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  1. Ficxa 479

    Ficxa 479 Porn Star

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    Russian troops seized a big number of western made Amunition, in Ukraine. I wander what would be if that ammo happen to fall in the hands of Taliban. And they shoot a plane down. It is west made, no one to blame Russia. You fuckers you never think of concequencies. Those weapons might fall in wrong hands. I guess you learnt nothing from 9\11.
     
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      Jack he is not Hitler, he is Fuhrer.
       
      Ficxa 479, Mar 15, 2022
    3. Ficxa 479
      Nope but we might let them have it
       
      Ficxa 479, Mar 15, 2022
    4. Russell Shackleford
      The more likely scenario is the neo Nazi extremists we are arming in Ukraine decide to sell some of those weapons.to other extremists.
       
      Russell Shackleford, Mar 15, 2022
    5. Russell Shackleford
      Yea I'm sure neo Nazis would never do anything like that
       
      Russell Shackleford, Mar 15, 2022
    6. FuntimeFla
      Russian Shackleturd, you are dumber than the box the rocks are in !
       
      FuntimeFla, Mar 16, 2022
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  2. the Farm Boy

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    See nothing wrong with what Russia is doing. US should not be getting involved what so ever. Just leave Poland alone and I'm completely fine with it. Fucking Ukraine is as corrupt as it comes with their government.
     
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      When we asked for help in recent wars, they assisted us !
       
      FuntimeFla, Mar 16, 2022
    3. FuntimeFla
      We put up a No Fly zone over Libya ( a non- NATO Country ) and IraQ , a non NATO country, Why not Ukraine?
       
      FuntimeFla, Mar 16, 2022
    4. Russell Shackleford
      Lol because putting a no fly zone over those countries wouldn't start a nuclear war bozo
       
      Russell Shackleford, Mar 16, 2022
    5. the Farm Boy
      You better pull your head out of your ass Funtime. It's not our obligation at all.
       
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    6. Ficxa 479
      When we asked for help in recent wars, they assisted us !//////// When You fighting with Brits for you Fredom Russia helped you either.
       
      Ficxa 479, Mar 16, 2022
  3. stumbler

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    Putin’s Own Soldiers Are Refusing to Fight in Ukraine

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-own-soldiers-are-refusing-to-fight-in-ukraine?ref=home
     
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      Its going nowhere, what does move gets blown up !
       
      FuntimeFla, Mar 16, 2022
    3. Ficxa 479
      We shell see.
       
      Ficxa 479, Mar 16, 2022
  4. Ficxa 479

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    Oh those sunctions, folks could anybody send some bread, Im tired of eating fish. IMG_20220315_185207.jpg
     
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      Soon you will be eating shit!
       
      FuntimeFla, Mar 16, 2022
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      Right now I see shit in your mough.
       
      Ficxa 479, Mar 16, 2022
  5. stumbler

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    This protest also sent shock waves through a few US TV hosts who pointed out this could not be just an individual effort. Because for this protest to even occur there had to be multiple people at the TV station cooperating with it. Which proves the anti war protest in Russia is far more widespread than we even know. With true dedication behind it because Marina Ovsyannikova knew in advance she could be sent to prison for 15 years and is already in court today. But that is only after about 250 million Russians saw it.

    Russian State TV protest 'sent shockwaves through all of Russian society' says American on the ground

    Sarah K. Burris
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    Yakov Kronrod went back to Russia to care for his mother months before the invasion of Ukraine, so he was on the ground watching as a Channel One editor took the bold move to stage a protest on live television.

    Marina Ovsyannikova, the editor of Channel One, held up a sign saying that Russians were being lied to and not to believe the propaganda. She was detained and taken to the Ostankino police department. Russia's Vladimir Putin passed a law that any person who says something that conflicts with the government can be thrown in jail for 15 years.

    According to Kronrod, even pro-Putin outlets have reported on the story, he said, delivering her message even farther to more people.

    "It sends shock waves through all of Russian society. Yandex News had a story about it, and they rarely have anything that's against the main narrative," said Kronrod. "Her Facebook page was getting thousands of people commenting every minute. Literally, it exploded. Everyone was texting each other, calling each other saying, did you see? Did you see what happened? And many of the human rights activists that I'm talking to feel this may very well be the start of the wave to see someone like that Channel 1 has 250 million viewers, it's the number one watched station by most common Russians. For a lot of Russians, this was the first time they saw any dissenting voice."

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    https://www.rawstory.com/russia-channel-one-protest-putin/
     
    1. Ficxa 479
      We don t care what America says. We only want Putin never back up go to the hilt.
       
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    2. Dearelliot
      Except it appears the poor fellow is carrying miniature pocket knife....and all this time people thought the Russian Army was tough...until Putin laid it all out for the world to see.
       
      Dearelliot, Mar 15, 2022
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      I don't know about you @Dearelliot but I am just fucking shocked. I was raised to fear the Red Army and instead they are a bunch of weakling fuck ups with really shitty equipment and supply chains.
       
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    4. the Farm Boy
      What I see is its the direction of majority of the militaries as a whole except for maby China. Hopefully we will see shortly how they can perform. I don't think they have fallen by the wayside but could be wrong.
       
      the Farm Boy, Mar 15, 2022
    5. Dearelliot
      Even a damn poor Army can hurt a lot of people.
       
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  6. Ficxa 479

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    1. FuntimeFla
      The French are not known for bravery or success, quoting them is not in your best interest !
       
      FuntimeFla, Mar 16, 2022
    2. Ficxa 479
      I guess most braves are in USA and they are of latin origin. ha aha ahaha
       
      Ficxa 479, Mar 16, 2022
  7. shootersa

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    Can't you just hear the envy in stumblers post?
    The opportunity to PHYSICALLY silence dissension must make his mouth water.
    Why, the idea that someone expressing a contrary opinion, silenced so quickly, thoroughly, and effectively, why just IMAGINE what the possibilities are, eh stumbler?
     
    1. the Farm Boy
      His mouth watering or is it just drool. :)
       
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  8. pauldz

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    and he's talking raw sewage from raw sewage news outlet, amazing, lol
     
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    1. Ficxa 479
      I smell the rat
       
      Ficxa 479, Mar 15, 2022
    2. FuntimeFla
      Putin is the Rat, but he didn't get the cheese, he got caught in his own Rat Trap!
       
      FuntimeFla, Mar 16, 2022
    3. Ficxa 479
      But he is winning, everywhere, you just too sissy too axcept it. Swallow man.
       
      Ficxa 479, Mar 16, 2022
  9. the Farm Boy

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    What I'm taking away from all of this is society is fucked. Countries better start investing more into their militaries and up their training. The world has become so pussified to the point were all going to be working for a China backed global order if it continues. Our militaries are too saturated with people that are uncapable of killing without morse. Training needs to change so they are not effected as much by killing and they know they will be supported fully after they finish their job. But do our governments and politicians want that I doubt it. It's become a playground for mega wealthy corruption. They are slowly testing society and bringing their global plans into reality. Same old rules since beginning of man just in modern evolving ways. Divide and Conquer on a global scale. We won't be controlled by government or corporations we will be owned by a handful of Global Elites. Our newly trained military will become the global police sooner than we think.
     
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  10. stumbler

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    Here's a couple other things I am sure Tucker Carlson and treasonous conservative/Republicans will support.


    Russian member of parliament demands Putin take Alaska while state TV host suggests nuclear strikes: report

    Sarah K. Burris
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    Just 24 hours ago, Russia's Channel 1 Marina Ovsyannikova held up an anti-war sign urging Russians not to believe propaganda. According to one American on the ground in Russia, the incident sent shockwaves through society with the video being pushed around to millions on social media and via text message.

    The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that after the incident, another Russian state television personality went nuclear, literally. Olga Skabeeva, who hosts the Russian show "60 Minutes," quoted a statement from White House press secretary to claim, "Jennifer Psaki’s statement said that no matter what Putin does in Ukraine—whether he uses biological weapons or drops a nuclear bomb—the United States won’t get involved."

    Russian member of Parliament, Oleg Matveychev, who is known for spouting Putin's propaganda, showed another clip of Fox News host Tucker Carlson with his own comments.

    “There isn’t a single country in the world that is as easily manipulated as America,” Matveychev said. “Here’s what will be on the table after our victory... After Ukraine’s demilitarization is completed... we’re going to raise the stakes... For example, the lifting of all sanctions... The dissolution of NATO, because the presence of NATO in some countries is getting in our way. Extradition of all war criminals... like [Anton] Herashchenko [former deputy minister at the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs], Zelensky, [former President of Ukraine Petro] Poroshenko. Extradition of various oligarchs, like [Mikhail] Khodorkovsky."

    "We should be thinking about reparations from the damage that was caused by the sanctions and the war itself, because that too costs money and we should get it back. The return of all Russian properties, those of the Russian empire, the Soviet Union and current Russia, which has been seized in the United States, and so on."

    “Are you including Alaska and Fort Ross?” the host asked.


    “That was my next point. As well as the Antarctic," Matveychev continued. "We discovered it, so it belongs to us... Also, the return of all medals that have been unlawfully taken from our sportsmen during all Olympic games, as well as the extradition of [Grigory] Rodchenkov, along with the extradition of multiple other criminals we’ll want. I think we should start voicing all of that, so they understand what will be on the table. You didn’t want to talk to us about something small, like Ukraine’s neutrality, here’s what you get. And that’s not even all of it.”

    "Does your list include a tactical nuclear strike, or are we going straight for the strategic one?" the host asked.

    “What for? We can take them down without it," replied Matveychev.

    “I still think that those who took our money should be told, you have 24 hours to unfreeze our funds, or else we’ll send you what you know we’ve got," the host claimed, according to the translation. "Your choice. Tactical or strategic, take a pick. You took our money, you’re the thieves, our talk is short with you: a bullet to the head.”

    The show also aired recent clips of former President Donald Trump attacking Biden for not speaking to Putin. He even hinted that the upcoming presidential elections will include Russian meddling again. "We're waiting," the host said.

    Read the other nuclear threats from Russian state television hosts at the Daily Beast.

    https://www.rawstory.com/russia-alaska-uclear-strike/
     
  11. stumbler

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    Hillary Clinton Trolls Putin Over Sanctions: ‘I Want to Thank the Russian Academy For This Lifetime Achievement Award’
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    Hillary Clinton laughed off the announcement that she and other prominent Democrats and high-ranking Biden officials were being sanctioned by Russia.


    On Tuesday, Russia also announced sanctions against President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, and “individuals associated with them,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

    “In response to a series of unprecedented sanctions prohibiting, among other things, entry into the United States for top officials of the Russian Federation, from March 15 of this year, the Russian ‘stop list’ includes on the basis of reciprocity President J. Biden, Secretary of State A. Blinken, Secretary of Defense L. Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff M. Milley, as well as a number of department heads and prominent US figures,” the statement said.

    Clinton responded to the news joking, “I want to thank the Russian Academy for this Lifetime Achievement Award.”


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    Russia has sanctioned Joe Biden and a range of other top US officials. The main impact of this is they can now make corny jokes on cable news about how they won't be able to access their Russian bank accounts or go on vacation in Siberia, I guess


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    The former secretary of state was responding to Financial Times’ Moscow Bureau Chief Max Seddon who also made light of the Russian sanctions, writing:

    Russia has sanctioned Joe Biden and a range of other top US officials.

    The main impact of this is they can now make corny jokes on cable news about how they won’t be able to access their Russian bank accounts or go on vacation in Siberia, I guess

    As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, a fierce debate has raged in the U.S. as some right-leaning figures have been accused of being too close to Russia, while former President Donald Trump has argued Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if he were still president.

    Clinton’s response to Russia sanctioning her recalls Russia’s hack of her campaign and the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election, acts the U.S. intelligence community said showed Russia’s clear preference for Trump and desire to keep Clinton out of the White House.

    https://www.mediaite.com/news/hilla...-academy-for-this-lifetime-achievement-award/
     
    1. Russell Shackleford
      The trump Russia narrative is done no one is buying that shit anymore stumblers even the dumbest of the dumb now see how stupid it was. Even bill Maher talked about how none of this shit would be going on because Russia feared trump.. Biden is the weakest POTUS ever. We are a laughing stock on the world stage Russia taking Ukraine China will take Taiwan Iran bombing us in Iraq Saudi Arabia bitch buttons bidens phone calls and is about to abandon the petrodollar Venezuela tells us to fk off..
       
      Russell Shackleford, Mar 15, 2022
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    2. stumbler
      That is a lot of big talking comrade when the world knows better.

      Welcome to the bottom of the hole of shit hole countries.
       
      stumbler, Mar 15, 2022
    3. Russell Shackleford
      Yea if the rest of bidens term stays on the path it's on now we will be at the bottom of the shit hole.
       
      Russell Shackleford, Mar 16, 2022
    4. pauldz
      which bottom of the hole shit countries are you talking about stumbler?
       
      pauldz, Mar 16, 2022
  12. shootersa

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    And of course clinton has to make it about her.

    Whaddya suppose biden would do if Russia decided to take Alaska?
    Negotiate?
     
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      Not a clue at this point. Shooter just hopes he can vote FOR a candidate this time instead AGAINST a candidate.
       
      shootersa, Mar 16, 2022
    3. Russell Shackleford
      I don't see anyone beating trump.
       
      Russell Shackleford, Mar 16, 2022
    4. shootersa
      Shooter doesn't see trump beating anyone.

      He'd do better staying in the background and pulling strings like soros does.
       
      shootersa, Mar 16, 2022
    5. Russell Shackleford
      Trump isn't a background type of guy.
       
      Russell Shackleford, Mar 16, 2022
    6. shootersa
      No, but hes a patriot. If he accepts he can't win he'll serve where he can.

      The despicables will trigger on reading that, but its true.
       
      shootersa, Mar 16, 2022
  13. stumbler

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    Barry McCaffrey says ‘incompetently led’ Russian forces have suffered 10 percent casualty rate

    Bob Brigham
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    Retired 4-star Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey estimated that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already lost ten percent of his invading forces due to death or injury as Ukraine has battled to a current "deadlock."

    MSNBC "Deadline: White House" anchor Nicolle Wallace asked McCaffrey about Russia's fatalities, noting estimates between 6,000 and 8,000.

    "What I think my general sense is they probably lost 10% of the assault forces, have been killed or wounded," McCaffrey said. "They lost a considerable amount of armor and trucks. They've lost maybe forty to sixty aircraft and helicopters."

    RELATED: Retired general: New developments indicate Russia 'has no idea how to sustain a stalled fight' in Ukraine

    "Ukrainians have conducted a bitter, clever, aggressive war against seemingly incompetently led Russian forces. So they stymied them — for now. The correlation of forces though, Nicolle, clearly favors the Russians, because 60% of the ground combat forces were inside Ukraine. They got half their air force committed to this,' he explained.

    "So the situation going forward, it's hard to see how anything results except a street-by-street battle for Kyiv which could go on literally for weeks with a corresponding, or course, disaster for the civil population. This is temporarily at deadlock," McCaffrey said.

    Watch:



    https://www.rawstory.com/barry-mcca...ed-russian-forces-have-lost-10-of-its-forces/
     
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  14. FuntimeFla

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    As a USMC veteran , I can tell you multiple things, Russia is running out of combat troops, and vehicles and ammo ! The majority of a combat force is NOT the fighting troops, but the supply, logistics, communications, medical , and administrative troops. Russia has lost huge amounts of front line troops, armor, and supply ! The Ukrainians have their factories running 24/7 patching up abandoned Russian equipment, and converting weapons for their best use. Russia has provided them with as much military equipment as we have! In 2 weeks the Ukraine will drive them out of town !
     
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    1. Russell Shackleford
      Sniff some more coke
       
      Russell Shackleford, Mar 16, 2022
    2. stumbler
      And the Russian troops haven't even gotten into the real fighting yet. Urban warfare is the worst kind there is. Which most experts say is why the Russian troops are lobbing shells and bombs on civilians. They are afraid to go into the cities.
       
      stumbler, Mar 16, 2022
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    Shooter you dissapoint me, if there was ever a fight we needed to be in, this is the one ! Even Stumbles see's that ! Yet you have been so oppossed to anything he says, that no matter what you take the opposite side of him! I think you are so stuck in that mode that you fail to look at the issue objectively ! For once I agree with him! This is a good fight ! And we must support it!
     
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      Not sure what you're referencing.
       
      shootersa, Mar 16, 2022
    2. stumbler
      There sure as hell hasn't ever been many thing you and I agree on. But we sure do on this insane war. And I will even grant you the upper hand on military and combat expertise. And if there has ever been a time and place for Americans to come together as a united front this is it.
       
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    The Ukraine want's nothing to do with being part of Russia, and want's to be part of EU and NATO! We owe it to them !
     
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    1. shootersa
      And where has Shooter disagreed with that position?
      For the record;
      Russia bad for invading Ukraine.
      Ukraine freedom is a good thing.
      Ukraine is our ally and we will support them against Russia.
       
      shootersa, Mar 16, 2022
    2. stumbler
      And just like the Chinese symbol for hazard is both danger and opportunity the world has a great opportunity here. Which is wiping Putin out and ending the Russian threat once and for all.

      Even now the world no longer fears the "Red Army" because we have seen them in action.

      And Russia can fall from the world stage to the bottom of the hole of shit hole countries.
       
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      I also have a question for you. They have found Russia has a brand new addition to their missiles which are little dart like things that fly off when they sense the missile has been targeted giving off radio signals and heat as a decoy to make the surface to air defenses miss their target.

      Can the US come up with a counter to that?
       
      stumbler, Mar 16, 2022
    4. FuntimeFla
      Yes that happens to be a gold mine of intel !
       
      FuntimeFla, Mar 17, 2022
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    On a lighter note....When Metallica Took Moscow

    McDonald’s announced this week that it would cease operations in Russia as part of a global push to isolate Vladimir Putin’s government. The news was met with dismay by those who recalled when the Golden Arches first arrived in Moscow in 1990, a gleaming harbinger of a new and more hopeful era. “I remember when this McDonald’s opened and driving by, nose pressed against the glass, looking at the long, long lines, wrapping around the block,” wrote Puck’s Julia Ioffe. A contemporaneous account in the Washington Post described the inaugural franchise in Pushkin Square as a “splash of brilliant color in the middle of a gray city” and a “gastronomic-cum-cultural revolution in the homeland of scientific communism.”


    As the post-Soviet era seems to come to a close — with Starbucks and Coca-Cola joining McDonald’s in shutting down their businesses in Russia, the regime cracking down on the remnants of the country’s free press, and sanctions cinching around the economy like a noose — other artifacts of that false dawn are circulating on social media. Perhaps none are as arresting as an absolutely massive concert that Metallica headlined in Moscow in 1991, mere months before the official collapse of the Soviet Union.




    The video, part of a concert documentary called For Those About to Rock: Monsters in Moscow, captures a nation in the flux of late perestroika. Red Army soldiers have been called in to do crowd control, clashing against a seething sea of concertgoers. The show’s organizers repeatedly come on stage to plead with the crowd to refrain from violence, lest the authorities shut it down. “Remember why we are here,” they say, “to celebrate our victory.” Yet there are also people in army uniforms enjoying the music along with everyone else, flashing devil horns and lolling their tongues as if they’re in need of an exorcism.


    The bands that played that day included AC/DC, the Black Crowes, and Pantera. If you’re of a certain age and musical persuasion, it’s oddly touching to see Pantera’s Dimebag Darrell (RIP), replete with a razor-blade necklace, do a stink-face shredding thing on his guitar while lead singer Phil Anselmo screams, “We’re taking over the entire country!” (A riff on the line “We’re taking over this town” from the song “Cowboys From Hell.”) But nothing compares to Metallica galloping on stage, lithe and frizzy-haired, to open their set with “Enter Sandman,” a once ubiquitously annoying song that, in hindsight, was one of America’s most influential cultural exports of the time, inspiring a distinct look that inundated both Eastern Europe and high schools around the world: tattered jeans, greasy locks, black Metallica T-shirt. The response from the crowd in Moscow is joyous havoc, a catharsis years in the making.

    We all know what happened in the decade that followed: the disaster of “shock therapy” economics, the plundering of Russian industry by a cabal of oligarchs, the rise of Putin. As sweet as that dvoini gamburger (double hamburger) may have tasted, the promise of western-style capitalism proved hollow. “What an incredibly happy time!” writes Svetlana Alexievich in Secondhand Time, her account of the Soviet Union’s dissolution and its tragic aftermath. “We believed that tomorrow, the very next day, would usher in freedom. That it would materialize out of nowhere, from the sheer force of our wishing.” But, she adds, “Freedom turned out to mean the rehabilitation of bourgeois existence … the freedom of Her Highness Consumption.” Metallica and Pantera, while being icons of rebellion and testosterone-driven creativity, were also mass bourgeois entertainment — products of the great capitalist conveyor belt to be consumed by bored kids like so many Big Macs.

    Bourgeois comforts were not enough to sustain Russia, in Alexievich’s telling, especially when they were so meager compared to the insane riches that were being stolen by Russia’s one percent. A new idea of Russian self-worth was born out of this disillusionment — or rather an old idea, stretching back to the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, encouraged by Putin’s regime and embraced by those inclined to look upon the days of Stalin with nostalgia. “In the past couple of decades, this war seems to have overshadowed all other historical events, becoming the single point of reference for Russian national identity,” Masha Gessen recently wrote for the New Yorker. This jingoistic mythmaking has served as a risible justification for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which he asserts is infested with neo-Nazi elements.

    What is “Enter Sandman” compared to the heady claims of national glory? Or, for that matter, a genuinely fair and equal society, which is what Russians wanted and deserved? Not a lot. But it’s not nothing, either. The tolerance for certain rights and privileges, the prevalence of western products and services, the sense that Russia was connected to the wider world — these all surely made the Putin regime more bearable, and their sudden disappearance will be felt as an imposition. It’s worth remembering that while the sound of freedom is no doubt different for everyone, for those Muscovites in 1991, it was this: “Exit light! Enter night!”

     
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    Anyone know why NATO won't accept Ukraine?
     
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      Too poor and too corupt
       
      pauldz, Mar 16, 2022
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    2. shootersa
      Well, actually, they did, you know, approve Ukraine's membership into NATO.
      What they didn't do was set a time line and schedule to make it so.
      Probably some pomp and ceremony required that hasn't yet been scheduled.
       
      shootersa, Mar 16, 2022
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    3. pauldz
      True, would be approval needed, meetings etc, paperwork more meetings etc.
       
      pauldz, Mar 16, 2022
    4. stumbler
      World War III. Ukraine joining NATO has been a Putin red line for decades. He has always used a NATO country on his border as a threat to go to war. So that wasn't going to happen. But even though Ukraine was not going to join NATO they became an even bigger threat to him. Because Ukraine became a prosperous innovative liberal democracy on his border. And all Russians had to do was look across the border to see how much better Ukrainians have it and get the idea that's how they want to live too. A threat Putin could not survive.
       
      stumbler, Mar 16, 2022
    5. Ficxa 479
      All these years Ukrainians came to work to Russia, Ukr got prosprus, ha aha aha.
       
      Ficxa 479, Mar 16, 2022
  19. ace's n 8's

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    Is that a riddle?...

    Word on the streets says it's because Ukraine is riddled with political corruption...hence..$14 billion U.S. dollars sure can buy a hefty load of political corruption to favor the U.S. political hack fucks galore.
     
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    1. stumbler
      One way we can always spot a pro Putin puppet is when they talk about corruption in Ukraine when Russia is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
       
      stumbler, Mar 16, 2022
    2. Russell Shackleford
      They both can't be corrupt? Interesting
       
      Russell Shackleford, Mar 16, 2022
    3. ace's n 8's
      I beg to differ fella's, neither one of those 2 countries, collectively even can hold a candle to the corruption from the U.S federal fucking government.
       
      ace's n 8's, Mar 17, 2022
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    This actually reminds me of the US Revolutionary War. Because one of the ways America won it was knocking off British officers. Which was actually a brand new move. Up until then deliberately killing officers had been kind of off limits as sort of a gentleman's agreement. But the Americans figured out British troops were so regimented to following orders if they knocked off the guy giving orders the ranks fell apart. So they started shooting officers first. Often with snipers using Kentucky Long Rifles.


    Fourth Russian General Killed in Ukraine as Putin’s Losses Mount

    A fourth Russian major-general has been killed in Ukraine as military losses mount for Vladimir Putin. Oleg Mityaev, commander of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division, was killed in a failed attempt to storm Mariupol on Wednesday. His killing was claimed by the Azov Battalion, which posted a picture of his corpse—his face covered by his general’s epaulette—on social media before Ukrainian officials identified him. Mityaev was the former deputy commander of Russian forces in Syria. The Daily Mirror reported that he died alongside “seven elite special-operations fighters from the feared Dzerzhinsky Division of the country’s national guard,” which it said was under Putin’s direct control. Around 20 Russian generals are thought to be leading the Ukraine invasion, and unexpected losses and communication problems have forced them into high-risk frontline positions. Ukraine claims to have killed 13,800 Russian servicemen since the invasion began Feb. 24.

    Read it at Daily Mirror

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/russi...fter-oleg-mitayev-killed-in-mariupol?ref=home