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Russia and Ukraine
RE: Russia and Ukraine
(March 7, 2022 at 8:32 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Always nice to see them using Russian arms against Russians.

Top - PPSH-41 submachine gun. (WW2 vintage)
Middle - unidentified shotgun.
Bottom AK-47

It’s going to become even more commonplace. Based on the number of Russian military vehicles captured by Ukraine, the largest foreign supplier of military hardware to Ukraine is probably Russia.

Boru
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Boru
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There goes Europe

Quote:Chernobyl Radiation Fears As Power Outage Stops Cooling of Nuclear Fuel Rods

Ukraine's state-run nuclear company Energoatom said on Wednesday that radioactive substances could be released from the plant because its power connection was severed, which would prevent the cooling of spent nuclear fuel.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba appealed to the international community "to urgently demand Russia to cease fire and allow repair units to restore power supply."

Kuleba tweeted that reserve diesel generators have a 48-hour capacity to power the plant, after which the cooling systems of the storage facility for spent nuclear fuel will stop, "making radiation leaks imminent."

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-...ar-1686317
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Leonardo DiCaprio will be donating $10M of his own money to the Armed Forces of Ukraine to aid the fight against Putin. His maternal grandmom is from Odessa, Ukraine.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter...31673.html
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
(March 9, 2022 at 6:03 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(March 7, 2022 at 8:32 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Always nice to see them using Russian arms against Russians.

Top - PPSH-41 submachine gun. (WW2 vintage)
Middle - unidentified shotgun.
Bottom AK-47

It’s going to become even more commonplace. Based on the number of Russian military vehicles captured by Ukraine, the largest foreign supplier of military hardware to Ukraine is probably Russia.

Boru

Saw a tik-tok video in which a woman describes a Russian tsnk running out of fuel. The crew went to the local town to find fuel.

While they were away, locals stole an engine part from the tank. The crew returned and fueled up the tank but it wouldn't start.

They saw the missing engine part and went into town to find it.

The locals returned to the now refuelled tank and drive it away.

How true the story is, I have no idea.

But I hope it is.

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RE: Russia and Ukraine
(March 9, 2022 at 11:36 am)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(March 9, 2022 at 6:03 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It’s going to become even more commonplace. Based on the number of Russian military vehicles captured by Ukraine, the largest foreign supplier of military hardware to Ukraine is probably Russia.

Boru

Saw a tik-tok video in which a woman describes a Russian tsnk running out of fuel.  The crew went to the local town to find fuel.

While they were away, locals stole an engine part from the tank.  The crew returned and fueled up the tank but it wouldn't start.

They saw the missing engine part and went into town to find it.

The locals returned to the now refuelled tank and drive it away.

How true the story is, I have no idea.

But I hope it is.

The truly badass bit about this whole taking-tanks-away-from-Russia thing is that the Ukrainian Tax Service made a deliberate effort to inform people that if they ‘acquire’ a Russian tank, armoured personnel carrier, etc, they do NOT need to declare it as income.

Boru
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Putin is a fool.

He ought to have listened to Bertrand Russell when he said that love is wise and hatred is foolish. We're seeing the folly of hatred in action right now. And not just from Putin—it's always ubiquitous on this planet. Sadly.
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Don't worry about death;

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What is terrible is easy to endure
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(March 9, 2022 at 5:24 pm)The L Wrote: Putin is a fool.

He ought to have listened to Bertrand Russell when he said that love is wise and hatred is foolish. We're seeing the folly of hatred in action right now. And not just from Putin—it's always ubiquitous on this planet. Sadly.

I don’t see it as ‘hatred in action’ in that Putin doesn’t ‘hate’ Ukraine in any meaningful sense of the word. More like avariciousness. Kind of like the guy who breaks into your home to steal your stuff - he doesn’t hate your stuff, he just wants it and is willing to go to great lengths to get it.

Boru
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Putin is an Imperialist. The idea of having client states as buffer-zones is a link back to both Czarist and Soviet past.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
That may be, but Putin doesn’t see Ukraine as a client state. For something to be a client state, it would have to technically be a separate state. Putin, unfortunately, rejects the whole “Ukraine being it’s own separate state” thing. If the recent war didn’t clue you in, he wrote an entire fucking essay explaining that he not only doesn’t see the Ukrainian state as legitimate, he sees its mere existence as comparable to a WMD attack against them. And this essay is apparently required reading in the Russian military. Also, If I’m reading this accurately, I suspect that if Ukraine falls, Putin’s next target is probably going to be Belarus.
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