Blask Sea isn't strategic point anymore, I think since 1918, when Ottoman Empire dissapeared. Applying "Black sea" argument is means that you're from 19th century. While russia think trough 19th century paradigms, it's weird that a lot of people outside russia think in the same way. You're in the wrong time lapse man

Bad example. I think Kosovo case is more in favour to ukrainians and about that russian claims are shit.  Kosovo inhabited with albanians, and Serbia - with serbs. So it's obvious that Kosovo deservs freedom. The same as Ukraine.

As i said, can't agree with such point of view. russia has surplus of resources: oil, gas, gold, most of Rare earth metals, food, animals, wood and a lot of other valuable things. So i doubt it would need another bunch of resources in Ukraine.

And Russia (at least didn't) consider Europe as enemy, so again, I don't see any reason to start this war to not allow Europe to get some ukrainian resources. It's pure ideological crusade against "corrupted russians" (ukrainians).

Here interesting moment:

"Бaнкиp Пyгaчёв нe paз гoвopил в интepвью, чтo eщё 10 лeт нaзaд Пyтинa интepecoвaли тoлькo 2 тeмы – Укpaинa и Гaзпpoм. Bcё ocтaльнoe былo eмy нeинтepecнo."
https://t.me/tolk_tolk/12823

Translation: Banker Pugachev told in interview that 10 years ago Putin was interested into two things - Ukraine and Gasprom. Everything else were ignored.

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Offtopic

@icopress told me that some bitcointalk users want to donate to Ukraine army trough me. For now, I'm mostly trying to help to Ukrainian Volunteer Army (УДA - Укpaїнcькa Дoбpoвoльчa Apмiя). Because unlike Armed Forces of Ukraine, it's is pure volunteer army, guys fighting without any salary or provision from the government.

I've alredy provided to them some consumables and one thermal image camera


If you want that their mortar squad would kill more russians, you can donate here. I will pin only BTC address at first, if you want to donate through other crypto, please PM me.

bc1q09ttrvhja4x0286nl9gzvs5z4ewvpeswamyvaq



P.S: We have already ordered one Mavic drone, but such things is just a consumables at war, so will be glad for any donations. Depends on their size and my own budget I will buy a drone, or thermal vision camera because guys has only this white Lahoux from me. One thermal camera for 32 soldiers  

If you have a drone or thermal/night vision and do not need it, you can also donate it to UVA, I'll cover all shipment duties.

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UPDATE


Thx to all who donated money to this. As you see, I had drone at 18 of August and now it's on it's way to the frontline! 

Как говорится  Дурень думкою радіє

Но вообще интересно как среднестатистический ватан не понимает глупости таких вот реплик. Крейсер Мацква вон уже думал Одессу забрать, сейчас бороздит дно Черного Моря со своей бравой командой безвестипропавших 

Looks like this wrote neural link, not a human. Man, this is not a gambling section, you should put more efforts and sense in your posts. Or go shitpost somewhere else.

Maybe I'm a little bit offensive, but really, your text to common.

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About OP - you're also wrong. Russia unable to win not because of bonds, rather because it has shitty army and low morale of it's own troops. Also, it highly dependent on westerns part for it's own military production.

Sometimes shit happens. But i will show you another example: 

UAV with grenade and dead russians - https://t.me/valerii_markus/575
Pretty interesting video, especially the moment where head of one russian orc flew away 

Деды и отцы ждали падения капитализма и злобной натовской военщины, вы ждете падения одного президента. Мельчаете 

Ничего, вот это я буду смеяться, когда вас, настоящих клоунов поставят под ружье и отправят "денацифицировать". Опыт того как это будет происходить хорошо виден на бантустанах ЛДНР. Под ружье пойдут тупо ВСЕ. И ты в том числе. И местные дурачки (если только не в МСК сидят).

Чем не сказка? Сам сможешь "скинуть клоуна". Только семечки в карманы положи 

Here is my long promised story. Because of obvious reasons there will be not much of pictures. And this will be a short stories about some interesting and not-so-obvious facts.

Sooo. From what to start?

How I met the war


(So true)

I woke at 5.30 AM of February 24th because of sounds of explosions. I was not fully awakened and I lied in bed with thougths like "Omg, i hope this is storm, not what_I_think_it_is". After 15 minutes I got out of my bed, went to my panorama window and saw some Mordor-style horizon on the north. Then I had checked news before understood that it isn't a joke. A war FINALLY started.



Yep, because of two month of unrest about main question "Will there be war or not?" my first thought after accepting the fact was "Oh, FINALLY it happened!". At least i will not be thinking about potential of war anymore  

The same vibes were also between my friends, no panic, just accepting the fact and move forward.

And yeah, I was fully prepared for such scenario: I had (!) a gun (which i gave to my friend on frontline later), military equipment (yep, i gave it too), a lot of cash, alert-backpacks, I knew safe place where i can take my relatives. Sometimes paranoia is for better , because a lot of my friends really do not know what to do.

The situation in Kyiv in the first days of war

GENERAL


(russian X-31P air-to-surface missile downed by ukrainian SAM at the morning of 24th of February)

February 24 and February 25 was the hardest days, because people didn't know what will be next and how it all will end. I've heard a lot of coolstories, like "Oh, this is just for 2-3 days, until russians will conquer all Ukraine territory and after that there will be order and the law" (LOL). Also, at first days Kyiv was heavily bombed and a lot of people who didn't run on 24th, after the first night understood that to stay in potentially besieged city is a bad idea .

Here is photo from my friend who lived at Poznyaki





I'm not sure what is this part of, maybe another russian cruise missile.

Many services (like Uber taxi) suspended their work, most of restaurants and bars did the same. Mostly because of the reason that many workers lived on the left side and all restaurants are on the right side of the city. And bridges was mostly impossible to pass.


(because of common services suspended their work it was impossible to repair or take out your car, so the guy just left his broken car on the street. In high resolution it can be seen yellow "SOS" on rear glass of the car)

As you can see, only one side on Northern Bridge worked, and all cars and people were heavily checked by army and police.  When I tried to pass through this bridge, soldiers had checked my passport, pockets, backpack, asked few cunning question (To know did i was really from Kyiv or not)

In first 2-3 days public transport worked, but in the next days it also suspended it's own work (as I know)

SUBWAY

Subway worked at the same time as the only arteria which connect different areas of the city and as a shelter. At every station only one entrance with a lot of armed police worked and if you wanted to enter, police would check your ID, all your backpacks, pockets and  may ask you some specify questions.

Inside of subway one line is worked (train moved in one side and then to another) and the second line served as a shelter with a trains where you can live as long as you want. Here is how it looked:



Also, a lot of people lived on the station itself in tents.

Here is a map of Kyiv subway in the first month of the war:


FOOD

With food things happened to be really funny:



While there were empty shelves with some cheap stuf, all expensive food was at it's place in great numbers. Hamon, oysters, salmon, expsnive chocolate shrimps, lobsters, snails, crayfish. Yeah, crayfish:


(Screenshot from video sent to me by my friend Kvanko. As you see, it was a horrible death )


What I did during the war

Firstly, take my relatives to safe place outside the Kyiv.
Secondly, went to territorial defence near safe place, but it happened to be really lame, it was more about standing on blockposts than something really useful. And I was the only guy who know some basic tactic skills and medicine. So i left this guys (I was able to do that since i didn't sign anything by the time) and went to Kyiv.

Yeah, because of first two points, I've lost needed time to be drafted. I came to Kyiv at 2nd of March and by that time they didn't accept any new people (because of a lot of volunteers)

So, I started to volunteer. Since I have my own tactical equipment store, I gave everything with a 50 % discount (zero interest) and start to buy equipment outside of Ukraine (in German and Poland mostly).


(this is the second consignment of military equipment. As you can see, this is mostly high tech thermal vision. Thanks to one good user of Bitcointalk!)

Small results of my work:

Translation: Pointing those to whom you help

But this story I will tell you tomorrow (or later, ha ha)

yeah, this is just from his words. And one interesting fact: For some reason operator shows NLAW only from side, not in front.
Maybe this because this NLAWs already used? *thinking* 

And yeah, mostly only oldies on this exhibition telling some crazy stories, typical. 

You're wrong. This hasn't anything with capitalism and war over resources. This mostly about ideological war, "War of memes" . Russians consider ukrainians as "fake" nation so they want to correct it. The war is the result of such "correction"

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Also, added new info to @culture_context post. You're welcome to read

Yeah, i know that double posting isn't cool, but some important things should be a separate message. I will sort different information under different hashtags, like "@culture_context. But this message should be separate. Please, do not include it in other posts

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Russian Nervus rerum^*

Many of people all around the world asking: What is the main goal of Russia in this war?

Answer: Destruction of Ukraine, it's culture and language.



But if we will try to look in higher orders? For example, Russia will break Ukraine. What will be next? Let see what russians think about it:


https://kenigtiger.livejournal.com/2162973.html

Translation: "If war will end in Kyiv (means: Russia will conquer Ukraine), the next war will start, again and again until we nuke some western city or they will run out of eastern europe and Asia countries"

So, the answer is pretty clear: War Without an End

This is mostly because russian consider their country as besieged by endless enemies. Western World - enemy, China - enemy, Finland - enemy, Japan - enemy and so on.



Russians like to quote words of russian emperor Alexander the Third :  "Russia has only two allies: the Army and the Navy."
Look at this russian meme. They quote Alexander and add to his words: "More than 100 years have passed, but nothing has changed"



So yeah, you can share it for all idiots who are talking about "peaceful talk" and all other such shit.

Also, read this twitter thread if you didn't done this yet

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*Nervus rerum - Main Goal

You're wrong here. Despite the fact that noone had seen any "nato general" through captive on Azovstal, russian in general still believe in existence of such generals.

The reason why they don't see them for russian is easy: "Our NOVIOPS already exchanged generals behind our backs"

It's easy to check if casino has USA/EU license. You can look where this company registered.
At first, UK/USA/EU license not cheap and you need to implement some quality standards to achieve it. And because of price, I doubt that casino will break them, because after that it would get into court and lost money paid for license.

But only few online casinos and betting sites are registered within EU/UK/USA zones.

Ahahahaha, good explanation. man. I think this is enough good reason to stop play on Stake (if you're OP and don't want to play anymore, ofc) 

This is typical practice within casinos. They know you're violating something but they want you to spend your money. If you win - you're get in trouble. Otherwise - no problem. Until you start to win, as i said

No. You're wrong.
As i said above the main problem with your balance amount. It must be endless to fulfill matingale probability. Otherwise you at risk to lose everything and not to achieve victory (winning outcome). Because Martingale doesn't promise that winning bet will be after 10-100-1000 bets. It can be after 1 000 000 bets. So you need endless resources.

I think that this doesn't have any sense. Gambling is gambling because when you're betting on smth, you at risk to lose your money and so on. Without it feeling will not be the same. My IMHO.

And my observation of course. In poker without good bank everyone losing interest to fast.

I'll tell again and again: Martingale works only if you have endless resources. By the term "endless" I mean really "ENDLESS", even more than few trillions of dollars  Only in this case Martingale will work for sure. Or, you can decrease your bet, that it would tends to zero.

As we know from math lim resources (bet) _{(bet > 0 )} > endless
But in real life this doesn't have too much sense.

So just don't use Martingale 

I think this is about marketing and creating a name.
There too much competition in gambling market right now, so better payouts it's important argument for many players.



For honest - no.
The only thing I'm looking at is proofs of provably fair algorythm, nothing more.

Exactly. And the answer for question "How to choose proper casino?" is easy: Choose those who has EU/USA license. Not of grey offshore, not of some third world countries. No. EU or USA - in this case you will be sure that casino not cheating and that it will not sell your data to some shady hackers. 

Sounds like a "cool story", if you know what i mean.
27 000 dollars for such company as FedEx this is nothing. Is like 27 cent for you. Will they help you? I doubt it.

And of course, Smith could lose his 5000 dollars and then jump out of the window. Much more probable outcome than such "success story".