Ukraine - somebody explain to me

[myboynoah]

Apparently this is a big thing. I'm not sure.

Seems to me most people support their troops while engaged in active combat.

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[Jeff Lebowski]

Apparently this is a big thing. I'm not sure.

Seems to me most people support their troops while engaged in active combat.

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She is going to have an unfortunate accident soon.

[LVAllen]

She is going to have an unfortunate accident soon.

Classic case of someone who, having obtained household appliances for themselves, wants to stop others from getting appliances.

[Goatnapper'96]

I find Putin's response to the successful counteroffensive in the Kharkiv area interesting. So far there has been no real effort to deploy more of his professional army to the theater. The movement that Western sources are picking up on is an effort to raise more reserve type units from local areas-micromobilization. This is peppered with mercenaries and inmates. It seems to me that Lord Putin is really afraid of attempts to make this war a priority to the Russian people. The Ukrainians are all in on this, and significantly materially supported in both weapons and intelligence from their western allis/enemies of the gawdless commies, and Russia is trying to fight it with both hands tied behind their backs. Like most I have been surprised by the Ukrainian resolve and success, but Putin isn't really committing the forces he would need to accomplish his objectives of conquering the Donbass and annex it into Russia. Without a more resolute commitment can Russia last another year? I do think that Putin could increase Russian commitment if Ukraine goes after Crimea-I think the average Russian believes in fighting to keep Crimea. But right now Putin's lack of escalating the war the effort inside Russia indicates he doesn't believe the people will stay behind it.

[smokymountainrain]

Apparently this is a big thing. I'm not sure.

Seems to me most people support their troops while engaged in active combat.

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now go and get andrei and masha kirilenko to partake.

[Uncle Ted]

Looks like Putin found someone else besides the Germans to fund his war....

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[BigFatMeanie]

That pipeline is expected to go online in 2030.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Looks like Putin found someone else besides the Germans to fund his war....

Now we need to find a way to detangle ourselves from China. Stop doing business with autocrats and authoritarian regimes. You would think that this would be a libertarian principle, but libertarianism seems to have completely lost its way.

[Commando]

Now we need to find a way to detangle ourselves from China. Stop doing business with autocrats and authoritarian regimes. You would think that this would be a libertarian principle, but libertarianism seems to have completely lost its way.

If we could recruit a libertarian to post here we could probably ask them...

[myboynoah]

That pipeline is expected to go online in 2030.

By which time Putin will have had his own accident out of a highrise window.

[USUC]

Now we need to find a way to detangle ourselves from China. Stop doing business with autocrats and authoritarian regimes. You would think that this would be a libertarian principle, but libertarianism seems to have completely lost its way.

"Libertarian" was too squishy of a label even before the Mises Caucus took over the national party. It was a big tent term. But now Rothbardians have aggressively taken over the term and demanded they are it. What most people who described themselves as libertarian 5 years ago believe is different in striking ways. Although even the Cato libertarians would probably disappoint you on many of their foreign policy positions, there is no water being held for authoritarians or authoritarian regimes. They readily know who the bad guys are.

If we could recruit a libertarian to post here we could probably ask them...

Ted is a paleoconservative, pretending to be libertarian. But you dont want to recruit a modern Libertarian Party libertarian here. They'd make Ted look like Mike Pence.

[Green Monstah]

Looks like Putin found someone else besides the Germans to fund his war....

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Bad for Europe. Great for American LNG and natural gas producers (selfishly).

[Uncle Ted]

Bad for Europe. Great for American LNG and natural gas producers (selfishly).

And one of Germany's last nuclear power plants developed a leak and now needs to be shut down just in time for winter... Oh man, that sucks. I guess they better get some more solar panels.

[Uncle Ted]

Hey, are those backyard nuclear bunkers going to get popular again?

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[Jeff Lebowski]

Hey, are those backyard nuclear bunkers going to get popular again?

Big anti-war protests today in Russia due to the mobilization order. It is all a bluff. No way do they have the capacity to train and adequately arm these conscripts. And given that they have massive morale issues with professional soldiers, wait until the conscripts show up. Putin is in serious trouble.

Only an idiot or a coward would back down to yet another Putin threat.