Another Putin Disaster
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Originally posted by THGRRI: First posted on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 6:20 PM It is the first post of the thread. Go figure aye Signym.
EU's Antitrust Charge Against Gazprom: Another Putin Disaster
"The trashing of Russia’s most valuable economic asset adds to Putin’s growing list of major policy disasters. By attacking Ukraine, he has alienated the Ukrainian people for generations to come. By saber rattling beyond the borders of Ukraine, he has rejuvenated NATO and given it new purpose. Putin has succeeded in pushing traditional sympathizers in the European community, such as Germany’s foreign minister; they’ve decided that the danger he poses trumps their business interests. Instead of raising Russia’s prestige and national pride, he has turned the country into a pariah state with a tottering economy and declining living standards."
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Microsoft says cyberattacks targeting Ukraine 'raise serious concerns' under Geneva Convention
As hacking by nation-states has grown more pervasive in recent years, Microsoft has long called for the creation of a new Geneva Convention governing cyberspace.
But now, for the first time, the tech giant appears to be suggesting that cyberattacks tied to the war in Ukraine could potentially be considered war crimes under existing international law.
On Monday, Microsoft (MSFT) said that in the hours leading up to Russia's invasion, it detected a new form of "offensive and destructive" software targeting Ukrainian institutions. Microsoft also said it has observed a barrage of cyberattacks zeroing in on Ukraine's agricultural, commercial, finance and energy sectors.
"These attacks on civilian targets raise serious concerns under the Geneva Convention, and we have shared information with the Ukrainian government about each of them," wrote Microsoft president Brad Smith in a blog post.
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World's biggest shipping company suspends container shipments to and from Russia
Maersk will pause Russian shipments in the wake of the country's invasion and Western sanctions.The suspension will apply to all goods except food, medical supplies and humanitarian equipment.
The shipping giant said it was already starting to see operational delays in the global supply chain.
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How very Liberal of you, Leftist ran OnlyFans.
In a country that already had it rough, they're seeing inflation at almost 50% and now you cut off the only source of income a not small amount of Russian women who have absolutely no responsibility for or personal stake in current events had.
Good job. Keep being the "good guys" everyone.
Pats on the back all around.
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Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Will Only Make It Weaker
Why conquest makes the conqueror weaker.
The Ukrainian miracle may not last. Vladimir Putin’s attempt to win a quick victory on the cheap, seizing major cities with relatively light forces, has faced major resistance, but the tanks and big guns are moving up. And despite the incredible heroism of Ukraine’s people, it’s still more likely than not that the Russian flag will eventually be planted amid the rubble of Kyiv and Kharkiv.
But even if that happens, the Russian Federation will be left weaker and poorer than it was before the invasion. Conquest doesn’t pay.
Why not? If you go back in history, there are plenty of examples of powers that enriched themselves through military prowess. The Romans surely profited from the conquest of the Hellenistic world, as did Spain from the conquest of the Aztecs and the Incas.
But the modern world is different — where by “modern,” I mean at least the past century and a half.
The British author Norman Angell published his famous tract “The Great Illusion” in 1909, arguing that war had become obsolete. His book was widely misinterpreted as saying that war could no longer happen, a proposition proved horribly wrong over the next two generations. What Angell actually said was that even the victors in war could no longer derive any profit from their success.
And he was surely right about that. We’re all thankful that the Allies prevailed in World War II, but Britain emerged as a diminished power, suffering through years of austerity as it struggled to overcome a shortage of foreign exchange. Even the United States had a harder postwar adjustment than many realize, experiencing a bout of price increases that for a time pushed inflation above 20 percent.
And conversely, even utter defeat didn’t prevent Germany and Japan from eventually achieving unprecedented prosperity.
Why and when did conquest become unprofitable? Angell argued that everything changed with the rise of a “vital interdependence” among nations, “cutting athwart international frontiers,” which he suggested was “largely the work of the past forty years” — beginning around 1870. That seems like a fair guess: 1870 was roughly when railroads, steamships and telegraphs made possible the creation of what some economists call the first global economy.
In such a global economy, it’s hard to conquer another country without cutting that country — and yourself — off from the international division of labor, not to mention the international financial system, at great cost. We can see that dynamic happening to Russia as we speak.
Angell also emphasized the limits to confiscation in a modern economy: You can’t just seize industrial assets the way preindustrial conquerors could seize land, because arbitrary confiscation destroys the incentives and sense of security an advanced society needs to stay productive. Again, history vindicated his analysis. For a while, Nazi Germany occupied nations with a combined prewar gross domestic product roughly twice its own — but despite ruthless exploitation, the occupied territories seem to have paid for only about 30 percent of the German war effort, in part because many of the economies Germany tried to exploit collapsed under the burden.
An aside: Isn’t it extraordinary and horrible to find ourselves in a situation where Hitler’s economic failures tell us useful things about future prospects? But that’s where we are. Thanks, Putin.
I’d add two more factors that explain why conquest is futile.
The first is that modern war uses an incredible amount of resources. Pre-modern armies used limited amounts of ammunition and could, to some extent, live off the land. As late as 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman could cut loose from his supply lines and march across Georgia carrying only 20 days’ worth of rations. But modern armies require huge amounts of ammunition, replacement parts and, above all, fuel for their vehicles. Indeed, the latest assessment from Britain’s Ministry of Defense says t
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My only response to that post is good on you for giving an archived link and not generating any ad revenue for NYT propaganda and lies.
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Quote:6ix, you misunderstood, which I find unsurprising:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My only response to that post is good on you for giving an archived link and not generating any ad revenue for NYT propaganda and lies.
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OnlyFans won't let sex workers from Russia make any money online anymore.
How very Liberal of you, Leftist ran OnlyFans.
In a country that already had it rough, they're seeing inflation at almost 50% and now you cut off the only source of income a not small amount of Russian women who have absolutely no responsibility for or personal stake in current events had.
Good job. Keep being the "good guys" everyone.
Pats on the back all around.
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New western sanctions are isolating Putin, devastating Russian economy
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you misunderstood, which I find unsurprising:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
My only response to that post is good on you for giving an archived link and not generating any ad revenue for NYT propaganda and lies.
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OnlyFans won't let sex workers from Russia make any money online anymore.
How very Liberal of you, Leftist ran OnlyFans.
In a country that already had it rough, they're seeing inflation at almost 50% and now you cut off the only source of income a not small amount of Russian women who have absolutely no responsibility for or personal stake in current events had.
Good job. Keep being the "good guys" everyone.
Pats on the back all around.
On Sunday evening, OnlyFans said it had been able to restore account activity for creators in all countries. “Their accounts will have full functionalities as long as we continue to have payment methods to support them,” the spokesperson said. “We were not terminating or suspending any creator accounts based on the creator’s location, and we are doing everything we can to support our community.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/onlyfans-russia-puti
n-ukraine-invasion-1313259/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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OK. An article from Leftist shill magazine Rolling Stone.
If they are giving the Russian women their accounts back, it's only because they received the correct amount of blowback they should have for doing what they did.
This is just more evidence of the death of Cancel Culture.
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