Ok, how about you take a listen to this guy:All we have is Russia saying we say it works. Yeah not buying anything they say.
I'm not taking Russia's word for things, I'm taking his word/analysis seriously.
Ok, how about you take a listen to this guy:All we have is Russia saying we say it works. Yeah not buying anything they say.
Ok, how about you take a listen to this guy:
I'm not taking Russia's word for things, I'm taking his word/analysis seriously.
I'm not worried about the radiation from those torps. It's the infrastructure damage that's potentially problematic. Depends on how those weapons actually function. Biggest problem I could see is the sheer damage it may do to the fisheries.Belgorod says high.
Worry about the iffy missile sites less than the Tsar Bomba torps/radioactive tsunami weapons that thing has.
Eh, I'd be worried about the radiation, too.I'm not worried about the radiation from those torps. It's the infrastructure damage that's potentially problematic. Depends on how those weapons actually function. Biggest problem I could see is the sheer damage it may do to the fisheries.
This whole story is a desperate, disgustingly dishonest attempt by DNC to use one of few causes where they can appeal to the popular option beyond own party to shore up their numbers with centrist GOP\independent voters.
In reality, if you think a minute about it, it becomes clear how ridiculous that is.
86 to 11...Senate votes to pass $40 billion Ukraine aid package
The Senate voted Thursday to pass a roughly $40 billion bill to send aid to Ukraine as the country fights back against Russia's brutal and unprovoked attacks.edition.cnn.com
Over 3\4 of GOP senators also vote in support of Ukraine aid as you can see. Even in a rather unlikely scenario where GOP gets 10 extra senators and all 10 are vehemently against Ukraine, the Ukraine aid packages could still get through easily with the bipartisan support.
House votes?
Similar story:
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There are 220 D congresscritters, so there had to be at least 148 out of 212 R ones voting for it.
So even if by some miracle GOP took all seats in House and Senate, if these proportions within GOP were kept, Ukraine bills would still be passing by over 2:3 margin.
That implies a degree of control Trump never had on GOP even in areas he is supposed to care about a lot (immigration restriction), while the Ukraine thing isn't one of them.The fear is that this problem will grow more severe due to more Republicans gradually taking more and more orders on this issue from their Big Orange Kahuna. Though I suppose that it's entirely possible that enough of them will remain pro-Ukraine to even override Trump's vetoes in regards to this if Trump will win again in 2024.
Reportedly one of the Tajiks involved in the shooting of other Russian forces was only in Russia for seven months and technically shouldn't of been able to be conscripted due to the whole... not being a Russian citizen thing.
That implies a degree of control Trump never had on GOP even in areas he is supposed to care about a lot (immigration restriction), while the Ukraine thing isn't one of them.
Be funny if Putin actually backed the fuck off if Trump got re-elected.
The fear is that this problem will grow more severe due to more Republicans gradually taking more and more orders on this issue from their Big Orange Kahuna. Though I suppose that it's entirely possible that enough of them will remain pro-Ukraine to even override Trump's vetoes in regards to this if Trump will win again in 2024.
This assumes Trump would veto aid to Ukraine; he may like to wheel and deal, but I think even he realizes no more good faith deals can be made with Putin.That implies a degree of control Trump never had on GOP even in areas he is supposed to care about a lot (immigration restriction), while the Ukraine thing isn't one of them.
Whether Trump get's re-elected or not, I doubt support for Ukraine is going to drop among the majority of the nation. And what the majority of the GOP has done is support Ukraine being free, but some fiscal conservatives and parts of the contrarian-right has come out against helping Ukraine for monetary or 'not our borders'/'russia trad, west globohomo' reasons.Republicans have moved in a more restrictionist direction ever since Trump, no?
Would be even funnier if pigs actually managed to fly!
This assumes Trump would veto aid to Ukraine; he may like to wheel and deal, but I think even he realizes no more good faith deals can be made with Putin.
Whether Trump get's re-elected or not, I doubt support for Ukraine is going to drop among the majority of the nation. And what the majority of the GOP has done is support Ukraine being free, but some fiscal conservatives and parts of the contrarian-right has come out against helping Ukraine for monetary or 'not our borders'/'russia trad, west globohomo' reasons.
Of course since the GOP is in many regards controlled opposition for the Dems, I guess it is possible the GOP leadership and Trump may actually shoot themselves in the foot that way.
That's 2 years later, not after midterms.This assumes Trump would veto aid to Ukraine; he may like to wheel and deal, but I think even he realizes no more good faith deals can be made with Putin.
If this war is still going on in 2 years, then we have bigger problems.That's 2 years later, not after midterms.
With the numbers shown in recent votes, could he even veto it effectively?
If this war is still going on in 2 years, then we have bigger problems.
In the unlikely event it is, then I doubt Trump would want to cut aid, because he knows it would gut the MAGA movement, and what ever legacy he wants to have, would go down in flames.
Cornucopia said:The model is thus not based on actual measurements of the current state of the Dnipro flow, waterline, temperature, humidity, air pressure, wind speed and anytning else which would affect the model, but on assumptions for a worst case.
Combination of Russian imperialists being grandmasters of projection, and not knowing shit.Anatoly Karlin 🧬⏩ (@powerfultakes)
Loose equivalent would be if a Western-colonized Russia condemned China for Uyghurs & Tibet, sheltered Falun Gong terrorists, regularly entrapped Chinese citizens, gave bases to US in RFE & sent arms to Taiwan... Then pulled a pikachu face when China marched into Haishenwai.nitter.1d4.us
The funny thing that other than randomly entrapping Chinese citizens (something countries with a wild east legal system do, but western countries cannot legally do, even if it served their national interests to play these games like hardball), all the western aligned countries around China already do all or most of these things since years, and China is doing jack shit about it.Loose equivalent would be if a Western-colonized Russia condemned China for Uyghurs & Tibet, sheltered Falun Gong terrorists, regularly entrapped Chinese citizens, gave bases to US in RFE & sent arms to Taiwan... Then pulled a pikachu face when China marched into Haishenwai.
Well, he is trying to justify a set of "rules of the game" that allows a liberal selection of excuses for imperialist landgrabs... obviously with intent to use those. Not completely irrational, because he knows that the other side is not interested in abusing such rules anyway, so it's an advantage for his side if they were fooled into accepting them.This argument seems rather difficult. I mean, first of all, Russia aimed to conquer all of Ukraine, not simply conquer a small border area, but even quite independently of that, by that logic, Austria-Hungary would have been justified in invading Serbia in 1914 (even without the Sarajevo murders) due to it being threatened by Serbia's close ties with Russia, Yes? And Nazi Germany would have been justified in invading Poland in 1939 due to it being threatened by Poland's alliances with Britain and France, Yes?
Combination of Russian imperialists being grandmasters of projection, and not knowing shit.
The funny thing that other than randomly entrapping Chinese citizens (something countries with a wild east legal system do, but western countries cannot legally do, even if it served their national interests to play these games like hardball), all the western aligned countries around China already do all or most of these things since years, and China is doing jack shit about it.
If USA had the same military presence in Ukraine as it does in South Korea, Russia would not as much as sneeze in the direction of Ukraine.
Well, he is trying to justify a set of "rules of the game" that allows a liberal selection of excuses for imperialist landgrabs... obviously with intent to use those. Not completely irrational, because he knows that the other side is not interested in abusing such rules anyway, so it's an advantage for his side if they were fooled into accepting them.
Hilariously enough, if Israel of all places used these "hostility justifies invasion" rules to own neighbors, by now it might have an empire spanning the whole Middle East and a chunk of Asia
In case you're wondering, the Battle for Bakhmut continues... With Russian Offensives since July led by mostly Wagner/Prisoner formations.
Sad. This guy seemed witty.
Wonder what the best World War One Analogue for this Battle will be.