Things are heating up in the Donbass

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Its out own stupidity for getting into this debacle and putting all these sanctions on Russia. We should not have played these games.

Why would Russia not want to see the USD supplanted? We totally screwed them so I'm their own self interests they are seeking a better way forward for their country and their vision of what they want to happen.

Keeping the USD as global reserve is not their preferred outcome since we decoupled our economies from east and west. They have the energy and want to sell it so why not find an alternative that they can do business with.

I know you get the significance but many others and normies do not, if the USD is replaced then it's game over our economy will self destruct and our debt will instantly matter.

Well, the Russian sanctions are nothing in this. Russia is a bit player at best.

This is China's show, and they are the ones who want to destroy the dollar.

It's Bidens other foreign policy disasters that are allowing it to happen, and the events in Ukraine aren't even significant.

If the Biden administrations goal was to dismantle the US leadership of the modern world, it would be hard to imagine what they could do differently to accomplish it.

 

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How dare Putin place his country in the way of NATO's expansion!!! Leslie Stool suffers from American schizophrenia.

Ironic that Putin has done more to expand NATO than anyone else this century.

He is nearly as good at that as Barak Obama was at selling guns.

 

[Mosinitis]

Ironic that Putin has done more to expand NATO than anyone else this century.

He is nearly as good at that as Barak Obama was at selling guns.

NATO is expanding because people who run it believe they are the owner of planet Earth.

 

[Acer-m14]

NATO .. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, ..

LMAO

 

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NATO is expanding because people who run it believe they are the owner of planet Earth.

LOL, no.

NATO was on it's death bed, about to become irrelevant before Putin started getting adventurous and convinced Europe they really do need a defense alliance.

Before he started invading people the NATO members were starting to wonder why they were even bothering to pay for a military at all.

 

[Mosinitis]

LOL, no.

NATO was on it's death bed, about to become irrelevant before Putin started getting adventurous and convinced Europe they really do need a defense alliance.

Before he started invading people the NATO members were starting to wonder why they were even bothering to pay for a military at all.

NATO was engaged in incremental dismantling of Russia, as was done in Yugoslavia. Globalist play book. Initiating civil unrest, revolutions and ethnic violence within a preyed upon country, while dictating how it should deal with it. Playing humanitarian cop for the idiots at home, threatening, bribing and punishing critics abroad.

 

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NATO was engaged in incremental dismantling of Russia, as was done in Yugoslavia. Globalist play book. Initiating civil unrest, revolutions and ethnic violence within a preyed upon country, while dictating how it should deal with it. Playing humanitarian cop for the idiots at home, threatening, bribing and punishing critics abroad.

That's just called international geopolitics. Every country with the capability is doing it to every other country on the planet. The only ones not doing it are too weak to try.

You don't think most of the current cultural woes in the US are instigated by China ?

 

[Mosinitis]

That's just called international geopolitics. Every country with the capability is doing it to every other country on the planet. The only ones not doing it are too weak to try.

You don't think most of the current cultural woes in the US are instigated by China ?

Neither China, nor Russia groom opposition leaders and form illegitimate governments outside our borders. They also don't train violent subversives to hijack peaceful rallies.
Somehow Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart didn't show up in Washington on January 6th to handout cookies.
Our arrogance is backfiring.

 

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Neither China, nor Russia groom opposition leaders and form illegitimate governments outside our borders. They also don't train violent subversives to hijack peaceful rallies.
Somehow Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart didn't show up in Washington on January 6th to handout cookies.
Our arrogance is backfiring.

You don't think China has a hand in BLM, Antara, and the 2020 "Summer of Love".

I can guarantee we have Biden not Trump in office because of their interference.

 

[MothMan]

 

[Mosinitis]

Even Western Media can not hide the effects of carnage caused by this proxi war.

 

[DoOver]

 

[prambo]

 

[GOYABEAN]

Russian technicians appear to have sabotaged MiG-29 fighter jets headed for Ukraine, Slovakia says

Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad said the defects were found only in fighter-jet parts that were accessed by Russian workers.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Mosinitis]

Russian technicians appear to have sabotaged MiG-29 fighter jets headed for Ukraine, Slovakia says

Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad said the defects were found only in fighter-jet parts that were accessed by Russian workers.

www.businessinsider.com

It's a war crime. Sanction them and send this case to ICC.

 

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[Drinkthekoolaid]

Directors are a dime a dozen. Its a job title thrown around way too frequently.

Unless he had some special access sensitive program I will just chalk that up to coincidence.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

They both look like wine mixing pieces of shit.

 

[Mosinitis]

Maybe there is a God after all.

 

[spat]

Directors are a dime a dozen. Its a job title thrown around way too frequently.

Unless he had some special access sensitive program I will just chalk that up to coincidence.

Where I work they are one step above managers.

Usually don't have more than a few dozen people under them.

Directors are the heart of middle management.

Glass door says expected director salary at Raytheon is ~$360k/year. Hardly a high level executive salary for a major defense contractor like that.

As for how interesting this is, it would depend on *what* team he was the director of.

Corporate real estate ? Meh.

Some HR group ? Probably nothing burger.

Legal ? I'm sure they can all keep their mouths shut, nobody hires a lawyer who can't keep a secret.

Or missile development or production? Now, things could get interesting.

Environmental compliance ? Export regulations ? This could certainly be worth looking into.

 

[DoOver]

 

[Mosinitis]

 

[Mosinitis]

 

[prambo]

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Graph showing increases in Ukrainian "Trans-Women" - large upward inflection on the right of the graph coincides with the Russian "limited military action".

 

[prambo]

US Will Threaten Europe To Implement Sanctions on Russia - News From Antiwar.com

"If those countries fail to crack down on those still doing business with Russia, then Washington is threatening to issue "penalties." It is unclear how far the Joe Biden administration is willing to punish NATO allies for violating sanctions.

The policy echoes President George W. Bush’s doctrine that countries must either actively align with Washington in its Middle East wars, or else be judged as working "with the terrorists."

 

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Graph showing increases in Ukrainian "Trans-Women" - large upward inflection on the right of the graph coincides with the Russian "limited military action".

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To be fair, the graph probably looks similar here.

10 years ago they were a punchline.

Now they're all over the place.