Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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IKEA joke: Unfortunately they will come shipped in a bunch of pieces that you have to assemble with an Allen wrench.
Here's another joke: The Russian Ruble sank to a new all-time low, trading at 117.62 RUB/USD. Since Jan. 1, 2022, the ruble has depreciated by as much as 47.33% against the USD. Conflict in Eastern Europe is fueling the currency's destruction. At present, I measure Russia’s inflation at 69.4%/yr.
@Angry_Staffer
This. Russia is clearly returning at least partially to their Syria tactics. Cluster munitions, MLRS (rockets) fired indiscriminately into population centers, etc.
@evangershkovich
the images coming out of Kharkiv right now may be the most heartbreaking yet. civilians laying dead in the streets still holding the jugs of water and bags of food they had run out to get
https://www.cnn.com/webview/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-28
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Russian Central Bank to raise key interest rate from 9.5% to 20%
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/02/27/bp-abandons-stake-russ
ian-oil-giant-rosneft/
BP to ‘exit’ its $14 billion stake in Russian oil giant in stark sign that Western business is breaking ties over Ukraine invasion
These don't feel small. They don't feel like decisions that get undone if a cease fire, or Peace is agreed upon. These feel loooong term.
Yeah. It's a real funny joke.
If you believe that the people of Russia are all James Bond villains or Boris and Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
The lowest quartile of people in the US are hurting now with the highest inflation we've seen in 40 years, and they certainly had nothing to do with US imperialism. But as bad as that sounds, it's dwarfed by the numbers you've just provided.
But it's never seemed to bother any of you when we constantly commit mass-murder via non-surgical drone strikes half a world away. What's a few tens of millions of people losing everything they've worked for and starving to death when it means we can take down one of your cartoon bogey men.
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What's Putin trying to do, why create a new Iron Curtain of course.
Hey G, sad how ignorant some here are. They are clueless because they are blinded by hate.
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What's Putin trying to do, why create a new Iron Curtain of course.
lol
Of course.
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For the life of me I don’t understand why Dems aren’t falling over themselves to praise how Biden has handled things and express immense relief that he, rather than a fully compromised Trump, is leading the global response, but this delusional nonsense is what’s filling the void:Quote:https://jabberwocking.com/democrats-need-to-back-biden-more-loudly-on-
Grandpa Dementia and his crack team at the White House seem intent to sideline American leadership. He has surrounded himself with progressives who harbor an animus against the historic role of the United States.
ukraine/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
This has been a problem since Jan 20th. of last year. I read his polling numbers and hear people screaming about him and I cannot find anything tangible to blame him for. Nothing actual or real that is. Pandemic? Gas prices? Inflation? Just knee jerk blaming.
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What's Putin trying to do, why create a new Iron Curtain of course.
Hey G, sad how ignorant some here are. They are clueless because they are blinded by hate.
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I think you are right to ignore them.
I don't know how Putin can survive this, but I would never count him out until we see the body. I sure as hell don't trust that he wouldn't stoop to do something irrational.
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Originally posted by THG:
What's Putin trying to do, why create a new Iron Curtain of course.
Hey G, sad how ignorant some here are. They are clueless because they are blinded by hate.
T
I think you are right to ignore them.
I don't know how Putin can survive this, but I would never count him out until we see the body. I sure as hell don't trust that he wouldn't stoop to do something irrational.
A rational person realizes Putin may adopt a scorched earth policy. That would be bad.
Good video below
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McFaul: When Dictators Hold On For Too Long, They Overreach
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Quote:What may eventually give the Russians victory, especially in the crucial battle for control of Kyiv, is that there is a corps of veterans of the war in Syria. Some of these are experienced in urban warfare and participated in retaking the city of Aleppo from rebels against the Syrian government. However, the effort to do that involved massively bombing and destroying buildings in Aleppo to the point that it is a wrecked ruin. Will Putin irrationally do the same to the beautiful and historic city of Kyiv?
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
I don't know how Putin can survive this, but I would never count him out until we see the body. I sure as hell don't trust that he wouldn't stoop to do something irrational.
Battle of Aleppo (2012–2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aleppo_(2012%E2%80%932016)#Des
truction_of_the_city_and_heritage
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Moe, Larry and Curly are reunited.
I'm so happy for you guys.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:What may eventually give the Russians victory, especially in the crucial battle for control of Kyiv, is that there is a corps of veterans of the war in Syria. Some of these are experienced in urban warfare and participated in retaking the city of Aleppo from rebels against the Syrian government. However, the effort to do that involved massively bombing and destroying buildings in Aleppo to the point that it is a wrecked ruin. Will Putin irrationally do the same to the beautiful and historic city of Kyiv?
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
I don't know how Putin can survive this, but I would never count him out until we see the body. I sure as hell don't trust that he wouldn't stoop to do something irrational.
We can only hope he doesn't. It looks like he is starting to use cluster bombs against civilians.
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Americans tend to see the world in much the same way as President Joe Biden frames it in his speeches, divided neatly between “democracies” and “autocracies.” But the reality is that authoritarian states exist on a political spectrum depending on how much power is exercised by a single individual—and where states land on this spectrum has a big impact on matters of war and peace. At one end, you have civilian-run regimes, like Hu Jintao’s China or Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet Union, where political power is checked and shared within a ruling party. At the other, you have personalist dictatorships like that of, say, Saddam Hussein, where rivals are purged, loyalists are rewarded, cults of personality flourish, and all authority runs through the glorious leader.
The political science literature suggests that personalist dictatorships are more erratic and dangerous to the outside world than other sorts of autocracies.
Researchers have found they are more likely to start wars, for instance (institutionalized civilian-run regimes are about as apt to use force as democracies), and also tend to perform worse militarily (not surprising, since their leaders are often surrounded by yes men). But while civilian-run regimes might be less apt to launch destructive, harebrained conflicts in the short term, in the long term they can still be ticking time bombs.
That’s because as they age, their intricate power structures often devolve and allow dictators to consolidate personal control. In a forthcoming paper, Andrew Leber and Matthew Reichert of Harvard University and Christopher Carothers of the University of Pennsylvania theorize that this tends to happen when there’s no influential old guard of political elites who can stop them. All of which pretty much sums up what has happened in Russia over the last two decades.
While the world’s news readers may long have thought of Vladimir Putin as a dictator, most Russia analysts and policymakers saw the Kremlin differently. And for most of Putin’s nearly 23-year journey in power, they were right to do so. What once existed, but not now, was a complicated regime beyond one man where lots of people exerted influence and could check Putin’s impulses.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/ukraine-invasion-putin-is-
ruling-alone.html
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