. Great to see this though. BPIP deserves more attention and so does LoyceV project too though BPIP has linked loyce.club in many options. Thanks to theymos for adding this.
This was ibminer's effort. Absolutely agree. A link to rules wouldn't hurt either  There is one factoid kind-sorta promoting trust lists: The trust scores you see are subjective; they will change depending on who you have in your trust list. |
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You really need to either man up and show exactly which argument in my replies to af_newbie comment about physically eliminating collaborators is a "straw man" argument, or just quietly stop using long words you don't know the meaning of.
Your concern-trolling about people using rubles and about children is an example of such strawmanning (no one suggested killing children or people using rubles) and I did mention that in my post... perhaps try some reading before going all blue. |
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That is some good scheduling work by the NFL. Wilson against... Hmmm, does Seattle even have a QB? IDK!  Someone is actually passing the ball, I'm shocked too:  I'm kinda rooting for Geno here LOL |
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it's now the start time where Russia starts to fight
Well, they started by gloriously running eastward, so if the whole fight is like that from now on - that's great for everyone involved. |
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Kremlin is running out of fake news. They're replaying their greatest (i.e. most absurd) hits now. August 7: In the Mykolaiv region, Russian troops destroyed an arsenal with 45,000 tons of ammunition supplied to the Ukrainian army by NATO countries, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
September 12: An ammunition depot with 45,000 tons of ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the settlement of Voznesensk, Mykolaiv region, the Defense Ministry said.
45 thousand tons, twice LOL. Fucking morons can't even math. |
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Proof:
That's not proof. Seriously, how likely is it that 3 games in a row will end up 94-86 each one?
Why don't you tell us. Is it 1 in a million, one in a billion, etc probability? Statistically these results are hard to be achieved (3 in a row)
Again, how "hard"? Where is the math? Both 94 and 86 are not uncommon scores in basketball (not like e.g. 49 or 162). |
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Congrats on the easy win, my team put an absolute stinker out there. Less than 25pts between my first four round draft picks...😭, AJ Dillon almost outscored them all. At least i didn't pick any injuries, ahhh...
It ain't over yet. Maybe the Broncos will make it up for you  But yeah I'm currently winning mostly because you had a bad week so far. |
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There is something going on, despite the lack of official coverage my take is that we will see filtrations along the next week, nothing clear, always from intelligence sources that may as well be disinforming. This brings another question: What happens if Putin is demoted? Or, to make it more clear, who the f*ck is now in changer of the "red button" and are they any more trustworthy than Adolf Putin?
Anyone who managed to stay around Putin after 20+ years of his paranoid regime must be as much or more of a psychopath than himself. But I don't think he'll get demoted by his comrades. They all have a lot to lose if the regime falls apart and not much to gain. |
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Ja'Marr my dude... justifying my... uhm... "unconventional strategy" with early picks.
Hopefully Titans can get a few more sacks.
Otherwise a dreadful first week. Should have started Lions RB, who could have possibly known LOL.
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Desperate Russian Terrorist Forces are bombing power plants now. As if there are no more military objectives for them, just destroy everything they can on the way out. Meanwhile in Russia itself: The Ferris wheel "Sun of Moscow" is not working now [...]. The press service of the attraction said that it operates in a "limited mode" in order to exclude a "mass influx of visitors." The Ferris wheel was opened by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the evening of September 10.
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As the Telegram channel “Caution, Moscow” reported, after the opening on September 10, the Ferris wheel worked with malfunctions. Muscovites reported that the attraction stopped moving, because of which visitors got stuck at a height of 140 m.
"Sun of Moscow" is the largest Ferris wheel in Europe.
Superpower in a nutshell. |
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I don't know why, but water in Donetsk dissaperead after the war started. Before everything was fine with it. But again, this is funny that "second worlds superpower" (as russians like to descrive themselves) can't provide water in already like 7 months.
Weren't they getting the water from the Ukrainian side all those years and not bothering to establish their own wells/pumps/reservoirs etc? I thought that's what happened and then they started the invasion in February thinking "well take Kyiv in 3 days so why bother planning ahead".
Anyway, I found the secret plan of Kherson counteroffensive, now it all makes sense, doesn't it:  |
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By the way, here is so-called "lost counteroffensive" (as clown be.open said)  Gotta love русский мир... first thing they do is replace/repaint town signs but in 8 years can't figure out water supply in Donetsk (and there are likely places in Russia that are worse than Donetsk and haven't had war in 70+ years). |
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