Posted on 10/24/2022 5:42:10 PM PDT by Nextrush
Testing?
Those geraniums seems pretty effective
Cheap and numerical
We meanwhile make super expensive shit with great capability but requires an Auburn engineer to operate
Like all our fancy expensive stuff
Israel should sit this out
Nothing in it for them
Lol
Iran also shares a very long border with former Soviet republics
It’s complicated
Putins history with Muslim theocrats is pretty evident with the exception of little Georgia
The heels part is media
Since it started the media has never said anything except Russia is losing regardless
Putin could be enthroned in Kiev and Lviv and they’d still parse it as Russia has lost this costly war
You know how narrowly you’ve painted yourself into a corner? You’re following the Groucho school of analysis: Whatever it is, I’m against it. Russia has lost ground, and there are real journalists that have provided the details, doing what journalists are supposed to do, such as get out there and talk to people, and analyze conflicting accounts to glean the truth. The fact that the fake journalists parrot what the real journalists say does not make it false.
Georgia is Christian. Are you thinking of Chechnya? Then there’s Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, et al., which are both Muslim and former republics.
Actually that’s untrue
I’m completely for the Russian folk of the Donbas being part of Russia
I was leery of our engineered maiden
And watched how they were treated since
Western media is mostly hogwash on a scale unprecedented well till russiagate
The other sources you have to search
No I’m aware which is why I mentioned it
Russia invaded Georgia with Tiger battalion from Abkhazia which has a large Sunni minority
One of the few times Russia has dealt Hard with Christians to help Muslims in part within the borders old or new
Georgia is catholic
Which plays into this orthodox catholic thing foreign to me
There is even an element of orthodox sect versus orthodox sect in the special military operation
And the Donbass issue in general since maiden
I don’t really care what Donbas ends up being part of, so long as it isn’t done under duress of occupation or martial law. The Russian identity of the region is overstated at present, because the situation is unnatural. They may sing Russian songs, speak Russian, wear Russian clothes and tell their children stories of Baba Yaga and the Great Patriotic War, and eat Russian foods. But they’ve lived 30 years under Ukrainian law, and 14 years with a repressive secessionist movement on one side and a repressive Azov-ist movement on the other, and now under a repressive occupation. A secession referendum must be held under the rules of the Ukrainian Constitution, or as a result of the Donbas successfully fighting its own war of independence, with no giant bear tilting the results with direct military intervention. I think Mariupol is part of Donbas. Correct me if I’m wrong. Yet their exiled mayor, Boichenko, bears a Ukrainian sir-name and won 69% of the vote, which might be because of a rigged election, or might be genuine. I don’t know.
Will Ukrainian-speaking enclaves within the Russian Federation get to secede and join the Ukraine? I don’t think so.
Their society has been fubar for about 400 years, if not longer. Let them fix it themselves, if they can. Putin’s occupation just makes it worse.
“One of the few times Russia has dealt Hard with Christians to help Muslims in part within the borders old or new”
The other being Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh region vs. the Azerbaijanis. Also not Orthodox, but their own special brand of Christianity.
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