Another Putin Disaster
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UPDATED: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 22:07
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I would like to personally thank Putin for single-handedly reuniting NATO. Good job, way to go Putie.
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Quote:"Comrade! That is how you speak to those decadent Capitalists and put them into their place! You have humbled the Arch-Capitalist Second! You will be rewarded the medal for Hero of the Soviet Union!" -- Soviet Propaganda Supervisor in 1960
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
AFA Russian economic performance .... well, let's see how Russia and the USA stack up in real terms.
The USA is in hock up to - and beyond- its ears, to... well, everyone.
The USA has major trade deficits with... well... everyone.
The USA standard of living has been falling for at least 30 years, and the middle class is disappearing.
The USA is de-industrialized and depends on ... well... everyone... for its major industrial chemicals, commodities, and parts.
Infrastructure is crumbling.
The USA is dependent on energy imports... even from Russia!
The USA's so-called "economy" is primarily made of services and the FIRE (finance, insurance, and real estate) sector, which are speculative and non-productive.
A major financial meltdown or loss of confidence in the USD would see much USA "wealth" disappear in a flash, along with a a large chunk of "GDP" which is nothing but funny-money.
Meanwhile, Russia's real economy is growing.
The standard of living is rising.
Russia's debt is 20% of GDP (not 120%, like the USA's) and the government is running a surplus
Russia is energy and food-secure.
Infrastructure is developing.
Seems like we need to manage and measure our economy so that it is something more than bubbles, speculation, and bullshit numbers. If we want to REALLY be independent and secure, we need a base on which to stand. We don't have that, but we should.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:And yet, you're unable to refute reality.
Originally posted by second:Quote:"Comrade! That is how you speak to those decadent Capitalists and put them into their place! You have humbled the Arch-Capitalist Second! You will be rewarded the medal for Hero of the Soviet Union!" -- Soviet Propaganda Supervisor in 1960
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
AFA Russian economic performance .... well, let's see how Russia and the USA stack up in real terms.
The USA is in hock up to - and beyond- its ears, to... well, everyone.
The USA has major trade deficits with... well... everyone.
The USA standard of living has been falling for at least 30 years, and the middle class is disappearing.
The USA is de-industrialized and depends on ... well... everyone... for its major industrial chemicals, commodities, and parts.
Infrastructure is crumbling.
The USA is dependent on energy imports... even from Russia!
The USA's so-called "economy" is primarily made of services and the FIRE (finance, insurance, and real estate) sector, which are speculative and non-productive.
A major financial meltdown or loss of confidence in the USD would see much USA "wealth" disappear in a flash, along with a a large chunk of "GDP" which is nothing but funny-money.
Meanwhile, Russia's real economy is growing.
The standard of living is rising.
Russia's debt is 20% of GDP (not 120%, like the USA's) and the government is running a surplus
Russia is energy and food-secure.
Infrastructure is developing.
Seems like we need to manage and measure our economy so that it is something more than bubbles, speculation, and bullshit numbers. If we want to REALLY be independent and secure, we need a base on which to stand. We don't have that, but we should.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Signy, imo SECOND doesn't believe his lies. He just does it for fun, like poking a stick into and ant's nest.
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Anyway, poor Zelensky!
The US has no interest in Ukraine's welfare. The country is merely a soccer ball in what the US sees as a soccer match between the US and Russia. And, as Zelensky knows, no matter which team wins, the soccer ball is going to take a real beating.
Anyway, I had run across a quote from Zelensky a while back, but retrieving it took quite some sleuthing, involving an alternate search engine, an Indian online news source ( https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/there -is-no-overconcentration-of-russian-forces -near-ukraines-border-says-volodymyr -zelensky/article38325354.ece), and a search on the quote, in order to dig it out of 'mainstream' news, in order to link a 'source' that won't be disputed.
But to be specific, I couldn't find that quote with google or duck at all, but did find it using the exact same search terms in an alternate search engine. Nor did that specific quote get me more than 1 hit in mass western media (the m$m).
Quote:
The risks have not just existed for a day, and they have not become bigger. The only thing that has become bigger is the hype around them. -Zelensky
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/risks-of-russian-invasion-not-big
ger-ukrainian-president-says/ar-AASWQTo
However, that search did come up with something I find amusing!
Quote:Now, this is from an unnamed 'source' close to Zelensky, so I don't take it as anything but an amusing quote. But imo it is funny!
'Americans are safer in Kiev than LA'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10436705/Americans-safer-Kyiv
-LA-source-close-Zelensky-slams-Biden-evacuating-Ukraine.html
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President Donald Trump offered Vladimir Putin U.S. help with Siberian wildfires and also threatened to withdraw federal emergency funding to California.
President Donald Trump seems more willing to help Russia fight wildfires than California, considering he just threatened to cut off federal aid to the state months after offering to aid Russia in battling blazes in parts of Siberia. On Sunday, Trump slammed California Governor Gavin Newsom for his handling of the wildfires and vaguely warned that he would end the federal funding. Newsom declared a statewide emergency last week in an effort to mobilize resources.
“Every year, as the fire’s rage & California burns, it is the same thing—and then he comes to the Federal Government for $$$ help. No more. Get your act together Governor. You don’t see close to the level of burn in other states,” Trump wrote on Twitter…
The president’s remarks about California’s governor come after he offered last summer to help Russia fight a similar battle against wildfires. According to the Kremlin, Trump made the offer to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a phone call in early August. At the time, the wildfires were so large that Greenpeace Russia said they were creating an “ecological catastrophe.” Putin reportedly expressed his “sincere gratitude” to Trump for the offer and said that if necessary he would take him up on it.
What Trump said about Russia
In August 2019, the Russian government published a statement about a phone call between Trump and Putin on July 31. That statement read as follows:
“Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump this evening at the American side’s initiative. The US President offered help in putting out wildfires in Siberia. The President of Russia expressed sincere gratitude for the kind attention and the offer of help and assistance. Vladimir Putin said he will accept the offer if it becomes necessary. He also told his American colleague that a powerful group of aircraft had been formed in Siberia to fight the wildfires. According to the Emergencies Ministry, solutions have been found to problems with the refueling and deployment of airplanes and helicopters.
“The President of Russia regards the US President’s offer as a sign that it is possible that full-scale bilateral relations will be restored in the future. The presidents of Russia and the United States agreed to continue contacts in the form of telephone conversations as well as personal meetings.”
We asked the White House whether they could corroborate, even broadly, the Russian government’s characterization of the call. Unfortunately, we did not receive a response.
At the time, a White House spokesperson did not contradict that version of events and told news outlets that, during his conversation with Putin, Trump had “expressed concern over the vast wildfires afflicting Siberia.” This characterization, combined with the Russian description of an offer to help, means it’s perfectly plausible that Trump did make such an offer.
We found confirmation that he did in a video of an Aug. 1 press conference during which Trump said the following when reporters asked him about the phone call:
“Mostly we discussed the forest fires in Siberia, and other parts of Russia. And I said, look, we have the greatest equipment, if we could help you let us know. Large sections are burning, and so I said to President Putin, if we can help you, let me know.”
Much more Putin/Trump love at https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-russia-wildfires-california/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Snopes is even less legitimate as fact checkers than the AP are.
Newsom is too busy ensuring that businesses have a genderless toy aisle to be worried about forest fires or shipping issues.
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After six decades, Russia will build its final Proton rocket this year
Proton had reliability issues and could not compete with SpaceX's Falcon 9.
International demand slackened, in part, due to a series of high-profile failures. At the end of 2010, one Proton rocket plunged into the ocean because too much propellant had been mistakenly loaded into its upper stage. In 2013, another vehicle performed a fiery dance seconds after liftoff because flight control sensors were hammered into the rocket’s compartment upside down. (The spectacular disaster is worth watching.)
These technical problems arose just as competitors, particularly SpaceX with its Falcon 9 rocket, undercut the Proton on cost and offered better reliability. This reduced costs for satellite operators through lower insurance premiums.
With the Angara-A5 rocket, Russia hopes to recapture some of this international satellite launch market. However, it depends on whether Russia can reduce production costs of the Angara-A5 rocket from $100 million per launch to $57 million by 2024, the country's stated goal.
Even this ambitious target for the fully expendable rocket probably won't help Russia too much in the competition for commercial launches, however. SpaceX has already demonstrated that it can re-fly its Falcon 9 booster for less than $30 million.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/after-six-decades-russia-will-
build-its-final-proton-rocket-this-year/
FURTHER READING
Russia’s replacement for the Proton rocket costs way too much
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/russian-official-country-lacks
-a-clear-and-understandable-space-strategy/
Ivan Moiseev, the head of the Russian Space Policy Institute, said these projects are best thought of as "paper rockets," lacking the funding to become real hardware.
“In fact, we do not have a clear and understandable strategy for space travel, and huge problems have accumulated inside Russia’s space industry," he said in an interview. "At this time, Roscosmos is coming up with all kinds of new rocket projects on paper but only those which will remain on paper and will never come to fruition."
These announcements of futuristic rocket projects likely play well domestically, feeding into Russia's image as a superpower. But the real future of Russia's rocket program appears less than bright.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Nothing to worry about then.
Cool.
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Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Signy, imo SECOND doesn't believe his lies. He just does it for fun, like poking a stick into and ant's nest.
SECOND doesn't believe the bull that he routinely shits against the fff.net wall. I mean, after all, look how quickly he abandons a post after it's disproved, only to shit something else equally pointless - and often contradictory!- right afterwards. If he REALLY believed what he was posting, he would stand and defend it.
Clearly, he doesn't believe what he's posting. It's just ammunition for his war against .... Republicans? ... democracy? .... Americans? (Just look how much more he loves illegals than citizens!).... Trump? .... Anyway, whatever "war" he thinks he's fighting.
No, he believes that he has the RIGHT to hate and to lie, to "war" against fellow Americans. He doesn't realize what an empty twisted fuck he is.
I've known people like him IRL. Their pathology runs deep. It's disturbing to behold.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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