Russia Declares War on Ukraine<<MOD WARNING>>

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  1. Durandal

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    Putin should back off and stop killing innocent people for no justifiable reason.
     
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    I see the Russian troll farm employees are keeping busy …
     
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    The truly sad thing is those letter delivered are pre printed and tells them he died for the glory of the country, the leader and what a hero he is and that he got a post recommendation or medal.
    They are cold, as the soldiers body. I am the last of my family to ever have been a soldiers, over 500 years of that tradition. I hope that the ever will be true, that I am the last.
    I have been given by my family, opposed on me, I would say, dumped on me, what ever we have in documents, of military service. so I have read it all, catholicized it, digitizes it and then handed it over to the archives. That was a pallet full of paper, 10 tons in total.
    About half a ton is now in West Point, the originals. Which include 10 of those generic letters.
    They are cruel and mindless beyond any believe. They just left the
    recipient stare at the wall, with empty eyes. The officers had to wright ones a week the letters to the families. But they are so numb, by what they have witnessed, they just forge out the generic letter.
    I had to wright those letters, I do not know his family, seen his wife and kids, I just know him as a soldier, but soldiers is a different world.
    I wrote those letter, by hand, fountain pen, generic, just get the job done, just a piece of paper. Its different if you walk up and carry your man and the family is there, than your words have a meaning.

    Paper....................................
     
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    Err no. You can't sell what you can't deliver. And you can't push more oil through a pipeline than that pipeline is designed to handle.

    There is only a limited number of pipelines connecting China to Russian oil. And those pipelines would be operating at or near maximum already. So to deliver more oil & gas Russia has to either build more pipelines or access more tankers and there's not much spare capacity in that market at the moment either. Certainly no-where near enough spare tonnage to take more than a small % of the sales lost via the West's embargo (and that's even assuming Russia would be allowed to hire all available tankers for the trade. Which isn't going to happen either).

    Prior to the start of the war Russia sold aprox 2/3s of its oil to countries that currently support the sanctions. At the same time the Russian government derived something like 30% of its revenue from oil and gas sales. Result? the Russia has taken a 20% hit to its budget before you even start considering the impacts of all the other sanctions on key industries like aluminum etc.

    So unless dear old Vlad is proposing to hire unemployed Russians (he'll have plenty to choose from shortly) to carry oil drums to India and Pakistan he (and Russia) are **** out of luck. It will take years to build the infrastructure needed to replace western sales. Not forever but several years at least.

    And every week the sanctions stay in place the more the screws tighten.
     
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    Leave me out of your fantasy. It's yours, not mine.
     
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    Ho-ho! What successes would that be? I've been all over the east and even Belarus has had more successes than Ukraine. In my experience/opinion Ukraine has only been more successful than Transdniester. All other countries in former East Europe are light years more successful than Ukraine.
     
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    You don't consider self-defence a "justifiable reason"?
     
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    Do you have a Telegram?
     
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    Какой?
     
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    In Kyiv, a man was captured who filmed a video with self-propelled guns of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the Retrovil shopping center
    Now, for demonstrating how the Armed Forces of Ukraine hide behind civilians, how they put them in jail with a human shield, they can also torture them in prison. It is obvious that the Zelensky regime is a real dictatorship.
     
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    If you don't know who Mengele is, what can we talk about? About Mickey Mouse?
     
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    Very sorry. There you can get information directly from the event sites. For example, in Odessa, Ukrainian troops mined beaches, fearing the landing of Russian troops. However, they laid mines in violation of all norms and rules. Now these mines are floating all over the Black Sea, threatening not only Russian warships, but also commercial and civilian vessels of other countries. They sailed to the Bosphorus)
     
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    oh damn. :-D Learn Russian to understand the beauty of the dialogue.
    In short: you need to follow your words on the Internet.
     
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    Marianna Podgurskaya, a fake injured woman in labor in the Mariupol maternity hospital, who was found by SIGNAL, and later found to have given birth in the same clothes in which she fell under the “rocket attack”, is alive and well.

    She receives humanitarian aid from those who allegedly fired at her.
     
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    Get out of Ukraine.
     
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    Say "Akhmat Sila"
     
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    2017 The US Congress prohibits funding the Ukrainian national battalion "Azov". Congressmen directly call it neo-Nazi.
    2022 The CNN channel airs the leader of "Azov" directly from Mariupol to tell about the "Russian aggressor".
    They are very flexible, these democratic values.
     
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    Aidar battalion - pro-Ukrainian
     
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    The Aidar battalion is Ukrainian.
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    Yes, and Stalin was worse than Hitler, so that justified Operation Barbarosa.
     
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