Date: February 25th, 2022 5:49 PM Author: provocative space
He's right. Insurgency will continue for years. Downside of trying to occupy a country that has huge land border with hostile powers that will be funneling in arms forever basically.
Date: February 25th, 2022 5:42 PM Author: burgundy sadistic shitlib
4chan has been very shitty this time around. way too much propaganda and fake bullshit. intel agencies have been pumping too much spam on there since the last US election.
Date: February 25th, 2022 5:41 PM Author: burgundy sadistic shitlib
this whole conflict has been extremely bad in terms of ability to get accurate information. a lot of stuff has been wrong/fake/propaganda so far. even official government statements from various nations have contained claims which turned out to be wrong.
it's probably too early to tell what the fuck is actually happening. a big red flag will be what happens around the two-week mark (march 9), since a lot of pre-war estimates had ukraine holding out for a couple of weeks before making major concessions or being outright defeated.
Date: February 25th, 2022 5:47 PM Author: burgundy sadistic shitlib
'pro-russian' sources are not a good source of war predictions because they tend to be overly-optimistic. i'm looking at pre-war assessments from somewhat more dispassionate/neutral sources. one of the common comparisons was with the US invasion of iraq, which began on march 19th, 2003 and largely ended with the fall of baghdad on april 9. that's a more realistic timescale for the takeover of a larger country with a large military and landmass.
Date: February 25th, 2022 5:52 PM Author: burgundy sadistic shitlib
i doubt it. the US doesn't release its actual internal war-game/strategic assessments. a country like the US has a strong incentive to say that if russia doesn't do X by time Y, then it has 'failed.' but there's no reason to adopt that particular timescale unless it is supported by other elements like history (similar wars) or objective facts.
we kind of saw the same thing with the russian war with georgia in 2008. john mccain even said that the russians were being 'driven back' and that 'we are all georgians now.' but a few days later, georgia outright surrendered.
Date: February 25th, 2022 5:55 PM Author: self-absorbed sandwich son of senegal
ok, choose to live in your own fantasy world and pull shit out of your ass, pumo. everyone else, including actual pro-russian and pro-globohomo analysts and experts, will live on planet earth.
Date: February 25th, 2022 6:14 PM Author: burgundy sadistic shitlib
most sane and rational pre-war predictions called for a conflict similar in timescale to the US invasion of iraq. anything else is mostly just propaganda.
Date: February 26th, 2022 11:33 AM Author: gold reading party
LOL@ ever getting the whole truth on some of this shit. All information coming out of Ukraine is tightly controlled. Best believe NSA is looking at every video and cell phone pic that comes out of Ukraine and are working with Twitter/Facebook etc. to control what gets seen.
Date: February 25th, 2022 9:56 PM Author: Slimy red parlor halford
It is truly pathetic that the western media and Twitter idiots have motivated these people to commit suicide to the Russians while the west stands by and complains about gas prices.
I am impressed with their heroism and think Putin is making a mistake but there is nothing happy about watching these poor fuckers getting smoked.
Date: February 25th, 2022 11:03 PM Author: crawly jewess location
There are reasons to start the war and to defend it, but none of them matter to the average Ukrainian. Their lives are completely unchanged regardless of which oligarch controls their natural resources and ports.
It’s more a criticism of the Ukrainian government and oligarchy than the actual people fighting, who obviously don’t have much agency.
Date: February 26th, 2022 7:12 AM Author: self-absorbed sandwich son of senegal
Anatoly Karlin (🇷🇺,🇷🇺)
@akarlin0
Good chance Kiev liberated today. Said it would happen in 48 hours on @RWApodcast on Feb 24 https://patreon.com/posts/63003338 (US intel gave it 96 hours), might be correct to the hour.
House of cards that is Ukrainian hopium to crash imminently, Russian military is a superlative machine.
Good chance Kiev liberated today. Said it would happen in 48 hours on @RWApodcast on Feb 24 https://patreon.com/posts/63003338 (US intel gave it 96 hours), might be correct to the hour.
House of cards that is Ukrainian hopium to crash imminently, Russian military is a superlative machine."
Date: February 26th, 2022 8:13 AM Author: peach tripping tanning salon
This has been obvious for years now. What sort of people do you think are spending hours a day, often during working hours, on an online message board devoted to conspiracy theories and gay sex?
Date: March 19th, 2022 3:17 PM Author: Slimy red parlor halford
As dumb as this turned out to be, the only way this was ever true was if the Ukraine army surrender, having no desire to fight to the death to save zelelensky. Of course that didn’t happen.
Date: March 21st, 2022 3:13 PM Author: Ruby Death Wish Feces
Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens:
We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom -- symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning -- signifying renewal, as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
This much we pledge -- and more.
To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do -- for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.
To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom -- and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required -- not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge: to convert our good words into good deeds, in a new alliance for progress, to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.
To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support -- to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak, and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.
Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.
We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course -- both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.
So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.
Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms, and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
Let both sides unite to heed, in all corners of the earth, the command of Isaiah -- to "undo the heavy burdens, and [to] let the oppressed go free."¹
And, if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor -- not a new balance of power, but a new world of law -- where the strong are just, and the weak secure, and the peace preserved.
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days; nor in the life of this Administration; nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.
Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation,"² a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.
Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it. And the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
Date: March 22nd, 2022 9:53 PM Author: Ruby Death Wish Feces
The Jewish question, also referred to as the Jewish problem, was a wide-ranging debate in 19th- and 20th-century European society that pertained to the appropriate status and treatment of Jews. The debate, which was similar to other "national questions", dealt with the civil, legal, national, and political status of Jews as a minority within society, particularly in Europe during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
Date: March 24th, 2022 10:13 PM Author: light alcoholic forum
Russians being repelled back to Russia and out of Kyiv. Also, they lost some more tanks and an a naval ship today. Plus their defense minister is in Siberia. Pretty bad not good day for the mother land.
Date: March 27th, 2022 12:33 PM Author: Ruby Death Wish Feces
"As those closest to me know," Spacey continued in his tweet. "I have had relationships with both men and women. I have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man."
Date: March 29th, 2022 1:14 PM Author: Ruby Death Wish Feces
Our country has had the good fortune that, at times of national trial, a few great personalities have emerged to remind us of our essential unity and inspire us to fulfill our sustaining values. John McCain was one of those gifts of destiny.
I met John for the first time in April 1973, at a White House reception for prisoners returned from captivity in Vietnam. He had been much on my mind during the negotiations to end the Vietnam War, partly because his father, then Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Command, when briefing the President answered references to his son by saying only, “I pray for him.” In the McCain family, national service was its own reward that did not allow for special treatment.
I thought of that when his Vietnamese captors, during the final phase of negotiations, offered to release John so that he could return with me on the official plane that had brought me to Hanoi. Against all my instincts, I thanked them for their offer but refused it. I wondered what John would say when we finally met. His greeting was both self-effacing and moving: “Thank you for saving my honor,” said John McCain. He did not tell me then, or ever, that he had had an opportunity to be freed years earlier but had refused—a decision for which he had to endure additional periods of isolation and hardship. Nor did he ever speak of his captivity again during our near-half-century of close friendship.
John’s focus was on creating a better future. As a senator, he supported the restoration of relations with Vietnam, helped bring it about on a bipartisan basis in the Clinton administration, and became one of the advocates of reconciliation with the erstwhile enemy.
Honor was John’s lodestar. It is an intangible faculty. It is not, like law, obligatory. It has no written code. It reflects an inward compulsion free of self-interest. It fulfils a cause, not a personal ambition. It represents what a society lives for beyond the necessities of the moment. Law makes life possible. Honor ennobles it. For John, it was a way of life.
John returned to an America divided over its presidency, divided over the war and, amidst all the turmoil and civic unrest, divided over the best way to protect our country, and over whether it should be respected for its power or its ideals.
John came back from the war and declared this a false choice—America owed it to itself to embrace both strength and ideals. In decades of Congressional service, ultimately as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, John was an indefatigable exponent of an America strong enough to vindicate its purpose.
But John believed also in a compassionate America guided by core principles for which American foreign policy must always stand. “‘With liberty and justice for all’ is not an empty sentiment;” he argued in 1999, “it is the foundation of our national consciousness.”
To John, American verities had universal applicability: “I do not believe,” he said, “that there is an Arab exception any more than there was a Black African exception, an Asian or a Latin exception.” Therefore, he warned against the temptation of withdrawal from the world: “We will not thrive in a world where our leadership and ideals are absent. We wouldn’t deserve it.”
In this manner, John McCain’s name became synonymous with an America that reached out to oblige the powerful to be lawful and give hope to the oppressed. John’s were not academic maxims. He was an engaged warrior on the front lines of all these battles for decency with ebullience, with courage and humility to the limit of the feasible and sometimes, miraculously, even beyond it.
John was all about hope. In a commencement speech at Ohio Wesleyan University, John summed up the essence of his engagement of a lifetime: “No one of character leaves behind a wasted life…Like most people my age, I feel a longing for what is lost and cannot be restored. But if the happy pursuits and casual beauty of youth prove ephemeral, something better can endure, and endure until our last moment on earth. And that is the honor we earn and the love we give if at a moment in our lives we sacrifice for something greater than self-interest.”
Heroes inspire us by the matter-of-factness of their sacrifice and the elevation of their vision. The world will be lonelier without John McCain, his ebullience, his faith in America, and his instinctive sense of moral duty. None of us will ever forget how, even in his parting, John has bestowed on us a much-needed moment of unity and renewed faith in the possibilities of America. Henceforth the country’s honor is ours to sustain.
Date: April 4th, 2022 2:21 PM Author: Ruby Death Wish Feces
I had a few opportunities in the X-15 to observe the atmosphere. It was so thin, such a small part of the Earth that you could barely see it at all. And when you're down here in the crowd and you look up, it looks pretty big and you don't think about it too much. But when you get a different vantage point it changes your perspective.
Date: April 5th, 2022 11:21 AM Author: Ruby Death Wish Feces
"Man, fuck you William! You wanna know what the real bullshit is? How about you let me take on this one cause you're too damn scared to walk out that door and do something for somebody else. You're too damn scared, man! That's the only reason."
"You don't know a goddamn thing about reason; There are no reasons! Reasons why some of us live and why some of us don't! Fortunately for you, you have decades to figure that out!"
"Yeah, and what's the reason in having a file cabinet full of writing and keeping the shit locked so nobody can read it? What is that man? I'm done with this shit."
Date: April 7th, 2022 10:56 PM Author: Ruby Death Wish Feces
Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too.
Date: April 9th, 2022 1:11 PM Author: Ruby Death Wish Feces
So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that. If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right, "once more unto the breach dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help. I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes, that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. And look at you... I don't see an intelligent, confident man... I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you're a genius Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, and you ripped my fucking life apart. You're an orphan right? You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally... I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can't learn anything from you, I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't want to do that do you sport? You're terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.
Date: April 10th, 2022 5:27 PM Author: Ruby Death Wish Feces
Look, you're my best friend, so don't take this the wrong way but, in 20 years if you're still livin' here, comin' over to my house, watchin' the Patriots games, workin' construction, I'll fuckin' kill ya. That's not a threat, that's a fact, I'll fuckin' kill ya.
What the fuck you talkin' about?
You got somethin' none of us have...
Oh, come on! What? Why is it always this? I mean, I fuckin' owe it to myself to do this or that. What if I don't want to?
No. No, no no no. Fuck you, you don't owe it to yourself man, you owe it to me. Cuz tomorrow I'm gonna wake up and I'll be 50, and I'll still be doin' this shit. And that's all right. That's fine. I mean, you're sittin' on a winnin' lottery ticket. And you're too much of a pussy to cash it in, and that's bullshit. 'Cause I'd do fuckin' anything to have what you got. So would any of these fuckin' guys. It'd be an insult to us if you're still here in 20 years. Hangin' around here is a fuckin' waste of your time.
Date: April 12th, 2022 10:57 PM Author: Ruby Death Wish Feces
I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate... all those moments will be lost in time, like, tears in rain. Time to die.
Date: April 14th, 2022 4:45 PM Author: Ruby Death Wish Feces
"Why'd I get mixed up with that bitch..."
"Cause she's got a--GREAT ASS!!!! AND YOU GOT YOUR HEAD--ALL THE WAY UP IT!! Ferocious, aren't I? When I think of asses, a woman's ass, something comes out of me."
Nobody ever said a bad word about Winston Churchill, did they? No! "Win with Winnie!" Churchill! With his cigars. With his brandy. And his rotten painting, rotten! Hitler, there was a painter. He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two coats!
Date: April 16th, 2022 10:48 PM Author: Ruby Death Wish Feces
Well, you see, Willard, in this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, and practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. Because there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and irration, between good and evil. And good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.
Date: April 21st, 2022 4:18 PM Author: Ruby Death Wish Feces
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Ukraine was pressing on with its assault inside Russian territory on Tuesday, a week into the biggest foreign incursion into the country since World War II.
As Ukraine captured territory, Russian commanders initially played down the assault, insisting the military had things under control. But more than a week later, Ukraine now controls at least 1,000 square kilometers of Russian territory.