Cold war 2.0

[The Cat]

Hey Eckheart. Think of the Future.

Welcome to the Brave New World​

 

[Virtual ghost]

Few more miles and the Russian defense line will be breached. What changes everything.

 

[The Cat]

Few more miles and the Russian defense line will be breached. What changes everything.

When they widen enough to take the high ground...Vlad needs to just go ahead and open the bottle and drink himself to death. I'm surprised there's not more stuff out there to try to get the ruskie forces to switch sides and save lives. I'm gonna wager a lot of PTB in Russia are on high alert for poison in their patriot pops if they even still eat breakfast. Once your forces are so ground down and spread thin that the enemy starts kaking your troops in their sleep. You've lost the battle. This is why dictators are never the way to go for a strong country. Victory comes from listening to sound and wise council. Dictators are allergic to that, and dictaterships are allergic to long term imperialism. I wonder when Swan Lake will start playing in Moscow.

 

[Virtual ghost]

When they widen enough to take the high ground...Vlad needs to just go ahead and open the bottle and drink himself to death. I'm surprised there's not more stuff out there to try to get the ruskie forces to switch sides and save lives. I'm gonna wager a lot of PTB in Russia are on high alert for poison in their patriot pops if they even still eat breakfast. Once your forces are so ground down and spread thin that the enemy starts kaking your troops in their sleep. You've lost the battle. This is why dictators are never the way to go for a strong country. Victory comes from listening to sound and wise council. Dictators are allergic to that, and dictaterships are allergic to long term imperialism. I wonder when Swan Lake will start playing in Moscow.

From today:

Russia moves to totally ban LGBTQ+ movement


In other words this basically has the feeling that they are loosing the war. Because dictatorships pretty much always when they are falling part start to chase some kind of a inner enemy or minority group. What is in order to cover up the real topics.

 

[The Cat]

From today:

Russia moves to totally ban LGBTQ+ movement


In other words this basically has the feeling that they are loosing the war. Because dictatorships pretty much always when they are falling part start to chase some kind of a inner enemy or minority group. What is in order to cover up the real topics.

Yeah, its all over except for the crying. Unless something happens to shift the tides. I'm giving it six-nine months till the music plays.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Yeah, its all over except for the crying. Unless something happens to shift the tides. I'm giving it six-nine months till the music plays.

Objectively speaking Russia is already living on support from it's allies for the most part. Therefore if we can keep up the pressure they will crack somewhere. Especially since Ukraine has defenders advantage and that in this type of war means that local population plays a big role. What means that Russia simply wouldn't have the means to roll over the remaining 300 cities and towns of Ukraine. If you go to my posts from the start of the war I said that they will simply get lost in there. Ukraine is about the size of Texas and you need huge amount of troops to take something like this (and to actually hold it). However if Ukraine keeps most of it's territory Russia lost the war, since they failed in their main objective. 10 years ago they took about 8% of the country and in this war they took another 8%. What just isn't worth it however you turn it. Even if we don't count the economic damage. Therefore if they start losing even that 16% that they have they have basically lost everything. And "someone" will just have to answer for that.

 

[The Cat]

Objectively speaking Russia is already living on support from it's allies for the most part. Therefore if we can keep up the pressure they will crack somewhere. Especially since Ukraine has defenders advantage and that in this type of war means that local population plays a big role. What means that Russia simply wouldn't have the means to roll over the remaining 300 cities and towns of Ukraine. If you go to my posts from the start of the war I said that they will simply get lost in there. Ukraine is about the size of Texas and you need huge amount of troops to take something like this (and to actually hold it). However if Ukraine keeps most of it's territory Russia lost the war, since they failed in their main objective. 10 years ago they took about 8% of the country and in this war they took another 8%. What just isn't worth it however you turn it. Even if we don't count the economic damage. Therefore if they start losing even that 16% that they have they have basically lost everything. And "someone" will just have to answer for that.

You know a lot of the right people in the right places are asking themselves what catering to a madman gets them, vs what trying to pull a W out of this L looses them. I wouldnt want to be Vlad's food taster that's for sure.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

IDF evidence so far falls well short of al-Shifa hospital being Hamas HQ

Prior to their capture of Dar al-Shifa hospital, the Israel Defense Forces went to great lengths to depict the medical complex as a headquarters for Hamas, from where its attacks on Israel were planned.

The evidence produced so far falls well short of that. IDF videos have shown only modest collections of small arms, mostly assault rifles, recovered from the extensive medical complex.


That suggests an armed presence, but not the sort of elaborate nerve centre depicted in animated graphics presented to the media before al-Shifa was seized, portraying a network of well-equipped subterranean chambers.

All of this is significant under the Geneva conventions, which forbid military operations against hospitals unless “they are used to commit, outside their humanitarian duties, acts harmful to the enemy”. This exception, spelled out in article 19 of the fourth Geneva convention, states specifically: “… the presence of small arms and ammunition taken from such combatants and not yet handed to the proper service, shall not be considered to be acts harmful to the enemy”.

 

[The Cat]

IDF evidence so far falls well short of al-Shifa hospital being Hamas HQ

Recall that there was a time where all the msm was reporting every little thing as wmds being moved. This kind of propaganda is par for the course. Hopefully cooler heads prevail soon and people will recognize the brink before they really cross a line that nobody can come back from.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Recall that there was a time where all the msm was reporting every little thing as wmds being moved. This kind of propaganda is par for the course. Hopefully cooler heads prevail soon and people will recognize the brink before they really cross a line that nobody can come back from.

I'm reminded of the missing WMDs as well.

 

[The Cat]

Well did you know when you were famous you could kill your wife
And there's no such thing as 25 to life
As long as you've got the cash, to pay for Cochran
And did you know if you were caught and you were smokin' crack
McDonalds wouldn't even want to take you back
You could always just run for mayor of D.C.

Sad but true: You can't fix a leaky pipe half way across the world.
Someone living in the place with the leaky pipe ultimately has to fix their own plumbing.

The UN can say anything.
Only the citizens of that country can curtail the process.
Power and Connections.
Lifestyles of the rich and the famous​

 

[The Cat]

I'm reminded of the missing WMDs as well.

I remember being on base yelling at the television. THEY DONT MOVE WMDS IN FUCKING PICK UP TRUCKS YOU BLUE BLOODED SILVER SPOON MUNCHING MOTHERFUCKERS. >_< The slightest shred of common sense while being aware of the logistics required to do something like that, should make it beyond obvious to anyone at the time that it was just American Idiot syndrome.

Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mindfuck America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
In television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Well, maybe I'm the faggot, America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody, do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
In television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Don't wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America​

 

[Virtual ghost]

Argentina: Polls open in knife-edge election runoff


Argentina is voting and thus now we will see if Trumpy dude will win.
Supposedly he has a pretty decent shot if we consider the scale of economic mess in the country. This is pure example of history repeating itself.

 

[SensEye]

Well Milei did win (fairly easily), so we will see where it goes from here. Argentina has got itself into such a mess they need some serious change, but it's going to be painful. It will prove interesting to watch.

I get the feeling a year or so from now they'll be wanting to throw him out too. I wish him luck with his economic reforms, although I don't really think he knows what he is doing. Argentines are so desperate they will try anything at this point. Hopefully, this doesn't lead to another military coup.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Argentina elects far-right, chainsaw-wielding Javier Milei as president

Argentina: Milei wins presidential vote, Massa admits defeat


Yeap, it is formal. He won and it's wasn't all that tight. 55 vs 44%.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Fear and gloating about US at top democracy gathering

Anti-green backlash hovers over COP climate talks

Western air defenses turn Kyiv into a rare safe spot in war-torn Ukraine

How to watch the Dutch elections like a pro

Congo: Presidential candidates kick off monthlong campaigns

 

[Virtual ghost]

Milei’s win in Argentina hits hopes for EU’s Latin America trade deal


I am really curious what this guy will do when he actually starts to govern.
This is especially the case since it isn't entirely clear what actually happened here. Was the country taken over by a rogue "madman", or the collective west simply found the guy that will make enough noise to blow up local China friendly establishment. The new president is announcing distancing from "communist countries" and wants to end the central bank, in order to make Dollar the currency. What when you sum it seems as very pro western policy even if it is unorthodox. The thing was that Argentina was preparing to enter a number of China based institutions and there was even some talk about that quite a few pages back in the thread. Also Brazil's left wing president doesn't seem to be happy about this at all. Plus if Argentina leaves Mercosur block that is kinda the end of it. Since that leaves Brazil and two dwarfs, Paraguay and Uruguay. Plus as the link shows or indicates Brazil is already under pressure from US and EU to come closer to both in economic sense. What means that in this scenario it is completely losing it's own cloud (Mercosur), plus now it has Argentina behind it's back. What would make it easier to push Brazil towards the Northern Atlantic.


The incoming weeks will show what actually happened here. There could easily be deeper story in all this than the headlines are suggesting.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

'Argentina has non-negotiable sovereignty over the Falklands', country's new right-wing president Javier Milei declares

Mr Milei, 53, said in the debate: "We had a war – that we lost – and now we have to make every effort to recover the islands through diplomatic channels."

It seems far short of war in this case, but doesn't it seem like tensions and conflicts are ramping up everywhere? With an upsurge in the nationalistic right globally, I wonder how much more of that we will see.

 

[Red Herring]

'Argentina has non-negotiable sovereignty over the Falklands', country's new right-wing president Javier Milei declares



It seems far short of war in this case, but doesn't it seem like tensions and conflicts are ramping up everywhere? With an upsurge in the nationalistic right globally, I wonder how much more of that we will see.

The guy is not just nationalistic and an ultra-libertarian in fiscal and economic matters, he is also against abortion even in the case of raped minors, and against sex education (but strangely for same sex marriage and "free love") and wants to shut down the ministry for women and the national institute against discrimination, xenophobia and racism. And of course he's a climate change denier. This does not bode well at all.

And, yes, as predicted by many, I think the Russian invasion of Ukraine has sort of given lots of people ideas. Suddenly things that seemed so last century (in the "civilized world") are thinkable and possibly doable again.

 

[Virtual ghost]

The guy is not just nationalistic and an ultra-libertarian in fiscal and economic matters, he is also against abortion even in the case of raped minors, and against sex education (but strangely for same sex marriage and "free love") and wants to shut down the ministry for women and the national institute against discrimination, xenophobia and racism. And of course he's a climate change denier. This does not bode well at all.

And, yes, as predicted by many, I think the Russian invasion of Ukraine has sort of given lots of people ideas. Suddenly things that seemed so last century (in the "civilized world") are thinkable and possibly doable again.

The key part of the current condition is the pandemic. Since the pandemic broke many of the supply chains that where basically the glue that kept the world as it was. Plus it made plenty of people to be openly paranoid. What are pretty good foundations for what we are seeing now. On the other hand wars never really got old across the world. The only thing that has changed is in the domain that most of the first worlders didn't think that they will ever be dragged into this so openly once again.