Stupid Shit in Kyiv

[Questner]

April Fool's Day. A professional holiday for the wretched jester and the spare macabre camarilla around the puppet.

[Paulie97]

Oh, and the 'provocation' BS is pure Russian propaganda. Ukraine never posed a threat to Russia. Ukraine simply wants to be left alone. And NATO, a defensive alliance of 30 countries, never posed a threat of offensive action against Russia. Consider that, at least prior to Russia's aggression, several NATO countries were on good terms with Russia and would NEVER have voted in favor of any NATO action against that country. Once again, Russia plays the faux victim as an all too transparent facade to excuse its own aggression.

No truer words have ever been spoken.

[Jmsuttr]

"Russia is losing its future. Aleksandr Auzan, dean of Economics at Moscow State University on the loss of human capital in Russia".

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/...C-0ZemysYtAAAA

The video clip is 1 min 18 secs in length, and Auzan tries to soften his dire predictions by saying "if" the brain drain doesn't continue in the same way it's been going. Unfortunately for him, and Russia, there's no evidence Putin has any intention of changing course. Which means the brain drain is likely to continue along its death-spiral course, taking with it the hopes of Russia's future (for years, possibly generations) to come.

If you watch the clip it's clearly a warning, albeit cloaked in academic language, about the negative consequences of the current policy path. And it's clearly coming from someone in a position to have in-depth knowledge.

Unfortunately for the professor, pointing out Putin's negatives usually results in negative consequences showing up at your own door. Let's hope he has enough in the way of connections and influence to avoid any untimely accidents.

[VinDici]

While a new Russian Foreign Policy doctrine has been revealed.

A new Chinese symbol depicting a snorting bug in the Kiev's bunker has taken shape:

Own goal, that's a RuZZian sucking chinese cock, LMAO.

The new foreign policy doctrine has been well understood as taking it in the ass from China from now onwards.

[Jmsuttr]

While a new Russian Foreign Policy doctrine has been revealed.

https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/fun...ments/1860586/

A new Chinese symbol depicting a snorting bug in the Kiev's bunker has taken shape:

Russia no longer controls its own foreign policy. Chairman Xi is now calling the shots.

If anyone doubts this, just look at reports about Xi's recent Russia visit. The deliverables were decidedly in China's favor while Russia received mostly platitudes.

Putin has become Xi's lapdog, and everyone knows it, even in Russia. Can't wait for Vladivostok to revert to Chinese ownership and control. Won't that be exciting?

[Jmsuttr]

The problem with your absolutism JM is the hypocrisy. You make the Hilter comparison but fail to mention that Putin unlike Hitler has nukes capable of destroying the world.

For all the venom you spit, when it comes to the chance of nuclear war, all of a sudden Putin is the most rational person on earth and as compassionate as Mother Theresa.

War mongers prodded and provoked Putin, and now you want to tell us how evil he is. Why the hell did you provoke him in the first place then? What does it say about you guys that you poked, prodded, and provoked the bear? That you are the good guys?

And now come back and tell me I am a Putin lover because honestly that is all you have left.

Whether he's put down by forces inside or outside Russia is of secondary concern. Or perhaps he'll just croak on his own. But a rabid dog needs to be gotten rid of or, at the very least, isolated until the disease kills them.

With Putin, the fact that he has nukes makes getting rid of him even more important. That's because his nuclear saber-rattling won't stop with Ukraine. It'll continue with respect to Poland, the Baltics, and whatever else LilliPutin decides he wants.

But let's talk about nukes, shall we? I've seen some interesting articles detailing the kind of meticulous maintenance, and periodic replacement of critical components, needed to keep ICBMs mission-ready. With what we've seen of Russia's military, so far, it's an open question as to how much of Russia's nuclear deterrent is operational.

But let's assume it's good to go. The next question is whether Putin has a,death-wish and, even if he does, whether those around him share that death-wish. Will the soldiers and sailors and airmen blindly follow a launch order? Especially when, according to Russia's own military doctrine, nukes are a last resort to be used only if the homeland is under attack? It's hard to predict how people will react to an order to conmence the apocalypse. Hesitation, refusal, and even revolt are all possibilities.

One other thing to consider is the will of Russia's de facto master, China. Xi isn't as reckless as Putin and China will not want to deal with the fallout (literal and figurative) of Putin's foolishness. I'm guessing Xi has plenty of spies close to the Kremlin who would sound the alarm if rabid-dog Putin started foaming at the mouth too much. If that happened, I'd be surprised if China didn't have contingency plans ready to go. Belarus, Kazakhstan, and other Central Asian countries have all been cozying up to China. They all have spy networks and contacts in Russia, and none of them has a death-wish. On this particular issue, I would argue that Putin is truly isolated. None of his internal or external allies are willing to die for him. And, if they suspect he's losing his shit, they'll likely move against him.

Oh, and the 'provocation' BS is pure Russian propaganda. Ukraine never posed a threat to Russia. Ukraine simply wants to be left alone. And NATO, a defensive alliance of 30 countries, never posed a threat of offensive action against Russia. Consider that, at least prior to Russia's aggression, several NATO countries were on good terms with Russia and would NEVER have voted in favor of any NATO action against that country. Once again, Russia plays the faux victim as an all too transparent facade to excuse its own aggression.

But that's fine. Because, unlike 2014, Europe and its allies now see Putin for the existential threat he is. It's a damn shame that the dog you love has turned rabid. But that doesn't change the fact that he absolutely needs to be put down.

P.S. One correction to the above: Finland's application to join NATO has received unanimous approval, so NATO will be a 31 nation alliance. And, with that one move, the presence of NATO on Russia's borders has greatly expanded. Putin is truly the best salesman for NATO membership who has ever existed!

[Questner]

While a new Russian Foreign Policy doctrine has been revealed.

https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/fun...ments/1860586/

A new Chinese symbol depicting a snorting bug in the Kiev's bunker has taken shape:

[Xpartan]

The ignorance of the average American is incredible, with his brain drunk on hamburgers and social media, a people of obese warmongers. Is the end of this filthy and infamous empire near, the dollar will collapse and you all will become like stray dogs digging for food in the garbage, your democracy? Death, blood, pain. These are all things that will happen to you very soon.

ROFL.

Kay: Did he say anything to you?
Edwards: Yeah, that the world is coming to an end.
Kay: Did he say when?

So when, you say, would be the right time to short the dollar?

Per favore compagno, don't leave us hanging.

[Xpartan]

Unfortunately this is not a fable from the bible, this is reality.

Some of you are smoking crack or are delusional. The latest today Bakhmut is about surrounded and should fall soon. Ukraine claims a resurgent push in the spring mud, yeah that will be interesting. As I said before this is over. Maybe not today or tomorrow but this is over. Even one of my girls this past week in Philippine's,we were watching US news and she knows very little about this or has very much education. She is looking at map and I could see her thinking. Hmm she says that little country is trying to beat that giant one, that is stupid. You are correct dear but many do not see what you see in 5 minutes.

Bakhmut isn't some kind of Stalingrad. It's a small town with almost no strategic value, and yet the Russians have been fighting for it for the last 9 months at the cost of 30 K dead soldiers. During that time they've advanced 15 miles! Russia's drive for Bakhmut is purely political, meant to demonstrate to their mad tsar that they can take something.

9 months, 30,000 dead, 15 miles. Any other country, their generals would've been court-marshaled for wasting soldiers lives, but Russians historically don't give a fuck about how much meat they throw into the grinder.

And they never have. Ever.

If Bakhmut falls (which is not at all predetermined), the Russians will be left holding ruins and facing new fortifications and defensive positions in all directions. There are 100's of Bakhmuts in Ukraine, and that's just on the left bank of the Dnepro, and the Ukrainians are willing to kill and die for every one of them.

Russia is doomed.

[Elvis 2008]

Putin is absolutely evil and all your moral relativism doesn't alter that absolute fact.

He's a murderer and the blood of Boris Nemtsov, and anyone else Putin saw as a rival or annoyance, is dripping from his hands.

He's a kidnapper and war criminal, as the ICC has correctly recognized with their issuance of an arrest warrant.

He's a genocidal maniac, as his minions strive to extinguish all things Ukrainian, simply because Ukraine doesn't want to be Russian.

He's an egotistical imperialist. And, since there's zero evidence that his evil appetite will be satisfied with Ukraine (just ask Poland and the Baltics), then the rational response is to eliminate the Putin-cancer before it metastasizes.

But hey, moral relativists like you probably have 'nuanced' views on issues like whether things like pedophilia are evil and wrong, eh? After all, maybe the pedo was 'provoked' by an unscrupulous and scheming child, right?

You don't have to be a black-and-white person to understand that there are truly evil people in the world. And you don't need to be a rocket scientist to recognize Putin as one of them. And you don't need to be a vindictive person to be happy when he finally gets what he deserves.

But here's what inquiring minds want to know: Will he end up like Hitler or Mussolini? We should start a betting pool on that!

The problem with your absolutism JM is the hypocrisy. You make the Hilter comparison but fail to mention that Putin unlike Hitler has nukes capable of destroying the world.

For all the venom you spit, when it comes to the chance of nuclear war, all of a sudden Putin is the most rational person on earth and as compassionate as Mother Theresa.

War mongers prodded and provoked Putin, and now you want to tell us how evil he is. Why the hell did you provoke him in the first place then? What does it say about you guys that you poked, prodded, and provoked the bear? That you are the good guys?

And now come back and tell me I am a Putin lover because honestly that is all you have left.

[Jmsuttr]

The ignorance of the average American is incredible, with his brain drunk on hamburgers and social media, a people of obese warmongers. Is the end of this filthy and infamous empire near, the dollar will collapse and you all will become like stray dogs digging for food in the garbage, your democracy? Death, blood, pain. These are all things that will happen to you very soon.

Putin, and all his sycophants, believed their own propaganda and thereby exposed their terminal weaknesses.

Russia went from having the (false) image of strength to being the laughingstock of the world. And it won't be long before they'll be printing rubles with the image of Xi on one side, and Mao on the other.

Just as with North Korea, Putin has doomed Russia to the fate of being a China-dependent failed state.

Nice going, Vlad! Would you like some fries with your dog-meat burger?

[VinDici]

'and I say to myself, What a wonderful world!

Yes, all the squirrel eating people in the West are very jealous.

[Oiste]

Putin seized Crimea and the Donbass by using a mix of Russian-backed (armed, supplied, financed) militias and regular Russian troops. The myth that Russian forces weren't directly involved is pure fiction, and has been exposed as such.

All of which means that the current war is merely an extension of the hostilities that began with Russia's 2014 invasion. No invasion = no hostilities = no deaths. Once again, the responsibility lands squarely on the murderous, imperialist thug called Putin.

The ignorance of the average American is incredible, with his brain drunk on hamburgers and social media, a people of obese warmongers. Is the end of this filthy and infamous empire near, the dollar will collapse and you all will become like stray dogs digging for food in the garbage, your democracy? Death, blood, pain. These are all things that will happen to you very soon.

[Jmsuttr]

'and I say to myself, What a wonderful world!

Will be when China reclaims Vladivostok and the other Eastern territories taken from them by Russia. And even more wonderful when Muscovy becomes a vassal-state that exists only to service the needs of its master, China.

[Jmsuttr]

This just shows your absolutism. The same government officials who were censoring the side effects of the vaccine were censoring Russia's POV with regards to the Ukraine war. That has been definitively shown in the Twiitter Files.

To your side, anyone who says Putin was provoked in this war must by definition hate Ukraine, despise democracy, and love Putin. It never occurred to an absolutist like you that if Putin were not provoked, all these lives would not have been lost and all this money been tossed down the drain. And the very fools who provoked Putin are the ones screaming the loudest for an unending war.

An absolutist like you sees a bad guy and a good guy. What I see are a bad guy and an even worse guy.

You are completely ignoring even the possibility that the Russians could get more competent leadership. That is absolute too.

You look at how much of the food, fertilizer, and energy the world consumes from Russia and Ukraine and say "Eh, no problem"? That is more absolutism.

That is not the question. Printing up money to buy weapons that are used to destroy things is inflationary. The Fed has raised rates at an unprecedented rate to deal with inflation as has the ECB. Banks lend out on the basis of 10:1 or so. It varies by bank and by country, but banks lend out $10 for every $1 of assets they have. Poor lending standards led to a worldwide inflation of assets in 2007. This time asset inflation occurred because of money printing with Covid. Banks have to reign in lending then, and that is when recessions and depressions occur. IMO spending money to shore up the financial system is a better use of money than continuing this war.

LOL. Wrong. You need to know that most people's primary asset is their home. The way you can calculate fair value on a home is price to income ratio. A rule of thumb is your home should be twice your income. If it is much higher than that, the asset price of housing and the institutions that made the loans and own mortgages are at risk. In Houston, that ratio is what it should be, around 2. https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/in/Houston.

In China's largest city of Shanghai, that number is 49. https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/in/Shanghai.

And prices of real estate are close to that number throughout China. You seem to think Chinese banks have a rock solid foundation when their foundation is paper.

And that perfectly describes your absolutist position. We are now talking about an area that is half the size of West Virginia, and there is no other way out than war and "victory"? Even if the cost is potential nuclear war, famine, an energy crisis, and economic collapse?

Even your base case scenario, all the potential problem areas I mentioned do not occur, your default position is that all the loss of human life is worth an area half the size of West Virginia and economically there is no way that is true. All that is left is some symbolic refrain in Ukraine saying "we stood up to Russia" which means nothing to all those who died. As General Butler would have said, at this point, this war is a racket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket.

Putin is absolutely evil and all your moral relativism doesn't alter that absolute fact.

He's a murderer and the blood of Boris Nemtsov, and anyone else Putin saw as a rival or annoyance, is dripping from his hands.

He's a kidnapper and war criminal, as the ICC has correctly recognized with their issuance of an arrest warrant.

He's a genocidal maniac, as his minions strive to extinguish all things Ukrainian, simply because Ukraine doesn't want to be Russian.

He's an egotistical imperialist. And, since there's zero evidence that his evil appetite will be satisfied with Ukraine (just ask Poland and the Baltics), then the rational response is to eliminate the Putin-cancer before it metastasizes.

But hey, moral relativists like you probably have 'nuanced' views on issues like whether things like pedophilia are evil and wrong, eh? After all, maybe the pedo was 'provoked' by an unscrupulous and scheming child, right?

You don't have to be a black-and-white person to understand that there are truly evil people in the world. And you don't need to be a rocket scientist to recognize Putin as one of them. And you don't need to be a vindictive person to be happy when he finally gets what he deserves.

But here's what inquiring minds want to know: Will he end up like Hitler or Mussolini? We should start a betting pool on that!