Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[LUNEKO]

That's James you filthy pleb

I was aware the face was just better for this, forgive me Thomas the tank engine enthusiast

 

[Suburban Bastard]

Thanks Google. Good to know you're always watching to provide ads tailored to my interests

Ukrainian Oatmeal Cookies Recipe: These Easy Oatmeal Cookies Are Thin & Crisp COOKIES​

1. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl.
2. In a stand mixer bowl or with a handheld mixer, cream the butter and sugars together until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and beat until incorporated. Add the flour mixture and mix until just combined. Slowly start to add in the oats until well combined.
3. Roll the dough into balls and place on parchment paper-covered baking sheets. Press the balls with your fingers to flatten slightly.
4. Bake in a preheated 350-degree F oven for about 12 to 15 minutes or until cookies are golden and edges crisp.

Ooh that is easy

 

[tehpope]

John McCain has been resurrected!
Oh, sorry no. This is from 5 years ago

"McCain And Graham Caught Inciting Ukraine To Attack Russia​

A video has surfaced online in which warmongers John McCain and Lindsey Graham are caught meeting with the Ukraine military, encouraging them to launch an offensive against Russia and restart hostilities, all the while describing Russia as the “aggressor” that must “pay a heavier price.
Lindsey Graham delivers an incendiary speech in the video, egging on the Ukranian troops to re-start hostilities with Russia.
“Your fight is our fight, 2017 will be the year of offense. All of us will go back to Washington and we will push the case against Russia. Enough of a Russian aggression. It is time for them to pay a heavier price.”

John McCain was no less provocative:"

https://www.google.com/amp/s/newspunch.com/mccain-graham-ukraine-russia/amp/

 

[Happy Fish]

Funny, all I’ve heard about future generations of Russia was that they’d be some of the biggest chads ever with the based mindset to reject anything globohomo while the bans and sanctions will lead to future Russians being perfectly healthy in body and mind with a love and pride for their homeland and their heritage that the West sorely lacks, instead of always looking to The State to solve their every problem.

I just see a future where Russia is a powder keg of hatred thanks to things CSKA Moscow not being able to play in the Champions League or Russia not being able to go to EURO or the World Cup or not being able to hear their anthem at the Olympics, even if that’ll also mean no Big Macs. Or any of these bad boys. https://www.thetravel.com/best-mcdonalds-food-russia/amp/

Wonder if a new section of the Russian Army will be nothing but fry cooks and cashiers out of a job with their commanding officer being whoever owns the franchise.

Russia is big. They can play their own sportsball and tell the rest of the world to fuck off. America does this just fine. For the Olympics they were already kicked out for the last few for not being gay enough, and who really wants to watch more dudes beat women's records anyway? Idolizing these consooomer events is not healthy. They are literally the bread and circuses of our era.

 

[Suburban Bastard]

Russia is big. They can play their own sportsball and tell the rest of the world to fuck off. America does this just fine. For the Olympics they were already kicked out for the last few for not being gay enough, and who really wants to watch more dudes beat women's records anyway? Idolizing these consooomer events is not healthy. They are literally the bread and circuses of our era.

Pretty sure that was because they were drugging their athletes lol

 

[Jump]

Doesn't sound like they really plan on leaving to me if they are keeping everything in place and paying the workers. It sounds more like they made an announcement about closing stores to appease the twitter mob and are now just waiting for things to cool off.
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And even if they DID plan on leaving there isn't much stopping for Russia handing the stores over to some Russian company who will reopen and keep the McDonalds branding. Russia has threatened to void any copyrights of businesses who are "unfriendly" to them. The beaf is sourced from South America and processed in Russia.

We’re so lucky the US owing China a trillion dollars tends to be more complicated than what that statement is on its face.

And every day our leaders do something to make that dollar weaker. Weaponizing SWIFT was a short sighted action. China has been waiting in the wings with CIPS for years. And once oil starts trading between the BRICS nations in Yuan the USD will start looking like the British Pound.

 

[Certified_Autist]

Cat food is tricky. It can be done but they absolutely need taurine or else they go blind and die.

So Red Bull it is, then!

 

[Butter Keks]

Doesn't sound like they really plan on leaving to me if they are keeping everything in place and paying the workers. It sounds more like they made an announcement about closing stores to appease the twitter mob and are now just waiting for things to cool off.

So that means that the most virtuous among us will harass McDonald's into firing 62,000 people because they deserve to have their lives ruined because they have the wrong blood.

 

[B_mizz]

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Doesn't sound like they really plan on leaving to me if they are keeping everything in place and paying the workers. It sounds more like they made an announcement about closing stores to appease the twitter mob and are now just waiting for things to cool off.
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And even if they DID plan on leaving there isn't much stopping for Russia handing the stores over to some Russian company who will reopen and keep the McDonalds branding. Russia has threatened to void any copyrights of businesses who are "unfriendly" to them. The beaf is sourced from South America and processed in Russia.


And every day our leaders do something to make that dollar weaker. Weaponizing SWIFT was a short sighted action. China has been waiting in the wings with CIPS for years. And once oil starts trading between the BRICS nations in Yuan the USD will start looking like the British Pound.

It was extremely short sighted. The petro dollar is the only thing funding the US. When it becomes the petro yuan instead and 20 trillion of the 40 trillion dollars we have printed start reshoring themselves, we will have serious problems here in the US.

 

[Happy Fish]

Pretty sure that was because they were drugging their athletes lol

That too.

Ed: To clarify, usually Olympics will strip medals if they want to punish teams, and china has been caught cheating enough times in to make me wonder why the double standard, and why keep a whole nation from competing while letting their athletes take another label rather than tell the athletes that doping isn't acceptable? There is more to wanting Russia's representation out, and it is probably the usual talking points against them, like how they aren't gay enough.

 

[Butter Keks]

petro yuan

I'm not so sure the yuan is going to be in that sort of position at any point in the near future. As jacked up as the American economy is, China's is worse and they manage to hide a lot of it.

 

[XYZpdq]

So Red Bull it is, then!

Cats On Red Bull is gonna be the next big viral video challenge

 

[Local Fed]

I’ll take apples and oranges for $500 Alex.

This inflation is getting out control.

 

[Strix454]

Pretty sure that was because they were drugging their athletes lol

Yeah. If the Russians had any heart, they would do what American athletes do. Get access to all kinds of drugs legally through phantom conditions treated by prescriptions written by doctors.

Simone Biles was an all-american hero who was all juiced up on prescription anti-anxiety drugs at the Rio Olympics. But they were necessary drugs she needed to battle her crippiling ADHD problems.

Totally different than that dirty Russian skater cheating with drugs in 2022.

Best of all, most of the medical information on prescription drugs at the Olympics is hidden from the public to protect the medical privacy of the athletes.

When hackers got all the data on all of the prescription drugs used at the Olympics in 2016, what was the reaction?

"This is just another desperate attempt to distract from the real issue of state-sponsored doping and to smear the reputations of athletes and organizations from around the world who choose to operate with integrity and abide by the rules" - Travis Tygert, CEO of the United States Anti-Doping Agency.

"The Theaputic Use Exception process exists to get an athlete back to a state of normal," - Paul Melia, the CEO of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport

Drugs are absolutely cool at the Olympics if you are from the right country and get a doctor to just invent some medical condition or a phantom injury for you.

 

[Suburban Bastard]

Yeah. If the Russians had any heart, they would do what American athletes do. Get access to all kinds of drugs legally through phantom conditions treated by prescriptions written by doctors.

Simone Biles was an all-american hero who was all juiced up on prescription anti-anxiety drugs at the Rio Olympics. But they were necessary drugs she needed to battle her crippiling ADHD problems.

Totally different than that dirty Russian skater cheating with drugs in 2022.

Best of all, most of the medical information on prescription drugs at the Olympics is hidden from the public to protect the medical privacy of the athletes.

When hackers got all the data on all of the prescription drugs used at the Olympics in 2016, what was the reaction?

"This is just another desperate attempt to distract from the real issue of state-sponsored doping and to smear the reputations of athletes and organizations from around the world who choose to operate with integrity and abide by the rules" - Travis Tygert, CEO of the United States Anti-Doping Agency.

"The Theaputic Use Exception process exists to get an athlete back to a state of normal," - Paul Melia, the CEO of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport

Drugs are absolutely cool at the Olympics if you are from the right country and get a doctor to just invent some medical condition or a a phantom injury for you.

I was just thinking maybe set up a steroids olympics to run after the main one. Think about how much fun that would be.

 

[male pattern malding]

Yeah. If the Russians had any heart, they would do what American athletes do. Get access to all kinds of drugs legally through phantom conditions treated by prescriptions written by doctors.

Don't forget all the asthmatic Norwegian skiers

 

[mudwogg]

Stoltenberg has just warned (declared?) that any Russian attack to NATO supply lines will be a serious escalation of the situation

The ones that have been supplying the Ukrainian troops and the foreign vermin? Isn't NATO supposed to only provide for countries that are part of it?

 

[Smity Werbenjagermanjensen]

Holy kek, these Russian missiles can't hit runways at all, they threw a ton of missiles at an airport in K(y)iev about a week ago and had the same thing happen to them. https://twitter.com/ckoettl/status/1501313942144040963

 

[mr.moon1488]

I was just thinking maybe set up a steroids olympics to run after the main one. Think about how much fun that would be.

I think having meth vs roids gladiatorial combat would be fun.

 

[XYZpdq]

Holy kek, these Russian missiles can't hit runways at all, they threw a ton of missiles at an airport in K(y)iev about a week ago and had the same thing happen to them. https://twitter.com/ckoettl/status/1501313942144040963
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this is literally a bigger target than the broad side of a barn what in the actual fuck