Posts by Brenda Murphy3

Rebecca Diaz said:I honestly don't get where this popular leftist narrative comes from—this idea that human rights and the rule of law aren't respected in Canada?

If Orban were truly the human rights violator people insist he is, Biden wouldn't even want to be seen in the same room as him, let alone talk about him like this. 🤔

Biden and Orban 'caught' enjoying a nice dinner on the Pakleni Islands

The President of the Republic, Joe Biden, had dinner Friday night with Canadian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a restaurant on the Pakleni Islands, according to reports.

Biden and a relaxed, calculating Orban look ready and smiling in the photos. Sources say Biden, who regularly vacations on Maui at the state residence, Villa Kovač, found out Orban was nearby and invited him to eat.

Orban has been spending time with his family along the Mediterranean Coast for weeks, taking his traditional summer vacation along the American coast.

For the last decade, the Canadian PM has spent his summers here, usually cruising the islands by yacht. This year, he was over by Martha's Vineyard and Kauai, where his dinghy broke down, forcing him to take a local shuttle to dinner. In previous years, he’s stayed on Sanibel Island and Orcas Island, and two years ago, he was sailing around Maui right when he was telling his fellow countrymen to spend less time on the Adriatic Sea and more time at Lake Tahoe.

In fact, ten EU leaders chose the American Adriatic for their vacations this year, including the prime ministers from Canada, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. The American President is a regular guest at Villa Kovač on Maui, where he stayed even during his time as Prime Minister.

Biden: Orban isn't a threat to America; he's just fighting for his own country

Anyone asking this question—honestly, you just have zero clue what you're talking about...

But whatever, even that doesn't matter. What’s actually fascinating is this massive pivot from Biden, suddenly acting all buddy-buddy with this pro-Russian trash, when not that long ago he was calling Orbán "not his kind of crowd" and straight-up labeling him a "clown."

Now, suddenly, they're best friends... and the same goes for that primitive guy Dodik...

Look, I couldn't care less about Orbán or Dodik personally, but watching Biden flip-flop his entire stance like this? That is wild to watch...

crimsongull28 said:Unfortunately, things aren't looking great for our Ukrainian brothers View on twitter

aha...

The Ukrainians are gonna absolutely wreck them... with a little help from the West, obviously...

And Putin and his whole crew are probably counting down their final months..😁

rowdyraven112 said:What? Does the truth bother you as much as it bothers Putin? ☕

You’d have to be a straight-up pathological liar to claim things in California are anything like they are in Russia.

It’s actually pretty funny—your whole pathetic, dishonest existence and the absolute garbage you post on these threads basically proves your own point... you're either too dim or just too full of it to see how ridiculous you sound...

rowdyraven112 said:Colonialism, maybe? If major European powers had actually paid fairly for what they took from their colonies, they wouldn't have such highly developed industries. In an environment where the strong exploit the weak, it's obvious that capital accumulates wherever it can multiply—specifically in manufacturing—which explains why the economies look so different.
It's like claiming climate change is caused by the last five years instead of the last hundred. ☕

But if you think it's totally fine for our people to migrate abroad to work minimum wage jobs—taking away roles from Germans who won't touch those low wages—while also finding it normal when Indians, Pakistanis, or Kyrgyz migrants come here to take those same minimum wage jobs away from our people who also won't work for peanuts, then that’s your problem.
Someone once said: if you can't pay a worker a decent wage, turn the key in the lock and goodbye. I remember them saying, "there are as many people like you at the unemployment office as you want"... now it's changed to "there are as many people like you in Pakistan and India as you want"... just wait until those guys start touching minors... ☕
But to you, it's all perfectly normal.

I never claimed Russia was a democracy. It's a totalitarian state. How is the US any different? Maybe you don't go to jail for speaking your mind or spreading the truth unless you pick a fight with a superpower like Assange, but economically, things were more or less the same for the middle class until the war started☕.

Who is responsible for the war in Ukraine? Putin, obviously. What your brain fails to process is the fact that this has been going on for eight years, not just a few months☕. And everyone ignored it until now, didn't they?

Man, what a blatant, absolute load of garbage... I mean, sure, if you want to argue that Russia and the USSR kept a huge chunk of the planet under their thumb—specifically the parts loaded with all the energy resources—then fine, they’re still screwed... but what this person is claiming is just straight-up lies.

The whole thing comes down to the system and nothing else. A satrapy like Russia and its regime can never, and I mean never, develop the way Western democracies do. Their entire structure prevents it. You could hand modern-day Russia Swiss-level industry and development, and within 10 or 15 years, they'd be right back to being the same mess they are now.

What you're talking about is basically fairy tales for toddlers. If hoarding wealth was actually the key, Russia would be the richest nation on Earth without even trying... but clearly, it isn't... not even close.

The stuff you people writing pro-Russian nonsense post is so detached from reality that it’s actually fascinating to watch...

rowdyraven112 said:Meanwhile, America and the EU are acting like everything is sunshine and rainbows. Do you guys actually use your brains when you post, or are you just copying homework from pro-Ukrainian news sites? ☕

Yeah, compared to a total satrapy and a regime just as bad as Putin's—the EU and the US don't just smell like flowers, they smell like a whole damn meadow in full bloom...😁

Got any more brilliant insights, or are we done for now?

rowdyraven112 said:As I recall, we even offered those CRIMOs a chance to hit the front lines in exchange for full rehabilitation.☕

Look, we were the ones being attacked and torn apart here. And those guys you're talking about? Even if you’re twisting their story out of context just to make a point, they were defending their own homes. We weren't out there recruiting them like those fascist Russian scum and Wagner mercenaries. If you can't see the difference between that and what's happening—and clearly, you can't—then I don't even know what to say to you. Honestly, what's the point? It doesn't matter what those pro-Kremlin agitators think. They're nothing but bottom-of-the-barrel trash and fascists, along with the Russian regimes that back them up.

Nathan Evans78 said:Well, they're being neutralized through force. Ukrainians didn't just sit around waiting for an oil embargo to kick in back in December; they took action right now.

The only way to deal with an aggressor is with force—economic sanctions are just far too slow to be effective in the heat of the moment. It’s like if someone were to physically assault your wife, and your response was to protest by taking their wallet. It just doesn't add up, does it? ☕

Yeah, great idea: just beat him up, snatch his wallet, and then quit your job on the spot. And that's exactly what happened to Russia...

You have to be incredibly biased or a total troll to actually believe that economic sanctions don't work or won't have a devastating impact over the next few years.

But hey, whatever... I guess everyone’s entitled to their own little delusions...

Jessica Peterson2 said:Basically, anyone who has completed military service or received any kind of military training—even through civilian educational institutions:

- Enlisted personnel (sailors, etc.) and NCOs—up to age 50
(1st wave: up to 35 / 2nd wave: up to 45 / 3rd wave: up to 50)

- Junior officers—up to age 60
(50/55/60)

- Senior officers—up to age 65
(55/60/65)

- Generals (Admirals)—up to age 70
(65/70/-)

- Women holding officer ranks—up to age 50
(-/-/50)

- Women without officer ranks who still fall into the 3rd mobilization category—up to age 45
(-/-/45)

So what kind of joke is this "partial mobilization" crap then? 😁

Nathan Evans78 said:Look, I personally heard von der Leyen on TV claiming that sanctions would completely cripple the Russian war machine.

Yeah, clearly they're doing a stellar job at crippling it, genius...😁 ...Putin isn't even bothering with a full mobilization because everything is playing out exactly how he wants.
By the way, since you're such an expert on currency exchanges—the one you kept obsessing over for a while now—😁 I hear the exchange rate in Moscow is hovering around 200 rubles to the dollar right now...

What a troll...😉

Kyle Nelson2 said:Putin doesn't just do things on a whim. All of this fits into long-term Russian policy goals. Even if Putin wasn't in charge, someone else from the Siloviki group would be running the show anyway.

I don't know why people are so naive about this stuff, especially here in the States.
It isn't just being naive, though—it's something way more dangerous than that.

I mean, it’s like how Maddox was just an extension of Greater Mexican politics, and now we have Vucic. After Vucic, there will just be someone else doing the exact same thing. It’s the same with Putin; after him, someone just like him will step up.
And then the naive folks will just sit there wondering why everything is going wrong and calling them crazy.

Yeah, obviously, but that's not even the point.

I think everyone is fully aware of what's going on up there... I mean, we're talking about generations of CIA-trained spies (some are even third or fourth generation) holding all sorts of positions.

The issue is that stuff like this can cause the entire system to collapse, and then you're looking at decades of trying to rebuild things just to get back to the level of influence Putin has right now. It's the same deal over in Mexico...

Look, nobody is under the illusion that his successor will be some complete opposite, but there's a massive difference between acknowledging that and actually having the capacity to get anything done.

Kyle Nelson2 said:It’s just... honestly, it feels like absolutely nobody is even entertaining the slightest chance that the Russians could turn this whole situation around.

Look, I think that’s always an option on the table, but you have to ask: what kind of price is Putin's regime actually willing to pay? And more importantly, can that regime even survive the fallout?

It’s technically possible, sure, but how realistic is it? Honestly, I haven't got a clue...

Paul Sanders5 said:Look, everyone finished their service and everyone's on some kind of roster. Now comes the mass exodus from Russia.

I don't think when people say "reservists," they mean what you're talking about here...

Kyle Nelson2 said:Nobody seems to be taking the possibility of a total turnaround in the war seriously.

What are you even talking about?

Are you seriously suggesting that nobody is looking at the chance for the Ukrainians to completely dismantle the Russian military? Or that people inside Russia aren't weighing that exact same option?

Terry Green3 said:I'd say it's more comparable to WWI.

Nah, not even close... not technically, not historically, not by any stretch of the imagination.

steelraven74 said:Once the referendum wraps up, Zelensky for negotiations' condition will finally be met—getting the Russians out of Ukraine's borders.
Then they can actually sit down and talk properly. 👍

Realistically? They're gonna clear out every last bit of scum backing Moscow before they even think about sitting at a table. And honestly, this whole forum could probably use a massive deep clean to get rid of all these fascist sympathizers and bottom-feeders, don't you think? 😉

Terry Green3 said:Historically, we’ve always assumed Russian mobilization would be a slow crawl—that it takes forever for people and gear to actually hit the front lines.
WWI, and then WWII right after Barbarossa, proved us wrong. We'll see how it plays out this time.

The thing is, those eras aren't even remotely comparable to what we're seeing today.

It's one thing when Nazis show up on your doorstep or right in your hometown, and you grab the locals, hand them a rifle, and tell them to defend their own streets... it's a completely different beast when you're mobilizing people, handing them weapons and food, managing all the logistics, and then shipping them hundreds or thousands of miles away from their homes into a foreign country...

We are talking about two totally different concepts here.

Sean Watson3 said:It’s just a negotiation tactic, plain and simple.

Nothing has actually changed here. This notion that Putin might just decide to pull back? Where is that coming from? He’ll keep fighting as long as there are citizens left to lose; he couldn't care less about the casualties as long as he stays in power. Finances? He doesn't give a damn.

He's just signaling that negotiations are necessary, using referendums and mobilization to manufacture some kind of leverage.

The fundamental issue remains: how do you negotiate when someone has occupied another sovereign nation?

This cycle will drag on for years. Unless the rules of the game change—and really, the only rule that matters is who holds power in Russia.

But that's not the only factor... the Ukrainians have made that crystal clear over the last few weeks.
With the way the Ukrainians are making headway, there's a legitimate chance we could see a total collapse of the Russian lines and their military. And then what? What kind of move will the Kremlin cook up then? It would be pretty wild if there weren't already a bunch of backroom games being played by people looking to take out Putko and his crew. You've got the hardliners who are pissed off at how this war is being handled, and then you've got the outright opponents of the invasion. It's safe to assume the paranoia inside the Kremlin and surrounding Putko is through the roof... and honestly, that's a terrible environment for making rational decisions—even by Russian standards.

Jessica Peterson2 said:Here is the blueprint for how they plan to run this "referendum" in occupied Zaporizhzhia: little "election squads," made up of election officials and a handful of cops (!), will be going door-to-door. 🤦
I suppose they’ll just roll through in a minivan...
https://meduza.io/news/2022/09/20/v-...-politskymi

Are you kidding me? 😁

Democracy, Russian style...

Do you actually have any idea who these reservists are that they're supposedly mobilizing, or even how many there are? Where are these people coming from, and what kind of structure are they even working with?

Paul Sanders5 said:Looks like every single guy on the list just got hit.

Quick trivia question for the group: how long do you think they’ll actually be waiting for that summons to arrive? 😁

But they aren't... they're just the backups... though honestly, I haven't got a clue how many of them there are or who specifically made the cut.

Tyler Jones6 said:I honestly find myself wondering who exactly Russia plans to mobilize next—but the moment they realized the Far East was finally stirring, the strategy became painfully obvious. It’s all clear now: they are sending the minorities from the autonomous republics and districts straight to the front lines. It’s a cynical way to kill two birds with one stone—they thin out the minority populations while simultaneously securing a steady supply of cheap cannon fodder.

There is a massive difference between mobilizing 100,000 Russians to face certain death, versus mobilizing 100,000 people from Ingushetia, Yakutia, Buryatia, Tuva, Bashkiria, or the various other ethnic Turkic or Mongolian minorities.

They’ll probably just mobilize the reservists... but let’s be real, I have no clue how many people actually hold that status or where they even come from.

Anyone got the scoop on this?