re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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So per you guys Russia has this huge propaganda operation (this part is true), their people have been subjugated to the point where it seems like they enjoy it, people with opposing viewpoints end up falling out of windows (true), but they are going to overthrow Putin if he doesn't get the "maximalist demand" in a peace deal?

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You are talking about the "Russian people." I'm talking about Georgia and Chechnya, both of which have been trying to leave Russia's orbit since the collapse of the USSR and have been invaded and bombed into submission... they will rebel the minute they think they can, along with some of the -'Stans, who've already taken advantage of the movement of Russian military from their areas to rebel a bit...

But once the ball gets rolling... when your rule is based on brute strength and you no longer appear to be strong... there is no retirement home for Dictators. When there's a chink in the armor... "Et tu, Brutus?"

Some real brain fart comments this morning.

The Underpants Gnomes are back.

Dayum all those towns and villages completely destroyed in WWII are still in ruins according to the clueless.

As for Russia's economy, its now in a war economy and the US experienced that Post WWII. The one reason the US economy recovered so quickly (it was crap for 1946) was that it had all its industrial base intact and not so much in the rest of the world. Ammonium nitrate plants built for the war effort began exporting it as fertilizer. Airplane, tank, truck and jeep plants were turned into automobile manufacturing, but that took actual retooling and didn/t happen overnight. No one is going to be buying anything made in Russia anytime soon, just like finished goods made in Russia were not desired elsewhere due crappy.

Natural gas continues to be cheaper in Europe than in 2021. Russia won't be able to continue to subsidize Hungary with underpriced natural gas much longer.

Private companies mostly from Turkey already dominate the oil seed crushing plants in Ukraine.

The idiots who buy the crap Mike Benz et al share (he doesn't know shiite from shinola outside of internet and communications agreements) all think that Pissing on a Flat Blackrock etc... bought up Russia and Central Asia a few decades ago. What a phucking idiot that Benz is.

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This war has gone exactly like we told you it would go

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I remember back in February of 22 all you Putin apologists said the war would be over in less than 33 months. Ya’ll nailed it.

Poli board has gone full retard.. Half those baws are practicing duck and cover.

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Its not going to end on the battlefield. I think everyone realizes this now.

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It looks that way right now.

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Why wouldn’t it be? Why would they be holding back? Why would they be sending hundreds of thousands to get injured or killed if they could do more conventionally?

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Already laid out why in another comment

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Basically anyone who doesn't want to get on their knees for Zelensky is a Putin apologist per the Ukraine First crowd

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Its a fricking hive mind cult.

I've tried peaceably and at length to get some of the most die hard cheerleaders for the war's continuation and the deepening involvement of the US to acknowledge how frequently (almost without exception) that US foreign entanglements ended with considerable, undesired, unintended (at least to the US population) consequences.

There is just no room for any acknowledgement of possible hubris, which is where I think things go from reasoned (even if wrong) to obsessive/cult-like.

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Already laid out why in another comment

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So you don’t know. Neither do I, but if he could I think he would have done everything he could short of nukes already.

He has already had to rely on foreign suppliers for artillery shells, drones and now manpower. Who would have guessed that in year three that thousands of N Korea would be needed to throw Ukraine out of Kursk?