The State of Affairs in Russia

[Zoupa]

There you go again lol. "He thinks", "Zoupa thinks".

Try re-reading your text before posting.

[Sheilbh]

What? I don't think it's spite or smugness

It's aspiration and a little bit of grandeur.

[Zoupa]

Might need some calibration on that mind-reader, Berkypooh.

[Malthus]

Whether smugness or grandeur, it's a bit odd. Disunity in the face of aggression is bad news, not something to be happy about, I would have thought?

[HVC]

Love it. AUKUS comes due. Live and learn, Blinken.

This is why France shouldn't have nice things.

[Zoupa]

Whether smugness or grandeur, it's a bit odd. Disunity in the face of aggression is bad news, not something to be happy about, I would have thought?

Disunity in the face of Chinese aggression is also bad yes?

[DGuller]

Yes.  Do we have anything good in the face of aggression?

[Malthus]

Whether smugness or grandeur, it's a bit odd. Disunity in the face of aggression is bad news, not something to be happy about, I would have thought?

Disunity in the face of Chinese aggression is also bad yes?

Yes. Why?

[Eddie Teach]

What? I don't think it's spite or smugness

It's aspiration and a little bit of grandeur.

How does this describe whining about Aukus? Seems pretty clearly spite.

[Zoupa]

Whether smugness or grandeur, it's a bit odd. Disunity in the face of aggression is bad news, not something to be happy about, I would have thought?

Disunity in the face of Chinese aggression is also bad yes?

Yes. Why?

It's just that I missed your posts about it in the AUKUS thread back then.

[Jacob]

What? I don't think it's spite or smugness

It's aspiration and a little bit of grandeur.

Who should we believe about what you think? You or Berkut?

[Tamas]

What? I don't think it's spite or smugness

It's aspiration and a little bit of grandeur.

Who should we believe about what you think? You or Berkut?

Calling Zoupa's butthurt nationalism grandeur is pushing it a bit though. :p

[Zoupa]

What? I don't think it's spite or smugness

It's aspiration and a little bit of grandeur.

Who should we believe about what you think? You or Berkut?

Calling Zoupa's butthurt nationalism grandeur is pushing it a bit though. :p

Not as much as Trianon pushed back Hungary's borders though. 

[Admiral Yi]

The Russian troops are on the Russian territory in response to the NATO activity in Ukraine. We've talked this.

And yep, nothing will happen.

I agree with this, but probably not in the way you intended.

To claim that the Russian troops are there to defend against a couple hundred civilian subcontractors who are training Ukrainians to use their new military gear is farcical..

They are there as a show of force to bully Ukraine into not applying for NATO membership.

Have you considered the internal inconsistency of threatening to invade a country (which has recently been invaded and had part of its territory unilaterally annexed) in order to prevent that country from entering into alliances to safeguard its security?

[Malthus]

Whether smugness or grandeur, it's a bit odd. Disunity in the face of aggression is bad news, not something to be happy about, I would have thought?

Disunity in the face of Chinese aggression is also bad yes?

Yes. Why?

It's just that I missed your posts about it in the AUKUS thread back then.

I haven't been around much.