Politics Ukraine / Russia

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  1. jonnyboy

    jonnyboy Well-Known Member

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    Ok dad.
     
  2. jonnyboy

    jonnyboy Well-Known Member

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    nah son.
     
  3. HailBlazers

    HailBlazers RipCity

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  4. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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  5. oldmangrouch

    oldmangrouch persona non grata

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    Only Russia has the right to assassinate enemies!
     
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  6. theprunetang

    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    Probably at the behest of Rand Paul.
     
  7. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Love that Apple and Nike have stopped online sales in Russia.
     
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  8. theprunetang

    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    Not going to affect Russia too much. Now, if Adidas stopped selling them track suits, that country would immediately overthrow their government.
     
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  9. Road Ratt

    Road Ratt King of my own little world

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    On the Ground in Ukraine: A VICE News Tonight Special Report.

     
  10. jonnyboy

    jonnyboy Well-Known Member

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    Yeah but we don’t want to hurt Ukraine also.
     
  11. theprunetang

    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    Good call.
     
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  12. UncleCliffy'sDaddy

    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Should never have inves
    Which was a whopping 3% of our crude oil imports in 2021………..which is next to nothing. But of course, the oil companies would use that as an excuse to raise gas prices completely out of proportion to the actual hit…….so yeah, no. I’d actually prefer the Lyndsey Graham approach (even a blind and brainless squirrel finds an acorn every now and again).
     
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  13. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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  14. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    Putin says his forces are NOT bombing Ukrainian cities... as 100 people are feared buried under rubble near Kyiv, Mariupol is 'simply being destroyed' and missile fragment hits near Zelensky’s second home
    • Vladimir Putin has again insisted that Russia is not shelling Ukrainian cities in a call with Germany's Scholz
    • That is despite medics warning up to 100 people could be buried in apartment rubble in Boradyanka, near Kyiv, and that 49 people died in a cluster bomb attack on Chernihiv yesterday
    • Mariupol's mayor has warned this evening that the city is being 'simply destroyed' by withering artillery fire
    • Missile fragment even landed in the ground of Zelensky's second residence, though it didn't cause damage
    A delusional Vladimir Putin has again insisted that Russia is not bombing Ukrainian cities, despite fears that 100 people are buried under rubble after an apartment block near Kyiv was struck and after a cluster bomb attack on the city of Chernihiv which killed 49.

    Putin, speaking on a call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz this evening, dismissed all reports of Russian attacks on apartment buildings, schools and hospitals as 'fake' - a day after going on TV to accuse Ukrainians of using civilians as 'human shields' while vowing not to back down from his attack.

    As he spoke, emergency services in Ukraine warned that around 100 people could be buried in rubble after a rocket strike cleaved an apartment in the city of Boradyanka - 30 miles from Kyiv - in two, with rescue workers unable to get to them. Officials in Chernihiv also raised the number killed in a cluster bomb attack to 49.

    Increasingly desperate warnings are also coming from the surrounded city of Mariupol, in the south, where the mayor has warned the city is being 'simply destroyed' by Russian artillery - with water, electricity, and heating cut off while food is also running low. He has begged for a ceasefire to allow civilians to evacuate.

    A shell fragment also landed in the grounds of President Zelensky's country house, though he is not thought to be there and no damage was caused.

    Meanwhile Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's foreign minister, claimed that Russian troops have raped women in cities they have already captured. He did not give evidence to back his claim, but Ukrainian media reported that eleven cases of rape had been reported in Kherson - the only major city captured by Russia after more than a week of fighting.

    Russia has been increasingly waging a war of terror against Ukrainian civilians after attempts to rapidly capture the country failed. Indiscriminate shelling of major Ukrainian cities has been taking place, leaving hundreds of innocents dead.

    And the attack showed no sign of letting up today, as Mykolaiv, in the south of Ukraine, came under attack with Russian forces moved within striking distance of the city centre. The city is located just a few miles from Kherson, which fell to Putin's men earlier in the week, along the road to Odessa - Ukraine's third-largest city and main port.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ity-attacked-Russian-bombardment-resumes.html
     
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    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    Ukraine war: The latest
    • Fire at Europe's biggest nuclear power station at Zaporizhzhia is put out after Ukraine accuses Russia of 'nuclear terror' in shelling the plant. Russian troops later take the reactors
    • Diplomats from NATO, the EU and G7 will all meet in Europe today to discuss next moves to contain crisis
    • Russia admits 'limiting' access to news websites including the BBC, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, independent Russian site Meduza and Germany's Deutsche Welle, with Facebook blocked
    • Russian lawmakers approve legislation providing up to 15 years in jail for any publication of fake news about the Russian armed forces
    • Thirty-three people are killed as Russian forces hit residential areas, including schools, in the northern city of Chernihiv
    • Russia and Ukraine agree to create humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from cities
    • Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow's advance is going 'according to plan'
    • Senior US Republican senator Lindsey Graham calls for 'somebody in Russia' to assassinate Putin
    • Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky calls for direct talks with Putin as the 'only way to stop the war'
    • Russian forces take the Black Sea port of Kherson as it appears Moscow is trying to cut Ukraine's access to the sea
    • US and EU offer temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees so far numbering more than 1million
    • Russians pack trains out of the country to Finland, fearful that it is their last chance to escape the impact of swingeing Western sanctions
    • Sanctioned Russian oil giant Lukoil calls for a halt to fighting in Ukraine, one of the first major domestic firms to speak out
    • Russian tech giant Yandex warns it may default on its debt after it was suspended from trading on New York's digital stock exchange
    • The China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank suspends business with Russia and Belarus in a sign of their deepening pariah status
    • Ex-Soviet states Georgia and Moldova - which borders Ukraine's threatened south - apply to join the EU
    • The Beijing Winter Paralympics opens with Russian athletes banned
     
  16. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Damn those Ukrainian terrorists who are clearly bombing their own cities from Belarus and Russia!
     
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  17. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I feel like the Ukrainians are getting a little carried away with their propaganda. I just don't see how it would be even remotely possible that they have killed/destroyed this much.

    [​IMG]
     
  18. SlyPokerDog

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    It is now a crime in Russia to call this war or invasion.
     
  20. jonnyboy

    jonnyboy Well-Known Member

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    I wonder if the Biden admin. could see the biggest disparity in oil prices within a single term?
    -40 dollars a barrel up to 200 dollars a barrel is a pretty wide fucking gap.
     

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