bearister said:

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movielover said:

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To slaughter more young men in an unwinnable war.

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It is within Putin's power to end that tomorrow. I feel more sorry for the Russian and North Korean lads getting killed and maimed because they don't even have any skin in the game. They are just following orders, much like our soldiers in Vietnam that took their last breath on foreign soil.

EXPLAINER: Why Did Russia Invade Ukraine?


https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/explainer-why-did-russia-invade-ukraine

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What about the Ukrainians that oppose the CIA led coupe?

bearister said:

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oski003 said:

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bearister said:

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movielover said:

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To slaughter more young men in an unwinnable war.

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It is within Putin's power to end that tomorrow. I feel more sorry for the Russian and North Korean lads getting killed and maimed because they don't even have any skin in the game. They are just following orders, much like our soldiers in Vietnam that took their last breath on foreign soil.

EXPLAINER: Why Did Russia Invade Ukraine?


https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/explainer-why-did-russia-invade-ukraine

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What about the Ukrainians that oppose the CIA led coupe?

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Elvis Presley said the only sure things in life are hookers and Coupe de Villes.

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US News won't mention this basic fact about Ukraine:

2004 elections:


2010 elections:


As I've mentioned earlier this week, the ball is in Ukraine/NATO's court, they can stop the war and freeze the current border (roughly), or they can keep going, add another 100,000-250,000 more Ukrainain KIAs on top of the 600k+ already dead, and lose the entire blue region above to Russia.

Russia - not Putin, Russia, any Russian leader - will not stop the war until Kiev recognizes Crimea and Donbas as Russian, and they pull out of NATO's military orbit.

Cal88 said:

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bearister said:

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oski003 said:

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bearister said:

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movielover said:

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To slaughter more young men in an unwinnable war.

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It is within Putin's power to end that tomorrow. I feel more sorry for the Russian and North Korean lads getting killed and maimed because they don't even have any skin in the game. They are just following orders, much like our soldiers in Vietnam that took their last breath on foreign soil.

EXPLAINER: Why Did Russia Invade Ukraine?


https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/explainer-why-did-russia-invade-ukraine

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What about the Ukrainians that oppose the CIA led coupe?

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Elvis Presley said the only sure things in life are hookers and Coupe de Villes.

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US News won't mention this basic fact about Ukraine:

2004 elections:


2010 elections:


As I've mentioned earlier this week, the ball is in Ukraine/NATO's court, they can stop the war and freeze the current border (roughly), or they can keep going, add another 100,000-250,000 more Ukrainain KIAs on top of the 600k+ already dead, and lose the entire blue region above to Russia.

Russia - not Putin, Russia, any Russian leader - will not stop the war until Kiev recognizes Crimea and Donbas as Russian, and they pull out of NATO's military orbit.

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How do you analyze the rather similar Red State/Blue State divide in US elections? It sounds like Canada should invade the West Coast and Northeast to save the oppressed Blue States.

Eastern Oregon Bear said:

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Cal88 said:

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bearister said:

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oski003 said:

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bearister said:

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movielover said:

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To slaughter more young men in an unwinnable war.

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It is within Putin's power to end that tomorrow. I feel more sorry for the Russian and North Korean lads getting killed and maimed because they don't even have any skin in the game. They are just following orders, much like our soldiers in Vietnam that took their last breath on foreign soil.

EXPLAINER: Why Did Russia Invade Ukraine?


https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/explainer-why-did-russia-invade-ukraine

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What about the Ukrainians that oppose the CIA led coupe?

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Elvis Presley said the only sure things in life are hookers and Coupe de Villes.

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US News won't mention this basic fact about Ukraine:

2004 elections:


2010 elections:


As I've mentioned earlier this week, the ball is in Ukraine/NATO's court, they can stop the war and freeze the current border (roughly), or they can keep going, add another 100,000-250,000 more Ukrainain KIAs on top of the 600k+ already dead, and lose the entire blue region above to Russia.

Russia - not Putin, Russia, any Russian leader - will not stop the war until Kiev recognizes Crimea and Donbas as Russian, and they pull out of NATO's military orbit.

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How do you analyze the rather similar Red State/Blue State divide in US elections? It sounds like Canada should invade the West Coast and Northeast to save the oppressed Blue States.

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I did bring up Canada as an example here.

If the Canadian government in Ottawa banned the use of French as an official language across the country, Quebec would immediately choose to secede. The Quebecois contingent of the Canadian army would turn against the government, instantly.

This is what happened in Ukraine in 2014, eastern and southern Ukraine rose against Kiev. There has been a civil war in Ukraine since then, the Kiev government bombed Donbas cities and the Ukrainian president even bragged about Donbas children having to grow up sheltering in their basements.

I hope this is televised

Elon Musk:

Alexander Vindman ‘Committed Treason,’ will ‘Pay the Appropriate Penalty’ https://t.co/dK27UrfsuK

— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) November 28, 2024

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I hope this is televised

Elon Musk:

Alexander Vindman ‘Committed Treason,’ will ‘Pay the Appropriate Penalty’ https://t.co/dK27UrfsuK

— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) November 28, 2024

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The treason statute in the United States is 18 U.S. Code 2381. It states that anyone who:

Levies war against the United States while owing allegiance to them
Adheres to their enemies
Gives aid and comfort to their enemies within the United States or elsewhere.

Explain Vindman's treason.

I don't think tRump fell under the treason statute either. He probably ran afoul of election interference and sedition statutes.

Some of these guys in tRump's inner circle are so excited about touching dicks with him that they are forgetting that tRump, once he becomes a sitting President again, is the only one that his SCOTUS gave a free pass to say and do anything he wants without consequence.

Vindman should hire the Susman Godfrey law firm, the attorneys that sued Fox News for Dominion Voting Systems, to sue Musk for republishing that defamation. The measure of punitive damages against the richest man in the world would be HUGE.

Now that tRump has his hands on the levers of power again, why is he even allowing 4th rate characters like Gorka to have any involvement?

Any of tRump's "enemies" that are prosecuted based on "fantasy" MAGA/Fox News created allegations should file state court actions for malicious prosecution against the federal government.

Summary for the thick:
tRump is the only one that can continue to throw sh@it into the ceiling fan without facing any liability. If his surrogates do it, and they have any assets, they are either going to be writing big checks like Fox News did in Dominion ($787M), or they are going to be starting a GoFundMe for food money like poor Rudy when their assets get taken away.

*This is an example of how government officials targeted for retribution by tRump's paranoid delusions can fight back:

Andrew McCabe, former FBI deputy director, wins back pay : NPR


https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1039690679/andrew-mccabe-lawsuit-trump-fbi

I guess I didn't read the treason statute when I wrote it. I'm flattered my posts are so quickly retrievable by you. Just tell me there's no shrine involved.

Has Boris always been such an idiot?

🇬🇧🇺🇦🇷🇺🚨‼️ “We are waging a proxy war”

— Boris Johnson

“We should give the Ukranians a lend-lease of you know half a trillion or whatever and the 300 billion Russian assets.”

BoJo really wants to bet all on this. pic.twitter.com/blX7Muldk5

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) November 28, 2024

We have a lot of waste, fraud, and then outsource so much production. It looks like Russia has a huge cost advantage. Russia employs a lot of its engineers in the military, not making consumer gadgets, games and social media apps.

Russian rouble drops to lowest level against the dollar in 32 months | Business and Economy News | Al Jazeera


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/27/russian-rouble-drops-to-lowest-level-against-the-dollar-in-32-months

How thecWedt overthrew Ukraine.

Deep Dive

How the West overthrew the govt of Ukraine in 2014

The Maidan Coup https://t.co/vKUohUcOdE

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 29, 2024

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Russian rouble drops to lowest level against the dollar in 32 months | Business and Economy News | Al Jazeera


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/27/russian-rouble-drops-to-lowest-level-against-the-dollar-in-32-months

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So much winning!

sonofabear51 said:

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And more to come!

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here is the real picture:

IMF's World Economic Outlook Growth Projections report is out. October 2024.

Some of the GDP growth forecast are shown in my chart below. (See tweet below for full table).

IMF - based out of US - is playing down the economy of China & Russia -- should be 5% and 4.2%… pic.twitter.com/iGt25CqxYo

— S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) October 22, 2024

Not bad, not bad at all...

Russia has returned to the top ten largest economies and ranked the 8th for the first time since 2014 by producing US$2.3 trillion worth of goods and services in 2022, data from the World Bank and statistical services showed on Sunday. pic.twitter.com/TibFxPoUuw

— Trollstoy (@Trollstoy88) May 9, 2023

Russia’s economy under brutal US/EU sanctions:

🔹Real wage growth: 7.7%

🔹Unemployment: 2.4%

🔹GDP growth: 4.2%

(Latest data for 2024) pic.twitter.com/a1nMF9Z96G

— S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) October 30, 2024

Russia had a Q3 budget surplus of 0.4% of GDP, at the end of year it will likely be higher, vs an expected 1.7% GDP budget deficit.
So Russia will have an additional 2.5% of GDP (50 billion $) to invest into the economy in 2025 that it will start to allocate now.

1/

— Stefan Demetz (@stefan_demetz) November 30, 2024

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Hey, it's on Twitter. It must be true!

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Perhaps in due time you could understand that the IMF and Reuters are not fictitious organizations.

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Ruble at a 32 - month low last week.

The Russian economy that was largely resilient to sanctions the past 2+ years of war, is now suddenly showing serious strains.

Largely because of the Biden Administration finally sanctioning the last unsanctioned bank.

Gazprombank.

Ruble plunging.
Inflation surging.

Putin said Thursday, "The situation is under control and there are certainly no grounds for panic."

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The US$ has risen vs most currencies, a fact you did acknowledge in other threads. As wel, oil prices have come down this Fall. Those are the main drivers for the recent ~10% drop in the Ruble vs the USD value.

^sounds good, the devil is in the details.

Idiot Democrats can't stop.

WAR: Putin isn’t falling for it . Biden send B-52 nuclear bombers to Finland, near the Russian border to provoke Putin. pic.twitter.com/wwQ0b0Mj1j

— @amuse (@amuse) December 1, 2024

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^sounds good, the devil is in the details.

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I thought US arms assistance to Ukraine was a red line?

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At least there are 2 other main conditions that are met. As for the third (US security guarantee to Ukraine including ongoing arms assistance), they went back and forth on that at the Istanbul peace negotiations and almost found a compromise. All in all this sounds like a reasonable starting negotiating platform.

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And only after 3 days of war!

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Why do you think the war lasted almost 3 years, and shouldn't NATO have let Ukraine accept the Istanbul Peace Agreement in April '22, half a million lives ago? Or better yet, not broken the Minsk Agreements which led to this war?

Why do we keep perpetuating this war? https://t.co/47uRJofsol pic.twitter.com/FTFaVIgJgN

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) December 2, 2024

- All part of a backdrop of an unwinnable war for Ukraine. -

So we sent medium-range missiles to Ukraine, who sent them nominally into Russia.

Putin then hit Ukraine with a hypersonic 36 warhead unblockable kinetic missile.

He said any more missiles into Russia, and he'll immediately respond.

So Ukraine follows with a few more medium-range missiles.

Putin then sends upwards of 90 missiles into Ukraine, drones, and other goodies, hitting military and power stations.

Ritter now claims up to another 5 million people - the number seems high to me - Ukranians will leave the country because they won't have power, and it's winter. They'll freeze.

So Europe, already bursting at the seams, will now have to absorb 1 to 5 million additional war refugees.