DIY-HP-LED
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Excuse my sense of gallows humor and I'll excuse your oversensitivity and ad hominem attacks. Are you on the spectrum and have difficulty processing emotions?
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DIY-HP-LED
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BTW You can PM me, I correspond with several members here. I do write for a hobby, but not fiction for awhile. This is a bit of a playground for me, practicing prose and such.
Roger A. Shrubber
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i'm not sure if it would free him or not. i think he's doing some of this for his personal glory, but some of it is for russia, in a fucked up way. he wants to be remembered as the leader who made the world safe for russia, who made russia a world power again, instead of a bloated baltic state...the man who returned Ukraine to russian statehood, and then Belarus, so he might not want to do anything that could destroy not only russia, but his "legacy" as well.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Thanks; for discussions like these I like responding publicly.
DIY-HP-LED
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Yer reading him about right, he's not a sociopath, but close, conditioned to it by his personal history. He understands power and force only I'm afraid, but is being forced to the peace table by the latest reports, for a shotgun wedding of sorts.
printer
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Ukraine regains full control of Kyiv region for first time since Russian invasion: official
Ukraine’s forces regained full control of the region around capital city Kyiv on Saturday for the first time since Russia invaded the country at the end of February, according to a Ukrainian official.
Hanna Malyar, the deputy minister for Ukraine’s defense ministry, shared the news in a Facebook post. Malyar said Ukrainians should still refrain from returning to their homes, citing ongoing efforts to clear the area, including from leftover mines.
Earlier this week, Russia said it was withdrawing forces from around Kyiv and the city of Chernihiv, but President Biden expressed skepticism about the claim and the Pentagon said Moscow was actually “repositioning” troops.
“We believe this is a repositioning, not a real withdrawal, and that we all should be prepared to watch for a major offensive against other areas of Ukraine. It does not mean the threat to Kyiv is over,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said on Tuesday.
Ukrainian and Russian negotiators met this week for peace talks in Turkey as the war has stretched on for more than a month, pushing more than four million Ukrainians to flee the country and resulting in the deaths of hundreds of civilians.
Ukrainians have put up a stiff resistance to the invasion, however, killing as many as 15,000 Russian troops — reportedly including multiple high-ranking officers — by late March, according to NATO estimates. The Kremlin has reported significantly lower casualty numbers.
Around Kyiv, the British Ministry of Defense said early on Saturdaythat Ukrainian troops were attempting to advance from Irpin toward Bucha and Hostomel northwest of the capital and had retaken several villages to its east.
Russian troops had also reportedly withdrawn from the Hostomel airport, located northwest of the capital, according to the British ministry.
Towns around Kyiv were littered with destroyed Russian tanks, Reuters reported on Saturday. Ukrainian presidential adviser Okeksiy Arestovych said Ukraine has recaptured more than 30 towns and villages this week in the region.
thehill.com
Ukraine’s forces regained full control of the region around capital city Kyiv on Saturday for the first time since Russia invaded the country at the end of February, according to a Ukrainian official.
Hanna Malyar, the deputy minister for Ukraine’s defense ministry, shared the news in a Facebook post. Malyar said Ukrainians should still refrain from returning to their homes, citing ongoing efforts to clear the area, including from leftover mines.
Earlier this week, Russia said it was withdrawing forces from around Kyiv and the city of Chernihiv, but President Biden expressed skepticism about the claim and the Pentagon said Moscow was actually “repositioning” troops.
“We believe this is a repositioning, not a real withdrawal, and that we all should be prepared to watch for a major offensive against other areas of Ukraine. It does not mean the threat to Kyiv is over,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said on Tuesday.
Ukrainian and Russian negotiators met this week for peace talks in Turkey as the war has stretched on for more than a month, pushing more than four million Ukrainians to flee the country and resulting in the deaths of hundreds of civilians.
Ukrainians have put up a stiff resistance to the invasion, however, killing as many as 15,000 Russian troops — reportedly including multiple high-ranking officers — by late March, according to NATO estimates. The Kremlin has reported significantly lower casualty numbers.
Around Kyiv, the British Ministry of Defense said early on Saturdaythat Ukrainian troops were attempting to advance from Irpin toward Bucha and Hostomel northwest of the capital and had retaken several villages to its east.
Russian troops had also reportedly withdrawn from the Hostomel airport, located northwest of the capital, according to the British ministry.
Towns around Kyiv were littered with destroyed Russian tanks, Reuters reported on Saturday. Ukrainian presidential adviser Okeksiy Arestovych said Ukraine has recaptured more than 30 towns and villages this week in the region.
Ukraine regains full control of Kyiv region for first time since Russian invasion: official
Ukraine’s forces regained full control of the region around capital city Kyiv on Saturday for the first time since Russia invaded the country at the end of February, according to a Ukrainian …
thehill.com
DIY-HP-LED
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BTW the spectrum stuff is not a pejorative, simply a way of being, many scientists and engineers are on it, usually they are good at math and logical thinking and live well ordered and disciplined lives.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I think territorial expansion was the big one for him. Even if his health is good, he stepped on the old khuy with golf shoes, and his chances are essentially nil. It depends a lot on if he is willing to do more harm out of spite. As an old KGB hand, I imagine he kept distorting passions like spite or rage from taking up much headspace. The counterimpulse might be the driving need to chase the dream. Adolf did that, and the obsession that led to his ultimately detrimental micromanagement also killed him.
DIY-HP-LED
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Military analyst: Putin exhibits every quality of 'toxic leadership'
CNN's Jim Acosta and Ret. Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling discuss how Russian President Vladimir Putin's propaganda has backfired and what might ultimately lead to trouble for him in Russia.
CNN's Jim Acosta and Ret. Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling discuss how Russian President Vladimir Putin's propaganda has backfired and what might ultimately lead to trouble for him in Russia.
DIY-HP-LED
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Putin’s vision of Russia is not ‘desirable to almost anybody’ - Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist and professor at Stanford University.
Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist and professor at Stanford University.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
i am curious where I went ad hominem. Please quote it.
DIY-HP-LED
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No. That is one of the three things you said today that are beyond the pale:
First use of wmd
Nuking population centers
Using civilians as human shields for a cheap bit of hardware
No offense taken, but it appeared to impune my morals and ethics. I'm sorry if I gave the impression of callousness, in war I favor fighting smart and taking prisoners when possible. I make logical arguments for it, but the impulse is born of compassion.
I'm not a Buddhist, but I do mindfulness and that is a bit different than being on the path to enlightenment, it's focus is on emotional/social flourishing and creativity, it is a health and wellness practice, mind body science. However it is always done in a moral and ethical context, because it has to. A regular practice will grow a conscience on a fence post, as empathy increases, practice a lot and it can get pretty intense, so you better have yer ducks lined up. Even the marine corps use mindfulness these days and there have always been Buddhist warriors like Samurai.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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Some Ukrainian put poison in an a sweet treat and gave it to a couple Russians and killed them or tried or something. What were those stupid Russians thinking? And then Ukrainian go and bomb the Russian gas field
And the Russians are like, how dare they!! They have crossed the line .. lol, really? With the understanding if they drop bombs on Russia then Russia is going to Nuke em. What kind of fucking war is this. One side has to be pussies because they might get nuked? Maybe Russia just needs to get Nuked.
And the Russians are like, how dare they!! They have crossed the line .. lol, really? With the understanding if they drop bombs on Russia then Russia is going to Nuke em. What kind of fucking war is this. One side has to be pussies because they might get nuked? Maybe Russia just needs to get Nuked.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
That was not insult. It was what you said. If you do not wish your words to come back and bite you
(in the advice of one more intelligent than I)
“use other words”.
You cannot logically cast critique as an attack ad hominem.
DIY-HP-LED
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Vlad is suing for peace and I hear there's a draft agreement, he won't like it, but will have to swallow his own turd and smile while doing it. His army got beat up real bad in Ukraine and in another month would be destroyed, the Ukrainians are just getting into their stride and Vlad needs a way out. Zelenskiy needs him to stop bombing the women and kids in the cities, so he's game, for now.
DIY-HP-LED
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
You should read mine. Pm me an email. This is a good use of pm.
DIY-HP-LED
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Compared to what others write here I'm a fucking angel and you are a perfectionist.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Argumentum ad populum, niceCompared to what others write here I'm a fucking angel and you are a perfectionist.
Dr.Amber Trichome
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You guys are just fucking weird.