re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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The Ukranian Constitution suspends elections in time of war, which is actually smart and pragmatic.

I'm just going to make a Samuel L. Jackson meme to have ready to post every time someone says this like it's some violation of democracy,,,

And why no mention of the fact that Russian elections are completely rigged so that Putin wins?

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Key Takeaways:

Russian forces have reached the outskirts of Vuhledar amid what appears to be an intensified offensive push near the settlement, but the capture of Vuhledar is unlikely to afford Russian forces any particular operational edge for further offensive operations in western Donetsk Oblast.

Recent Ukrainian strikes against Russian rear ammunition depots demonstrate the extent to which Russian military logistics still benefit from Western-provided sanctuary that secures Russia’s rear.

Russia continues to expand and leverage its bilateral relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in order to support its war effort in Ukraine.

The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has failed to appease the Russian ultranationalist milblogger community by downplaying the Russian military command’s responsibility for its insistence on misusing technical specialists in infantry-led frontal assaults in eastern Ukraine.

Ukrainian forces recently advanced west of the Kursk Oblast salient.

Ukrainian forces recently advanced within Vovchansk and in eastern Toretsk.

Russian opposition outlet Meduza, citing its own conversations with various unspecified Russian officials close to the Russian Presidential Administration, an interlocutor in the federal government, and regional officials, reported on September 24 that mobilization is a very sensitive topic among Kremlin officials.

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We’re a former English colony, one that was settled by largely Englishmen, and our success stems from that English culture that our ancestors passed down to us, our belief in values like tolerance and fair play, it also stems from the unusual human potential of our ancestors. They were exceptionally capable people. Of course we also have a large Black population due to slavery as well.

Insofar as we’re a country of immigrants, post 1790, we’re a country of Christian European immigrants. And that’s worked, for the most part, because our values and world views were fairly similar. That’s not to say assimilation was easy, the integration of German Americans was actually difficult. But we were still able to sustain our success and maintain a relatively homogenous identity on a national level. Tribalism wasn’t a problem for us.

Mass migration disrupts our culture though, and brings tribal factionalism. And we gain nothing from, for example, bringing in largely unemployable Haitians with IQs in the sixties.

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America has thrived because we have embraced all cultures.


It’s only led to social retrenchment and distrust. Putnams conclusions are what they are.

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Right, unfettered immigration does make it unsafe.


The reason Haiti is poor and violent, is because of the people who live there. India has sky high rates of rape, because of the men who live there. The Arab world also has problems with sexual violence, and now that so many live in Europe, Europe also has a problem with sexual violence, and it’s everywhere from Sweden, to the UK, to Germany and France.

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