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- Krassy3
Russia To Quit International Space Station "After 2024" and Plans on Building Its Own
- “Plans on Building Its Own“ :)zaq
- Just for the context, ISS is the most expensive thing ever builtzaq
- yup. good luck with that.Krassy
- they own already like half of it...will they decouple their modules? In that scenario this would make the operation of the iss quite challenging for eu, jp, us.uan
- it's a political pressure move.uan
- So, a rickety piece of orbiting space junk adorned with tatty wall rugs?Continuity
- Space wars are about to begin.zaq
- Good for them.monospaced
- Cue Imperial Marchslappy
- Russia should stick to drinking Vodka.utopian
- First space rage quit? They also announced major gas cuts to Europe this week. This will be interesting and eventually very expensive stateside.garbage
- Fuck Russia.Nairn
- I’m going to build my own moon theme park! With alcohol! And hookers!
- Bendernb
- drgs1
Gogol, who was Ukrainian himself, is not really popular among Ukrainians...
From the same book^:
"Russia, Russia, from my beautiful home in a strange land I can still see you! In you everything is poor and disordered and unhomely; in you the eye is neither cheered nor dismayed by temerities of nature which a yet more temerarious art has conquered; in you one beholds no cities with lofty, many-windowed mansions, lofty as crags, no picturesque trees, no ivy-clad ruins, no waterfalls with their everlasting spray and roar, no beetling precipices which confuse the brain with their stony immensity, no vistas of vines and ivy and millions of wild roses and ageless lines of blue hills which look almost unreal against the clear, silvery background of the sky. In you everything is flat and open; your towns project like points or signals from smooth levels of plain, and nothing whatsoever enchants or deludes the eye. Yet what secret, what invincible force draws me to you? [...] What do you want of me? What is that mysterious, hidden bond between us? Why do you look at me like that? And why does everything in you turn eyes full of expectation on me? And men­acingly your mighty expanse enfolds me, reflected with terrifying force in the depths of me; my eyes are lighted up with supernatural power—oh, what a glittering, wondrous infinity of space the world knows nothing of!"According to Dugin, Russians define themselves through space (Russians can only be Russian together, ie. if you're not within Russian borders you're not Russian, heritage means nothing).
Maybe the reason to why they are obsessed with taking back those Russian-speaking areas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ru…Discuss
- They will split in over a dozen "states" many of them with nuclear weapons...grafician
- Nairn1
Lost in translation.
"The Russian dictator can be attributed to malignant daffodils"
- NBQ001
Had a dream last night...
I was in Moscow attending some talk by Putin. There were some other western politicians and celebrities attending. No idea why and what it was all about.
And I was wearing some kind of black robe that reminded me of Neo’s outfit in the Matrix 2-3.
Then somebody passed me a joint for whatever reason. And I smoked a bit.
Putin immediately noticed the smoke and called security. The security guy came over to me and took the joint out of my hand and threw it to the ground. He then said he’s gonna call reinforcement even though he was bigger than me, lol.
While he was gone I could escape through a window or back door and I knew they were after me and would hunt for me.
It was middle of then night and I hopped on some bus to nowhere. We drove to some shady suburbs and I exited the bus at some gas station or some kind of shop. It was dark and I noticed some teenage boys hanging out there.
I felt a bit uncomfortable so I walked around and waited until another bus came by that I could hop on.
The next I can remember is I was able to get to the airport and that I had to bribe the customs to get through. I gave them each $500.
Then finally I was able to escape to Dubai and I knew Putin was fuming as he couldn’t catch me.
- that sounds exhilarating!
my dream last night was one of my exes asking me to play a bit part in her new bf's low budget spaghetti western. It was bizarre.BuddhaHat - Yours sounds like way more fun.BuddhaHat
- My dream last night was that I was watching a documentary about Elvis, how he mixed and sampled his early tracksdrgs
- NBQ is the chosen one!pango
- that sounds exhilarating!
- yuekit1
Meanwhile in Russia...some workers entertain themselves by blowing up a bear with explosives.
- drgs5
Russia is fighting to keep their imperial status. The truth is the Russian empire died in 1991 and for the last 20 years Putin has been putting post-mortem make-up on the corpse, but the layers are so thick now they are scaling off in pieces.
A country which has failed not only as a military power, but as a state which does not meet any requirements of a human society, as a cultural phenomenon (they have 19th century literature, maybe some Tarkovsky movies, all of it is in the past), and most importantly, a country which has nothing to offer to the world ideologically (USSR had communism, US has liberalism) -- Russia cannot be the center of any empire.
They should abandon all imperial ambitions (like all European empires have done) and build a purely Russian ethnic state. Since they hate gays: modernization without westernization, like Japan, which is openly racist and pedophile.
Debate
- See above. They had, potentially, one of the richest, most accomplished and educated countries in the world and.. where the fuck did all the money go?Nairn
- Properties in London?drgs
- Yep. And after 2022 the demographics would make drafting a large army difficult.shapesalad
- Day Watch and Night Watch were good movies, but a whole country can't rest on those. :-)PhanLo
- as soon as i saw, :the truth is", i stopped reading - sorry!toemaas
- But first they should go fuck themselves.allthethings
- I thought Red Heat sorted out any cultural issues the Russians had?!Ianbolton
- Red Heat and Hasselhoff ended the cold war :-)PhanLo
- Gardener5
- it's in ukrainegrafician
- Really? Are you sure about that, Captain Obvious?Continuity
- influencers gonna influencemicrokorg
- Continuity0
And because Germany neeeeeeveeeeeer learns ...
'Germany to relax visa rules for Russian workers despite spy warning
Process to be eased to exempt applicants with special expertise from case-by-case assessment'
https://www.theguardian.com/worl…
'Germany is to relax visa requirements for skilled workers from Russia, just as the country’s domestic intelligence agency warned of a heightened risk that Russian nationals working for German firms could be recruited for industrial espionage.'
- utopian3
Russia bans 963 Americans from the country including Biden, Harris, Zuckerberg. But not Trump.
- drgs3
There are rumors that Putin's circle has convinced him that if he lives for another 10 years, they will be able to digitize his brain so he can rule forever, and he genuinely believes it
- Lol. Little Putin Bot.
Would he be steam powered?PhanLo - "Let's take that baby outta your head before your body kills it. Don't worry..."formed
- RiiiightNBQ00
- https://www.yourprop…misterhow
- Please, ,please, please make this happen, cronenburg writing an episode of black mirror on 20 hits of acid couldn’t conjure something more horrific_niko
- he'd need elon for that, if you wanna get conspiratorialscarabin
- Didn't the Simpson's already do this? :-)PhanLo
- Lol. Little Putin Bot.
- Khurram1
Russia’s economy is back on its feet
https://www.economist.com/financ…
"Helped along by capital controls and high interest rates, the rouble is now as valuable as it was before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February (see top chart). Russia appears to be keeping up with payments of its foreign-currency bonds... "
- It used to be in Russia $1 was equivalent to 60k ( 60 Russian cents). It was artificial. you couldn't exchange for that rate more than $20 or so. and you can'tzaq
- spend that anywhere.zaq
- All this oil banning - Russia just needs to ship oil to a comrade and have it refined into products to get around sanctions.shapesalad
- russia can't refine on its own, this is just a dead cat bouncegrafician