Considering @loppar has been on the ground in Ukraine I am going to value his opinion much more highly over a speech from a psuedo-dictator attempting a desperate takeover (which is what it has been from the start) and definitely over yours.
He doesnât have the slightest clue what military tech is actually capable of
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You really just called an entire nation unintelligent and incompetentâŠway to go.
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Okay dudeâŠ
The inane posts definitely carry the imprimatur of he who shall not be named.
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Iâm not so sure, the guy in this thread has actually posted about lifting weights.
So many similarities, though. Especially the confidence. MMT is the key! Tanks are useless relics! Everyone is a misinformed rube except for me. And so onâŠ
I donât know he did state we have to pay interest on deficit defense expenditures- which is contradictory to MMT
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This is not electronic warfareâŠ
Never said this, Iâm just saying that the weapons systems youâre saying theyâve been given are not cutting edge. Helpful, yes - tremendously. Not enough to win.
IF you gave Ukraine true air support (F22s, F35s, ordinance of various capabilities), they could crush Russiaâs infrastructure such that they would be effectively useless. Send any idiot into a boxing ring with a Shotgun against Mike Tyson and the idiot will still win. Not sure what your point is here tbh⊠you donât know the weapons systems youâre speaking of and really donât have a clue as to what âadvancedâ means regarding weapons. Some of us do.
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@jcpjcp Why exactly did Russia invade Ukraine? Did it have anything to do with Nazis?
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We could just launch the B-2s from the Midwest (where they are stationed). They wouldnât even have to land and could take out pretty much everything.
Of course that may spark WW3âŠ
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Where in Russia do you live?
You mean $1.40
You would only be able to give 340 people 1.4 million.
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YeahâŠi used castoli math
my bad, 
deleted that post, lol
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Yeah, thatâs their thing. Russian explanation is the âirrational runaway slaveâ who doesnât have any agency and was tricked by. evil JoooâŠI mean the Poles into believing that alleged âfreedomâ is better that perpetual serfdom in the Great Russian World.
And then they act all surprised that Ukrainians are willing to die to get away from them.
Whatâs ironic about his statement is that, putting aside the horrors of war, Ukraine is now the most exhilarating place to be an engineer. They are the heirs of the Soviet engineering tradition, and whatâs going on there right now is simply incredible in terms of a human effort mobilization - from computer science freshmen to USSR-era heavy machinery workers. Twenty year old students making stuff on 3D printers and giving instructions to sixty year old grandpas on lathes and so on.
Itâs MacGyvering on a massive scale. And then thereâs the occasional Zoom call where a stunned American stares in silence after it was explained to him that yes, that impossible thing was actually put together as is already been on the front lines for a week,
What if I told you that the vast majority of Azov commanders are Russian speakers from the Donbas who before 2014 were advocating for an unified state with Russia? And whoâs a Russian? A person that speaks Russian? I donât think so. Zelensky still has mastered Ukrainian fully, for example.
If you going to hate an entire people at least do it properly.
Necessity is the mother of invention and when oneâs ass is quite literally on the line seemingly hard task become much more doable.
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Well, Malofeev styles himself as âGodâs oligarchâ, has (had?) crazy plans to build a theocratic/monarchical government in Russia, Europe and the US and in the past hired some ex-Fox News people to set up his rightwing Tsargrad TV (Tsargrad meanings Tsarâs city, old Russian name for Istanbul - if the evangelicals talk about Jerusalem, Russian apocalyptic theocrats talk about reconquering Istanbul as a prelude to the Day of Judgement).
Malofeev developed a sleek sales pitch custom designed for US culture wars which is more importantly accompanied by copious amounts of cash handouts, and many people in the US right/libertarian circle took the proposed deal. You get to the say what youâd say anyway, and some Russian dude hands you money for that, awesome.
He recently funded the âRage against the War Machineâ rally in DC where Tulsi and Ron Paul spoke and to my understanding the crowd was apparently the now normal red-brown-black alliance.
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They probably attacked and killed their own population centers and targeted civilians on their own to make the Russians look bad, right?
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For someone who doesnât care you seem to think you know a lot about the subjectâŠ
Only in that it gives the US a chance to see how far Putin is ready to go for something he wants.
You claim the former USSR has nothing to do with the current Ukraine situation, but Putin was powerful during the USSR era (former KGB agent). You really donât think he wants to see that Russia come back?
How would it affect us if we cowered in fear and offered no humanitarian or military aide in the face of Russian agression?