Post Aq3bO17RMgOcFCn2PI by dsmdexter@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #Aq3bNx0YeKVvUhXU7k by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-01-13T23:11:34Z
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"#Kremlin says new #US #sanctions will destabilize international #markets"😲😲😲My gosh, my dear man #Peskov, this sounds terrible!But...One moment, if I may, dear esteemed sir:You mean it's not the stupid mass murdering #ethnofascist #imperialist invasion destabilizing things?🤔🤔🤔Think on it, you piece of shitNo one but cranial-cavity-voided morons buy this simpleton "no, u!" reverse-victim-and-offender #gaslighting #DARVO shithttps://www.yahoo.com/news/kremlin-says-us-sanctions-destabilize-120523210.html#UkraineWar #Russia #Ukraine
(DIR) Post #Aq3bNxmll54vuE5zGq by tuban_muzuru@ohai.social
2025-01-13T23:18:23Z
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@benroyce ... and it was totally unnecessary. All Putin had to do, when he came to power, was keep his cronies happy. Put an economic marble on that terrain, it would roll straight to Moscow and St Petersburg. Russia could be amazingly wealthy. He would have friends.But he's such a shitweasel, incapable of thinking strategically. I don't give him six months more. His fall will be great.
(DIR) Post #Aq3bNyJ1p8snWHBkYK by mister_shade02X2@mastodon.social
2025-01-13T23:31:29Z
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@tuban_muzuru @benroyce I know it’s pessimistic, but I think Putin will only leave office when he dies of old age. There were people saying he would fall years ago. It keeps not happening.
(DIR) Post #Aq3bNz84lLiS4b4W7U by tuban_muzuru@ohai.social
2025-01-13T23:32:10Z
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@mister_shade02X2 @benroyce That's a bet I'll take. Putin will die of gunshot within two years at most
(DIR) Post #Aq3bNzmUL62g5vyn6u by dsmdexter@mastodon.social
2025-01-13T23:42:14Z
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@tuban_muzuru @mister_shade02X2 @benroyce Who will be pulling the trigger?
(DIR) Post #Aq3bO0WDb4ccNlNJOC by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-01-13T23:43:54Z
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@dsmdexter @tuban_muzuru @mister_shade02X2 some shadowy ghoul with a big paydayemployed by mechanisms of power in russia that recognize the weakness and sense opportunitythat's the way a mafia works, and russia is a mafia thugocracy
(DIR) Post #Aq3bO17RMgOcFCn2PI by dsmdexter@mastodon.social
2025-01-13T23:44:47Z
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@benroyce @tuban_muzuru @mister_shade02X2 I was wondering if he was thinking it could be self-inflicted.
(DIR) Post #Aq3bO1teTQxcejLXYO by tuban_muzuru@ohai.social
2025-01-13T23:51:28Z
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@dsmdexter @benroyce @mister_shade02X2 You could be right.
(DIR) Post #Aq3bO2aXtxGunlPnPc by dsmdexter@mastodon.social
2025-01-13T23:54:15Z
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@tuban_muzuru @benroyce @mister_shade02X2 As the walls close in.Just imagine if the West had actually been serious about the "sanctions" from the start.
(DIR) Post #Aq3bO38ZrQUgVJKySO by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-01-13T23:58:19Z
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@dsmdexter @tuban_muzuru @mister_shade02X2 the problem with that is if you go all in from the get go on economic sanctions, you have nowhere to go to if russia behaves even worsethe way to use economic sanctions is to gradually accumulate them if russia stays shitty, gradually roll them back if russia acts better, and clamp them down tighter if russia acts even worseit's not like firing a gun or setting off a bomb, there's huge inertia involved and you push and pull, harder or softer
(DIR) Post #Aq3bO46UGgPrV7Moq0 by tuban_muzuru@ohai.social
2025-01-14T00:00:59Z
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@benroyce @dsmdexter @mister_shade02X2 That's SOP for the West. It never works. It didn't break Saddam, it hasn't broken Iran, hasn't broken NoKo. Who has it broken.Ben, it's nothing but eyewash. Looks like they're doing something.
(DIR) Post #Aq3bO4pVZIQdkkQm0m by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-01-14T00:03:42Z
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@tuban_muzuru @dsmdexter @mister_shade02X2 i don't know what to tell you. economic sanctions do work and they are real. their effects just don't manifest in a way we can appreciate with dramatic flair. stop looking for dramatic stark effects on this topic (unless there's an economic collapse, which is a long way away, but even then, i'm wondering if you would admit sanctions would have played a roll in that, when they would have)
(DIR) Post #Aq3bO5WkyV1VusfJQG by tuban_muzuru@ohai.social
2025-01-14T00:10:34Z
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@benroyce @dsmdexter @mister_shade02X2 The current Ukraine war has become a war of attrition. Whiz bang gadgets don't win wars. I've heard all this before, those cheerful chuckleheads in Saigon on the Friday Night Follies, telling us how many Vee Cee they'd killed. We dropped more ordnance on Laos and Cambodia than all of WW2, German and Allied, including the nuclear weapons.This is becoming a Verdun, a lobster trap. Too little, too late.
(DIR) Post #Aq3bO6Ic6ZIwJJ3X16 by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-01-14T00:17:21Z
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@tuban_muzuru @dsmdexter @mister_shade02X2 that's a weird analogy to make, because the true analogy to the vietnam war is that russia is the usa and ukraine is vietnamand who won the vietnam war?
(DIR) Post #Aq3bO76F830GnEHANE by eva_chaos@mastodon.social
2025-01-14T00:52:24Z
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@benroyce @tuban_muzuru @dsmdexter @mister_shade02X2 That is absolutely not true. Vietnam was a direct consequence of russian ambitions that wrecked a country and we failed the information game. We fucked up, but ask any Vietnamese person in New Orleans how they felt about the Soviet cancer and they will tell you.
(DIR) Post #Aq3bO8At8GJU7vSOFk by benroyce@mastodon.social
2025-01-14T00:53:42Z
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@eva_chaos @tuban_muzuru @dsmdexter @mister_shade02X2 well yeahin 2025even 2000but not 1975
(DIR) Post #Aq3bO8zw4T98gFL9ou by eva_chaos@mastodon.social
2025-01-14T00:59:07Z
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@benroyce @tuban_muzuru @dsmdexter @mister_shade02X2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Vietnam#:~:text=Vietnam%20is%20a%20socialist%20republic,of%20the%20party%20and%20state.Communism sucked, it killed 65 million in China alone. We were trying to contain russia but we came at it late and ignorant and weak. That's precisely why I send money to Ukraine.
(DIR) Post #Aq3bODsJwD1fo4oe92 by eva_chaos@mastodon.social
2025-01-14T01:04:11Z
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@benroyce @tuban_muzuru @dsmdexter @mister_shade02X2 I'm not explaining myself well. Russia has been beating us on the information game since Lenin at least. They are beating us now.