Thrag
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Things I want to believe.
Thrag
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Given the whole “Ukrainian government are Nazis” rhetoric Zelensky (who again is a Jew, and not just a Jew, a Jewish Comedian, which is one belt below Rabbi) asked Israel to mediate as a further way to say “see, we’re obviously not Nazis”.
vyshka
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I still think officials talking publicly about it is stupid.
This is the guy upthread that was saying Russia would win because encirclement
Soma
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Wait wait wait, who the hell in the US State Department thinks it is a good idea to let Americans go to Russia at this time, or even in early Feb when Biden was basically calling Russia out for the imminent invasion? Hostage diplomacy didn’t ring a bell?
There was a bible study group that had to be rescued in Afghanistan… People don’t care.
If it takes an appropriation to do it — e.g to fund giving replacement jets to Poland — I don’t think talking about it publicly can easily be avoided.
Meanwhile, this handsome devil with the SS tats on his collarbones is supposed to be the leader of the Wagner Group. I haven’t been able to confirm the picture, or that Wagner are actually in Ukraine, but if confirmed, it arguably makes the whole nazi thing look even dumber.
She has been playing for a Russian woman’s team in the off-season since 2016, according to Wiki.
vyshka
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lol, his reputation is pretty much like the Russian helicopter that has been on twitter all day
vyshka
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I wouldn’t be surprised. That might be the thing that surprised me the most when I was in Moscow in '96-'97. Neo-nazis in Russia is a thing though.
The WNBA season runs opposite of Euro women’s leagues. Lots of WNBA players at all tiers end up playing in Europe and Russia and Asia during the WNBA offseason. Which if there’s a thing about this that sucks the most, it’s that a lot of these players don’t make enough in the WNBA and choose to play in the off-season as well.
She’s apparently been detained for about 3 weeks, so it may be that she was starting to try to get out when she was taken into custody.
In general, the US should only talk about the things we are very unlikely to do to aid Ukraine’s.
But this has been discussed so publically, and Scott says I guess Congress needs to get involved so no way around it.
The Crimea is about 60% ethnically Russian, only about 20% Ukrainian and many of those have emigrated.
End of the day I asked to check, he answered, but apparently outrage makes people whack the Reply button without reading forward.
I don’t know this for sure. I just think it likely that we can’t just give a pile of F-16s to Poland and then replace them without some money. If nobody had ever spoken about it and everyone was secretly ready to do it, maybe it could have just been hidden in a bigger aid appropriation. But if people need to be convinced, they’re going to talk about it publicly.
Whats more to the point is that the Russian military is shit, I’ve suspected for years, but there has been a lot of fearmongering about their capabilities for a while.
Its clear they can’t run an operation this big easily, let alone anything else, if they hit Nato, or even just EU, its over in weeks, and the nukes are on the table quick…
Fuck this.
