Mr Fixit Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 That was rude. And you insinuating that I am a Kremlin troll wasn't? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB. Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Surely, I have not..?Anyway,http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/05/07/russia-state-art-tank-stalls-during-final-victory-day-parade-rehearsal/this is embarrassing for a country that emphasizes the performance of their tanks that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Fixit Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Anyway, may I ask what this has to do with Ukraine and its sexy freedom fighting Nazis? I must admit that Vera person does look pretty hot in uniform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fallen Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I wonder who's Nazis are worse, Russia's or Ukraine's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Fixit Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I wonder who's Nazis are worse, Russia's or Ukraine's? Nazis are Nazis: they are probably equally bad. Of course, certain countries reward Nazis with high government positions which, it could be argued, puts those Nazis in a better position to express themselves (bless their little hearts) to the fullest. A Nazitopia, if you will, where no Nazi will be misunderstood and unjustly vilified. Kinda reminds me of the difference between potential and kinetic energy. These Ukrainian Nazis sure do seem quite kinetic. Good for them, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB. Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32788413Ukraine has captured Russian soldiers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Elizebeth,They were on "Vacation" in full combat kits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB. Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 You evil American. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Fixit Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Don't know how I missed this, but Poroshenko apparently plans to construct a 2,000 kilometer-long wall between Ukraine and Russia "built from steel, crowned with barbed wire and manned by soldiers with state-of-the-art surveillance equipment." These guys are becoming absolutely batshit crazy. http://www.ibtimes.com/great-wall-ukraine-priority-petro-poroshenko-says-donbas-defense-construction-set-1862040 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Arryn Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 OT but holy fuck.So, am pondering St. pete's in my summer excursions, and was checking if the war's causing safety issues for Westerners, which prompted a curiosity about Candian-Russian similarities, which lead to a link-hunt that inadvertently ended up on this incredibly racist website. Honestly, so racist that I was a full page of skimming posts in thinking they were being ironic about perceptions of Russians as bigoted and wearing out the joke. Only after the comments were about how hockey is a good sport because they don't let 'monkeys' play...with no one reacting...did I realize this shit was for real and then noticed the rather nazi decor of the forum. Now I feel like a complete moron, but more I feel down on folk. It's unreal people think this way and I now feel like my IPad is dirty. I have known racist people, but no one who talks like that. Again, it reads like poor irony to the uninitiated. Just had to tell someone. Told my gf and she wasn't too interested, other than to say I've only known Canadian racists, which is like the diet version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horza Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 Russian football ultras are pretty bad for that as well, this is what they did when Odemwingie left Lokomotiv Moscow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB. Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Did you hear this one already?How to get the Russians out of Ukraine? Sing the Canadian national anthem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Arryn Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 Lol.In retrospect it was the fact that it slipped in with me thinking it irony that really bothered me. I mean, I've read Mein Kampf, FFS. I think you need to understand a cancer if you want to combat it, so I have no problem with picking through the trash cans of life. If I had gone to that forum aware, it wouldn't have phased me nearly as much. But as it was, it was such a disgusting feeling. My gf compared it to once when she was reading a James Elroy mistaking it for a cozy Brit mystery on the same list, and arriving at an anal rape scene that completely floored her because her guard was down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altherion Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 In actual news about Ukraine rather than sports fans, it seems that blowing through all of the loan money that they received did not take very long: On Tuesday, the Ukrainian Parliament passed a bill that would allow the government to default on payments to foreign creditors, amid negotiations to restructure its increasingly unsustainable debt....When it comes to the Ukraine, people like financier George Soros have argued that the international community, and specifically Europe, should invest at least $50 billion on top of the $17 billion the IMF has already offered to help the nation stabilize its economy and reform its bureaucracy....Another option to saving Ukraine from financial ruin would be to force private creditors to forgive its outstanding debt. That’s the approach former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers advocated in an op-ed published on Monday. “The case for debt reduction is as strong as any that I have encountered over the past quarter century,” Summers writes. It's absolutely hilarious how all of the arguments about the sanctity of debt immediately disappear when a rival geopolitical power is involved. Anybody care to guess whether the final plan will be along the lines of what Soros is proposing or closer to Summers' ideas? Or maybe something else altogether? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horza Posted May 20, 2015 Author Share Posted May 20, 2015 Cyprus got a bail-in, but that was the EU working to shut down a potential cascading default. I don't see how all of Ukraine's creditors would be successfully corralled into Larry Summer's (incredibly convenient, I agree) debt reduction scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB. Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Sweden had to scramble fighter jets today because of Russian Tupolev bombers.I would give a news page but who reads them anyway? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maarsen Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Sweden had to scramble fighter jets today because of Russian Tupolev bombers.I would give a news page but who reads them anyway? :)Call me old fashioned but I do. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB. Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Is Moldova next?http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150526/1022549313.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Fixit Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 Is Moldova next?http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150526/1022549313.html Yes. And then Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Closely followed by Swaziland and Zanzibar. I have it on good authority that the Swaziland invasion will be airborne, so South Africa and Mozambique have nothing to worry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horza Posted May 26, 2015 Author Share Posted May 26, 2015 Novorossiya as a real prospect died out in May last year but it's official cancellation is an interesting development: Andrei Kolesnikov, a senior associate at the Carnegie Moscow Center think tank, noted that the end of the Novorossia project was announced shortly after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Putin in Sochi for the first time since the Ukraine crisis unfolded at the end of 2013. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland followed hot on his heels with visits to Kiev and Moscow.In an article published on the Carnegie Center's website last week, Kolesnikov said that it was possible that during those negotiations, U.S. neutrality or silence with regard to Russia's annexation of Crimea was offered in exchange for Russian support for the reintegration of Ukraine's rebellious regions.Piontkovsky agreed."Putin has offered the Americans a draw: They close their eyes to the Crimea issue, while Russia freezes the conflict in Ukraine's east. This is a lucrative option for the West, but Ukraine cannot like it," Piontkovsky said.In the same interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta last week, Lavrov made a point of mentioning that the question of Crimea had not been brought up by Kerry during his meeting with Putin. "Draw your own conclusions," Lavrov said at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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