Russia-Ukraine Invasion
Russia-Ukraine Invasion
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- neverscared0
Could Putin be exploring cryptocurrencies to bypass western sanctions?
Debate rages over whether Russian banks could use crypto such as bitcoin as an alternative currency exchange
As many people do when discussing the complex world of cryptocurrencies, Vladimir Putin kept it simple: “Of course, we also have certain competitive advantages here, especially in the so-called mining.” After events this weekend, when Russia was hit by severe financial sanctions, the Russian president might be considering capitalising on those advantages.
- Why would Putin want everyone using crypto? When crypto like BTC can be under no one persons control? I think he'd be happier if everyone was on the ruble.shapesalad
- not if the rubble is worthless.. and not everyone... but very specific..neverscared
- can easily be controlled... just follow the flow and tighten limitations.neverscared
- Krassy2
Oligarchs are turning to Bitcoin to skirt sanctions
- when you get your properties seized by foreign authorities you start to think a jpeg of an ape was the better investment.uan
- more like the token of a jpg.neverscared
- differenz0
Europe's fate 'in the balance' - von der Leyen
- Five people killed in Russian strike on Kyiv TV tower
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- Five people killed in Russian strike on Kyiv TV tower
- Krassy1
Vladimir Putin sends family to Siberian bunker as he prepares for nuclear war
https://www.express.co.uk/news/w…
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- cherub2
busted? oh shit
- https://images-na.ss…pango
- So are the troops that demoralized, or are these Trojan Horses or sorts? Moscow Horses?ETM
- hydro7411
- I don't understand how some people can be so naive and take for granted all the Ukrainian propaganda portraying the Russian army as very weak.pablo28
- Right.. like people that can’t take a joke.. fucking idiots right... RIGHT!!hydro74
- Pablo = Milan light ?NBQ00
- they do have the 2nd largest army in the world. they dwarf Ukraine army. my take its because they planed to have it finished by now but it's dragging on.pango
- and social media is flooded with russian army being humiliated. possibly due to russian media black out.pango
- even tho everyone's cheering Ukraine on but russian army still more likely to win the war in the end.pango
- But it‘s a fact that Russian equipment and strategies are failing on masse and troops even lack food and other logistics (fuel, etc).NBQ00
- On top of that demotivated Russians are abandoning their vehicles and surrendering. That said they‘re still overwhelming force but Ukraine is resisting greatlyNBQ00
- its a sad reality unless something else happens.pango
- Just because the army is large, doesn't mean it will win. Look at the US in Afghanistan/Vietnamrobotinc
- Ukraine army size ranks 22 in the world. just above canada (wait wut...)pango
- if US went all out they could have won. but also further condemnation from the world. putin on the other side. don't think he cares much.pango
- https://www.statista… france and germany alone outspend them easilyneverscared
- more painted rust than anything else in russia.neverscared
- ok not the second. but they still dwarf Ukraine.pango
- What happened to Milan?ShenanigansTV
- he striped himself onto a rocket from vlad and got shot into kiev tv tower yodeling the russian anthem.neverscared
- strappedneverscared
- second most nukes though, at least that's what's reportedaliastime
- What's the Z?pango
- Latin letter for Omega, last letter in the alphabet.uan
- I wish this were true, but it isn'tinteliboy
- Thought the Z was for ZORD. go go power rangers!!hydro74
- Zoom zoom? So it looks like they go faster?pango
- I noticed pro Russian accounts on Twitter are using the Z for their avatar.yuekit
- Is it Zorro? World War Z?yuekit
- naZi Zombiesneverscared
- Probably battles groups, Z and V so far spottedgrafician
- pango8
I actually feel sorry for Millan. I really do.
this skewed hatred he has towards Ukraine all came from other people's doing.- Except he is pro actively support thatzaq
- plus he's brainwashed beyond repairKrassy
- Yeah, such proactive behavior always implies a deep commitment...sted
- nah, I've no time for hyper-leftists - common in Spain and Italy, for example. Their origin is nobler, but ultimately they're the same vicious cunts as fascistsNairn
- Thing that annoys is how utterly polarised, overly-simple and stupid the thinking of this mentality is. Just like those they think they accuse.Nairn
- Hyper leftist as in "communist"?pango
- The Russians make a distinction between their motherland and the government. Ie. being patriotic is not the same as being pro-Putin.drgs
- There is no democracy in Russia, but every 50 years they shed their governments, like a dog sheds its wintercoat.drgs
- Milan is sympathetic with Russia in general, but he is not 100% familiar with their rituals.drgs
- Ritual? You mean shredding gov?pango
- In the time of the USSR they were trying to build a global left-wing movement. Now the USSR collapsed but the propaganda department survived, so they go after ayuekit
- weird mix of far left, extreme right, conspiracy theorists and people who simply hate America and the West for one reason or another.yuekit
- All coming together to support a bunch of Russian billionaires essentially. There's no promise of any socialism or utopia anymore, just rejecting liberalism.yuekit
- NBQ000
From a Ukrainian friend” Received news from my friends in Russia - anyone caught demonstrating against the war is liable to be charged with treason punishable with up to 15 years imprisonment. Anyone caught aiding Ukrainian refugees in Russia faces the same changes.”
- dictatorship says what?Krassy
- thats comforting for milan.neverscared
- NBQ001
Putin sent Wagner group mercenaries to Ukraine
- I think I ve read they already got smoked
on Sunday?grafician - Or do you mean the 70 Chechens that got smoked?NBQ00
- They got smoked in Syria too: https://www.reuters.…grafician
- I think I ve read they already got smoked
- whatthefunk1
- So far it looks like the biggest supplier of arms to Ukraine this week has been the Russians...whatthefunk
- The largest is NOT the most powerful.
Russia has $60-70B military budget - China has $300B and the US over $700B, it's not even fairgrafician - the biggest airforce is US Army, the second biggest airforce is the US Navytank02
- shapesalad-1
Really insightful background on Russia's world view historically all the way up to the Illegal Terrorist War of today.
- Also covers the Russian tactics used in Syria... Be very worried Ukraine. Get the kids out of those hospitals....shapesalad
- is there anything peterson doesn't talk about?pango
- #content need to monetize realitySalarrue
- he was healed in Russia, what are his take on this?Salarrue
- I also posted this thread explaining more or less the entire context with historic background about Russian military opsgrafician
- This one: https://twitter.com/…grafician
- There are more youtube videos featuring Jordan Peterson than there are youtube videosFax_Benson
- grafician0
Savages.
- grafician0
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- shapesalad2
No more iphones and macs for the Russians.
Ford halting sales too.
- Milan-5
Video from Dec. 2016 in which John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Amy Klobuchar tell a Ukrainian military unit that it's time to go on the "offense" against Russia. "It is time for them to pay a heavier price," declares Graham. This is what they wanted!
- And that started 5 years of a Ukrainian offense against Russia causing the senseless suffering of millions of innocent Russians ... oh wait.monospaced
- ^ are you following at all mono? thousands of ukranian separatists (russian identifying ukranians) have been killed. hence putins justification for invasion.kingsteven
- As much as I dislike McCain, Graham etc none of this justifies Russia invading Ukraine. Remember the armed separatist movement was something Russiayuekit
- helped create and encourage themselves, they didn't want peace. And Putin's true intent clearly goes beyond that.yuekit
- it's Putin's justification, doesn't mean I agree. just pointing out that what they're talking about here is killing Ukrainian separatistskingsteven
- as much as Russia funded one side, this should be seen as an absolute failure in international diplomacykingsteven
- The UN walkout ealier this week was shocking behaviour. Schoolyard stuff.********
- Russia had just annexed part of their country, after trying to kill one of their presidents with poison and was now funding a separatist insurgency.yuekit
- And it's supposed to be damning that they wanted to attack the insurgents? How do you think Russia would deal with separatists like in Chechnya?yuekit
- not just the inevitability of 'putin invading and russia being cut off from the west due to sanctions' - talked about for a decade. the unknown was the scale ofkingsteven
- invasion - as putin said in the speech we dissected in an attempt to reassure russians 'the sanctions are inevitable'. he knew that the scale of invasionkingsteven
- didn't matter because the outcome had been determined. the only variables for a decade were how long putin would tolerate war in donbas and the scale of responskingsteven
- there's an idea now that he's gone in too hard and sealed his fate, and a whiff of 'i told you so' in the air but putin still very much decides what's next...kingsteven
- how bad does it have to get to have considered in hindsight recognising the DPR and buying them out would have been a better idea?kingsteven
