Putin vs Ukraine.

[Xtrema]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

I like how your idea of being witty is to admit that the original point is correct.

The amount of fucks I give for who get to run governments in Africa is 0.

[suntan]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

The amount of fucks I give for who get to run governments in Africa is 0.

Neither does anybody else it seems.

[Yolobimmer]

This heroic German MP calls for the expulsion of the Nazi supporting Ukranian ambassador.

https://postofasia.com/german-mp-urg...an-ambassador/

[g-m]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Neither does anybody else it seems.

Accurate

[ZenOps]

Putin seems to have blacklisted the Japanese PM as Nazi.

Pretty much full circle when Japan joined thin moustache guy.

[Xtrema]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

[jutes]

[Sentry]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Putin seems to have blacklisted the Japanese PM as Nazi.

Pretty much full circle when Japan joined thin moustache guy.

John Waters?

[Xtrema]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Energy embargo? lol. India and China are both lowballing Russian oil to $70 bbl. Like the Americans are doing to us. They are probably going to refine it for themselves or sell some onto international market.

Can we afford to sanction against these 2?

That said, the amount of mysterious fires in Russian military labs and installations is very odd.

[ZenOps]

But you gotta call Nazi, Nazi. Sort of like how in Japan, if you are accused of a crime and go to trial you are 99% assured of being found guilty (to 2011). Its crazy when you look at it from North American justice standards, which at least pretend to be "innocent until proven guilty".

They have been trying hard in Japan to "understand" innocence, but its still solidly north of 97% guilty rate. The entire concept of "innocence" in Japan is about as understood as "copyright" in China, or "less expensive and higher quality" in North America.

In Japan, guilty is the rule, Nazi is the rule. If you understand Nazi only from a standpoint of not knowing anything other than Nazi - then how do you know what is Nazi and what is Not Z? Does NATO see itself as Nazi? Do they understand that others may see it that way?

By North American standards, Ukraine is 95% guilty.

[schurchill39]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

If you understand Nazi only from a standpoint of not knowing anything other than Nazi - then how do you know what is Nazi and what is Not Z?

Did you steal that from a Jay-Z song?

[ZenOps]

Still. It would be prudent for Canada to not accept refugees from any nation that any other nation in the world has considered to be "nukeable".

If one kid hates the other kid *that* much - you gotta start asking if its really good to side with the kid being wailed on, at the exact moment in time you happen to be looking. Maybe the reasons are legitimate, its hard to say.

Putin may nuke. Its messy but not much different than using up a few hundred artillery shells - which has already been done.

If France said it wanted to nuke North Korea, does that mean that Canada would blanket accept North Korean refugees?

[AndyL]

Admiral Makarov, a Russian Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate is reported to have been hit by Neptune Anti-Ship missiles in the Black Sea.
Although no images of the frigate have been published so far, multiple rescue aircraft and ships are said to have responded to the frigate which is believed to be on fire according to OSINT handles.
If true, this would be most modern vessel of the Russian Navy to have been put out of action in the conflict. The Makarov is also a Kalibr cruise missile platform and is used to launch strikes against Ukraine.

Whoops they did it again...
Ukraine says Neptune - I'm sure russia will claim fire?

[ZenOps]

Navy ships are fodder in the age of the satellite.

I'd fully expect the USA to lose all ten aircraft carriers in the first hours of a real war. BTW: This is still not a formal declared war, Russia has deemed it a "special operation".

Noone ever said you couldn't use an ICBM to shoot a ship in the ocean. In fact, if you aim for a pure military target like an aircraft carrier and support ships it might be the most respected way of going about a conflict. And that ICBM could be off by five miles and it will still cripple the ability to do anything other than float. A cluster nuke, could be off by 20 miles, and still take out the entire aircraft group. Ten nukes are cheap and very disposable compared to ten fully loaded aircraft carriers.

[ZenOps]

BTW: If the USA officially takes some credit/blame for sinking Russian ships, Russia pretty much can reciprocate by taking down a few aircraft carriers (or all of them)

Its not like it would be a difficult thing in this day and age - which it was back in the 1940's. Trade $400 million nukes on ICBM's for 10 aircraft carriers worth roughly a trillion apiece. If talking straight up economics of war, it makes absolutely no sense to *not nuke* the aircraft carriers.

The "flagship" of the USA would be the Gerald Ford carrier, and is now a legitimate target considering that the Russian flagship has been sunk. Its slow and big, and impossible to hide. Triple nuked with submarines would be a guess.

Again, I don't know about the wisdom of taking in a nation as refugees that has enough ambition and capability to take out a flagship. Even in self defense, Nazi can be very potent.

[Yolobimmer]

Rep. Mile Gallagher confirms the US is burning through weapons at an astronomical rate, including 7 years worth of Javelins.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/gallag...plying-ukraine

[Yolobimmer]

This is fascinating!

Current director of the CIA, William Burns, in 2009 wrote a paper called "Nyet means Nyet" about Nato expansion being a existential threat to Russia and THE red line for them

In it he predicted that if we continued to expand NATO, Russia would be forced to invade Ukraine, and at the very least, Ukraine would lose Donbas and Crimea.

2009. No wonder he's director of the CIA now.

[eblend]

This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote

Whoops they did it again...
Ukraine says Neptune - I'm sure russia will claim fire?

I have been following this for a while, and seems like just another fake. Few days gone by and no confirmation. This is the closest thing about this rumor being false that came out today:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidax...h=164f964b37ca

Man I wish there was an open source to the truth. Lately the trend I see is that both sides claim the same video, with one side saying they took out a Ukranian *insert*, and the other saying took our a Russian *insert*. Obviously someone is lying and it's impossible to tell with pixelated video. Also finding lots of video splicing of separate events to make it look like it's something new.

[schurchill39]

Did Putin ever officially declare war yesterday like every national news source led me to believe he would be? Or did his cancer surgery get in the way?

[ZenOps]

Putin appeared to have a relatively standard parade from what western media outlets state.

They are also saying that Putin is testing out his hypersonic missles on Odessa, which makes sense to me - you want to test out the Navy capability of countermeasures for missile attack on real targets before sinking US carriers.

Chinas hypersonic missles are crazy fast, but not all that accurate. Could probably not hit something as small as a battleship. Unless of course it was tipped with a nuke, in which case, you don't really need that much accuracy.

Assuming of course that he is prepared to take that step. This is about the time that "Goose" and "Maverick" have grandma get sick so that they can abandon the carrier and get back to US soil. Because if Putin does nuke, those carriers won't even see it coming, or have chance to launch a single plane.