Russo-Ukrainian War - 2022 Edition - Part3

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capd said:
I really don't care about Russia. I care about innocent people who have been used as cannon fodder.
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Same here. What I recognise is that Russia is killing thousands of civilians who aren't even being used as cannon fodder. They are just trying to survive through a war started by Russia.

Russia is the country that is bombing and destroying villages.
 
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I must have missed the posts you wrote where you have called out Russia for the same things you call America or Ukraine out for.

America invaded Iraq and stole their oil! Cue loads of shouting and anger.

Russia invaded Ukraine and stole their Natural Gas resources ... Silence. Like I could hear a pin drop on a fluffy carpet silence.
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I did not call murica out for it very loudly back then either. There was no point then and there is no point now.

All I do is point out how Ukraine brought this on itself... I am not "calling it out" and I am not attacking it.... I am not particularly angry either except a bit over the donbas affair.

The story of this war has not been completed yet, unlike you I am not pretending that it has.
 
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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rambo919 said:
I did not call murica out for it very loudly back then either. There was no point then and there is no point now.

All I do is point out how Ukraine brought this on itself... I am not "calling it out" and I am not attacking it.... I am not particularly angry either except a bit over the donbas affair.

The story of this war has not been completed yet, unlike you I am not pretending that it has.
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Wait, so Ukraine brought this on itself?

How the actual fsck did you get to that fscking retarded conclusion?
 
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Our Russia strategy has backfired​


The upshot is that the West’s economic war on Russia is generating tremendous blowback in the form of sky-high commodities prices and the mother of all inflationary shocks to the world economy. Just like imposing an economic blockade on Saudi Arabia is a recipe for self-harm, trying to economically strangulate Russia is a fool’s errand. The breakdown of Russo-Western relations has generated a food crisis, an energy crisis, and a broad-based inflationary shock the likes of which we haven’t seen since the oil price shocks of the Seventies. So, the Russo-Western confrontation is extremely costly for the world at large. Meanwhile, Russia’s coffers are overflowing from commodities exports. So much for the economic weapon.

It is not just that imposing costs on Russia is very costly to the West and the rest of the world. With Western opinion leaders fantasising about Russia after Putin, it pays to be clear-eyed about regime stability on both sides. Russia is what Jeffrey Winters calls a “Sultanistic oligarchy” — a political economy characterised, above all, by the need to temper conflict between oligarchs through the concentration of power in the hands of one man. China is also a Sultanistic oligarchy. The difference between Russia and China is that, while Putin faces a small and stable number of oligarchs, China’s oligarchy is constantly growing in size, wealth, and power. The stability of the Russian oligarchy endows the Putin regime with considerable stamina. No serious Russian analyst believes it to be at risk of collapse, no matter what the West dishes out.

The contrast with the West couldn’t be starker. The Biden administration and the Democrats look set to crash and burn on the shoals of inflation. The president’s approval rating has sunk below 40%. Democrats will almost surely lose control of Congress come November. Of course, other issues condition Democrat fortunes. But it can hardly be denied that the greatest threat to the Democrats is inflation. And inflation is at least partly under Putin’s control — he can turn the knob up and down to maximise the delivery of pain to the West.
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unherd.com

Our Russia strategy has backfired

Biden is more likely to be toppled
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More pivot in the media?
 
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unherd.com? Seriously, could you parade around your conspiracy theory tendencies anymore if you even tried?
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unherd is a conspiracy website?

I posted an article by the Guardian yesterday saying the same thing..... is that a conspiracy theory?
 
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Nicodeamus said:
unherd is a conspiracy website?

I posted an article by the Guardian yesterday saying the same thing..... is that a conspiracy theory?
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No, you posted an Opinion piece that was published on the Guardian.

And largely yes, Unherd would be classed as a conspiracy site because people like you lap up the crap they post as if its fact.
 
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