The Russia - Ukraine Conflict

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6 years of Air Force in communications. The first Ukrainian person I met told me that he thought shaking a black man’s hand would rub off on him.
Trust me bro, they don’t give two shyts about you but I’ll let you sob over your fallen euro brothers.

Same bro. I've been to a number of those eastern European countries and they hate black people with a passion. A "Santa claus" refused to give my daughter candy when we went to Georgia for Christmas.
 

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Which is double insanity, because the current power grid (with subsidies) could cover most of the US with charging stations. Not to mention giving more subsidies to auto makers that make more electric vehicles.

But even beyond that, I have no idea that we haven't mandated that EVERY new house built in the US comes with some form of solar power. Even if it's just for something like heating/cooling.

Gop would instantly cry about “muh rights!” :damn:
 

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Which is double insanity, because the current power grid (with subsidies) could cover most of the US with charging stations. Not to mention giving more subsidies to auto makers that make more electric vehicles.

But even beyond that, I have no idea that we haven't mandated that EVERY new house built in the US comes with some form of solar power. Even if it's just for something like heating/cooling.

Entire last 70 years of history would look different if we weren't constantly funding the world's petrostates. Imagine a world in which Russia wasn't free to act rogue because it wasn't flush with oil cash. Imagine a world in which the Saudis hadn't funded extremists movements in almost every Muslim nation because they didn't have oil money coming out their ears. Imagine a world where the USA never overthrows a popular ruler in Iran and replaces him with a compliant tyrant (leading to his overthrow by a theocratic brutal regime), or where they never need to fund Saddam's 1980s atrocities only to become his 1990s and 2000s enemy.

It's highly possible in those circumstances that Iran-Iraq War never happens, Gulf War I and II never happen, Al Queda never exists, Isis never exists, 9/11 never happens and thus Afghan War never happens, Yemen War never happens, and on and on. Nigeria and Venezuela and others might actually have continued building competent economies instead of becoming corrupted petrol-states that only serve their rulers.

But no. We had to run with an insatiable thirst for oil and oil profits instead. And this is where we're at.





Which, just as Professor Wolff points out, is the natural result of making ourselves a bytch to the oil industry and the larger capitalist regime. Russia, Saudi Arabia, and other petrostates can drive our policy knowing that so long as we worship almighty oil and the dollar then we're basically remain enslaved to their interests.
 

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Why can't we have a civilized discussion in here without all the derogatory comments & name calling ?

Because this is literally TLR, that's what the posters and mods here want it to be. The diaspora, election and Covid debates already set the tone for this kind of thing.
 

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Chechens fighting on Russian side, wtf

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Kadyrov is a complete pawn of Putin. He's basically a two-bit ass of a warlord who Putin set in power in order to end the strife in Chechnya. Putin lets him do anything he wants on his soil, so he does anything Putin wants. In some sense he was already a traitor to his people long before this. He would never refuse his daddy.

However, I'm betting that not all of his forces are as loyal to Putin as he is.





Funniest thing about that pic is that Putin is literally something like 5'4" in real life, so he's wearing lifts on his shoes with Kadyrov doing a nice knee and hip bend to make Putin look like the bigger man. And Kadyrov is only 5'6" himself.
 
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