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RE: Russia and Ukraine
April 12, 2023 at 9:05 am
(This post was last modified: April 12, 2023 at 9:08 am by The Grand Nudger.)
LOL, yeah, I cant wait to see the mission accomplished banner spread out over the rubble where bakhmut once stood. In retrospect, they've gotta be wondering why they ever thought they could pull off this invasion. They're having trouble properly invading a single town with their entire military committed.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
April 12, 2023 at 9:13 am
The evolution of the Ruble
Last 10 years:
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Last 2 years:
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Note that it crashed when the war started, then "recovered" for a while and is now at lower value than before they invaded Ukraine.
And the story is similar when compared to the Yuan
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
April 13, 2023 at 10:01 pm
Russian TV Suggests Finland, Poland, Baltics Want to Rejoin 'Mother Russia'
Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov looked back to centuries past in claiming that Moscow's European neighbors wish to "rejoin the Russian empire."
On his evening show on the Russia 1 channel, Solovyov first said the "main Russophobes" are Poland and the Baltic nations.
"They have formed an alliance of the resentful former provinces liberated in vain by the Russian empire and say that they now have an alliance, they are now all together, Poland, the Baltics, the Finns. And Romania has been dragged into it," he said.
"So they want to rejoin the Russian empire in a complicated way," he said, adding that Finland and Poland "were developing fine when they were part of the Russian empire."
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-mother-f...ov-1794101
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
April 14, 2023 at 7:39 am
(April 13, 2023 at 10:01 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Russian TV Suggests Finland, Poland, Baltics Want to Rejoin 'Mother Russia'
Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov looked back to centuries past in claiming that Moscow's European neighbors wish to "rejoin the Russian empire."
On his evening show on the Russia 1 channel, Solovyov first said the "main Russophobes" are Poland and the Baltic nations.
"They have formed an alliance of the resentful former provinces liberated in vain by the Russian empire and say that they now have an alliance, they are now all together, Poland, the Baltics, the Finns. And Romania has been dragged into it," he said.
"So they want to rejoin the Russian empire in a complicated way," he said, adding that Finland and Poland "were developing fine when they were part of the Russian empire."
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-mother-f...ov-1794101
‘Liberated…by the Russian empire’ is the most screamingly funny thing I’ve heard in a while.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
April 14, 2023 at 10:19 am
I don't know what history he's been reading, but all those nations detest Russia due to past invasions and seizures and illegal annexations.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
April 14, 2023 at 12:37 pm
Russias going through the same kind of thing we are with christofascists nuts and alternate realities.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
April 16, 2023 at 7:58 am
Is taiwan is "still culturally chinese" like ukraine was "still culturally russian" then china might want to give up any dreams of clawing back that island.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
April 16, 2023 at 10:19 am
Fuck Putin.
Schopenhauer Wrote:The intellect has become free, and in this state it does not even know or understand any other interest than that of truth.
Epicurus Wrote:The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.
Epicurus Wrote:Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get,
What is terrible is easy to endure
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
April 20, 2023 at 2:38 am
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2023 at 2:38 am by Fake Messiah.)
Russia is losing the war to the point where Putin has had to cancel his beloved World War II victory parade because they don't have the tanks. Every single scrap of metal is needed and sent to their genocidal invasion of Ukraine.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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