Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I like the backhanded insult contained in that legal defence.

I can't see it in full due to a paywall, but Fortune seem to think Russia is facing imminent financial collapse before the year is out. https://fortune.com/2022/09/26/russian-economy-die-by-winter-says-economist-vladislav-inozemtsev-putin-mobilization/

They were well on the way to westernisation, until Putin got his hands on the levers and has been reversing everything since , ironically, it looks like the endemic corruption involved in a collective will ultimately bite him in the thoín. In fact , the level of corruption helps me sleep soundly knowing that his nukes are highly likely to be completely compromised at multiple multilevel steps along the way .

It's a good notion for sure, but I think Russia is still generations away from wanting the kind of soceity we aspire to - equality for all, regardless of gender, color, creed or sexuality. We might have the best template here in the West, but it doesn't follow that it can be easily mapped to another culture like Russia.

About that. Im eastern european, we have cold winters. It doesn't have to be -27. When you drink alcohol, you get warmer, because the heat leaves the body. Blood starts shifting towards central organs of your body, heart, lungs. You get frostbites, which can lead to amputation of feet.

And that happens every year in my country, even if temperature stays around -10.

Edit: russians have troubles with logistics, money on winter gear wasted, i think surrendering will increase drastically in winter.

Remind us again how Neue Ostpolitik worked out for Germany ?

It's probably the only real defence that they can use. Basically calling Fox News viewers gobshites who believe nonsense that they should be skeptical about. It ties in to what the defence lawyer for one the Jan 6th twats said when he mentioned that these clowns were all "short bus" people. He essentially called them retarded.

Unfortunately, all the "reasonable" people should be very worried about that, because with the viewership that Carlson commands and the support that Trump had, and continues to have, that means there's an awful lot of short bus people knocking around.

I agree with Musk insomuch as I think trying to retake Crimea would be a tougher fight and would really put Putin under pressure to do something big to try and prevent it. That said, I'm not saying that Ukraine shouldn't move into Crimea if the opportunity comes. They just need to soberly assess the risks facing them and the resources supporting them before they were to do so.

On that note, feels like we’re overdue a photo-op trip by Liz Truss over there. She’s in enough hot water lately it’s probably tempting to pull a BoJo trick and try to drape herself in the conflict.

She’ll make a balls of it, but I think she’ll probably try for it.

That's very unfair to say. He takes a balanced approach to a complex topic.

Some good points in it, basically claims the mobilization will mean the death of the economy due to lost workers and work output, plus even more sanctions. archive.ph ftw as always