Ukraine War

[Biff Tannen 45477]

6 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

I can't tell if you're joking or not, bd. It is a cute picture of Psaki.

She looks tiny.

[Bullneck 18976]

13 minutes ago, babysdaddy said:

this is where we say both sides, da comrade?

 

Had they invaded anyone?  You know what diplomats do, right?

Edited March 2, 2022 by Bullneck

[Biff Tannen 45477]

13 minutes ago, babysdaddy said:

this is where we say both sides, da comrade?

 

Was she giving away national secrets?  Was Kerry?

[Longhorn_Fan68 33825]

lol imagine digging up an almost 10 year old picture to try to create a gotcha for the situation today. 

[TexArcher 37455]

16 minutes ago, babysdaddy said:

this is where we say both sides, da comrade?

 

Only if you're an idiot.

[DDD Dad 14167]

1 hour ago, workswithseed said:

"Fiddler on the Roof" was the first time I ever heard of progrom.

Pogrom

[RomaVicta 29756]

Just now, Bullneck said:

Were we at war then? 

Nobody in the picture who's not Russian was ever remotely suspected of being in cahoots with Russia. None of those same people felt the need to lie about business dealings with Russia nor did they try to set up back-channel, secret communication with Russia (remember Jared's little scheme?) or sneakily have conversations with Putin with no other American present.

None of them revealed information that was classified and a compromise of an ally's spy operation.

This is a photo op. Like the below:

Above, Trump acts with decorum and likely manages not to harm his country (assuming he claims one). It would be nice if he could manage some this week while his old pals and controllers are rolling in the hyperbaric missiles to fire into cities. He chooses instead to praise Putin's real estate savvy as though he himself were something other than a flaming shit-fart of a failure in the same field.

[Bullneck 18976]

1 hour ago, workswithseed said:

"Fiddler on the Roof" was the first time I ever heard of progrom.

Git yer progroms!  Can't tell the players without a progrom!

[jimmyjazz 45513]

If it wasn't sad that smart people don't understand the difference between meeting with foreign ministers and diplomats and doing so while also disclosing code-word level intel, it would be hilarious.

But it's just sad.  Gotcha!

[RomaVicta 29756]

13 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

Git yer progroms!  Can't tell the players without a progrom!

I'll take two! One for the boykin and one for me. I understand that the Cossacks are having a great year!

[workswithseed 2033]

19 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

Pogrom

 

15 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

Git yer progroms!  Can't tell the players without a progrom!

This is poggers!

[Neonmoon 38127]

Seems like a long shot, no?

 

[Red Five 40593]

9 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

Seems like a long shot, no?

 

Not SEC good imo

[Gil Bang 25865]

[Longhorn_Fan68 33825]

[Francisco 2.0 32290]

 

[Francisco 2.0 32290]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gidnik 3250]

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60582327?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=621fa5c20ce87e491a0edcd2%26Georgia to apply to join EU immediately - ruling party%262022-03-02T17%3A44%3A18.283Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:1ca5d02f-0b9b-4d2b-b3b9-dbdb45c30fc9&pinned_post_asset_id=621fa5c20ce87e491a0edcd2&pinned_post_type=share

[Bullneck 18976]

 

 

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

A million smackaroos!

 

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-699098

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$1 million bounty on Putin offered by Russian businessman
The Russian entrepreneur said the Russian president came to power by "blowing up apartment buildings in Russia."

A $1,000,000 bounty for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin was offered to military officers by Russian entrepreneur Alex Konanykhin in a post he published on social media this week, as Russia continued its invasion of Ukraine.

"I promise to pay $1,000,000 to the officer(s) who, complying with their constitutional duty, arrest(s) Putin as a war criminal under Russian and international laws," wrote Konanykhin on LinkedIn. "Putin is not the Russian president as he came to power as the result of a special operation of blowing up apartment buildings in Russia, then violated the Constitution by eliminating free elections and murdering his opponents."

"As an ethnic Russian and a Russian citizen, I see it as my moral duty to facilitate the denazification of Russia. I will continue my assistance to Ukraine in its heroic efforts to withstand the onslaught of Putin's Orda," added the businessman. Orda is the Russian word for "horde," a predatory, plundering gang.

The post was accompanied by an image with a photo of Putin and the words "Wanted: Dead or alive. Vladimir Putin for mass murder."

Konanykhin has a turbulent history with the Russian government.

According to a 1996 article in The Washington Post, Konanykhin studied at the Moscow Physics and Technical Institute before abandoning his studies and opening a student construction cooperative. He then branched out into a number of other businesses, including banking, stocks and real estate.

By the age of 25, he had an empire of over 100 firms. By 1992, his companies were worth about $300 million. He was even a part of then-Russian president Boris Yeltsin's first delegation to Washington that year.

In 1996, while living in the US, Konanykhin and his wife were arrested by federal immigration agents on charges of violating the conditions of their American visas. The case was seemingly sparked after Russian authorities claimed that he embezzled $8 million from the Russian Exchange Bank in Moscow.

The case went on for weeks, with FBI agents testifying that the Russian mafia had taken out a contract on Konanykhin's life as well as a former KGB agent who testified that he had serious doubts about the charges filed against the oligarch.

During the trial, Konanykhin testified that some of his corporate aides at the Russian Exchange Bank began pressuring him for money and made threats, prompting him to move to Hungary, according to the Post. He claimed that he was then threatened with violence again, prompting him to flee to the Czech Republic and then to New York.

Konanykhin complained about the threats to Russian officials and even Yeltsin himself. At a certain point, authorities stopped investigating the threats and began investigating him instead, claiming he had illegally wired $8 million from the bank to his personal accounts overseas. Russian authorities claimed that his version of events was fake and aimed to slander his former employees.

A settlement was eventually reached and he was freed from detention and eventually granted political asylum. Just a few years later, however, the Board of Immigration Appeals revoked the political asylum and ordered that he be deported. Konanykhin and his wife attempted to flee to Canada but were arrested.

The deportation of the couple was cancelled following a number of emergency hearings after U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis found the decision unlawful, saying "I have the firm impression that it is the strong desire of people in the executive branch to return this man to Russia for what reason I cannot tell. It stinks," according a report by the Moscow Times. He was granted asylum again in 2007.

In 2011, he founded TransparentBusiness, which helps companies manage their remote workforce. He is also part of Unicorn Hunters, a show which allows unicorn founders to pitch to millions of investors around the world.

 

[Gil Bang 25865]

 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23356]

Not sure this has been brought up:

The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances refers to three identical political agreements signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary on 5 December 1994 to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons(NPT). The memorandum was originally signed by three nuclear powers: the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States. China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents.^[1]

The memorandum included security assurances against threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. As a result of other agreements and the memorandum, between 1993 and 1996, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons.^[2]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances
 

Seems like Putin has invalidated that policy.

 

Can we perhaps maybe shoot down their missiles in Ukraine? 

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

Just joyriding with your buddies.  In a Russian tank.

 

https://old.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/t514y6/members_of_territorial_defense_are_stealing_the/

 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23356]

This thread is spot on:

 

[Post Oak 20182]

1 hour ago, Neonmoon said:

Seems like a long shot, no?

 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23356]

 

[Hefeweizen 5307]

Posting here because it’s CR content but this is fucking hilarious.

[Guest Lobo]

It’s not hilarious OK.  It means that what all of us know is justified and it’s only because Russia is brave enough to speak out about it that you and you’re kind of scared!

God it feels good to be a gangsta

[Chopper 17126]

 

[HenryJames 65868]

Trash army.

[mchookem 16095]

1 hour ago, Bullneck said:

 

 

well fuck you Eritrea!

[TreatyOak 16147]

From a Russian friend here in Austin:

“Thank you! Your support is much appreciated. I feel like a hostage of somebody else's terrible decision right now. And so does everyone I know back in Russia - nobody supports or understands this madness, we all have someone we care about in Ukraine, and this situation is absolutely devastating. I just hope it will end soon. Thanks again for reaching out, it means a lot!”

[texastough 1128]

How many Russians abroad are suddenly remembering they're actually Ukrainians?

[Satchel 6908]

The airspace over Ukraine is still being contested as Ukrainian forces continue to fight back against the Russian invasion, according to a senior U.S. defense official on Sunday. 

"That means that the Ukrainians are still using both aircraft, and their own air and missile defense systems, which we believe are still intact and still viable," said the official in an off-camera press briefing released by the Department of Defense. "Though they have been, as I said yesterday, there's been some degradation by the Russians."

[Hugo Stiglitz 23356]

They still can’t do much about the cruise missiles tho.  Need iron dome, add to shopping cart, overnight delivery, use Discover card points.

Edited March 2, 2022 by Hugo Stiglitz

[Gidnik 3250]

 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23356]

Smart move, before it gets seized 

[Hookah Horns 3058]

1 hour ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

This thread is spot on:

 

It's not like we had any examples from history proving that appeasing a dictator who doesn't respect borders is a bad idea. 

[Chopper 17126]

and now this...

hopefully some of these aircraft are being surreptitiously delivered. All the prior publicity wasn't a good idea.

 

[Hookah Horns 3058]

45 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Trash army.

Lolz these fools didn't bring more than a week's worth of provisions? I knew that they underestimated Ukrainian resistance, but not this badly. That's some epically poor planning. 

Edited March 2, 2022 by Hookah Horns

[Chopper 17126]

Weird how these surly threads keep intersecting. So many wingnuts to keep track of.

 

Edited March 2, 2022 by Chopper

[Longhorn_Fan68 33825]

3 minutes ago, Hookah Horns said:

Lolz these fools didn't bring more than a week's worth of provisions? I knew that they l Ukraine, but not this badly. That's some epically poor planning. 

well, it was supposed to be a 3 hour tour

Edited March 2, 2022 by Longhorn_Fan68

[Irwin F Fletcher 3550]

 

What's left in the wreath fund? It'd be cool if Surly owned a Premiere League club.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33825]

doesn't sound like enough

 

[Neonmoon 38127]

1 minute ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

doesn't sound like enough

 

Because it’s not. Only someone close enough could do it and they are probably already millionaires. 

[henrygandorf 29174]

8 minutes ago, Hookah Horns said:

Lolz these fools didn't bring more than a week's worth of provisions? I knew that they underestimated Ukrainian resistance, but not this badly. That's some epically poor planning. 

they also were chilling on the border for like a month and most of the soldiers had no idea what the fucking plan was. because there wasn’t really one. 

[henrygandorf 29174]

2 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

Because it’s not. Only someone close enough could do it and they are probably already millionaires. 

make it a billion and then we’ll see who his real friends are. 

Edited March 2, 2022 by henrygandorf

[Chopper 17126]

So he's selling because he's afraid the soccer club will be seized. What the fuck does Roman think is going to happen to the sale proceeds?

[TexArcher 37455]

1 minute ago, Neonmoon said:

Because it’s not. Only someone close enough could do it and they are probably already millionaires. 

Yeah, but it still seems really significant.

Can anyone imagine a bounty, funded by a Russian, out in the open, on Vladimir Putin a month ago?  

 

[Sawbonz 27375]

3 hours ago, babysdaddy said:

this is where we say both sides, da comrade?

 

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