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2019-10-04 at 2:22 AM UTC in How many used needles can you find? (A Where's Waldo kinda thing)she wears a lot of j'ewelry for a smacky hobo
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2019-10-04 at 2:18 AM UTC in How many used needles can you find? (A Where's Waldo kinda thing)*got a t-shirt, sold it
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2019-10-04 at 1:59 AM UTC in Your thoughts at the momentclassy
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2019-10-04 at 1:58 AM UTC in How are you feeling at the moment..
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2019-10-04 at 1:57 AM UTC in Trumps biggest fuckup line..
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2019-10-04 at 1:56 AM UTC in Hunter and Joe's Adventures in the Ukraine
Originally posted by Sudo They're not though and nobody is saying they are. They probably could have several years ago but it's far, FAR too late and it's ridiculous to wish that would happen because it's inconceivable. It could hurt his primary nomination tho
Yeah Trump's recent outbursts have turned the upcoming elections into a zero-sum 'us vs. them' thing - in that arrangement the people who are backing Trump will never have voted Biden anyway, and the people voting against him are unlikely to have their choice of candidate swayed by anything he says, regardless of whether it's truthful or not. -
2019-10-04 at 1:53 AM UTC in Hunter and Joe's Adventures in the Ukraine
Originally posted by Sudo It's kind of funny because if Ukraine even recognizes the minsk 2 (or 1) agreement(s) and acts on them, that basically prevents the territory from ever being ceded back to Ukraine. Ukraine has to break an internationally recognized treaty (with monitors who've had to call ukraine out before for actually trying to respect it) in order to do anything about the East and Zelensky doesn't have the time or money to fight with 250mm cannons and mortars over what used to be a potato field against people he identifies with and speak his language over a stupid attempt at rewriting history. Russia will only be able to expand (maybe as far as slovayansk or however you spell the initial capital of the dpr) and bring more Cossacks into Luhansk and fight over some of the few areas that have trees that aren't burnt to a crisp.
So far the Kiev government hasn't actually ratified anything in the Minsk agreements; they just use it as a bludgeon to accuse the rebels of aggression. They've refused even the first steps; drawing heavy artillery back from the contact line and in terms of international enforcement they (the government) are demanding peacekeepers but not on the contact line - they want a wall of UN 'peacekeepers' on the border between the DPR and Russia. Russia absolutely won't allow this with Putin sating before the UN that such an arrangement would be the preparation for another Ssnerbernerger (you know what I'm referring to).
Originally posted by Sudo Russia's economy is bouncing back a bit and Ukraine could definitely benefit from that goodwill
Russia's economy failing has been a western meme; they're dominating the European agricultural sector, building up manufacturing and have no real competitors for the European gas market - the Polish government are the only retards buying up US gas for like twice the price. Add to that deep trade agreements with China and its foundational role in the growing BRI/Eurasian integration and it's fair to say they came out of the Yeltsin years better than anyone predicted.
Originally posted by Sudo https://www.thedailybeast.com/russians-praise-trump-taunt-zelensky-as-ukraine-signs-on-to-steinmeier-formula-peace-plan-proposal
the face of Ukraine’s most powerful ally in its struggle against Russian aggression
one sentence in and I don't think I can make it through this article -
2019-10-04 at 1:13 AM UTC in so what was that shit kolokol drank?why not just do that to kr'oz, seems unnecessarily harsh to go after his cat
who sounds like he hates kr'oz anyway -
2019-10-04 at 1:09 AM UTC in so what was that shit kolokol drank?
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2019-10-04 at 12:53 AM UTC in so what was that shit kolokol drank?grape soda
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2019-10-04 at 12:52 AM UTC in Hunter and Joe's Adventures in the Ukraineany interaction with a foreign government could feasibly affect a local election
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2019-10-04 at 12:34 AM UTC in Trumps biggest fuckup line..everything is a swamp when all you have is a HOVERBOAt
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2019-10-04 at 12:01 AM UTC in Trumps biggest fuckup line..lol why would china do a single fucking thing he asked them to
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2019-10-03 at 11:59 PM UTC in Hunter and Joe's Adventures in the UkraineOh yeah I meant to start a thread about that too.
Zelensky's signed the Steinmeir Formula which leads to recognising at least partial autonomy of the breakaway regions and the US 'establishment' and the local nationalist powers are going fucking mental.
On one hand it's inevitable because there's no way the Ukrainian state can win them back, militarily or otherwise, but on the other losing them means the literal death of the Ukraine as an independent entity. The best he can hope for is granting them some degree of autonomy but keeping their economic power, but that will require normalisation of relations with Russia.
Probably the only significant thing in the phonecall that was released was Turnip telling Zelensky that he should try to make peace with Putin. This flies directly in the face of the Obongo-era plan to foment an anti-Russian coup in order to 'contain Russian expansionism', and a lot of people in the US government will not be happy about it. I'm not sure whether Trump realises that there never was any 'Russian Expansionism' or if he's just realised that the current government in Kiev is a terrible investment. -
2019-10-03 at 11:11 PM UTC in Hillary May Run a Third Timeboth
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2019-10-03 at 11:06 PM UTC in Hillary May Run a Third Timejust do it without a permit and claim self defence
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2019-10-03 at 10:53 PM UTC in Bernie Sanders is dead
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2019-10-03 at 8:01 AM UTC in Is it possible to be young and have a crapload of baggage?depends on how hard and fast you were molested
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2019-10-03 at 6:08 AM UTC in I'm gonna become a rock star and die young and wild*the tromboner
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2019-10-03 at 6:07 AM UTC in I'm gonna become a rock star and die young and wildthe skin flute, the manjo... what's the third?
