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That was a nice one Oire. Well, USSR decided to put nukes in Cuba after finding NATO nukes in Turkey, to remove the nukes USA made a secret pact of removing the nukes from Turkey in exchange for USSR removing it's missiles from Cuba. This was revealed only years later from the public. Russia is not going against the nukes because current technology allows NATO country nukes to strike any position of the planet from anyplace, they don't need to push the nukes next to Russia, USA have nukes in Western Europe military bases and it's enough to just destroy main russian cities in a few minutes with no problems, UK and France have it's own nukes and can destroy Moscow anytime. The problem here, and now I will play the Russia's lawyer (well I am really a lawyer after all), is about cultural identity. Ukraine is in fact a fiction created by Lenin to make USSR. The West when USSR begun to collapse begun to spread it's soft power to Ukraine to create a totally distinct identity, approaching them to liberal democractic votes, FEMEN for example was the most powerful feminist activist movement from the world with members in the entire planet and begun in Ukraine. They split from USSR because they have been westernized by the cultural power of the West. About the Ukrainian government, it's as corrupt as Russia, it's not a full autocracy but like Russia it's a country dominated mainly by economic oligarchy. What Putin wants is the Little Russia back and what The West wants is not Ukrainian freedom but the westernization of Eastern Europe, well in fact the Western project is mainly the westernization of the entire planet. Russia don't have soft power, it's power is hard power, tanks, fighters, soldiers and some reserves of natural gas and oil, Putin just have these cards on the table and choose to try to prevent Ukraine westernization by a full destruction of the country in a old fashioned annexation war. It failed even if Russia conquer Ukraine, the cost of the victory and Russia reputation will give Russia a ridiculous pyrrhic victory, and a hard military victory because the best or second best army in the world is on trouble to fight an army that was with mostly outdated equipment to fight receiving military support from the west, to make things worse Ukrainians honored the slavic tradition of never giving up a fight don't matter the odds, just as Russia did on WW2, there was even elder people going to join the resistance along with woman under the siege of Kiev. The extreme hubris of Putin made him subestimate the capacity of a people to resist, USA learn this on Afghanistan but he did not learn from other people mistakes. If Putin just keep Russian army nearby Ukraine and don't attack he would have the effect he wanted, to isolate Ukraine from the West, the problem is that Russian army along with all Russian institutions are weakened by extreme corruption and the data Putin received about his army was far overestimated, they are having problems with keeping oil supply lines on Ukraine and they are oil producers, the soldiers thought that it would be just a military exercise not a full scale war. And Ukraine now is joining European Union, making any Russian invasion an attack on Europe itself and opening a real possibility of Ukraine joining NATO later. I generally thought that Vladimir Putin was strategically the most intelligent leader currently in power, I was wrong, Vladimir Putin subestimated the coesion capacity of The West and it's influence and now even China is not so allied with them against the West anymore. And let's go, Putin probably still an atheist lying that he became a conservative orthodox Christian, everybody knows that Russian Orthodox Church is mostly submited to Russian government, it's a spiritual power being mostly commanded by secular power, and in USSR it was full of KGB agents installed there and probably still with Russian espionage in positions of power inside, I love Russian literature, culture and history, the politics is the problem of that beautiful country and I believe most Russians are totally against the war. |
That is very perceptive. I have been saying for a long time that the roles have reversed: NATO is now in the East and the Warsaw Pact in the West. |
Daily Readings, Ho̔milíes, and Prayers - 04월/13日/2022ياشby Coincidentally, this Wednesday falls on the 13th. I'm not into superstition AHAHA. This year is a Wednesday the 13th, and there is no superstition with that. In Christianity, Holy Wednesday commemorates the Bargain of Judas by a clandestine spy among the disciples. It is also called Spy Wednesday, or Good Wednesday (in Western Christianity), and Great and Holy Wednesday (in Eastern Christianity). In Western Christianity many churches of various denominations observe the Tenebrae service on Holy Wednesday. Let us begin today's Daily In the name of the Father, ✠ God our loving Father,  English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK) 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱'𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: my son, my son This might be the shortest reading this week. This is the shortest, but it is the most fruitful. The story of Absalom and David is very dense and compact with emotion. I don't want to tell the story because I want you readers to read it. This short passage of grief that David showed is already heavy to have reflections. David in here is not the David with Goliath. They are the same being, same person, but their personality shifted. David (since Goliath) had matured. God who so is full of love, fathered the entirety of creation. In this easter vigil, we will again listen the reading of Exodus. Among the readings, God rejoices over his favoured nation, Israel. But on the other hand, God cries for the death of the soldiers in the sea, for they too are God's children. In the Passover that we attended, it was explained to us that Judas sat on the seat of honour. The priest, Fr. Chito, explained the meaning behind it, that God continues to extend His hand and care for him, showing him the best, even if Judas Iscariot will come to betray Him after. And that is the message of Spy Wednesday. Judas is tempted by the devil to betray Jesus. He was the chosen one to fulfill the prophesy and the law. Jesus continued to show His love for him even if he would betray him. Now at the end of the Passover celebration, there was a line in the Holy Gospels that says, «Satan entered him,» or the «evil spirit entered him.» Which was not a choice but the effect of Sin. When we succumb to temptation, we allow ourselves to be touched and used by the Devil. And with each sins that we do, we destroy ourselves every step of the way. Judas was a traitor because he was given the chance to say no to the pieces of money handed to him. Now that he became a faithful advocate of the devil, Judas was then the one used by God to fulfill the suffering and death; the passion of Christ. Yesterday, I had a bad headache, apart from that I was emotionless. I felt no love, no care, no joy. I only felt emptiness, meaninglessness, lost, doubt, and despair. This heart of mine was cold, stony, and locked. I felt so much grieve that I didn't want to continue yesterday's Daily. But still I did, amidst the coldness of my heart, and the pains my migraine gave me. As I write, I forget the migraine, and found joy again. Remembering what its cause is, I remember it is my succumbing to the lascivious arms of temptation. We all sin everyday, these sins are venial. Some sins are not venial and grave. Each sin has its effect. David's loss of Absalom is a result of his sin with Bathsheba wife of Uriah. What made Judas' sin much worse is his inability to accept defeat and have the strength to ask forgiveness from the risen Christ. We looked back again, as our lesson in Classic Literature, the novel of Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart. Remembering Okonkwo (I wouldn't give much more spoilers to it) I wonder if it was the same motive for the act. That Judas and Okonkwo feared to be part of their group, and found no hope for his sin. More so might have they thought that nobody had loved them. But this is a lesson for all of us sinners alike. We are sinners but our God who loved us sent His begotten and favoured Son, whom for our salvation became the ultimate Passover lamb. Even if we sinned, we are loved by God. And our sins doesn't mean the end for us, it means that God has more to do in us, and we will experience more of God in us throughout our lives. And those around us who will be sad. Those around us, our friends. We would miss out on a lot of things in the world. And suicide would be running away from your problems. It would not solve your problems, rather it would create much bigger ones to those around you. And having a hard time in life doesn't mean it is the end. Everyone too is having a hard time, and the best thing we can do is support each other through. Please contact the Suicide Prevention hotlines if you are feeling bad. https://ibpf.org/resource/list-of-international-suicide-hotlines/ 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫: In a special way, let us pray for all the sinners in the world. God who wept at the death of Your children, do guide their souls to heaven. They too are our siblings through Christ. Many of them Lord, as living people in this world, don't realize the vanity of the pleasures of the world. More so I ask Your divine power to strengthen and lead them more. I ask that You, the Divine Shepherd, to carry each sinning lamb and sheep because our own feet have failed us, like our flesh succumbing into temptation. Clear our minds to see the goodness, free us from the darkness of despair. Shine forth Your light that we celebrate in the resurrection. All of this we ask in the Mighty name of Jesus, God who was man, who with the Father and the Holy Spirit make up the everlasting Triunity. Amen. In the name of the Father, ✠ ℟. Thanks be to God! Credits: |
Western propaganda? Please my friend don't be so fast on making such affirmative. If you read my post again, I made a defense of Putin reasons, that his reasons are not non-sense and in fact are rational, but don't justify the carnage of Russian army and the corruption of Russian government. Russia now entered along with USA in the list of war criminal countries, Russia was just more explicit. I just point Russia strategic mistakes. Russia and the West are dirty empires and I know that very well. There are no heroes here, and almost nobody takes CNN or BBC seriously in Brazil, we were victims of western imperialism too, our dictatorship was backed by CIA. I just plead for empathy for the Ukrainian people, it is the only thing that really matters now, their lives, they are being used by both sides of the war. |
Response time is essential in calculating one's nuclear strategy. If the first nuke leaves Ukraine rather than Scotland there is less time in minutes to respond with retaliatory nukes. Winning a nuclear war is being able to annihilate the enemies entire country while they can only annihilate half of yours. |
Well, that's a factor that is well calculated, anyway we don't know the speed of Russia and USA missiles, what we know is that there is US nukes in Germany and Turkey. Put nukes inside Ukraine will be seem as an act of war, the NATO personnel is not so foolish, in fact if they want a provocation they would probably put the missiles on Poland or Baltic countries, anyway nuclear war with Russia against USA or Russia against EU countries will end in the destruction of everybody, Russia may face Europe and USA alone and any nuclear strike on EU or America will end up with all nuclear states and US nukes to answer, in fact this will destroy the planet. I don't believe in such thing as "only annihilate half of yours", the economy, industrial, communication and food logistics will be totally destroyed and the world outrage will not be so kind with both sides of such sort of war. Russia will have it's western part totally destroyed, the eastern side may even survive but they would not have the central government, they may answer with nukes but who will govern Vladivostok? USA have nukes in Alaska too. It is a nobody wins scenario, Putin made threats about nukes being ready to be deployed, it only accelerated western sanctions, and now the best scenario for Russia is a phyrric victory. Thinking coldly, if I was Putin I would work to put a puppet head of state again in Ukraine instead of a direct military action that devastated Russia reputation more than US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, just annex a country is too old fashioned, the lack of Putin cunning in this was devastating to Russia, despite not liking world leaders I always thought that Putin was the more intelligent and cunning leader in power around, but he basically destroyed his own country against a decadent West. While this happens Xi Jinping appears as the smartest leader around, getting more power and profit to China independent of what will succeed, China still there raising it's hard and soft power and basically buying most lands on Africa and Latin America. |
Happy Easter! Oire, Prudentias, and Quebec le beau |
Happy Easter. Christ is risen! Oire, Prudentias, Kordavail, and Fisimennland |
Speaking of crocodile tears... https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/pentagon-spokesperson-john-kirby-chokes-up-while-discussing-depravity-of-putin-s-ukraine-invasion/ar-AAWM0gE Not breaking up over any horror his country and allies did ever. Imperial psychopathy. ***** In other news Britain wants to send tanks to Poland so the Poles can send their own tanks into Ukraine. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-says-britain-could-26776447 Britain started WWII over Poland's sovereignty and promptly handed Poland over to the Soviets at the end of it. |
I am not Pro-NATO, and I understand our anti-British stance my friend but honestly we are dealing with an autocrat that is reaching Moldova, bully Sweden and Turkey invading it airspace and constantly hide behind their nuke war, as if it is not enough Putin threatened the use of nuclear weapon and deployed nuclear missiles, warheads and ICBMs in a megalomaniac sociopath act. I understand that the expansion if NATO to Eastern Europe and even the Russian border, with missiles pointed to them is a bullying by itself too, and that USA and Western Europe did what Russia did far more times, I understand the hypocrisy, the problem is that we need to stop the mad czar of Russia. Russia became as imperialistic as the British Empire on it's peak, I don't like NATO and I know UK and USA games but Putin must be stopped, and in fact we must support sending military equipment to Ukraine this way, Russia will not stop if they win, if they get confident about their power they will claim the rest of Georgia, the independent countries that were part of the ex-USSR and Russian Empire, Moldova, Armenia, Uzbekistan, part of Turkey and after they will play another "Music to invade Poland" to make WW3 official. We saw it before you know? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtRCTc2cxrA |
Nous? What's this nous? I am not part of any collective anti Russian movement. Hardly. Compare the sizes of the two entities. Much better than German techno that. |
I am not against Russian people, I am against Russian government. It is not about size it is about attitude and power, the British Empire wanted to conquer territory for economic exploitation or to put undesired people and criminal. Russia seems to don't try so much to give an excuse, it's empire for the sake of being an empire. And Russia unlike UK today don't hide behind a nuke war deploying and threatening to use it as if it is a trivial thing to intimidate the planet. I am not saying that the British Empire was a lesser evil than Russia but Russia may do far more evil and even destroying the planet. You may hate UK but it don't means that you hate scottish, welsh and english people. |
Hitler was a Jew! This is funny. Hitler's grandmother Maria Anna Schicklgruber worked as a servant at a Rothschild chateau no less. She was then sent home a couple of months pregnant. Hitler may have been an illegitimate Rothschild. Stranger things have happened, or possibly haven't. |
I made the following comment over 6 years ago on the now woke region "The first abortion facility will be opened here within the the term of the next government. It will likely be part of the national maternity hospital." Ireland's new maternity hospital will have all the abortion facilities one could wish for, as well as all the transgender stuff one expects in a modern maternity hospital. https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/0504/1295918-national-maternity-hospital/ I'll be surprised if a single child is ever born in the place. |
I don't understand how there will be abortion in Europe if there is not even pregnancy. |
The legalization of abortion in Brazil now is certain, our current president, a president that rely a lot on religious populism will probably lose the elections, even if he gets reelected the next that will come after him will legalize abortion, the main opposite candidate that were president before never touched the abortion issue even being a left-winger because he knew the political cost, but it was another era, the country is secularizing, and the legalization of "reproductive rights" is the "Holy Grail" of the feminist movement here that gained extreme power and thanks to our crazy president now are more popular than ever, religion is not yet obscene at all but throw an religious argument to justify your position on any issue is, you just can't say that you are against abortion because you are a Christian or you will be considered a obscurantist. Just to make things worse, Brazil reached below replacement birth rates some years ago and the pandemics just make it worse, the feminist laws made marriage and even unions an irrational behavior for men, most of men don't even want to get a girlfriend anymore, me included, it's not that they became MGTOWs, it's because women may do everything with you and you can't even defend yourself while even a little offense may be considered a criminal act making you lose half of everything you have, being expelled from your own house if you only have one (more than 90% of Brazilian population is on it), you may imprisoned if you don't pay the fee to the woman even if you don't have money and any income, and if you have children you will see the children maybe 2 or 3 hours per day and the woman choose a day were you are working or tired and a lot of times don't bring the children for the father to see giving ridiculous excuses that are mostly accepted by judges that indulge on judiciary activism. At least we have our Spanish language speaking neighbors to immigrate and the African people that came here are mostly from Portuguese speaking countries like Angola, as we they were not our colonies they don't have that resentful feeling they have against Europeans and the best of it, they are not crescent moon people. |
Good and Gentle God, |
Tucker: This is about attacking Christianity |
Abortion is Hypergamy |
You're right: Putin has banned all the opposition parties, adversarial TVs, he has arrested the leaders of the opposition, apart from seeking to commit cultural genocide against those who speak different ethnic languages in Russia. He has also taken money from foreign interests in order to have Russia used as a platform for external plans. Wait... No, that was someone else... Sweden has never been perturbed ever since they have been neutral. Should they wish to join NATO, then they make themselves a target. Ah yes, Turkey. That innocent country who declared no sanctions on Russia, and whose troops are currently occupying 3 foreign nations. Poor turks... Like the megalomaniac sociopath acts of every US president and USSR leader since the 1950s? Besides, which alliance was it that refused to dismantle after the end of Cold War and kept surveillance flights in the edge of the opponent's airspace? Interestingly, I see Putin as the only calm, moderate rational and adult person in the room. It is the western hypocritical hysterics that I fear. Prove it. Which war, so far, has been started by Russia and on gratuitous reasons? Why? Why help Ukraine and not any other country at war? Why not send arms to Russia, for that matter? Like they didn't stop in Georgia? Remind me: when exactly was it that Russia took the Georgian capital and annexed the country? ------------------ I have previously warned you about relying on the lügenpresse of the West. You did not rely on them with Trump, with Covid but now you believe that TVs and newspapers that have NO ONE defending the Russian version of events, are reliable... Will you be singing Greta Thurnberg's praises, next?... Have you completely suspended your critical thinking? Why is this artificial moral panic more worthy of credibility than all the previous ones? Do you even attempt to follow any pro-Russian media? Para de ler os merdia histriónicos! |
Calm down dude, being against Russia don't means being pro-West. We may not be create a false dichotomy here, don't side with one don't means we are on the other things. The problem here is simple, it's an annexation war against a people that mostly don't want to be part of Russia, ok you may claim the separatist republics, but it's clear that their intention is, or that least was, to just put a flag into Kiev (I don't care about "Kyiv".). On Georgia they just wanted territory inhabited mostly by people identifying themselves as Russians, I had a friend of that era, she was Georgian, she got a British husband in the internet and married with him in UK, basically everything in Georgia according to her is abandoned, ancient bibles from medieval period that were part of their history may be found fallen out there, some people really believe that Georgia is not good at all about being a country and decided to separate and being part of Russian Federation, ok, that was totally ok. Oh, she today is a staunch pro Globalist progressist, probably had fallen tears when UK abandoned EU. About Ukraine it's different, there was two regions claiming to be Russian, not Ukrainian, and they got these regions, they stopped there like in Georgia? Absolutely not, they made bases in the north and begun to march to Kiev. This is not about cultural differences, this is just a war of conquest, they try to put a puppet into Ukraine to keep the country in their influence but are resentful that the West get influence there, and now they are just destroying an already problematic country in a costly war. Russia may have the second best army in the world, but their GDP is lower than Brazil and the country even before the embargo were beginning to face economic problems, this war is so convenient. Vladimir Putin being the most sane person in the table? Let's go man, considering the rest of the table this is not that hard you know it. The new czar is just the less insane people on the table, but he still extremely insane, he rely so much in his own army, so confident in the cowardice of the West doing anything (ok this was a surprise to me too) that he is going to a Pyrrhic victory in the best scenario. Putin have a regime supported by oligarchs that are suddenly disappearing, his cabinet are filled by corrupt know nothing people that are there just because they are always loyal to him, his army had far less supply lines than expected because of the corruption of his own regime, Lavrov loves to talk about how useful his nukes may be and that they are prepared for MAD. "Oh but NATO they did it too". Of course they did it! A lot of times, my ex-country on NS was destroyed by the moderation basically because I protested Hagia Sophia being declared a mosque again by the populist Turkish government, I have nothing against Turkish people but I was considered islamophobic for it and I lose Atrides. NS was always into political correctness, but now they get really "woke", what happened even to the other catholic region in an example of that. Turkey helped Uzbekistan against Armenia in a 2020 war that nobody except Russia cared about, Uzbekistan won the war against a Russian backed Armenia, the Russians deployed some army units but the border crisis still ongoing. About USA, UK and the rest of Europe, we don't really need to remember everything, it would take days, the problem I have with Russian Government is that his leader is megalomaniac at best and did the worst option available. With that army it was just a question of liberating the two supposed separatist provinces, keeping an army over there and if NATO mess with that just put the army on the ground if they dare to put Ukraine into the Western alliance, Crimea still on their hands anyway, they had nothing to lose, but the Russian mastermind go beyond that, they just put the world that was already on a global crisis in a darker scenario, entire cities destroyed, millions evading the country, NATO did it too I know it, but Russian war in any issue is justifying it? I understand Vladimir Putin needs to keep NATO at bay and that Ukraine is historically and culturally connected to Russia, Russia begun in Kiev not Moscow, but Ukrainian people, despite their globalism, despite their full westernization, despite giving birth to FEMEN that is one of the most radical and influential feminist organization in the planet (actually they are settled in Paris, I don't expect less from France at all) they still have the right of being and independent nation, both from the West and Russia. If this was just about that two separatist regions, I would have no problems with Russian Government, but it's clear this is about destruction and annexation war. World is already a dark and gloomy crapsack place, we are already on an almost dystopia, we don't need to spread even more darkness on it. E Brasileiros escrevem em português, mas entendi seu espanhol apesar do erro gramatical pois os idiomas são muito semelhantes, sobre os "histriônicos de m***a", a BBC e o Le Monde não tem tanta influência aqui, a nossa maior rede de televisão que vive influenciada pela Reuters e pela CNN, a maioria aqui felizmente não vê mais TV, ocasionalmente eu vejo na nossa maior rede de televisão o clima em Nova Iorque como se isso fosse realmente importante para o espectador típico da emissora que provavelmente nunca foi ou vai ir lá, as fotos de neve em NY são bonitinhas, quando vejo até parece que a maior cidade americana não é uma cidade disfuncional, depressiva e decadente de todas as formas possíveis, um lugar horrível de se viver. |
TROPHYLESS! https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/eintracht-frankfurt-beat-rangers-on-penalties-to-win-europa-league/news-story/84ca08bf56fd7d548ff82d580f5cfab6 |
The Germans winning at soccer, this give bad memories for most Brazilians believe me (except me, I remember playing the German anthem trolling people that were threatening to beat me in extreme wrath after a 7x1 defeat, I laughed a lot). Well for the first time in Brazilian history most people are not giving a damn about the World Cup, it is the elections between populist candidates that are the main issue. This time I am really missing the World Cup, people can't carry the Brazilian flag anymore because the left-wingers will assume that you are a government support right-winger and may answer with violence. |
About world Zeitgeist: The Russia vs Ukraine War: Everybody's fault and it's just Russia and NATO disputing with Slavic blood their influence area. The Western Civilization is falling due to basically forgiving that capitalism do not exists alone, the market is dependent on the culture of it's country and will push a destructive hype if needed to continue to profit, progressive ideas in a market economy transform progressism in a product in a pop culture. About conservatism: Instrumentation of God for political means, when God becomes a mean to an end, not an end on itself as it must be. About progressivism: Basically the same but with the spiritual vacuum on the West being replaced by the "myth of progress", the nuclear family, considered by a lot of people the "traditional" family (this would be an extended family) was made just to atomize even more people and weaken them, the experiment don't lasted even 2 centuries, it ended with total lack of any family or dysfunctional ones reaching to atomism were we most people are weakened as just individuals on dispair competing and using escapism like sex, drugs and mostly plain entertainment, always one inch from mental breakdown. The myth of progress don't substituted the spiritual vacuum very well, in fact made people to mentally collapse, the hostility to religion prevent this from even trying from being fixed because Christianity is considered an heresy to the "myth of progress". About Moon Crescent people: At least they care about family and if they don't have such warlike conviction against other would be good allies. About China: They will be the economic landlords for sometime but as they adopted since last century Western worst standards they became ultimate materialists, the decadence will be tragic. About the six pointed star people: I am not against them, in fact I find they really interesting. The problem is when I will have the right of criticizing them without being look like a certain Austrian guy. About Africa: It never changed last centuries, sadly they continue being colonies, this time China is buying the continent. About Latin America: It is a mess, just with more European languages to make it easier to understand if you are a westerner, well for a long time we thought that we are somewhat west, we are divorcing from this vision, we are just the ex-colonies that did it wrong. About Brazil: Laughable. About North America: USA is just crumbling, Canada is an extension of Europe. About Western Europe: The true problem despite having good people, they defend and spread the Myth of Progress, they are decadent, with low fertility and spreading this to the entire planet. About Eastern Europe: It is basically the Russian vs. West playground and that's all. About Russia: They like to play the "alternative" comparing the West but in fact they adopted the worse from the West and get their rise and fall thanks to it. About the people of the katana: They just moved from their own sick culture to another and playing the price for it. About India: It depends on the region, but it's all screwed, they have problems with a now powerful China, have problems with poverty, are adopting western values and don't had any idea of their own way to solve it. About Oceania: It is basically a mess with UK and crescent moon colonies on it, oh there is Chinese military bases and US fleets there too. |
That is not true. The south and east of Ukraine are russophone and pro Russian. These were the 40% of people who voted for Yanukovych. Besides, Russia tried the diplomatic route several times and the West kept trashing all the accords it signed. If you didn't pay attention to western propaganda, you might've understood that: a) Russia is at war with Ukraine and the secessionist republics have not yet been liberated b) the attack on Kiev was not meant to conquer the capital, they did not even have enough men to attempt that. the point was to keep Ukraine's military in the west busy while they knocked out the country's military infrastructure and defences. once they achieved that and now that the ukrainians are incapable of mobilising forces around the country, they have withdrawn. nothing happened to Ukraine while it was neutral. once it was subverted by the West, it became a competition but not one for which Russia is responsible. It is PPP that counts and Russia is in the Top 10 economies in the world. The war is not convenient at all and indeed Russia will have to endure a small recession for the next couple of years, from losing the western markets. Fortunately, Russia has no debt and is well run financially, as the endurance of the Ruble demonstrates. o.O Russia's spending on military is on par with Singapore and South Korea so I'm not really sure what you are on about here. WHY should the West do anything? Besides there is such a thing as nuclear deterrent. The RATIONAL thing to do is for Russia to not attack the West and vice-versa. We'll see. The West is the one side which is isolating itself further and further... Again, your consumption of western propaganda is on steroids. Do you actually watch CNN 24/7? If his regime relies on oligarchs ..........why are they disappearing?......... This is of course nonsense coming from someone who clearly does not know the first thing about russian history. Putin's rise to power was made by crushing the oligarchs. As for the oligarchs, rather than trying to persuade them to flee Russia and come to the West, the moronic neocons are illegaly confiscating their property arbitrarily. It is not Russia that is becoming totalitarian, it is the West. Again, evidence of someone who knows nothing of the topic in question. Much to the contrary of Yeltsin, Putin brough very efficient and professional people to the government. One has but to look at the amazing job the Russian central bank has been doing with the ruble or the defence minister with the army. Very few russian casualties and very few civilian deaths in such a wide war. As for corruption, Russia and eastern Europe have always been corrupt, Putin notwithstanding. *facepalm* Dude, STOP watching propaganda. I can recommend better sources if you want. ...as they have been since the 1950s. |
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