International Russia/Ukraine Megathread V12

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Denter said:
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/RUS/russia/gdp-per-capita
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?end=2021&locations=RU&start=1999
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1010660/russia-average-monthly-nominal-wage/
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/RUS/russia/life-expectancy#:~:text=The life expectancy for Russia,a 0.19% increase from 2019.

Many of these websites have little sliders to let you adjust the time period. Putin comes into power in late 1999.

Also, I was a little quick on the draw- male life expectancy has gone up almost ten years, female much less. If someone increased American household income this much, we'd crawl over broken glass to amend the constitution to make them president for life too.

You may say Russia was at rock bottom in the late 90s, and that is probably true. But the perception is that he pulled them out of the gutter and made life much better, which the numbers back up. If I were running Russia I would not have launched this war- its inexplicable to me- which just tells me that I have incomplete information.
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It was a time of great transition so it's hard to say someone else wouldn't have done as well as he did. Especially if you consider all the corruption and human rights issues.
 
The Diplomat said:
Russia (top 3 world power) has had nearly a year and a half to push forward, and is stuck at holding 10% of the objective. Any progression from Ukraine, however paced, is just a kick in the nuts at this point.
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This video helped me understand the Russian/Putin perspective more. Pretty good. Don't clutch your pearls Putin fans, it's not what you think, get past the title.
 
AWilder said:
This video helped me understand the Russian/Putin perspective more. Pretty good. Don't clutch your pearls Putin fans, it's not what you think, get past the title.
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This guy has a good take on the reality of things....
 
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AWilder said:
This video helped me understand the Russian/Putin perspective more. Pretty good. Don't clutch your pearls Putin fans, it's not what you think, get past the title.
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I can’t watch it now but I’m assuming that it’s saying Putin will not sign for peace because it’s a death sentence for him at home if he does?
 
Blayt7hh said:
It’s bitterly ironic to accuse NATO and Ukraine of trying to put nukes on Russias border when Ukraine dismantled its nuclear weapons to keep the peace long ago. I also don’t know why you think they US wants to put nukes there. We don’t need nukes there to wipe out Russia.
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You missed the whole point of the original post. Nothing to do with putting nukes in Ukraine. Everything to do with how the US told Cuba, and the Soviet Union, how it did not want nuclear missiles in Cuba. Similar to how Russia does not want Ukraine to join NATO.
 
Rod1 said:
I mean ill try to explain it like your are 5.

You tell your mom "i need $10 dollars to buy 10 apples since they cost $1 dollar" then you go to the store and buy 10 apples and you find out that you still have $5 dollars left because you calculated the cost of 10 apples wrong, so now you go back to your mom with 20 apples.
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I'll try to explain it to you for the third time like you are 6.
You tell your mom: I need $10 dollars to buy 10 apples since they cost $1 dollar, then you go to the store and buy 10 apples and you find out that you still have $5 dollars left because you calculated the cost of 10 apples wrong, they were .50 cents each."
1. .50 cents x 10 = $5.
2. $10 - $5 = $5
3. You now have an extra $5 you can send to Ukraine. o_O
 
DEVILsSON said:
No one comes out 'the winner' in a nuclear war that's the point, mutually assured destruction.
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...but you said this:
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As soon as Russia sends its columns to Ukraine as they did, Ukraine would launch nuclear warheads.
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So, you are implying that if Ukraine does launch a nuclear attack on Russia, that would be the end of the issue. Russia would never retaliate. How could they? It would lead to a nuclear war, and everyone would be dead. Makes perfect sense to me. o_O
 
Putin anyway will order russians to stay in Crimea. They even are continuing to dig trenches etc each day since january.
Before WW1 era Crimea didn't had bridges and canal, ppl lived in Crimea and no one had died cos lack of canal and bridges...
Crimea does have ports and russia might use them to supply Crimea with food etc....
 
+ I think that Putin will continue tell that everything is as had been planned.
+ to reduce unemployment % Putin definitely will order to hire even more ppl to build fortifications and to dig even more trenches.
# doesn't looks that Putin will change anything....
 
San Marino said:
I'll try to explain it to you for the third time like you are 6.
You tell your mom: I need $10 dollars to buy 10 apples since they cost $1 dollar, then you go to the store and buy 10 apples and you find out that you still have $5 dollars left because you calculated the cost of 10 apples wrong, they were .50 cents each."
1. .50 cents x 10 = $5.
2. $10 - $5 = $5
3. You now have an extra $5 you can send to Ukraine. o_O
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Except congress approved weapon transfers not money
 
San Marino said:
You missed the whole point of the original post. Nothing to do with putting nukes in Ukraine. Everything to do with how the US told Cuba, and the Soviet Union, how it did not want nuclear missiles in Cuba. Similar to how Russia does not want Ukraine to join NATO.
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Ukraine was not about to join NATO. That was always a false premise that’s been debunked like a bunch of times. So that’s not a good point at all, even if we overlook the fact that you’re comparing it to something that happened to two antagonist nations over 60 years ago
 
San Marino said:
...but you said this:

So, you are implying that if Ukraine does launch a nuclear attack on Russia, that would be the end of the issue. Russia would never retaliate. How could they? It would lead to a nuclear war, and everyone would be dead. Makes perfect sense to me. o_O
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Not sure if you're being obtuse or just trolling but I think it's fairly obvious that Russia knowing that Ukraine would only have the option of launching its nukes in a full on invasion scenario would not invade. If Russia invades against a nuclear Ukraine, it would be nuclear war.

This is the reason US is not stomping out Russia conventionally right about now. Even if US could shoot down most of the still serviceable Russian nukes, the ones that would go through would still cause significant destruction and therefore US is choosing not to. Russia also knows it stands no chance in a conventional war with US so as soon as US makes any attempts to invade Russia or launch missiles on Moscow, Russia would likely retaliate with nukes in an escalating fashion.

You're a hoot. Keep being alternatively neutral bro.
 
San Marino said:
You missed the whole point of the original post. Nothing to do with putting nukes in Ukraine. Everything to do with how the US told Cuba, and the Soviet Union, how it did not want nuclear missiles in Cuba. Similar to how Russia does not want Ukraine to join NATO.
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Russia already shares numerous borders with NATO so this is, again, a faceplant right off the top
 
GhostZ06 said:


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Person: "It's hard to know what's going on in Ukraine with the all the fog of war"

Russian OPSEC: "here's a picture of Yuri on the bridge Ukraine just struck"
"here's identifying features of the weapon they used"

Person: "Wow thanks Russian OPSEC"

Russia OPSEC: "Shut up, I wasn't finished!"
"here's some video of the bridge strike"
"And here's some footage from our air defense systems detecting, but failing to shoot down the missile"

Person "Uh, are you allowed to tell me all this?
 
A suspected lone Russian diplomat is apparently squatting on the site of Moscow's proposed embassy after the Australian government vetoed the plan on security grounds. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismissed the Russian act of defiance, saying “some bloke standing in the cold on a bit of grass in Canberra is not a threat to our national security.”

https://www.independent.ie/world-ne...ccupying-vetoed-embassy-site/a1452959060.html
 
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