Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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CAPTAINCRUNCH

Thursday, February 24, 2022 9:42 PM

What an evil selfish prick Putin is. Does anyone but him benefit from this? And now? After 2 years of covid crap? Kill thousands and crash the world economy so he can redraw a MAP?!?? What fcking dinosaur. I look forward to watching this blow up in his face.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/world/europe/putin-speech-russia-uk
raine.html

Word by Word and Between the Lines: A Close Look at Putin’s Speech

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, February 25, 2022 12:33 AM

Hey. There he is.

Ted's been crying since you've been gone.

How's the first terrible year of Biden*'s horrible presidency treating you?

P.S.

Barack Obama is President: Putin invades Crimea.

Donald Trump is President: Putin doesn't do shit.

Joe Biden* is President: Putin invades Ukraine.

One of these things is not like the other.

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WHOZIT

Friday, February 25, 2022 12:34 AM

Well get ready because China is going to move next, and keep an eye on Iran

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, February 25, 2022 12:55 AM

November can't come fast enough.

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SECOND

Friday, February 25, 2022 2:07 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Barack Obama is President: Putin invades Crimea.

Donald Trump is President: Putin doesn't do shit.

Joe Biden* is President: Putin invades Ukraine.

One of these things is not like the other.

Putin is a thug; Ukraine is more or less blameless in all this; Donald Trump should be ashamed of himself; ditto for much of the Republican Party and its poltroonish "Putin is only doing this because Biden is weak" crap; every Western country should toss out Russian nationals and restrict visitor visas to one week; Europe needs to get more serious about military power; this is the first major European war in which one country has invaded another with the intent of permanently taking its territory.

Russia under Putin is a pariah nation. Whatever else you can say about the US invasion of Iraq—and you can say plenty—it was never an attempt to annex territory permanently. This is. Russia needs to be isolated from the rest of the world as long as it pursues this kind of war.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

THG

Friday, February 25, 2022 2:36 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:

What an evil selfish prick Putin is. Does anyone but him benefit from this? And now? After 2 years of covid crap? Kill thousands and crash the world economy so he can redraw a MAP?!?? What fcking dinosaur. I look forward to watching this blow up in his face.

Hey G. Can you stick around a bit? It would be so so good to have another sane person keeping tabs on this. Also, its' good to see you're good.

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, February 25, 2022 6:34 AM

Yes. Please. Stick around G. One more screaming and crying voice to watch fall apart when November comes around and Democrats are never in power again.

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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Friday, February 25, 2022 7:41 AM

I thought pizmo beach was in CA. Maybe it's actually in Ukraine. Which explains a lot.

CAPTAINCRUNCH

Friday, February 25, 2022 7:49 PM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I thought pizmo beach was in CA. Maybe it's actually in Ukraine. Which explains a lot.

I think heard somewhere that Putin has been captured by Ukrainian special ops.

CAPTAINCRUNCH

Friday, February 25, 2022 7:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:

What an evil selfish prick Putin is. Does anyone but him benefit from this? And now? After 2 years of covid crap? Kill thousands and crash the world economy so he can redraw a MAP?!?? What fcking dinosaur. I look forward to watching this blow up in his face.

Hey G. Can you stick around a bit? It would be so so good to have another sane person keeping tabs on this. Also, its' good to see you're good.

T

Hey T - good to see you as well. I've checked in from time to time, but sadly nothing ever seems to change. Same broken logic, same idiocy, same lack of any intelligent discussion. Just stupid blah blah and repeat. We'll see.

SECOND

Friday, February 25, 2022 8:25 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:

Hey T - good to see you as well. I've checked in from time to time, but sadly nothing ever seems to change. Same broken logic, same idiocy, same lack of any intelligent discussion. Just stupid blah blah and repeat. We'll see.

You might think this is a satirical story from The Onion, but it is the New York Times:

Putin Threatens Nuclear War Against The Planet, As Experts Question His Sanity

Putin made clear his true target is America’s “empire of lies,” and he threatened “consequences you have never faced in your history” for “anyone who tries to interfere with us.”

Given Russia’s nuclear arsenal, he said, “there should be no doubt that any potential aggressor will face defeat and ominous consequences should it directly attack our country.” He added: “All necessary decisions have been taken in this regard.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20220225074515/https://www.nytimes.com/202
2/02/24/world/europe/us-putin-nuclear-war-nato.html

Somebody needs to talk to Putin like Mal talked to the Operative in Serenity: "You do that, best make peace with your dear and fluffy lord."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

WHOZIT

Friday, February 25, 2022 8:48 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:

Hey T - good to see you as well. I've checked in from time to time, but sadly nothing ever seems to change. Same broken logic, same idiocy, same lack of any intelligent discussion. Just stupid blah blah and repeat. We'll see.
You might think this is a satirical story from The Onion, but it is the New York Times:

Putin Threatens Nuclear War Against The Planet, As Experts Question His Sanity

Putin made clear his true target is America’s “empire of lies,” and he threatened “consequences you have never faced in your history” for “anyone who tries to interfere with us.”

Given Russia’s nuclear arsenal, he said, “there should be no doubt that any potential aggressor will face defeat and ominous consequences should it directly attack our country.” He added: “All necessary decisions have been taken in this regard.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20220225074515/https://www.nytimes.com/202
2/02/24/world/europe/us-putin-nuclear-war-nato.html

Somebody needs to talk to Putin like Mal talked to the Operative in Serenity: "You do that, best make peace with your dear and fluffy lord."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Bull, when the war is over in Ukraine in a few weeks the EU will want to be friends with Vlad again and he knows this.

SECOND

Friday, February 25, 2022 9:32 PM

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Originally posted by whozit:

Bull, when the war is over in Ukraine in a few weeks the EU will want to be friends with Vlad again and he knows this.

I think Ukraine has already lost. The President of Ukraine just hasn't fled, yet, but this guy was NOT ready. Even last week he would not admit war was about to happen to him.

The governments of the EU which are actually controlled by the richest 1% of population will very possibly want to be friends with Putin, next year, because to permanently stop trading with Russia would reduce the wealth of the 1% wealthiest. As for the rest of voters, they don't want the high fuel prices and shortages caused by not trading with Russia, and they will express themselves when voting.

To see EU actually blow up the Kremlin and Putin? That would be too disruptive for EU to even think about it. They'd worry about who'd replace Putin. Much easier for America to give some anti-tank weapons to Ukraine and the EU be disappointed when Ukrainian soldiers use a few of the missiles and then resell the rest for a profit after fleeing Ukraine.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

THG

Friday, February 25, 2022 9:37 PM

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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:

What an evil selfish prick Putin is. Does anyone but him benefit from this? And now? After 2 years of covid crap? Kill thousands and crash the world economy so he can redraw a MAP?!?? What fcking dinosaur. I look forward to watching this blow up in his face.

Hey G. Can you stick around a bit? It would be so so good to have another sane person keeping tabs on this. Also, its' good to see you're good.

T

Hey T - good to see you as well. I've checked in from time to time, but sadly nothing ever seems to change. Same broken logic, same idiocy, same lack of any intelligent discussion. Just stupid blah blah and repeat. We'll see.

I hear you G. Truth be told I could chose to leave tomorrow, but for today I’m here.

I have long dispelled any notion of a firefly reboot G but with Disney now owning it there is hope. Disney is up to its neck in space shows. If it is rebooted this site will bang back to life unless all that are left are trolls. If there is to be a reboot it may not be too long off. Pushing back against the trolls may be what’s needed at the moment to allow a fireflyfans reboot as well.

T

CAPTAINCRUNCH

Friday, February 25, 2022 10:17 PM

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Originally posted by second:
I think Ukraine has already lost. The President of Ukraine just hasn't fled, yet, but this guy was NOT ready. Even last week he would not admit war was about to happen to him.

The governments of the EU which are actually controlled by the richest 1% of population will very possibly want to be friends with Putin, next year, because to permanently stop trading with Russia would reduce the wealth of the 1% wealthiest. As for the rest of voters, they don't want the high fuel prices and shortages caused by not trading with Russia, and they will express themselves when voting.

To see EU actually blow up the Kremlin and Putin? That would be too disruptive for EU to even think about it. They'd worry about who'd replace Putin. Much easier for America to give some anti-tank weapons to Ukraine and the EU be disappointed when Ukrainian soldiers use a few of the missiles and then resell the rest for a profit after fleeing Ukraine.

That's the spirit, second!

SECOND

Friday, February 25, 2022 10:18 PM

‘This might be the last time you see me alive,’ Ukrainian president says.

Zelenskyy said in the same speech that he was “target No. 1” for Russian forces.

Zelenskyy said his family was target No. 2.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-ukraine-live-updates-this-
might-be-the-last-time-you-see-me-alive-ukrainian-president-says/ar-AAUax9O

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, February 25, 2022 10:48 PM

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Originally posted by THG:
I hear you G. Truth be told I could chose to leave tomorrow, but for today I’m here.

I have long dispelled any notion of a firefly reboot G but with Disney now owning it there is hope. Disney is up to its neck in space shows. If it is rebooted this site will bang back to life unless all that are left are trolls. If there is to be a reboot it may not be too long off. Pushing back against the trolls may be what’s needed at the moment to allow a fireflyfans reboot as well.

1. Disney destroys everything it touches. If Disney reboots firefly, it won't have more than one season, and this time it will be well earned.

2. You need to get it out of your head that you are special or important. You are neither. None of us are. Nobody here is keeping a Firefly reboot from being made, and nobody here is going to do anything to make sure that one is made.

3. If this site stays up for the long haul, history will show that you were on the wrong side the whole time. You are not the good guy.

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SECOND

Friday, February 25, 2022 11:05 PM

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Originally posted by captaincrunch:

That's the spirit, second!

It is NOT MUCH, but at least somebody will do something . . . 3 months from now:

UEFA moves Champions League Final from St. Petersburg Russia as sporting world reacts to Russian invasion of Ukraine. The game will be May 28, a little too late to discourage Putin. Is UEFA kicking all the Russian teams out of the sport? No, it is not. Also, a Formula 1 race will not be held in Russia on September 23-25. Truly a crushing blow to Putin. No, it is not. Will all Russian cars be kicked out of all races? No.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/sport/champions-league-final-russia-ukr
aine-sport-reaction-spt-intl/index.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

SECOND

Friday, February 25, 2022 11:22 PM

Why the US won’t send troops to Ukraine

In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait in a naked war of territorial aggression. The next year, the US and an allied coalition intervened under the auspices of the United Nations Security Council, repulsing the Iraqi invasion. Today, as Russia is engaged in a similar aggressive war against Ukraine, there is no similar American effort in the offing — even as Ukrainian leaders have pleaded for Western assistance. Not gonna get it.

There are many dissimilarities between the situations in 1991 and 2022, but the biggest one is this: Saddam Hussein, rather famously, did not have nuclear weapons. Vladimir Putin has approximately 6,000 of them. And that makes all the difference.

Both before the invasion and afterward, the Biden administration has consistently ruled out the deployment of US troops. “Let me say it again: Our forces are not — and will not — be engaged in the conflict with Russia in Ukraine,” the president said in a Thursday address. Despite the warnings of American involvement from commentators on the Trumpist right and “anti-imperialist” left, there are no signs of this policy changing. Nuclear weapons are the chief reason why.

The logic of mutually assured destruction that defined the Cold War still works, to some degree: Russia’s arsenal makes any direct intervention in Ukraine riskier than any rational American leader could tolerate. In a sense, then, Russia’s nuclear weapons make it less likely that the conflict will kick off World War III.

But in another sense, Russia’s nuclear arsenal also helped create the conditions where Putin’s invasion could happen in the first place.

Political scientists call this the “stability-instability paradox,” the notion that nuclear deterrence has had the paradoxical effect of making certain kinds of conventional warfare more likely. Russia can be relatively confident that the United States and its allies won’t come to Ukraine’s defense directly, because such a clash carries the threat of nuclear war. This could make Putin more confident that his invasion could succeed.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/2/25/22949351/ukraine-rus
sia-us-troops-no-fly-zone-nuclear-weapons

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

THG

Friday, February 25, 2022 11:34 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:

‘This might be the last time you see me alive,’ Ukrainian president says.

Zelenskyy said in the same speech that he was “target No. 1” for Russian forces.

Zelenskyy said his family was target No. 2.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-ukraine-live-updates-this-
might-be-the-last-time-you-see-me-alive-ukrainian-president-says/ar-AAUax9O

If they get him, it is because he is an ass. Everybody but him seemed to realize you can't set up shop in a city that can be quickly taken over. That same stupidity kept him telling his people Russia won't invade. At first maybe to keep calm but even then, he should have had them prepare.

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, February 25, 2022 11:58 PM

He should find out where Justin Trudeau was hiding for weeks.

One of the safest places on the planet.

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CAPTAINCRUNCH

Saturday, February 26, 2022 12:31 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
It is NOT MUCH, but at least somebody will do something . . . 3 months from now:
UEFA moves Champions League Final from St. Petersburg Russia as sporting world reacts to Russian invasion of Ukraine. The game will be May 28, a little too late to discourage Putin. Is UEFA kicking all the Russian teams out of the sport? No, it is not. Also, a Formula 1 race will not be held in Russia on September 23-25. Truly a crushing blow to Putin. No, it is not. Will all Russian cars be kicked out of all races? No.

I was unaware that Russia owned any F1 Team. There was 1 Russian driver in F1 in 2021, Nikita Mazepin. He was so bad he placed 21st out of 20. He DNF'd 'did not finish,' in 5 races and simply 'did not show' for a 6th. His first race in '21 he did not make it through... wait for it... the first turn. I laughed so hard I almost hurt myself. So let 'em race. He was an embarrassment to all of Russia.

Yes, most things so far are purely symbolic. But some are powerful symbols, and if there are enough, together they can motivate change. Gazprom is being banned from sponsorship, Aeroflot banned from landing. Keep adding to those and we might find those 1% in the EU less likely to go along with Vlad the Evil Dipsht.

SECOND

Saturday, February 26, 2022 2:14 AM

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Originally posted by captaincrunch:

Yes, most things so far are purely symbolic. But some are powerful symbols, and if there are enough, together they can motivate change. Gazprom is being banned from sponsorship, Aeroflot banned from landing. Keep adding to those and we might find those 1% in the EU less likely to go along with Vlad the Evil Dipsht.

Less symbolism and more materialism, if the EU was not pouring HUGE quantities of money into Russia, Putin wouldn't feel invulnerable.

Putin believes the EU will keep buying his Russian brand of fuel. If Putin's belief is correct, he can invade Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and only expect more symbolism from the EU. The EU is gonna have to decide whether to either say goodbye to the Baltic States or goodbye to Russian fuel. If Putin is right and the EU will not cut back on fuel purchases than the EU can only fight him with more symbolism, and more words, and more refugees from Ukraine. I'm absolutely sure Putin will be pleased to send the EU many more refugees who don't speak Russian as their first language.

Russia’s economy is highly dependent on exports of commodities with revenues from sales of crude oil, petroleum products, and natural gas accounting for about a half of Russia’s federal budget. Russia’s main exports are: fuels and energy products (63 percent of total shipments) . . .

https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/exports

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

SECOND

Saturday, February 26, 2022 5:05 AM

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Originally posted by captaincrunch:

I was unaware that Russia owned any F1 Team. There was 1 Russian driver in F1 in 2021, Nikita Mazepin. He was so bad he placed 21st out of 20. He DNF'd 'did not finish,' in 5 races and simply 'did not show' for a 6th. His first race in '21 he did not make it through... wait for it... the first turn. I laughed so hard I almost hurt myself. So let 'em race. He was an embarrassment to all of Russia.

Yes, most things so far are purely symbolic. . . .

News from Feb 25, 2022 -- Question marks surround the U.S.-licensed Haas team, which has connections to Russia through its title sponsor Uralkali and driver Nikita Mazepin, a Russian-born driver who joined Haas in 2021. Mazepin’s father Dmitry, who controls the Uralkali firm that specializes in potash fertilizer, is a close confidant of Putin. Mazepin, 22, drove the car on Friday morning but did so in an all-white livery after its red and blue, which drew comparisons to the Russian flag, was removed.
https://www.autoweek.com/racing/formula-1/a39222996/haas-f1-team-sudde
nly-headache-russian-connections/

I'm sure Putin doesn't care if some Russian kid drives, or doesn't. If a million Russian drivers couldn't race, it still wouldn't make Putin even blink at leaving Ukraine.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

THG

Saturday, February 26, 2022 9:38 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
It is NOT MUCH, but at least somebody will do something . . . 3 months from now:
UEFA moves Champions League Final from St. Petersburg Russia as sporting world reacts to Russian invasion of Ukraine. The game will be May 28, a little too late to discourage Putin. Is UEFA kicking all the Russian teams out of the sport? No, it is not. Also, a Formula 1 race will not be held in Russia on September 23-25. Truly a crushing blow to Putin. No, it is not. Will all Russian cars be kicked out of all races? No.

I was unaware that Russia owned any F1 Team. There was 1 Russian driver in F1 in 2021, Nikita Mazepin. He was so bad he placed 21st out of 20. He DNF'd 'did not finish,' in 5 races and simply 'did not show' for a 6th. His first race in '21 he did not make it through... wait for it... the first turn. I laughed so hard I almost hurt myself. So let 'em race. He was an embarrassment to all of Russia.

Yes, most things so far are purely symbolic. But some are powerful symbols, and if there are enough, together they can motivate change. Gazprom is being banned from sponsorship, Aeroflot banned from landing. Keep adding to those and we might find those 1% in the EU less likely to go along with Vlad the Evil Dipsht.

They've sanctioned Putin directly now which is unheard of. It makes the statement that they are done politically with him. That he is illegit. That's huge, and they are close to shutting down any commutations between Russia and any financial institutions outside of Russia. Again, that's huge.

Putin annexed both Crimea and Georgia and it was a cake walk. Neither of them nor the world fought back. He could not have seen this shit coming.

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, February 26, 2022 10:24 AM

If they can cut off bank accounts to an entire nation, the Freedom Convoy never stood a chance.

The New World Order is in control now.

Look back fondly on 2019 and before it. Because the life we used to know will never be again.

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JONGSSTRAW

Saturday, February 26, 2022 6:03 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

If they can cut off bank accounts to an entire nation, the Freedom Convoy never stood a chance.

The New World Order is in control now.

Look back fondly on 2019 and before it. Because the life we used to know will never be again.

Russia, China, and Iran are the New Axis powers. Between them they have everything they need (armies, nukes, oil revenues) to take over half the world, especially when the weak and woke West is "too civilized" to do a damn thing about it.

During 1945 when Russia was invading Germany from the East and then sacking Berlin, the Russian Army was actually encouraged by their officers to terrorize the civilian population. As many as 3 million German women and girls were brutalized and raped, often gang-raped. I wonder how CNN and the rest of their oh-so-progressive ilk will live with that reality playing out in front of their smug self-righteous retarded faces.

THG

Saturday, February 26, 2022 7:13 PM

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

If they can cut off bank accounts to an entire nation, the Freedom Convoy never stood a chance.

The New World Order is in control now.

Look back fondly on 2019 and before it. Because the life we used to know will never be again.

Russia, China, and Iran are the New Axis powers. Between them they have everything they need (armies, nukes, oil revenues) to take over half the world, especially when the weak and woke West is "too civilized" to do a damn thing about it.

During 1945 when Russia was invading Germany from the East and then sacking Berlin, the Russian Army was actually encouraged by their officers to terrorize the civilian population. As many as 3 million German women and girls were brutalized and raped, often gang-raped. I wonder how CNN and the rest of their oh-so-progressive ilk will live with that reality playing out in front of their smug self-righteous retarded faces.

I reject your premise that we need bullies and corrupt bad guys to deal with their bullies and corrupt bad guys. I further reject your premise that Russia China and Iran can take over half the world unless they currently hold that much territory. Their expansionism will be checked. Especially now since they are seeing the consequences Russia is and are going to suffer.

So far, it’s said the Russians have lost 14 planes, 8 helicopters, 102 tanks, 536 BBM, armored combat vehicles, 15 heavy machine guns, and 1 BUK missile since Feb. 24, according to Ukraine's military. The Kremlin also lost over 3,500 soldiers. Remember, this does not include the sanctions, and China is watching.

They’re getting their clocks cleaned by an army with half their resources and training. China is even less capable of actual fighting. Iran and North Korea are little more than an irritant. As for America being to woke to fight back, think again.

Without firing a shot America and our allies have helped Ukraine shame the Russian army. If Putin wants he’ll commit the rest of his troops and shut the active war down but the Ukrainian army has sent a chilling message to Moscow. And it is prepared to fight as an insurgency going forward.

You want to talk about woke? Europe has been woke. Reminded why they stand united as NATO. It’s one of the biggest consequences of Russia’s behavior. NATO now has a huge new commitment to sustaining, improving and expanding.

tick tock

T

SECOND

Saturday, February 26, 2022 8:00 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
If they can cut off bank accounts to an entire nation, the Freedom Convoy never stood a chance.

The New World Order is in control now.

Look back fondly on 2019 and before it. Because the life we used to know will never be again.

You're such a drama queen, 6ix. 6ix probably doesn't understand SWIFT. What is it?

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) was founded in 1973 to replace the telex and is now used by over 11,000 financial institutions to send secure messages and payment orders. With no globally accepted alternative, it is essential plumbing for global finance.

Removing Russia from SWIFT would make it much harder for financial institutions to send money in or out of the country, delivering a sudden shock to Russian companies and their foreign customers — especially buyers of oil and gas exports denominated in US dollars.

What happens if Russia is removed from SWIFT?

There is precedent for removing a country from SWIFT.

SWIFT unplugged Iranian banks in 2012 after they were sanctioned by the European Union over the country’s nuclear program. Iran lost almost half of its oil export revenue and 30% of foreign trade following the disconnection, according to Shagina.

Senior Russian lawmakers have said that shipments of oil, gas and metals to Europe would stop.

“If Russia is disconnected from SWIFT, then we will not receive foreign currency, but buyers, European countries in the first place, will not receive our goods — oil, gas, metals and other important components,” Nikolai Zhuravlev, vice speaker of Russia’s upper house of parliament, said last week, according to state media outlet TASS.

More at https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/business/swift-russia-putin

6ix, without SWIFT, Europe and Russian trade would switch to bartering rather than payments in money. But the bartering could be cut off by closing railroads and pipelines from Russia, which takes more physical effort than disconnecting Russia from SWIFT.

Russia has taken steps in recent years to blunt the trauma should it be removed from SWIFT.

Moscow established its own payment system, SPFS, after it was hit by Western sanctions in 2014 following its annexation of Crimea. SPFS now has around 400 users, according to Russia’s central bank. Twenty percent of domestic transfers are currently done through SPFS, according to Shagina, but the size of messages are limited and operations are limited to weekday hours.

China’s fledgling Cross-Border Interbank Payment System, or CIPS, may provide another alternative to SWIFT. Moscow could also be forced to resort to using cryptocurrencies.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

CAPTAINCRUNCH

Saturday, February 26, 2022 8:12 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
I reject your premise that we need bullies and corrupt bad guys to deal with their bullies and corrupt bad guys. I further reject your premise that Russia China and Iran can take over half the world unless they currently hold that much territory. Their expansionism will be checked. Especially now since they are seeing the consequences Russia is and are going to suffer.

So far, it’s said the Russians have lost 14 planes, 8 helicopters, 102 tanks, 536 BBM, armored combat vehicles, 15 heavy machine guns, and 1 BUK missile since Feb. 24, according to Ukraine's military. The Kremlin also lost over 3,500 soldiers. Remember, this does not include the sanctions, and China is watching.

They’re getting their clocks cleaned by an army with half their resources and training. China is even less capable of actual fighting. Iran and North Korea are little more than an irritant. As for America being to woke to fight back, think again.

Without firing a shot America and our allies have helped Ukraine shame the Russian army. If Putin wants he’ll commit the rest of his troops and shut the active war down but the Ukrainian army has sent a chilling message to Moscow. And it is prepared to fight as an insurgency going forward.

You want to talk about woke? Europe has been woke, reminded why they stand united as NATO. It’s one of the biggest consequences of Russia’s behavior. NATO now has a huge new commitment to sustaining, improving and expanding.

tick tock

Truth! NATO looks more important than ever. On the one hand I wish they would go in and fight with Ukraine as if they were in NATO. On the other, more coldly practical hand, it might be easier and a hell of a lot less deadly to hope for a swift capture of Ukraine so A) fighting would stop, and B) sanctions and the corner that Putin has put himself into will just get darker and darker until some able bodied Russian puts a slug in his head.

CAPTAINCRUNCH

Saturday, February 26, 2022 8:14 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

If they can cut off bank accounts to an entire nation, the Freedom Convoy never stood a chance.

The New World Order is in control now.

Look back fondly on 2019 and before it. Because the life we used to know will never be again.

Russia, China, and Iran are the New Axis powers. Between them they have everything they need (armies, nukes, oil revenues) to take over half the world, especially when the weak and woke West is "too civilized" to do a damn thing about it.

During 1945 when Russia was invading Germany from the East and then sacking Berlin, the Russian Army was actually encouraged by their officers to terrorize the civilian population. As many as 3 million German women and girls were brutalized and raped, often gang-raped. I wonder how CNN and the rest of their oh-so-progressive ilk will live with that reality playing out in front of their smug self-righteous retarded faces.

Do you know how much junk the US buys from China? A hell of a lot more than Russia does. I personally sent a lot of money to China via Amazon over the last 2 years. They're not cutting us off any time soon.

And Iran? Really?

And why do Trump people watch so much CNN? I don't get it.

THG

Saturday, February 26, 2022 8:39 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
I reject your premise that we need bullies and corrupt bad guys to deal with their bullies and corrupt bad guys. I further reject your premise that Russia China and Iran can take over half the world unless they currently hold that much territory. Their expansionism will be checked. Especially now since they are seeing the consequences Russia is and are going to suffer.

So far, it’s said the Russians have lost 14 planes, 8 helicopters, 102 tanks, 536 BBM, armored combat vehicles, 15 heavy machine guns, and 1 BUK missile since Feb. 24, according to Ukraine's military. The Kremlin also lost over 3,500 soldiers. Remember, this does not include the sanctions, and China is watching.

They’re getting their clocks cleaned by an army with half their resources and training. China is even less capable of actual fighting. Iran and North Korea are little more than an irritant. As for America being to woke to fight back, think again.

Without firing a shot America and our allies have helped Ukraine shame the Russian army. If Putin wants he’ll commit the rest of his troops and shut the active war down but the Ukrainian army has sent a chilling message to Moscow. And it is prepared to fight as an insurgency going forward.

You want to talk about woke? Europe has been woke, reminded why they stand united as NATO. It’s one of the biggest consequences of Russia’s behavior. NATO now has a huge new commitment to sustaining, improving and expanding.

tick tock

Truth! NATO looks more important than ever. On the one hand I wish they would go in and fight with Ukraine as if they were in NATO. On the other, more coldly practical hand, it might be easier and a hell of a lot less deadly to hope for a swift capture of Ukraine so A) fighting would stop, and B) sanctions and the corner that Putin has put himself into will just get darker and darker until some able bodied Russian puts a slug in his head.

An equally cold assessment G is, the longer it goes on Russia’s military loses more of its assets which is better for Europe. And in the long run the world. If the reports of what they’ve lost so far are true, that’s massive.

T

SECOND

Saturday, February 26, 2022 8:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:

Truth! NATO looks more important than ever. On the one hand I wish they would go in and fight with Ukraine as if they were in NATO. On the other . . .

I don't think NATO does that sort of thing. NATO writes:

NATO’s success was reflected in the fact that, throughout the entire period of the Cold War, NATO forces were not involved in a single military engagement.

NATO’s first military operation -- In August 1995, NATO launched Operation Deliberate Force to compel an end to Serb-led violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH). This successful air campaign paved the way to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords in December 1995. https://www.nato.int/summit2009/topics_en/02-introduction_to_nato_oper
ations.html

Since Bosnia-Herzegovina, NATO has tried a few military missions, but NATO has never before taken on a force as big as Russia. Since USA refuses to attempt to do the job, NATO forces won't step in. The job is too big for NATO.
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_52060.htm

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

THG

Saturday, February 26, 2022 8:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

If they can cut off bank accounts to an entire nation, the Freedom Convoy never stood a chance.

The New World Order is in control now.

Look back fondly on 2019 and before it. Because the life we used to know will never be again.

Russia, China, and Iran are the New Axis powers. Between them they have everything they need (armies, nukes, oil revenues) to take over half the world, especially when the weak and woke West is "too civilized" to do a damn thing about it.

During 1945 when Russia was invading Germany from the East and then sacking Berlin, the Russian Army was actually encouraged by their officers to terrorize the civilian population. As many as 3 million German women and girls were brutalized and raped, often gang-raped. I wonder how CNN and the rest of their oh-so-progressive ilk will live with that reality playing out in front of their smug self-righteous retarded faces.

Do you know how much junk the US buys from China? A hell of a lot more than Russia does. I personally have sent a lot of money to China via Amazon over the last 2 years. They're not cutting us off any time soon.

And Iran? Really?

And why do Trump people watch so much CNN? I don't get it.

Agreed G. Russias’ GDP was $1.638 trillion in 2021. The European Union's GDP was estimated to be $18.8 trillion in 2018. Add to that the U.S. gross domestic product which was $23.9 trillion for the fourth quarter of 2021. Why the fuck would China go full bore with backing Russia? They’ve got their own problems and their desperate not to make their situation worse. America is China's economy.

T

CAPTAINCRUNCH

Saturday, February 26, 2022 9:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:

Truth! NATO looks more important than ever. On the one hand I wish they would go in and fight with Ukraine as if they were in NATO. On the other . . .
I don't think NATO does that sort of thing. NATO writes:

NATO’s success was reflected in the fact that, throughout the entire period of the Cold War, NATO forces were not involved in a single military engagement.

NATO’s first military operation -- In August 1995, NATO launched Operation Deliberate Force to compel an end to Serb-led violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH). This successful air campaign paved the way to the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords in December 1995. https://www.nato.int/summit2009/topics_en/02-introduction_to_nato_oper
ations.html

Since Bosnia-Herzegovina, NATO has tried a few military missions, but NATO has never before taken on a force as big as Russia. Since USA refuses to attempt to do the job, NATO forces won't step in. The job is too big for NATO.
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_52060.htm

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Agreed. It would be a mistake. I remember them from Bosnia-Herzegovina times. They seemed mostly a deterrent - bodies in uniforms - than an actual fighting force. I would not trust them to win any ground.

THG

Saturday, February 26, 2022 9:44 PM

Guy tries to stop convey with his body.

T

THG

Saturday, February 26, 2022 9:48 PM

All these years exposing Signym as a commie bastard and now she has no place to hide. And let's not forget Polish Russian Collaborator 1kiki who's hiding under a rock somewhere.

T

THG

Sunday, February 27, 2022 2:38 AM

T

THG

Sunday, February 27, 2022 4:03 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
It is NOT MUCH, but at least somebody will do something . . . 3 months from now:
UEFA moves Champions League Final from St. Petersburg Russia as sporting world reacts to Russian invasion of Ukraine. The game will be May 28, a little too late to discourage Putin. Is UEFA kicking all the Russian teams out of the sport? No, it is not. Also, a Formula 1 race will not be held in Russia on September 23-25. Truly a crushing blow to Putin. No, it is not. Will all Russian cars be kicked out of all races? No.

I was unaware that Russia owned any F1 Team. There was 1 Russian driver in F1 in 2021, Nikita Mazepin. He was so bad he placed 21st out of 20. He DNF'd 'did not finish,' in 5 races and simply 'did not show' for a 6th. His first race in '21 he did not make it through... wait for it... the first turn. I laughed so hard I almost hurt myself. So let 'em race. He was an embarrassment to all of Russia.

Yes, most things so far are purely symbolic. But some are powerful symbols, and if there are enough, together they can motivate change. Gazprom is being banned from sponsorship, Aeroflot banned from landing. Keep adding to those and we might find those 1% in the EU less likely to go along with Vlad the Evil Dipsht.

They've sanctioned Putin directly now which is unheard of. It makes the statement that they are done politically with him. That he is illegit. That's huge, and they are close to shutting down any commutations between Russia and any financial institutions outside of Russia. Again, that's huge.

Putin annexed both Crimea and Georgia and it was a cake walk. Neither of them nor the world fought back and because of that he could not have seen this shit coming.

T

Here we go baby. The knockout punch. Russian banks cut off from SWIFT. The world has had enough of this guy. Watch the video. It's not long and wow, there is a finality in her speech about Russia's future.

Hey comrades signym and kiki what do you think, will Putin's own people will put a bullet in his head? The sooner the better I say.

T

SECOND

Sunday, February 27, 2022 5:05 AM

"It is outrageous, if unsurprising, that Trump would praise Putin’s murderous invasion of Ukraine as an act of 'genius.' It should concern us all that Putin is exactly the kind of leader Trump would like to be, and that so few Republicans have the courage to say this out loud."
- SEN. BERNIE SANDERS

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-scolds-trump-putin-pra
ise-unsurprising

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

CAPTAINCRUNCH

Sunday, February 27, 2022 6:48 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Here we go baby. The knockout punch. Russian banks cut off from SWIFT. The world has had enough of this guy. Watch the video. It's not long and wow, there is a finality in her speech about Russia's future.

Hey comrades signym and kiki what do you think, will Putin's own people will put a bullet in his head? The sooner the better I say.

I love that video! She’s not fcking around.

Here’s another. America IS in the war, even if remotely. American made Javelin tank killers.

“Holy shit!” God bless America.

Fwiw - Every US citizen should think about Ruski retaliation. Especially if fckhd gets more desperate. Cyber disruption, which means electric grid attacks, etc. Their tanks may be rolling death traps, but they have great hackers. Trust me!

THG

Sunday, February 27, 2022 7:35 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by CAPTAINCRUNCH:
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Here we go baby. The knockout punch. Russian banks cut off from SWIFT. The world has had enough of this guy. Watch the video. It's not long and wow, there is a finality in her speech about Russia's future.

Hey comrades signym and kiki what do you think, will Putin's own people will put a bullet in his head? The sooner the better I say.

I love that video! She’s not fcking around.

Here’s another. America IS in the war, even if remotely. American made Javelin tank killers.

“Holy shit!” God bless America.

Fwiw - Every US citizen should think about Ruski retaliation. Especially if fckhd gets more desperate. Cyber disruption, which means electric grid attacks, etc. Their tanks may be rolling death traps, but they have great hackers. Trust me!

I going to post my response to you G and then watch the video again.

Holy shit is right. At last count yesterday the Ukrainians took out 102 Russian tanks. After watching that demonstration it’s no wonder. They also took out over 500 armored personal carriers. Putin has to be shitting himself. He’s watching his army dissolve right in front of his eyes. I’ve heard it from different professional sources that the Russian military is scared shitless of our military. It's easy to see why.

As far as the hackers go, I was surprised like most he hasn’t used them more. Turns out the Russian military needs to use many of those same services themselves; go figure.

T

SECOND

Sunday, February 27, 2022 11:43 PM

“Simpsons” showrunner, Al Jean, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter: "I hate to say it, but I was born in 1961, so 30 years of my life were lived with the specter of the Soviet Union. So, to me, this is sadly more the norm than it is the prediction," Jean observed. "We just figured things were going to go bad."

"Historical aggression never really goes away, and you have to be super vigilant," he continued.

He offered up a more in-depth explanation: "In 1998, when this clip aired, it was maybe the zenith of U.S.-Russia relations. But, ever since [Russian President Vladimir] Putin got in, almost everybody has made it clear that he’s a bad guy and bad things are going to happen. There is the kind of prediction, where we reference something that has happened, happening again — we hope it wouldn’t, but sadly, it does."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/simpsons-al-jean-says
-russia-ukraine-prediction-not-coincidental-1235099000/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

SECOND

Sunday, February 27, 2022 11:53 PM

Putin's getting his H-bombs ready

Putin warned last week that countries who interfere with his invasion of Ukraine will face "consequences you have never seen."

Putin ordered the Russian defense minister and the chief of the military's General Staff to put the nuclear deterrent forces in a "special regime of combat duty." The move signals tensions could boil over into a nuclear war.

Putin spoke at a meeting Sunday with his top advisers and said NATO powers had made "aggressive statements" and that the West was imposing hard-hitting financial sanctions against Russia and himself.

"Western countries aren’t only taking unfriendly actions against our country in the economic sphere, but top officials from leading NATO members made aggressive statements regarding our country," Putin said in televised comments.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation" that Putin's order is an unacceptable escalation.

"It means that President Putin is continuing to escalate this war in a manner that is totally unacceptable and we have to continue to stem his actions in the strongest possible way," she said.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/putin-orders-nuclear-deterrent-forces-be
-put-on-high-alert

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, February 28, 2022 12:06 AM

Trump at CPAC calls Putin ‘smart,' Ukraine attack a ‘travesty,’ and Biden ‘dumb’

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/trump-at-cpac-calls-putin-
smart-ukraine-attack-a-travesty-and-biden-dumb

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, February 28, 2022 12:27 AM

Yeah. But what about Covid?

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

SECOND

Monday, February 28, 2022 12:33 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. But what about Covid?

On one hand: “Nobody dies of Covid.” - 6ixStringJack
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=64782&mid=11496
47#1149647

On the other hand: 972,956 are dead.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

On the third hand: my United States Congressman Brian Babin, D.D.S., Proudly Serving The 36rd District of Texas wrote me an email on Sunday that says nobody dies of Covid but Ukraine is all Biden’s fault. I’m beginning to think this D.D.S. is not a very good dentist. Reading all the way to end of his loony email, I can tell this dentist is addicted to laughing gas.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, February 28, 2022 1:02 AM

Yup. Nobody dies of Covid.

Just wondering why the Media isn't terrorizing dummies like you about it anymore now that they've orchestrated a war for the war machine and why you're never going to hear from "Dr." Fauci again is all.

I honestly resent that I have to share oxygen with complete wastes of carbon such as yourself.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

THG

Monday, February 28, 2022 1:07 AM

All flights out of Russia, commercial or otherwise, are prohibited from flying over Europe.

That's huge...

T

SIGNYM

Monday, February 28, 2022 1:13 AM

Kiev surrounded, says the mayor.

https://california18.com/live-kiev-surrounded-follow-the-news-of-the-w
ar-in-ukraine/3558542022/

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

CAPTAINCRUNCH

Monday, February 28, 2022 1:59 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Kiev surrounded, says the mayor.

https://california18.com/live-kiev-surrounded-follow-the-news-of-the-w
ar-in-ukraine/3558542022/

california18.com ? Such a reputable, trusted *news* web site. Yours or your hubby’s?

THG

Monday, February 28, 2022 2:02 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Kiev surrounded, says the mayor.

https://california18.com/live-kiev-surrounded-follow-the-news-of-the-w
ar-in-ukraine/3558542022/

Poor Polish Russian Collaborator Signym, she is desperate to post good news for Putin. First comrade, Kiev has been under siege for a while now. No one is suggesting they can hold out forever, but they’ve kicked Russia’s ass so far even though they are complete underdogs.

When they finally fall it will not change the disgrace they have put upon the Russian military. After all, the Ukrainian army largely consists of women, young boys and old men, civilians. And the world has acknowledged that along with Putin's, your, army being a disgrace.

T

SECOND

Monday, February 28, 2022 2:44 AM

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly urged members of the NATO alliance to “close the skies.” This appears to be a request for a “no-fly zone” — deploying NATO aircraft to Ukrainian airspace in order to block Russia from using its air force in support of the invasion.

“A No Fly Zone is not a magical umbrella that prevents planes flying in a given area. It’s a decision to shoot at planes that fly in a given area,” explains Olga Oliker, the International Crisis Group’s director for Europe and Central Asia. “To put in a no fly zone is to go to war.”

The Biden administration appears to recognize the risk. In a Thursday press conference, President Biden categorically ruled out direct US intervention in Ukraine: “Our forces are not — and will not — be engaged in the conflict with Russia in Ukraine.” This effectively takes any meaningful no-fly zone off the table, and there is no sign the president will change his mind.

Yet the calls for a no-fly zone (NFZ) are worth taking seriously because of what they reveal about a widespread yet mistaken mindset among many of America’s foreign policy elite. The people calling for intervention in Ukraine are stuck in the 1990s era of American hyperpower, where it seemed as though the US could impose its vision of global order at gunpoint virtually anywhere. The Ukraine war is one of the clearest demonstrations yet that this era is over — and a US policy that refuses to recognize this reality could prove catastrophic.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/2/27/22952220/ukraine-rus
sia-no-fly-zone-nuclear-war

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, February 28, 2022 3:05 AM

Michael Savage: Had Trump been President this would not have happened

https://www.bitchute.com/video/mLw2tqOkxqg/

THG

Monday, February 28, 2022 3:32 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly urged members of the NATO alliance to “close the skies.” This appears to be a request for a “no-fly zone” — deploying NATO aircraft to Ukrainian airspace in order to block Russia from using its air force in support of the invasion.

I don't think the Russians realized when this started, that if you want to take and hold a city you have to get out of the car.

Too funny...

T

SECOND

Monday, February 28, 2022 3:36 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Michael Savage: Had Trump been President this would not have happened.

Michael Savage also wrote (including misspellings and excessive capitalizations):

IF JESUS RETURNED AND ASKED ZELENSKY TO ABDICATE TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM FURTHER BLODSHED the MEDIA CHICKENHAWKS -HANNITY LEVIN etc WOULD CALL JESUS A COWARD & COLLABORATOR WITH PUTIN anything for RATINGS JUST LIKE WMD'S which pulled us into IRAQ
4:39 PM · Feb 26, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/ASavageNation/status/1497702944761782276

Michael Savage's screwy speculations:

Michael Savage @ASavageNation
a true leader thinks of his people first, not himself; even Napoleon accepted defeat and went into exile -to save the lives of his people shouldn't ZELENSKY abdicate? most of you grew up on video games not history
2:23 PM · Feb 26, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/ASavageNation/status/1497668605386780672

Michael Savage @ASavageNation
ZELENSKY was a pornographic comedian who did a skit using his penis to play the piano! NOW he wants the WORLD to save him! (listen to my podcast, learn what you are not getting from the warmongers)
2:50 PM · Feb 25, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/ASavageNation/status/1497313065263529986

Michael Savage @ASavageNation
send U.S. troops to liberate CANADA from the communist dictator, FALSEDOUGH- NOT to UKRAINE
9:46 PM · Feb 21, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/ASavageNation/status/1495968279546183680

One more: Michael Savage @ASavageNation
In the USA, the Biden administration’s ruthless vaccine mandate campaign is but one prong of his overall war against America, terrorizing the population into surrendering their last surviving freedoms while bringing down the political system through dilution of the population (See NOTE 1)
2:45 PM · Feb 16, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/ASavageNation/status/1494050344464048128

NOTE 1: I'm sure "dilution of the population" is a reference to Anti-miscegenation laws that enforce racial segregation by criminalizing interracial marriage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

THG

Monday, February 28, 2022 3:38 AM

T

Ordinary Russians beginning to feel impact of recent sanctions

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, February 28, 2022 3:49 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:

All flights out of Russia, commercial or otherwise, are prohibited from flying over Europe.

That's huge...

T

Sounds racist to me.

Oh. Not this time, huh?

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

THG

Monday, February 28, 2022 3:57 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:

All flights out of Russia, commercial or otherwise, are prohibited from flying over Europe.

That's huge...

T

Sounds racist to me.

Oh. Not this time, huh?

"

I ignore jack. I've responded to him maybe three four times in two years, maybe longer. I'll bend my rule this time so I can leave him with this video.
T

BBC Ukrainian journalist shown bombed family home -

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, February 28, 2022 4:10 AM

Wasted effort on your part, Ted.

There's not a single thing you would ever post that I'd look at other than to ridicule and mock how gullible and useless you are.

Go back to ignoring me. I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

SECOND

Monday, February 28, 2022 4:46 AM

Putin is still trying to avoid using concentrated missiles and airstrikes to destroy Ukrainian defensive positions, to preserve his narrative of this not being a real war and not requiring that sort of use of firepower. As damaging as the strikes on Kyiv and other cities have been so far, we haven’t really seen the full capabilities that the Russian military has and can bring to bear, the way it has, for example, in Syria, or in fighting in Chechnya in the early 2000s.

Russian media is simply not portraying the war. To date, they’re claiming that the only fighting that’s happening is around the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, the proxies that Russia recognized, and they’re not showing fighting across the country, they’re not showing any Russian casualties, and rather than showing Russian footage, they’re trying to take Ukrainian footage out of context and use that to portray the war.

The Kremlin-run media is trying to draw a very sharp distinction between the Ukrainian population, which they seem to expect will greet Russia as liberators and Russia has no quarrel with them, and the regime in Kyiv, which they portray as being neo-Nazis and drug users. I do not know where that one came from. And it’s this interesting balance where I think it’s a mix of them trying to pitch to the Russian people that this is not a war against Ukraine, it’s a very targeted intervention to get rid of the regime.

We, frankly, were wrong about how rational the Kremlin was, and it seems very much that they have drunk their own Kool-Aid, so to speak. They may have actually believed that all they needed to do was take out the government in Kyiv that they do see as this foreign-imposed fascist government, and the Ukrainian population would be completely okay with that, which is just not the case.

https://www.vox.com/2022/2/27/22953539/ukraine-invasion-putin-russia-b
affling-war-strategy

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, February 28, 2022 6:36 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Putin is still trying to avoid using concentrated missiles and airstrikes to destroy Ukrainian defensive positions, to preserve his narrative of this not being a real war and not requiring that sort of use of firepower.

How refreshing.

In Canada they evoke Emergency War Powers when people are peacefully protesting.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

SECOND

Monday, February 28, 2022 6:44 AM

You know you’re an unpopular leader when Sweden is sending your enemy 5,000 anti-tank missiles.
11:48 AM · Feb 27, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/RichardEngel/status/1497992054663782403

IKEA joke: Unfortunately they will come shipped in a bunch of pieces that you have to assemble with an Allen wrench.

Sweden to send 5,000 anti-tank weapons to Ukraine
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3415150-sweden-to-send-5000-antit
ank-weapons-to-ukraine.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, February 28, 2022 6:49 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
IKEA joke: Unfortunately they will come shipped in a bunch of pieces that you have to assemble with an Allen wrench.

Fortunately, you don't have to go out and buy an Allen wrench set if you don't have one since it comes in the box.

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CAPTAINCRUNCH

Monday, February 28, 2022 7:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
IKEA joke: Unfortunately they will come shipped in a bunch of pieces that you have to assemble with an Allen wrench.

Here's another joke: The Russian Ruble sank to a new all-time low, trading at 117.62 RUB/USD. Since Jan. 1, 2022, the ruble has depreciated by as much as 47.33% against the USD. Conflict in Eastern Europe is fueling the currency's destruction. At present, I measure Russia’s inflation at 69.4%/yr.

@Angry_Staffer
This. Russia is clearly returning at least partially to their Syria tactics. Cluster munitions, MLRS (rockets) fired indiscriminately into population centers, etc.

@evangershkovich
the images coming out of Kharkiv right now may be the most heartbreaking yet. civilians laying dead in the streets still holding the jugs of water and bags of food they had run out to get

https://www.cnn.com/webview/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-28
-22/h_3f8430b31eee03b3ae6403b11099cf6b

Russian Central Bank to raise key interest rate from 9.5% to 20%

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/02/27/bp-abandons-stake-russ
ian-oil-giant-rosneft/

BP to ‘exit’ its $14 billion stake in Russian oil giant in stark sign that Western business is breaking ties over Ukraine invasion

These don't feel small. They don't feel like decisions that get undone if a cease fire agreement is reached, or Peace is agreed upon. These feel loooong term.

THG

Monday, February 28, 2022 7:33 PM

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Countries across the world are wreaking havoc on Russia's economy, cutting the country off from the rest of the economic would in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Russia Economy In Collapse As Ruble Sinks, Interest Rates Double

THG

Monday, February 28, 2022 8:03 PM

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Putin's Failure As A Leader Drives His Resentment Of Ukraine Democracy

SECOND

Monday, February 28, 2022 8:09 PM

For the life of me I don’t understand why Dems aren’t falling over themselves to praise how Biden has handled things and express immense relief that he, rather than a fully compromised Trump, is leading the global response, but this delusional nonsense is what’s filling the void:

Quote:
Grandpa Dementia and his crack team at the White House seem intent to sideline American leadership. He has surrounded himself with progressives who harbor an animus against the historic role of the United States.

https://jabberwocking.com/democrats-need-to-back-biden-more-loudly-on-
ukraine/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

THG

Monday, February 28, 2022 8:21 PM

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The State Department has closed the U.S. embassy in Minsk, Belarus, and is allowing non-essential staff at the U.S. embassy in Russia to leave due to the war in Ukraine. "We took these steps due to security and safety issues stemming from the unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, February 28, 2022 8:28 PM

Republicans mock Biden for spending weekend in Delaware, while war rages in Ukraine
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/feb/28/republicans-mock-bide
n-spending-weekend-delaware-w/

Joe Biden wake up !!!

i.ibb.co/mq1xQbH/5rr0mdk6a1c71.gif

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, February 28, 2022 8:42 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
IKEA joke: Unfortunately they will come shipped in a bunch of pieces that you have to assemble with an Allen wrench.

Here's another joke: The Russian Ruble sank to a new all-time low, trading at 117.62 RUB/USD. Since Jan. 1, 2022, the ruble has depreciated by as much as 47.33% against the USD. Conflict in Eastern Europe is fueling the currency's destruction. At present, I measure Russia’s inflation at 69.4%/yr.

@Angry_Staffer
This. Russia is clearly returning at least partially to their Syria tactics. Cluster munitions, MLRS (rockets) fired indiscriminately into population centers, etc.

@evangershkovich
the images coming out of Kharkiv right now may be the most heartbreaking yet. civilians laying dead in the streets still holding the jugs of water and bags of food they had run out to get

https://www.cnn.com/webview/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-28
-22/h_3f8430b31eee03b3ae6403b11099cf6b

Russian Central Bank to raise key interest rate from 9.5% to 20%

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/02/27/bp-abandons-stake-russ
ian-oil-giant-rosneft/

BP to ‘exit’ its $14 billion stake in Russian oil giant in stark sign that Western business is breaking ties over Ukraine invasion

These don't feel small. They don't feel like decisions that get undone if a cease fire, or Peace is agreed upon. These feel loooong term.

Yeah. It's a real funny joke.

If you believe that the people of Russia are all James Bond villains or Boris and Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle.

The lowest quartile of people in the US are hurting now with the highest inflation we've seen in 40 years, and they certainly had nothing to do with US imperialism. But as bad as that sounds, it's dwarfed by the numbers you've just provided.

But it's never seemed to bother any of you when we constantly commit mass-murder via non-surgical drone strikes half a world away. What's a few tens of millions of people losing everything they've worked for and starving to death when it means we can take down one of your cartoon bogey men.

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THG

Monday, February 28, 2022 9:12 PM

What's Putin trying to do, why create a new Iron Curtain of course.

Hey G, sad how ignorant some here are. They are clueless because they are blinded by hate.

T

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, February 28, 2022 9:14 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
What's Putin trying to do, why create a new Iron Curtain of course.

lol

Of course.

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CAPTAINCRUNCH

Monday, February 28, 2022 9:45 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
For the life of me I don’t understand why Dems aren’t falling over themselves to praise how Biden has handled things and express immense relief that he, rather than a fully compromised Trump, is leading the global response, but this delusional nonsense is what’s filling the void:
Quote:
Grandpa Dementia and his crack team at the White House seem intent to sideline American leadership. He has surrounded himself with progressives who harbor an animus against the historic role of the United States.
https://jabberwocking.com/democrats-need-to-back-biden-more-loudly-on-
ukraine/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

This has been a problem since Jan 20th. of last year. I read his polling numbers and hear people screaming about him and I cannot find anything tangible to blame him for. Nothing actual or real that is. Pandemic? Gas prices? Inflation? Just knee jerk blaming.

CAPTAINCRUNCH

Monday, February 28, 2022 9:48 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:

What's Putin trying to do, why create a new Iron Curtain of course.

Hey G, sad how ignorant some here are. They are clueless because they are blinded by hate.

T

I think you are right to ignore them.

I don't know how Putin can survive this, but I would never count him out until we see the body. I sure as hell don't trust that he wouldn't stoop to do something irrational.

THG

Monday, February 28, 2022 10:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:

What's Putin trying to do, why create a new Iron Curtain of course.

Hey G, sad how ignorant some here are. They are clueless because they are blinded by hate.

T

I think you are right to ignore them.

I don't know how Putin can survive this, but I would never count him out until we see the body. I sure as hell don't trust that he wouldn't stoop to do something irrational.

A rational person realizes Putin may adopt a scorched earth policy. That would be bad.

Good video below

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McFaul: When Dictators Hold On For Too Long, They Overreach

SECOND

Monday, February 28, 2022 10:38 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:

I don't know how Putin can survive this, but I would never count him out until we see the body. I sure as hell don't trust that he wouldn't stoop to do something irrational.

What may eventually give the Russians victory, especially in the crucial battle for control of Kyiv, is that there is a corps of veterans of the war in Syria. Some of these are experienced in urban warfare and participated in retaking the city of Aleppo from rebels against the Syrian government. However, the effort to do that involved massively bombing and destroying buildings in Aleppo to the point that it is a wrecked ruin. Will Putin irrationally do the same to the beautiful and historic city of Kyiv?

Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aleppo_(2012%E2%80%932016)#Des
truction_of_the_city_and_heritage

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, February 28, 2022 11:18 PM

Moe, Larry and Curly are reunited.

I'm so happy for you guys.

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THG

Monday, February 28, 2022 11:19 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:

I don't know how Putin can survive this, but I would never count him out until we see the body. I sure as hell don't trust that he wouldn't stoop to do something irrational.
What may eventually give the Russians victory, especially in the crucial battle for control of Kyiv, is that there is a corps of veterans of the war in Syria. Some of these are experienced in urban warfare and participated in retaking the city of Aleppo from rebels against the Syrian government. However, the effort to do that involved massively bombing and destroying buildings in Aleppo to the point that it is a wrecked ruin. Will Putin irrationally do the same to the beautiful and historic city of Kyiv?

We can only hope he doesn't. It looks like he is starting to use cluster bombs against civilians.

T

SECOND

Monday, February 28, 2022 11:37 PM

Americans tend to see the world in much the same way as President Joe Biden frames it in his speeches, divided neatly between “democracies” and “autocracies.” But the reality is that authoritarian states exist on a political spectrum depending on how much power is exercised by a single individual—and where states land on this spectrum has a big impact on matters of war and peace. At one end, you have civilian-run regimes, like Hu Jintao’s China or Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet Union, where political power is checked and shared within a ruling party. At the other, you have personalist dictatorships like that of, say, Saddam Hussein, where rivals are purged, loyalists are rewarded, cults of personality flourish, and all authority runs through the glorious leader.

The political science literature suggests that personalist dictatorships are more erratic and dangerous to the outside world than other sorts of autocracies.

Researchers have found they are more likely to start wars, for instance (institutionalized civilian-run regimes are about as apt to use force as democracies), and also tend to perform worse militarily (not surprising, since their leaders are often surrounded by yes men). But while civilian-run regimes might be less apt to launch destructive, harebrained conflicts in the short term, in the long term they can still be ticking time bombs.

That’s because as they age, their intricate power structures often devolve and allow dictators to consolidate personal control. In a forthcoming paper, Andrew Leber and Matthew Reichert of Harvard University and Christopher Carothers of the University of Pennsylvania theorize that this tends to happen when there’s no influential old guard of political elites who can stop them. All of which pretty much sums up what has happened in Russia over the last two decades.

While the world’s news readers may long have thought of Vladimir Putin as a dictator, most Russia analysts and policymakers saw the Kremlin differently. And for most of Putin’s nearly 23-year journey in power, they were right to do so. What once existed, but not now, was a complicated regime beyond one man where lots of people exerted influence and could check Putin’s impulses.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/ukraine-invasion-putin-is-
ruling-alone.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

THG

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 12:04 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Americans tend to see the world in much the same way as President Joe Biden frames it in his speeches, divided neatly between “democracies” and “autocracies.” But the reality is that authoritarian states exist on a political spectrum depending on how much power is exercised by a single individual—and where states land on this spectrum has a big impact on matters of war and peace. At one end, you have civilian-run regimes, like Hu Jintao’s China or Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet Union, where political power is checked and shared within a ruling party. At the other, you have personalist dictatorships like that of, say, Saddam Hussein, where rivals are purged, loyalists are rewarded, cults of personality flourish, and all authority runs through the glorious leader.

The political science literature suggests that personalist dictatorships are more erratic and dangerous to the outside world than other sorts of autocracies.

Researchers have found they are more likely to start wars, for instance (institutionalized civilian-run regimes are about as apt to use force as democracies), and also tend to perform worse militarily (not surprising, since their leaders are often surrounded by yes men). But while civilian-run regimes might be less apt to launch destructive, harebrained conflicts in the short term, in the long term they can still be ticking time bombs.

That’s because as they age, their intricate power structures often devolve and allow dictators to consolidate personal control. In a forthcoming paper, Andrew Leber and Matthew Reichert of Harvard University and Christopher Carothers of the University of Pennsylvania theorize that this tends to happen when there’s no influential old guard of political elites who can stop them. All of which pretty much sums up what has happened in Russia over the last two decades.

While the world’s news readers may long have thought of Vladimir Putin as a dictator, most Russia analysts and policymakers saw the Kremlin differently. And for most of Putin’s nearly 23-year journey in power, they were right to do so. What once existed, but not now, was a complicated regime beyond one man where lots of people exerted influence and could check Putin’s impulses.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/ukraine-invasion-putin-is-
ruling-alone.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

A quote from your link I agree with.

"Instead, it has transformed into what political scientists call a personalist dictatorship, where the whims of one man, and one man only, determine policy, a fact that has terrifying implications for Russia and the world."

T

THG

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 12:07 AM

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Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations discusses why the Russian invasion of Ukraine in its fifth day has gone much worse than Russian President Vladimir Putin could have imagined.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 12:41 AM

It's amusing watching Ted just drink up all the diarrhea.

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THG

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 3:27 AM

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THG

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 7:00 AM

T

Russia's economy bleeds, as negotiations starts. Day 5.

SECOND

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 7:11 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It's amusing watching Ted just drink up all the diarrhea.

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Russian President Vladimir V. Putin announced a "special military operation" to "de-Nazify the Ukrainian government" so as to halt the supposed "genocide" being committed against Russian speakers in Ukraine. There is not a shred of justification for any of this. The extreme nationalist fascist groups in Ukraine do not support and are not part of the current Ukrainian government, whose leader is half Jewish. Putin has also complained of a supposed move of Ukraine to join NATO, but no such move has been going on at all.

This is pure and unadulterated aggression without a shred of justification. Reportedly missiles are now striking Ukraine's capital city, Kyiv. Putin has lost his mind.

More at Vladimir V. Putin Loses His Mind And Becomes A War Criminal
http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2022/02/vladimir-v-putin-loses-his-mind
-and.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

SECOND

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 7:20 AM

Ukraine is trying to argue that Russia's taking the Soviet place on the UN Security Council was never debated and approved (unlike for China). That would be quite the coup, so to speak: kick Russia off the Security Council over a technicality. Putin hurt by his own kind of thinking.

Kick Russia off the U.N. Security Council!

Russia sits in one of the five permanent seats on the Security Council, and in theory could veto such a move, as well as block any attempt by the General Assembly to remove Russia from the UN altogether. But there has always been some question about the legal process by which the USSR's seat was transferred to Russia in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse. After all, the constituent republics of the USSR declared in 1991 that the Soviet Union ceased to exist, and with it should have gone the legal right of any of those entities, including Russia, to sit on the Council.

There was never a formal process to admit Russia into the U.N. after the USSR's demise, and the Security Council seat was granted via a decision from the UN's legal counsel with no action requested from the General Assembly. That edict could be revoked, and the U.S. could demand a vote in the General Assembly on Russia's Security Council membership. Would such a maneuver save Kyiv? No, but Moscow must be besieged on all fronts if there is any hope of rescuing Ukrainians from a Russian occupation. The worst crisis in post-war Europe demands nothing less than concerted, dramatic action aimed at Moscow's total isolation, and the time to start is now.

https://theweek.com/world/1010568/kick-russia-off-the-un-security-coun
cil

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 9:08 AM

Shut down NATO and the UN.

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SECOND

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 4:36 PM

Russia Is a Potemkin Superpower By Paul Krugman

The Ukraine war has revealed the Putin regime’s true weakness.

Beware, Vladimir Putin: Spring is coming. And when it does, you’ll lose much of whatever leverage you had left.

Before Putin invaded Ukraine, I might have described the Russian Federation as a medium-size power punching above its weight in part by exploiting Western divisions and corruption, in part by maintaining a powerful military. Since then, however, two things have become clear. First, Putin has delusions of grandeur. Second, Russia is even weaker than most people, myself included, seem to have realized.

It has long been obvious that Putin desperately wants to restore Russia’s status as a Great Power. His already infamous “there is no such thing as Ukraine” speech, in which he condemned Lenin (!) for giving his neighbor what Putin considers a false sense of national identity, made it clear that his aims go beyond recreating the Soviet Union — he apparently wants to recreate the czarist empire. And he apparently thought that he could take a big step toward that goal with a short, victorious war.

So far, it hasn’t worked out as planned. Ukrainian resistance has been fierce; Russia’s military has been less effective than advertised. I’ve been especially struck by reports that the early days of the invasion were hampered by severe logistical problems — that is, the invaders had a hard time providing their forces with the essentials of modern war, above all fuel. It’s true that supply problems are common in war; still, logistics is one thing advanced nations are supposed to be really good at.

But Russia is looking less and less like an advanced nation.

The truth is that I was being generous in describing Russia as even a medium-size power. Britain and France are medium-size powers; Russia’s gross domestic product is only a bit more than half as large as either’s. It seemed remarkable that such an economically underweight state could support a world-class, highly sophisticated military — and maybe it couldn’t.

That’s not to deny that the force ravaging Ukraine has immense firepower, and it may well take Kyiv. But I wouldn’t be surprised if post-mortems on the Ukraine war eventually show that there was a lot more rot at the heart of Putin’s military than anyone realized.

And Russia is starting to look even weaker economically than it did before it went to war.

Putin isn’t the first brutal dictator to make himself an international pariah. As far as I can tell, however, he’s the first to do so while presiding over an economy deeply dependent on international commerce — and with a political elite accustomed, more or less literally, to treating Western democracies as their playground.

For Putin’s Russia isn’t a hermetic tyranny like North Korea or, for that matter, the old Soviet Union. Its standard of living is sustained by large imports of manufactured goods, mostly paid for via exports of oil and natural gas.

This leaves Russia’s economy highly vulnerable to sanctions that might disrupt this trade, a reality reflected in Monday’s sharp plunge in the value of the ruble despite a huge increase in domestic interest rates and draconian attempts to limit capital flight.

Before the invasion it was common to talk about how Putin had created “fortress Russia,” an economy immune to economic sanctions, by accumulating a huge war chest of foreign currency reserves. Now, however, such talk seems naive. What, after all, are foreign reserves? They aren’t bags of cash. For the most part they consist of deposits in overseas banks and holdings of other governments’ debt — that is, assets that can be frozen if most of the world is united in revulsion against a rogue government’s military aggression.

True, Russia also has a substantial amount of physical gold held within the country. But how useful is this gold as a way to pay for things the Putin regime needs? Can you really conduct large-scale modern business with ingots?

Finally, as I noted last week, Russia’s oligarchs have sta

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 5:40 PM

Ukraine, economy to take center stage in Biden's State of the Union address

https://www.aol.com/news/ukraine-economy-center-stage-bidens-101142703
.html

SECOND

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 6:00 PM

Putin Starting to Worry About His Strategy After Trump Calls Him Smart
Satire by Andy Borowitz

MOSCOW (The Borowitz Report)—Vladimir Putin has become “deeply worried” about his strategy after learning that Donald J. Trump called him smart, Kremlin sources have revealed.

After Trump praised Putin Saturday night at the Conservative Political Action Conference, in Orlando, the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, reluctantly shared a video of the disturbing moment with the Russian President.

“As Putin watched Trump call him smart, all the blood drained from his face,” a source said. “He was clearly shaken.”

After watching the video of Trump, Putin spent a sleepless night in consultation with Russian military and intelligence officials to determine where and how he had gone wrong.

“He’s rethinking everything now, and he’s in a very fragile state of mind,” the source said. “If it comes out that Don, Jr., or Eric thinks he’s smart, that could break him.”

Meanwhile, Donald J. Trump doubled down on his support for the Russian President, offering Putin advice on declaring Russia bankrupt.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/putin-starting-to-worr
y-about-his-strategy-after-trump-calls-him-smart

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 7:09 PM

Inside Biden’s scramble and gamble to handle Putin

https://news.yahoo.com/inside-biden-scramble-gamble-handle-130400785.h
tml

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 7:51 PM

Remember the pissgate 4chan Russia hoax guy Alexander Vindman 'Confirmed' Trump Is 100% a Putin Puppet

Ukrainian Refugee Who Rose to the White House

Vindman twins in matching red shirts.

Seems they grew up in Brooklyn's "Little Odessa" neighborhood. The twins and their maternal grandmother were in the Ken Burns film, "The Statue of Liberty film". Vindman speaks fluent Russian and Ukrainian.

but now Alexander Vindman says Trump, Mike Pompeo, and Fox News helped bring about Putin's invasion of Ukraine
https://www.businessinsider.com/vindman-trump-fox-partly-to-blame-for-
putin-ukraine-invasion-2022-3

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 8:20 PM

Vladimir Putin's mental state questioned by growing number of US officials

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/vladimir-putin-apos-mental-state-163845298.h
tml

THG

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 11:33 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:

What an evil selfish prick Putin is. Does anyone but him benefit from this? And now? After 2 years of covid crap? Kill thousands and crash the world economy so he can redraw a MAP?!?? What fcking dinosaur. I look forward to watching this blow up in his face.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/world/europe/putin-speech-russia-uk
raine.html

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THG

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 2:12 AM

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Malcolm Nance: Zelenskyy Showed His True Character When Russia Invaded

THG

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 3:57 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

If they can cut off bank accounts to an entire nation, the Freedom Convoy never stood a chance.

The New World Order is in control now.

Look back fondly on 2019 and before it. Because the life we used to know will never be again.

Russia, China, and Iran are the New Axis powers. Between them they have everything they need (armies, nukes, oil revenues) to take over half the world, especially when the weak and woke West is "too civilized" to do a damn thing about it.

During 1945 when Russia was invading Germany from the East and then sacking Berlin, the Russian Army was actually encouraged by their officers to terrorize the civilian population. As many as 3 million German women and girls were brutalized and raped, often gang-raped. I wonder how CNN and the rest of their oh-so-progressive ilk will live with that reality playing out in front of their smug self-righteous retarded faces.

I reject your premise that we need bullies and corrupt bad guys to deal with their bullies and corrupt bad guys. I further reject your premise that Russia China and Iran can take over half the world unless they currently hold that much territory. Their expansionism will be checked. Especially now since they are seeing the consequences Russia is and are going to suffer.

So far, it’s said the Russians have lost 14 planes, 8 helicopters, 102 tanks, 536 BBM, armored combat vehicles, 15 heavy machine guns, and 1 BUK missile since Feb. 24, according to Ukraine's military. The Kremlin also lost over 3,500 soldiers. Remember, this does not include the sanctions, and China is watching.

They’re getting their clocks cleaned by an army with half their resources and training. China is even less capable of actual fighting. Iran and North Korea are little more than an irritant. As for America being to woke to fight back, think again.

Without firing a shot America and our allies have helped Ukraine shame the Russian army. If Putin wants he’ll commit the rest of his troops and shut the active war down but the Ukrainian army has sent a chilling message to Moscow. And it is prepared to fight as an insurgency going forward.

You want to talk about woke? Europe has been woke. Reminded why they stand united as NATO. It’s one of the biggest consequences of Russia’s behavior. NATO now has a huge new commitment to sustaining, improving and expanding.

tick tock

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Pentagon official says Russian troops have 'deliberately punched holes' in their own gas tanks 'presumably' to avoid combat as morale declines: report

Some Russian troops have "deliberately punched holes in their vehicles' gas tanks" as morale among the Russians declines, a senior US official said.

The troops appear to be self-sabotaging in order to avoid combat, the unnamed senior Pentagon official said, per The New York Times. The official added that many of the Russian troops are young and inexperienced in combat, and they are facing dwindling food and fuel resources.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pentagon-official-says-russian-tr
oops-have-deliberately-punched-holes-in-their-own-gas-tanks-presumably-to-avoid-combat-as-morale-declines-report/ar-AAUu2sH?ocid=msedgntp

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 12:20 PM

NATO expanding is one of the worst things for Democracy in the world, Ted.

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"

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Wednesday, March 2, 2022 8:30 PM

Televangelist Pat Robertson came out of his retirement to say Russia’s president Vladimir Putin was “compelled by God” to invade Ukraine.

The televangelist added that Mr Putin’s attack on Ukraine was in preparation for a massive “end times” invasion of Israel.

The 91-year-old insisted this was all a part of an “end times” battle and that Mr Putin was just following God’s plan.

Mr Robertson said: “People say that Putin’s out of his mind. Yes, maybe so. But at the same time, he’s being compelled by God. He went into Ukraine but that wasn’t his goal. His goal was to move against Israel, ultimately.”

The ageing televangelist continued to say that Russia was using Ukraine as a “staging area” and God had put “hooks” in the Russian president’s “jaws” for a reason to draw him to this stage.

“Is Putin mad? Is Putin crazy? Perhaps. But God says I am going to put hooks in your jaws, I am gonna draw you into this… whether you like it or not,” he said.

Mr Robertson made an appearance on The 700 Club on the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) on Monday and claimed God had his plan that was being implemented via Mr Putin.

“All of those troops there are going to be coming against Israel in the latter days. And God says, ‘I am going to take care of it’,” he said.

He told the viewers to “read your Bible because it’s coming to pass”.

Meanwhile, Kyiv was rocked by massive explosions just hours after Russian and Ukrainian delegates held ceasefire negotiations in Belarus.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/televangelist-pat-robertson-says-
putin-052511159.html

It is not only Pat Robertson who believes this:

In Ezekiel 38 and 39, a description is given of a war between Israel and a nation which many have identified as Russia. The two chapters mentioned describe the invasion of the land of Israel by the armies of Russia and the nations that are associated with her. The Scriptures are plain that this is a military invasion and reveal many details about the situation existing at the time of that invasion.
More at https://bible.org/seriespage/10-king-north

Many Bible Verses about the King of the North (aka Putin):
https://www.google.com/search?q=bible+revelations+king+of+the+north+an
d+south

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 8:54 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Televangelist Pat Robertson came out of his retirement to say Russia’s president Vladimir Putin was “compelled by God” to invade Ukraine.

The televangelist added that Mr Putin’s attack on Ukraine was in preparation for a massive “end times” invasion of Israel.

The 91-year-old insisted this was all a part of an “end times” battle and that Mr Putin was just following God’s plan.

Mr Robertson said: “People say that Putin’s out of his mind. Yes, maybe so. But at the same time, he’s being compelled by God. He went into Ukraine but that wasn’t his goal. His goal was to move against Israel, ultimately.”

The ageing televangelist continued to say that Russia was using Ukraine as a “staging area” and God had put “hooks” in the Russian president’s “jaws” for a reason to draw him to this stage.

“Is Putin mad? Is Putin crazy? Perhaps. But God says I am going to put hooks in your jaws, I am gonna draw you into this… whether you like it or not,” he said.

Mr Robertson made an appearance on The 700 Club on the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) on Monday and claimed God had his plan that was being implemented via Mr Putin.

“All of those troops there are going to be coming against Israel in the latter days. And God says, ‘I am going to take care of it’,” he said.

He told the viewers to “read your Bible because it’s coming to pass”.

Meanwhile, Kyiv was rocked by massive explosions just hours after Russian and Ukrainian delegates held ceasefire negotiations in Belarus.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/televangelist-pat-robertson-says-
putin-052511159.html

It is not only Pat Robertson who believes this:

In Ezekiel 38 and 39, a description is given of a war between Israel and a nation which many have identified as Russia. The two chapters mentioned describe the invasion of the land of Israel by the armies of Russia and the nations that are associated with her. The Scriptures are plain that this is a military invasion and reveal many details about the situation existing at the time of that invasion.
More at https://bible.org/seriespage/10-king-north

Many Bible Verses about the King of the North (aka Putin):
https://www.google.com/search?q=bible+revelations+king+of+the+north+an
d+south

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

lol

Y2K. 2012. Now this.

I'd better go and watch Kirk Cameron Saves Christmas and give my apologies to Jesus while I still have time.

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Me: "Remember Covid?"

Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"

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