Aye. It does seem to be a thing with "superpowers alright". China is big into convict labour too and the US prison system is heavily privatised and they imprison more of their own people than anywhere on earth. Going back further the Russian empire had both convicts and serfs, the European empires had slaves, indentured or not. The Ottomans ditto. Rome was built on slavery. Superpower = geography, farmland, navigable waterways, a big military to defend and expand it and lots of cheap/free/slave labour.
Do people really believe this tooth-fairy kind of stuff?
I would 100% agree that the second they crossed the border and especially after the horrors they've inflicted on Ukraine and even their own cannon fodder, pretty much nothing is defensible after that. Debate can still be had as to the whys and hows leading up to it and how it's going now, but yes the Russian invasion itself is indefensible.
You can usually @Beasty or @Ten of Swords if they're around and can comment on the situation.
The good thing is that all the sleeper accounts seem to be used up (5-6 year old accounts that become active suddenly to trolls threads).
There should probably be a minimum post limit for some threads but I doubt Vanilla would ever support something like that.
The origins of the group are Russian based as was the HSE hack, lots of links associate Russia to this worldwide state sponsored terrorism
Do you have another explanation for this?
No longer going to follow this thread myself due to the volume of off the wall gibberish from obviously pro-putin Trollskys. Should have been at least two or three banned from the thread for blatant lies about Ukraine and direct insults to boards members over the last few pages of this thread but boards seem to have fogoten about moderation. Hope Ukraine will be making the russian scum invading their country pay for their crimes over the next few months. Hopefully it will make the Trollskys more embarrassed to be supporting their hero putin on this thread and allow honest discusion on how russia can move on from being terrorists.
I was feeling the same, ban the trolls or a min post qty/time on boards.
But leaving justs gives the trolls what they want. Shut down debate.
So ive decided to just ignore them, if we all do the same we can get back to discussion
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Strangely cathartic listening to the frustration
They can,you havent proven s..t yet
1140!!!
"We must send the navy to their borders."
That should be interesting to see.
Another reason why Ukraine land and people shouldn't be allowed fall into Russian hands.
The world should be able to have fairly independent countries without the threat of the next door superpowers deciding to send plain clothes soldiers across on ferries and then when it's announced change into uniform and declare that land belonging to the superpower.
All the investors in Crimean stolen land will get some fall when it goes back to Ukraine.
Interesting video on the effects of shock therapy on the Russian economy in the 1990’s. It could be argued the real roots of this war stem from this period. A more gradual soviet collapse would have been a much more desirable outcome than what we currently have.
Disaster capitalism and shock therapy doctrines are as evil and counter productive as the worst socialist and communist doctrines. And our closest neighbour is currently heavily flirting with such doctrines
https://youtu.be/IrNQeYYvabg
Absolutely !!
First, the Russians exacerbated any tensions as much as possible.
Then they pretended their annexation was to solve the problems that they fomented.
The idiots just want to feel important at being "clued-in".
That was a disastrous period but there should also have been a root and branch cleansing of the political. Military, State etc of people who were members of the Russian Communist party.
People can't be surprised now that they are reverting to type and while more gentle than the USSR, their aim is to return to that period of what they see as greatness.
Disaster capitalism and shock therapy are their own type of badness.
What tooth fairy type of stuff? Targeted ransomware attacks?
I'll give you this comrade, the people's revolution has never seen as eager and optimistic a prole in decades
As reported recently on the news Russia is continuing to produce cruise missiles and the ones shot down are the most recently manufactured.
That's what these trolls want. Don't let them win.
What's even more frightening is that because no other countries are assisting Ukraine, they (Ukraine) are solely reliant on the UK.
I can't take you seriously, your prose is awkward, strained, clumsy & unwieldy.
Why can't you be a more effective communicator like me?
I hope your thoughts aren't as hastily formed as your sentences.
Trust me, I'm very brainy (unlike you), a Russian win is not a sure thing.
Can't you sense that their fate has been decided already ?
These were bombs and boobytraps left in place where Russians retreated, e.g. Bucha. They were deliberately set in places like houses, hidden behind doors, in washing machines, even bodies. This is why Ukraine has had to make cartoons, to warn kids of the dangers.
Only replying to address the point not the blatant sock puppet account.
Another day, another record. long may it continue! I think the Russians have proven they can't actually advance unless they spend weeks shelling the area and then creep forward with cannon fodder which is obviously unsustainable.
Why not? they've absorbed all technology made available to them, thus far, effortlessly.
The primative, "herd of herds" army would probably try to eat Western kit.
I have to say I'm loving the desperation of these re-regs. It just confirms how sh*t things are going for the Russian rapists and murderers. The western tanks and longer range weapons aren't even in play yet. The next few weeks is going to be a terrible time for these re-regs who support rape and murder.
@Any And All Troll Accounts:
Every time you post in this thread I'm going to donate 1 Euro at
'https://war.ukraine.ua/'
At 7 euro currently ...
Don't feed them lads. It speaks volumes of how the russians see this war unfolding. These lot are all over europe trying to quench reporting.
They wouldn't be here if they were winning
More cracks showing amid the propaganda
I really don’t know what they are trying to achieve. It’s as if they are drugged up and drunk, then set loose. They convince no one to support their dear leader and they are too big of shites to fight for Russia (those located in Russia), or go and live in Russia (those in the luxury of a western country).
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