Pretty sure Joe had that wrapped up after like... page 10. I had to put him on ignore so I didn't develop arthritis.
This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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Pretty sure Joe had that wrapped up after like... page 10. I had to put him on ignore so I didn't develop arthritis.
The Russian Elite Can’t Stand the Sanctions
The latest measures are far more effective than Western powers’ past efforts to target Russia’s elite.
Could it be the Russian communications are so bad not all thier troops know there was a cease fire?
Or it could be Putin is just a lying prick.
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Probably a little bit of both. With how inept Russia's military has been so far, it wouldn't be surprising to me if they were fighting blind at this point.
That and Putin is a lying piece of shit... it was alluded to earlier in this thread, he's probably trying to use this to get provisions to the front lines.
That’s what NATO could do in the country. Evacuate Ukrainian civilians. Don’t have to fire bullets,
No, because you are terrorist sympathizing scum. The Soviet Union is never coming back you lunatic.
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What kind of anti-American pro-Kremlin shit is this? Have you lost your Goddamned mind?
How upsetting is this news to you?
You can't have "guatanteed neutrality," that's absurd. Who is going to guarantee it, and with what? So we "guarantee" Ukraine's sovereignty, and Russia invades again. Then what? We fight Russia? And anyway, the US, UK, and Russia ALREADY guaranteed Ukraine's sovereignty and security, in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, YFRS, and look what happened to them. We "guaranteed" their security, but not fighting for them. The only "guaranteed" security they'll ever get is by joining NATO.
Called it! They will not act honorable in any facet of this war of aggression, peace talks, ceasefire, never!
Assume duplicity, assume barbarity, and you will be correct.
"They dragged Ukraine into war"???
No. Putin cannot allow another functional democracy on his border; one that has ethnic Russians in it who can communicate to others inside Russia about how much better life there is w/o rampant corruption.
You seem to be confused about "economic" systems vs "political" systems.
It's autocracy.
@HawkFan1298 why did you like the Russian stooge @seminole97 post that blames the west and Ukraine for this war? This is the Kremlin’s rationale for invading and ethnically cleansing its neighbor.
It also has the hashtag #istandwithrussia for ****s sake!
NO! I unequivocally do NOT stand with Russia.
It also has the hashtag #istandwithrussia for ****s sake!
NO! I unequivocally do NOT stand with Russia.
In his defense, he is confused about, well, just about everything.
Weak? No. We're not weak.
We're greedy as ****.
And bribable.
That's been the West's Achilles heel, and Putin has played it marvelously.
Confusion seems to be one of his better traits.
Anything to the left of outright fascism is to them, socialism, or to some of the more inbred ones, communism. But they love when the feds bail out their states for failed policies, or their banks for corrupt business practices.
Putin now saying sanctions are akin to declaration of war. He’s dying and wants the world to burn.
Looks like that thing crash landed on someone's farm... 👀
He knows he's going to lose this war, and his military is going to turn on him for the humiliation. Putin is now wondering if his end is going to be at the end of a rope, or a bullet in the brain.
"guaranteed neutrality" means putting another Putin puppet/oligarch in charge.
That's the ONLY acceptable outcome for him; no 'self rule' for Ukraine. Only servitude and corruption.
No no no, it can't be. The "wise" folks on HROT just 4? pages ago were saying Putin was laughing at the sanctions as they were some weak Biden policy.
Not really socialism, but social democracies.
But the point is spot-on. Just because there are social safety-nets in place doesn't lead to autocracy. Those people in the Nordic countries have voting rights and representation, and are (by surveys) some of the happiest people on Earth.
Autocracy happens when people lose their right to vote or lose their right to have their vote properly counted. EXACTLY what is happening in the United States right now - led by one political party that has it's hands full of Putin cash. And that ain't a coincidence.
EDIT: Autocracies and oligarchies ALSO happen when rule of law is undermined, and there aren't any oversight functions or controls over government leaders and institutions. And I'm sure most here can recall which politicians and political party was all about retaliating against "whistleblowers". That is PRECISELY what will take you down the road to autocracy. But the posters who cheerlead this shit seem to not be capable of connecting those dots.
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