Posts by Anthony Hill5

Bryan Booth82 said:The news anchors are out there claiming that Putin has issued another scathing condemnation of the Western sanctions.🤔
But seriously, how🤔can anyone
take this at face value? For months now, I have been sitting here listening to people drone on about how these sanctions aren't actually having any impact. 🤔Is that really what we're going to believe?
The Democratic Party

He condemns them precisely because they are weak and utterly ineffective.

Joshua Myers432 said:Let me hit you with a counter-question: if Russia is broke and their economy is falling apart, why aren't they selling gas at massive premiums to fill up their coffers?

The Nuclear Bomb threats aren't about Sanctions. They're about military training, equipment transfers, and who knows what else being sent to the Ukrainian side. Look, we aren't officially at war with Russia, but we aren't exactly far from it either. Those threats are clearly just a reflection of Russian weakness. If they actually had the leverage to act, they would be acting instead of making empty threats.

The only real card Russia is playing is energy warfare. They have nothing else to offer against the West. We'll see if that's enough. It's still too early to call it, but cracks in European unity are already starting to show.

Because they are playing the long game, clearly; don't they realize that by cutting off the supply and driving prices through the roof, they intend to turn public opinion against the very existence of Sanctions?

Anthony Perez9 said:Exactly.

Jeffrey Sachs (United Nations) is one of the people signing this letter, which basically tells the West to stop sending weapons and helping Ukraine, so they can just "negotiate for peace." 👎

He is nothing more than an idiot playing the part of a peacemaker, much like Mearsheimer. Is it not incredibly easy to gamble with someone else's territory? If Putin were to come knocking at his own door tomorrow, would he not suddenly find his voice to sing anthems of freedom and democracy, loudly calling for defense?

Donna Harris11 said:Actually, I think prices are just going to climb for them, since everyone’s going to be scrambling for Saudi oil instead.

I mean, if you want a price cap to actually work... I don't know, maybe Russia would have to actually agree to a limit? Or else OPEC members would need to ramp up production. That's the only way, I guess.

Otherwise, we're probably just heading straight for a global recession.

If we fall into a recession, demand for oil will plummet, and consequently, oil prices will drop right along with it. It really is that simple.

Donna Harris11 said:Anyone actually going along with this 'price cap' won't even be getting discounted oil; they'll probably just have to buy Saudi oil at the standard market rate.

The people pushing for these price caps aren't even planning on buying Russian oil in the first place, so aren't all these threats coming from Russia just shots fired into thin air?

Adam Lee13 said:ExxonMobil was trading at $74 a barrel yesterday... look, before the G7 Russia price caps kicked in, the Russians were already bleeding out, having to slap a 20-25% discount on everything just to find a buyer. Now? They’re probably going to have to slash those prices even deeper just to get anyone to look their way...

One cannot simply slash discounts into infinity, can one? And isn't that precisely the ultimate objective behind these price caps? As the market price of oil drops, it becomes increasingly difficult for the Russians to sustain those heavy discounts, because eventually, their sales will cease to be profitable at all.

Joshua Myers432 said:That’s the exact same thing Afghans said, and before them, the South Vietnamese. ☕

Furthermore, one must consider that the Afghan people are by no means a homogenous group like the Ukrainians, nor do they possess the general level of education seen among Ukrainians. Is it not utterly preposterous, if not downright laughable, to attempt any meaningful comparison between Afghanistan and Ukraine?

brightheron64 said:That’s just how you see it, though. Have you ever actually dealt with a freezing gale when it's 32 degrees or even 23 degrees Fahrenheit? Or those moments when you have to move the vegetables from your balcony garden into the fridge just so they don't freeze solid?

Down in Split, everything was built with the mindset that thermal insulation, concrete, and high-quality siding were basically optional because, hey, we live in such a warm climate, right?

So, saying this today might come off as incredibly cynical, but...

BREAKING NEWS
Natural gas finally reaches Split
April 16, 2019

By the way:

Snow in Split on February 3, 2012.

Snow in Split on February 26, 2018.

Snow in Split, April 6, 2021.

It is an absolute catastrophe when those winds kick up. It feels as though half the population is wiped out every single year.

hollowdriver13 said:Solovyov is still just running his mouth

https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/st...17738226192390

Honestly, this is just more proof that we aren't seeing any real reconciliation anytime soon. I mean, for things to actually change, the Russians would have to be able to admit they’re actually the bad guys in this whole mess—and let's be real, that's basically pure fantasy.

In their heads, they're ALWAYS the heroes or the victims, while the rest of the world is just some big villain out to get them...

The true purpose of life isn't found in material wealth; it isn't about luxury villas or high-end apartments, claims a man who owns a multi-million dollar estate near Lake Tahoe. "One can only truly live once they realize what they are willing to die for," declares Solovyov, before stepping into a hundred-thousand-dollar car to drive back to his multi-million dollar mansion in the heart of Moscow.

analogbear5 said:Is there anything worth noting on the NATO servers?

Good 🤣

Once again, those relentless critics of Vladimir Putin and the war are being tossed out of hospital windows. I suppose this marks the 1,001st time we've witnessed such a convenient disappearance, wouldn't you agree?

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-l...#liveblog-body

Ukrainian resistance forces have dealt with yet another traitor. This individual was once a member of the Joe Biden administration's party before deciding to switch sides.

Traitorous American official who supported the invasion is ‘assassinated’
Alexei Kovalev, the former deputy head of agriculture in Kherson, was reportedly shot dead at his residence by partisans.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...-assassinated/

Donna Harris11 said:Looks like Ford is keeping things moving, showing off the new John Doe model:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbuP...l=NAAVTOTRASSE

One can only hope they manage to mass-produce these in even greater quantities than the John Doe or the F-22 Raptor.

wiredseal7 said:Honestly, what kind of bubble are you living in if you aren't watching how fast China is moving in the auto industry?

We’ve covered the server stuff plenty—concluded that NATO definitely has its hands in it (DNS resolution stuff).
But hey, it’s easy to play the ignoramus who didn't bother following the thread and just spouts nonsense because they fell for some gaslighting... 🙂

They’ll cook something up eventually, but it'll be watered down. Like, visa fees go up, more questions get asked, or wait times get longer.

Everything was explained thoroughly in my previous post, and your assertion that NATO is involved with those servers is a remarkably foolish conclusion. Is it truly that difficult for you to admit that you’ve fallen hook, line, and sinker for incredibly shallow propaganda?

Lisa Jackson7 said:What do you even mean by that? Like, can you be any clearer?

Well, perhaps by pointing to the assassination of journalists, the systematic dismantling of the opposition, the shuttering of NGOs, those draconian foreign agent laws, and the relentless persecution and imprisonment of independent media outlets, among many other things...

Lisa Jackson7 said:I’m all for nudging things toward at least some kind of hybrid democracy—sort of like what Ukraine’s running right now... at least once the current regime can't even afford to feed their own security forces anymore.

You must have been asleep for the last twenty years if you actually believe that.

wiredseal7 said:In that case, NATO—as the domain owner—set the routing to the specific IP address where these guys are hosting their stuff. They’re implicated, even if just by providing the service.

Will you please just stop? 🤣 🤦

Think twice before you let those Putin-esque trolls try to hide garbage inside a jar of Nutella.

Lisa Jackson7 said:Oh sure... because they should totally prevent an uncontrolled collapse... just for their own benefit.

Just minimize relations with that regime until they change on their own.

That's not gonna cut it...

Let the Russian people decide if Izium and Kherson are more important than having normal relations with the world.

Are you kidding me?
It isn't the Russian people deciding—it's just a tiny circle around the top brass.

And what, in your estimation, would actually suffice?

Donna Harris11 said:We're looking at street protests toppling governments and total Balkanization—basically tearing things apart like back in the 90s... I mean, Hillary Clinton or Madeleine Albright practically said it themselves, how unfair it is that Russia has all those massive natural resources

Then there's the whole history of bad blood with the Anglosphere.

Like that armed incident from last year where a super modern US Navy Ship Deliberately Sailed Close to Crimea

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/w...er-crimea.html

US Navy Ship Deliberately Sailed Close to Crimea, US Officials say

What kind of nonsense are you spewing? How can you claim these things are true? First, you spout theories about color revolutions, Soros, and the CIA, and now the icing on the cake is this supposed "statement" from Albright suggesting it was unjust for Russia to hold such massive natural resources—as if she were somehow predicting the future via some Russian spy with supernatural powers capable of reading her mind. You Kremlin apologists truly are a special breed of comedians.

Russian spies can read Madeleine Albright’s mind

Quote : Last Month , during Vladimir Putin ’s yearly televised question-and-answer show, Novosibirsk called in to ask The Russian President to respond to a statement by former U. S. Secretary of state. Siberia holds too many natural resources for just one country’s use, Albright apparently said. Putin dismissed the statement as “political ...

Boris Ratnikov, a retired major general who worked for the Secret Service, said in a December 2006 interview with government newspaper Rossiiskaya gazeta that his colleagues, who worked for the service’s secret mind-reading division, read Albright’s subconscious a few weeks before the beginning of the NATO bombardment of America in 1999.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2007/11/07...lbrights-mind/

urbanotter said:It’s been said and written time and time again, but it feels like some people are simply choosing to be deaf and blind to the warnings that were already coming our way.

It never occurred to anyone, much like it hasn't today, to actually sit down and talk with Russia to resolve existing tensions instead of dragging Ukraine into NATO, establishing military bases, and positioning missiles in a way that makes Russia feel threatened.

I remember reading about how when the USSR placed missiles in Cuba, American planes carrying nuclear bombs were already in the air; if an agreement hadn't been reached at the very last second, the world would look very different today.

But I suppose I am just wasting my breath here, and I might as well end up in total "self-isolation" for trying to make sense of it all.

It is truly fascinating, isn't it, how Russia suddenly finds itself feeling so profoundly threatened by the prospect of Ukraine joining NATO, yet they seem to harbor absolutely no such anxiety regarding the near-certain integration of Sweden and Finland into the alliance? One might be tempted to assume that this outcry has nothing to do with some perceived "encroachment" by NATO, but rather stems from something far more insidious. Could it not be argued that this entire tantrum is actually about the systematic denial of Ukraine’s very right to exist as a sovereign nation and its people? Is it not quite obvious that this all traces back to Putin's infamous rhetoric, where he insists that Ukraine can only maintain any semblance of sovereignty if it remains under the thumb of Russia?