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Post by miscmisc on Apr 4, 2022 12:36:08 GMT 1
Chechen soldiers - the anti-Kadyrovtsy Chechens - fighting on the Ukrainian side.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 4, 2022 12:51:58 GMT 1
Indeed, Newsmax!
Seriously, where would America be without me.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 4, 2022 12:53:37 GMT 1
Hungary: A Very Normal Democratic Country
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 4, 2022 13:05:52 GMT 1
I heard some years ago a speech by Orban in which he talked about "Things I Learned From Americans", and he didn't mention gerrymandering. That's when I realized I couldn't trust the guy!
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 4, 2022 13:17:53 GMT 1
Rough translation:
1: The Jews
2: Jews
3: French-speaking Jews
4: THE JEW
5: Jews!
6: That Jewish motherfucker
He and Zelensky go way back before the war, though.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 4, 2022 13:59:07 GMT 1
Hmmm. This doesn't look good at all for Macron (and for the EU).  |
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 4, 2022 14:56:12 GMT 1
One thing that's abundantly clear at this point is that few in the West want this war to end. There's not even the pretense of strategizing for peace.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 4, 2022 17:56:34 GMT 1
As much as we need to recognize the limitations of our "experts", I have to say that we do need them in foreign policy like we do oxygen.
Like I said before, many of the smart people that I came to trust in this pandemic, on Covid and beyond, have been saying hopelessly stupid things online about the war in Ukraine, and Russia in general. We would be in a world of shit if they were given the power to dictate our foreign policy just because they are "smart".
The lack of knowledge is simply a vice.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 4, 2022 18:53:09 GMT 1
Another thing that's abundantly clear at this point is that Russia has already lost a significant number of *elite* soldiers. They were sent into slaughterhouses by the suicidal strategy/tactics.
Those men are irreplaceable, and the lower the quality of the soldiers becomes, the more atrocities you'd have to witness, because the thing about inexperienced soldiers is that they are crazy if they are brave, and are fearful if they are weak. Either way they are more likely to end up going berserk on civilians than more experienced/well-trained soldiers, and among them the "fearful/weak" type are worse than the "crazy/brave" type.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 4, 2022 19:18:25 GMT 1
This is utter nonsense. Syrian (or other experienced) mercs would be *much less* likely to do that in Ukraine than Russian know-nothing conscripts.
This is a typical amateur bias that contradicts what usually happens in actual wars.
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Post by rictor on Apr 4, 2022 19:57:54 GMT 1
Meanwhile, it's been 17 years already since Pope John Paul II passed away. He was truly the greatest of Poles. Wonder what he would do in this crazy world of today.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 5, 2022 4:21:03 GMT 1
It's been that long since then? Man, time flies.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 5, 2022 4:26:29 GMT 1
OK, I don't know why I'm defending her - I mean, I'm not really "defending her", though - but she did those things because a clear majority of Germans wanted them. Yes, even Russian gas. Merkel didn't like a few of them, but went with the popular policies.
And "economic stagnation"? The EU as a whole, yes, but not in Germany, especially considering the demographics. She was disastrous for some EU countries, but not for Germany, at least on the short-to-mid-term basis (those policies were and are disastrous for the EU in the long run, of course). And again, that's what Germans wanted. They wanted to kick Greeks and Spaniards and Italians around, and Merkel obliged. Not that she didn't like it - she didn't have any fundamental disagreement with Schäuble - but that doesn't matter. Most Germans were deeply satisfied.
If you want to call her a weak chancellor for failing to "do the right thing" *against the popular opinions in Germany*, maybe she was. But that's a different argument.
I've said countless times in this thread that I thought she was vastly overrated, particularly outside Germany. I said that she ruined the economies of many EU countries too. But this sudden change of tone smells like bullshit.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 5, 2022 4:36:36 GMT 1
You are not off the hook for what your government does, man. Russians are learning that the hardest way.
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Post by miscmisc on Apr 5, 2022 7:20:29 GMT 1
Holy shit.
LOL @ the blatant Barrett travel at the end. A perfect way to end the whole mess.
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