the patriot act passed over two decades ago you’re a little late
normally I’d say this is propaganda, but Putin does really love number magic
Nice Hoi4 fan-fiction. The key players of Europe were pretty amicable to the Russian Federation and went at great lengths to integrate their economies (particularly in the energy sector,) while other states likes Japan had granted recently granted the RF a favoured nation status (revoked over Ukraine.) The general presumption was that Putin ultimately was a rational and predictable political actor that would prioritise economic incentives and closer cooperation over his expansionist fantasies. That has gone the way of the dodo with the invasion of Ukraine and now a proxy & economic war is waged against Russia because she's become a clear existential threat and rival to the west's interests, which was really just trying to preserve the current world order. Everything else written here is simply /pol/-tier tin-foiled bunkum.
>if true
Sorry for appointing Yellen to be Fed chair. I didn't really get a choice though. On inauguration day, Rahm Emmanuel showed me a video of the Kennedy assassination that only a few hundred people have viewed.
The Babylon Bee is 100% accurate (if you read every article six months after it is posted)
It's scary how accurate this comment is.
It's a beat for beat repeat of the Winter War. Superior sized Soviet Army done in by logistic issues, attempting to attack piece meal on too many fronts, low morale among conscripts and vastly underestimating their enemies combat capability.
Soviet Doctrine was developed to make war with a bunch of illiterate and borderline mutinous peasants. The average Russian script of today is little different from the one of a hundred years ago. As much as we wonder why Russia won't develop a modern Army complete with competent non-commisioned officers and Field Grade officers with the power of individual unit initiative, the simple truth is Russia DID address this issue.
Never seen harder workers in my life then a US Army Cook. Those mother fuckers were up an hour before everyone else to do PT, and then go make breakfast while everyone else did PT. Also the last ones to go off duty because they needed to make and serve evening chow. Any infantry grunt who insulted the cooks got a soap party.
Again, not strictly true. They did have "elite" formations that got proper training. But as has been stated earlier those got ass blasted in the first two weeks and now they have to fall back on the conscripts force.
Oh everyone expected Donbass to not be Ukraine's at the end of this unless Russia's military somehow completely collapses which is a pipe dream. It's just that some thought Putin's demands where legit and he wasn't out to annex at the very least half of Ukraine. Don't blame them though, got to root for Russia somehow, and annexation is peak Globohomo.
You amuse me - and that greatly - but this right here is how I know you’re not the real Baraka Hussein Abu Oumama; Vagasil Jarrett was the creep state compliance officer in that regime, not Rahmbo.
Not surprised if Ukraine managed to gain enough momentum, they would also push for liberating Donbass. Not sure about Crimea though, Kremlin probably would choose Crimea over Donbass
Surprised they didn't move to Malta like the Metro devs did, get to see some old friends. Oh wait the Metro devs hate Vlad, or Ivan, or whoever the fuck it is in charge of GSC because he would buy like 10 Porsches while everyone else had to survive on bread, butter, and that pink slav sausage that always has pictures of babies on the package for some reason.
Crimea is a major port, they haven't recognized it as independent unlike Donbass for a reason, they need Crimea more than anything. Capturing Donbass would be painful, the separatists are more motivated than the russians are and bombing the shit out of there would be awful for PR, not to mention they would lose their one advantage, being on the defensive. Pushing them back to Donbass and going back to the status quo before the war would be good by itself and quite realistic, despite how neat it would be to see the russkies kicked out of Ukraine entirely. The separatists are still armed and got resupplied before the invasion too, meaning they would have to deal with an active insurgency for years to come!
