As someone had put it earlier - Pooty tries to trade territories that he can’t conquer for promise of not trying to conquer other territories he also can’t conquer.
So it’s really important that if Taco Don will actually go to listen to Pooty’s lecture about Pechenegs and other linguistic diarrhea both of them like to spew all the time - that the former will go there with no expectation that Ukraine will accept demands it didn’t for previous 3 years.
You know, it would actually make sense for “global South” countries to be in some organization and look out for each other, and I hate so much how BRICS pretends to be just that, especially with Russia and China.
What’s funny is how Indian companies that consume oil, were kinda ready to start buying it from elsewhere. I think if US acted in a less confrontational way - there would be a good chance to at least partially take India off Russian oil needle.
And now we got a typical mantra that we’ve heard for a billion times already from Russian puppets like Slovakia how being dependent on Russian oil/gas is part of their “economic/energetic sovereignty”. And now that Chakravarti wannabe is going to die on his hill of buying Russian oil.
Would be funny if that was topped by couple liters of alcohol. Winston Churchill of a fitness instructor.
There was a bit from Soviet TV of early eighties. Rough translation of hosts words:
USSR is a big country, we’ll live with these sanctions just fine, but Washington’s allies will be hit from these “cowboy jumps” much harder.
So I’d say it’s always all good and stable for Russia until some certain point.
Do better, EU!
Entirely ban minors from Internet.
Ban social media!
In all seriousness though, if there’s something that by some consensus can considered unhealthy for kids, such as big social media - it’s more than likely to be unhealthy for adults too. However simply banning anything often just manufactures people’s craving for the “forbidden fruit”, so instead of that they could rather fund more educational initiatives to teach people about responsibly and safely surfing the net.
Makes me think how China could’ve eventually reunited with Taiwan if they just played a long game and didn’t destroy Hong Kong’s autonomy. But instead authoritarian habits kicked in.
Obama orchestrated “Russia probe” narrative.
There is Valetudo project, that spoofs vacuums external cloud connections to your locally hosted server.
Also AFAIK there are vacuums with only Bluetooth connectivity to configure them from a phone, with no Wi-Fi and cloud bullshit.
Defending Western civilization against threats from both Progressive Left extremism and global jihad.
Ah yes, the infamous Marxist-Islamist menace.
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As someone had put it:
Putin lays a pile of shit in Trump’s hands, and latter looks for nuts in there to be happy about.
While people like Rubio and Couch Lover have to “tune in” to Taco Don’s stupidity, I think Pete there was already on that wave due to being an idiot, and alcoholism probably doesn’t help, so my assumption is that he was actually quite in sync.
Considering how shipments were stopped last times, with one most idiotic - “we stopped shipment because what if they negotiate ceasefire now” - that’s absolutely what “master of the deal” would say.
He could’ve tried to revive the country, and he got an easy start in the 00s, but he chosed to gamble it instead.
That’s not why people become dictators. Not to mention that in autocratic environments heads of states don’t really feel the consequences of their actions, and don’t really mind throwing millions of their own people under the bus to bring some ephemeral former glory back.
Some folks became billionaires in Russia simply because they were friends of Putin though.
These may truly be protected class. Everyone else though - out the window as soon as they outlive their usefulness.
Interesting how he wasn’t just transferred to some “window looker” job (pun not intended).
Ministers in Russia are appointed basically by czar himself and firing such folks for their failures would mean admitting that czar made wrong decision when appointing them.
There’s, of course, ol’ classic “czar good, boyars bad”, but still kinda surprising for me.
Okay, valid.
But planes in a country that can barely maintain them. And also famous Russian AA and their love for occasional friendly fire or shooting down civilian airliners.
What strikes me in these videos with lots of people stranded in Russian airports while plan “Carpet” is enacted due to drone activity is that all these people are goddamn stupid.
Like - lots of people but not a single braincell between them to whisper in the ear “take a goddamn train, your country is at war”.
Art of the deal, folks.
Considering Budapest memorandum I absolutely resent USA as they were very enthusiastic about pressuring Ukraine to give up its armaments. And guess to whom the armaments were given? - Yeah, to Russia - missiles, bombers, and other shit that Russia uses to terrorize us today.
As of Pooty and breaking of agreements - he enters negotiations when he’s at disadvantage and breaks them whenever he gains back enough strength to ignore consequences of breaking his promises. That’s why it’s very important to not remove sanctions against Russia entirely even if they actually agree to let Ukraine have it’s 1991 borders back. Their evils should never be forgiven or forgotten.