Thread: Stupid Shit in Kyiv
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03-01-22 19:52 #164
Posts: 242Originally Posted by Jmsuttr [View Original Post]
As for invading, there is no easy way to stop insurgency without horribly brutal tactics, so what I would have done (after knocking out Ukrainian air defenses) is establish a Russian controlled corridor between Chernobyl and Transnistria (between Kyiv and Zhytomyr) avoiding large towns, thus surrounding Ukraine on all sides (blockade of Black Sea ports). Maintain that corridor clear by any means necessary (artillery and air response to attacks, periodic fuel air bombardment of corridor itself, landmines), allow civilian traffic to go west but not east, then just wait. Use professionals to establish and maintain the corridor, use conscripts to launch diversionary attacks elsewhere. Assuming the corridor idea is feasible, thus is far less risky and destructive than entering cities.
My regular left Kyiv for her village 100 km away immediately after the invasion, where she has family. Other than some shortages in stores, no signs of war near her village.
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03-01-22 17:01 #163
Posts: 2041Originally Posted by Jmsuttr [View Original Post]
Your thoughts on the Ukraine situation are very insightful. I think Putin's days as the head of Russia are limited. Putin is launching a new cold war. 2022 is a much different time and place then 1948. Russians are now more linked to the West. Modern communications make closing off a country much more difficult. These will be dark days for the Russian economy.
Putin's future is in the hands of the military leadership on whether they will support a coup. Economic pressures will rally the citizenry. The soldiers have mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers. From what we hear, Putin is isolated and has perhaps psychotic yearnings for the past. Russia likely can't project its power like the days of the old Soviet Union. I'm not sure he is inspiring confidence.
The Russia-China thing seems to be a little joke for the Chinese. I'm sure they enjoyed Putin poking the West and challenging Western hegemony. However, it remains to be seen that the Chinese even believed Putin would invade the Ukraine. China might be more self-sufficient than Russia, but they are also very much more interlinked with Western economies. While China might relish a Taiwan that they view as China, they have never been as aggressive as the former Soviet Union in projecting military power around the globe. So it's debatable whether they view Putin's desire to cobble back the Soviet-Russian empire favorably.
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11-02-21 15:49 #162
Posts: 1930Originally Posted by DramaFree11 [View Original Post]
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11-02-21 00:36 #161
Posts: 2793L. M whenever you want to go let me know, but that require you getting off your computer and stop complaining. Lived there done that. You were also invited to MYT, but you never went. You just complain and try and get others in trouble. You can read my reports everything is well documented.
Yes, I talk about the decline of Kiev, but I also speak of other destinations that are better. I also compliment others when they write great reports. You might want to do the same.
Sooner or later Admin will figure out you game, you are just a big trouble maker and extremely jealous. I am in MTY every second weekend, having a great time, something you know very little about.
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11-01-21 17:17 #160
Posts: 1930Originally Posted by DramaFree11 [View Original Post]
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11-22-20 01:21 #159
Posts: 2793Originally Posted by Stevie69 [View Original Post]
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11-22-20 00:07 #158
Posts: 332Nooooo
Please, the first meeting is one drink at 8 or 9 PM in the evening, too late for dinner, and early enough to head to your place if you hit it off or she is a (semi) pro. AIf, after one drink, things seem okay, buy another round. Make sure YOU order the drinks, and pay each drink immediately after you get it (just in case you have to leave suddenly, you tell the waiter / bartender). After 3-5 drinks, either close the deal and head to your place or, if she is really a nice girl, agree to meet for a walk in the park the next day.
I had good experiences with some nice girls, really marriage material girls, who are so concerned with being categorized as gold-diggers that they refuse to accept anything! After 2 hours of conversation, I have to nearly force them one girl to let me buy her a coffee, and another one to accept 75 UAH for her trip back to her city.
Originally Posted by SFNative [View Original Post]
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11-21-20 23:56 #157
Posts: 332Just go along with it.
After her "is it a problem?" message, you should have just agreed to meet her for lunch where she wanted and then gone to McDonald's for lunch. While biting into your DOuble McCheese, you would have started to get her desperate and then angry messages.
Originally Posted by ShawMan74 [View Original Post]
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11-21-20 23:34 #156
Posts: 332So, everyone?
"Professional or otherwise". So, every man who is not in a relationship and 100% faithful?
Originally Posted by Riina [View Original Post]
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06-02-20 05:30 #155
Posts: 1222Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
When the virus was first recognized by a doctor in Wuhan they silenced him. Their explanation was that he was unnecessarily creating panic, thinking or just hoping he was wrong and it would go away. He was right, they were wrong.
It took off and spread outside China.
From there it came down to how different countries dealt with what was a seriously contagious pandemic. Some, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany and Thailand to mention some recognized the danger and took measures to contain it, some didn't until it was too late the UK, and the US being among those that delayed and are now paying a high price in lives lost.
To blame China for how it started and why it wasn't contained is justified. To blame China for the failures of other countries to take it seriously is not justified. They had choices and made the wrong ones.
Let's be real. The current China bashing is mostly political particularly where there are pending elections.
Finding an enemy to fear is tried and tested from the Jews in Hitler's Germany to disease invested hoards of rapist immigrants in Trump's Americas. Sadly it works. Too many want to point the finger rather than look in the mirror.
On China's growing influence, it's real. One can argue the merits of accepting their aid but there will be consequences when payment comes due.
Trying to find countries to visit which are not in one way or another not already under this influence is going to get harder and harder.
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06-01-20 17:11 #154
Posts: 5436Originally Posted by NattyBumpo [View Original Post]
BTW, you are welcome to visit the American Politics room any time to grandly refute anything I've written that you seem to think is not based on fact.
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06-01-20 17:09 #153
Posts: 3040Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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06-01-20 17:06 #152
Posts: 5436Originally Posted by NattyBumpo [View Original Post]
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06-01-20 16:30 #151
Posts: 3040Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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06-01-20 15:41 #150
Posts: 5436Originally Posted by LittleBigMan [View Original Post]
Therefore, anything he said about it after early January, such as, "It's one person coming in from China, It's going to be just fine, We've got it totally under control, This is their (the Democrats) new hoax, China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus, The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency, It will all work out well, In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!", and on and on and on was a confirmation of China's lies, known to be lies by the President of the United States, for the entire world to accept. That includes lying to you, me, Fauci, Pelosi, Biden, everyone on the planet who was not in on those classified meetings with Trump from early January on and privy to his Presidential Daily Briefings during that time.
I would argue Trump's lies about it in his position as POTUS were ultimately more damaging to more countries around the world and certainly to the USA than Xi's because, historically speaking at least, the rest of the world would be inclined to believe the USA would not stand by and allow lies to go unchallenged much less repeat and confirm lies coming out of China about something so potentially disastrous to so many. But, apparently, this time we did.
2 months in the dark: the increasingly damning timeline of Trump's coronavirus response.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ingly-damning/
Early January: Intelligence officials begin offering ominous, classified warnings about the virus to Trump in the Presidents Daily Brief. The warnings will persist into February.
Early January: In a report to the director of National Intelligence, a State Department epidemiologist warns that the virus is likely to spread across the globe and could result in a pandemic, and the Defense Intelligence Agencys National Center for Medical Intelligence comes to the same conclusion, per the New York Times.