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Nobody cares about Russia or Ukraine

POSTED BY: 6IXSTRINGJACK
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 20:15
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Tuesday, April 5, 2022 2:40 AM

Stop posting about it.

What are Democrats doing to fix the mess they've created?

That's all anybody is going to care about this year.

Nobody gives a shit what rich white Democrats think or say anymore.

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Tuesday, April 5, 2022 3:22 PM

They do, Russia has Nuclear weapons same reason why people pay attention to Kim Jong-un and his own hissy fits. Russia might not have the best military but its strong enough with nukes to wreck a smaller nation and causes mass havoc and mayhem and death, Russia's militray might have been hyped but it is still dangerous, death its what armies do.

Ruskies supply a lot of stuff to Europe, material, natural gas, oil etc It jacks prices up and force Europeans into a panic to buy elsewhere and can hit the already damaged world economy supply and trade. There are a whole lot of nations that won't fully sanction Russia, there are lots of non-NATO nations from Africa, South America, South East Asia, India, Pakistan, Iran, the Middle East...perhaps the world's political balance is shifting?

There is a Hunter Biden thing, a laptop cover up and possible Ukraine links

Pictures and film of refugees and women and babies, groups fleeing with the clothes on their backs always has people 'caring'

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Tuesday, April 5, 2022 5:18 PM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
They do, Russia has Nuclear weapons same reason why people pay attention to Kim Jong-un and his own hissy fits. Russia might not have the best military but its strong enough with nukes to wreck a smaller nation and causes mass havoc and mayhem and death, Russia's militray might have been hyped but it is still dangerous, death its what armies do.

Why scared of Russia? The military that has destroyed more nations and killed more people in unprovoked attacks has been...

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Ruskies supply a lot of stuff to Europe, material, natural gas, oil etc It jacks prices up
No. Russia has NOT jacked up prices. I'm disappointe in you, JAYNZE, you're usually knowledgeable.
European countries decided a few years ago that they didn't want to be in longterm contracts anymore bc they felt they were paying too much. They wanted to be in the spot market. So they either let their long-term contracts lapse, or (in Poland's case) take Russia to court to break their long term contracts.
Also, the EU started playing games, first with South Stream and then with North Stream II. Sorry to say, but high gas prices are entirely the EUs fault.

And then sanctioning Russia and trying to destroy the ruble has caused such finacial and economic instability that other prices have alos gone up (helped along by the USAs eay money policy.)

There are reasons to care about what Russia does, but generally speaking, if the west had't been trying on such a persistent basis to fuck Russia over since 1990 Russia wouldn't be doing what it is doing today. And I take SIX's point: what good does it do to torpedo your own economy bc of a pointless itch to regime-change Russia? Let's take care of our own problems first, OK?


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Wednesday, April 6, 2022 3:17 AM

Just a daily reminder that nobody cares about Russia or Ukraine.



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Wednesday, April 6, 2022 4:21 AM

I care a lot more about what Biden* is doing.

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Wednesday, April 6, 2022 4:58 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I care a lot more about what Biden* is doing.




Wasn’t it great how he got the US out of Afghanistan? I don’t recall you having any positive comments on that incredible accomplishment…

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Wednesday, April 6, 2022 5:16 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
No. Russia has NOT jacked up prices. I'm disappointe in you, JAYNZE, you're usually knowledgeable.

March 16 (Reuters) - Annual inflation in Russia accelerated to 12.54% as of March 11, its highest since late 2015 and up from 10.42% a week earlier, the economy ministry . . .
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-inflation-accelerates-125
-highest-since-2015-2022-03-16
/

March 30 (Reuters) - Annual inflation in Russia accelerated to 15.66% as of March 25, its highest since September 2015 and up from 14.53% a week earlier, the economy ministry said on Wednesday . . .
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/inflation-russia-climbs-above
-156-highest-since-september-2015-2022-03-30
/

Very disappointed in you, Signym.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, April 6, 2022 7:39 AM

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Originally posted by CAPTAINCRUNCH:
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I care a lot more about what Biden* is doing.




Wasn’t it great how he got the US out of Afghanistan? I don’t recall you having any positive comments on that incredible accomplishment…



I actually did. Botched exit strategy aside, I said it will be the one single thing Biden* will be able to hang his hat on.

That has long since been erased. Doesn't matter one single bit when you exit one neverending unconstitutional war just to go right ahead and start another one less than a year later.


Meanwhile, a majority of the Democrat base is getting creamed by Democrat inflicted inflation.

You know who cares even less about Russia and Ukraine than "uneducated" white dudes like me, Cap'n?

Nearly every single "person of color" or young person of any color that doesn't hold a high paying job.

Congratulations. The Democrat party has become the party of rich white people and their token minorities.


After years of becoming the pro-war and pro-censorship party it's finally come full circle. You're now everything that you used to hate.



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Wednesday, April 6, 2022 8:58 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I care a lot more about what Biden* is doing.



Here's what Biden* is doing.

Being ignored by everyone in his own house.





Oh... and having the entire Legacy Media turn against him too.


Meanwhile, you should probably stop worrying at all about what Biden* is doing. He's a fucking joke. He was always a fucking joke. And now that the Democrat politicians and Legacy Media are admitting what we already knew, I'd be worried about what their plan is going forward.

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Thursday, April 7, 2022 12:11 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Just a daily reminder that nobody cares about Russia or Ukraine.



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The war footage and witness reports of civilian slaughter, mass graves, rapes, and torture of children have no impact on you? Wowzers!

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Thursday, April 7, 2022 12:16 AM

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I care a lot more about what Biden* is doing.


It's rather simple :

.. His unimaginable ineptitude has brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

.. His reckless stupidity has brought America to the brink of economic collapse.

That's all. Case closed.

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Thursday, April 7, 2022 7:28 AM

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
The war footage and witness reports of civilian slaughter, mass graves, rapes, and torture of children have no impact on you? Wowzers!



It's a multi-billion dollar production. Smoke and mirrors.

It's all bullshit. Just like Covid was.

It's an excuse for Democrats to blame all of their terrible policy failures on while they rape The People.


Fucking Neo-Con goons like Hannity love it too. Gotta feed the war machine.


You're goddamned right it has no impact on me.

Even if it were all real, it's none of our fucking business.

We get out of one "Forever War", just to be thrust into another one. Meanwhile, The People see everything they've made for themselves get flushed down the toilet.

I don't give one single shit about Ukraine's border. WE DON'T EVEN TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN!!!

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Friday, April 8, 2022 1:15 AM

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Saturday, April 9, 2022 5:53 PM

Your daily reminder that nobody gives a shit about Russia or Ukraine.

Your daily reminder that nobody gives a shit about Russia or Ukraine.

Apparently I cared so little that I missed yesterday.

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Saturday, April 9, 2022 8:47 PM

Finland and Sweden could soon join NATO, prompted by Russian war in Ukraine. There is nothing but a shortage of Russian tanks, crew members, and NATO stopping Putin from tomorrow invading Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, etc.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics/finland-sweden-nato-membership
/index.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, April 9, 2022 9:16 PM

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Just a daily reminder that nobody cares about Russia or Ukraine.



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The war footage and witness reports of civilian slaughter, mass graves, rapes, and torture of children have no impact on you? Wowzers!





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Saturday, April 9, 2022 10:49 PM

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Originally posted by THG:
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Just a daily reminder that nobody cares about Russia or Ukraine.



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The war footage and witness reports of civilian slaughter, mass graves, rapes, and torture of children have no impact on you? Wowzers!





T






Idiot Ted follows up Jong's post with a cartoon because idiot Ted is an idiot.

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Monday, April 11, 2022 9:32 AM

Your daily reminder that nobody gives a shit about Russia or Ukraine.

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Monday, April 11, 2022 10:18 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Your daily reminder that nobody gives a shit about Russia or Ukraine.

Russia, a society which has wallowed in evil but is unwilling to face the truth about its own past, let alone confess and repent it, is condemned to offend again.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, April 12, 2022 8:15 AM

Your daily reminder that nobody gives a shit about Russia or Ukraine.


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Tuesday, April 12, 2022 6:18 PM

Other people's shit to do today. No more time to waste on the morons here or their obsession with things that don't matter, I'm afraid.

Since I don't know when I'll be back I'll just leave you with this sage piece of advice in my absence:

Nobody gives a shit about Russia or Ukraine.



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Wednesday, April 13, 2022 6:19 PM

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Saturday, April 16, 2022 8:16 PM

Nope.

Nobody cares still.



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Saturday, April 16, 2022 11:26 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nope.

Nobody cares still.

Another example where nobody cared at first:

So in 1938 (2022) Hitler (Putin) was furious because of how the German (Russian) speaking people living in the Sudetes (Donbass) region were treated by the Czechs (Ukrainians). So, instead of looking for a diplomatic solution to the problem, he decided to invade Czechoslovakia (Ukraine) supported by Italian (Belarusian) dictator Mussolini (Lukashenko).

We know 1938 was the beginning. Toward the end, 1945, more people were caring. I wonder why those people flipped from not caring? Must have been over gasoline prices, or something.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/02/24/opinion/putins-hitler-like-tric
ks-tactics-ukraine
/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, April 17, 2022 7:47 AM

Shut up, idiot.

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Monday, April 18, 2022 10:13 PM

Human nature with our thoughts and feelings are strange and mysterious things. A month ago I was all up on the goings on in Ukraine. I felt anger against Russia and empathy for Ukrainians. But you get numb to the destruction and human suffering after a while I guess. I haven't watched anything about it in weeks. I suppose I may have to answer for that indifference someday.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 7:33 AM

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Human nature with our thoughts and feelings are strange and mysterious things. A month ago I was all up on the goings on in Ukraine. I felt anger against Russia and empathy for Ukrainians. But you get numb to the destruction and human suffering after a while I guess. I haven't watched anything about it in weeks. I suppose I may have to answer for that indifference someday.



Don't feel bad. I've been indifferent from the start.

But that's because I don't believe a single thing the well-paid liars at CNN, MSNBC or FOX News have to say about anything.

This fake war, brought to you by Pfizer.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2022 8:24 PM

Yup. Nobody cares still.

Expect coverage of this "war" to decline rapidly since everybody is tuning out of it.

The only people who did give a shit about it in the first place are easily led idiots who always believe everything that they're told and the virtue signaler NPCs.

Though not absolute, there is a huge overlap of the two.

I made a handy Venn Diagram to explain this concept to Ted, since Ted is retarded and can only think in pictures.






Let us be grateful that only about 4% of Americans pay any attention to the Cable News outlets on any given day.

Social Media, on the other hand, is a great cause for concern.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 8:12 PM

LOL

Not one single story about Russia/Ukraine on RCP's front page today. Nope...

Let's see... Illegal Invaders, Biden fucking up Tax Season, Biden fucking up our Economy, The fall of BLM and how anti-police measures have led to more crime against blacks and Latinos, Obama and Biden empowering terrorist networks in Syria, Netflix losing subscribers, Jon Stewarts show is a flop, Elon musk and Twitter, WaPo doxxing LibsOfTikTok.

I guess the Legacy Media is finally figuring out what I knew from the start.


Inflation is still killing people, Joe*. Whatever are you going to blame it on now that people don't' give a shit about Russia and Ukraine?

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Thursday, April 21, 2022 6:38 PM

Two days in a row and not one single story on RCP about Russia/Ukraine.

Nobody gives a shit. Nobody really ever did.

I'm right again. Imagine that, huh?

So what are you fuckin' idiots going to glom on to and obsess over next?



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Thursday, April 21, 2022 8:12 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

So what are you fuckin' idiots going to glom on to and obsess over next?



I've been quite busy lately obsessing over Dua Lipa's smokin' hot bod.

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Thursday, April 21, 2022 9:41 PM

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Human nature with our thoughts and feelings are strange and mysterious things. A month ago I was all up on the goings on in Ukraine. I felt anger against Russia and empathy for Ukrainians. But you get numb to the destruction and human suffering after a while I guess. I haven't watched anything about it in weeks. I suppose I may have to answer for that indifference someday.



Yup. It's damn near impossible (and probably not healthy) to maintain that level of disgust. Putin is a sick fck - that's not ever going away. And at this point I don't care if he fcks his entire country. I still think he's trying to show up MBS with how brutal he could be to a whole s-ton of people. The ultimate power - one rat fck flipping the world off because he can, and knowing there's little anyone will do about it.
Not too much has changed, anyway. Takes any news source about 60 seconds to cover any changes, then it goes on repeat. I found myself wondering if game developers have started to write the game script yet, or if they've sent graphic team over to get photos for environment mapping. Will they include elements of war crimes? Have to.

How the world ends: China fcks up and *releases* a worse virus, or angry toddler Putin gets bored and starts dropping nukes.

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Friday, April 22, 2022 3:30 AM

Putin’s Hunger for Money

Why Bill Browder, formerly one of Russia’s biggest investors, thinks the war in Ukraine is all about money.

https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next/2022/04/putin-ukraine-war-money

Putin has tried assassinating Bill Browder because he knows too much about Putin and has successfully lobbied Congress and 33 other countries to harass Putin for being a thief. This is a podcast, but here is the transcript:

S1: Bill Browder wanted to make lots of money, but not for the usual reasons.

S2: It was a strange motivation. I. I come from an unusual American family. My grandfather was the head of the Communist Party of America, and my father was a left wing, left leaning professor. And so in my teenage rebellion, I decided to put on a suit and tie and become a capitalist to upset my family.

S1: He went to Stanford Business School and he happened to graduate the same year that the Berlin Wall got torn down.

S2: And I had this epiphany one day, which is that if my grandfather was the biggest communist in America and the Berlin Wall has come down, I’m going to become the biggest capitalist in Russia. And that’s what I set out to do.

S1: He eventually did just that. Over about a decade, Browder made billions and became the largest foreign investor in Russia by buying up cheap shares in newly privatized, wildly corrupt Russian companies. His strategy was to expose the companies' corruption and then watch their valuations rise as they went legit. This worked great for a while until powerful people in Russia, in particular, Vladimir Putin, decided they didn’t want Browder shining a spotlight on them and getting rich in the process. In 2005, Browder got booted from Russia permanently. Not long after, Browder’s lawyer, a Russian named Sergei Magnitsky, who helped Browder expose corruption, was arrested, jailed, tortured and eventually killed by Russian authorities. Browder has since made it his life’s calling to avenge Magnitsky’s death. Along the way, he’s become such a thorn in Putin’s side that the Russian president took a moment during a 2018 Helsinki press conference with President Trump to suggest that America should hand Browder over to Russian authorities.

S2: For instance, we can bring up the mister Mr. Browder in this particular case.

S1: President Trump had no objection to that plan. I think that’s.

S2: An incredible offer. Thank you. I thought, my God, the most powerful man in the free world. President of the United States. Trump was offering to hand me over and I expected that, you know, any moment for blacked out Suburbans from the Department of Homeland Security would pull up and grab me and put me on a rendition flight to Moscow. And I would then be tortured for a while to get me to confess to various crimes I didn’t commit. And then after they got those confessions, they would then kill me.

S1: For years, Bill Browder has been telling the world that Vladimir Putin and his oligarchs are a scourge on humanity. But a lot of the world didn’t pay much heed until Putin invaded Ukraine.

S2: I would say that I’m beyond furious. I believe that if governments, Western governments, the U.S. government, the British government, the European Union had been tougher on Putin for all sorts of terrible things that he did, that he might have had a different calculation about doing this unbelievably sadistic mass murder of Ukrainian civilians.

S1: Today on the show, Bill Browder got an early up close look at the evil Vladimir Putin could do. What does he think Putin with his back against the wall will do next? I’m Seth Stevenson filling in for Mary Harris. You’re listening to What Next? Stick around. The murder of Bill Browder lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009 has been the catalyst for Browder’s activism against Russian elites for years. Magnitsky came to the attention of the Russian state when he uncovered a scheme that funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes that Browder had paid away from the Russian government and into the pockets of corrupt officials. Magnitsk

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Friday, April 22, 2022 5:19 PM

A few years before the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian satirist Vladimir Voinovich imagined a story about a former KGB agent who became head of state, created a class of corrupt oligarchs around him, draped himself in the mantle of the Russian Orthodox Church and launched a bloody war to remain in power.

Voinovich’s 1986 novel “Moscow 2042” predicted Vladimir Putin. It was not necessarily a hard thing to do. Putin and his crony elites put Russia on the road to autocracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

However strategic the strongman was, Putin failed to predict how events would play out. He underestimated the ferocity of Ukrainian resistance and misjudged ordinary Russians.

It’s the classic mistake of every tyrant: Surround yourself only with sycophants, suck-ups and yes-men, and you never get a reality check in your echo chamber. Eliminate dissenting politicians, and you assume that means you’ve eliminated dissent.

The Russian president is now playing a “face-saving” game in Ukraine. The Ukrainians sunk Russia’s Black Sea flagship, the cruiser Moskva, and have killed six generals. Low morale and defection plague conscripts, some of whom blow up their own equipment, according to Ukrainians. Mercenaries are being called in.

Shrinking his ambitions, Putin appears now to be aiming only to seize the eastern Ukrainian region of the Donbas, where Russian separatists already held sway. Meanwhile, with the ferocity of this war, even some of those pro-Russian Ukrainians are questioning their past allegiances.

Voinovich died in 2018. His obituary portrayed him as a dissident writer who foresaw the rise of a Russian regime that looked nostalgically and bitterly to an imagined past rather than forward to a better present.

https://www.dailychatter.com/2022/04/22/wanted-redemption/

You can download for free Vladimir Voinovich's novel “Moscow 2042” from https://libgen.unblockit.llc/libraryp2/fiction/5CD0734A6254EACB9801F7D
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Other Vladimir Voinovich novels from https://libgen.unblockit.llc/fiction/?q=Vladimir+Voinovich

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, April 24, 2022 3:26 AM

Nobody cares about Russia or Ukraine.

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Monday, April 25, 2022 4:20 AM

Just another day of Russia/Ukraine not making the front page on RCP.

The only mention of Ukraine at all was a hit piece on JD Vance by the Columbus Dispatch.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2022/04/23/opinio
n-j-d-vance-foreign-policy-clashes-republicans-donald-trump/7409603001
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I didn't even know who JD Vance is, but his comments about Ukraine are spot on.

Quote:

“I gotta be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.”


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“we spent $6 billion on a failed Ukrainian military... the only real solution to tyranny abroad is a strong America with protected borders, a prosperous middle class and healthy people... further engulfing ourselves in Eastern Europe harms and distracts from those goals.”


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'I will be damned' if Ukraine prioritized over 'tsunami of illegal migrants'


Indeed.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022 8:15 PM

Nope. Not a single story about Russia/Ukraine on RCP's front page today.

How many days is that now?

Or should we start counting in weeks?



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