re: The Official Thread: Russia invades Ukraine

Uki soldiers were told to arrange Russian soldiers killed in combat in a shape of a Z for TV propaganda.

Stay classy Ukraine.

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Election Wizard
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BREAKING: Biden to travel to Poland Friday to discuss Ukraine crisis: White House

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Below is a link of a news video report on the first battle of Mariupol in 2014.

LINK 2014 battle of Mariupol

So the layman's in me says there's no way a country as small as Ukraine can beat a country as large as Russia I've been on TD Poli for years and always get a good answer. My question, given my above stated opinion is, what am I missing? Is this thing anywhere near over?

Taking out a physical army is hard to do when you hide behind civilians

You can trace the stupidity of right wing isolationists, ironically, all the way back to the former Soviet Union.
There seems to be something about Russia that resonates with the American right. They see it as the last redoubt of "Christian civilization:, which was a joke. As the novelist Vladimir Voinovich once told me: “During Soviet times, everyone was a communist, and there were no communists. Today, everyone is a Christian, and there are no Christians.”

Bari Weiss writes -

In December 2007, I spent three days in Kiev—at the time, pretty much everyone spelled it Kiev—with several American men looking for Russian brides. Technically, they were looking for Ukrainian brides, but it was all the same to the Americans, who included three Larry’s, a Jack, a James and a guy named Ty Cobb who told me he’d been a professional football player. (That was a lie.) I told them I was with GQ, and I wanted to write an article about them. (That was not a lie.) They were with a tour group called First Dream, which was led by another Jack, Jack Bragg, a large, garrulous man from Dallas who was “on his third or fourth Natasha,” as his translator put it.

The reason they had come to Kiev, Bragg said, was that the women in Moscow and St. Petersburg had gotten uppity. If you wanted to find love, you had to go where the girls were still really poor. They weren’t that poor in Kiev, but they were poor-adjacent. The next stop on the tour was a village an hour south of the capital. “That’s where they get pretty desperate,” Jack explained.

Most of the Americans had never been to the former Soviet Union, but they seemed to know a lot about it: They thought that the men were manly and that the women were beautiful—submissive. Everyone was white. Everyone believed in God. The president was tough. They had all seen the photo of him, shirtless, fishing in a river in Siberia. They liked that he spoke in short, brusque, sentences, even if they didn’t know what they meant. He rarely smiled. He never hugged.

They owned small businesses (a car wash, a tractor-repair company), they belonged to mega-churches, and they wore a great deal of cologne. They were lukewarm on W. They had a dim view of Hillary Clinton and no view of Barack Obama. They were Trump voters before there were Trump voters. They had become convinced that America was rotten, that the media, even Fox, were all liars, that you had to go far away to find a wife because American women hated makeup and were faithless sluts, which sounded like a riff on the old Catskills joke: The food is awful—and such small portions!

Mostly, they were in love with Russia. The idea of it. They had little desire to explore since they preferred the cartoon, which was like a nostalgic dreamscape sense of a place that had never existed. So when, in 2015, Donald Trump descended his gilded escalator with his Slovenian wife (what’s the difference?—it was like coming home. Trump was a man who didn’t hide his vulgarity. He embraced it. Like wife-hunting in Kiev.

That sadly explains too many posts by too many posters these days.

Not all.

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UkraineMaps
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Famous Ukrainian e-celeb bandera and azov member Artyom Bonov has left Ukraine for Poland, he became known for making threats against Chechen Russian fighters and claimed to play soccer with their heads. He has fled Ukraine and is now in Poland.

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For fricks sake man, can you suck any more Russian dick

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Why do you have such an aversion to the truth?

I see you found a unicorn, now lets talk about the herd.

Thought it was just men who flew abroad for squalid sexual kicks? Meet the middle-aged, middle-class women who are Britain's female sex tourists

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The high class American women groups hire security to travel along.



Barbara, like many women who find ‘romance’ in Negril, says she is shunned by men of her own age in the UK, ‘because they want thinner, younger women and for some reason can get them’.