Stinky Stanky Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 2/25/2022 at 8:38 PM, pcq said: Lauren Witzke, the Delaware GOP's candidate for Senate in 2020, has nothing but praise for Putin and "his Christian nationalist nation": "I identify more with Putin's Christian values than I do with Joe Biden." Expand Far right, anti-vaxxer, got COVID last year (duh). Stuff's prolly still ravaging her brain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Hurtin Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 This is quite concerning. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Smirnoff manufactured in Illinois. Stoli also not made in Russia. Boycotts are tough in a world of International trade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 My path to understanding people and places is through the literature that is produced. I'll admit that I knew almost nothing about Ukraine. I still know so very little but can feel the struggle and can appreciate those common emotions that connect us all. If you are interested I think this piece is a good jumping in point. It's something I'll be using in my classes this week. https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12137/contemporary-ukrainian-poems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted February 28, 2022 Author Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 2/27/2022 at 8:39 PM, Balta1701 said: NATO should not do this unless there is an attack by Russian forces on NATO forces somewhere or there is a resolution supporting military action by someone like the UN. Since Russia has a UN Security Council veto, the security council authorizing such military action is unlikely. NATO should not join in a war against Russia directly without specific cause. NATO should not be the aggressors. If we think this is Bloody, marching to Moscow and conducting regime change there would be monstrous. Expand See Napoleon/Hitler's ill-fated attempts in the winter/mud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted February 28, 2022 Author Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 12:53 AM, Stinky Stanky said: Far right, anti-vaxxer, got COVID last year (duh). Stuff's prolly still ravaging her brain. Expand Here all along I believed Russia was more a combination of Orthodox and atheism/agnosticism... Fox will have viewers that Russia was actually there in the 80's and 90's supporting Billy Graham (the father NOTHING like the son), Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Their currency is trash, their stock market is closed. The poor don't want to die, the rich folks kids have flat feet and they don't want to lose their fortunes. Hopefully it helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CentralChamps21 Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 It seems like Putin's only two options now are to back off or turn to nukes, and I worry that his ego won't allow him to back off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 1:09 PM, Texsox said: Their currency is trash, their stock market is closed. The poor don't want to die, the rich folks kids have flat feet and they don't want to lose their fortunes. Hopefully it helps. Expand DogeCoin and Robux (for the children's videogame Roblox) are currently worth more than the ruble. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitesoxfan99 Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 (edited) On 2/28/2022 at 2:11 PM, CentralChamps21 said: It seems like Putin's only two options now are to back off or turn to nukes, and I worry that his ego won't allow him to back off. Expand Hopefully someone sane puts a bullet in his brain and ends this if nukes are ever on the table. Edited February 28, 2022 by whitesoxfan99 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 12:53 AM, Stinky Stanky said: Far right, anti-vaxxer, got COVID last year (duh). Stuff's prolly still ravaging her brain. Expand Actually it's probably all the meth from 2017 that is still ravaging her brain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KipWellsFan Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 2/25/2022 at 3:48 AM, Texsox said: It was decommissioned over twenty years ago and most equipment removed. It's mostly symbolic. Expand There is still some danger associated with Chernobyl. See this article from 2021: ‘It's like the embers in a barbecue pit.' Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl https://www.science.org/content/article/nuclear-reactions-reawaken-chernobyl-reactor Although I agree it may not be as important as other sensitive sites: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chernobyl-isnt-biggest-nuclear-risk-ukraines-active-nuclear-power-plan-rcna17697 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Allen Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 The thing that really worries me is if in the end Putin has no way out except to accept this move as a total failure, he may start pressing nuke buttons. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 3:42 PM, Dick Allen said: The thing that really worries me is if in the end Putin has no way out except to accept this move as a total failure, he may start pressing nuke buttons. Expand See here is the thing. he had to have game planned for this. He had to have known that at the very least all of the financial blowback was going to happen, even if he didn't quite realize what the Ukrainian resistance would look like. Unless he is surrounded by the Russian equivalent of Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham, most of these things were really obvious to anyone with some field knowledge. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shipps Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 3:47 PM, southsider2k5 said: See here is the thing. he had to have game planned for this. He had to have known that at the very least all of the financial blowback was going to happen, even if he didn't quite realize what the Ukrainian resistance would look like. Unless he is surrounded by the Russian equivalent of Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham, most of these things were really obvious to anyone with some field knowledge. Expand Do we really know what the "score" is in this war so far? I feel like the portrayal of events the last few days are that the Russians have come with a lot of their military fire power but have been mostly stopped from achieving strategic goals due to the Ukraine resistance. There has been a narrative that Russia is running out of military resources and in effect are basically "loosing" so far. Do we know if Russia has given their best punch so far (outside of nukes)? I am assuming they havent. I would anticipate they are just going to send in waves of force and the beginning was just a small fraction to what they are capable of? I ask these questions to myself because I have found myself thinking maybe Ukraine can actually be the David to the Goliath and beat these F'rs but I know I we have to be realistic here. No matter the courage and will power of the Ukrainian people it will come to a certain point that its just too much, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 4:29 PM, shipps said: Do we really know what the "score" is in this war so far? I feel like the portrayal of events the last few days are that the Russians have come with a lot of their military fire power but have been mostly stopped from achieving strategic goals due to the Ukraine resistance. There has been a narrative that Russia is running out of military resources and in effect are basically "loosing" so far. Do we know if Russia has given their best punch so far (outside of nukes)? I am assuming they havent. I would anticipate they are just going to send in waves of force and the beginning was just a small fraction to what they are capable of? I ask these questions to myself because I have found myself thinking maybe Ukraine can actually be the David to the Goliath and beat these F'rs but I know I we have to be realistic here. No matter the courage and will power of the Ukrainian people it will come to a certain point that its just too much, right? Expand I think they had to be trying to emulate our run to Baghdad so as to win a decisive victory, and stop there from being resistance and guerilla warfare, and it seems like the opposite has happened. I can't imagine they half assed this knowing what the downside of not knocking out resistance immediately would be. They knew that world opinion and sentiment would be against them, so speed was the most important part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3GamesToLove Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 3:31 AM, Texsox said: My path to understanding people and places is through the literature that is produced. I'll admit that I knew almost nothing about the Ukraine. I still know so very little but can feel the struggle and can appreciate those common emotions that connect us all. If you are interested I think this piece is a good jumping in point. It's something I'll be using in my classes this week. https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12137/contemporary-ukrainian-poems Expand Just fyi "*The* Ukraine" is the way the Russians would want you to refer to it, as a region that should belong to them. The sovereign nation is just Ukraine. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heads22 Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 I found this 2014 Vox explainer about what was happening then to be helpful: https://www.vox.com/2014/9/3/18088560/ukraine-everything-you-need-to-know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 Feels like the world is collectively trying to force Russia into a revolution. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 6:55 PM, Quin said: Feels like the world is collectively trying to force Russia into a revolution. Expand Feels more like Russia is trying to force Ukraine into a revolution and the world I saying "hold up" ? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 6:55 PM, Quin said: Feels like the world is collectively trying to force Russia into a revolution. Expand It kind of surprises me that US technology is so normalized in Russia. I just assumed it would be one of Putins autocrats who would have a contract for most everything. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 And this one. The world is straight up purging Russia from international society. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 3:42 PM, Dick Allen said: The thing that really worries me is if in the end Putin has no way out except to accept this move as a total failure, he may start pressing nuke buttons. Expand I kind of miss having a crazy ass President like that. Scares the shit out of the citizens of his country and the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 5:34 PM, 3GamesToLove said: Just fyi "*The* Ukraine" is the way the Russians would want you to refer to it, as a region that should belong to them. The sovereign nation is just Ukraine. Expand I actually paused as I was writing that. I was wondering if it was "the" like in The United States or "" like Canada. Thank you for clarifying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigruss Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 On 2/28/2022 at 6:55 PM, Quin said: Feels like the world is collectively trying to force Russia into a revolution. Expand Is there any other way to accomplish actually changing out Putin/KGB without nuclear warfare than their own people making the change? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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