Comments by "Marc Joly" (@emjizone) on "Jake Broe"
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14:52 Russia has had tens of millions of opportunities to "make" the peace that would exist by default anyways, starting with not attacking anyone, for example, or not despoiling anyone, or not imposing acts of war on others completely unilaterally when everyone expected to trade with manners and live normally.
Every second that goes by without apologizing for the attacks and not stopping deadly operations on foreign territories or not trying to de-occupied illegally occupied territories is another missed opportunity for Russia to start making peace , without having to "negotiate" anything!
It's not on real victims to "negotiate" the right to stop being victims, duh.
It's not even a question of trust or conditions to be negotiated for some kind of peace in the future, it's not about "making" up peace out of nothing like if it was something new, no: peace already exist; peace is already here, in the present, hardly surviving under Russia's boots.
If Russia genuinely wanted peace today, it would not be making extreme special efforts to trample and destroy it at this very moment, paying to make sure more people die, paying to make sure more people are injured or upset, paying to make sure more are forced to live under rules they don't want.
Starting to "make" peace would be as simple as stoping working on its systematic destruction, as simple as doing… nothing ! for a change.
You don't have negotiate "nothing" to do it, right ?
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12:30 Don't be amazed by the reaction of the Poles. Take a look at their history. They learned better than many what it is like to be invaded, occupied, politically deprived of existence, erased from the maps, massively killed or deported by strangers, forced by strangers to remain poor when they knew how to get rich, to suffer several kinds of foreign cruel dictatorships for more than a generation and still remain Polish. They can understand Ukrainian so well. Plus, russian medias explicitely say they are next if Ukraine falls. The campaign against Ukraine is outright presented as a preliminary step against them! So of course they take it personnally and consider this war is their, too!
What would you do, personally, in order to survive ? Don't be amazed: you'd do the same.
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1:25 This is not what I heard from the experts The opinion was that the Ukrainians would fight bravely, but would be defeated in many places by the supposedly more organized and much better equipped Russian war machine. I think that the experts believed :
- that the Russian military equipment was ready and improved according to the official announcements and propaganda.
- that all Russian troops would be well trained and equipped, not only the elite troops.
- that all forces participating in this Russian operation would be given clear objectives and doctrines, that they would know what they are doing in Ukraine, would not be surprised, and that they would have high morale.
I suppose these experts believed this because their training prevents them from imagining preparing and launching a military operation otherwise. According to them, if Russia attacked, it necessarily implied that it was actually ready to attack, seriously.
The surprise that Russia was not really ready for the operation it was conducting was immense; a real shock. It seemed too nut to be true.
The experts probably also underestimated the expertise and training of the best Ukrainian troops. But not their morale.
In any case the intense resistance efforts of the Ukrainians were expected, even in case of loss of the central command, as their interest in anti-vehicle defensive weapons was noticed the year before. The kind of weapons that do not allow to assault enemy positions at all, but are perfect for ambushes against invaders. So they had already perceived the danger and were already mentally prepared to resist if necessary.
And it is quite consistent with their political choices of the previous years.
It was quite obvious that, for them, the invasion started in 2014 and they were already opposed to it.
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15:00 These debates are lunar. One really have to be out of his mind to go looking for such irrelevant arguments.
There is no point in debating the past existence of Ukraine in the current situation. Even if we could manage, by feats of intellectual contortion, to prove that everything Ukrainian is Russian, it remains undeniable that today millions of people, the vast majority of the inhabitants of a large country, want today Ukraine to exist today and to be independent from Russia *today*, and this is in no way a threat for the Russians. If in doubt, instead of bringing clowns on a TV set, just ask them.
Even assuming that every Ukrainian is Russian, the vast majority of them still do not want to be part of Russia and want to have their own state. Well, that is their right !
The right to political self-determination is a human right, and the tendency of human beings to fight for their human rights is ignored only by the worst fools.
And even if the will and the rights of the people who call themselves Ukrainians were to be debated, one would have to be seriously mentally ill to imagine that they would suddenly want to call themselves Russian by being harmed by those who call themselves Russian.
This whole circus is therefore vain from a philosophical, cognitive and even operational point of view.
Soon, these serious nutjobs will have to explain how it is possible for something that doesn't exist to defend itself, and why it is so important to fight at the risk of one's life for the destruction of what doesn't exist.
Ask the doctors: this is the manifestation of a serious psychiatric disorder.
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12:00 @JakeBroe, Let me translate french for you
卢沙野, ambassador of China in France, talking on LCI TV:
"These countries, ex-Soviet Union, they do not have... they do not have hum… how to say… an effective status in international law."
French television reports the following reactions:
- The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs publish:
"We have learned with dismay about the words of the Chinese ambassador in France concerning the borders of the countries that became independent after the fall of the Soviet Union."
- Edgars Rinkēvičs, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, says:
"The remarks of the Chinese ambassador in France concerning international law and the sovereignty of nations are totally unacceptable. We expect explanations from the Chinese side and a complete retraction of this statement."
- Gabrielius Landsbergis, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania:
"If anyone is still wondering why the Baltic States do not trust China to negotiate peace in Ukraine, here is a Chinese ambassador saying that Crimea is Russian and that the borders of our countries have no legal basis."
- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs declare solidarity with the ex-USSR countries and remind that the annexion of Crimea by Russia in 2014 is illegal with regard to international law.
- Several people and associations are asking 卢沙野 to retract his statement.
My personal point of view:
Clearly, 卢沙野 was not comfortable with the pronunciation of this sentence. However, it is not clear whether he was concerned with the predictable reactions or was struggling with french vocabulary.
Listening to this sentence alone, one can think that he meant that the rights of these countries are not fully enforced at the moment (and this is true since Russia does not respect them), without any clue about intentions regarding these rights (whether they should be respected or not according to China). In context, however, various statements by diplomats, as well as murders on foreign soil and in international waters and effective annexations of foreign territory (undeclared acts of war), make it very clear that China has no regard for international rights or human rights except when they can benefit its government or reputation.
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Note 1:
I'm not just talking about cleaning (for hygiene reasons) and tidying (for logistical efficiency reasons), which one would imagine are neglected in cases of discouragement, deep fatigue, intense stress, lack of resources, lack of training, lack of preparation, or lack of supervision. I'm also talking about the design choices, the "decorative arts" and the degradation that we see in some occupied homes and buildings. The filthy inscriptions on the doors or walls, the excrement in surprising places, the open bottles of alcohol, the broken furniture, etc...
It seems to me that this is not just negligence or failing, but the expression of a self-destructive tendency. Not having the courage to clean up, or the loss of faith in the strict rules whose reasons have remained obscure, or the reality of war, so be it! I definitely understand it can happen.
What I don't understand is what seems to me to be an extra effort to break or mess up places unnecessarily. Especially if "we're here forever".
I myself am extremely messy and careless, so tolerate clutter, but I'm not trying to intoxicate myself or make my surroundings uglier and less convenient. That would finish me even without enemies.
Note 2:
Thanks to anyone adding more original point of views. It's nice to have veterans' point of view, as I have absolutely no experience of this. Historical points are also very valuable. But don't be ashamed to give civilian and novice points of view too, especially from many diverses places in the world, because I find the lores and common beliefs around that as interesting as the historical facts. It helps me understand better what people stand for or hide from.
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9:00 According to oral testimonies recorded in Ukraine, this is not only said on Russian television. Some Ukrainians were held captive and tortured to make them confess where "the Americans" were. Of course, they had no idea. Living in a small village, they had never seen any of them, not even a tourist or a passing journalist. It was almost impossible for their torturers to believe them: they had been sent here specifically to neutralize American agents and armed troops in significant numbers.
Similarly, on an intercepted phone call, most of the Russian soldiers seem to understand that they are fighting Ukrainians, but some of the gunners still believe that they are fighting NATO. They can't believe that the "khokhol" (as they say) can be so effective in combat and able to use high-tech weapons on their own, believing them to be subhuman morons who do not deserve respect. They don't seem to realize that Ukraine is in fact a very competent nation in many fields, and believe them only capable of traditional agriculture of the last century, songs, dances and fierce acts. Obviously, they have only ever traveled in clichés fabricated to flatter their egos by contrast, so much so that they can't even respect them as enemies. I guess they do not even take seriously the role of Ukrainians in "their" great patriotic war.
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8:15 Funny they finally realize that this "referendum" in Ukraine is pure bullshit, while they still haven't realized that the election of their own president in Russia also is, and that the elections in Belarus also were.
That precisely why democracy in Ukraine is such a big issue for Putin: Ukraine makes too obvious that his political system is a scam, and that slavic people can be perfectly fine with non-putinistic regime ! This proof of socio-political concept alone, by destroying the myth about special Russian blood and special Russian need for a cruel dictator, makes him want to silence them all. But by trying to silence Ukrainians by force, he only managed to make more people talk about Ukraine, learn about Ukraine, and think about this political situation in Russia.
And by killing Ukrainians and destroying their land and forcing them to obey, he only managed to make millions of Ukrainians who used to like Russia to hate him and start to hate Russia too.
If you ever need a teacher of basic psychology, never choose Vladimir Putin. His understanding of how humans work is like for a cat to understand the making of a remotely controlled steam engine.
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18:43 For a very long time I though I was very sensitive to violence. With this war, I discover I have absolutely no issue with life-saving violence against people who ask for it by attacking.
My respect is only for people who accept respect.
Those who prefer fear, who believe in fear and offense, well… they can take and suffer all the fear and offense in this world, I don't care: it's theirs, it's what they like, it's what they want, it's what they look for, it's what they ask for, it's what they cultivate, it's what they understand, it's their language. Is horrible pain is the world they fight for. They can take it. Hell is precisely made for those who pray hell.
I had genuine empathy for the young soldiers sent to Ukraine without knowing they where sent to war during the first days the official invasion.
But for those who think it's cool to attack cities in Ukraine today, no. To pretend they still don't know what they are in, to continue to pretend they are defending something and not participating in pillage and genocide, is a crime against humanity per se, and I really don't care they suffer the consequences for hours. If they are surprised that people resist their crimes in their very birthplace and that it hurts, if they can't see it coming, if they believe they can simply come and take, or don't care, it means they have no brain. They are already dead. A humain body without brain isn't a human. It's not even a mammal.
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I remember how often pro-Ukrainian commentators repeated that the advances of Russian forces this winter were insignificant. Pro-Russian commentators are probably saying the same thing about Ukrainian forces advancing in the summer.
For me, the point was to break through the fortified lines before the rain, so that Russia doesn't spend another winter building more defenses to make it look like this land is theirs. Is that still possible? Hardly as it looks from afar.
But war is not just a matter of territory drawn on a map. As you say, it's also a matter of attrition, economics, morale, demographics, politics, and many other factors.
It would be nice to put it all into perspective with clear statistical graphs of the most important indicators.
Will Russia be able to conquer more land after this? Hardly.
Not to mention that it's harder in the mud.
What I see is Russia with much more resources on proper, wasting much more. This whole operation is a waste. The idea of attacking friends is a call for waste. How much can Russia waste?
It's extremely stupid to waste, but since stupidity is an option for absolute extremists and Russia still has a lot to waste, how much more? How much more before there is nothing left ?
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11:17 Thanks to this very concrete little experiment, Cuba is only now (*FINALLY!*) beginning to understand the true nature of its "friend" on the other side of the world. No, Russia isn't automatically good because it was against the USA when the USA was bad to Cuba. And people don't "hate Russia" just out of stupidity and submission to some mysterious US influence. All emperors of all empires are damn dangerous and tend to use their "friends" as expendable peons. True communism is definitely not "communism", the current Russian mafia-government is not the good people of Russia, and freedom and democracy can be extremely more than just a sort of evil US brand or an excuse in wars, for people who genuinely care.
Please, whoever can, bring them back alive from there. Feel free to ask me for translations from English to Spanish or vice versa if you need.
What the Russian officials are doing is terrible, telling people that the new place will be better is what the Nazis told the Jews in the extermination camps to prevent them from rebelling.
Now, if they don't understand Russian well, they won't be able to understand the conditions for surrender that Ukraine is broadcasting, they won't be able to surrender in good conditions to survive, they won't be able to defend their rights in Russia.
They are young, they have a whole life ahead of them to learn what this terrible world is made of and to try to make it better. Please, whoever can, get them out of here.
I suspect someone is protecting them somehow, repeating tests instead of sending them to their death like the others. Solidarity must grow.
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11:55 Yeah… that's definitely nut. Even in pure strategic term, if the point is to defend Russian, how being totally deprived of fighting forces and having most of its male population killed, with no chance for demographic recovery, can be called a "victory" ? For any population, Russian or not, this is the definition mass suicide, planned disparition, end of the game, extinction, compromission of any sort of future, final page in the History book. It's not a way to achieve anything, just a way to make sure nothing remain possible.
For victory, making sure to defeat oneself ? What an insane pseudo-philosophy !
You know what, the craziest suiciders in al-Kaeda at least intended to go to heaven after death. In the Russian plan, that's not even the case: death seems to be a goal in itself.
To survive such a depression, they will need more psychiatrists than this planet can offer.
Somebody, please, tell Z-ists that weird magic based on human sacrifice in the hopes of invoking supernatural victory is just a scam based on horror fictions and simply doesn't work in practice.
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@georgiy7882 Actually, most Europeans care about Ukraine not only because Russia is killing people there at a rate never seen since WWII, but because they see Russia taking the infamous authoritarian path. They've seen this kind of scheme in their history books (Alexander, Julius, Attila, Carolus, Genkis, Napoleon, Hitler, Staline, etc.), and already know how it goes and how it ends.
- Transnistria: they barely gave a shit.
- Chechnya: they woke up in horror but though it was an isolated event.
- Georgia: they turned extremely suspicious and decided to enter prevention mode.
- Ukraine: they decided this was the last chance for Putin to prove suspicions wrong, to prove that he genuinely cared about people more than himself. Now that no doubt remains as to the nature of the character, the socio-economic machine to rid Europe of the last dictator is on. It is heating up, slowly but surely. More than 450 million people are contributing to it, in their own way.
Europeans are also concerned because the Russian government supports ideologues who explicitly state that their countries are the next enemies to attack after Ukraine. It is not as if they can ignore an explicit threat. Don't be surprise people care when their names are called.
You are right about something that hasn't changed for millennia: Europeans don't believe it until they have no choice. They don't do much prevention.
European didn't gave a shit about Austria, barely cared about the Czech Republic (despite the admitted feeling of having made a mistake), and needed the invasion of Poland to wake up, very late. And even then, they waited to see if it was magically over. It wasn't, of course.
But they are learning. Their response time to attempts at imperial domination is getting shorter and shorter. They are already much quicker to react than before the Roman Empire.
Where you are totally wrong is about European being ok with crimes done by US government. Maybe you weren't in Europe when G.W.Bush was considered the man to kill, to see it.
The limitation of his mandate in time and the separation of powers in the USA saved the relationship between the USA and Europe. Otherwise, if he had become a permanent dictator in the USA, and if he had started to conquer lands, it is sure that Europe would be at war, at least cold or economic, with the USA, if not worse (hot war, nuclear war, etc). He knew how to make himself hated, but was limited by US citizen. This is the advantage of democratic regimes: it doesn't eliminate the evil at all, but it limits it.
A difference between Ukraine and several countries where the USA went to kill people and commit crimes (not as many kills per year as Russia in Ukraine nowadays, but still. It's not a competition anyway), is that Ukrainians don't spit on the face of European tourists, investors, good dealers or weapon dealers, and they send more students in European universities too.
I know it's never easy to be friend with everybody, but that's were diplomatic relations and cultural exchanges counts.
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18:08 And it's not new at all! It's been like this for centuries.
Throughout the history of Eurasia, whether in Europe, Asia, and even in the Middle East, for as long as Moscow has existed and exerted some influence in other surrounding countries, regardless of political regime, every time that Moscow's central power has decided to use force and violence rather than hope to coerce a neighboring province or country — every • single • time , without exception, no joke — there has been an immediate political reaction in some other reputedly "neutral" or "friendly" pro-russian or pro-USSR states against this central power, whether in the form of revolts, suspension of diplomatic relations, delayed cooperation, betrayals, political distancing, termination of agreements, secret agreements with enemies of Moscow, preference for trade with other nations, etc...
For centuries, coercion has always ended badly, has always led to disappointment and resentment, and has ultimately reduced Russia's influence in the world.
It has always been the one and only serious reason for people to distrust or hate Russia, economic interests notwithstanding.
For centuries.
For generation and generations of people studying this phenomena and writing about it in diverse scientific and artistic domains.
And yet, some ultra-nutcases somehow still haven't learned their lesson.
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5:50 I might be wrong, especially because I'm not a US citizen and I see that from afar, but I thing that this even, together with the illegality of activities of D.Trump, is the end of the Republican party in the USA as we knew it since decades.
There is profound crack in it between the republicans who just want to preserve some traditions and beliefs in the USA, who take the institutions as sacret (even if they lack compassion sometimes), and those who simply are opportunist, violent, fascists in reaction to the democrats, who are mainly ruled by populist clowns supported by foreign dictators, and who are ready to destroy the institution in their quest for individual power.
Such divided political structure is doomed to re-invent itself or disappear.
Many mocked J.Biden, but in fact he has stolen from the Republicans the traditional image of the old white-haired wise father that is part of the US mythology. Republicans can't simply fool around with symbols anymore and are forced to discuss morals and have real debates, and doing so they discover they aren't the united political party they pretended to be.
If I'm wrong, please explain to me how and why. And in any case see you in 10 years to check my math.
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I would like to remind all of us that the point of supporting Ukraine is not to stop one Russian military conquest for now, waiting for the next one.
Every day until liberation, there are many people suffering from the military occupation of Ukraine by Russian forces , waiting to be liberated from it.
- People in the occupied territories who are tortured because of their political opinions or origin, who are forced to lie publicly to stay alive or to protect their family.
- People deported from this country to an unknown fate.
- People forced to attack other Ukrainians to death, used as cannon fodder to serve the Kremlin's exclusive interests, not their own.
- Children taken to Russia to be re-educated into Ukrainian-haters and future Ukrainian-killers in the name of Putin.
- People in exile waiting to be free to return home to their families (if they survived) without risking the same or worse.
Even when the front line doesn't move much, a genocide is underway and the clock is ticking.
The Russian people will never truly understand revenge that comes too late. They will only learn from an immediate defeat of their current plans and misdeeds, from a clear and direct re-connection between their suffering and the idea of making other people suffer. What they need is not an education in hatred and fear for retribution. They already know hatred and fear too well. What they need is an education in empathy: your suffering right now is my suffering right now; my suffering right now is also yours.
And since they don't seem to care about their lives at all, the only bad news they consider at the moment, the only thing they consider painful, until they wake up to reality, is territorial loss, and the destruction of the myth of their "divine" invincibility and "wisdom".
Only when this myth is over will we see something like responsibility entering their equations.
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3:03 Actually, since the Ukrainian forces aren't willing to let them regroup to continue the deadly fight somewhere else, the only survival option for them was to surrender.
No, there was no option for mechanized evac for them because their fellow comrades who had vehicles at the rear of the front aren't stupid and guessed that they would be destroyed inside their vehicles by artillery fire if they moved in range. They had seen all the previous moves in this direction end in disaster during the last few days, so they refused the order to go support and rescue the infantry , they refused to join the suicide.
What is horrible for the soldiers who died on this road is that, after being stupidly sent to a suicide mission, they've probably been promised an evac that never came.
Some of them survived, though. And that's good, because now they have a story to tell to the fresh Russian recruits that might help them realize what they signed for, and think twice before accepting more.
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1:08 The order matter.
1. Conquest is what Putin&Co are doing all life long. It already killed many.
2. War is clearly underway, not only in Ukraine, but also among show-offs in Russia running for medals.
3. Famine is still avoided in many cases, but note that many Ukrainians lack food and energy, that prices rise everywhere, and also many Russians still don't have access to gaz in spite of their country producing more than they can sell.
4. Plague is to be feared. You may consider the durable "brainwash" (I prefer "brainclog") of a part of the Russian population as a serious mental illness. If not prevented, the end of Putin's reign might take the form of a new plundering of Russia by all sort opportunists pretending to save the country, similarly to the end of the USSR. In that case, these individuals are the devouring beasts.
@JakeBroe , your "5ft Horseman" is nothing but the 3rd one in disguise. Ask any scientist: you will be told that food crisis, oil crisis, coil crisis, wood crisis, gaz crisis etc. all fall under the same principles. Food is, in fact, fuel for living beings. Another kind of fuel doesn't make another Horseman: it's still the same kind of phenomenon.
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23:41 From what I have learned from the history (France and Spain mainly, but not only), national revolutions come only after centuries of local revolts, often cruelly suppressed. And even after the revolutions, several despotic hijackings, counter-revolutions and various betrayals prolonged the struggle, with bloody civil wars, evolving towards more democracy and more freedom over the centuries, but with horrible temporary reversals along the way. It is extremely difficult to overcome fear, especially when one does not know exactly what the beast to fight is capable of.
The difference, perhaps, today is that nations are no longer so alone against their respective despots, and that history is relatively easy for everyone to access, provided they are interested. - There is a philosopher who explains why the Russians are not really a nation, because they have renounced the political exercise. But they could be. It's something in their national nightmare, not their blood. One has to start somewhere. -
Another difference is that, in the case of France in particular, the anti-monarchical and anti-clerical revolution (which is quite a feat for a country with the king "of divine right") was a shock for all of Europe, which was so Catholic and so attached to its monarchies that they could not understand that madness. The revolution of this country has structurally made it go to war against all the monarchies of the world, in other words almost the whole world. And frankly, I still don't understand how the France survived it.
So, I understand that people are looking for other ways to look for more individual freedom. But for all those who want that, this is no longer a first time or a declaration of war to the whole world. On the contrary! We now know better the risks and we know that a better tomorrow is actually possible. There are proofs of concept and a state of the art of revolutions with their successes and failures, all in open source.
What is not documented is how to adapt this fight to a guy who seems to have nuclear toys at hand, and how to do it in a context of global fossil fuel depletion.
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11:17 How many times this vulnerable island have been invaded or dominated by Russia ? 😂
The romans went there. Their empire did not stay. The Scandinavians went there, too. Their empire did not stay either. They also went on the Dniepr to fund Kiev, but hey… Russia has no sort of existence at this time, yet.
Today, the United Kingdom, unlike Russia, has established a lasting peace with all its neighbors, even with France after 100 years (!) of war, and is part of a very serious defensive organisation with more than six times more citizens than the federation of Russia. It's also a nuclear power, a very capable maritime power and an ally of serious maritime, nuclear powers and aerospace leaders, too. Moreover, attacking the UK is against the diplomatic and economical interest of any ally Russia can have. Even North Korea is trying to gain some respectability on the international scene and would avoid actual military confrontation. Apart from marginal population like the transnistrians, all populations between Russia and the UK would be hostile to further Russian attacks against European nations and would never buy the excuse of a preventive strike. So… well… "vulnerable" ? • • • • • •😂 You wanna try ? Curious of the effects it could have ?
How degenerate does one have to be to need a reality check, unable to guess in advance the consequences for Russia?
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At this point, given that this operation is aimed at destroying another major city, I think we should form a coalition and issue an ultimatum to any force on the territory of Ukraine, stating that if any heavy weapons are used against civilians, we will deploy international peacekeepers in Ukraine to defend them, with the orders to engage, including with lethal weapons, any vehicle that is seen to have opened fire on civilians.
How will the Kremlin react to an operation aimed at protecting civilians from possible attacks? That Russia would never attack civilians, after what its forces did in Mariupol, after all the civilian casualties in Ukraine? Well if Russia would not, why would it care they are defended, then? It's just impossible for them to seriously claim to be the victims in front of Харкiв.
Or will they say that this is evil and that Russia would never defend civilians because they consider it illegal or immoral? Good luck twisting words, priests.
I bet they'd say that the USA did worse in helping Israel. Fair enough. What about a coalition without the USA, then? This is Europe, after all.
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12:14 The U.S.R.R. wasn't less capitalist than the U.S.A.! The only difference was that capital was a privilege in the U.S.S.R. and a shared right in the U.S.A.
Making capitalisation a privilege of a few do not make it less a capitalisation.
And capitalism is certainly not what made the prosperity of western countries. Relative Freedom , Justice and Mutual Respect among citizens did. Everything went particularly better in countries where people could believe that doing their best for others was in their interest or in the interest of their children, and that no superior force was going to take everything for unknown projects and let them with no responsibilities. No matter it was in the name of capitalism, socialism, royalism, (true) communism, anarchism or whateverism… people did particularly well everywhere they could non-ironically believe to be responsible of their future, everywhere they could feel responsible for their acts and everywhere they have been treated as sentient and intelligent adults.
And, equally, no matter the intentions, everything went worse in countries with no individual liberties , with no individual responsibilities for their successes and failures, and no shared interest in well-being.
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@betterdonotanswer Oh, sure! By hand, sure. Or by sucking it through lemonade straws.
The many can make up for anything, right?
Hell... it's not about allocating the right number of slaves in front of each machine. It's about culture, it's about identity, it's about creativity, it's about being able to repair and improve these machines, it's about having a future. It's about what people are actually doing with that oil and gas.
Oil and gas is going to burn until it's gone anyway, so it depends on how you decide to burn it.
If it goes to war, it's lost! So much so that millions of people could work on it for nothing. The remaining ones who aren't being sacrificed, I mean.
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16:30 Yes @JakeBroe, I can summarize it for you, *even though I'm not a US citizen*, or perhaps precisely because I'm not a US citizen so I feel free to judge the USA without feeling guilty of treason.
First, I will give you a reminder of the process, then note how the US case flavors it.
The process:
1. *No regime is perfect, no people are perfect. The U.S. has real flaws, faults and guilts, just like any other nation.
2. Democracy implies *freedom of speech*, so we can talk about those flaws and work together to correct them. What people tend to forget is that with freedom comes responsibility. Not everyone accepts full responsibility.
3. This great freedom leaves plenty of room for cult gurus (religious leaders, political leaders, corporations, etc...) to forge unverifiable silly ideas in order to gain influence over easy believers: they create a virtual problem, fuel the fear, and then get rewards, get paid by presenting themselves or their brand as the only solution. This constantly challenges the known, which is both good and bad. It's good for the most intelligent and wealthy people who have time to think, because it's an incentive to check and understand even better what is known. It's a deadly mental trap for not-so-intelligent people and those who don't have time, because it gives them easy pre-conceived ideas and discourages real investigation. Notable by-products of all this are injustices, more frustration than necessary, and a whole lot of superstitions.
4. Would-be tyrants, even foreign ones, can then exploit these superstitions. They can stir up anger in oppositions to create turmoil and destabilize competing nations from within. They can also tailor their narrative to pre-existing trends in order to draw the believers of other gurus to their cause. Think of it as an international belief market where people place their bets and withdraw informal social credit. The state of this belief market is quite divorced from reality for the same reason that the trading market is divorced from reality most of the time. (I could explain how this divorce happen if needed. It's simple math with derivatives). Power-hungry individuals use their leverage on such market to move the crowd in their favor.
The USA case:
1. Democratic or not, the USA has a bloody history since colonization. Slavery did a lot of damage to relations between communities (the fact that US citizens to talk about "races" is nut). The CIA has done shady, dirty things. G.W.Bush was rightly seen as a butcher in Iraq, Afghanistan is also a thing too, etc.
2. This led to natural questions, debates, political oppositions, expressions of real frustrations.
3. People came up with a lot of explanations and justifications, including a bunch of fictions made to please, seduce the people in need of answers. Dishonest explanations were given to protect or value existing communities, then new communities emerged from incoming lost people in need for a family.
Each author tried to convince that his explanation was the best because it sells. Some of them managed to capitalize on a lot of nonsense, mainly mixing reinterpreted Christian lore (the main religion of colonization), a lot of xenophobia (a classic that always works), and *extreme conspiracy theories*, which are perfect for pointing out arbitrary enemies at will, either to increase fears or to destroy competitors. More specific to the US is the anti-woke narrative, which could only exist with a serious woke phenomenon. They would attack the hippies instead, otherwise they would only get the mysogynist vote, but the woke are an easier target because of their own insanity. And of course the very peculiar relationship with guns. The gun industry has pushed the narrative that US citizens have the right to kill in self-defense so far that it can now be used to sell Republicans as brave warriors and revolutionaries (and not just immature drunken punks), even though they are extremely conservative.
As you can see, they are picking from any rack, reaping what other sects have sown, regardless of the origin, as long as it sells.
4. At this point it's very simple: both an opposition and the ex-USSR wanting more power repeat that the current US government is very bad and that they can offer better, so both are tempted to fuel their power with the other's narrative, so much that they merge.
"Qui se ressemble s'assemble", as we say around here.
In the end, the why of the why is always the same: people are afraid of many things (death, suffering, loneliness, the unknown, etc...), and that gives power to people who are able to convince them that they can somehow save them.
The less they explain how they're going to save, the more people think it's too difficult for them, the more they give up and just hope that their leader will solve their problems for them. The more they delegate politics, the less they solve anything, the bigger the real problems and the more dependent they end up.
People like D.Trump, E.Musk or В.В.Пу́тин can't produce. They are very incompetent in creation. So they live by parasitism. They gain power by leveraging and monopolizing values in the belief market, and it works well for them. В.В.Пу́тин is richer so he should operate the fusion, including the US branch.
Remember: it's not what they say, it's what we hope to hear. It's all based on OUR fears. No fear, no power in their hands.
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20:20 If you cannot distinguish between good and bad shells, having a 50% reliability is much worse than having no shells at all. This randomness makes impossible to plan the joint operations , particularly if the only available test is destructive. After you waste in firing test all the shell that that you could have used, you are left with only the ones that are of no use, and you still have to manage them.
Imagine the soldiers obey 50% of the time, the fuel supply comes 50% of the time, the bullets fire 50% of the time, the radar gets electricity 50% of the time, the scouts get wrong 50% of the time, the spies lie to you 50% of the time, the artillerymen remember to aim 50% of the time, the uniform is your size 50% of the time, etc… well, there is nothing left !
0.5^INF is almost ZERO !
Unpredictability is every army's worst enemy.
Better to rely on a kitchen knife or a stone found by the roadside that you know will work as intended.
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29:33 As a European, I feel obliged to answer this question, even if it's addressed to Jake.
Yes, I think a coalition of the most armed European countries could defeat Russia on a strictly military level and in the short term, without US support. The risk would be immense that it could be a disaster on other less-military levels (demographic, social, economic…), and depending on the twists and turns it could be dangerous for the USA too. But yes, it's still technically possible.
What's more, there will be no other choice if Ukraine capitulates and the Putin Gang moves into Central Europe with the permanent intention of dictating its law to the whole of Eurasia, if not the whole world, and continues its conquest. In that case, European countries will take steps to arrest or assassinate Russian leaders until Russia produces only leaders who respect others, because it will have become a question of survival for them too , just as it is today for the Ukrainians.
The problem is the same for all countries in the world. Only Some countries are first on Putin's list and some are far, some are well eqquiped and other aren't. But the relation to evil is the same. The threat is global. And in the case V.V.Putin is not defeated soon enough, there will be a spiritual successor to him to continue the conquest, using Putin's youth as zealots.
There's a limitless expansionist mafia to destroy in Russia, the sooner the better, and all the time we're wondering who's going to pay for its destruction (the Ukrainians? the Russians ? The Chinese ? The US Citizens ? the Poles ? etc…), this maffia is getting more powerful, more disrespectful and more extreme in cruelty. It gets worse every day.
The more the countries of the world share the effort to overcome this evil soon, the lower the global bill.
The longer everyone waits, hoping that others will pay the bill, the higher the bill, until eventually nobody can pay and we are all screwed.
Worldwide Solidarity or Putin&Co's Reign: make your choice. No choice means Putin&Co's Reign by default.
Maybe some of the readers here live in places where Duty of Rescue is implemented as a law, or maybe as a moral deed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue
Well… think of what it means if it doesn't exist between countries.
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3:42 Talking about civilians, let's ask Ukrainian civilians what "horrify" them more: DPICM in the hands the troops currently defending them, or incoming Russian mechanized infantry. Future obligation to clear the fields where their defenders noted that they used DPICM, or risking firefight, tank shells exploding in their house, gunfights in the streets with assault rifles and machine guns, Russian incendiary cluster ammunitions, grenades, rockets, prosecutions, incarceration, torture, end of freedom, deportation, or in the best case scenario having to flee without return only to wait for this to repeat? Because this is what happens when you don't stop the Russian mechanized infantry in time.
Since politicians PRETEND to care for them and not for the votes and for the money, let's ask them instead, the civilians, what they think, what they find most horrifying.
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Clearly, giving Russia time to adapt, to finish convincing itself that Ukraine is Russia and to base its morale on this idea, and to recover from its own blunders, and for others to base an entire strategy and hope on the assumption that Russia will always commit blunders and never take strategical decisions, is not sane !
We're already 9 years behind history in delivering at least 4.5-generation fighter jets to Ukraine. I understand that we needed time to verify that Ukraine was not a Nazi regime and to assess the situation before such move. But now that there's no ambiguity about it, and that Putin has made it crystal clear that he's not bluffing, come on!
At this point, we could even arm the Russians and build a friendship with both Ukrainians and Russians for helping to * rid the continent of the small clan of stashed Z-ist dominants* before they sacrifice everything to their agenda of world domination.
Remember, it's not Russia we need to fight, but the small, rotten, extremist gang at its head, which never hesitates to sacrifice the "little people" to gain unlimited power. Don't fall for Putin's crude trick of making everyone believe he represents Russia, that attacking him is like attacking Russia.
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16:09 This is WRONG! Forget all your silly beliefs about Russians being anti-Americans.
Yes, you'll find the worse anti-Americans in Russia, if not in North-Korea, but they are a minority.
In reality, Russians are so pro-American that they take more pride to use US-made products and mimic American way of life than most Europeans, who don't care that much. Even Russian propagandist paid to promote anti-American propaganda are seen using products designed or manufactured in America and… plays rock. Russians who can afford it gladly send their children to study in America. Every week Russians enjoy Hollywood films and they do not boycott them. There is a real curiosity and sometimes fascination for America in Russia. A lot of illusions, too. But this isn't hatred.
It costs the Kremlin a lot to constantly teach the Russian people to hate Americans, because natural American-haters is not what they are.
Russians aren't the Russian government.
Generally, real Russians aren't Z-ists.
They will become mainly anti-American, however, if we let the Russian government force them to send their children to schools where they are taught to hate Americans, if we let В.В.Пу́тин take whatever he wants and sell it as a victory to widows.
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6:16 @Jake Broe, please take me seriously when I say that it is extremely damaging to all humanity to say "Moscow" or "Russia" instead of "The Kremlin" or "Vladimir Putin and his gang".
Russia, in other words the Russians, do not dream of slaughtering people to compete with the USA. The people of Moscow do not want that.
If you hear so many lies from the Russian government, it's precisely because only a few individuals actually want that.
They have to lie to the vast majority to convince them to do the worst. They have to lie to us to make us react like if it was cold war and about the stability of a bipolar world and not a matter of human rights, liberty for humans on this planet, and dignity.
Every time you say "Russia" instead of "Putin", you help him to lie and deceive, you help him to get more blood and sacrifices for his plans.
And people are very dumb if they think Putin or the like would be satisfied with "one pole among two" only. This kind of mafia never put limits to itself, and would use Africa, Australia, Europe, and even China to rule over the whole world including the USA if they could, by any mean. Nothing to do with them being Russian and all to do with that specific gang being true motherfuckers.
Please be careful. The worst is in the details. Don't inadvertently help them by using their misleading expressions.
Russia and Moscow are not the real enemy.
They are an indispensable key to defeating the real enemy hidden within. *Not only Ukraine, but also Russia must be helped to defeat its mafia*, before it gangrenes the whole earth by feeding on our mediocrity.
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Those who say that it's the USA pushing the war should be sent to Ukraine right now, to make sure they know well enough what they are talking about. I'd like to see if they keep saying that USA is pushing the war when they'll hear the air strike warning and the Russian long-range missiles are coming. I'd like to see the reaction of Ukrainian civilians to their sayings. I'd like to see if they dare to serve that exact same theory to them rather than to us.
I will probably never be able to show you how immense my hatred for people who speak from a market perspective is.
They are the seducers, the tempters, the people who put all the morals into polite words and pretty suits to make sure there is none left in their hearts. Those whose shiny, immaculate cloaks cover a sickening soul. These are the true carriers of death and hell, the ones who prepare their peers for fear and submission in exchange for a semblance of respectability. They will always talk about "peace", peace given as trophy to the bloodiest butchers, to reward them for having well killed all the malcontents. The kind of "peace" they will always ask from the victims, like a rapist asks the raped to shut up and be quiet.
You will probably never be able to see how immense my hatred for them is.
Send them to Ukraine, among the people, to see how they survive their own words, or better said: the words of their master.
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4:15 This is hilarious. They don't hesitate to brag about their experience of World War II, about a century ago, meaning: with peasants used for assaults, not enough guns for everyone, famines, officers in charge of killing deserters on sight, industrial help from the USA, foreign pilots assisting them, etc....
Guy... it's a disgrace!! A disgrace, man! The whole world has come a long way in three generations. We've signed treaties to respect the human rights of enemies and our own troops alike. We've invented new technologies. We've made most WWII tactics obsolete. And you're selling yourself short for being stuck in the last century. 🤯 Seriously, Владимир, are you trying to sell your TV show to an Australian fishing club, or what?
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1:02 To so-called Ali Bala Abdullahi:
I've visualized, listened and saved what Wion channel said about Ukraine. They don't talk about drastical loss for NATO or EU, simply because NATO is not in Ukraine , Ukraine is not member of NATO , Ukraine is not member of EU and there is no open war between NATO or EU and Russia , duh ! NATO is not even a state. NATO can't take territories to existing states, by definition, so it has nothing to "win" against Russia. NATO and EU aren't losing because they aren't even under attack. , duh !
Ukraine never intented to take territories to Russia either, so it has only things to lose and nothing to win but security at home. It's just defending. Do you understand what it means, Ali ?
So just stop saying you know better than us what is happening because of Wion's news, without knowing if we actually listen to it or not, and while you don't even understand yourself what Wion is saying.
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Dear friends, citizens of the United States of America,
If ever, in the course of your travels or encounters, you have noticed a certain reserve, a certain coldness on the part of europeans towards the American dream, perhaps a few pithy or sardonic remarks, or even what might seem to be contained hostility towards your nation, including from allies who are indebted to the help the USA has given them in safeguarding its own interests, if you've ever wondered about the origin of this lack of enthusiasm for the political and societal model to which life in the USA has trained and accustomed you, look no further: It's a simple allergy to your Republicans. They remind us too much of the worst bastards we're trying to get rid of in Europe.
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17:26 We're talking about Taurus and ATACMS , but what Ukraine actually needs is anti-artillery systems.
- TAURUS KEPD 350 will do a similar job as SCALP-EG or Storm Shadow missiles. Not a specifically anti-artillery role.
- because of their ballistic trajectory, ATACMS might not even pass the Russian air defense when striking far behind the front lines. It could make big holes in the Russian anti-tank trenches for sure, though, which is good during a surprise attack. But talking about artillery (the real problem) who needs more than about 8kg of guided explosives to disable a 152mm gun ?
We need to provide Ukraine with much more strategical hardware, not just anything because it's big, impressive, and look good on TV, or because we don't know what to do with it.
Many more 155mm mobile howitzers with a range of 35 km or more, with twice the number of guided munitions than Russia has artillery, and more reliable systems for detecting enemy artillery , would certainly (and paradoxically) save more lives , not only in Ukrainian forces, but also in Russia, by destroying what kills most , making the whole Russian infantry in Ukraine useless , ending this war quickly, before the nature of the war changes again , and before kidnapped children and the next generation of Russians are turned into fanatical Putinist soldiers.
The 155mm shells may be less photogenic than the big missiles on TV, but I remind you that Russia has absolutely NOTHING to stop a 155mm shell in flight, that there are specific "clever" types of 155mm shells for each possible kind of target, and that for years nothing has killed more Ukrainians than Russia's 152mm artillery and their small-diameter rocket launchers. So… talking about saving lives, care about what to aim at, and how.
And if you really really very badly want to use bunker-busting cruise missiles because that's your obsession and your absolute dream, then Vladimir Putin's bedroom during resting hours is definetely the place to hit. This is what such weapons are meant for. Don't forget that he is the only fucking excuse everyone else has come up with to justify continuing to beat the shit out of each other.
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10:29 There is still a chance that her son will survive and receive treatment: by managing to surrender to Ukrainian forces. I want to live isn't a vain title.
Ukraine sure isn't in an excellent shape, but they sincerely practice medicine. To flee directly to another country might be too difficult in his situation, unless he benefit from the help of opponents to V.V.Putin's policy.
His mother should contact anti-Putin Russians in Georgia who could help her flee to a free country, and perhaps find her son afterwards. She should then write to the UN to denounce the violation of human rights by the Russian authorities.
Apart from the risk of surrendering to Ukrainian forces when his comrades might want to punish any deserters, or of being killed by bombardments or raids before managing to escape, the second danger is of being exchanged for Ukrainian prisoners after being rescued, which would take him back to Russia and put him at risk of being conscripted again. Perhaps he could avoid this by going missing and avoiding being officially claimed by relatives from Russia. It would be nice, however to negotiate a special status with the Ukrainians so he doesn't end up being a burden for Ukraine.
Of course, if he has committed crimes in Ukraine, for example by obeying criminal orders, he might as well be sent to a prison for his crimes. But that's usually considered better than death by long agony caused by shrapnels.
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3:26 I've been served this nonsense too.
I don't know how many sleepless nights the desperate pro-Russian trolls have been cogitating to come up with such a phantasmal argument.
They say they don't care about being massacred in Ukraine because the real matter is Russia going on strike and not working for Europe anymore.
In that case, it is enough to point out that if Russia can destroy Europe simply by cutting off the gas, and is willing to, and that this is the real ultimate goal behind all of this military operation, then Russia does not in fact need to invade Ukraine at all, actually, nor wait for Ukrainians to kill more Russian soldiers using western weapons there: It can simply do it, cut off the gas, keep its soldiers safe and comfy, and so force us all to see how smart it is for Russia to break contract with its one and only customer in the world.
Imagine that Russia brings down Europe. Then what?
Will 146 million Russians, including babies and babushkas, invade 448 million Europeans?
Okay, okay, let's imagine they actually invade Europe and manage to keep the Europeans under control at 1 versus 4 (because they can't all come here unless they leave Russia completely empty, duh). So let say they almost all move and come here and we don't stop them. Hello. What's next?
What are they going to do with all this alien land, with dozens and dozens of different alien languages they never learned (several per country), with dozens of alien climates and ecosystems they never trained to deal with, and the colonies overseas, etc...?
And now what? I bet that if they really invade Europe, Europe will not become Russian, but on the contrary the Russian invaders will turn into Europeans, as all the other previous invaders did before, because that's the only way to survive here.
And if they don't invade Europe, who cares what they do? There is no way for them to control what Europeans do without being on the European land. The only very unpleasant thing they can do to Europe is to attack it physically. And in that case, the winter will not only be "gas-free" but "nuclear", and all major Russian cities will end up in ashes. Even killing all the European leaders in a quick surprise attack and disabling the communication satellites can't prevent nuclear retaliation from various directions. Well, big deal ! What an achievement for Russia. golfclap
Now that we clearly see what this is all about, let's agree that there is no such grandiose plan in the great universal scheme worked out by inconceivably superior mentals.
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11:48 I would not count anymore on the weather to completely freeze the front lines. Last year this was true because the only way Ukraine could take territories back was in thunder runs, and thunder runs don't work in deep mud.
Now it's different. Now Ukraine has capability to take territories in artillery duels, which is very new. This mean Ukraine can continue to take territories little by little. Another reason this is possible is that some of the land that remains to liberate isn't as muddy as those Russia previously failed to take. They are muddy, of course, enough to make everything more difficult, but not to the point of making movements impossible. If you can destroy all enemy weapons in front of you with artillery and drones, you can slowly advance in mud because there isn't anything big targeting you anymore that would have forced you to dodge with speed.
It's also possible that frozen winter makes the land solid again before the end of this year.
Winter isn't an ally of Russia anymore.
"The Ukrainian offensive has failed. Period." , together with the dream it's definitely over, is only what propaganda want you to believe, pretending Ukraine has exhausted it combat capabilities. It's wrong. Ukraine still has very serious combat capabilities, and some of them are improving.
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16:28 There are two types of people, and a few in between.:
A. Those who can deduce risk based on what they see, who can compassionate with victims, who can recognize a bully racking them when they see one.
B. Those who are devoid of brain and heart, who will only learn - if ever - when their own flesh begins to burn, when their own limbs are torn off and their own blood flows from their ears under the bombs, when the war will cease to be very easy words to be uttered to show off and all that has been said will finally become a reality for them too, not just for others, for strangers far away whom they despise as they accept to be despised themselves.
And even then, they might chose not to understand why this happens to them.
There are fast learners and slow learners.
Meanwhile, for the weak and the frighten pussy, it's always easier to blame the victims.
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10:04 NO ! stop messing things and falling into Eastern rhetoric traps, please.
- No, Elon Musk does not support the Chinese Communist Party, because the Chinese Communist Party does not exist . It's a scam. What actually do exist for real in China is an empire and a sect that is not communist at all , rather non-liberal ultra-capitalist , with a leader pretending to be communist or maybe believing he is by using a lot of communist symbols, but obviously does nothing like true communists would. Elon Musk does support Xi's dictature , not communism nor the Chinese people.
- No, Elon Musk does not support Russia, because those who genuinely support Russia, who genuinely care about Russian people, are fighting V.V.Putin. as we talk. What you see in Ukraine is not Russia. It's rather the Putinist and Z-ist minority in Russia . And Elon supports a despicable minority of rich slavers among this minority, a mafia, a very few people who happen to be Russians and happen to be at the head of the current Russian government but are not Russia.
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0:29 They are right: better a few months in a fake "Nazi" prison than years in a patriotic prison during Vova's hunt for traitors.
According to the European modus operandi, only highly trained soldiers considered elite are sent to remote combat zones in three days. The kind of soldiers who have recently trained for years, who have passed exams that many have failed, but mostly exams that most normal people wouldn't even dare to try. The kind of people who have survived extreme training in jungles, sand deserts, ice deserts; who have been asked to run through mud carrying one of their comrades on their back, who have been trained to kill, to resist psychological torture, have passed a whole battery of medical exams and have been trained in medical first aid as well, etc...
And then they are never released into the field without a briefing on the situation and mission, nor without equipment specially adapted to the environment, the mission and its most likely developments.
Of course there are not many of them, but at least they are not sent there just to be captured or killed without any understanding of what is happening to them.
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22:23
The guy cries because he won't get his personal Mercedes-Benz car in time, and makes a fuss about it on national TV in one of the largest countries in the world.
Meanwhile, people are being shot at, children can't sleep because of bomb alarms, buildings are being destroyed with or without people inside, people are being left without food or water or electricity, children are being taught to hate and prepare to die, planes are falling, spacecraft are falling, the ruble is falling, strategic assets are catching fire everywere, several major industrial disasters are on the horizon, the president is under international indictment, the most intelligent people in the country are going abroad, the secret services are preparing a coup...
But he can't have his new car, with the right software to run the windshield wipers in sync with the music?
What now? Decency? What for?
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20:54 Ok… so Putin could not have Ukraine under his direct control and did not appreciate Belarus' neutrality, so he is taking Belarus under more direct control.
Do you see that coming:
1_ Lukashenk's elimination
2_ Pro-war pro-Panrussia puppet as new head of Belarus
3_ Belarus gov asking Belarus people to participate in the war effort.
4_ Belarus people refusing, having their own Maidan-like revolution
5_ … shit
Chronicle of an asshole who, the more he tries to control, the more everything breaks down.
Jake, don't dream of counting on Lukashenko. Don't assume that the Belarusians are ready to go to war with the Ukrainians. If they were, we would have seen it. If they were, they would have done it already when first asked to and their chances were optimal. No matter their political regime and their new leader, they are not going to help Putin in any efficient way, because it's not their plan and interest. All they dream of is all of this to be over as soon as possible without them get dragged into the worse. And if dragged into the worse, they will actually chose the winning side, until it appears to be an historical decision.
Forcing them to do what they don't want would cost more than not relying on them at all.
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23:40 Oh, technically, you can, to some extend. But it dramatically increase the risks of ending alone at the surface of the see without any floating thing to swim to nor any radio to beg for help with.
Piracy only works by surprise. Once the nations expect it, they organize, load guns and missile launchers, don't let wannabe kings of the sea approach, and their ways to fight back can be very deadly.
Military or not, once cut in half mid-air, choppers don't float much better in salt water than irons, and bulletproof vests are no life jackets.
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14:29 Asking who for help? Are Ukraine, or maybe the UN, supposed to organize an armed rescue mission to save Russian servicemen? To save them from being sequestered by their own country? Okay, why not, in a pinch. But you'd have to find people with enough heart to risk their lives on behalf of citizens of a country seeking to massacre and despoil them - in other words, saints with no grudges whatsoever.
And then what? Where do Russians plan to live if they aren't secure among Russians?
This not supposed to happen. Normally, if your superior gives you illegal orders, such as illegally attacking people that poses no threat to yours, or lying to you, you disarm and arrest that superior, then bring him to justice. Whether he uses profanity or not is just a detail that doesn't change the principle of legitimate self-defence.
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@mariastejereanu They were under Russian bombs and Russian shelling, in cold. They have real biological parents waiting for them in their country, asking were they are since month and getting no answer from the Russian authorities.
Even in the cases their parent have been killed by the Russian forces during the invasion or Ukraine, those children must be returned to the nearest family and state they belong as soon as possible. Of course they can and must be saved from misery by anyone nearby, even killers or invaders if nobody else survived around, but nobody has any right to adopt them without due authorisation. No authorisation of adoption and deportation have never been given by the rightful authorities.
If Russia want Ukrainian children to live in security with their families, it's enough not to attack Ukraine and let Ukrainians live in peace in their homeland, which is also by far the best social, economical and strategic solution for Russia.
Rules are designed to protect people including children, not to mess with Russia. The Russian government could simply respect them, starting with the rules it have signed on paper, and also respect real people, and everything should be all right.
You'd be glad to realize that the very exact same rules protect the Russian children from rapt by citizens of countries just the same. I'm very sure that is I took poor Russian children to live with me in Europe because I consider life in Russia isn't good enough for them, and then refused to give them back to their parents, I'd be charged by the international court just the same, and you'd call that justice, not "double standard" like it is written in the propaganda script to be synchronised between propagandists. .
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This about women protesting is part of a revolutionary scheme already seen in several occasions, but only people who know Russia can tell me if it applies here. It goes like that:
1) The government asks the men to do something dangerous, telling them it is to defend their homeland and by extension their families.
2) The men don't protest much and obey, hide, or flee to avoid the most fearsome confrontation.
3) The women and children, until now spared by the government as a bargaining chip to convince the men to obey, protest against the government to get their men back alive.
4) The government represses the women and children, putting them in danger as well.
5) The men then realize that their obedience will not save their women and children, so they too turn against the government.
6) The government is defeated by the people. But because it was defeated out of anger and love for each person's immediate family, without any political plan, opportunists become the new governors.
I suppose most Russians can do this math in their head, don't hope for a better government after a revolution and want to skip all the trouble. Also I suppose Putin knows how to not look too mean with the loved ones in russia ("partial" mobilisation: almost like "sweet" mobilisation, isn't it ?). But there is a wall a the end of this fool's game: the absolute resolve of other nations to never give up their own freedom. The path to being a monster abroad without being a monster to the nation is becoming increasingly narrow. Tomorrow or in several centuries, the end of the road is bound to come at some point.
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One plane per day. Why don't they go away?
Another hit the ground. A burning plume is found.
One plane per day. It seems a common sight.
But mobiks in a line, don't know the reason why.
How could they know just what explosions means?
The end of a joke, the end of sin.
How could they know the places they have been
Behind a wall, where Vova had a dream?
One plane per day, it wasn't alway so.
The army was all right, as long it didn't fight.
But all that's left is a place fool and crazy
The motherland turned into a vast circus
Became a tomb by the whims of him only.
When two up, two down.
One plane per day, it wasn't always so.
The leaders nonetheless, put the blame on U.S.
As order came, they doubled the aircrafts,
They felt it all at once, how vain was such a draft.
How could they know just what explosions means?
The end of a joke. The end of a sin.
How could they know the places they have been
Behind a wall, where Vova had a dream?
One plane per day, the peace has gone away
The banners stands for none, a symbol of a clown.
And all that's left is a place fool and crazy.
The motherland turned into a vast circus
Became a tomb by the whims of him only.
When two up, two down.
One plane per day. Why don't they go away?
Another hit the ground. The neighbors heard the sound.
One plane per day. It seems a common sight.
But mobiks in a line, don't know the reason why.
How could they know just what explosions means?
The end of a joke, the end of sin.
How could they know the places they have been
Behind a wall, where Vova had a dream?
One plane per day. Why don't they find their way?
Yet Another going down. It was hit by a round.
And all that's left is a place fool and crazy.
The motherland turned into a vast circus
Became a tomb by the whims of him only.
And all that's left is a place fool and crazy.
The motherland turned into a vast circus
Became a tomb by the whims of him only.
https://youtu.be/9j1osekPbMY
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3:15 We have a possibly deadly issue with the way we communicate.
I have no trust issue with this guy. I've heard enough from pro-Putin and anti-Putin Russians themselves, and from witnesses of various backgrounds, and I've studied History and human nature enough, to have no doubts that horrors are happening in the occupied territories right now, and that the more we take our time, the worse it will get.
I don't want to stop him from crying in public if he needs to.
That said, we have a big social and communication problem to solve urgently here: what he's doing with this video, communicating emotions without presenting evidence of what causes them , can be imitated by any fucking paid propagandist , and too many people aren't educated or smart enough to tell the difference.
- Teaching people how to spot liars takes decades. It will be too late.
- Simply doing more than the adversarial propaganda will only make us look even more like propaganda , if not actually turning ourselves into propagandists in the worst case scenario.
So, as cruel and hurtful and dark it may seem at first, if we want to work with reality and bring more people in reality to make that reality better, we MUST throw raw, unfiltered evidence of what is happening to the face of the audience. It's a duty.
If, like YouTube , we remain afraid that showing the truth without filter might hurt our puny business, that it might reduce our personal income, then shame on us for being despicable assholes who are okay with hiding crimes, okay with helping liars, torturers and murderers, and letting other people suffer more so that we enjoy a little more psychological comfort and wealth for now. Shame on us for claiming that the point is to "protect" the audience when all we do is protecting investors' bank accounts and the worst evildoers!
Truth isn't comfy , but it's our duty to face it so we can at least know the real world we live in and build a better future.
Refusing to face crimes as they are only makes them come to us sooner.
And if we "in the West" react only to displays of emotions without access to the facts, without reason, then it means that we are as vulnerable to В.В.Пу́тин's gang than any drunk Z-ist , as mentally vulnerable and potentially criminal as any Taliban, extremist Zionist, political fanatic and other hallucinated religious zealots, and thus share the same fate.
Let's be better than that. Let's face and share reality in full resolution. Don't pretend anymore that we couldn't know in time.
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5:48 Neither civilians nor non-civilians, in this case. Neither ammunition, nor weapons, nor strategic infrastructure , nor vehicles, nor communication systems, nor symbols, for that matter.... 🤡.
Bragging about killing nobody after they bragged about making million of people freeze to death…
Is it even an act of war? 🤷♂
7:14 And meanwhile, on the front lines, Russian fighter who can't count on missile strikes desperately try to compensate by stuffing armored vehicles with explosives. Explosives that is missing inside the artillery shells…
Is it even an act of war? 🤷♂
What all of this is, actually ? 🤔🤔🤔 😐?
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Speaking of cults and sects, Japan probably has the most sects per capita in the world. Strangely, Putin is not trying by any means to de-satanize Japan, not even through cultural outreach or diplomatic relations. Why not? Why is this not a political-religious priority for Russia? Simply because this whole murderous circus has never had anything to do with anything religious or legal, and everything to do with plundering a country of which he is jealous, by any means, including disguising himself as the dirty whore of the most insane religious extremists.
Routine call: check, failed.
Humanitarian call: check, failed.
Securitarian call: check, failed.
Legal call: check, failed.
Historicist call: check, failed.
Hatred call: check, failed.
Religious call: check, failing...
What else left to try ? 😅
Holy war: holy shit ! No one beats reality in a stubbornness contest.
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13:50 To be absolutely convinced is the prerogative of absolute fools.
Poland is much better known around the world than Ukraine. Cultural exchanges are intense, the Polish diaspora is not negligible and most influent countries have invested in Poland recently. Poland is a member of numerous international organizations. Unlike many other countries, Poland has no enemy on which Russia could be relied upon to justify such aggression. Poland would once again be seen as a victim, except this time Germany would not share responsibility with Russia for the crimes against the Poles.
Beside, the use of nuke for genocide rather than deterrent is probably the biggest taboo in the world. The anti-Kremlin reaction to this would be global , not from the USA only, and it will be both instinctive and pragmatic.
This would displease the governments of Iran, North Korea, China, Cuba, and a host of other leaders on every continent who have based their political narratives on hatred of the USA and can't easily explain why Russia has finally become so much worse.
- Iran would fear that this would be used as a pretext to attack it, knowing it can't defend itself.
- It would ruin North Korea's international seduction plan, which will certainly not be forgotten.
- China would try harder to avoid being perceived as a potential ally of Russia to avoid an economic meltdown or an actual world war on its territory, would be even tougher on trade, and might even form alliances with European Nation who are their best customers, and Southern nations who control trade routes out of Russia.
On the military plane, this would start a worldwide seek and destroy hunt for any sort of nuclear launcher belonging to Russia, as well as a hunt for the individuals responsible of this crime.
Not even talking of the risk of an immediate nuclear response on the territory of Russia as В.В.Пу́тин don't pick up the phone during the attack or refuses to cancel it.
If they survive, the members of the Russian government would then have to explain to the citizens why so much cataclysmic destructions on their own territory, why they could not prevent it, no longer knowing exactly which nation is performing strikes on Russia.
In short, if Russia were to carry out such an attack, Russia would have as many problems as countries in the world, while each of those countries would have only one urgent international problem to "solve": Russia. Although their solutions to this new problem would be very heterogeneous, none of them will be flowers and kisses.
No one doubts that Russia can be mean and cruel and dangerous etc. That is not the problem. Russia's problem is it cannot afford the consequences.
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8:27 "Scientists" 😂😂😂😂😂 "Scientists" ! 🤪
Hell... both of my parents spent their lives in laboratories and universities, studying, conducting experiments, solving equations, discovering natural laws and teaching science in three different languages.
I was raised by real scientists. I can spot clowns pretending to be scientists just by their phrasing and tone of voice, even before they say something very stupid, which usually happens very quickly. Their profound desire to sound smart has so little to do with a thirst for knowledge that it makes my ear hairs stand on end. They belong to a radically different world, extremely alien to the scientific world, and it is fatally impossible for them to recover from decades of not studying and researching to deceive those who know what it takes. It's not even a matter of degree or achievement: their attitude to the world in general is simply different.
As the saying goes, "I may not be a fishing expert, but I can tell who is randomly fooling around."
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14:04 And this is where you are a complete moron , or more likely a pure liar an asshole , Sir Orbán.
It's not that the European nations can't destroy the Moscovian war machine all by themselves if necessary. It's just that they don't want to make the effort and terrible sacrifices necessary to do so and are still hoping that the Ukrainian resistance and multi-continental deterrence will be enough.
But if, as you dream, the USA stops deterring Moscovia, and Moscovia is so deluded by such a brief political victory that it starts to believes that the Europeans won't defend themselves, then Moscovia will continue to attack more and more nations , with the goal of at least restoring the empire as В.В.Пу́тин promised to his fan club (if not more, because why not when respect for others is no longer a thing).
The obvious direct consequence of fewer restrictions on Moscovia's hostile policies will, of course, be more aggression from it and more wars , until a European coalition finally decides to decapitate the Moscovian Federation to solve the problem at its source. This will inevitably happen unless Moscovia learns to GENUINELY respect others by other means: reason, basic intelligence, mathematics pragmatically applied to survival, survival instinct, spiritual maturity including universality, inspiration from God, or a cure against sadism and masochism, a sane political evolution without mass corruption, whatever… all of which that Moscovia dangerously lacks by now, just like other similarly stupid nation lacked before they turned better with great pain or have been erased. The human species simply can't keep feeding bullies they sometimes decide to blindly worship. They are too expansive. This does not depend on the USA.
The non-participation of the United States of North America can only change the time needed and the amount of waste, pain and suffering before we finally get rid of the plague, but doesn't change the end.
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2:27 This is exactly why some European countries have built strategic military airbases underground, inside mountains, so that they cannot be destroyed even if missiles hit their location. Fortunately no one sold Russia hundreds of thousands of tons of prefabricated rocky mountains to build on top of their existing military air bases in the plains😆, nor up-to-date interceptor missiles, their launchers, radars, lidars, PEMSG and the trained personnel that goes with them.
Who knows this attack comes from Ukraine ? There are very capable people on the territory of Russia, mainly very capable Russians of course, who have plenty of reasons to hate this specially sick military operation, too.
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9:41 Perhaps we should communicate more clearly to those who want to study and live in the EU that this choice comes at an extremely high price:
- no freedom to bomb or kidnap children, even foreigners
- no murder or torture of people to steal their land, their washing machines or for pleasure
- respect for political borders
- respect for valid signed international treaties
- no restrictions on the rights of individuals on the pretext that they are atypical
- no elimination of political opponents, even when they criticize members of the government or the wealthy
- unavoidable social pressure to express compassion for victims
- obligation to come to the aid of those in danger
- social disfavor for lying instead of rewards
- social disfavor for insulting the weak instead of social advancement
- the weight of tradition, which constantly encourages political activism based on personal opinions
- risk of demonstrations, strikes, physical opposition to government action by people of all ages
- dissociation of churches and national surveillance and propaganda services
- independent medias everywhere
- people sometimes smiling in the streets for no obvious reason, which is just freaky
- tremendous difficulties in taking any pride in the exploitation of others
- widespread denial of the perfect identity between Russia and В.В.Пу́тин
- constant hostility from the most authoritarian foreign empires
Are you sure you are ready for such socio-anarchist hell? 😜
Are you sure you want to end up at a university one day, where you'll be asked to produce and justify your own original ideas, rather than just proving you know the ones you've been taught? Be careful what you ask for. Europe today isn't just some magic place to get quite recognized diplomas. Living there is very demanding. Realize what you're risking. It's quite possible that you'll meet people there who won't like you very much just because they think you don't care enough about other people. Judeo-Christian culture sometimes requires enormous efforts to adapt, and leaves its mark.😈😜
And I'm not even talking about the twisted humor they have by there.
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"your job, your workplace is reserved" doesn't fit at all the actual economic needs. They talk like if their jobs didn't required skills, training, context, habits, experience... Like if those jobs didn't depended of what they have in their head and like if any employee was replaceable without any socio-economical impact; like if any of those jobs could be interrupted and resumed later without consequences, without difficult temporary replacements, mistakes, delays, loses, without competition from other citizens or from foreign businesses abroad.
That's NUT ! The loses are going to be more than the GDP of Ukraine. This is Russia applying the most devastating economic sanction to itself !
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7:10 "Do not accept gift from gods !" says ancient greek wisdom. For a reason.
reference: Paris accepting a present from Aphrodite ---> Trojan War. The rivalry was between goddesses, not between humans. There was no good choice. All had to be refused. Preferring any one of them would have resulted in equal destruction.
김정은 was quietly running his private little dictatorial enterprise, with the country tightly sealed off from the rest of the world except for a few very carefully selected and trained individuals. But if Russia unwillingly makes him an official supporter of an effective holy war against the United States, he will no longer be able to maintain the status quo and the wall between North Korea and the rest of the world. It could very likely kill him.
The last thing he would want to deal with would be a non-rhetorical conflict, and to be seen as a mere servant of Russia instead of a divine supreme leader. The domestic political consequences would be disastrous for him. Hidden private gifts may be welcome, with no guarantee of return, but public gifts would be the most toxic he would have to accept.
Poor 김 ! What did he do to deserve that ? 😆He isn't that stupid. And if he is, his sister will not. Count on their survival instinct.
Talibans are now very happy to be free from both GIs and Russian troops. They are trying without much success to present themselves as a respectable nation and try to re-establish diplomatic relations so they can finally trade and recover from years of war. All they don't need now is Russia pushing them again to re-play and re-fight all of this over again.
And do you remember what happened after the USA has given training and weapons to talibans and then abandoned them ? Yeah… September 11th. Want civilian planes falling on the Kremlin some day, or bombing in Moscow's and St Petersburg's subway ? That's quite a plan. Ask the inhabitants of those cities first, maybe. And if you don't care about the Russin people, ask Putin if he wants this kind of enemy on top of all the others he has already made in such a short time.
Poor talibans ! Aren't they desperate enough already ? 😢They aren't that stupid. Expect them to see you coming.
Do you know the difference between Ukraine accepting weapons from anybody but Russia and North Korea or Afghanistan accepting weapons from Russia:
- Ukraine is asking. for a reason: they are under attack right now.
- Nobody is attacking North Korea or Afghanistan.
Dear putinists and imperialists, you'd better give your "allies" some freedom before you lose them just like you have lost Ukraine. Humans are the kind of beasts that tend to bite anyone who tries to put a collar around their neck, and they are simply too many for you to tame.
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21:39 The Ukrainians try to inform the Russians about their rights, but they are not necessarily believed!
Russian propaganda is so effective that many Russians are genuinely surprised that they are not tortured once captured. They are surprised to hear the Ukrainians speak Russian to them. They are surprised to be treated and fed better than in their ranks. They are surprised the Ukrainian save their lives when they are wounded.
It's a reality they cannot believe in until they see it. And once they have seen it and want to tell their families about it, it's their turn not to be believed, and they are accused of having given in to blackmail or being brainwashed.
The Nazis of the past also offered their enemies to surrender, saying that nothing bad would happen to them, and yet sometimes proceeded to hang them afterwards. On top of that, Putin's propaganda, deliberately full of contradictions, creates a kind of paranoia. Therefore, from the point of view of many Russian fighters, the kind offers from the Ukrainians are not necessarily reassuring.
Many actually think they are indeed saving the world, or at least Russia, against terrible barbarians. This war itself is so insane that not believing the propaganda can turn mad of anger. So many are so stressed, under so much fear and pressure, that they prefer to believe anything they are told than take the risk of thinking it through. Ultimately, *fear dictates their behavior*, so they often can't follow your logical reasoning about surrendering, even physically. *Some brain parts are actually turned off by fear*. Chanting, alcool, drugs or despair do the rest.
Maybe the only success of Putin in this war is to have almost cancelled the effect of the Internet in his country, to have created a huge and persistent illusion, and to have succeeded in breaking the trust between Russians and Ukrainians despite they have no difficulty to understand each other in normal times.
Unless they pay more for a VPN, Russians don't read the same Wikipedia, they never listen to neutral translations of many foreign sources. Imagine what picture they have in mind if you want to predict their behaviour, and don't be surprised they don't surrender, sabotage or revolt that much against pure madness.
I have called for less mockery and taunts and more efforts to repair communication lines between Russia and the rest of the world*, using *translations and fun games so more Russians accept to listen something else than national TV and reconnect with the world despite it hurts, but it seems nobody took me seriously. It's a huge task. I'd like not to be alone trying. I know I'm not alone but we aren't united enough trying. Out of anger, many Ukrainians fail to keep talking with their relatives in Russia, too.
I still believe this could save much more lives than any weapon, by ruining the old trick Putin&Co uses to divide people and keep so many Russians under control.
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5:36 Don't worry: there is no way for Spain to start a war against Portugal.
Not only it's impossible to convince the current Spanish population to conquer land by force, but Spain is now — in spite of its History or maybe because of its History — one of the most democratic country in Europe, with a lot of activism for human rights and against corruption and a lot of international exchanges, so there is no way some militaristic leader stay in charge long enough in Spain to turn as authoritarian as Franco and sacrifice Spain's membership into UN, EU, NATO, etc... and turn all its allies into enemies. The Spanish royal family would certainly oppose such a calamity. The people would very certainly oppose it, too, by all means.
There is no more compulsory military service in Spain and most Spanish people have never touched a gun in their life, and just hate real war.
The provinces are quite autonomous in Spain, and such an extreme political betrayal at the state level could trigger a new Spanish civil war, to the point that Spain cannot attack any other state without being paralyzed by internal conflicts.
Spain has more tanks than Germany mainly because Germany have been demilitarized and then focused in the use of small quantities of very high quality military equipment, while Spain has kept all sort of things, even gifts from the Soviet Union dreaming of using Spain as a military base in western Europe. Trust me, they aren't going to use them, ever, but for military parade or defence as last ressort. Remember that Spain does not have a nuclear deterrent system of its own, and that, although it is a member of NATO, its diplomatic relationship with the United States of North America is more recent and less strong than most western Europe countries. You can therefore consider its armor arsenal as an alternative deterrent system, not so much as a tool of conquest.
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17:58 VITAL TIP FOR YOU: look for the origin of "the great replacement" pseudo-theory, the origin of this expression, and who finances it.
Please learn, if not done already, that Russian assets are used so sell the exact same idea in France under the expression "le grand remplacement". Under mafia influence, books are edited, TV time is allocated, to sell this idea in Europe, too. The rise of this ideology is NOT SPECIFIC TO THE USA , at all !
There is no Mexican border in Europe, yet they sell the same shit.
Don't believe it's about Mexicans. Don't believe it's about how parties are made in your country, because it is sold more or less same in any sort of political environment and under very different immigration contexts.
In all developed country, the plan is the same: destabilize your government and divide the population in order to size power.
It is clearly not about your borders and it's not even about current immigration issues. You'll realize if you can listen to various human languages around the globe , and if you track the supports for this xenophobic ideology. It's the result of a planned attack. It's the result of a campaign designed to take control of your institutions using your fears. The people doing this all pretend to work for their respective nations, but they all apply the same international plan , with international financial support , and count on the fact people rarely connect the dots between countries speaking different languages.
Anybody bringing "the great replacement" on the table is NOT working for you, is just using you for his plans or the plans of his master. Do you want a master, too? Or do you live to be free?
Don't ignore such people, don't put your head in the sand like Russians did. Defeat them politically. Use your imagination and you gut to create alternative policies or end up in a state very similar to the current Russia, Belarus, Iran of North Korea. You're warned. It's serious.
If needed, use translators to translate "the great replacement" in as many human languages as you can, then look for it on many foreign medias, and you'll have a better understanding of what I'm talking about.
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9:33 Well THIS IS THE SOLUTION then !
Think about it: if the only thing В.В.Пу́тин actually wants is to hear people tell him that he is a hero, all people have to do is to SIMULATE his victory, make sure he believes that Russia has won and that he is a great conqueror. Of course this would have nothing to do with reality, but since when В.В.Пу́тин care about reality anyways?
You only have to create a fake network of lies around him. It's easy and cost much less than a real war.
People would be free to stay alive, to make and enjoy peace, to repair the damages, to mourn, to trade, while he stays under control in the simulator.
Then, when everybody has finally recovered from traumas and don't fear him anymore, you can just turn off the simulator, as everything around has already changed and he isn't the real leader of Russia anymore.
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13:15 Wrong !
A monopoly IS causing deadly inflation in Russia, as В.В.Пу́тин says. What he doesn't say is it's not the monopoly of egg producers. It's his monopoly, the monopoly of В.В.Пу́тин's gang on everything, that is destroying Russia.
Yes, Russia is under international sanctions, but Russia never exported many eggs and Russia doesn't need western technology to run egg farms.
Russia doesn't lack resources to produce eggs, unlike electronic components or high quality truck tires, etc. Russia has plenty of land suitable for feeding chickens, has plenty of fossile energy sources to warm the chickens in winter if needed, and all the infrastructure needed to move eggs around its territory. Russia as all the know-how required for that, too. International sanctions are not the cause of food inflation in Russia.
What is causing inflation in Russia is the enormous price of maintaining Putin's gang.
Not only is В.В.Пу́тин insanely and criminally rich, greedy and expensive, but he is waging a double war (external and internal) that is wasting resources at an insane rate, sacrificing people who could be working in egg production and transportation instead.
On В.В.Пу́тин's order, all the resources needed for cheap eggs are used for war, massacre and self-destruction.
This alone is not sustainable. And there is nothing that "the West" or any other foreigner can do about it, either for it or against it, as long as the Russians are convinced that they must sabotage and destroy themselves in this way. It's 100% up to them.
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19:36 Hey, clever US citizens, did you know that drug only harm those who use them?
Yes ! Amazing trick to know, right? in fact, if you stop buying drugs, you don't even have to militarize the border!
Let say you completely change you mind, that you genuinely STOP buying poisons killing you, and start buying only GOOD things. Well, guess what… Mexicans will try to sell you GOOD things and won't lose money anymore trying to sell sell you drugs you don't buy. Because, yeah, guess Trump or saner people, they are doing this for money, not because the are born on the other side of the border, not because they want you dead.
STOP BUYING DEATH.
The issue is NOT the border. It's way worse than that: it's your own stupidity. This is what you should solve first, at the root.
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5:09 Here what is happening: Евгений Викторович Пригожин is set up to die in Bakhmut by Putin and the Russian ministry of defense who want to eliminate him, his sacrifice being used both as a cover for all the war crimes and an excuse for predictable future military failures.
He knows it but he cannot accept it, and this is all the cause of his burn out. He wanted to finish with Bakhmut quickly and then immediately go back to Africa, to kill easy defenceless targets and take diamonds, but the higher command deny that to him. We saw him drunk shortly after he realized that his political and physical liquidation was actually happening according to a plan decided in the Kremlin. Now he fights back.
He wants to live, and he even dream of vengeance by ruling Russia, or at least ruling something. So, after giving tangerines to Ukrainian prisoners to look like a very honorable general, he is trying to seduce all the frustrated Russian and Tchetchnian officers, by talking about their common issues and by looking like them. If it works, he still have a chance to march on Moscow. Otherwise he will be either killed or taken to the Hague by the Ukrainian forces, or later killed by the Russian government.
The error of the Kremlin with him is to let him no (false) hope. He can insult Putin because Putin has already decided to eliminate him no matter how.
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4:40 Ukrainians are born in Ukraine, not in the USA. They aren't defending the USA. They are defending their home, their house, their family, their land.
With this reasoning one could make a much more cost-efficient offert that would let all Ukrainians in love with Russia simply cross the nearby border and go live in Russia. It's much closer, require no special infrastructure or convoys, and works just the same.
Actually, the Ukrainian politics is written: no USA-inspired capitalism, no EU-inspired administration, no nazi-inspired nationalism, no Russian protectionism and slavery, just Ukrainian in Ukraine deciding for themselves. They are human, not some kind of sub-race that is content to be a cushion between venture empires run by little scumbags whose farts are getting too big for their pants.
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18:58 The explanation to this bizarre belief is elementary. It's very basic psychology.
- What such politician see is a massive use of Islam to try to conquer the world, to convert to Islam or destroy everybody on the planet. Any other religion could be used for such banal political project but, since the last centuries, Islam is the trend, replacing Christianity as tool of choice for social engineering.
- At the same time, in the name of human rights and tolerance, the same politicians are publicly engaged in defending the freedom of religion, and truth is there are indeed many muslims who aren't supporting any conquest of the world, so christians who are afraid of them can't simply go on crusade against them.
Far right representatives are mentally unable to solve that, or prevented to solve that by their social circles because any solution require to abandon superstitions of all religions including the Christian religion they need to get more political power in the USA.
So, because they don't know how to solve that hidden contradiction, and because they can't simply rely on God (guess why), they tend to use the Jews to go on crusade against Muslim in their place.
In a nutshell, they are pussies with greed an imaginary almighty friend. Hence the silly tales.
It's as simple as that.
Religious people are always problematic: They can't face reality.
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2:34 Alas, we all on this planet established such precedent many many many times.
Not just Russia with big parts of Asia and Europe, and more recently with Chechnya , Georgia, etc…
The whole land of the USA is made by conquest. Similarly, the whole Russian land is some kind of colony made by conquerors.
I have a much clearer philosophy for you, without Historical traps : is Putins' policy what most people want ? Obviously not !
If his policy was something people wanted, there would be no weapons involved and no war , duh. You simply don't make people happy at gunpoint. Putin lost his right to be happy now by doing what he does now to others.
so he can go fuck himself, and it's only adequate to work on making sure he doesn't fuck with anyone without consent right now.
Those who oppose him know what they want. Those who support him don't: they simply copy-paste their will from his will without any self-esteem or spontaneous thought, they repeat. Those who support him the most aren't even aware of what he does. If you ask them why they have to kill Ukrainians, they don't know, or they invoque crazy nonsense.
Blind followers aren't citizens. Citizens are those who can make their opinion, not just get it from above.
Well, there is an instantaneous excellent reason to let no political power to one man over thousands of millions , no matter the past and the futures.
People suffer Russian occupation right now.
What is happening isn't bad because of the past. It isn't bad because of imaginary futures. It is bad right now for billions, and we have means to make it better for for billions right now , even if it doesn't please those who don't know why they do it and those who perfectly know that they abuse but find convenient to pretend they don't.
Russia isn't the issue. The issue is nobody stop the very few who use and abuse Russia for evil, and opponents fight their peons instead of them.
Strike at the head ! Destroy this stupid fascination for dangerous individuals. Get rid of the mad frightening shepherd, and let the people face up to their responsibilities once again.
You want a "precedent" ? Attack the emperor instead of the imperialist cattle, for once.
Million of Russian children dream of this, not to take his place and do worse, but just to breathe.
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11:29 I disagree. Technically, there are many other ways. Not only better ways, but still.
- Humanity could suicide by destroying Russia and let it revenge in desperation. No humans, no human terror.
- We could offer VPN and translator for free to all Russians, and create an online game that let them earn money or win prizes by proving they have seen international news.
- We could also target nobody but Putin, and wait to see if the remaining people want to keep with its policy or find any better.
- We could kidnap Russians and force them to visit the world so they start to understand what they are talking about, compared to its depiction on TV.
- We could pay Russians to fight Putin more than he pays them to kill Ukrainians.
- We could give every Russian a bulletproof suit, a handgun, a flashlight, a partisan manual, and let them re-invent participative politics.
- etc.
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2:05 I am shocked that you would look down on them and associate this behavior with their culture.
If this bus goes to a training that then leads to a war you don't want to kill and die for, it's not a small argument, but rather a matter of life and death.
These people are not necessarily trained soldiers for this kind of situation, so of course they can panic at any time. They also have every reason to be extremely angry at a regime that has lied to them so much and now seems to want to physically eliminate them. In the absence of reliable information, in the absence of trust and given the vital stakes, any human can become extremely violent and jump out of its habits, whether he is Russian or of the same nationality as you. This can be observed in people of any religion, ethnicity and cultural group, in spite of dogmas and different pseudo-pacifist prides.
After all, it is only a rationalisation of this instinct shared by all that led to manufacturing weapons and organizing armies. So just because one has been specially trained to behave differently by a military instructor does not mean that one is fundamentally different from people who improvise in a panic.
Regardless of broad cultural traits and habits, we all quickly adapt to the only language that other people are willing to take into account, and behave with them in a very different way than we were brought up to. If the only choice you're given to not go out and kill people and get killed is to go to jail, you may quickly think of ways to go to jail, even if it was never in your culture or your calling to do so.
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12:01 This doesn't make the sense it pretend to make.
The USA could be equally working on anything else, not specifically weapons. There would be work to do (health, education, science, ressources preservation…), or free holidays to take of equal value, or even of superior value, without the need to invent and build new ways to kill.
What war is good for is not the well-being of all, but the well-being of those who count money. This specific kind of bonanza is mainly a bonanza for the rich, not for the poor.
USA, please, do guive, weapons and do build new weapons! , but for the good reason: for defense of those who don't have! Not to sell wonder-weapons to morbid dreamers, not to push that industry, but to get rid of those who do that as fast as possible, even if it's less beneficial for your banks.
Build weapons for prevention and defense, not for business. Otherwise, you are basically doing what Putin and and previous similar dictators where doing: show off and conquest.
And don't be ashamed to build weapons that are specifically designed to neutralize the rich, because the poor never go on serious conquest unless some rich pay them to do so. Maybe you won't make more money doing that, but you will make something much more precious: trust in you, and maybe even billions of friends if you are sincere.
Dear US citizens, don't be afraid anymore to work for political reasons, and not just for a bank that do not exactly share your interests.
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11:01 It's way worse than what you say, @JakeBroe : They do care about casualties, and they HOPE to have an enormous number of casualties! They actively work on making sure to have more casualties. They would artificially increase the number of casualties if it wasn't real. The more casualties they have the more the survivors can sell themselves as victims and "braves" who "resisted" something terrible. They are proud to be masochists. It's the only way they manage to justify and promote their sadism and crimes.
In their ill mind, the bloodiest, the more "patriotic".
- Remember В.В.Пу́тин's speech: "No one sacrifices themselves like the Russians." Indeed!
- Also, note that during WWII, the USSR's propaganda machine lied not only by inflating the figures of the German losses, but also by inflating the figures of their own losses.
They are stuck in this this idea that they can exploit the pity of others by hurting themselves. Maybe the Russian population has, but the Russian elite hasn't realized yet that this works only as long as people can believe them, and now we just find that stupid, not respectable and not worth existing.
Or course, this only works as long as there are people left to tell they are the victims because others died.
When you make sacrifices to Satan or to cruel ancient gods, or to В.В.Пу́тин, you do care how much you sacrifice. This is how promotion works in hell.
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2:56 Duh! Of course there is no need to create this image: Russia has already created it by murdering people.
3:04 Dude, little Vladi of the Kremlin, last time you said it would be foolish to believe that Russia would attack Ukraine, we've seen you preparing Russia for an attack on Ukraine and then we've seen your army do attack Ukraine, and even kill tourists and journalist in Ukraine.
- Last time you said you would never mobilise Russians, you did.
- Last time you said your army would never target civilians, it did, every week for years.
- Last time you said no Russian military agents were in Ukraine, we've seen many of them in Ukraine, and later you decorated some of them for their service in Ukraine during the period of time you said they weren't.
- Last time you said you would never postpone the retirement age in Russia, you did it.
- etc...
Guess what it means when you say you won't do something, now. 🤷🏼
Sorry, but we humans are like that: we learn.
After what you've done, if you want us to believe that you're not planing to attack NATO members, the best you can do is say you gonna do it, or at least SHUT UP!
And if you really, really don't want anyone to believe that you would like to attack NATO members, you could at least tell your supporters on Russian TV to stop saying that it must happen and that they want it to happen. It just doesn't sound peaceful at all, in any cultures.
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One plane per day. Why don't they go away?
Another hit the ground. A burning plume is found.
One plane per day. It seems a common sight.
But mobiks in a line, don't know the reason why.
How could they know just what explosions means?
The end of a joke, the end of sin.
How could they know the places they have been
Behind a wall, where Vova had a dream?
One plane per day, it wasn't alway so.
The army was all right, as long it didn't fight.
But all that's left is a place fool and crazy
The motherland turned into a vast circus
Became a tomb by the whims of him only.
When two up, two down.
One plane per day, it wasn't always so.
The leaders nonetheless, put the blame on U.S.
As order came, they doubled the aircrafts,
They felt it all at once, how vain was such a draft.
How could they know just what explosions means?
The end of a joke. The end of a sin.
How could they know the places they have been
Behind a wall, where Vova had a dream?
One plane per day, the peace has gone away
The banners stands for none, a symbol of a clown.
And all that's left is a place fool and crazy.
The motherland turned into a vast circus
Became a tomb by the whims of him only.
When two up, two down.
One plane per day. Why don't they go away?
Another hit the ground. The neighbors heard the sound.
One plane per day. It seems a common sight.
But mobiks in a line, don't know the reason why.
How could they know just what explosions means?
The end of a joke, the end of sin.
How could they know the places they have been
Behind a wall, where Vova had a dream?
One plane per day. Why don't they find their way?
Yet Another goes down. It was hit by a round.
And all that's left is a place fool and crazy.
The motherland turned into a vast circus
Became a tomb by the whims of him only.
And all that's left is a place fool and crazy.
The motherland turned into a vast circus
Became a tomb by the whims of him only.
https://youtu.be/9j1osekPbMY
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10:37 What I notice is that the Ukrainians who demanded independence in 2018 in ДНР and ЛНР are not too likely to wear the "Z" symbol. This is a very Russian-specific movement, and concretely promoted by the Russian government via postings.
I haven't seen many "Z" worn by the relatives of the mobilized Russians either. More by people in charge of supervising them.
So I suspect that the Russians who wear "Z" symbols are the ones who know the least about the conflict.
Despite this guy should knows what a bridge or a children's playground or a bike path is, and despite he was probably told that explosions are dangerous, and despite he probably knows that the death of loved ones can hurt, he doesn't realize that he is celebrating the murder of civilians, children included. From his hallucinatory point of view, all of this must be extremely abstract, remote, like some kind of war between demons and angels at the border of his world. For him, it may be nothing but a number kills to put in front of a number of "victims in Donbass" he imagines without knowing anything about them.
He doesn't realize the reality of what is going on. It seems pretty obvious that this guy, like Z-ists activists in general, isn't a victim of such violence himself. He is advocating for something he knows nothing about, by simply mirroring the mood seen in the medias and by instinctive social strategy, without being interested in the content even intellectually.
It's not that he enjoys killing people. He probably wouldn't be able to kill them himself. If you ask him, he will probably repeat that killing is bad like in school or in a church.
The trick is he can't keep in mind that those very remote Ukrainians also are, indeed, real people.
Put him there, on that bridge, right in front of the explosion when it happens, and he might wake up. If he's experiencing the events in real life instead of watching them like a film on TV, he might say something like, "Hey, that's crazy, that's dangerous, you almost killed me! It could hurt ! It could kill anybody! You can't do that!" Because his own organs would make him feel how undesirable it is instead of letting him listen to flattering nationalistic words.
Pay Z-ists a quick tour in reality !
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7:57 Oh yeah, here you go...do that. 😅
Facing tens of millions of highly educated and industrialized people who all carry the existential need to show the world that they are much better than vulgar "nazis" or "commies", as vexing fools have been trying to anachronistically describe them for the past three generations.
Not to mention the practicality of attacking one of the original founders of one of the world's largest economic and multi-cultural unions, as well as a member of the military alliance with the greatest capacity for projection and destruction in the world, and one of your best clients and investors.
That's certainly worth a triple international prize in sick military strategy, sick economics and sick psychology.
Even the most Machiavellian anti-Russian plotters still hanging around the CIA couldn't dream of a more secure plan to plunge Russia into a new, non-emerging third world. This could even reconciliate the USA with China against you, seriously.
Yeah... claim that again, go seek your future in the past that everyone celebrated the end of with dancing and cheering, " clever" man. Popcorn and nukes are ready.
At this point, I think Владимир Рудольфович Соловьёв is doing a much more efficient job than Володимир Олександрович Зеленський ever will in convincing Europeans to give Ukraine all the possible weapons and send the current Russian government to hell.
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16:11 If you U.S. citizens look to your party leaders for guidance, then you're no better than the Russians you sneer at , you'd lick the feet of slavers and do exactly the same horrible thing if told to*, and the "democracy" you're so proud of is *nothing but a word inherited from long-dead people who, unlike you, didn't choose to be cattle.
Elections don't make a democracy.
Nobody can give you democracy. Democracy is made by the daily political shore of the people. If the people don't produce their own political ideas, if they don't enforce their own self-made political ideas by their own power, if they rely on a leader to dictate them what to do, then there is no democracy, and all you're left with are, at best, pseudo-democratic rituals and silly beliefs that anyone can exploit.
Even if, by incredible chance, you get a good leader, there is no democracy where the people don't continuously make it.
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19:53 Correction: Communism NEVER EXISTED IN RUSSIA as a political regime , only in dreams or in very short experiments. What people hate today and continue to call "communism" in accordance with the propaganda of the Kremlin and its imitators in Asia, has nothing to do with true communism. These regimes weren't and aren't communist. They aren't even failed communism or imperfect regimes evolving to communism. They are complete fakes. They are gangs , sects and cults in disguise.
Genuine communism only existed for a few days or weeks in certain cities, in different parts of the planet, before its inhabitants were killed, imprisoned, tortured or simply forced to live by other rules by an overwhelming armed force.
For people all over the world to really hate communism, they'd have to know what it is. But they can't, because it's extremely rare and the so-called communists have completely perverted its symbolism, hijacked it for their own exclusive profit like any other sect, and thus historically destroyed it.
It's plausible genuine communism require too high spiritual and social skills to make a large human society. It might be too vulnerable to sociopaths by nature, or to new, alien to traditions and misunderstood to be practiced with enough social skill.
On a smaller scale, you're probably practicing limited forms of communism in your family or at work without even realizing it, without knowing that it's more authentic communism than that of the soviets, simply by pooling certain goods and practicing trust and solidarity. But if someone tries to sell it to you on a national scale and as a mandatory absolute, chances are it's a scam.
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