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I don't understand what this thread is getting at; Putin doesn't take direction from a baseball card forum. At any rate, with his invasion spinning its wheels, Kamila Valieva's fall at the Olympics was not the worst flop from the Russians. The roughly 1,000 Russian paratroopers who landed at Hostomel airport lasted less than a day before they were wiped out by reservists and a handful of foreign volunteers. By comparison, at the Battle of Arnhem, 750 British paratroopers held out for nine days against elements of two Waffen-SS Panzer divisions.
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Who knows, maybe he collects?
It's possible this is all about the illuminati and their stash of Wagners rescued from ALC which are right next to the 52High numbers that were NOT actually dumped in the Hudson or ocean or wherever. And all stored in Ukraine.... |
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Let's try not to make it too political and continue. Personally I think we should be doing more to help. Aren't there some long range missiles, somewhere, that can be lobbed into Russian military...and maybe Putin? Not from the US, but some of our allies?
And I understand why Russia isn't kicked out of all SWIFT but there has to be other ways than continuing to buy 500k barrels of oil from Russia, currently? At least that is what I read. This is complicated but it's very clear Putin has committed crimes against humanity. Hopefully he will be help accountable some day. .
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I'm very surprised that the Poles, Romanians, and the Baltic states aren't getting involved more. Once Putin gets done gobbling up Ukraine, they are next on the menu. And if the Finns want Karelia back, now's the time to get it.
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The Baltic States?
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Russia exists. Ukraine exists. Soviet Union does not. There are countries that CHOSE to remain under the influence of Russia. Ukraine was not one of them. |
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They were both part of the Eastern Bloc.
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sorry, to clarify, he just wants those countries they had that are not NATO countries, or that was his original plan anyway.
so I highly doubt he's going after Poland, Romania and the Baltic States. especially after he sees how this is going. he's gonna get Ukraine back and that will probably be the end of it, again after he saw how everyone else has united against him. If he was hoping for ALL those countries, guessing this has changed his mind. He'll take Ukraine though, what's left of it anyway. Last edited by Shoeless Moe; 03-02-2022 at 05:51 PM. |
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I really hope they're banished from the SWIFT system, then other forms of payment will be required for the oil, but I don't think the Central Banks will go this route unfortunately.
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Well, it highlights, yet again, why we should produce as much energy here as we can, for our own use as well as our allies. Being dependent on the Middle East and Russia for energy is a miserable strategy.
The economic pain being inflicted on Russia will bring Putin to his knees long before the Ukranians stop fighting. Not to mention, the military isn't backing this invasion, the soldiers have very low morale, protests in Russia continue, supplies and mercenaries are flooding into Ukraine from many (highly motivated) countries, and so on. Europe has seen this kind of land grab by a megalomaniac before and this time they are confronting it early, with a tightly unified effort. Frankly, NATO is much stronger now than ever before, and it will soon be adding more members, like Finland for sure. Putin loses this military quagmire, is humiliated, and will not survive in power. Meanwhile, I'm watching with interest how Bitcoin fares in all this. |
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Yes, many of the Russian soldiers may be against what they are doing, but remove your American way of thinking. In Russia you do what you are told or you disappear and/or spend your life in prison. See what happens to their protestors. Are they allowed to protest or thrown in jail? Putin is old school, he cares nothing about Twitter, Social Media, the free world's opinion of him, etc. And with all these sanctions has he pulled ANYTHING back, or moved forward with his plan. He will take Ukraine. They just can't win a war of attrition with Russia. |
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The Ruble is now worth less than one cent and the Russian stock market can't even open because the minute it does, it collapses. Vlad might not care, but every other Russian does. |
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Our domestic production is about 11.28 million a day. But we export more than we import. The stuff we get from Russia is used to serve some more remote areas and to balance off supply at refineries to keep them at capacity. |
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Hi Steve.......is this still true, or is it a number from a couple years ago when gas was sub $2 a gallon? I thought a large amount of domestic oil production has pretty much been stalled in the past year. No?
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Oil companies had to stockpile it and had nowhere to put it, which is why oil was selling for less then $0 a barrel for awhile there. They won't make that mistake again, anytime in the near future. |
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5 minutes in to that video and just WTF? A nutcase using the posturing of an even less coherent nutcase to support something that isn't at all clear...
Overall reaction? Who? ranting about who? Oh, a startup "news" organization that can't or won't even supply computers to their work from home employees.... Did they check if she knows either Russian or Ukranian? If not, how would she know what the banner said. And if she did what are the chances she knows some obscure historical groups slogans? The weekly world news is a more credible source. |
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I took it as the OP wants the US, Israel, the UK, France, and India to dismantle all of their nuclear weapons, those other three never will.
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So Al, when are you going to enlighten us with the translation?
It's getting close to 50 years since I studied Russian, and what I get is: I often obrashchaois to NET54 for sovetom, iskrenne Vladimir. OK, I just did a quick Google translation on the words I'm missing. Hey, if he did, maybe things would have gone differently. Спасибо
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