OT: World Politics
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mmm I wonder if it would have been better not to divert troops from defence to the wasteful Kursk offensive....
but @WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou tells me daily
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your guru Jack Todd deserted, why is he cool but somehow my decision bad?
MindzEye
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Serious question (which I know you won't answer because you're a bitch)....what is the functional utility to protecting lithium deposits in the Donetsk area during the war?
Let's assume that Ukraine doesn't do the Kursk offensive (which has been far, far more successful that armchair pseudo tankie dipshits like yourself would have ever predicted) and uses those resources to hold that region instead. Now what? Can't develop it during a war where it's a few KM from the front obviously. Even in the event of an actual armistice, which international firms are taking the risk in spending hundreds of millions to develop the site knowing that Putin could wake up in a few years and decide to restart the adventure, leading to at minimum a production halt and very potentially the loss of ownership?
A project of that scope requires political stability that Ukraine can only provide in that region in the event of victory in the war. There's entirely zero point in treating the protection of untapped lithium as a strategic goal when protecting it doesn't end the war, or make the deposit economically viable under current (or currently projectable) political conditions.
On the other hand, if Ukraine does what it feels it can to actually win battles instead of just bleed while holding territory, it stands a much better chance of either 1) Exhausting Russia into a collapse of it's fighting force or 2) Forcing Russia into accepting terms that include ceding at least some current territorial control.
Pseudo tankie dipshits laugh at the possibility of either, but Russia is struggling far more than they want to admit. 21% interest and rapidly increasing corporate bankruptcies, banks offering up to 30% interest on short term deposits, the Russian central bank announcing on telegram today that rumours of deposit freezes were unwarranted (lol...wait a few months), declining railway freight capacity due to sanctions, cost of borrowing, and rolling stock maintenance issues. Russia is mid collapse and there's not much anyone can do about stopping it. What that means out the back end is up for discussion, but 2-3 yr old predictions of a mid 2025 collapse of Russia's ability to field a fighting force are looking pretty prescient right now. Ukraine's only strategic imperative should be to aid that collapse along and reclaim as much territory as possible when it occurs.
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WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
I will get banned again soon, worry not.
Because you've decided in advance, and not for yourself but for your kid, that he won't fight no matter how just the cause. Todd was motivated by his conscience. You are simply motivated by self-interest and, like Fred Trump and George HW Bush, are willing to use your wealth to exempt your kid from having to fulfill his obligations as a citizen. You're happy to let the less fortunate fight and die to save your investment portfolio, though.
And if we lose, you will be first in line to apply for Quisling status.
good to know if mine makes the decision to jump on the plane, you will be cool with it.
You also want the elites to run the country while the poor do as they are told... Applies to fighting in an unwinnable war too
don't worry though, when I'm in the new order's security division, I will protect you from arrest as I know you are a harmless echo chamber meme sharing slactivist
You also want the elites to run the country while the poor do as they are told... Applies to fighting in an unwinnable war too
don't worry though, when I'm in the new order's security division, I will protect you from arrest as I know you are a harmless echo chamber meme sharing slactivist
because I enjoy trying to save him from himself
lecoqsportif
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Reads like an Onion headline.
axlsalinger
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MindzEye
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Working on it.
wiseguy1
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half of them come here to work on our farms and half of us go there for winter vacation
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
I will get banned again soon, worry not.
If you think crime in the big cities is bad here, go to Mexico City and see how long it takes you to be relieved of your wallet and phone at gunpoint.
worm
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So the same as USA
MindzEye
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When was the last time you were in Mexico City?
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
I will get banned again soon, worry not.
I have a friend who lives there. She's been robbed at gunpoint (once while sitting inside a taxi when a bandito pulled up beside her on a motorcycle and stuck a gun through the open window) about a half a dozen times in the last 5 years.
The first time it happened she reported it to the police, who basically blamed her for getting robbed and then just left her stranded in the same neighborhood where she was jacked with no money or phone. It's become nearly routine for her now.