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Putin has placed Russia in a no-win dilemma.

If Putin succeeds with his Holodomor II, who will purchase Russian energy products? Or anything else.

When the Ukrainians succeed, the empty shell of the Russian Federation cracks apart. Why should the local revenue all pass through Moscow? Why speak the language of our oppressor?

Add in the many released convicts to Russian society, the UNTREATED injured returnees, unpaid military wages, unpaid death benefits to families...

China will make a small token payment, in trade goods, to reclaim their lands in Manchuria.

There are no good outcomes for Russia.

1 posted on 05/19/2023 4:20:09 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Hmmm - tell that to the new BRICS financial alliance…


2 posted on 05/19/2023 4:22:49 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The walls are closing in.


3 posted on 05/19/2023 4:25:45 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“When the Ukrainians succeed”

That’s not happening unless NATO enters the war and most of the NATO members are against that.


4 posted on 05/19/2023 4:27:13 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“who will purchase Russian energy products?”

You can start by seeing what CNN has to say...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/energy/russia-oil-exports-iea-report/index.html


5 posted on 05/19/2023 4:27:32 PM PDT by BobL
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To: DUMBGRUNT

If the US cannot keep its occupied territories in line, what would it mean for the US-led NATO. Sensing weakness as a result of NATO’s failures in Ukraine, will these other peripheral countries continue to stand by the US?


6 posted on 05/19/2023 4:28:44 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Putin is not conducting Holodomor II - your accusation is insulting to those who died in Holodomor.

The Ukrainians are losing but as those running this proxy war are not in the Ukraine, they will grind down every last male who can hold a gun before ‘negotiating peace.” There is no good outcome for the Ukraine. Almost 2/3 of the citizens fled and the infrastructure is gone. If Zelensky was a real leader, he would have negotiated peace while there was something for the refugees to come home to. But he’s just a puppet in NATO’S proxy war against Russia.


7 posted on 05/19/2023 4:29:15 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Holodomor II”

Holodomor II is occurring as we speak. An entire generation of Ukrainian men are dying for nothing. It’s tragic.


9 posted on 05/19/2023 4:30:46 PM PDT by jimwatx
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I suppose this is suppose to make me happy that my government is wasting billions of my tax dollars on a country that I don’t care about.


13 posted on 05/19/2023 4:36:29 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Yahoo sourced this article from The Hill, a left leaning news source, the owner of which is Nextstar Group, a holding company in which Vanguard Group and Blackrock, both allies with the DEI and Green New Deal ideologies, are major owners. Therefore, anything they report is going to favor the Deep State.
14 posted on 05/19/2023 4:36:32 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Tick Tock


22 posted on 05/19/2023 4:55:49 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: DUMBGRUNT
What about the collapse of American influence around the world? Is this article supposed to make us feel better about Biden's destruction of our country? The Russian economy seems to be doing ok. Ours is heading for more problems thanks to Biden's policies. Yahoo should write an article about America's problems under a corrupt old moron.
24 posted on 05/19/2023 4:56:45 PM PDT by Rdct29 (The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
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To: DUMBGRUNT
"Putin has placed Russia in a no-win dilemma."

Biden has placed the U.S. in a no-win dilemma.

25 posted on 05/19/2023 5:08:20 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

This is Brandons way of clearing out space in Ukraine for eventual third world and muzzy refugees


26 posted on 05/19/2023 5:10:51 PM PDT by inchworm (al )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Sounds like more projection to me. It’s us, thanks to Biden, that are losing influence. American hegemony is dying. BRICS is rising and de-dollarization is occurring because of our bullying foreign policy that alienated the majority of the world.


29 posted on 05/19/2023 5:20:16 PM PDT by Kazan
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oH nOsE!!! Not MoLdoVa!

The shittiest, most backward, run down crap hole of all of Europe outside of Uke-land.

that’s a loss....


33 posted on 05/19/2023 5:29:35 PM PDT by TonyinLA (I don't have sufficient information to formulate an reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The collapse of American influence is widening, as is the collapse of America itself.


42 posted on 05/19/2023 6:24:50 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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