"In today’s America, conservatives who actually want to conserve are as rare as liberals who actually want to liberate. The once-significant language of an earlier era has had the meaning sucked right out of it, the better to serve as camouflage for a kleptocratic feeding frenzy in which both establishment parties participate with equal abandon" (Taking a break from the criminal, incompetent liars at the NSA, to bring you the above political observation, from The Archdruid Report.)
http://inforesist.org/rasstrelyannyj...nnoe-ubijstvo/
To get back on topic. The video with the execution from last week was staged. One of the "executed" Ukrainian soldiers said that the "terrorists" asked them to play along in order to force Ukraine to free a female pro-Russian fighter captured by the Ukrainian army.
It was all bullshit as a lot of us suggested.
Any confrontation would end up being nuclear so who cares if one has a better plane or a bigger tallywacker.
Pls this whos got the better army argument is retarded. (this isn't just aimed at you kellhound). You are all proper fantasists. And I've already spoken about people who make definative predictions about the future of all of this like they are the main line of truth. Behave.
Looks like there is alot of movement towards bypassing the Dollar. Looks like Russia and China are starting to take shots at U.S. financial hegemony, (but its minimal so far) but obviously they can't go wholescale since it would be to damaging and costly currently. The real test is if people outside of China and Russia start trading with the renminbi, thats when the US should worry.
It looks to me like Russia is aiming to buddy up with Germany.
And China want to tame the USA and make them accept they are the dominant regional power while aiming for the US to stop s.korea and japan from becoming nuclear powers (behave Abe you naughty pickle)
Again, they shot down ONE F-117, using well known vulnerabilities of the design. Russia does not even fly something in the same class, and we already retired them as obsolete.
Apples to apples, the Bulava is a D5 equivalent, the D5 has over 140 consecutive successful test launches to date.
The Soviet's did not fare very well in Afghanistan, even with it being right next door (and this is by admittance of the Soviet high command).
I'm surprised the Ukrainian gov didn't retaliate by bombing more cities and executing captured "terrorists".
Agree.
When you try to bypass the dollar, you end up being invaded (or isolated, if you can't be invaded). That's what makes their economy still running.Looks like there is alot of movement towards bypassing the Dollar. Looks like Russia and China are starting to take shots at U.S. financial hegemony, (but its minimal so far) but obviously they can't go wholescale since it would be to damaging and costly currently. The real test is if people outside of China and Russia start trading with the renminbi, thats when the US should worry.
It looks to me like Russia is aiming to buddy up with Germany.
And China want to tame the USA and make them accept they are the dominant regional power while aiming for the US to stop s.korea and japan from becoming nuclear powers (behave Abe you naughty pickle)
Russia is building closer relationships with China, they're both aware of the US threats, now more than ever before.
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
This is a great example of Skroesec's inherent bias. If something is American, but not working well, be it a new fighter, missile defense, or the space program (to draw from recent threads on this forum), it's "no problem, just teething problems, we'll have that perfected real soon". But if something from one of America's antagonists has a virtually identical set of problems, then, "it's crap, country X is useless, no one can ever match America at anything, etc". Much like American foreign policy, where the endless claims of "freedom & democracy" run into the equally endless support for dictators, overthrowing governments, and killing civilians; the sheer mass of the cognitive dissonance eventually gets to a point where nothing they say can be taken seriously.
Ukraine and Syria really drives that home. Ukraine: president of questionable legitimacy uses military against own citizens. Result: Elections praised, president supported, civilian deaths ignored, aid to rebels condemned. Syria: President of questionable legitimacy uses military against own citizens. Result: Elections condemned, president damned, civilian deaths lamented, rebels are given aid. It's not that I don't understand the realpolitick motivations of the U.S. government (although I greatly disagree with them and question their rationality), but that the radiant levels of hypocrisy takes them so far from any pretense of credibility and that they're entering the realm of black comedy.
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"In today’s America, conservatives who actually want to conserve are as rare as liberals who actually want to liberate. The once-significant language of an earlier era has had the meaning sucked right out of it, the better to serve as camouflage for a kleptocratic feeding frenzy in which both establishment parties participate with equal abandon" (Taking a break from the criminal, incompetent liars at the NSA, to bring you the above political observation, from The Archdruid Report.)
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side