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Julianus

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  • Russia supplies the world with a flood of simple to maintain rifles, sure. Older Soviet gear is always on sale, too, just like anything that wasn't nailed down from that era. But night vision gear on Russian tanks is French. Russia just isn't the high tech wonderland you imagine. You're being thick headed insisting that any single country is self-sufficient.

    Also, you what happened to the great Soviet stockpiles of nuclear weapons? They were sold to the American nuclear energy industry to power homes and televisions. The ultimate triumph of capitalism.

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  • Yes, I agree you. I would love that we address the extraordinary power that Murdoch and Koch have accrued while no one was looking. Again, I wish Putin would act like a big boy, shut up, and sit down so we can deal with the real problems of this age.

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  • I'm not advocating them, but anything is better than direct nuclear exchanges. I prefer space races, to be honest. You, my friend, need to take it down a notch, before you give yourself an aneurysm.

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  • By relying on memetic warfare, like Brexit, rather than domestic reforms. They did the world a disservice by assaulting truth with the concept of fake news. Ironically, their anti-vax propaganda came back around to Russia and now they're trying to deal with it in a population cynical of what the government says already, so good luck with that.

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  • Looting grocery stores because your expired rations ran out does not speak to an effective supply chain.

    You are the one that sees reality as "The West" and the rest. It's an interconnected global economy, which makes your claims of Russia being able to be cut off from the society of nations hilarious. Even the US would struggle with that, today.

    The US had air superiority in the first day or two of that war. So if it took a month to mop up the ground after that, what does this imply in the current context? Russia's aging and ill-supplied military is going to progress even slower against more modern weapons and better intelligence. While having their economy ground down, something the US didn't have to deal with then. When you paint it like that, this is looking like Putin's Waterloo.

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  • No, no, no! Adversarial implies a match among equals. Look at France. They actually stood up to the US. And got shut out of middle east oil every time. So they took their lumps and went nuclear. Rather than cry about American hegemony, they formed their own economic block, for reals. Do they go around trying to destabilize the world with deceit in order to make themselves look bigger? No! They did the hard work and paid their dues to remain free and proud. Russia could do that, if they abandon their strategy of trying to win by cheating. You cannot deepfake success.

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  • The very idea of a spaceplane is flawed. But Stalinist brutality hammers out anything but conformity. Even Korolev himself spent time in a gulag! So it's no surprise Soviet engineers simply aped whatever their spies said the Americans were working on. With better bells and whistles, because Capitalism is flawed! They could worked on something actually revolutionary, instead built a knock off they only flew once.

    Consider that ridiculously long table in Putin's bunker today with meek generals at the far end. Isn't that the same mentality today? It wasn't a recipe for success then nor is it now.

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  • You misunderstand. It's not belligerence. It's contempt. Putin imagines a much stronger hand than he actually has. Visions of the glorious CCCP still dance in his head. But that's long gone. If WW3 spills out of this, it's because the real superpowers of the world, not Russia, get dragged into this.

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  • Only Putin's own paranoia forced him to invade his neighbors. Now, they get all the guns they want. Keep your troops in your own borders, if you don't a good old-fashioned proxy war.

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  • Finally, a crack of truth! This might be the first thing we've ever agreed on. Of course, it was cynical realpolitik from the west that let the Russia wallow into mafia state it is now. America has it's own oligarchy to deal with. And the world has much larger problems to grapple with beyond that. It annoys me that Putin is acting up now, distracting us from addressing the issues that will define this century.

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  • So you're saying Buran was a totally new concept sprung from the free thinking of the Soviet Union? "I'm just spitballing here, comrades... let's make an oversized spaceplane that's totally unlike the American one... but we'll add jets to it!" That sounds exactly like this nationalization of McDonalds, where they keep everything exactly the same, but just change the logo. Good luck getting a resupply on those seasonal McRibs, Yogi.

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  • The war started not with air domination, but with cruise missile salvos. Those have petered off, too. Both of these indicate that even if Russia could produce chips, they can't replace them fast enough to risk their few modern jets or restock the smart missiles they had left over from bombing Syrian hospitals.

    On the one had, you say the world will collapse without Russia, but on the other you say Russia will not collapse without the world. Despite all evidence to the contrary. A table with three legs will still stand, but a table with one... not so much.

    It's the 3rd week of the invasion and you're waiting to see evidence of the invasion stalling? Ha ha! The plan was to take Kyiv within days. Russia's main issue now is that without air support, their supply convoys are vulnerable to drone and shoulder-launched strikes. Recall that the plan was not to sit around stranded tanks for weeks, so it's an open question of who will starve first, the besieged, or the besiegers?

    Your BS about bombing civilians is straight up lies. Putin has been targeting civilians with bombs since he took power (Russians that time). Go find a Ukrainian maternity ward to hide in, if you trust him so much.

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  • Lol, you're still projecting. You literally resort to name calling whenever the facts don't fit your narrative.

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  • That, my friend, is straight-up projection. Yes, we shall see. But I doubt it'll be that long before the dust settles.

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  • He'd spent years preparing for the lukewarm sanctions and half-hearted resistance of his first invasion. He clearly did a "uh oh":

    https://www.allsides.com/news/2022-03-18-0548/his-invasion-ukraine-bogs-down-putin-admits-western-sanctions-are-killing-his

    I find that crying about the legality of freezing the central bank reserves is ironic given it's hampering an illegal invasion. You want to go rogue? Enjoy living outside the community of nations. Meanwhile, the invasion is stalling out for lack of computer chips to resupply guided missiles. But I thought you said, Russia was self-sufficient? It's pure delusion to believe that, in this day and age.

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  • I don't hate Russia at all. I admire the Russian people. It's Putin that's created a mafia state, rewarding corruption that favors him, poisoning his rivals, and perverted the truth. Imagine what Russia could be with Kasparov at the helm. It's like what could the CCCP have been able to accomplish without Stalin purging anyone with a mind of their own?

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  • But there can't be much air up there, with your head up your ass.

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  • You apparently don't realize that Putin admitted those funds were intended to bank roll the invasion through the sanctions. He was clearly surprised at the masterstroke the Canadian Deputy Minister of Finance has been waiting decades to unleash. "Oh no! We're holding all this cash now! Whatever will we do!" Probably force Russia to use them as restitution in Ukraine, now.

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  • Tired of Putin's failure to lift himself up by dragging the rest of the world down, for sure. Why do you love him so much? I bet your favorite character in Lord of the Rings was Wormtongue.

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    A World War of Economic Attrition

    www.emptywheel.net /2022/03/04/world-war-of-economic-attrition/
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    How Russian Sanctions Work

    www.theatlantic.com /ideas/archive/2022/02/how-russian-sanctions-work/622940/
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    The Mysterious Case of the Missing Russian Air Force

    rusi.org /explore-our-research/publications/commentary/mysterious-case-missing-russian-air-force/