The Russia thread.
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- pablo280
- blame Greta.Brabo_Brabo
- MAD without the nukes? Nicegrafician
- Greta?? you still butt hurt about a 19 yrs old? how old are you?pango
- Ohh Boboutopian
- NBQ00-1
Can a wheat shortage because of Ukraine-Russia conflict really cause global famine?
I for one hardly eat any bread or wheat products. Maybe some pasta once every or second week but even that I could give up.
- According to The Healthy Thread gluten-free is the way to go.palimpsest
- Nope. Maybe a shortage for a little while in some countries and some high prices, but no. Only climate change can cause that much wide spread effectgrafician
- There will be more demand for non-wheat productsdrgs
- This is perhaps the most ludicrous n=1 sample I've ever seen on the internet.Nairn
- What do you eat? potatoes?shapesalad
- rice? geniuly curiosshapesalad
- Fish, rice, potatoes, quinoa, legumes, etcNBQ00
- I can eat potatoes forever and never get tireddrgs
- same here. instant potatoes are good, chips are good, baked potatoes are goodcherub
- I'm really into potatoes...all kinds.utopian
- grafician-1
^ Regarding exports of Russia (oil and natural gas) this thread explains it nicely how they are also fucked counting on their resources to bounce from their war and sanctions
some tweets:
"Russian economy is super fragile. It's critically dependent upon the:
1. Export of natural resources
2. Technological importIt has always been so. That's why Russia could never win a major war without massive economic help of the West. Without Western allies Russia's doomed"
"The very idea that expanding on Chinese one-buyer market can compensate the losses on Western multi-buyers market is insane. China perfectly understand Russian neediness and will use its leverage fully. "Friendship" of a declining empire with a rising superpower is a delusion"
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/…
Must read to better understand their stand on natural resources exports (which seems to be also weak, just like their military stand)
- the regions of Russia above China are more ethnically mongolian/chinese looking. China could easily assimilate them and take those areas.shapesalad
- Hence there's been very little effort from Russia to build infrastructure routes between Russia/China. Which is a pity now isn't it...shapesalad
- The only thing that Russia and China can not export and will never be capable of exporting...is soft power.utopian
- grafician-1
^ aaand another thread about how Russia - China economical relationship would go (spoiler not so good)
"The speed with which Russia has been cut off from the world economy has been as stunning as the slowness with which Russian forces have advanced in Ukraine. But can Putin offset the de facto blockade by dealing with China? That would be harder than many imagine "
- grafician-2
^ Map with current pipelines:
Nobody thinks Russia can switch from the West to China anytime soon ON THEIR OWN :))
Meanwhile IF they do that somehow, China will basically take Russia as a vasal state = end of history for Russia (based on what China did to Tibet and other places)
But the West CAN switch to other energy sources very quickly. Some say even by 2023. We'll see, hopefully we get there asap
- drgs1
- sted1
- https://twitter.com/…sted
- bus of arrested protestor crashes https://twitter.com/…shapesalad
- everyone could be enjoying the fruits of life, but because of one man, they are sucking bitter lemons.shapesalad
- ahaha that videosted
- It's more than one man tho'Brabo_Brabo
- Ukraine have been shelling residental parts of Donbass for years.Brabo_Brabo
- @Brabo_Brabo go back to your freedumb convoy tweets.sted
- _niko0
what we need is an elite team of super covert commandos, taken from the US, UK, Canada, Israel, Germany etc to take out Putin. Even if it's a suicide mission. take out Putin, the war ends and WW3 is averted.
Kill one madman save the lives of millions.
- I agree.fadein11
- the problem with that is it will trigger ww3, and his advisors aren't going anywhere.
they just appoint another butthurt kegebe agent and nothing changes.sted - a corrupt bureaucratic system based on servility cannot be replaced overnight by killing one man.sted
- That'd set an interesting precedent...Nairn
- I think this is all the whim of one psycho with a Napoleon complex. Nobody would replace him or carry on his goals and path._niko
- Look at his approval ratings over the last decade. Generally 70 - 80%mort_
- In Russiamort_
- @_niko look into his closest officials and you will see that those people share the same ideology what roots in their shared past. those people run the country.sted
- leave it a few months when the sanctions really bite and a coup will be way more likely.fadein11
- after reading about some of his advisors he's certainly not a rogue lone wolf, they are more unhinged than him.fadein11
- no way anyone gets that close to him.neverscared
- @mort https://www.nytimes.…garbage
- A depressing read on the effectiveness of Russia's propaganda arm. Also the 70% figures come from the Levada Center.garbage
- I think we need to consider russia the same as north korea. Cut them off entirely from the rest of world.shapesalad
- @garbage ah yeah that article is good. I suggest you all read it, it isn't easy but gives you a nice picture on what level people are brainwashed...sted
- And who do you suggest lead this crack team of super commandos? Vin Diesel, Cruise, The Rock? Absolute fucking baby-brained shit.face_melter
- Chuck Norris! ahahasted
- lolfadein11
- Resurrect Bruce Lee!Brabo_Brabo
- Face melter don’t be a dick. Obviously it needs to be Brad Pitt and Eli Roth. Cruise is too old and the rock is just too bulky._niko
- Good guys vs the bad guys, eh.Khurram
- Where is James Bond when you need him?Chimp
- https://www.youtube.… missed 5x already..neverscared
- Special Circumstances.Nairn
- it happened in Haiti 10 months ago but what you need is a military couphotroddy
- What if you did this, but then deepfaked public addresses by him to be like “We fucked up. War is off. We will give up our arms and be less evil for a change”monNom
- Clearly this would work because his advisors sit 20ft away from him, so a body double would go undetected. In fact, maybe it has already happened...monNom
- the distribution of that information would hit some roadblocks :)sted
- Where are Captain Amerikkka and miss Europe when you need them?oey_oey
- Send in QBN. We can do it.shapesalad
- NBQ00-1
There are some brave Russians.
Shocking (and somewhat brutal) encounter between protesters and riot police in St Petersburg today.
- and this one:
https://twitter.com/…sted - scroll down for things like this:
https://twitter.com/…sted
- and this one:
- sted0
Several Russian banks announced Sunday that they will soon begin issuing cards using China’s UnionPay card operating system, which will be joined by Russia’s own Mir network.
- eh Mir isn't the most secure transaction system in the world :D:Dsted
- rrrrrrightgrafician
- I meant it's bullshit ofc
we've seen now any system built by them is trashgrafician - Let me see... Crypto or UnionPay? I know which I prefer.shapesalad
- You are naive if you think that Russia does not have a backup for all these sanctions.pablo28
- Putin has been preparing this war for many years. I'm sure he has considered all possible scenarios.pablo28
- It's easy to declare shit and announce shit but we are literally seeing their inaptitudegrafician
- "Putin has been preparing this war for many years. I'm sure he has considered all possible scenarios." (◔_◔)jonny_quest_lives
- occam's razor says: https://slate.com/ne…jonny_quest_lives
- just looking at the way the Russian's built up their forces around Ukraine was lunacy... too many fronts/entry points to coordinate logistics throughjonny_quest_lives
- invading a country without holding air superiority will go down as one of the greatest military blunders of the 21st century.jonny_quest_lives
- sted0
- sted0
Chinese-owned TikTok has released a statement saying it has essentially nothing to do with the new Russian law, which severely penalizes the dissemination of information about the war other than official state propaganda.
TikTok does not know how to comply with this rule on its platform, so the company has decided not to allow any of their Russian users to upload new content until they figure out what to do. (via Medusa)
- NBQ000
- fo sho https://www.reaction…pablo28
- You love Putin, don’t you Pablo.NBQ00
- I'm 33s in and I can't stand this formatNairn
- drgs-1
Putin found a way to fund the war, I guess
Putin has signed a law which will allow him to seize funds from the bank accounts of state officials
https://www.express.co.uk/news/w…
Under the law, the President would be able to take funds where bank deposits are “significantly higher” than the owner’s declared income over the past three years, the BBC reported.- That’s hardly anything significant. Right now the oil and gas exports are still funding the war. I hope EU can stop using Russian oil and gas asap.NBQ00
- grafician-2
"BREAKING: American Express suspending operations in Russia and Belarus"
- utopian0
Mastercard and Visa block in Russia does not stop domestic purchases.
Impact of US card giants’ move diluted after local Mir payment system clarifies ban only affects foreign transactions.
- drgs1
Children will be studying this in history books some years from now, and we get to witness everything unfold live. What a time to be alive!
Granted that war is sad, being mean is bad and all, but this is the best entertainment ever.
- Had a discussion today about when was the best time to be alive, and if you come to think about it, it's still now. There are no downtimes, it's always somethingrafician
- Over 70 years since "Never again!" and yet still we are - again :))grafician
- It was the same in the past, think 30-40 years ago, the difference is just now we have the Internet and social media and live videografician
- Nairn1
^
I'm following this shit like I was early Covid, trying to work out whether I need to get the fuck out of London at some point.Prior, it would've been a mere abstraction. Now that I have a kid?
My folks live on the south coast of Spain, an option to eject to, should the need arise.
Bennnnnn linked a thing the other day, which had a heatmap of expected nuke strikes. Rota, a huge American base in Spain, is a major Blob of Fucked. It's like 100km from where my folks live.
My partner's family live not too far from a similar context in Italy.
I need to work out a route to The Falklands.
- I'm, like, right now 11% serious here.Nairn
- drgs is ok, Russian speaking and living in the far North. Cunt. You've still not linked me details about Putin's supposed illnesses.Nairn
- Azores... most people have no idea where it is, often not shown on printed maps and globes.shapesalad
- Sort of part of Portugal - a safe neutral country.shapesalad
- Southern Hemisphere, man, if the shit hits the fan.Nairn
- Can ride out a Nuclear war in Azores, sitting in a hot spring drinking locally grown tea and snacking on their Pineapples.shapesalad
- Argentina maybe? So much spacegrafician
- But no Nairn, the world is very connected, there's no "safe" and "chill" space anymore - not even New Zealandgrafician
- Nope. There is not.
:(Nairn - Some people think Putin has symptoms of Parkinson's disease. He's twitching and shaking, if you look at some older videos, Michael J Fox style.drgs
- Obviously there can never be an official statement about this, they don't want him to seem weakdrgs
- Australia :)sted
- Tasmania.thumb_screws
- if the big nuke war were to come, pray that you and your love ones are in the hot zone. Incineration beats, radiation poisoning, starvation or other slow deathsETM
- Most models show that northern hemisphere goes quickly and the southern hemisphere is a slow march to death.ETM
- There are plenty of remote valleys in Spain. Perhaps look into something F off grid.Chimp
- Sshhh Chimp... we're full here ;)OBBTKN
- @shape Azores? Just stay away from the central islands, there's a US Base, probably a target.dmay
- When the nukes get fired there'll be no safe spaces anywhere.Brabo_Brabo
- Spare room going up here in Leeds if anyone needs a place to stay. Not saying it's going to be any more protected than anywhere elseIanbolton
- @Brabo_Brabo your head will be safe in the same place where it was in your entire life: in your ass.sted
- @chimp nuclear winter means temps of -90 in the northern hemisphere and -35 in the southern. Nothing grows. No plants for you or animals to eat. Slow death.ETM