I hope they wreck and squander a bunch of each other's materiel, that not too many innocent people get killed, and then everyone lols and calms down. Russia has to retire a bunch of that T-72 type shit anyway. I've heard even America has gone on some bombing rampage every now and again because it's cheaper to drop out-of-date bombs than de-mil them.
Quite apart from what he's tweeting, why is the head of MI6 tweeting anything at all? Why do we even know who he is? If this really does turn into a full-scale West vs. East war, they're going to fucking kill us.
I fucking hate this country almost to the core now. And there really isn't any where better. And all this geo-political tension that is being exacerbated by this dying empire of glorified bureaucrats is eliminating all the good "poor-and-a-shithole-but-livable-with-a-good-culture" countries to escape to, or risk getting caught in a potential war zone or hostile country.
Between this and China wagging its dick at Taiwan, people looking to expatriate are left to either Latin America and the Caribbean. I'm already eyeing up Southern Brazil to hide out in Hitler's second bunker.
It doesn't have to be Brazil. Belize is english-speaking and also quite free and stable. Of course some of the Caribbean islands are options like Barbados and Grenada. If you're willing to give it a shot (hear me out) there are quite safe and stable areas in southern Africa that are very livable. Botswana is rather prosperous and has very good race relations, along with Namibia and Zambia.
I've been impressed but not surprised how quickly the powers that be have had people go completely kill crazy over a conflict no American is physically involved in and that would, without sanctions, never affect any of their lives. Double that for the EU where the sanctions will fuck them up along with Russia.
This type of rhetoric is so fucking infuriating. We’ve all seen this movie before. I love how suddenly these faggots are all about “American values” lmao
If anyone tells you "but Ukraine was peaceful and had no nazis", just show them this. Yevhen Karas the leader of Ukrainian neo-Naz1 group C14, supported by the government, multiple of it's members were freed from custody by government's initiative after assaulting people. Speech took place in Kiev earlier this month.
Fuck these people. If some dude says "You know I think Mitt Romney was marginally better than Obama," they start shrieking literal Hitler, OMG try to not be a Nazi sweaty."
Actual dudes throwing Roman salutes and Heiling Hitler? Muh ghosterinos of Kyiv!!!
Bill Ackman is total scum. He is an "activist investor" who invests in companies to extract money from them. He is also buddys with a whole lineup of awful people.
"At a panel meeting discussing Bernie Madoff in January 2009, Ackman defended his longtime friend Ezra Merkin, saying, "Has Ezra committed a crime? I don't think so," and "I think [Merkin] is an honest person, an intelligent person, an interesting person, a smart investor." In April 2009, Merkin was charged with civil fraud by the State of New York for "secretly steering $2.4 billion in client money into Bernard Madoff's Ponzi fraud without their permission."
if you're a slav of any kind, you should expect to be demonized from this point on in the western world. the second chimps hear that slav accent in the english, I expect chimpouts to ensue.
That is, if there's a Ukraine at the end of this. I fully expect Russia to split the eastern parts into their own """independent""" republics, and let the rump state do whatever the fuck they want so long they pinky promise not to join NATO.
And also park a permanent Army Group right on the Dnepr to remind them of that. At least until they can't pay their army anymore or sth.
NYPost in 2023:
Here's the address of all American Citizens of Russian ancestry, and local gun shops surrounding them.
NYPost in 2024:
Livestream yourself killing Russians and win Crypto!
IMO kicking Russia off SWIFT will, in the long run, destroy SWIFT. The central condition of SWIFT access was compliance with American KYC/AML, not that you comply with whatever the State Department wants this week. Now that Washington has clearly established that SWIFT is a foreign policy tool, and access to it can be terminated at will by us for reasons completely unrelated to its claimed purpose & conditions, other countries are going to evaluate it on that basis, and probably seek alternatives.
Anyone want to sperg out about what’s visible on flightradar24.com with me?
obvs if a military plane is visible on a hobbyist plane spotting site it’s because the military wants the enemy to see it, so this isn’t top secret stuff or ‘owt, but I hoped some of you tank geeks might be also able to kiwisplain some plane knowledge?
these are all from the last hour or so but I’ve got screen shots of potentially interesting stuff from the last 36 hours (and you can ‘replay’ on the site and watch a specific time period).
I’ll put most of the images behind spoilers but only so I don’t clog the thread up with geocities-looking graphics, there are no dead Slavs behind these tags…
i’ve got some two screen records of planes disappearing (presumably due to turning transponders off) if anyone wants to see them (including a US Viper than drops off the map near Venice - presumably landing at Aviano Airbase (wikipedia says Aviano is ‘believed to host nuclear weapons’…)
I'm guessing Aggressor 42 and the F-15 were playing a little up in the North Sea if their timelines overlap.
The other stuff looks pretty mundane. Expect lots of combat air patrols (CAP), SIGINT platforms, air tankers, RQ-4 Global Hawks, and C-130s as well as the occasional C-17.
Lots of US paratroopers and other airborne-qualified personnel in eastern Europe and the Baltic states right now, so you might see some C-17 or C-130 convoys circling around as people maintain their jump status.