Posted on 08/21/2022 11:21:56 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
Three months ago, Sonya, a 25-year-old who works at a major mobile gaming company and moonlights as a tutor, made one of the toughest decisions of her life: She left Russia.
She had an old but cozy communal apartment with her boyfriend and two other roommates in Moscow’s city center, a tight-knit group of friends, and spent several days a week taking classes at a local dance academy—her lifelong passion.
“It’s my home. My family, friends are there. My whole life. How can you possibly abandon all these things?" she told Fortune.
But like countless other young educated Russians, Sonya, who asked that only her first name be used, packed her bags and fled the country after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
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As I’ve said, I think some or most are paid trolls. They know nothing and can’t answer simple questions. They simply don’t care about the facts...if the UFA is retreating, they are “advancing backwards”. If the Russians advance, they are “retreating forward.” It’s all part of a psyops. The Russians are within easy artillery range of Nikolayev now, which means the Russians are “getting decimated in the Kherson region.” I don’t know when or how the trolls lying will end. In the meantime, they amuse me with their lack of substance or interest in the truth.
Leaving aside people who have been duped, I believe a lot of the war cheerleaders are sociopaths.
You didn’t cut and paste the Budapest Agreement. Why is that? You don’t mention Russia destroying 100 miles of border and invading Ukraine in 2014 with a no insignia terrorist army. Why is that? You’re comfortable with Russia murdering every last Ukrainian. Peace through strength conservatives like me and President Trump are not. Deal with it.
Every single election has foreign influence all over the world.
The Russians do not have a fiat choice in selecting every Ukrainian President. NATO is not an existential threat to Russia. Russia is an ever present and continuous threat to Europe. They cut off natural gas anytime they want to bully Germany and every other nation. Russia is much more of a threat to the United States than any other nation in Europe. They aim nuclear weapons at the United States.
Putin murders his political opponents with impunity and on foreign soil. The Soros connections and NEOCON straw mans you proffer are nothing compared to the explicit threat that is Putin .
That is why President Trump agrees with us and not with you. He gave lethal aid to Zelensky your arch nemesis of supposed impenetrable power and corruption. President Trump ordered military strikes on Russian military bases and troops. If he were President now he would not do your biding. He would crush and cripple Russia. They would withdraw from Ukraine and be lucky if they could keep Crimea.
this is all a function of Biden weakness. That is the unfortunate reality and your prescriptions and pretentious knowledge about neocons and Soros conspiracies does not add up to a reason to side with Putin.
Thanks. Makes sense.
Wow. Really? Shades of the old Soviet Union.
The US Neocons, not Russia, believe they have the right to dictate who is president of Ukraine. We have the transcripts from 2014 showing that...a simple fact you should have known.
The Neocons essentially own NATO policy, which makes NATO an existential threat in the eyes of the Russians. If you knew more and were honest, you’d fully understand why. I’m done explaining that to the Tards here.
Russia fulfilled its gas contracts until the NATO countries imposed sanctions and violated their gas agreements - like cancelling Nordstream II...You remember that don’t you? And of course you remember how Trudope held a Nordstream I turbine hostage claiming the sanctions regime as an excuse? In fact, the Russians have been happy to let the EU shoot itself in the foot over sanctions, but the Russians still deliver. They enjoy receiving European money for the higher gas prices OUR SANCTIONS HAVE CREATED. BTW, just when did the Russians tell Germany it must do X (other than pay for gas), or “no gas for you”? You’re right, never. If you are German, your energy problems have been manufactured by your government.
Claiming Russia is more of an threat to the US THAN ANY OTHER EUROPEAN NATION is simply bizarre. No European nation other than Russia has a military worth mentioning. Why? Because we are taxed directly and indirectly to provide defense for Europe so they can wallow in their sleazy welfare states - if left to their own devices (i.e. no US military) even Turkey could run over them. Don’t you recall Trump being pilloried and laughed at for demanding the sleazy EU NATO countries live up to the financial commitments they made to support NATO?
Yes, Russia aims nukes at the US, and we aim nukes at them. BTW, China aims nukes at the US, as may the N. Koreans.
You don’t know what Putin does with respect to political opponents. Perhaps he has killed some, perhaps he hasn’t. All we have is “reporting” from US and European sources that are highly suspect. We do know for a fact that our government has large numbers of political prisoners (for example, all of the January 6 protestors) and has committed extrajudicial killings domestically (for example, Randy Weaver’s family and the victims of the Clinton administration in Waco) AND the US kills on foreign soil. How do I know? The government brags about it - Ayman al-Zawahiri is the latest example on foreign soil. We can come up with many more examples. So, the pot shouldn’t be calling the kettle black, assuming the kettle is black.
Virtually everything you have to say about Putin is just a repetion of the nonsense that the MSM feeds you. I would remind you that NATO, Ukraine, and Russia were fully at peace until the Neocons in the Obamalini administration engineered, funded, and executed a coup against the democratically elected president of Ukraine. The Donbass didn’t want to be ruled by a coup government infested with Neonazis, and then the coup government initiated an 8 year war against the ethnic Russians in the Donbass.
Trump inherited the disaster that Obama and the Neocons created in Ukraine and did a good job of keeping the peace. When President Depends took office, the Neocons were no longer restrained.
OF COURSE if Trump were in office he would not “do my bidding”. Why would anyone write something so inane? Are you retarded? Is English your second language (if it is, I withdraw the “retarded” comment)?
Our criminal proxy war in Ukraine is not a result of Biden’s weakness, it’s the result of the narcissistic sociopaths and psychopaths in Obama’s and Biden’s administrations running wild. Trump restrained them, which is one reason the Deep State wouldn’t tolerate a second Trump term. Biden supports the Neocon policies.
The “unfortunate reality” is that Ukraine, and especially the non-Neonazi elements of the UFA, are being used as pawns to satisfy the blood lust and the messianic narcissism of the Neocons/libs who have run our foreign policy under Obama and Biden. The Russians offered a negotiated peace in March, and the US, acting through the Brits and NATO, wouldn’t allow the Zelensky regime to accept a negotiated settlement (assuming that regime wanted one). Because of that refusal, 10s of thousands of UFA soldiers have died for no purpose. Although you seem to be proud not to know what is actually going on on the battlefield, even to the point of disdaining such knowledge as “pretentious”, I am telling you now that, barring a miracle, the Russians will continue to slowly and methodically crush the UFA, and when the Russians have achieved their objectives, they will essentially dictate the terms of the peace. Ukraine as it existed before the US sponsored coup will cease to exist. The Russians likely will hold an arc sweeping from NE to SW Ukraine; the Poles will have effective control of Galicia, and the Hungarians and Romanians may take small pieces occupied primarily by their co-ethnics.
The PUtler sickos have been at it in the keywords again. That should be restricted to mods or the Robinson’s only...
LOL! You people get dumber every single day.
They also vote overwhelmingly leftist. They want even more Indians here to flood our workforce and take over industries. This, combined with their Indians-first attitude, will destroy said land of opportunity.
You have lot to learn.
At this point, coming to the western world is a waste of a good mind.
Even our colleges crank out hive mind indoctrinated fools.
Yes even the rich Indians vote Democrat against their own financial interest. It is because Democrats make them feel welcome and inclusive. Posters here are majority anti-immigrant from non-European countries.
Those 2 brothers who set off a pressure cooker bomb during Boston marathon race sponsored 23 immigrants from their country, all with low education and low wealth. But they are white Europeans and may be why I saw no posts here denouncing those low quality immigrants.
On the other hand immigrants from India come here with much higher professional education & skills. That is why Indian-American families have the highest average incomes compared to all other ethnic groups. Indian-Americans help raise economic activity in US. You don’t see Indians looting and burning down cities. Yet they are hated by FR posters like yorself. Is it any wonder Indian Americans prefer Democrats with their false promise of inclusivity?
USA is still the best country for entrepreneurs and highly skilled people like scientists, engineers, doctors, pharmacists, lawyers, dentists etc. Non withstanding liberal socialism being promoted via universities.
Yea, don’t waste your breath with that crap on me. I don’t listen to Democrat talking points... Western Civilization is “including” itself right out of existence.
A “great” well-educated Indian also poured gasoline onto cancel culture which is now de-Europeanizing America.
Irony, huh?
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I caught that and interpreted as a disruptor crowing about how badly the sanctions are effecting the West.
It isn’t just Russia they hate and they spread dissension on purpose, for its own sake.
...of any benefit to anyone at all.
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All benefits accrue to those destroying civilization across the planet. Of course they cannot answer you. It’s difficult to phrase without revealing themselves.
Why are the war cheerleaders so intent on committing suicide?
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Professional disruptors suffer from Dunning-Kreuger Syndrome.
Majority of Indian-Americans will keep voting for democrats until republicans become inclusive. Personally, I know democrats and have voted straight republican since 1972 when I became eligible to vote via US citizenship.
Exactly, good to see some waking up. After Ukraine is carved up, It will be acknowledged Biden’s Ukie war was responsible for dethroning the great nation of America, the Afghanistan give away was a warning.
In another DOD release, the US is slowing down weapons, now shipping the much weaker 105mm howitzers instead of the 155’s, and now shipping our surplus clumsy antiquated TOW anti- tank missiles to the Ukies….clumsy yes, I fired them back in the 70’s.
On that note, non western MSM states 8 Himars systems have been captured and destroyed. Maybe our woke DOD is realizing the war for the Ukies is lost.
In the mean time, looks like Vlad has decided to eat Odessa for lunch, which is the last nail in the Ukies coffin.
China and Turkey are just waiting the chew on the carcass that is Russia when it happens.
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Biblical prophecy says different. God’s word is infallible, sorry, no listening to man’s “ science” or “ wisdom” for me.
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