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More Nils Frahm https://youtu.be/0p623BDRlJg

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Huh?

You straight admitted that you don't care about the truth. Do you need that quoted back to you?

We should probably ban oil and gas from everyone. Go green.

Exactly what location for this detonation did you have in mind, jorndoe?

Well, it's a moot point anyway. After failing to hold Ukraine, he probably won't try to take anything else.

I don't think the NATO response to a second invasion would be because of some treaty. It would be because Putin would start to look like Hitler, not t...

I think that for all practical purposes, Finland is in NATO because the US and the EU will engage militarily with another invasion. That would be my g...

In both cases their defeat will be because of American support. Hmm.

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Are you there?

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That's not the basis of his power. Russians aren't afraid of NATO.

Maybe it's too expensive to send the bodies back? One thing Putin said that I sort of believe is that this was an exercise to give his military some r...

That's the way out. Did Russian forces really lose 5-10 thousand troops or was that bullshit?

I saw a documentary once where this lady's house was swirled up in a tornado and it landed in Canada on top of a witch and little midgets came out and...

Should he have just focused on Kiev instead of surrounding the whole country?

That was prehistoric art depicting a prominent local wanker.

Depends on what happens when he takes out Zelensky. A resistance will need a leader. Maybe Putin thought Zelensky would flee the country and Ukraine w...

Maybe so. I'm clueless right now as to what will happen next.

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They can't survive in Itstu Cold.

I don't think that is relevant, is it?

I'm sure Putin's got to be thinking about how the USSR's demise was related to its protracted war in Afghanistan. Could Ukraine be his Afghanistan? :g...

Joro spiders are becoming invasive here. I won't post a picture because they're kind of shockingly large, but they aren't dangerous to humans and thei...

I disagree. China could sit it out. I guess if Russia and the US totally unloaded on one another, a nuclear winter might happen. I don't think it woul...

Who's siding with Russia in this scenario? China? China has nothing to gain from bombing its investment and prime market. On the other hand, it doesn'...

We're just not used to it. Our ancestors had to deal with this shit all the time. If the Pax Americana goes down (which it appears to be doing) this w...

Or cyber attacks. That would be a little less final, but still very destructive.

One way things could escalate is cyber attacks on infrastructure. I think that actually would tilt the world into a depression. Plus we'd get to see w...

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Yea. You.

Another day in the jungle

We know there were no WMD in Iraq because the US government told us. They could easily have lied if they felt like it.

So to apply Walzer's concept of "dirty hands" we would need Putin to recognize the immorality of invading, but say that he had to do it for the well-b...

I'm assuming the hard sanctions are meant to get Russia to a negotiating table, but if that doesn't happen, will those sanctions potentially cause a g...

From the NY Times "The sanctions “are severe enough to dismantle Russia’s economy and financial system, something we have never seen in history,” Carl...

Another article warning about passing on false information and trying to be an expert when you're not. :grimace:

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I'm just telling you: you don't need to be ragging on other people's posts. Yours are mostly StreetlightX-want-to-be trash.

Your posts are fairly childish and uninformed, Benkei.

Your posts are mostly garbage as well, Benkei.

Imagine that we look at all the plants in the world and decide which one is the best. Maybe we decide it's corn after looking at Iowa. So we decide ev...

Stagflation here we come. Thanks a lot, whoever's fault this is.

I could talk for a while about why Americans assume their political structure should be exported to raise up all the suffering people of the world, IO...

I think he wants Russia to be an equal among core nations. He needs to do something about his economy and his legitimacy though.

It's coming. It will be better in some ways and worse in others. There are some aspects of Chinese culture that just rub me the wrong way, sort of lik...

They won't have a choice if the West reaches an agreement with Putin. One wild card is that I think this is personal for Biden. I think he wants to ta...

He has Chinese popular opinion on his side. They see it as an act of defiance against American influence, and they identify with Russia. As America de...