Posts by Bryan Booth82

brightheron64 said:Well, whenever Putin loses his grip on reality or starts rambling... something inevitable happens.
Sometimes I truly find myself wondering how I ended up on this absolute sinking ship of madness. 🙄

Just looking at a few recent headlines from Index:

United Kingdom imposes new trade sanctions against Russia
The United Kingdom announced today that they are rolling out a fresh wave of trade sanctions aimed at Russia.

Irish Prime Minister: Putin is immorally weaponizing food and energy
Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin stated that Putin is acting completely immorally by using food, energy, and migration as weapons of war.

EU: 12 European nations hit by reduced gas supplies from Russia
The reduction in gas supplies coming out of Russia has impacted 12 EU member states, according to EU official Frans Timmermans.

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What is absolutely insane here🤔

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Christian Torres3 said:Like, 1,450 Tigers versus 88,000 Sherman tanks... it’s freaking weird that there are more functional ones from the latter group.

Look, the Tiger was an incredibly expensive machine, but the absolute elite of Nazi Germany loved flaunting it. They lived for those photo ops, posing next to what they claimed was the finest weaponry on the planet—the exact same kind of vanity project we see today with Putin trying to replicate.
I guess when you're living under a dictatorship, this kind of posturing is just standard operating procedure, isn't it?

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urbanotter said:Well, that’s one way to look at it, I suppose.

The strength of Siberia is being built up at an incredible pace right now; you see them pumping gas out of Jamal at record speeds, while icebreakers are working around the clock to ensure the Northern Sea Route stays open all year round.
The only real drawback is that the Northern Sea Route is still about three or four days longer than the journey from Qatar to China or Europe.

But honestly, those details feel almost trivial when you consider how these "sanctions" are failing to achieve anything of substance.

https://hr.n1info.com/svijet/ruski-r...B7ar39m_rYjoQc

And that’s not even the half of it.
With every single day this special operation continues in Ukraine, the Russian military only grows more formidable. Every day brings another tank, another missile... and don't even get me started on the endless stream of volunteers practically begging to join their ranks.

The Russian military is pushing forward relentlessly, all while obliterating NATO weaponry at such a blistering speed that they’re destroying it before it can even reach Ukraine.
NATO is on the brink of collapse! It’s not just that nobody wants to join this alliance anymore; current members are actively jumping ship.

Because the West has finally realized just how much muscle the Russian military actually possesses, most people have stopped bother investing in defense altogether—why bother when it's clearly futile?

Did I miss anything...?🤔🤔
Oh, right! Very soon, Washington, D.C. will be our capital once again.👍

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Donna Wells2 said:The momentum is clearly on the Ukrainian side.
Day by day, the Russians are weakening.
They are losing trained, professional personnel at a rapid pace, and their weaponry is second-rate compared to Western tech anyway.
Their biggest loss might actually be the fact that the NATO alliance has been revitalized and further strengthened by the inclusion of Finland and Sweden.
The other member states are arming themselves at high speed, creating a force far more formidable than anything we saw before this started.

Common sense tells us exactly how this looks... but then again, we've seen plenty of times where pure mythmaking turns a crushing defeat into a "victory."
I wouldn't be surprised one bit if the supposed "winners" tried to spin this in Russia's favor... you know, something along the lines of "for every Russian tank we lose, they just build two more to take its place."

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Donna Wells2 said:https://www.aa.com.tr/ba/svijet/info...rajine/2512463

In the interest of keeping this discussion productive, I’m providing a link that outlines Ukraine's military assets before the invasion hit.
I trust this satisfies everyone's curiosity?

The logical emphasis here is on how they "used to have" those assets prior to the aggression against Ukraine.
Of course, that logic applies to both sides of this conflict, though it’s worth noting—and it’s not a small detail—that Ukrainians are constantly receiving fresh hardware from their allies. For instance, when you add 240 tanks from Poland to the mix, that number goes straight onto the Ukrainian side of the ledger.🤔
I’m certainly not convinced that Russia is getting weapons from anyone else, and frankly, it's highly questionable whether they can even manage to replace what's been destroyed or depleted through domestic production in any reasonable timeframe.

Every single "smart" missile fired at Ukraine, every Russian tank or artillery piece wiped out, represents one less piece of equipment in the Russian arsenal—which effectively means one more piece added to the NATO alliance's indirect advantage.

I can't help but wonder just how worried the Russian strategists are. They are burning through resources at an alarming rate... while their self-proclaimed "true enemy" is rapidly replenishing its stockpiles and even making serious shifts in overall strategy.
Germany, which had been largely dormant, has suddenly jolted awake and is planning to become the largest conventional military force in the EU. Meanwhile, Finland and Sweden are joining NATO... and the Russians just keep spending, spending, and spending.

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brightheron64 said:Yeah, and then America will surely become the world champion in soccer too.

If you’re planning on hurting someone else, you really ought to think about how that might end up biting you in the backside first... "Call M for murder," as they say...

Fine, go ahead with boycotts and restrictions, but please, put some actual thought into the full strategy and all its consequences instead of just acting on pure impulse. It’s a good thing they haven't come up with a trick to thin out the oxygen in the atmosphere just to subdue the Russians and force them into submission...

The way things are going, it feels like the world is being run by a group of fools who were handed unlimited power by an even larger collection of idiots—whether following the rules of that famous process called "democracy" or the old-fashioned divine right of kings...

Yeah.

I actually got confirmation yesterday down at the gas station. There's plenty of fuel to go around... though it's a shame nobody has engineered an engine that runs on milk yet...

Once oil prices finally drop and the recession starts to fade, I expect you'll be coming back here to write those posts where you tell us all, "as I always told you..." or "just as I predicted..."🤣

If we are already effectively in a proxy war with Russia, then it stands to reason that the most effective strike would be hitting them exactly where it hurts most—their primary source of income.
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brightheron64 said:Of course it would, absolutely. We’re talking about a strategic non-nuclear strike by an international coalition...

But, well, we’ve been waiting for that miracle for months now, haven't we? Honestly, should we just open up a betting parlor to see which happens first—prices going up or down?
It wouldn't even surprise me if the Saudi Crown Prince ordered a massive new yacht that practically paid for itself... I mean, one day you're looking at $100 per barrel, and the next it's jumped to $120, almost overnight...

Sure, but if we gamble on "producing less to drive up prices" and end up triggering the recession everyone is starting to whisper about... well, who knows? Suddenly, that "tomorrow" price could plummet to $45.
As they say over in Germany, economics isn't a one-way street.🤔

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William Anderson5 said:Putin started cutting back on the gas to stop Western countries from filling up their storage facilities before autumn, trying to prevent them from being ready for a total supply shutdown this winter...

The largest underground gas storage facility in all of Europe, located in Redding, Lower Saxony, was actually owned by... guess who? ExxonMobil.
They say it’s so massive it could supply gas to two million households for an entire year.
Right now, it's sitting at a pathetic 0.5% capacity.🤔

And that isn't even the only storage site in Germany that was under the thumb of... ExxonMobil.🤔

When the Russian aggression first kicked off, gas storage in Germany was about 23% full... currently, it’s at 59%.

Beyond the sheer, staggering naivety shown by Germany... one really has to wonder just how much Vladimir Putin played them for fools in the gas business, and how enormously the Russians profited from it.
They controlled the pipelines, they controlled the storage, and of course, they controlled the gas itself... it was a perfect setup.

A situation like that? You'll hardly ever see anything quite like it again.

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If we actually managed to crash global oil and gas prices, it would deal a far more devastating blow to Russia than any shipment of weapons they've ever sent abroad.
It seems like the West has finally caught on to this reality, which explains why Putler has pivoted toward these massive gas cuts—it’s a desperate attempt to artificially prop up prices before the floor falls out from under them.

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Jack Hill2 said:Oil is down to $106 a barrel. It's been sliding for two weeks now.

If you consider a standard price range to be somewhere between $70 and $80, we aren't actually that far off...

This nation emerged as the ultimate lifeline to replace Russian oil. Massive tankers are flooding into Europe now that Americans have lifted export bans and sanctions.

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So, let’s look at where we stand today... back in 1941, the first thing they did was bomb Kyiv... on the very first day of the aggression against Ukraine, they went straight for Kyiv.🤔🤔

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brightheron64 said:True, though I suppose we might even find ourselves using different patriotic slogans today...

🤣🤣 Exactly. He conveniently left out that little "detail."
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you absolute gutter dog said:You seem to have this bizarre fetish for Mexico and Russia. Why on earth should you care about them? I think both of them are doing just fine looking out for themselves.

So, it’s incredibly important to you whether they are in NATO or not? To me, it’s completely irrelevant. Honestly, I couldn't care less what kind of associations they hold or don't hold.

All of you seem to be, in some strange way, believers and slaves to this weird bureaucratic jargon—this semantic camp of political correctness and verbal meandering through meaningless, hollow declarations, treaties, alliances, and whatever other nonsense you can dream up. In reality, only the law of the strongest matters, and despite all those declarations and human rights charters, that law always prevails over the small and insignificant.

Why on earth would you call it a fetish??

Didn't we go to war with Mexico??
If we had been lucky enough to be a member of NATO before the conflict... there wouldn't have been a war.
NATO is a defensive alliance, and we are fortunate (that isn't a fetish) to be part of it.
Because of our NATO membership, Mexico is no longer a threat to us.

Russia is a threat to the West, which we are a part of, which means they are a threat to us too... NATO is the guarantee that members won't be attacked, just as others have been in the past.
It is incredibly naive to believe that "Oh, Russia won't do anything..."
The further away the Russians are from us, the better... if we didn't have NATO, we wouldn't just have a threat right next door, but Russia would be even closer to us...
I know there are people who wouldn't mind that... but most people think like I do.
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Bryan Booth82 said:Except when they were, like in Libya, Syria, or Mexico...

Look, NATO wasn't involved in Syria or Libya....
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that little brat said:even the other 90% of the world isn't

I am telling you once again: NATO is a defensive alliance.
Do you actually grasp the concept? 🤔
Mexico and Russia aren't even members of NATO.
You asked for an argument, so there it is. Consider it delivered.
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that lowlife said:When Putin tried to join NATO, they basically slammed the door in his face. And why? Because NATO was specifically designed to destabilize, divide, and strip Russia bare! It’s all part of an agenda to expand a new kind of empire, fueled by their whole mess of Nazi-adjacent, pagan, and LGBT parade ideologies. As an American who actually respects traditional values, you really ought to grasp this reality instead of waiting for some brainwashing machine like Al Jazeera or CNN to spoon-feed it to you.

You conveniently left out Mexico—they wouldn't be busy looting Russia if they weren't already busy doing the exact same thing to Mexico.
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William Anderson5 said:Russia lost the war. 🤷

When you deal with pure myth-making, Russians and Mexicans never actually lose wars—they just decide to retreat. 🤔 Lp

Joshua Myers432 said:Never bother trying to use logic or evidence if you already know you're going to lose the argument. Just go ad hominem. It works every single time. ☕

Ad hominem?🤔
I didn't say that, nor did I imply it, but hey, if you felt personally attacked, maybe you should take a look in the mirror.
Let me be crystal clear: you can't fight pathological myth-making with mere facts. It’s a lost cause.
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dustyowl29 said:Exactly. Both Russians and Ukrainians have basically pioneered the art of piracy. Though, honestly? A much smarter move might be to just block every single phone in Russia from accessing Google servers entirely. Just wipe all the Google accounts, ban access to iCloud, delete every Apple ID, and brick every iPhone, iPad, and Mac out there. It would cost the Americans a fortune in lost revenue, sure—but man, imagine how satisfying that would be...

Oh yeah, and why stop there? Why don't they just hand over the phone numbers and home addresses of all their spies operating in Russia too? That would really wrap things up nicely, wouldn't it?
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Joshua Myers432 said:Got any other references regarding the depletion of Russia, or are we just stuck with this one?
Can you even begin to grasp how much ground you're going to lose? Go find some group on Netflix under Documentaries!

When you're dealing with pure myth-making, what's the point in trying to counter it with references? Facts don't mean anything to someone living in a fantasy world.
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