So in order to defend E Ukraine Russia would have to go all in which would be undeniable and lead to all the economic/ international fall out as expected.

Of course Putin may decide to do the minimum as usual and allow his army to fight one arm behind its back and get completely humiliated as a result.

No good options for Russia here

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Wow.
You sure told him!
And us what fucking a@@hole Russians really are and why they are their own worst enemies. Now I understand why the Poles hate you Kunts. In fact, does not all Eastern Europe hate you f@cking idiot Russian Bolsheviks so much that they all joined NATO?
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You idiots cry about what victims you are when you spent 70 years making everyone hate you by being brutal, ignorant thugs. Katyn Forest, Gulags, Prison rape...the Soviet Russia contribution to World Culture.

Absolutely brutal, disgusting thugs. Karma is a bitch eh tovarisch?

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The Faker and Poopie Escobar and their low-rent shilling have helped turned this site into a clown show. Plus all the fucking CCP trolls. A pity, used to be a go-to site.

Re. Putin’s generals, I agree. In fact, I suspect they, and not Flaccid Vlad, are the reason Russia took the strategically necessary step of seizing Crimea. They doubtless threatened a coup if Putin allowed Sevastapol to fall into NATO/American hands.

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Well, at least you've revealed yourself as either a liar or an ignoramus. The mission of the SAS is special operations, their mission is to parachute behind enemy lines, has nothing to do with fear of "friendly fire". Look, you hate the US, you don't have to make things up, or create an imaginary military background where hippie Aussie vets badmouth their allies. Just stop it.

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Nobody is "threatening" you to take the vaccine. Many health experts and politicians are rightly concerned that vaccine hesitancy, especially among the elderly, will lead to hundreds of thousands of more deaths and millions of serious illnesses.

And here's great news: once you die of Covid, having shown its symptoms, you won't necessarily have to be tested, to know if you had it! Many other serious illnesses also remain unnoticeable for the patient, often until it is too late. Should we stop testing and check-ups for all forms of cancer as well?

Why do you people even want to have a culture war over vaccines when 70% of your own population are already vaccinated? Two BILLION world wide! Why are you people like this? Why do you people love a losing cause that makes you look retarded, weak and like losers? Why? STOP IT!

Replies: @geokat62, @Mellote 22

Tut-tut. Pharmaceutical companies cannot POSSIBLY have the influence over legislators you and other anti-vaxxers imagine. It is excruciatingly laughable considering

...the Lobbying Expenditures and Campaign Contributions by the Pharmaceutical and Health Product Industry in the United States, 1999-2018
Olivier J. Wouters, PhD

Additional article information

Associated Data
Supplementary Materials
Key Points
Question
How much money did the pharmaceutical and health product industry spend on lobbying and campaign contributions in the US from 1999 to 2018?

Findings
This observational study, which analyzed publicly available data on campaign contributions and lobbying in the US from 1999 to 2018, found that the pharmaceutical and health product industry spent $4.7 billion, an average of $233 million per year, on lobbying the US federal government; $414 million on contributions to presidential and congressional electoral candidates, national party committees, and outside spending groups; and $877 million on contributions to state candidates and committees. Contributions were targeted at senior legislators in Congress involved in drafting health care laws and state committees that opposed or supported key referenda on drug pricing and regulation.

Meaning
An understanding of the large sums of money the pharmaceutical and health product industry spends on lobbying and campaign contributions can inform discussions about how to temper the influence of industry on US health policy.

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In a nuclear war between the USA and Russia, Israel will cease to exist in less than 10 minutes.
 

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NATO officials announced on Friday that they would deploy troops from its Combat-Ready Response Force to support the Ukrainian regime in its war with Russia.
 

...deploying more troops in the eastern part Alliance...
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NATO Allies expressed at the Summit today that they provide support to Ukraine. They are ready to continue to provide support to Ukraine. Military support, financial support, humanitarian support.
 

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No they can’t. Turkey has closed the Bosphorus Strait. So, in other words increased danger from other NATO countries sending in naval forces has been eliminated. Russian naval forces are already in the Black Sea. 🇹🇷 👊🏼

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You can star with your mental processes. Your post is a schemozzle of propaganda that is arranged in an incoherent fashion.

Putin is as much globohomo as the WEF types, of which Putin was one. Putin differs from them in one particular. He insists he be on top of the heap. Anyone knowing about Putin's background knows he is as deep state as one can get, having grown up in the KGB morass.

Ukraine is not the simple thing so many of you uninformed types think it is.

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“If nothing is done in the current situation, then… the return of Russia’s economy to the level of 2021 could take about 10 years,” Sberbank CEO Herman Gref said.

Under its so-called “inertia” scenario, Sberbank forecasts Russia’s GDP to fall by 7% in 2022 and 10.3% in 2023 compared with 2021, when it grew by 4.7% to $1.77 trillion.

The decline would slide back into the single digits in the following years and reach -0.1% by 2030, according to a slide of Sberbank’s forecast at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russia’s annual showcase event for investors.
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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/06/17/russia-launches-tourist-route-to-putins-vacation-spots-a78032

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