Russia - Ukraine Conflict 2022 (113 Viewers)

Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
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Europe is going through a lot of things and will continue to do so. Just like the US. There's so much shit going on right now. Countries are ditching dollar in trade deals, BRICS is going out with a potential new currency either backed up gold or oil, the US is launching a digital currency possibly in July, Opec is cutting the oil production, Japan (among other countries) keeps buying Russian oil for even higher price than "arranged" despite the "sanctions" etc. The crisis is real and it's not just Serbia. And it surely won't stop and disappear over the night. Outside of this war, plenty of shit is going on. Real estate is crazy, food prices are crazy. And you're either crazy or uninformed if you think that it's all good and chilling. I don't think you even follow what's going on but you're here only to taunt when see anything Russia related.
Says the guy who thought Ukraine was gonna get smashed quick, and that Europe wouldn’t make it through this winter. :p

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Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
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It's weird how important some of them think they are.
Yep.

Found this part particularly relevant.

Through the lenses of Serbian ethnonationalists, ethnic Serbs have the right to secede from any other neighbouring country and form Greater Serbia.
Yet Albanians, Bosniaks, Hungarians, Romanians, Vlachs and Bulgarians, who all populate distinct regions of Serbia, have no such right, even if they are repressed at some point.
This hypothesis explains why Milošević’s narratives about Serbs as the only victims enjoyed and continue to enjoy such popularity.
After all, it gave the people what they wanted: a sense of superiority over their neighbours while retaining the angelic aura of innocence that comes with victimhood.
As a narrative, it's astonishingly myopic yet incredibly empowering: it simultaneously wholeheartedly supports aggression against the perpetual “other” and the feeling of being under constant existential threat by the same “other”.”


And you see the exact same thing with Russia and Russians. Perpetual victimhood. Others are always the aggressor, while poor Mother Russia just defends itself. Parts of Ukraine, Georgia, etc with ethnic Russians have the right to secede and join Russia, but Chechnya, Dagestan, etc gonna get bombed to hell for not wanting to be under Russia’s thumb.
 

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JuveJay

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Yes. But once they harness the power of tsunamis it is game on. Japan is in no way reliant on Russian oil though, they could get it elsewhere.

The purchase from Russia is small and ties into a contract for LNG from Sakhalin. There are political and economic reasons for this, not least because Japanese companies have a big stake in Sakhalin fuel.
 

Powis

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Dec 9, 2009
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This has to be the most insane combat footage I've ever seen. Enemy is so close, artillery around. It makes me stressed just watching it. At 1:50 an orc throws a freaking grenade and gets smoked.
 

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