Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-25

[Richard Hakluyt]

If it was good enough for the Habsburgs....

But, perhaps we should move on, another 20+ civilians killed in Ukraine today.

[Tonitrus]

For all the crap that Biden and his advisors got for being too shy of Russian nuclear bluster...from what I have seen over years in comments about them from the current POTUS, I think he is even far more influenced and afraid of that threat.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Well a Russian nuclear strike might actually hit HIM.

[PJL]

That's what all the billionaires fear most, WW3 will utterly wipe out all their real estate portfolios and completely destroy the stock market. Which is why I am less concerned about it than I used to be, especially if the alternative is subservience to tinpot dictators.

[HVC]

Rule 34: War is good for business.
Rule 35: Peace is good for business.

Where there's a will (and corruption) there's a way (to get rich)

[The Brain]

Rule 34: War is good for business.
Rule 35: Peace is good for business.

Where there's a will (and corruption) there's a way (to get rich)

Are you sure that's Rule 34?

[HVC]

Rule 34: War is good for business.
Rule 35: Peace is good for business.

Where there's a will (and corruption) there's a way (to get rich)

Are you sure that's Rule 34?

Ferengi rule of acquisition 34

[Admiral Yi]

War is not good for wealth preservation.

[mongers]

That's what all the billionaires fear most, WW3 will utterly wipe out all their real estate portfolios and completely destroy the stock market. Which is why I am less concerned about it than I used to be, especially if the alternative is subservience to tinpot dictators.

[Valmy]

War is not good for wealth preservation.

Only if the the war isn't being fought someplace else.

[Razgovory]

https://www.gallup-international.com/survey-results-and-news/survey-result/fewer-people-are-willing-to-fight-for-their-country-compared-to-ten-years-ago

Saw this today.  Not really encouraging.  

[Valmy]

Any particular reason you are so gung ho for everybody in the world to join their respective country's military?

[Josquius]

Kursk looks in trouble.

No, I'm pretty sure you were said that about people in Georgia.  It's okay though, such sentiments are common among people in of your class.  When the Revolution comes I will ask that you be spared.

We've seen how you guys are handling your bourgeois revolution so I think we will pass.

Uhm, you literally did?

Yes yes the world is on fire and the everyone is screwed if we don't de carbonise... But what has that got to do with Dwayne In Cousinlove, Georgia?

Quoted for simplicities sake since razs link directs to my post (?) in the thread.


*edit* as for cousin loving, meh. It's still pretty common around the world, and if you go 70-80 years back it was even more common. Outbreeding is is a luxury of city living

Yes I've seen the quote, I remember what I said. Razs insistince it means I have a bizare personal hate for Georgia is just stupid and wrong.

That incest is a feature of hyper remote areas is a well understood stereotype. In Appalachia it goes beyond stereotype and into fact, endogamy is huge historic issue there. Lots of very non standard family trees.

I made up a guy with a hick-associated name in a completely non-existent place with a silly name that screamed "this is the absolute backwoods of the backwoods. Deliverance territory" for a point that had nothing to do with what should be a well understood mental picture.

But as that cluster fuck of a thread showed like many others its so much easier for Raz to follow the Trump playboy of playing the victim and drag others into the mud than actually engage with the real points.

[Razgovory]

I am constantly surprised at your ability to miss the point, Josq.  It's a stereotype, as if that makes your discriminatory remarks better. You also show ignorance of the US, northern Georgia is not most remote of the backwoods of Appalachia (it is the edge, it's where Atlanta is) and you picked a stereotypical Black name. Non-standard family trees are not really a problem there at least not anymore than the majority of Britain.  I'm not saying you have a contempt for Georgians, but for poor Americans.


This isn't the Trump playbook, this is the left-wing Identity-politics playbook.  I've just switched it on it's head.  You obviously wouldn't say "cousin-love" Palestine (where endogamy is a real problem with marriage of first cousins is like 1 in 4), but you would say it about the US.  Different people, different standards.

Anyway, I said you said this, you claim it never happened, I provided the quote and bizarrely you still say it never happened.

[Razgovory]

Any particular reason you are so gung ho for everybody in the world to join their respective country's military?

We are betting everything on Europe defending Ukraine, but half of the people in Western Europe, where all the money actually is, wouldn't fight to defend themselves.