March 4, 20223 yr 2 minutes ago, TEW said: Don’t get your hopes up, because it’s not likely to happen. No, it's not. But I do think it's more likely than Ukraine under his thumb for the rest of our lifetimes.
March 4, 20223 yr This is what the world is rallying around. Push the Fing buttons or bring on the asteroid.
March 4, 20223 yr 6 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said: And then we let them join NATO hahahaha The irony is that there was talk of bringing Russia into NATO back in the early 90’s and again when Putin first took office. Things could have been a lot different. 7 minutes ago, dawkins4prez said: No, it's not. But I do think it's more likely than Ukraine under his thumb for the rest of our lifetimes. Nah. Putin is going to come out of this with at least half the country, maybe all of it.
March 4, 20223 yr 9 minutes ago, Thrive said: Don’t think that’s happening kind sir. You’re going to have to be prepared to kill millions of Ukrainians to get what you want. He’s prepared. That’s the problem.
March 4, 20223 yr 11 minutes ago, lynched1 said: This is what the world is rallying around..... Just keep towing the party line and posting propaganda, comrade. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/ukraine-president-zelenskyy-net-worth-rumors/?amp
March 4, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, DaEagles4Life said: Russia is going full NK at this point. BBC, Bloomberg, CNN just pulled out I think we could see a true East vs West showdown. US/NATO/Japan/Australia/Israel/etc vs Russia/China/Iran/etc.
March 4, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, barho said: Just keep towing the party line and posting propaganda, comrade. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/ukraine-president-zelenskyy-net-worth-rumors/?amp You forgot the best part of my quote Ftard
March 4, 20223 yr 22 minutes ago, The_Omega said: He said the quiet part out loud. Definitely not helpful, but it's what we're all thinking. Well, not everyone. Putin is still useful to our administration and others.
March 4, 20223 yr 16 minutes ago, lynched1 said: This is what the world is rallying around. Push the Fing buttons or bring on the asteroid. well if you can't trust @VictorZubarev who can you trust? 3 minutes ago, TEW said: I think we could see a true East vs West showdown. US/NATO/Japan/Australia/Israel/etc vs Russia/China/Iran/etc. is this what you need to climax at this point?
March 4, 20223 yr 21 minutes ago, lynched1 said: This is what the world is rallying around. Push the Fing buttons or bring on the asteroid. It's not good people versus bad people. It never is and never will be. It's our people versus their people.
March 4, 20223 yr 11 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: You do realize that he’s working with our administration on a new Iran nuke deal, right. Don’t they tell you that on MSNBCNN?
March 4, 20223 yr 14 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: is this what you need to climax at this point? Just reading the tea leaves. Russia is now ostracized from the western world. China is trying to establish an alternative financial system to the dollar standard and has imperial ambitions of its own. It would make sense to see a sort of bipolar East vs West world develop.
March 4, 20223 yr 18 minutes ago, wyote said: It's not good people versus bad people. It never is and never will be. It's our people versus their people. Basically, yeah. Are you OK dude? Lots of correct takes the past few days.
March 4, 20223 yr Just now, TEW said: Basically, yeah. Are you OK dude? Lots of correct takes the past few days. I'm ignoring your BS about teachers unions because it's not worth it.
March 4, 20223 yr 10 minutes ago, TEW said: Just reading the tea leaves. Russia is now ostracized from the western world. China is trying to establish an alternative financial system to the dollar standard and has imperial ambitions of its own. It would make sense to see a sort of bipolar East vs West world develop. The East isn't ready for the big time yet and they know it -- especially if India moves firmly in the West's direction, which seems increasingly likely. Russia has kneecapped itself and even before that it was a shrinking country with a GDP smaller than Canada's. China's not getting any younger either. For the foreseeable future, they will have to content themselves with stuff like charm offensives, the belt and road initiative, and sabotaging ASEAN.
March 4, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, TEW said: Well of course the US probably has special forces like army green berets or CIA SAD deployed. Probably a good amount of material support we don’t know about as well. I’m sure there’s three letter agencies on the ground that we don’t even know exist. 1 hour ago, TEW said: From what I understand you don’t "apply” for delta, they recruit you from rangers and berets. Same kind of thing with DEVGRU… if you have a really good reputation and they think you’ll be a good fit, they’ll come find you. You don’t go find them. It’s a little of both. If you impress someone you get a card with a phone number on it. 1 hour ago, Thrive said: Strange wording if true. A no fly zone isn’t needed because Ukraine is holding the skies. 1 hour ago, we_gotta_believe said: Agreed. Those teams don't get deployed in a conflict like this unless 1) we need to extract a high value asset or diplomat, 2) we are hunting a high value target, or 3) we need to support our own forces on the ground. Conditions 2 and 3 are out, so that leaves 1, of which only Zelensky would qualify that we know of. Otherwise, as you said, the risk doesn't justify the benefit. I’m pretty sure there’s a team in Kyiv ready to snatch the Ukrainian President when push comes to shove. Regardless of who we have on the ground, I’m sure it just pales in comparison to the raw intel that we’re giving them. I’ve never seen so many SIGINT aircraft flying around in my life.
March 4, 20223 yr 2 minutes ago, wyote said: The East isn't ready for the big time yet and they know it -- especially if India moves firmly in the West's direction, which seems increasingly likely. Russia has kneecapped itself and even before that it was a shrinking country with a GDP smaller than Canada's. China's not getting any younger either. For the foreseeable future, they will have to content themselves with stuff like charm offensives, the belt and road initiative, and sabotaging ASEAN. I’m thinking in a longer time horizon — it won’t happen quickly. But I do agree that demographics are a huge problem for both Russia and China. China recently reversed its one child policy to pro-natalism though, didn’t it? India will absolutely be key. Huge, youthful population. But they have issues of their own of course.
March 4, 20223 yr 43 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: well if you can't trust @VictorZubarev who can you trust? No idea who it is. As a rule there are 5 people I trust.
March 4, 20223 yr 7 minutes ago, Bill said: I’m pretty sure there’s a team in Kyiv ready to snatch the Ukrainian President when push comes to shove. Regardless of who we have on the ground, I’m sure it just pales in comparison to the raw intel that we’re giving them. I’ve never seen so many SIGINT aircraft flying around in my life. I guarantee you that CIA teams are piloting some of those drones. This is what the CIA does. They have groups designed to operate exactly for these sorts of scenarios.
March 4, 20223 yr 7 minutes ago, TEW said: I’m thinking in a longer time horizon — it won’t happen quickly. But I do agree that demographics are a huge problem for both Russia and China. China recently reversed its one child policy to pro-natalism though, didn’t it? India will absolutely be key. Huge, youthful population. But they have issues of their own of course. For now if a guy had to choose a hand to play, he'd be a fool not to choose the US's hand. Looking far ahead, maybe India can pull itself together and that would be a pretty fair hand too. The EU has as many problems as anyone else due to demographic decline and their unease with letting Asian and African migrants make up the difference. One more fun thing is that Cuba is probably going to fall back under the US's control in the relatively near future. If we can avoid the nukes, it'll be a good time to be a member of the US ruling class for a few more decades.
March 4, 20223 yr Here’s a random preface and a question: Putin is looking a bit puffy lately, and the speculation is that he’s on cancer meds, or at the least on some type of medication for a serious illness. As such, he’s isolated himself over fear from COVID. Obviously there’s some hubris in that he’s not getting the full picture because he has fewer around him. How much of this is because, to put it simply, that he’s bored?
March 4, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, Bill said: Here’s a random preface and a question: Putin is looking a bit puffy lately, and the speculation is that he’s on cancer meds, or at the least on some type of medication for a serious illness. As such, he’s isolated himself over fear from COVID. Obviously there’s some hubris in that he’s not getting the full picture because he has fewer around him. How much of this is because, to put it simply, that he’s bored? He had cancer in 2020. Maybe it’s back? He also has Parkinson’s disease. Which is another reason he can’t be allowed near the red buttons!
March 5, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, The_Omega said: You do realize that he’s working with our administration on a new Iran nuke deal, right. Don’t they tell you that on MSNBCNN? I don't watch either, but yes I'm aware of the negotiations. Perhaps I misinterpreted your sentiment, mea culpa.
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