International Russia/Ukraine Megathread V7

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With everything you know about the US, China ect. You REALLY think the labs were on the up and up? You really believe everything the government tells you? You don't think they hide anything?
If we shouldn't believe the government why should we believe your CTs?
 
I wonder if the BBB bill had been passed if we just wouldn't have had the funds to support Ukraine's defense. I blame the Republicans for this mess. <{nope}>

huh? My whole point is, we consistently say we can’t fund things like, say — childcare tax credits. Then we turn around on a dime and give 50 billion to Ukraine. You don’t see that as a problem?

I’m not in favor of nearly ANY government programs, but if we’re going to drop 50 billion here with NO return, why not just find something fruitful.

And the BBB was over a TRILLION of bloat which would have made the inflation rates even worse. So no, I don’t think that should have been passed.
 
We got em now! They just banned Russian gold. Hahaha.
Anyone have any idea what kind of effect this will have? Wasn't Russia talking about settling some payments with gold?
 
Hasnt this also been confirmed at the beginning of the war? It’s obvious that Ukraine was and is getting intelligence.
Yeah I thought this was hardly even a secret
People like him think that pointing out CIA involvement in some area of the world means that there's some grand CIA conspiracy afoot. In reality, Ukraine would benefit from US intelligence and naturally the CIA is the agency responsible for that.
 
Conscription is a crude necessity for smaller countries in this world, to enable them to survive.

A lot of the Finnish men who fought in WW2 were there because otherwise you were going to be executed. They weren't all there because they loved to fight in freezing winter against overwhelming odds, with the barest of equipment. But that's the only reason we have a country today.

If the thing with Russia goes down again at some point, I'll go in knowing that I'm probably not coming back. Being at war and believing that you'll actually survive it, is the privilege of the countries with large armies and large populations. That's not the case with countries like Finland or Ukraine or the Baltics, etc. That's why you don't see small countries starting wars, only the big ones, believing that they can get away with it. When you're 1 out of 150+ million, it's easier to kid yourself into thinking that you're going to make it.
Kinda funny that you're talking about Ukraine as if its a small country when its the 2nd largest country in Europe and has a population of ~44 million. But of course in this case size is relative so your point still stands. Russia still has a population 3x the size of Ukraine's
 
People like him think that pointing out CIA involvement in some area of the world means that there's some grand CIA conspiracy afoot. In reality, Ukraine would benefit from US intelligence and naturally the CIA is the agency responsible for that.

What do you mean people like him

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huh? My whole point is, we consistently say we can’t fund things like, say — childcare tax credits. Then we turn around on a dime and give 50 billion to Ukraine. You don’t see that as a problem?

I’m not in favor of nearly ANY government programs, but if we’re going to drop 50 billion here with NO return, why not just find something fruitful.

And the BBB was over a TRILLION of bloat which would have made the inflation rates even worse. So no, I don’t think that should have been passed.
Checking Russia's expansionist aims is the return. What do you think the situation would be like if Putin is allowed to rebuild the USSR with undemocratic plays at installing puppet regimes?
 
Countries making steps to be less reliant on NATO, just in case, is good to see.

Baltics should follow too. Latvia should hurry the fuck up and re introduce conscription. We're an embarrassment compared to the other two.

20k troops is a fucking joke. We're the weak link of the Baltics.
Would you sign up?
 
Checking Russia's expansionist aims is the return. What do you think the situation would be like if Putin is allowed to rebuild the USSR with undemocratic plays at installing puppet regimes?
About the same as it will be when all is said and done irrespective of the money we sent?
 
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