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  1. 2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    The Inside Russia YouTuber is an interesting guy. I’ve listened to him on and off since February.  He’s in his 40s or early 50s and has talked about the breakup of the Soviet Union.   The invasion really screwed up his business and friendships - he lived in the US for a while (and still wears America shirts on his podcasts) and has friends in Ukraine.   He’s said in a lot of his shows that he doesn’t understand what is going on and just wants things back to the way they were  a criticism of the war, yet not  

    He is clearly riding an extremely fine line between getting jailed and being free, and when he plays the “I can’t say it, but you know what I mean” game, I cringe a little because I expect his show to abruptly end after that.

    I haven’t watched his latest shows, but from the YouTube titles, I’m assuming he’s playing with fire.

    His last stream was the most damning one. "What the Fudge" was used a lot. Even commented on how weak Putin looked in the public discussions within the summit with Xi. 

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  2. 33 minutes ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

    Watched one video from the first link. Pretty interesting

    Inside Russia: 

    (302) PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA HAS NOT LOST ANYTHING | I Have A Few Questions - YouTube

     

    He was just love and said the tone around Russia and especially Moscow (where he is) has changed since the last week. From "everything is fine" to "who is at fault". He anticipates major happenings in the next couple weeks. 

    Nothing different than we know here, but interesting from the point of view of inside the bubble. 

  3. @Loch Ness Monster

    He's been posted before but a decent follow: https://youtube.com/c/LETTERSTOKING

    He keeps things semi cryptic because he lives in Russia and doesn't want to fall from windows. 

    A couple other follows for different perspectives:

    https://youtube.com/c/NikiProshin

    https://youtube.com/c/NatashasAdventures

    Broad strokes: seems the older generation will do what propaganda tells them, while the younger generation knows they are in a bad situation

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  4. 42 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    They kind of have to for any possibility of them surviving their leadership asperations. One of those "sums greater than their parts" type deal. It'll ultimately fail (unless something major shifts at play), but if Xi alienates Russia, all the they can do is play ball with the rest of the world and that isn't in their self-interest. 

  5. 7 minutes ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

     

    That's domestic, I was speaking geopolitically. No one is perfect, but he would have been worlds better than what we got.

    I don't know, it seems like it's all working out in the end. Russia is on the verge of imploding, China is now on an island with no real allies and serious domestic issues, and our alliances are stronger than they have been in a long time. Still lots at play but so far we are on the right track. 

    *additionally, Iran is far more easy to handle now that their big bro Russia has been hobbled. North Korea is what it is and will be regardless of what we do. 

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  6. 13 minutes ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

     

    He was spot-on about more than that geopolitically. He would have done well.

     

    He was a corporate shill who loves Citizen's United (probably the most destructive legislation to our Democracy in the past 50 years). "Have done well" is extremely subjective, especially if they somehow expanded on the philosophy of corporations having equal rights to individuals. 

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  7. 8 minutes ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

    Or Romney, who correctly called out and warned us, about the Russians/Putin in 12. Everyone called him a coldwar dinosaur who refused to move on and proclaim the "reset". There was plenty of myopia going around that was quick to dismiss the obvious warning signs out of ignorant, idealist, hope.

     

     

    Ignorant children

    I think a majority of us chuckled at that as we were still viewing the world thru red white and blue glasses. Romney was spot on with this single issue. 

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  8. 42 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I may not agree with their politics (well I used to, but not these days), but I’d be really curious to hear Tom Clancy’s and John McCain’s thoughts about Ukraine if they were still alive.  I remember McCain laying into Rand Paul hard after the invasion of Georgia and then Ukraine in 2014, to the point he was saying on the Senate floor that Paul was working for Putin. 

     

     

     

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  9. IF the rumors are true about the assassination attempt, and the military (including navy apparently) "regrouping", when does this become a General unifying their military away from Putin for a coup? If Putin puts the blame on the some generals instead of himself, they have nothing to lose. The army must be broken by now and ready for this war to stop. They have to like their chances with an attempted coup rather than jumping back into Ukraine. 

  10. 13 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

    I also think that Russia also thought that Biden would be too weak to lead a response and that Boris Johnson would not respond the way that he did. 

    Looking at it from Putin's point of view:

    1.  Zelensky looked too weak to rally Ukraine, Biden too weak to lead an international response, and Europe too divided to assist Ukraine.

    2.  Russia had Europe by the short hairs energywise, with no apparent alternatives that were economically feasible.

    3.  He had many Ukrainians bought and acting on his direction.  He thought that they would all stay bought.

    4.  He had a powerful fighting force in position to execute a decent invasion plan.

    5.  He had to go before any of these conditions changed.

    He failed because too many of his assumptions were based on hope, not fact.

    Also failed due to the side effect of autocracy being pleasing the leader first, not necessarily owning and learning from mistakes in a progressive manner or communicating up the reality of situations. 

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  11. 9 hours ago, Voldemort86 said:

    Now here is an example of the “uppity” trumpeter. Probably 10% of his base. I don’t think there’s very many of these guys, but this guy actually is educated. He knows trump and his policies are scum, but the guy is so ungodly selfish that he wants the tax cuts while he watches and laughs as the world burns. This kind of Trumper really sucks. He claims that his bag is “ more expensive than anyone else can afford” and hopes the liberals plane crashes as he gets kicked off.

    Anyone seen fatty lately? 

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