In Ukraine as well, to be fair. Ukraine has a long history of pogroms and anti-semitism, and it hasn’t just gone away. I used to listen to a lot of black metal, and it was very well known that a lot of the bands from Ukraine were hardcore nazis. They would have big festivals down there that doubled as political rallies.
The idea that it defines the whole country is still nuts though.
Yeah, I ran into a few in the Russian metro in post apocalyptic Moscow.
Another analysis FWIW - summary is that basically the RA has shot it’s bolt - further significant gains are unlikely until reinforcements arrive.
This is where she earns most of her money. The Russia women’s basketball leagues pay very well, the WNBA pays a lot less comparatively.
Most WNBA players would choose overseas over the WNBA if they had to pick one.
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I wonder how much more they have at this point before they have to start calling up folks for mobilization.
In general women’s professional sports pay better in Europe.
Totally off topic, but that seems surprising to me, because generally speaking US women’s team do better at a national level, for example US women’s soccer vs man’s soccer.
Thank Title IX.
Because of that, there have been very advanced skillset leagues in women’s soccer, basketball, etc. at the collegiate level in the US for 5 decades, and many areas around the world are only now catching up.
EDIT to add: it’s the power of competition, training, and acumen at the important ages of youth development of athletes. For a long time, if you were a girl or young woman in a lot of places in the world, there just wasn’t any place to go for organized, formal instruction in certain sports past a level. Title IX made it so that in the USA, there was all of that at the high school and collegiate levels.
Think of it this way: some of the greatest soccer players in the world are Brazilian or Argentinian or Uruguayan or Colombian, etc. But the professional leagues in those countries aren’t nearly as good as the European soccer leagues. But the young players in those South American countries have their skillsets nurtured at a young age, and then get plucked out of there to go play in Europe.
unfortunately, every European country has some neo-nazis. In Germany we even have some “moderate” nazis disguised as a party sitting in parlament (Afd). Some countries have more, some less, some are part of the government etc…
So is this reason for Putin to invade? We can handle them …
I understand, why we’d have better women athletes in team events. I’m just surprised they pay better
Brittney play for Yekaterinburg,in the Russia Premier League. I know the WNBA pays poorly, but a black women making more money playing in Siberia, just seems weird to me. Anyway, I hope the team owner has some pull so she can get out of jail.
There’s no audience for professional woman’s sports in America. The WNBA is probably the biggest women’s pro league in America, and it’s been struggling to find a substantial following for decades. The NBA’s dogged determination is probably the reason it hasn’t died.
The story I heard is that Scott didn’t want to play everything so cartoonishly like Kubrick was asking him to. So Kubrick had him to play things up in rehearsal takes, just to flex those muscles and influence the more down-to-earth takes. Then he put the rehearsal takes in the film.
I’d say more no audience for team sports. Individual sports like women’s tennis/golf do better.
That leaked FSB source upthread, again assuming it is legit, discussed mobilization.
What now? We cannot announce mobilization for two reasons:
- Large-scale mobilization will undermine the situation inside the country: political, economic, social.
- Our logistics are already overstretched today. We will drive a many times larger contingent, and what will we get? Ukraine is a hefty country in terms of territory. And now the level of hatred towards us is going through the roof. Our roads simply won’t be able to handle such supply caravans - everything will come to a standstill. And we won’t manage to pull it out - because it’s chaos. And these two reasons fall out at the same time, although even one is enough to break everything off.
Also, I’ve noticed that there is a lot more footage and reporting of Russian units and troops, than there is of formal Ukrainian military forces. I’m sure that’s partly because, well, ain’t much for the Russians to brag about, but I wonder if it’s also a sign that the Ukrainians are a bit better at OPSEC in this case.
It’s by far the most fun I’ve had catching up on this thread ever. I’m happy at least some people got the Dr Strangelove reference, pretty sure it’s not even the first time that one has come up in this thread.
To be fair, we have a lot of clear video evidence that ordinary Russian soldiers are being very restrained. I reckon that Ukrainian protester who jumped on top of the BTR to wave his flag would have met a very different response had he been Afghan.
I’ve played BF2042 . We know what would have happened if that elevator reached the top.
