War

For those who miss Jon Stewart's calm, rational skewering of right wing blowhards. Put on the headphones and give a listen while doing chores.

Jon Stewart on Why the Right Would ‘Rather Do a Deal With Putin Than Pelosi’

As he wages a war against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is finding strange allies on U.S. soil — from former President Donald Trump to the Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Jon Stewart wasn’t surprised. The Daily Show comedian and host of the new Apple TV + series “The Problem With Jon Stewart” believes a certain subset of the right has long viewed Putin as “an ideological brother,” noting that “for years it’s been pretty clear that they would much rather do a deal with Putin than Pelosi.”

In this conversation, Stewart tells Kara Swisher why it’s important to distinguish people like Carlson — who he calls a “dishonest propagandist” — from their audiences, many of whom are “redeemable.” They also tackle the fire Stewart came under when he trod into the Joe Rogan/Spotify controversy, how enragement drives engagement in modern media and why the 24/7 news cycle can be so destructive — “unless it’s 9/11 or an invasion of a sovereign country, because now the gravity of the situation matches the urgency that they gin up.”

This episode contains strong language.

You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more information for all episodes at nytimes.com/sway, and you can find Kara on Twitter @karaswisher.

captainmorgan said:

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No one will need to tell farmers in Canada and America to max out on production this summer and it would be wise for the government to give them loans and grants to buy extra equipment, supplies and open immigration to solve labor problems. We produce a lot of potash in Canada too. Prices will be sky high and if we have a good season the farmers will make a fortune feeding China, though food prices will go up for us and everybody else. We have enough time to adjust and address the food situation.

A good video about the many challenges ahead and the economic implications of Putin's war. It's almost like he nuked his own fucking country and fucked himself. History will remember him for his blunder and failure, it must be soul crushing, provided he has one, it would also break his heart, provided he had one of those too.

'Completely bizarre': Russia expert shocked that Putin's military is 'not even performing' on the battlefield

On Friday, at a talk held by the Modern War Institute, Russia expert Michael Kofman expressed his amazement that Vladimir Putin's military has performed as badly as it has done in the invasion of Ukraine.


"I'm going to talk briefly and explain what's really happening in this war, from my perspective," said Kofman. "If you take a look at the war, and it's clearly a pursuit of maximalist war aim, the Russian operation was to conduct regime change in Ukraine, and via a pro-Russian regime to take substantial control of the country. But the operation is completely bizarre."

"[T]he Russian military's underperforming. It's not even performing," continued Kofman. "If you're a military analyst and you see what the Russian military is doing, and many of us predicted this war was coming ... but not the way the Russian military would pursue it. Because it's absolutely confounding and bizarre."

Kofman then explained how he believes Russian leadership got everything so wrong.

"Russian political leadership, intellectually, never left the year 2014," he said. "They actually believe the things they say about Ukraine, they don't think it's a state, they thought that within a few days they could rapidly insert forces, avoid any significant fight, go to the capital of Kyiv, force a surrender of the Zelensky administration, get him to capitulate or to flee. The operation is really not a war effort, you have the largest country in the world invading what is the largest country in Europe, thinking fundamentally that it wasn't going to get a real fight."

Watch the full discussion below -- Kofman's talk comes at around the 24:30 mark:

'Sign of weakness': Former Trump official tells CNN that Putin's army has shown itself 'pretty incapable'

Former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster on Thursday told CNN's Erin Burnett that he's not yet concerned about Russian President Vladimir Putin launching a war against NATO countries due to the ineptness of his current operation in Ukraine.

During a conversation about the war, Burnett asked McMaster about Russia's threats to use nuclear weapons if the United States and its allies escalate the conflict.

"Erin, this is again a sign of weakness," McMaster said. "Putin's conventional forces are proving themselves to be pretty darn incapable. You know, his economy is the size of Italy's and now under severe sanctions. What is he left with? Cyberpower and nuclear power and this is this doctrine of escalation."

McMaster also explained why he didn't think Putin would be capable of taking and holding the entire country of Ukraine.

"That is a lot of force, 160,000 [troops]," he said. "But now, divide that on four axes of advance and then think of the distance they have to cover. And then, recognize only about one-third of those troops are close-combat troops. I don't think there is any way, Erin, that he can go all the way if 'all the way' means gaining control of all of Ukraine, and consolidating gains politically to put in a puppet government across all of that territory. I don't think he is going to be able to do that in an acceptable level of loss."

After reassessing the situation in light of recent events...

The proxy war has just begun and the arms are flowing in, they've got Vlad by the balls now and they are certain of it. I'm hoping this will be over by spring, before planting season, I can't see the Russians lasting another couple of months with what is coming economically and militarily.

We don't need to reform Russia, we just need to liberate Ukraine and Belarus and bring them into the west with liberal democracy and some Marshall plan style aid, as they prepare for EU membership. They won't have to worry about NATO membership too much after this. These Russian speaking countries will do the rest, what Putin feared, start living the good life and showing how much better Russia could do under liberal democracy and integrated into the global community. They will get their TV and radio, travel there and probably have a freer internet.
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The US is starting to focus on it's partners in southeast Asia,Japan,Australia part of the world. It's pulling out of the middle east, we haven't had a aircraft carrier group in the middle east since we left afghanistan.

Canada to accept unlimited number of Ukrainians fleeing Russian invasion

The Canadian government announced a slew of new measures intended to help Ukraine as the Russian invasion continues, including promising to accept an unlimited number of Ukrainian refugees trying to escape the war, imposing tariffs on goods from Russia and Belarus and stripping both countries of their Most Favoured Nation status under federal trade law.

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The US is starting to focus on it's partners in southeast Asia,Japan,Australia part of the world. It's pulling out of the middle east, we haven't had a aircraft carrier group in the middle east since we left afghanistan.

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We are at another pivotal point in history and forces are being realigned, there is a problem, but also an opportunity...

Far-right Pro-Russian Serbian fascists protesting in the streets of Belgrade in support of Russia and Belarus denazifying the west.


China has a major influence in Serbia as well. Basically Serbs are still mad at NATO for bombing them.

The world has been a pretty stable place since WWII overall, looks like that's over now, back to death all the time shit.

Donny the Dumbass on getting everybody nuked.








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Spread it around, they should have bombed out apartments too, money goes to the victims, they don't need a place to rent, just to have had one

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Sky News team's harrowing account of their violent ambush in Ukraine this week

On Monday, near Kyiv, chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his team were attacked. Camera operator Richie Mockler took two rounds to his body armour, Stuart was wounded. Their experience illustrates the scale of the mayhem and violence as Russia's invasion enters a new and deadlier phase.

news.sky.com

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Yeah not a fan of sky news...js

BudmanTX said:

Yeah not a fan of sky news...js

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They've changed their tune and have had good reporting on this at least.

DIY-HP-LED said:

'I know the truth': CNN asks Russians what they think about Putin's war

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Anonymous....here is your next target. hijack their state tv, and show them the truth. they deserve to know what their president is doing, they deserve to know he is sacrificing their sons and daughters for his dreams of glory. they deserve to know he is turning their sons and daughters into murderers, to restore an empire that he can rule.

Roger A. Shrubber said:

Anonymous....here is your next target. hijack their state tv, and show them the truth. they deserve to know what their president is doing, they deserve to know he is sacrificing their sons and daughters for his dreams of glory. they deserve to know he is turning their sons and daughters into murders, to restore an empire that he can rule.

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Once Ukraine and Belarus are liberated and start living the good life in a liberal democracy aided by a largely European Marshal plan. The news will leak out from these Russian speaking countries into Russia, so will their TV and radio. That's what this war is really all about, there is a better way for Russia. Ukraine and Belarus will do it for us and are much easier to develop rapidly economically than Russia right now. They can't have an iron curtain any more in Europe, so they will have to evolve, they've tasted the modern global lifestyle, there's go going back.

I wonder how bad it will be when the market tanks, you know it's coming, drastic changes coming.