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(June 4, 2024 at 12:39 am)The Architect Of Fate Wrote: Ukrainian Diplomat Punches Russian Diplomat For Trying To Steal Ukrainian Flag
Yeah, saw that a while back.
Still it's cathartic in a way
"Change was inevitable"
Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
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June 6, 2024 at 2:02 am (This post was last modified: June 6, 2024 at 2:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 4, 2024 at 3:50 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Sadly, us discussing things here will have zero impact on whatever happens next.
Discussing things anywhere has had zero impact, hence the shooting war.
Quote:Personally, I'd like to see the countries of the world become more socially aware in the style of European countries and Canada, but without the encroachment of US-like capitalism that is driving birth rates down, leading to an increased requirement for immigration to keep the GDP up and which will happen as long as there are conflicts going on elsewhere.
China and Russia refusing to bow down to the western (US) powers hints that those areas of the world are going to influence their neighbors (and then the BRICS and then the rest of the world) to follow their not-really-democratic type of government which can be expected to lead to more poverty in the general population... but Capitalism is taking us there anyway, so... which will be the lesser evil 50 or 100 years from now?
It's a war between russians and ukranians, not capitalism and fascism. Not between greater and lesser evils, the us or anyone else... but between russian evil and ukranian survival.
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(June 6, 2024 at 2:02 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's a war between russians and ukranians, not capitalism and fascism. Not between greater and lesser evils, the us or anyone else... but between russian evil and ukranian survival.
If the countries in blue stop supporting Ukraine, the type of regime(s) found in the red ones emerges as victorious and then, emboldened by that, spreads.
Europe is already having to deal with rising fascism, just like it did in the 1920's and 30's. The 100 year cycle is repeating.
(June 5, 2024 at 11:29 pm)The Architect Of Fate Wrote: Still it's cathartic in a way
Cathartic would be a Russian brigade caught at a crossroads under a nice time-on-target shoot.
Yeah but I take what I can get
"Change was inevitable"
Nemo sicut deus debet esse!
“No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?” –SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
(May 31, 2024 at 4:51 pm)GUBU Wrote: Pierre Sprey* and John Boyd will be soo soooo sad there's going to be no dog-fights.
*Yes, yes I know Sprey is dead. But that idiot was the voice of the Jet fighter mafia for a long time despite having no knowledge or experience in designing military aircraft.
You never engage in dogfighting unless you absolutely have to, anyway.
Which is why it's so laughable that the mafia got so much media attention for so long.
Quote:Russia not 'bluffing' with nuclear threats as Biden greenlights limited military strikes, Medvedev says
Michael Dorgan
Sat, June 1, 2024 at 4:13 PM GMT+1
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Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chair of the Security Council of Russia, made the comments after President Biden quietly authorized Kyiv to launch U.S.-supplied weapons at military targets just over the border in Russia that are supporting an offensive against the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
"This is, alas, neither intimidation nor bluffing," Medvedev said Friday, speaking on the potential to use strategic nuclear weapons, per Reuters.
I don't know how much this guy is just acting tough, but there it is.
Completely acting the tough guy. It's about 30 threats of "immediate use of nuclear weapons" at this stage from him.
Medvedev is the guy at fights who is always around the edge making shapes while having a couple of cronies pretending to hold him back. He's the guy who tries to set up fights but never shows up when they happen. He's the guy who if he was leader would have his subordinates doing all his fighting for him.
There is inflation, yes, but not 27%. In the link you put there, they say "Russia’s official inflation rate is an uncomfortable 7.8%" and Google is giving me this table:
Russian official inflation is a bit like Zimbabwean official information, it's the real inflation divided by a large number.
June 6, 2024 at 4:55 pm (This post was last modified: June 6, 2024 at 4:56 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(June 6, 2024 at 1:46 pm)GUBU Wrote:
(May 31, 2024 at 5:21 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: You never engage in dogfighting unless you absolutely have to, anyway.
Which is why it's so laughable that the mafia got so much media attention for so long.
They were instrumental in driving the USAF to reinstitute solid training in ACM, and also pushed strongly for the F-16, though they wanted its EW suite reduced. But you need to remember that at that time, "guided" missiles had failure rates of upwards of fifty per cent, and no USAF fighter has an onboard cannon -- they had to strap cannon-pods to the belly or wings of the planes, increasing drag and making the plane even less maneuverable.
Some of what they espoused was crap. Some was good.
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