when russia invades ukraine

you know you've made it on the world stage when you and your wife are taking GlamourShots® in front of your own destroyed equipment
 
SeVeReD said:
Ukraine Feeling Neglected

Volodymyr Zelensky Asks Xi Jinping for Talks, Invites China to Rebuild Ukraine
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What could Zelensky offer China? Grain ect when the war goes cold, but China was going to get that anyway from Russia.

I think China sees opportunities with Russia winning some land, but they might not want it enough to deal with the chaos of war. China might just want both sides to fight for a long time because it would mean the response to a Taiwan invasion would be weak.

Honestly if I was China I would invade now. This is the best opportunity they will have in a long time. War in other place, Biden POTUS, EU all tied up with freezing to death, seems like the best time they could invade.
 
Only 30% of the military aid provided by the United States is believed to actually reach the front line of the battlefield. Once it crosses the Poland/Ukraine border... they have no idea where it ends up.

CBS published this documentary ... and then promptly removed it

 
Ukrainians fleeing Ukraine for Russia. Russians in the comments saying welcome home. The CNN presenter reaches no real conclusions.

 
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/no-way-out-but-war

“No Guts No Glory” by Mr. Fish

The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine illustrates, is trapped in the death spiral of unchecked militarism. No high speed trains. No universal health care. No viable Covid relief program. No respite from 8.3 percent inflation. No infrastructure programs to repair decaying roads and bridges, which require $41.8 billion to fix the 43,586 structurally deficient bridges, on average 68 years old. No forgiveness of $1.7 trillion in student debt. No addressing income inequality. No program to feed the 17 million children who go to bed each night hungry. No rational gun control or curbing of the epidemic of nihilistic violence and mass shootings. No help for the 100,000 Americans who die each year of drug overdoses. No minimum wage of $15 an hour to counter 44 years of wage stagnation. No respite from gas prices that are projected to hit $6 a gallon.

The permanent war economy, implanted since the end of World War II, has destroyed the private economy, bankrupted the nation, and squandered trillions of dollars of taxpayer money. The monopolization of capital by the military has driven the US debt to $30 trillion, $ 6 trillion more than the US GDP of $ 24 trillion. Servicing this debt costs $300 billion a year. We spent more on the military, $ 813 billion for fiscal year 2023, than the next nine countries, including China and Russia, combined.

We are paying a heavy social, political, and economic cost for our militarism. Washington watches passively as the U.S. rots, morally, politically, economically, and physically, while China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, and other countries extract themselves from the tyranny of the U.S. dollar and the international Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a messaging network banks and other financial institutions use to send and receive information, such as money transfer instructions. Once the U.S. dollar is no longer the world’s reserve currency, once there is an alternative to SWIFT, it will precipitate an internal economic collapse. It will force the immediate contraction of the U.S. empire shuttering most of its nearly 800 overseas military installations. It will signal the death of Pax Americana. More... https://chrishedges.substack.com
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The way to make this stop is simple.

Russia pulls out, Ukraine agrees to stay out of NATO and is completely independent
 
SINep said:
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/no-way-out-but-war
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:rofl:

jfc what a fucking moron - we need more handouts

if numbers really mattered as stated here:

"The permanent war economy, implanted since the end of World War II, has destroyed the private economy, bankrupted the nation, and squandered trillions of dollars of taxpayer money. The monopolization of capital by the military has driven the US debt to $30 trillion, $ 6 trillion more than the US GDP of $ 24 trillion. Servicing this debt costs $300 billion a year. We spent more on the military, $ 813 billion for fiscal year 2023, than the next nine countries, including China and Russia, combined."

then we need to take a critical look at the Recipient Class and the War On Poverty [aka 'Mandatory Spending', see pic below]. Given that social welfare spending is 3x more [implemented during FDRs disastrous terms] than defense spending [which the US foolishly absorbs for the EU and others].

Summary: the entire article is garbage and deserves to be mocked before the simpletons take it as Holy Gospel.

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thank u ss I've been saying for decades that social security and medicare have to go fuck these welfare queens it's time to stop paying for old
 
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