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  1. “Too big to fail’ is the western question. ‘Not close enough to the CCP” is the Chinese answer.
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  2. These attacks, like Belagrod, are meant to force Russia to spread its troops over a larger area. Also note that some Russian villages are very small by western standards. Western media has done a poor job of explaining this. I remember the media saying that Russian soldiers captured a train station, when that “station” was just a sitting area made of concrete, sort of like a bus stop.
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  3. If you don’t fit the narrative, they won’t listen to you. :/
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  4. Is lie! Russia is not looking desperate and vulnerable! Russia IS desperate and vulnerable! :D
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  5. Pretty sad that even some European countries aren’t interested in a war in their own backyard. And that the much of the west — but not all — has fallen for the narrative. Keep up the videos!
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  6. Soon to be second best in Moscow!
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  7. I‘ll believe it when I see it. France (and Germany) led from behind during the Ukranian war.
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  8. Forget Taiwan. I want to see what happens when China sends in troops to countries that demand they leave.
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  9. Germany leading from behind, as usual. Good work, Poland.
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  10. Enjoy your recession!
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  11. I hear the Russians will next build a castle in a swamp. :D
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  12. CCP stands for just us!
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  13. Yep. France again.
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  14. China always take the long approach. They even take a long time to finally fall apart.
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  15. @P : Learn to use punctuation, bot.
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  16. @S: Trump‘s heading off to jail. Why are you still afraid of him?
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  17. Until the tofu dregs fall apart. Of course, the corrupt officials who accepted kickbacks are long gone.
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  18. @a: You misspelled “Russia”, bot.
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  19. @Don’t: Good luck with the narrative, bot.
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  20. Yep. Already happened, especially in China’s housing market.
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  21. @m: Putin fled from Wagner.
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  22. Can’t win them all. Just ask the 5K of Russians who were at Lyman.
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  23. Short answer: No.
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  24. Joe Blog has a great video explaining price caps and, more importantly, G7 control over shipping insurance and Russia’s inability to stop pumping oil out of the grounds (and Russia’s inability to store it). And like India and Russia aren’t going to want cheaper oil and no secondary sanctions. What’s Russia going to do with the oil it pumps out? Permanently shut down their own oil fields because they don’t have the tech to reestablish their infrastructure? Or maybe they’ll spill all those millions of barrels of oil into some landfill pit because they have nowhere to put it?
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  25. China is one of the USA’s top three trading partners, and USA is one of China’s type three trading partners. And China knows what the west will do through the Ukraine war. We should not rely on other countries for our critical supplies and oil, but otherwise, part of the reason why China has not allied with Russia (and Iran has) is that China relies on the USA for trade (and vice-versa) while Iran does not (thanks to sanctions, which may still not be a bad thing).
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  26. It’s very weird that most Americans don’t understand economics. Inflation started with both Democrat and Republican administrations more interested in pumping up the economy than reigning in risk. (Low interest rates = more business loans = more made-up money for everyone.)
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  27. Sounds like someone wants to live in California! We just raised minimum wage for fast food to $22, and a Democrat is posturing to raise the minimum wage to $50. Prices are rising and someone’s gotta pay — why not you?
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  28. The USA didn’t provide these subsidies, the Democrats did, to the tune of one TRILLION dollars of American taxpayer money! Green energy policies cutting off domestic oil production has led to the rise of gas, futher aggravating American and the world‘s inflation prices as well. And maybe EU will stop listening to Greta, as their own green energy policies have made them, particularly Germany, dependent on Russian oil. And wait ten years from now when Western countries (or at least California) mandate EV‘s made with metals from China. Energy independence first, alternate energies second.
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  29. And when Xi says laugh, you better laugh.
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  30. @A1 : Russian soldiers haven‘t been rotated. Resupply means sending more untrained conscripts.
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  31. Race to the bottom. My cheap Lenovo laptop works fine (although it’s slow), but IBM left the PC market ages ago, because it new desktops (and now laptops) are commoditized, with low profit margins. China actually had hundreds of EV car manufacturers, who have been hit hard by the recession, reducing their numbers. Tesla’s even lowered the price of their cars. And China has the rare metal market — Western greenies won’t let you mine in Western countries, but are perfectly happy to pay other countries to do the mining — and environmental destruction — for them.
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  32. Gloriously running home! Gloriously surrendering!
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  33. I’ll be happy if the economy recovers. May take a few years. Good luck with the inflation and thank Manchin the government didn’t spend half a TRILLION dollars more.
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  34. The Red Ripple has a good chance of controlling the House, and Manchin has shown that ONE vote in the Senate can stop either party. Hope gridlock stops BOTH parties from doing more damage to voters.
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  35. @S: Wake me up when Biden serves Russian tea to McCarthy over debt talks.
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  36. Let’s look at Scholz’ Swiss Bank accounts and see how many rubles are in them.
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  37. @M : Haven‘t lost Crimea… yet.
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  38. 2024: Chinabots yet to discover formatting.
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  39. @g : Now, he’s just in pieces.
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  40. Well, food companies gotta pay their suppliers as well. I certainly doubt restaurants, which are raising prices, aren’t paying inflated prices, either.
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  41. Well, if you can start a food supply chain that puts people over profits, I’m all for it.
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  42. Immigrants may want to see family back in their homelands, but they left their for a good reason — particularly if they want their children to live a better life. After hundreds of years of oppression, Russians leaving know that, even if Putin is dethroned, another dictator awaits them. And we keep saying the West is a better place to live than Russia (or China). Why not prove it?
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  43. And Putin is still playing 4D chess! :D
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  44. Russia has zero internal security, as the west told Ukraine (previously) not to attack Russian soil. So, of course, Moscow is vulnerable to anyone who holds a grudge — and boy, will ISIS hold a grudge.
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  45. Keep ignoring those red flags, bot.
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  46. Who remembers the Budapest Memorandum? Russia certainly didn‘t.
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  47. Those are the only missiles left. Empty those museums, right?
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  48. Better not look at your stock portfolio, then. Wonder how much of Gen Z owned crypto.
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  49. All part of master plan! :D
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  50. Russia‘s killed tens of thousands of Ukranian civilians, and an entire generation of Russian men. Russia has destroyed its own economy. Russia has created a great non-nuclear environmental and agricultural disaster by blowing up a dam. Russia clearly has no regard for human lives. Why wouldn‘t it blow up a nuclear power plant?
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  51. Even that little dog is happy!
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  52. @Hene: Russia is scared that they can be attacked in Moscow.
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  53. ANY Senator in either party can break a bill, and the House is red. Hope that gridlock will keep us from MORE government spending and a LONGER recession.
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  54. Whenever a Russiabot speaks, he‘s projecting Russian actions.
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  55. Scholtz: Leading from behind!
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  56. Ukraine will dance at Russia’s funeral.
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  57. One major reason for the destruction of Russia — Russia.
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  58. I’m sure the well-educated youth sent to work on farms will increase the GDP even more!
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  59. @NH: Russian lackey.
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  60. OMG global warming. Er, climate change. Keep moving those goalposts.
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  61. Who’d want to own Russia? :D
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  62. @Alex: I‘m sure the bots will tell us of the invisible Terminator tanks behind the museum piece! :D
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  63. Russians lying so much they don’t even know what‘s going on. :D
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  64. Russia has plenty of rusted weapons for their troops! :D
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  65. Stop polluting the ocean. Even if you don’t believe in climate change, dumping pollution into the ocean is obviously the wrong thing to do.
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  66. Looks like Putin‘s body double is alive and well. Also, the Russian footage cut out the mine sweep and other Ukranian tanks. I’ll agree with Denys that not showing videos and thus allowing Russia to show its version of the event was a mistake.
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  67. There’s a difference between “slowing down” and “crashing into a wall” not that I wished the USA started raising interest rates two years earlier (and not have QE in the first place).
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  68. Wagner is facing no resistance from Russian checkpoints, so Russian soldiers may do same.
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  69. While, IMO, China won’t “collapse”, I’ve been seeing ghost cities, or, rather, ghost shopping malls, since 2005. America has been “kicking the can” for decades, and so is China — except much moreso, including with its tofu dreg GDP. Anyone who thinks China is doing well, well, I’m sure the Russians thought they were doing well, too.
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  70. I‘m sure all the bots believe what Wagner says.
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  71. I doubt Putin will listen to anyone except Putin. Other than oil, China (and India) hasn’t supported Russia. China doesn’t want to lose its top three trading partners for Putin‘s benefit.
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  72. China: We need a distraction from our disastrous CoVid policy. USA: We need a distraction from our disastrous recession China: I got an idea.
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  73. @Hugo : The RMD can‘t defend anything.
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  74. @N: Putin is doing an excellent job of denying reality.
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  75. 1:30 : Maybe the preliminary Russian forces will find the Russian strongpoints as they advance closer to Moscow and St. Petersberg. Or Siberia. Or the Sea of Northern China. Slava Ukraine!
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  76. Only going to get worse with the EV bandwagon. But if Germany can’t learn from relying upon Russia for gas, EU’s not going to learn from China.
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  77. After Three Mile Island, USA learned about nuclear energy. Unfortunately, Japan and other countries did not.
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  78. USA has already spent over 68 billion dollars to fight Russia in Europe. EU has spent only €18 billion for Ukraine. USA has gotten nothing but criticism, enemies, and entitlement from being the world’s cop, and has inflation and a recession to worry about.
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  79. Looks like Americans voted for gridlock, since the Senate is effectively split, with Manchin still around.
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  80. Someone forgot Ronnie Raygun and the “support” US had in Afghanistan.
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  81. @Dean: Trump‘s almost in jail now. Why is he still news to the left?
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  82. Russia cannot admit its own citizens are fighting back. Russia weaker and weaker as increasing sabotage clearly shows.
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  83. @g: RIP Caps key.
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  84. Dictatorship security forces are well-trained only against defenseless citizens. And they’re not so spread that they couldn’t handle a with Saudi Arabia, right?
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  85. And Russia claimed they increased security in Belgorod after the previous attacks! The west told Ukraine they could not attack Russian soil, so Russia sent all its men to Ukraine. But, now, that‘s backfired, as Ukraine is taking the war into its own hands (maybe with some tacit western approval) and attacking Russia oil infrastructure (they originally didn’t do that b/c the west thought it would raise worldwide oil prices) and supplying separatists with weaponry (the west was afraid Russia would retailiate with nukes and stronger military, but Russia has shown it has no such weaponry).
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  86. Well, China’s been lying about their GDP for decades.
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  87. Too bad Xi‘s sending their educated youth into the cornfields.
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  88. The Russians failed to take Bakhmut, so, to make sure they fail, they fail to take Soledad as well. Slava Ukraine!
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  89. USA has sent 50 billion dollars in aid to Ukraine and isn’t even anywhere near Russia‘s doorstep.
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  90. @Robert : What? You want the Republicans to win? Never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake! :D
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  91. Good point. I’m concerned about the three House seats flipping to RED in the middle of NY. Some blue states, like CA, have had an exodus for decades, resulting in them losing House seats. Not controlling the House and Machin as a Senator doesn’t look like a Democrat win to me. Then again, the Democrats have been telling us that inflation is “transitory” and that we are not in a recession.
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  92. The Emperor has not clothes. Putin has only one tank! Maybe shoulda invaded Vulhedar late May instead?
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  93. And they’ll find out in a few decades what it’ll be like to have their future spent when they were young, much like the OK Boomers and their retirement portfolios have found out.
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  94. @Save: Russia is going to lose. Will send you links later. :D
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  95. Considering what Russia did to Ukraine, those “vassal” states are doing pretty well.
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  96. Chinabots alone count for 2% of China’s economy.
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  97. Well, the House flipped red, so I guess we didn’t.
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  98. The bots are the ones regurgitating Xi‘s GDP numbers.
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  99. @u: Xi lifting the people out of poverty by employing them on bot farms.
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  100. @AB: I‘d trust David more than the Kremlin. Heck, better data comes out of my dog’s posterior than Russia.
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  101. Manchin cut Democratic spending by 1/3, from BBB’s 1.5 trillion to a series of bills totaling a trillion or more. With the Senate majority being so thin, any Senator can effectively shut down their party, be it Democrat or Republican. Gridlock is good enough, though, I suppose.
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  102. @L : Wtheck are you talking about? You want crumbling buildings? Just look at those Chinese ghost cities in your own country.
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  103. Sweden: The greatest democracy in the world! :D
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  104. China accepting a request by a western politician? Pull the other finger.
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  105. Probably already has backing from oligarchs, other generals, and certainly other PMC‘s, since they will be dissolved and absorbed into the RMD.
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  106. What the report doesn’t tell you (soon enough) is that the drone strikes were in a suburb nearby Moscow where “elite” residents lived. I wouldn’t mind a few SVB executive homes exploding, myself.
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  107. Hey, bots, tell us how Russia‘s going to win when their troops are retreating, your museums are running out of tanks, and your only competent troop is a private army who hates you.
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  108. If China is your only friend, then you have no friends.
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  109. See 2.:10. You did watch the video?
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  110. Chinabots in the comments again trying to improve their social score.
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  111. CCP screwing up as usual. You’d think if they could spend all this money and resources on lockdowns, they could do the same for the inevitable CoVid cases.
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  112. The Republicans can get rid of Trump by 2024. The Democrats can’t get rid of Biden or their progressives by then.
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  113. Buy gold and hide in the mattress. Make sure neither is counterfeit!
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  114. Except they don’t work or have been sold for parts.
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  115. @Brainwashed: And plenty of Russians fled Russia.
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  116. If you can afford groceries, heating, and gas bills.
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  117. China can’t do anything with its economy while the corrupt CCP are in business. Those sanctions didn’t cause China’s housing Ponzi scheme, didn’t cause Covid, and certainly didn’t cause China’s environmental mismanagement and resulting water shortage.
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  118. I’d rather not have Harris as president.
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  119. EU needs to be independent of the USA. USA’s “help” comes at a cost — you’re gonna listen and obey the USA or we’ll pull the funding. Don’t naively think that the USA is the world’s police out of the good of its own heartless heart. USA does this to exercise soft power for its interests.
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  120. Send Putin out a hospital window! :D
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  121. Dishonest liars like Xi?
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  122. @N:You Russian bots don’t seek facts at all.
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  123. Yep. Wager‘s already been hosed by the RMD several times before, and the RMD flanks are failing. Get out before the chef gets cooked!
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  124. The Onion couldn‘t even come up with something as ludicrous as that parade. Slava Ukraine!
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  125. Mohammod didn‘t come to the mountain, so Raisi plowed into it.
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  126. Is Xi hitting busses now?
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  127. Do those cadets really think they‘ll live to 2024?
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  128. Two Chinese fishermen no doubt accidentally dragging their anchors near cables for the last twenty miles. Oh, and the Coast Guard are patrolling waters these Chinese vessels shouldn’t be in. Stop it with the FAFO, CCP.
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  129. @S: Why are you still afraid of Trump?
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  130. This brutality happens all over the ME, Africa, Russia, China, and other countries, The west needs to wake up and stop thinking simplistically that one side is innocent.
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  131. If Putin has to resort to shovels, rusted rifles, and tanks from museums, you should know better than to think he has nukes. His corrupt officers have long ago sold the components and equipment necessary to maintain nuclear anything. If his most loyal people are like Shoigu, I doubt any of them want nukes threatening their mansions and yachts.
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  132. Yep. Part of the buy-in from India and China is that they‘ll still get cheap oil from Russia.
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  133. USA made the same “change” mistake with China decades ago. OTOH, If you’re trading partners with an enemy, you have more control over them. China was neutral towards Russia because its three highest trading partners were USA, Germany, and Japan, with Russia being 15th. Many Chinese businesses left Russia because they feared USA secondary sanctions. Dictatorships are only allies of convenience.
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  134. It’s like EU didn’t realize Trump was president and didn’t have eight years to prepare for this. Russia’s in EU’s backyard — and USA is kinda busy in a few other places, you know.
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  135. Definitely a good point! Much of Russia’s military is spread out over the country because of internal and external enemies. Ukraine can pretty much commit all its men against the Russians. And if Belarus has civil unrest, what about the ethnic minorities already in Russia? Better watch out for those Russian cigarettes, Moscow warehouses!
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  136. Easiest is to assume Russian is lying, then wait for confirmation that Russia is, indeed, lying.
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  137. Russia knows it cannot hold Crimea. That‘s why they blew up the dam. Russia knows they cannot hold Ukraine. That’s why they will blow up the nuclear power plant.
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  138. Putin’s body doubles are well and alive.
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  139. Do Russian nukes even work? Poor maintenance and sold for parts!
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  140. The house flipped red, so we got rid of crazies and may have prevented more reckless spending as well.
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  141. @Sheehy: I’m pretty sure Jack Ma said the same thing before he was “re-educated”.
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  142. Oligarchs, inner circle, other PMC‘s, other RMD generals.
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  143. Even if AI makes a mistake, there‘s usually a human “editor” to find them. And we’ve always had the warning, even before the internet, to fact-check and due diligence. (Go ask your grandfather how centerfolds in those gentlemen’s magazines were airbrushed (:: Of course, not everyone does this, which is why have the internet (not to mention the stock market).
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  144. China‘s not selling. China‘s dumping. Raise the revenue tariff. And know the different between a revenue tariff and a protectionist one.
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  145. Many of these don‘t even have electricity or water. Many Chinese prefer unfinished houses — at least they did.
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  146. @Save: We? Comrade? All you have is Putin and his duplicates!
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  147. Who needs Russiabots when you have G7 foot-dragging? Russia has found its greatest ally — Western politicians.
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  148. Considering how tech companies were responsible for turning California both liberal and expensive to live in, I’m not going to miss them.
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  149. So let the other EU countries provide aid. That’s you, France.
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  150. Putin no doubt told by his sycophants that Germany is still dependent on Russian oil and will do nothing. Russian bots on YT ironically know more about the war than Putin does, but will be shipped to the front and back home in a body bag before allowed to say anything. Enjoy your medals.
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  151. Ukraine doesn’t have to recapture more territory. Another YT pointed out that the further Ukraine pushes Russia back, the less Russia soldiers are spread out. Ukraine needs to make this war as costly as possible for Russia. Ukraine has already depleted Russia of equipment, and Russia has used up all its experienced soldiers — including trainers, and now Russia is facing internal conflict. Despite the number of countries that hate the West, you don’t see Iran, China, North Korea, etc. training Russian soldiers or providing military equipment. The only usefulness Russia has is cheap oil, and even China and India aren’t all that interested.
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  152. Yeesh. Finally. If the EU doesn’t want to stay in USA’s shadow, they need to step out of it. They need to stop clinging to America’s apron strings, and those are some very expensive string the USA taxpayer has paid for. (And note who’s spending the money to protect the EU-China trade route in the Red Sea.) Maybe Trump has some use, after all.
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  153. Well, they weren’t good enough for military targets.
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  154. Trump told Germany of their dependence on Russian oil — and they didn‘t listen.
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