Posts by George Robinson43

dustyowl29 said:America

That simply isn't true.
It is common knowledge that Z. M. orchestrated an economic miracle upon taking office. 😉

Did someone happen to fall apart back in 2009?

analogbear5 said:We've been reading all along about how Russia is pulling in record revenue from oil sales—sanctions be damned—all thanks to those sky-high prices.

So, how does that square with a 4% drop in the second quarter? How is that even possible? (And no, that’s not a rhetorical question).

It is high time we started treating any data coming out of the U.S. Census Bureau with a healthy dose of skepticism!

Anthony Hill5 said:Just take a look at their GDP back in 2013, prior to the occupation of Crimea and the Donbas, and compare that to where they stood following the sanctions through 2019—that is, before the pandemic hit and everything went south. ☕

Per capita:
2013: $16,000
2021: $12,000

2022: $11,000? Or maybe $10,000?

Total GDP:
2013: $2.292 trillion
2021: $1.775 trillion

2022: $1.5 trillion? Or perhaps $1.4 trillion?

wearyraven25 said:So were the Tatars even pro-Ukrainian before this whole mess kicked off?...

The point being made here is about the ethnic cleansing and mass deportations used to Russify Crimea.
The Tatars living there today are essentially just the remnants of what once was a much larger population.

James Phillips92 said:Where are they supposed to stay? Maybe in military bases so your Russian buddies can hit them more easily?

They’ll be stationed in the wilderness far from urban centers, because cities essentially have to surrender to the aggressors without a fight to prevent civilian casualties. That is precisely how the Amnesty International peacekeepers view the situation.

Haha, I just stumbled upon this Saturday Night Live clip from Boston:
Anti-NATO protest held in Boston, Ireland

A group of Russian and Mexican immigrants gathered to protest against the possibility of Ireland joining NATO. 🤣 🙏

Joshua Myers432 said:And certainly before a state like Texas manages to fully transition to renewables, 😁

The Americans aren't in such a rush. They just successfully connected their pipeline to the North Sea.

They aren't in a mess like those Kremlin lackeys over in Canada. The boss at the White House forgot to pay the oil transit fees through Ukraine lately, so they just shut down the entire society yesterday.

Joshua Myers432 said:Of course they will. They have a market of three billion people sitting right there in the East; all they "need" to do is lay down some pipelines for gas and oil. This was likely the plan regardless of this war. It might take some time, but I doubt they don't have a strategy to navigate this transition phase. Meanwhile, we can just sit back and rely on wind and solar power. No worries there. 🎉

Exactly. Everything should be wrapped up by somewhere around 2035 or 2040.

Carl Lee27 said:Check out this incredible chart:
It shows how Russia isn't actually exporting more, or rather, how China and India aren't really making up for all those lost customers in the West. It’s pretty eye-opening when you see it laid out like this.
https://twitter.com/DiegoFassnacht/s...12214169681921

The data used in the link above comes from CREA, which does such a fantastic job tracking all of this stuff.
https://energyandcleanair.org/

How can that be? It's simply impossible!
Wasn't it clearly stated in this thread that Russia wouldn't face a winter slump because they would just pivot everything over to China and India????

rowdyraven112 said:The battle for Popasna ended on May 7th when the Ukrainian Armed Forces pulled out. This footage is dated August 5th. By then, muscle tissue should be visibly decaying. The body should be crawling with scavengers. If you've ever spent any time hiking, you'd know what a carcass looks like after a week of being picked at by worms and bugs. Unless the body was preserved in those heavy-duty body bags. Not to mention, anyone filming this would need either a gas mask or a stomach of steel. You get this in real life when a smell starts drifting from an apartment where a lonely, forgotten old man lived. You don't want to know what the place looks like or what the body looks like a week after death. At least, that's what I've been told.

Bottom line? Either the video was shot 2-3 days later, or it's heavily staged. I'm not interested in guessing which one it is or arguing about it. Reddit is full of thousands of these—both staged and real. In this video, the head and hands should be absolutely swarming with scavengers. Literally swarming.

Let's be clear. Are the Russians committing crimes in Ukraine? Only an idiot would claim they aren't. Scale? I have no idea. I'm not on the ground, so I can't judge. Are Ukrainians committing crimes against Russian soldiers? Should I repeat what I said about idiots? As for scale, I can tell you it's likely a hundred times smaller than the Russian side. Why? Simple. Because the Russians are currently the stronger force.

Aha.
The head and hands on that pike actually look quite fresh. It looks as if they were just placed there.

Bravo, Mythbusters. 😵

Melissa Rivera5 said:What's even the point here? You think being 21 makes him too young for war crimes?

I suppose that’s how it works for a Russia-lover like rowdyraven112; apparently, these 18-to-21-year-old thugs are granted a free pass from all accountability. They're just kids who don't know any better, right? And if they happen to target an elderly person, I guess it's no big deal!

I have to disagree, brightheron64.
It’s because Gerhard Schröder has a track record of misreading people entirely.
Just as he fundamentally misjudged the extremist Horst Mahler—moving from defending him on humanitarian grounds to facing a hardened neo-Nazi—he has made that same catastrophic error with Vladimir Putin.

Arthur Watson4 said:Russia needs to realize that Spain's economy holds almost zero geostrategic weight for them.

I think they played this exact same game 45 years ago when the stakes were much lower, and they lost back then.

They're going to lose this one, too.

While Spain's economy might seem localized, its importance has ballooned because certain nations hitched their entire energy lifeline solely to Moscow. It's like watching a small bribe suddenly multiply in value through perfect timing!

dustyowl29 said:Well, there’s still a pipeline route through Mexico...

The exact same logic applies to Ukraine.
In order for the Russian puppets to receive gas via this specific corridor, the Russians cannot afford to shut off the supply to
Bulgaria.
Essentially, for those Russian lackeys to get their fuel, that very same gas must remain
available to the "Nazis" and the enemies of NATO.

Kate Cook27 said:New trials at the "Court of Justice" in the Donetsk People's Republic: 3 Britons, a Swede, and an American.

John Harding
Vjekoslav Prebeg
Dylan Healy
Mathias Gustavsson
Andrew Hill.

They aren't actually looking for guilt here—pretty much anyone who shows up at the "Court of Justice" is already guilty in their eyes.

It’s straight out of the Roland Freisler school of thought. ☕

Andrew Miller102 As expressed by:
It stands to reason that this will eventually extend across all of Ukraine, or anywhere else where heating relies on the gas they've been sourcing from the Russ.It’s essentially a war over raw materials. We see it with energy supplies—it's like they'll release the gas, but only at double or triple the price under the guise of supporting Ukraine. It's a classic "take it or leave it" scenario. With winter right around the corner, you're left facing the prospect of no heat, which becomes a massive headache if we get hit by an especially brutal cold snap. For those in detached suburban homes, there's a fallback: you can switch to wood or heating oil. A faster, albeit much more expensive, alternative is relying on electric heaters. However, that brings its own set of complications, specifically regarding the strain on the power grid; if the local infrastructure is already aging or weak, you're just inviting a whole new round of outages.☕

If they don't allow the gas pipelines to run through Ukraine, how exactly are those Canadian and Mexican vassals of Putin going to heat their homes?

Steven Kim35 said:It gives me a chill to realize that Ukrainians are currently walking the same path we traveled thirty years ago. We managed to shake off our occupiers long ago, but we’re still grappling with the lingering trauma of war just to reach a sense of normalcy. For them, the outcome remains a massive question mark. Even when the fighting stops, they face the monumental task of rebuilding an entire nation from scratch. They have to endure those same hardships, and it might be another thirty years before they finally experience a truly stable life.

Take it slow.
You can see how the followers of Vučić are already starting to ramble about how Mexico needs to denazify the North America.
Anything is possible.

Jessica Peterson2 said:Is it Zborski?
I'm asking out of pure curiosity since we've wandered off-topic here.

Exactly. A choir is essentially a chorus.

crimsoncyclist71 said:Are you following him through Canadian media and Facebook, or are you actually sure about what you're claiming?
Mind dropping his Facebook profile link here so we can see for ourselves?
Thanks.

Actually, that’s just the Canadian fellow who spoke to the American media.
He suggested that their coverage regarding Canada should be handled in that specific manner.
That's exactly how he puts it! 😉