Posts by nimbleviper3

gentlestag15 said:Putin: Russia Has more modern nukes Than the West. will Use All weapons if Russian territory is threatened. "We are not bluffing."

So, basically, he sets up those rigged referendums to pull off an annexation of those regions, and then if the Ukrainians try to push back, he claims he's got the right to drop the nukes.
Because suddenly, they're attacking American-aligned territory or whatever.

Sad is the question: who is he actually going to target with those atoms? Is it "Russian" territory, or is it the "hated West" where all their apartments and yachts are located?...

Get your gas masks ready, stock up on water, and make sure your bunker is secure. The atoms of the rising sun are on the move.

Europe isn't going to fall apart—that's exactly what Putin is banking on. We might face a rough couple of winters, sure, but once that settles, Russia will find itself completely sidelined from any meaningful European affairs.

It looks like a freeze on visa waivers for Russians is on the horizon. We'll just have to wait and see where this leads...

Thomas Nelson25 said:Without those old-school nukes, they wouldn't even matter.
That’s why we get a fresh nuclear threat every single week.

Over the last six months... you can really see what the Moscow regime is actually all about.

They're basically on par with Nigeria, if you don't count the parts of Russia that actually feel European.

I have no idea what he was thinking, assuming he could just "easily" pacify that 15% of the population.

coastalbison6 said:The Kremlin's propaganda machine is trying to convince people that Ukrainians will just forgive and forget Putin's crimes. They’re drawing parallels to Chechnya and making this ridiculous claim that one day, Ukrainians will join forces with Russians to attack Poland and Germany.
https://twitter.com/juliadavisnews/s...iT3S7kVrlkNoWg

They’re debunking their own lies every single day...
We already knew the US was next on the list. Hopefully, even those who fell for the brainwashing about the "special military operation" to protect Russians in Donbas will finally wake up and realize what's happening now.

dustyowl29 said:And honestly? Her death might just be a total hoax.

That’s certainly a possibility.
And if she actually fled to Estonia, wouldn't Latvia have been just as likely? ☕

Justin Mendoza16 said:🤣hang on while they think it over and check what grandpa and his little buddy network have to say🤣

Look, I’ve got much more important things to do than hang around here 24/7 wasting my breath.
I find myself dropping by this forum quite often because the posts here are incredibly interesting. Honestly, I’d go as far as to say they feel more credible than the news reports you see on most mainstream media outlets.

Richard Wilson4 said:So, bottom line: if a regime doesn't have free multi-party elections, is it a dictatorship or not?

Not necessarily.

By that logic, if you have multi-party elections in Russia, does that mean it isn't a dictatorship? 😁

A question for you Google experts: how much time did you actually spend living in that "dictatorship" before we finally wrap up this off-topic nonsense? 😁

Andrew Booth29 said:Look, I’m not saying it was a full-blown democracy either... but calling it anything other than a dictatorship is a stretch, don't you think? 🤷
A dictatorship of the proletariat, if we're being precise... 🧐

We're getting off topic here, but please, let's not just talk nonsense.
Everything happened there, especially after 1945, though things loosened up later on...

Justin Mendoza16 said:😁☕Sure, it was the poster child for democracy, prosperity, and free-market capitalism—if you count the political establishment's CIA-style corruption where they'd funnel cash to Italy via the Bank of Trieste to set up companies that eventually swallowed up all the old factories in Yu...🤣

stop feeding us this nonsense...🙂

That’s a massive stretch, but calling it a dictatorship? Not even close. Learn what a real dictatorship actually looks like before you start talking trash.☕

Justin Mendoza16 said:☕The hated foreign enemy from the West, if we're being totally honest...🤣

The breakup of that old regime was inevitable. It was a total dictatorship, and we all know how those kinds of messed-up states end—nothing but wars, destruction, and massacres driven by an establishment that calls all the shots in the military. I won't even get started on the rest.

Not the main point, but just noting for the record that Yu wasn't a dictatorship, at least not during its last 30 years of existence.☕

Jesse Hughes6 said:You're wasting your breath.

I get it, but this thing is just bigger than me... 😁

The rising costs of groceries, electricity, and gas have very little to do with the war in Ukraine, just saying.☕

It’s interesting that she chose to "flee" straight to Estonia...

Kate Cook27 said:Taj Kuper posted about those Russian demands brought up by Erdogan. He used about 10 bullet points, but here’s the short version:
-Ukraine recognizes Crimea as Russian territory,
-drop the term "aggressor nation" in favor of some other wording for both sides,
-DPR and LPR are recognized as independent states with UN backing,
-UN-supervised referendums held in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia,
-Ukraine stays neutral with UN guarantees,
-Total demilitarization of Ukraine,
-A UN peacekeeping force stationed there to protect borders, nuclear sites, and airports,
-Extraordinary election for labor and president,
-Constitutional change Ukraine—meaning neutrality and equal rights for Russian speakers (though there won't be any left anyway 🤣).

It is painfully obvious they aren't actually interested in negotiating.

crimsoncyclist71 said:Clearly.
In self-sufficient Russia.

I know high-end chocolate was considered a luxury back in the nineties, which just goes to show they haven't evolved one bit..

urbanotter said:Come on, let's not get carried away with fairy tales here. The companies importing goods into Russia are buying their foreign currency on the black market. Even someone as inexperienced as little Ivica wouldn't be able to pull that off.

The reality is that you can't settle a bill for gas or oil in euros; you have to go out into the market, buy the necessary rubles, and only then can you actually secure the energy supply.

I think everyone is missing the core mechanism here: Gaspr opened an account where buyers deposit their dollars or euros, and then the company uses those funds to purchase the rubles needed to finalize the sale of the gas or oil.

So, while you can technically buy rubles using any major currency, you can't actually make the payment in anything other than rubles.

It's a bit of a catch-22—you can't pay a specific bank because of sanctions, yet you still need to facilitate the trade.
Essentially, you have to pay first, grab the rubles, and only then do you see the gas arrive.

That is precisely why the ruble has become such a sought-after currency, causing its value to spike even higher than it was before the sanctions were ever implemented.😉😁

And this is just a temporary spike—it's a transition phase. By next year, let's see if Russia can even find anyone willing to buy their gas. They can try demanding Rubles then, too.

Is Nutella actually a luxury item? 🤔