Russia Declares War on Ukraine<<MOD WARNING>>

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  1. Durandal

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    He's high on his own supply at this point.
     
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    Russia should be split up into 20-30 independent countries. That’s the only way to prevent any future fascist dictators with nuclear weapons.
     
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    How about Americans freeing themselves from enslavement imposed upon them by their own media? How long are you going to be made look stupid and ridiculed across the globe. This video is coming from an English liberal. All those years of constant lies.
    So...Trump was RIGHT About Clinton & Russia Collusion!!

     
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    Russia could be on the brink of some changes........ as this invasion is more than a step too far. It has turned a lot of the world against it now. Putin is entering a page in history alongside some of the worst .
     
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    Russia became synonymous to dishonesty and disgrace.
     
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    Western Union is leaving fascist russia.
     
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    Massive exodus........and the impact is starting to be felt.
     
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    Russia under the command of Vladimir Putin is pulling out all the stops are now going full speed ahead. They will believe that nothing is going to stop them now. They have been doing this all along.:machinegun:
     
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    1- Lets say your economy produces 6 widgets and widgets are priced $1 in your economy. lets say my economy produces 6 widgets and widgets are priced $0.10 in my economy. The nominal $ GDP in my economy will be $.60 while the nominal $ GDP in your economy will be $6 despite the same output. For that reason, for comparative purposes, the proper GDP index is the one using purchasing power parity.

    2- Using the correct index, Russia's GDP ($4.3 trillion) is way above both UK (($3.1 trillion) and Italy ($2.6 trillion).

    3- My real point was something else altogether. It has to do with the role of the US dollar as the currency of international trade, the global financial system, and how the system as is basically a Ponzi scheme favoring the wrong activities and actors. As this issue is a bit more complicated, I will forgo wasting my time trying to explain it to you.
     
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    Well done sir. That was a proper educational lesson. Best.
     
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    100,000 RPGs stashed where a local militia in every country bordering Russia can get them fast in an emergency would apparently be enough to blunt an invasion force.

    Probably a lesson there for Taiwan.
     
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    Just watched some excellent video on CNN. Russian tank column attempting to move toward Kyiv, but being serially incinerated by Ukrainian Javelins and forced to retreat. The Javelin is made by Raytheon, where I worked for about 18 months following my retirement from government service. That video footage made me quite proud.
     
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    Goldman Sachs is leaving fascist Russia!
    Bye bye middle class jobs!
     
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    CNN talking head said it appeared to be a "structured ambush" to which Russians made themselves vulnerable by moving in an urban setting without dismounted infantry on the flanks. Seems like somebody was sleeping during tactics class in Russia.
     
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    The Russkies are definitely taking a beating. According to some estimates (not Ukrainian) Russia has lost as many troops in the past two weeks as the U.S. lost in Iran & Afghanistan over two decades:

    Russia has lost nearly as many soldiers in Ukraine as US has in Iraq/Afghanistan since 2001
    https://news.yahoo.com/russia-lost-nearly-many-soldiers-152629190.html

    Even if those estimates are a bit high I think it's safe to presume that Russian losses will surpass our own by the end of the first month of Putin's invasion (March 24).

    As for the much ballyhooed column, I can't help but be reminded of the one that Edward Braddock got destroyed at the Battle of the Monongahela during the French & Indian War. A smaller French and Indian force attacked the front of the column and rolled it back into the main body behind them and in the ensuing chaos Braddock was killed and the Brits were routed. It's not going to take much - a few soldiers armed with Javelins - to halt that Russian column. Destroy the vehicles up front and they're going nowhere fast.
     
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    That is beyond amateurish. It's enough to make you wonder if the Russians were afraid to dismount their infantry...
     
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    I guess the Russians must have thought they were in the maternity hospital.
     
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    Ukraine War - Combat Footage From Kyiv Area Gives Closer Look At Armament Of Ukrainian AT Squads


    They seem to be using quite a mix of different anti-tank weapons.
     
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    The Russians murder over a thousand civilians in cold blood and the vatniks in the Web Brigades brag about it. :roll:

    Meet the so-called

    DR E AZOV BDE.jpg

    Obviously, she was "playing with fire"....
     
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    They are fighting smart. Instead of going head on, they hit Russian flanks. That’s why there is such a heavy casualty rate for Russian fascists! Their military is employing the tactics of partisan warfare. 8)
    The longer those conscripts sit in Ukraine, the more of them will die, even if they are not moving. :lol:
     
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