Russia - Ukraine Conflict 2022 (88 Viewers)

Ronn

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May 3, 2012
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The billionaires and oligarchs that support him aren’t affected by the sanctions. That’s the common citizen that suffers. So until the upper crust gets soggy putin will remain untouchable and in full power with continued u questionable authority to do what he wants

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Until real $$$ is affected nothing will change
Sanctions affect everyone, but oligarchs have a higher threshold for pain, and that’s not an easy problem to solve. Putin will make sure whoever stay loyal to him gets the economic benefit too.
 

Hust

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Hustini
May 29, 2005
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If my bartenders name is Helena - what Scandinavian country would she be from?

poll @Mark

And forza Ukraine

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Plot twist - she is from Ukraine.

Major fail on my part. ~•dropped a Dybala in that one
 
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.zero

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Aug 8, 2006
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Sanctions affect everyone, but oligarchs have a higher threshold for pain, and that’s not an easy problem to solve. Putin will make sure whoever stay loyal to him gets the economic benefit too.
Exactly my point

most ultra wealthy don't keep their funds in their local currency and in their local central banking system. Hence switzerland, cayman, curacao exist.
 

X Æ A-12

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Sep 4, 2006
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Anyone else a bit creeped out by Pelosi's excitement as Joe Biden talked about burn pits/ cancer from Iraq and the opiate crisis? Like I get that maybe you think this is reaching out to people or you want to be seen cheering on your guy but holy fuck how are you smiling and giddy when someone is describing incidents leading to the deaths of tens of thousands and the addictions of millions. Especially since she's been such a powerful figure in government throughout all of it. Someone who actually had power to intervene

Has she gotten so old she's forgotten that, on camera, she has to pretend to be a human being with empathy or any sense of guilt for her role?
Found it


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Oh fuck...


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lol poor guys are gonna shit themselves over everything now
 

duranfj

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Jul 30, 2015
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Idk how Jlo looks without photoshop and makeup and I'm not eager to find out.
For a +50yo woman, I'll say it has a rocking body

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I'm up to my elbows in Mexicans and yes they have a significant obesity problem
Because they are in Murica, the land of fatness

As far as I know, latin women take more care of their body and face like the most... and lets not talk about aging, aryan race women lose that battle like Russia against western cointries
 
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Snobist

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Can someone tell me the difference of what Putin is doing in Ukraine and Bush did in Iraq? Im talking about attacking a sovreign country. Why the first one had the right to do it and the second doesnt?
 

Juventino[RUS]

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Mar 9, 2006
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Can someone tell me the difference of what Putin is doing in Ukraine and Bush did in Iraq? Im talking about attacking a sovreign country. Why the first one had the right to do it and the second doesnt?
Huge difference, America Vs Saddam has a long story of their relationships and Saddam was an absolute scumbag, while Ukraine never did nothing wrong to the world or to the Russians
 

Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
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Can someone tell me the difference of what Putin is doing in Ukraine and Bush did in Iraq? Im talking about attacking a sovreign country. Why the first one had the right to do it and the second doesnt?
Bush didn’t have the right and the Iraq war shouldn’t have happened. Saddam should have been removed from power in 91 at the end of Desert Storm (a colossal error that he wasn’t), but when he wasn’t the US didn’t have the right to unilaterally declare war and invade over made up WMDs a dozen years later.

However it is very clear that Saddam was a brutal dictator who ruled over his population through fear and atrocities committed against them. He attempted to wipe out the Iraqi Kurds, using chemical weapons, weapons he used multiple times which are war crimes. Ukraine is a democratic nation.

So there’s just a wee bit of a difference there, ya know.
 

Snobist

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Apr 16, 2017
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Bush didn’t have the right and the Iraq war shouldn’t have happened. Saddam should have been removed from power in 91 at the end of Desert Storm (a colossal error that he wasn’t), but when he wasn’t the US didn’t have the right to unilaterally declare war and invade over made up WMDs a dozen years later.

However it is very clear that Saddam was a brutal dictator who ruled over his population through fear and atrocities committed against them. He attempted to wipe out the Iraqi Kurds, using chemical weapons, weapons he used multiple times which are war crimes. Ukraine is a democratic nation.

So there’s just a wee bit of a difference there, ya know.
Yep Saddam was a brutal dictator just like a lot of other dictators around the world. And i dont think US gave two shits about Kurds. My point is there is not a big of difference. They both attacked Iraq and Ukraine for their own good.
About the anti-war protests in Russia dont mean shit i remember protests against the war in Iraq where a lot bigger in numbers.
 

Post Ironic

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Yep Saddam was a brutal dictator just like a lot of other dictators around the world. And i dont think US gave two shits about Kurds. My point is there is not a big of difference. They both attacked Iraq and Ukraine for their own good.
About the anti-war protests in Russia dont mean shit i remember protests against the war in Iraq where a lot bigger in numbers.
I mean another difference being the US ostensibly was not looking to conquer and annex Iraq. They did attempt to set up democratic elections there.

You are welcome to not see much of a difference. I beg to differ. I bash the US all the time, and think that war was wrong or at least was not done when it should have happened. But there is a massive difference between removing one of the most brutal dictators in the world who has attempted genocide on part of his own populace and trying to set up a democracy in his place; and removing a democratically elected government to either set up a puppet dictator or just annex it to your own dictatorship.

If you can’t see that difference, I think that’s pretty sad.

Of course Iraq war protests were bigger. You don’t go to jail in America for protesting peacefully. Big difference lol
 

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