Posts by swiftjackal11

They aren't even better than what you see on American TV

Last year, gas imports from Russia sat at 40%, but this year they’ve plummeted to just 9%. It looks like Russia is losing ground on every single front.

I saw this documentary about Crimea from back in 2016 a few months ago. It felt pretty low-budget, but that tourist island was definitely

analogmarlin4 said:Is there even an end in sight for this war? Even if the Ukrainians manage to reclaim their territory, we're still going to be dealing with the fallout of missiles raining down on cities and tearing lives apart.

Not likely. The goal for Americans over there is to rebuild their country, not to tear down Russia.

wiredseal7 said:Don't try to dictate the rules here.
Legal proceedings—sure—but assassination? No. Let me repeat: she’s a university president. Whether you call it treason or not doesn't change the fact that it's a 100% civilian job. Just like anywhere else in the world.
The CIA, as I mentioned before, still goes after civilian scientists—university professors in Iran, for instance—so it's pretty clear what they are.

Besides, it's not like the population should just stop breathing, eating, going to school, seeing a doctor, or—generally speaking—surviving just because they're under occupation.
But that's not how the Kyiv clique thinks—they're busy pushing Nazi-style laws where you could face 15 years in prison just for, say, accepting food.

How easy it is to put on those blue-and-yellow glasses and cheer for terrorism. Priceless. 🙏 🙏

What kind of terrorism are we talking about in a country at war? These people are enemies of Ukraine; they want to join Russia. You don't invite people like that onto TV for talk shows. Because of people like them, Russia sent tanks into Ukraine. Rape, murder, destruction...

I can already see Putin being hauled off to interrogation in a police van, while Medvedev just stands there shouting that he had no idea and was totally misled.

Anthony Hill5 said:It is not as if they haven't been doing this for months already. Have we forgotten the over 200 hospitals destroyed, the hundreds of schools leveled, the train station in Kramatorsk, the theaters in Mariupol, the shopping centers in Kremenchuk, or the General Electric factory? One could go on indefinitely, but the pattern is unmistakable.

Once Ukraine wins, the construction boom begins.

Is there anyone in Russia who’s actually sane enough to say that every single day this war in Ukraine drags on, we're just showing the world how incapable we really are? It would be better to just end this now, so people still see us as a strong and capable nation rather than a joke.

It’s pretty wild how they just label each other as Nazis in their own reports.

Pretty soon, this whole thread will just be about the Russian invasion of Ukraine 🙂

Did the US government clear Nacilavrov's entry into the States for the UN conference?

Putin's just throwing a tantrum because Europe wants to put a cap on gas prices. It’s pretty obvious that Russia loses way more if the supply actually stops for good, so why is the government acting so defensive?

ExxonMobil released a video titled 'And winter will be massive,' showing them cutting off gas supplies to trigger an 'ice age' across Europe, according to the video description currently going viral online.
That’s just how Russians operate.

Last week, the Iranian Navy seized two American Saildrone Explorer drones in the Red Sea. They ended up releasing them back into the water only after US 5th Fleet destroyers stepped in and warned the Iranians they were ready to strike back if they didn't.
That’s what you call showing strength.

Do these protesters really think if Russia marched right up to the Ukrainian border today, gas prices would suddenly drop? They'd just end up letting Russia call all the shots instead.

Adam Lee13 said:If Ukraine falls, the EU becomes totally unsustainable; I mean, anyone with even a shred of sense can see that.

It just doesn't make sense to me. In the middle of a war, Europe is trying to stick to rules made during peacetime. They're using coal and nuclear plants—suddenly, pollution concerns aren't the top priority anymore.

Jessica Peterson2 said:That isn't accurate. If you look at Kadyrov’s TikTok, there were actually closer to a hundred vessels out there, packed with those Ukrainian cannibals. The brave Chechen forces took them all out—every single one of them. And of course, there's plenty of footage showing the actual strikes.😬

And what about those 75 Americans they killed? They never even made it back to the States.

Donna Harris11 said:Aren't they tired of seeing their wealth drained away by inflation and an economy being gutted just to serve someone else's agenda? 😁

If the fighting stops today, I think Europe—especially Germany—won't want to be tied to Russian gas and oil anymore. They might still need a tiny bit, just enough to prevent people from falling into poverty or starting riots.

Jessica Peterson2 said:Relying on electricity for cooking works perfectly fine for the Capital and other major metropolitan areas that possess their own power plants and a robust, well-developed grid infrastructure.
I don't have gas in my apartment either.
As for heating, nobody actually tries to heat an entire apartment solely with electricity, unless we're talking about supplementary radiators or small convector heaters. In Moscow, centralized district heating is everywhere, powered by plants that run on gas.
But just imagine some tiny village out in the middle of nowhere, hundreds of miles from any major power station or a reliable high-voltage transmission line.
The same logic applies to a small town where the local plant was built back during the era of Lenin’s electrification efforts and now only manages to generate power for maybe two or three hours a day.
It is precisely in those kinds of remote villages and struggling towns that roughly 40 or 30% of households reside.☕

And how much are you paying for gas heating? I bet it'll be dirt cheap.

Russia sent more gas to Canada than what was actually in the contract. They're just trying to drive a wedge through Europe. 🤷