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43 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

Complete non-sequiturs. None of that has anything to do with Ukraine, Russian aggression, or NATO.  Putin rose to power initially as a challenge to Oligarchs before becoming one. Why you think that justifies Russian invading Ukraine, Russia targeting civilians, or the US ceasing support of Ukraine is beyond me. Actually, no it isn't. You are a Russian stooge. 

Fucking exactly. Obfuscate and spin. 

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10 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

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Looks like they left out Latvia in 1940 and East Germany in 1953 as well.  So many countries being mean to Russia over the years.

1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

Ana, guess they should not have been there.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched heavy aerial attacks on Ukraine for a second night Saturday after the United States stopped sharing satellite images with the Ukrainian government, officials said. At least 20 people have been killed.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-dobropillya-us-intelligence-3d0bad105a93933e9cdaca5cf31fcf74

Thank you, JD?

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7 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

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Zelensky has an approval rating of 67% which is up 10% from last month. But they should hold wartime elections because Ana sucks Putin’s dick. 
What a dipshit

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Motion to change the name turnip to krashnov.

 

Alex Mussayev

Biography in quotes and reason for motion below. All this info is pulled from Wikipedia.

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In 1979, he was called up for active military service in the KGB of the Soviet Union,[1] and entered the KGB Higher School (now FSB Academy).[2] After graduating, he was assigned to the counterintelligence agencies of the KGB of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.[2] In 1983–1984, during the Iran–Iraq War, he visited Baghdad, Iraq on a special mission.[1][2] In 1986–1989, he was seconded to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR[1][2] and held senior positions in its 8th Main Directorate,[1] after which he returned to the KGB.[2]

Since 1992, he has held senior positions in the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Presidential Security Service.[1] In 1994, Mussayev headed the National Security Committee's Special Group for Combating Corruption under the Prosecutor General's Office and the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan.[1] In November 1995, he became an assistant to the president, and then the first deputy commander of the Republican Guard and head of the Presidential Security Service.[2]

In 1995, by his own admission, Musayev, acting on orders from Kazakhstan's president Nazarbayev, orchestrated the sale of 578 kg (1,274 lb) of weapons-grade uranium abroad.[2]

In 2025, Mussayev claimed that Donald Trump had been recruited by the KGB when he visited "Moscow as a real estate developer in 1987" and was given the codename "Krasnov". Several sources note that he doesn't provide any clear evidence to support his claim.[a] "Mussayev did not specify that Trump actively or knowingly participated in any espionage activities or provide examples, only that he was recruited",[10] claims that are also asserted by former KGB spies Yuri Shvets[9][16][17][18] and Sergei Zhyrnov.[19] Mussayev also asserted that Trump is compromised:

Although the credibility of the 'Steele dossier' has been vehemently contested by Trump supporters, especially for its use of anonymous sources, Mussayev confirms the existence of kompromat on Trump...:
'I have no doubt that Russia has kompromat on the US President, that over the course of many years the Kremlin has been promoting Trump to the post of President of the main world power.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alnur_Mussayev#Krasnov

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Summary of the latest from the Institute for the Study of War.

Kremlin rejects possibility of compromise and refuses to discuss ceasefire – ISW

Russia has rejected the possibility of any concessions in future peace talks regarding the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin has stated that it will not make compromises, denied the possibility of deploying peacekeepers in Ukraine and dismissed the prospect of a ceasefire through talks.

Source: Institute for the Study of War (ISW)

Details: During a visit to the Moscow branch of the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation on 6 March, Russia's ruler Vladimir Putin emphasised that Russia will not "give in to anyone" and intends to achieve peace conditions that will provide it with long-term guarantees.

Quote: "Putin has also declared 2025 the 'Year of the Defender of the Fatherland' – underlining Putin's efforts to prioritise militarising Russian society and rallying support behind Russia's war effort in Ukraine in 2025.

Putin stated that Russia 'will not give up' its 'own' territory in future peace negotiations – likely referring to illegally annexed territory in occupied Ukraine."

Details: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated at a press conference that Moscow will not consider any initiatives to deploy European peacekeeping forces in Ukraine. According to Lavrov, such actions would be tantamount to the deployment of NATO forces and therefore Russia would consider this move to be direct involvement of the Alliance in the war.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also stressed that any proposals that might give Ukraine a "respite" on the battlefield are unacceptable to the Kremlin.

Furthermore, Lavrov emphasised that Russia will insist on taking into account the so-called "root causes" of the war, which, as he claims, include halting NATO expansion and security guarantees for Russia. He claimed that US President Donald Trump understands these demands, whereas European countries are ignoring them.

Quote: "Russian officials often invoke the concept of 'root causes' to allude to their demands for NATO to abandon its open-door policy and to blame the West and Ukraine for Putin's decision to invade Ukraine."

To quote the ISW's Key Takeaways on 6 March:

  • Russian leader Vladimir Putin and other Kremlin officials explicitly rejected making any concessions in future peace negotiations or accepting any US, European, or Ukrainian peace proposals and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the possibility of a negotiated ceasefire on 6 March.
  • Russian officials will likely take advantage of the suspension of US military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine to spread a longstanding Russian information operation meant to falsely portray Russian victory as inevitable.
  • The Kremlin welcomed a Trump administration official's recent comments mischaracterising Russia's illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine as a "proxy war", and Russian media portrayed the statement as an admission that the United States is a participant in the war.
  • US and Ukrainian delegations will conduct bilateral meetings in Saudi Arabia next week.
  • Ukrainian opposition politicians rejected the possibility of holding elections in Ukraine before the end of the war.
  • European countries continue to announce new military assistance packages and other measures to support the Ukrainian military.
  • Ukrainian forces recently advanced on the Pokrovsk front and Russian forces recently advanced on the Kupiansk, Borova, Siversk, Pokrovsk and Kurakhove fronts.
  • Russian leader Vladimir Putin attempted to assuage Russian fears about conscripts going to war amid continued reports that Russian military units are forcing conscripts to sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD).
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1 hour ago, hobbes2702 said:

Zelensky has an approval rating of 67% which is up 10% from last month. But they should hold wartime elections because Ana sucks Putin’s dick. 
What a dipshit

Let's be accurate: Annie wants Zelensky to violate Ukraine's constitution and hold wartime elections so that Russia can have Ukraine (while Annie sucks Putin's dick of course). 

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6 hours ago, Anastasis said:

I just gave you shock therapy as one example. I think that it is a pretty mainstream assessment that shock therapy was a failure, primarily hurt ordinary Russian people, consolidated broad anti-Western sentiment, and directly led to the rise of the oligarchs. 

We botched the biggest moment of influence at the end of the Cold War. Both economically and militarily. 

Ani has a point. Don’t you remember when the United States sent in the military and took over the legislative functions of Russia and forced them all into that model?   Remember when we put on the sanctions unless they created oligarchs and threatened economic ruin to everyone unless they did the United States bidding in the minutest detail when creating the new Russia?  Remember how the US had to show our handpick oligarchs Russian history books to explain what a Boyer was? Remember how there was no corruption in Russia, no Russian mob, and no attempts to grift or cheat the state before the Americans interfered in the 1990s?

If you think about it, poor innocent Russia was just waiting for a western style democracy to happen - and when it happened, the United States took control of the entirety of the former Soviet Union and changed its entire culture in a decade. These are important facts to consider when looking at the Russian-Ukraine war.  

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33 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Ani has a point. Don’t you remember when the United States sent in the military and took over the legislative functions of Russia and forced them all into that model?   Remember when we put on the sanctions unless they created oligarchs and threatened economic ruin to everyone unless they did the United States bidding in the minutest detail when creating the new Russia?  Remember how the US had to show our handpick oligarchsRussian history books to explain what a Boyer was? Remember how there was no corruption in Russia, no Russian mob, and no attempts to grift or cheat the state before the Americans interfered in the 1990s?

If you think about it, poor innocent Russia was just waiting for a western style democracy to happen - and when it happened, the United States took control of the entirety of the former Soviet Union and changed its entire culture in a decade. These are important facts to consider when looking at the Russian-Ukraine war.  

Yeah, and all this former eastern bloc nations that ended up allied with United States have had a terrible time installing western, liberal democracies, and haven't created very economically successful societies. Nope. The US definitely hasn't been a stabilizing and empowering force for the betterment of those nations. Only the countries that stayed within Russia's influence have prospered. 

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40 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Ani has a point. Don’t you remember when the United States sent in the military and took over the legislative functions of Russia and forced them all into that model?   Remember when we put on the sanctions unless they created oligarchs and threatened economic ruin to everyone unless they did the United States bidding in the minutest detail when creating the new Russia?  Remember how the US had to show our handpick oligarchsRussian history books to explain what a Boyer was? Remember how there was no corruption in Russia, no Russian mob, and no attempts to grift or cheat the state before the Americans interfered in the 1990s?

If you think about it, poor innocent Russia was just waiting for a western style democracy to happen - and when it happened, the United States took control of the entirety of the former Soviet Union and changed its entire culture in a decade. These are important facts to consider when looking at the Russian-Ukraine war.  

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Ana has a view, common to university undergrads, that the world basically operates like a man playing billiards by himself, where the player is the United States and other nations ricochet about in pre-set courses because of what the United States does. It’s very stupid and reductive.

Shock therapy and its legacy is a topic of hot debate across the former eastern bloc.  It’s important to know that “shock therapy” was a set of economic and market prescriptions to guide nations towards a more open economy.  The corruption, gangsterism, and political dealing that went along with it in Russia and some Soviet states (including Ukraine) was not part of the prescription, was not necessary, and was a choice made by the people who engaged in it.  Former Warsaw Pact states like the Czechs and Poles went through the process too, as did the Balts, to dramatically different results and dramatically lower (but not non-existent) levels of banditry. 
 

Russia’s behavior is a choice made by Russians.  Poor, persecuted Russia is not forced to march into its much smaller neighbors and take things to defend itself. It does that because for centuries it has been a predatory, expansionist empire and Russians continue to see the world in those terms. 

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But Anastasis doesn’t even have to take my word for it.  Putin explained why he invaded for 90 minutes to Tucker Carlson, which was the perfect venue to rant about NATO and shock therapy.  Instead he explained that Ukraine isn’t a real country and he took it because Russia wanted it, with references to Rurik and the Zaporizhian Sich.  It’s absolutely incredible how asshole Russophiles simply refuse to let the man speak for himself. 

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The democracies of the world should pull off the gloves and plaster pics of Putin’s victims - maimed, injured and murdered children, every damn where. And while we’re at it, we should do the same in Gaza.

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Posted
15 minutes ago, Satchel said:

The democracies of the world should pull off the gloves and plaster pics of Putin’s victims - maimed, injured and murdered children, every damn where. And while we’re at it, we should do the same in Gaza.

Are there even any walls left in Gaza where posters could be plastered?

Posted
6 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

I've had about enough of this Ana asshole.  Fucking putinist piece of shit.

I hope that you are able to find some peace. 

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On 3/7/2025 at 8:01 AM, South Austin said:

Fucker probably has his eye on some cheap cleared land in Manhattan.

He'll have to fight whatever is left of Bill Snyder's family for it.

Posted
7 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Russia’s behavior is a choice made by Russians.  Poor, persecuted Russia is not forced to march into its much smaller neighbors and take things to defend itself. It does that because for centuries it has been a predatory, expansionist empire and Russians continue to see the world in those terms. 

At a certain point it just has to be realized that this is who Russia is. How many times have we had people just on this site trying to remind us that this is who that country is. Hundreds of years of being ruled by strongmen (and women) has made them EXACTLY WHO THEY ARE.

This is not to mean every individual Russian goes along with how they are as a society and country. I have a friend that is an American citizen now, but she grew up in Russia. She does not really identify with any of these normalized Russian values of hate and degradation. This is who Russia is and I applaud Europe for finally at least taking a stand politically. Now they'll likely have to back that up with military force at some point because dictators like Putin only understand power through a show of force. That is something I hope does not happen, but Europe has had so many wars in its history that you can just not rule out anything with so many different cultures and countries having to agree on what to do here.

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17 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

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The Ukrainian War has been the most successful and cost effective war for the United States with the exception of the Revolutionary War. We were putting in the final nails into the coffin of the Russian non-nuclear military when Trump took office.

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Good to see that 986 just relegated to rolling out propaganda artistry again. And who laps that shti up. 

“Russia has agency”
”That’s just obvious propaganda!”

This. It’s fantastic. Did not address any of the substantive points made, just dismissed it all out of hand as propaganda. Including the part where 956 suggested that maybe, if you’d like to understand Russia’s motives and perspective, we should listen to its autocratic leader’s words.
And those words, from his mouth, are apparently - to Ana - American imperialist propaganda.
The beclowning is spectacular.


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