AntoMaria7
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Not really sure what you’re talking aboutSo what are your plans with that cute baby you posted?
Not really sure what you’re talking aboutSo what are your plans with that cute baby you posted?
Young people in Russia are gonna be pissed at being cut off from the modern world and having their devices turned into bricks. Wait a month and you will hear the howls. Better the fight for liberal democracy is fought in the Ukraine than America, they have the stomach for it and if they win it might finish off Vlad. He's trapped now, can't leave and will be ground down.Apple Pay and Google Pay no longer work on Moscow's metro system.
yeah, that's why we're supporting a country that is basically strategically useless to us, in an area we don't operate in without an invitation to do so...because we don't give a fuck about anyone but ourselves....Because USA cares about USA and that's it
They would be a rich haul for the EU with lot's of resources, in a few years their economy would explode in prosperity while the average Russian lives like shit. The dictators in the Kremlin and Minsk know this has now turned into a fight for their survival, they really fear the EU, not NATO. America would be best served to have this fight for liberal democracy in Ukraine, if they win it will take out the keystone of totalitarianism at a stroke and remove a major impediment to world peace and progress.yeah, that's why we're supporting a country that is basically strategically useless to us, in an area we don't operate in without an invitation to do so...because we don't give a fuck about anyone but ourselves....
The way this is going down it almost looks like some brain in the CIA planned it and drove Vlad to it like a chess piece on a board...yeah, that's why we're supporting a country that is basically strategically useless to us, in an area we don't operate in without an invitation to do so...because we don't give a fuck about anyone but ourselves....
no...i don't see any real planning behind this. i think putin thought he would show his ass and everyone would rush to placate him...but the world is tired of stroking putin's ego, and are more than ready to put a foot up his ass.The way this is going down it almost looks like some brain in the CIA planned it and drove Vlad to it like a chess piece on a board...
I dunno for sure, but shit has been happening since Joe has been POTUS and I figure he unleashed the CIA on their asses. The American intelligence community has been crying tears of rage while Trump was POTUS and America betrayed and humiliated. Someone might have presented Joe with a menu of options and after what the Russians did to America, this could be the result. They are pretty media savvy and sophisticated, probably ran multiple simulations etc. Perhaps we have been giving the Ukrainians more support and weapons than the pubic realizes, if Vlad didn't move now, he never could. How else could America which now controls about 20% of the world economy bring global sanctions to bear? Do you think the attitude of the Ukrainian people was unknown to the CIA?no...i don't see any real planning behind this. i think putin thought he would show his ass and everyone would rush to placate him...but the world is tired of stroking putin's ego, and are more than ready to put a foot up his ass.
I bet they are lol.Some of the oligarchs are now calling for peace.
He seems to be out of touch with his military too. They weren't ready for the invasion. His reputation as a spy is was blown apart along with supply trucks. It appears that he didn't know the capabilities of Ukrainian defense or the solidarity of NATO.Dutch and Danish larpers joining Ukrainian Foreign Legion. Zelensky surprised by the high amount of foreign civilians willing to join.
Putin’s been in isolation for two years, scared of covid. Perhaps his biggest mistake is underestimating the fact people all over the world are bored out of their minds too after two years pandemic and can use a punching bag. Bad time to start a war Putin.
It would be hog heaven, perhaps we should give the Ukrainians a few A10 Warthogs. American pilots must be drooling over the satellite and drone photos, just one loaded up with cluster munitions and Napalm would make an incredible mess on the ground. As it is Molotov cocktails are hard on their supply columns as they by pass local resistance and leave their largely un guarded supply tails to partisan attacks by highly motivated citizens.There is another military column over 17 miles long about 30 miles outside Kyiv, that sure would make a nice target.
Two of Russia's billionaires call for peace in Ukraine
Two Russian billionaires, Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Deripaska, called for an end to the conflict triggered by President Vladimir Putin's assault on Ukraine, with Fridman calling it a tragedy for both countries' people.
Billionaire Fridman, who was born in western Ukraine, told staff in a letter that the conflict was driving a wedge between the two eastern Slav peoples of Russia and Ukraine who have been brothers for centuries.
"I was born in Western Ukraine and lived there until I was 17. My parents are Ukrainian citizens and live in Lviv, my favorite city," Fridman wrote in the letter, excerpts of which Reuters saw.
"But I have also spent much of my life as a citizen of Russia, building and growing businesses. I am deeply attached to the Ukrainian and Russian peoples and see the current conflict as a tragedy for them both."
Russian billionaire, Oleg Deripaska, used a post on Telegram to called for peace talks to begin "as fast as possible."
"Peace is very important," said Deripaska, who is the founder of Russian aluminum giant Rusal, in which he still owns a stake via his shares in its parent company En+ Group.
On Feb. 21, Deripaska said there would not be a war.
Washington imposed sanctions on Deripaska and other influential Russians because of their ties to Putin after alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, which Moscow denies.
Russia's so-called oligarchs, who once exercised significant influence over then-president Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, are facing economic chaos after the West imposed severe sanctions on Russia over Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Putin, after consulting his security council of senior officials, said he ordered the special military operation to protect people, including Russian citizens, from "genocide" - an accusation the West calls baseless propaganda.
The Ukrainian president's office said negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow would be held at the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.
"This crisis will cost lives and damage two nations who have been brothers for hundreds of years," Fridman said.
"While a solution seems frighteningly far off, I can only join those whose fervent desire is for the bloodshed to end. I’m sure my partners share my view."
One of Fridman's long-term partners, Pyotr Aven, attended a meeting at the Kremlin with Putin and 36 other major Russian businessmen last week, the Kremlin said.
Another Moscow billionaire told Reuters on condition of anonymity that the war was going to be a catastrophe.
"It is going to be catastrophic in all senses: for the economy, for relations with the rest of the world, for the political situation," the billionaire said.
The billionaires who gathered for a meeting with Putin in the Kremlin on Thursday were silent, he said.
"Businessmen understand very well the consequences. But who is asking the opinion of business about this?"
Two of Russia's billionaires call for peace in Ukraine
Two Russian billionaires, Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Deripaska, called for an end to the conflict triggered by President Vladimir Putin's assault on Ukraine, with Fridman calling it a tragedy for both countries' people.www.ctvnews.ca