WWIII Return of the Ruskie
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That would be hilarious if it's true.
I think Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 well before Covid, Trump and Brexit (and cancel culture was a thing) didn't it?
Yeah, but nobody really gave a fuck about that.
I'm talking about suspending the broadcast of PL games and pressuring the likes of Coke to stop selling in Russia. I get it... but given the situation they feel like gestures that represent our times (to me at least) more than anything.
I guess making a connection sometimes needs imagination.
It all started with the atheist movement circa 2006-2012, with arrogant scientists going around university campuses grifting money by peddling the obvious fact that god isn't real, and students instead of saying yeah no shit sherlock started to fall for it all like it was some great revelation.
From there they came into opposition with minority groups like muslims, and probably felt like dicks about it. So the atheist movement became woke to restore their feels somewhere around 2012. By that I mean they all started virtue signalling about feminism, and trans rights, and all the rest of it. A coping mechanism to excuse their violation of the islamic faith. That was the end of their intelligence.
From there it filtered into western culture. Suarez then got banged by their insidiously stupid interpretations of basic ethics. Then the NFL took the knee, and all the woke fools collapsed to their knees too. The charlie hebdo thing happened, the woke fools changed their social media profiles to stand with charlie. Fucking surreal, and it's been one virtue signal after another. The corporations stepped in to replace the scientists as the main financial beneficiaries of these idiots willingness to hand over money. Cancel culture is just a progression from there and now everyone in the west is acting like a dumb student. It's truly surreal.
That’s what I’m hearing from Russia too - in an authoritarian country unless you have a system of draconian punishment for corruption, what you have on paper is very different from your actual capabilities. Russia paraded all this supposedly top-notch military equipment, but most of it turned out to be nothing but concept pieces that were not produced at scale or simply not suitable for practical use in a war. Because of Western supplies of arms like the Javelin and Stinger portable self-guided anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles and the Turkish Bayraktar drones, Ukraine actually has a decisive technological advantage over Russia in many aspects.
The one place where Ukraine is far behind is in terms of aircraft and that’s why they are asking for either a no-fly zone or at least a few additional planes. My understanding is that Ukraine has quite a few well-trained pilots, but not enough planes and many of those have been shot down or damaged in the first days of the invasion.
Also, in a country the size of Russia with a huge military (who knows how many military bases etc. there are?), it's probably very easy to siphon money away from the system. Keep all the good stuff near Moscow for the parades and keep all the shit shoviet-era stuff out near Kazakhstan, it'll be fine.
Exactly and it’s hard to express how much everything in modern Russia is based on the idea of siphoning money away from the state for personal gain. How do you think Putin and his associates became billionaires? It’s not just the military; every single grand project after the fall of the Soviet Union was created primarily as a way to line someone’s pockets.
Then you decide to fight a real war against a determined enemy and it turns out half of your tanks don’t even start.
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They just used the word boycott, now boycott has been cancelled!
There are going to be some very easy ways to get around the restrictions - for example the asset freezing parts have an exception for Russians who have an EU Residence permit.
If I was a Russian Billionaire I'd just buy a European wife, get my EU Residence permit automatically thereafter and move all my money into Europe.
Jobs done.
Actually maybe this is the service I can offer to Russian Billionaires to make my fortune.
It's a sexist term so can't be used anymore.
Does that mean the necessary "10% for the big guy" wasn't available when Hunter was negotiating this time ?
It actually happened around the time when Geoff Boycott was himself boycotted after getting a bit “punchy” in 1998 so we needed a new term, hence “cancelled” became a thing.
I think they could only offer him 2.5% this time, as the other 7.5% was eaten away by bidenflation. So ironic.
Well, Abramovich’s Portuguese citizenship didn’t make him immune from the sanctions, did it? The stuff you’re describing only works when the regulators want to let someone off easy - if the West is actually determined to punish Russia, as they seem to be, these kinds of technicalities will not matter one bit. Even if someone escapes a sanction based on an existing law, a new law minus the loophole will be passed.
The EU has specifically exempted Gazprom from all sanctions. Is Abramovich one of the names on the sanctions list ?
Ironically Geoff Boycott ignored the cricket boycott and later ended up cancelled for being an alleged wife beater.
Just don't do a Snowden and move to Russia. Not until the McNuggets are back on sale anyway.
I dare you.
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