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  1. On 4/13/2022 at 5:55 PM, atomheartbevo said:

     

    Not only does Ukraine take the seat but they place a Crimean Tatar to the post.  Well played Ukraine.  Well played.

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    2 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

     

    So, they're holding dead people hostage now too?  At least destroying the cemetery would complete the act of barbarism their forefathers brought upon the Poles.  A bit more extreme than pissing on their graves though.

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    As if the Poles weren't already anxious to fight.

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  2. 7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Which is why Putin's chess game seems pretty shitty to me.

    He played a masterful first 2/3 of the match, what with destabilizing the West, creating internal dissent, splitting apart the EU with Brexit, amping up political divisiveness in the US, etc.  He had his opposition in a less-than-ideal posture.

    But then he blew most of that with an incredibly arrogant and ill-planned/prepared invasion of a real sovereign state in Europe.  With respect to Russia, most of the advantages he had cultivated went "poof," functionally overnight (e.g., the UK is working pretty much in lockstep with the EU on this one).

    Then, if his REAL goal was "stable borders with no nearby NATO threat," he just put on a display that demonstrated in concrete and bloody terms that any western nation within reach of Russia would be a damned fool to NOT be a member of NATO if it had the option.  So, here come Sweden and Finland, giving Russia an ADDITIONAL border with a NATO nation.

    The first 2/3 of the match were played masterfully.  And then Putin felt like he had the match in the bag, so he started playing like a drunken moron.  And the problem is, you only score the match at the end -- nobody cares how many pieces you took down, or how much you dominated most of the game.  The only question is who ends up in checkmate.  Putin has put himself and Russia in a place where it's very hard to see how they will come out ahead of even where they were before they started this mess, much less coming out even or ahead of where they wanted to end up.

    Sounds like Putin took some bad advice after holding a winning hand.  At least Stan the Caddy didn't get shipped off to Siberia, or worse.

     

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  3. 46 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

     

    Wait.  They're Russians, so I think I know what they mean by this.  Yes, the American flag is touching the ground at the start.  That's not kosher.  But as they move it flies up.  So....    they're flying the American flag on the back of their tank?

    Can we consider this a false flag operation and add it to their list of violations?

    I'm glad they're spending all of their time on pointless and confusing videos instead of, you know, learning how to fight.

  4. 2 hours ago, MillerEP said:
     
     
     

    Russia is deporting non-compliant undesirables to the farthest reaches of Siberia?  While they can't be bothered to truck out their own dead?  Man, the more things change, the more things stay the same.  I'm not sure Ukraine is ever going to get those people back.  ☹️  Fuck Russia!

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  5. 43 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

    https://www.politico.com/interactives/2022/ukraine-european-allies-matrix/

    How loyal are Ukraine’s Western allies?
    We’ve plotted 35 countries joining the EU, NATO and G-7 summits in Brussels this week according to their level of Russia skepticism and economic dependencies.
    By RYAN HEATH and BEATRICE JIN

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    Even Russia doesn't fully sympathize with itself.  They know they suck.

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  6. 13 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

    To this end, I do have to wonder if areas like Kaliningrad and Siberia, which both have separatist movements (albeit complicated) may choose to attempt pursue succession to get away from the toxic stench from European Russia proper.  For Kaliningrad to integrate into Baltic Europe would seem to be very attractive as a small independent country.  Granted, they would have to stage some sort of small coup there, but I would have to think that will be at the very least worth it to avoid being tied into the Russian economy, or lack there of.  If you are a Siberian citizen, the only thing preventing you from being wealthy (given the mineral deposits) is being tied to European Russia.  They Russian army has thus far proven to be unable to function with out rail, so sabotaging the rail from Europe would be crippling and again a coup of sorts would need to occur.  I'd say there is ample reason to suspect the Siberians might try this.  

     

    So in essence, Putin's bullshit could easily not only fail entirely, but could also have the residual result of Russia losing all of Asia their only true warm water port, albeit not connected.  

    That Putin, he's a darn genius.  

    Problem with Kaliningrad is that it's almost all Russian, about 85%.  Stalin probably depopulated every German, Pole, Lithuanian or anyone else with ties nearby from the area.  I suspect those Russians dream of nothing more than a land bridge back to the motherland.

  7. 5 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Polio vaccine is a series of 3 or 4, right?  I'm not looking at our medical records, but my kids got shot up with all kinds of boosters before they were even in 1st grade.

    Good lord, lady.

    According to the CDC, it's four: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/public/index.html

    CDC recommends that children get four doses of polio vaccine. They should get one dose at each of the following ages: 2 months old, 4 months old, 6 through 18 months old, and 4 through 6 years old.

    That woman is just a special breed of stupid.

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  8. 1 hour ago, Hefeweizen said:

    Not sure if already posted but best indicator of Russia being turbo fucked is China showing atrocities on state run tv.  This is approaching the endgame way faster than I expected.

    South Ossetia and maybe Abkhazia with fewer Russian troops now?  Georgia be like:

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    I do hope if we get a whiff of Georgia looking to take advantage of the current situation we can talk them back, at least I think so.

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  9. 4 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    "self-purification of society"

    This is your wake-up call, Russia.

    Y'all gotta do the right thing here.

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    Replace the word Communist with Nazi and this seems to about sum up Putin's present state of mind.  

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  10. 17 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:


    I don’t know. Russia has a fast declining and aging population and only one notable industry.

    It’s going to be a welfare state within a generation.

    China, though much larger obviously, has a similar demographic timebomb coming up.  China is turning into the most rapidly aging population in the world.

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  11. 12 hours ago, Bravo said:

    Damn it! Now Russia is going to find an excuse to kill all the birds.

     

     

    Damn!  Those crafty Russkies are on to our cunning plan!

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    1 minute ago, Nicole44 said:

    Mud in the tires? Lulz…

     

    Who would have thought that such a thing could happen there at this time of year?  I suppose it's times like these when I'm grateful that some people don't learn from history.

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  12. 18 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    These aren’t NATO planes. These are NATO Olympic Committee planes. 

    Man.  I wish I could rep this one more than once.

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