Punishing Russia With Sanctions
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
It was Kiev that intentionally bombed women and children. Or didn't you know that?
And if you want too look at the biggest, baddest bomber of women and children, look no farther than the USA, starting with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and working our way around the globe.
You support THAT, don't you?
So why are you pretending to take such a righteous tone, since you support mass murder?
So, why don't you answer my questions, you stupid fuck?
Or does that too much moral courage?
BTW I noticed your buddy, CAPONCRUNCH, weaseled away from the board, again. At least HE recognizes when to bail on a lost cause.
Your claim the Ukrainians are bombing themselves is disgusting. Biden said to Putin I’ve looked into your eyes and I see you have no soul. Based on what you’ve posted over the years including today, I’ve seen what you stand for. It’s obvious you exist without a soul as well. At least Putin admitted it, coward.
Your first sentence in the above post shows you to be lying so that is the point. Therefore the rest of what you post is not worth giving consideration to, but I will say this. Whataboutism, and what happened in the past cannot be used to justify what is happening today. That is of course unless you would argue that two wrongs make a right. You always try and fail to do that, while unsuccessfully attempting to shift the blame for atrocities committed by the Russians, to in this case the victims. Again, totally disgusting.
The whole time I have been posting at firefly fans I’ve said you were a Russian propagandist. No doubt about it now aye Polish Russian Collaborator signym? A lie, the whole time you’ve been posting at this site you have been deceptive about your intentions for posting what you post. I have always understood this about you because anyplace you and Kiki showed up, an odor followed.
You dumb commie fuck
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Quote:The CEO said McDonald’s will continue paying its 62,000 workers in Russia.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
McDonald's closes its 850 locations in Russia.
This one is actually the best thing that has happened to the health of the Russian people in 100 years.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
McDonald’s has also temporarily closed 108 restaurants in Ukraine and is still paying the salaries of its nearly 10,000 Ukrainian employees. It donated $5 million to its employee assistance fund and is supporting local relief efforts led by the International Red Cross.
Chicago-based McDonald’s said in recent regulatory filings that its restaurants in Russia and Ukraine contributed about 2% of sales and about 9% of its annual revenue, or about $2 billion.
McDonald’s owns 84% of its restaurants in Russia and all of its locations in Ukraine.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/mcdonalds-temporarily-closing-its-850
-restaurants-in-russia-51646764375
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Samuel Ramani @SamRamani2 tweeted:
I completed my doctoral thesis at Oxford last year on Russia's military interventions in Ukraine and Syria. Based on that research, I am sharing some thoughts on why Russia invaded Ukraine and what Putin might do next /1
Russian military interventions are often explained by geopolitical opportunism or regime insecurity
It is intriguing that Russia would invade Ukraine when its great power status was rising and there was no immediate threat to Putin's regime /2
Geopolitical opportunism has been chronically overplayed. Russia's annexation of Crimea and Black Sea foothold was not rationally worth the cost of Western sanctions. Even in Syria, Russia embarked on a potentially high-risk, uncertain reward mission that ended up succeeding /3
Regime insecurity has also been exaggerated as a driver of Russian aggression.
The 2011-12 protests might have influenced Russian alarmism about Euro-Maidan and the Arab Spring, but there was no serious threat of unrest diffusing from Kyiv and Cairo to Moscow /4
Putin has instead used military interventions as a tool of legacy-building and identity construction. He is focused on the long-term legitimacy of his regime and Russia's political system. Hence, he is willing to take excessive short-term risks and incur geopolitical costs /5
Putin's legacy hinges on satisfying domestic great power status aspirations
This means having a sphere of influence, effectively challenging the US-led legal order, and having a superpower-style global reach
The image of greatness matters even if Russia is actually isolated /6
Putin has also deftly framed his military interventions as a triumph against long-standing perceived internal threats
Fascism, uncontrolled unrest, Western expansionism, Islamic extremism- these narratives date back to Hungary 1956, and endured through the Soviet collapse /7
Putin has also effectively rationalized the costs of military interventions to the Russian people
Highlighting Russia's capacity for self-sacrifice as a contrast to perceived Western decadence is crucial. Hence the continuous World War II Great Patriotic War references /8
The war in Ukraine allows Putin to showcase Moscow's control over its sphere of influence, willingness to combat socially accepted threats and feeds into popular conceptions of "Russian strength"
It is an identity construction and authoritarian consolidation project /9
There are two differences between Russia's current and past actions:
The first is the extent of Russia's willingness to take risks in support of these goals
The second is Putin's reading of public opinion - he is appealing to a core base rather than the public writ large /10
Putin's conduct suggests that he will continue the war in Ukraine until he achieves a success that he can frame as a legacy or identity construction win
Given his framing of the war, that likely means he will continue pursuing regime change, but not necessarily an occupation /11
Given this calculus, sanctions are unlikely to deter Putin, and diplomacy is unlikely to change his mind
Only an intra-elite schism, which poses an immediate threat to his regime, might cause him to recalibrate, and even then, most likely only temporarily /12
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1501178540900982790
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1501178540900982790.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
BTW I noticed your buddy, CAPONCRUNCH, weaseled away from the board, again. At least HE recognizes when to bail on a lost cause.
Too funny comrade. G posts, just not like he used to. We can easily find several posts from him in the past few days.
Kiki comrade, where is your comrade in arms kiki. Thats the point. You're such a fucking moron. Facts mean nothing to you and it is painfully obvious.
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Originally posted by THG:
Too funny comrade. G posts, just not like he used to. We can easily find several posts from him in the past few days.
I'm guessing SIGS didn't get enough attention from her family growing up OR she gets paid by the number of replies her posts get. Or both.
What else is there to say? Putin has made one of the most hated and epic misjudgments in recent memory. 100 years? For a guy that wanted to restore Russian glory he sure has screwed the pooch.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
McDonald's closes its 850 locations in Russia.
This one is actually the best thing that has happened to the health of the Russian people in 100 years.
Ha - I was thinking the same thing. Watch Burger King try and elbow their way in.
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SIGNYM:
It was Kiev that intentionally bombed women and children. Or didn't you know that?
And if you want too look at the biggest, baddest bomber of women and children, look no farther than the USA, starting with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and working our way around the globe.
You support THAT, don't you?
...So why are you pretending to take such a righteous tone, since you support mass murder?
So, why don't you answer my questions, you stupid fuck?
Or does that too much moral courage?
BTW I noticed your buddy, CAPONCRUNCH, weaseled away from the board, again. At least HE recognizes when to bail on a lost cause.
THUGR: Your claim the Ukrainians are bombing themselves is disgusting.
The fact that Ukies are shelling and mining Ukies IS disgusting. Nonetheless, it's true. It's not ME that says so, but OSCE, UN, and UK which BTW have a pro-western bias and undercounts deaths on the DPR/LPR side. But even tho OSCE etc undercount DPR/LPR death, nonetheless most deaths occur on the DPR/LPRr side, meaning that Kiev is mainly responsible for killing more civilians.
https://newswep.com/bitter-score-thousands-of-civilians-killed-in-eigh
t-years-of-hostilities-in-donbass-articles/
Quote:Oh, BIDEN said??? HAHAHAHA! Since when does Biden* tell the truth?
Biden said ...
Somehow, the difference between fact and opinion STILL escapes you?
Quote:Oh, I'm "lying" because you keep confusing lies, rumors, and opinion for fact?
Your first sentence in the above post shows you to be lying
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
THUGR: Your claim the Ukrainians are bombing themselves is disgusting.
The fact that Ukies are shelling and mining Ukies IS disgusting. Nonetheless, it's true.
Uki's - what does it mean?/gross, ugly, trash.
This says it all comrade pig. It's also been established here you hate Jews so the Ukrainian president being Jewish must really bust your bubble. Especially since he is kicking Putins' ass.
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Trump has changed his tune as scenes of war and death in Ukraine at the hands of Russia have played out for the world to see on television.
In recent days, he said that the war would never have happened if he were still president and even called for the U.S. to attack Russia but make it look like it was actually China — by flying American planes with a Chinese flag on the side.
"And then we say, 'China did it,' " Trump told Republican donors Saturday in New Orleans, according to a recording obtained by The Washington Post. " 'We didn't do it — China did it,' and then they start fighting with each other and we sit back and watch."
It's the kind of simple-sounding amateur solution that Trump has floated throughout his political life.
Trump's former vice president, Mike Pence, reportedly took an oblique shot at Trump in a speech before GOP donors Friday.
"There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin," Pence said. "There is only room for champions of freedom."
He also praised NATO, which Trump has continuously criticized.
"Where would our friends in Eastern Europe be today if they were not in NATO?" Pence said. "Where would Russian tanks be today if NATO had not expanded the borders of freedom?"
The problem, Madden says, is that this kind of message isn't being delivered repeatedly across the Republican Party and done so explicitly.
"That's one of the things about any sort of counterpoints for Trump within the Republican Party right now is those efforts have never really been broad," Madden said. "They've never really been sustained. They've never been methodical. They've always just been glancing blows. And that's why he still has such a strong command over the party apparatus."
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085023029/russias-invasion-puts-a-new-
light-on-trumps-ukraine-pressure-campaign
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:When I clicked on Signym's link, I got the false message:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The fact that Ukies are shelling and mining Ukies IS disgusting. Nonetheless, it's true. It's not ME that says so, but OSCE, UN, and UK which BTW have a pro-western bias and undercounts deaths on the DPR/LPR side. But even tho OSCE etc undercount DPR/LPR death, nonetheless most deaths occur on the DPR/LPRr side, meaning that Kiev is mainly responsible for killing more civilians.
https://newswep.com/bitter-score-thousands-of-civilians-killed-in-eigh
t-years-of-hostilities-in-donbass-articles/
Quote:Signym, I already use the latest Firefox version. The file your website wants me to download is a Trojan. Your website is double untrustworthy. The evidence is false and the website is actively trying to harm my computer.
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