re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Vietnam seems to be doing an ok job. Not that I am in favor of socialism or communism in any form, but to say that communism lite is not possible is just not true.

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A high school classmate married and woman from Vietnam. She had a travel agency there, everything was done in cash, not plastic. The reality is that it might be less socialist in practice than the USA or Europe, per him.

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If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been far more focused on what’s going on in Western Europe recently than what’s directly going on in Ukraine (outside of us sending them blank checks). It’s about to get really bad there relative to their modern comforts.

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Even the starving kids in Africa know this is your focus.

Electricity and natural gas prices dropped the last few days, each day, in Europe, not the USA.

As far as the USA goes, we would be producing more oil than ever but for the 2 million BPD from strippers wells not worth reworking after being shutin for Covid. Those are never coming back yet we are producing almost as much as Jan 2020.

New media is full of morons, all of it.

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Gorbachev's idea of a less authoritarian form of Communism was never going to work.

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I agree. It didn’t work and it was never going to work. However, Gorbachev thought it would and he tried to implement it. Which is one of the key things that led us to talking about this war and why I posted his death in this thread.

It’s pointless to argue with a Russian. They are raised from birth to believe the lies their government feeds them and their first and only way of getting attention is by fear. Fear of their own people of their government and fear of the outside world because Russia has nukes. The only problem is nobody fears Russia. You aren’t a superpower you aren’t even a power. Your former Soviet member Ukraine despises you and is a fraction of your size yet they have held the great Russian military at bay for half a year when Putin thought his armor would be rolling through Kyiv in 72 hours. A dozen American HIMARS has disrupted the entire Russian military logistical system and put fear into Russian soldiers because unlike them, the Ukrainians can hit exactly what they want when they want versus sending 500 152 mm shells or hundreds of GRAD rockets and hope they hit something of significance. You act like Finland is no big deal but in reality Russian leaders fear it because that acts as a big aircraft carrier 200 miles from St. Petersburg for the one thing the Russian military fears most and has no answer to; the United States Air Force. This guy will spill the party line garbage until the end because that’s the only thing he knows and understands. Nothing anyone says will change one obvious fact. He hates Americans. We are his enemy. He is our enemy. We are the enemy they don’t want piss off though and he knows it even if he won’t admit it.

“Mother Russia” is called that for a reason, most Russians, particularly the older people have to depend upon the state for everything, from the bread they eat to the paper they wipe their arse with, and have for their entire lives.

They are basically dependent little children that act and do as they are told. So you can’t expect anything else out of them. They probably haven’t had an independent thought their entire lives, they are complete sheeple. Hell, Stalin killed damn near anyone that could think, friend or foe. 30 million of them or more.
Problem is that’s eventual economic suicide, he created a whole county of stupid people.

Now many of the younger Russian people want no part of all this bullshite but are trapped.

For reference, the front line is now ~15 miles from the center of Kherson.

They are now in range of conventional artillery.

Inside Fortress Russia.

That article is a month old but it describes how f**ked up and brainwashed the Russian populace is.