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my bony fealty posted:neoconservatism was ultimately about making Dick Cheney and friends rich, Iraq and afghanistan were convenient targets that hadn't already been looted by the west. yeah you had idiots who wanted to make Iraq the 51st state or whatever but that was never an actual goal Is it? I'm not sure that Putin draws a particularly hard distinction between rulership and looting. He seems to have an extremely Cheney mindset towards the general principle of governance, both foreign and domestic: https://twitter.com/danfinn95/status/1495873689342074882?s=21 It's why I don't entirely buy the image of him as some sort of neo-feudal throwback. His style of statesmanship seems very modern - a hard-core, purestrain capitalist whose ambitions are geared more around himself than some abstract historical ideal.
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TeenageArchipelago posted:isn't that a video from the recent gaza violence? I think that's the iron dome blowing up rockets Volume on
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Feb 24, 2022 05:39
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PawParole posted:https://twitter.com/AlSuraEnglish/status/1496690015946297346 loooooollll no way is Russia gonna realty end this war this quickly that’s insane
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Feb 24, 2022 05:39
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the US basically just diminished here on the world stage didn't it~
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Feb 24, 2022 05:40
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Jay-V posted:freakin zerg russia'd
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Feb 24, 2022 05:40
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Robo Reagan posted:its late so biden is sundowning and theyre trying to not have him ask Gorbachev to stop invading lol
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Feb 24, 2022 05:40
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fits my needs posted:lol joe bidens gonna get cartered more like he's gonna get Benjamin Harrisoned
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Feb 24, 2022 05:40
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SchrodingersCat posted:
lol no it is exactly that framing that caused this bloodshed
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Feb 24, 2022 05:40
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I dont think Ukraine has antimissles
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Feb 24, 2022 05:40
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this is the energy we should all be bringing https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1496686700235718658?s=20&t=ESzTUv4QKCDaDy7F3Kp0dw
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Feb 24, 2022 05:41
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Robo Reagan posted:its late so biden is sundowning and theyre trying to not have him ask Gorbachev to stop invading listen Mack-hail
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Feb 24, 2022 05:41
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my bony fealty posted:libs really have to cling to this dumbass great man idea that the real world is Harry Potter and Putin is Voldemort, they cannot conceive of forces acting above the level of "evil villain guy does bad things" which posts of mine say this
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Feb 24, 2022 05:41
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Lastgirl posted:the US basically just diminished here on the world stage didn't it~ another NATO force falls to pieces the moment it faces a real opponent
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Feb 24, 2022 05:41
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correction: volume off
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Feb 24, 2022 05:41
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TeenageArchipelago posted:isn't that a video from the recent gaza violence? I think that's the iron dome blowing up rockets yeah, that's probably israel footage
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Feb 24, 2022 05:41
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Atrocious Joe posted:Ukraine A good portion of the fleet including it's top admiral defected to Russia in 2014, so it's not like they have a lot of ships.
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Feb 24, 2022 05:41
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This war is going to last like two days
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Feb 24, 2022 05:41
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WATCH PUTIN END A loving WAR
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Feb 24, 2022 05:41
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https://twitter.com/theweeknd/status/1496690244753641472?s=19
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Feb 24, 2022 05:42
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Al-Saqr posted:as an Arab Middle easterner I spit on the American empire they delivered me fascism so many americans completely oblivious about the absolute slaughter and misery they've enabled in yemen over the last decade
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Feb 24, 2022 05:42
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https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1496689337618112512
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Feb 24, 2022 05:42
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DesertIslandHermit posted:WATCH PUTIN END A loving WAR Lmao
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Feb 24, 2022 05:42
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You know how the taliban sort of just walked into kabul and took over because they had a bunch of incognito fighters setting everything up before the bulk showed up. Yeah thats whats happening right now
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Feb 24, 2022 05:42
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flawless victory
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Feb 24, 2022 05:42
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Blitz of 404 Error posted:I dont think Ukraine has antimissles certainly ukraine having this kind of air defense network and russia landing paratroopers in kiev can't both be true
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Feb 24, 2022 05:42
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sounds like someone needs to spank naughty boy putins ripped, sweaty, fake bear wrestling rear end I knew we should have ended Russia years ago and I will be happy to oblige *boys?* *Joe Biden rips off his human skin suit* Lizard joe: “Time to pay the Piper” *Papa Roach’s “Last Resort” plays*
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DesertIslandHermit posted:WATCH PUTIN END A loving WAR
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Feb 24, 2022 05:42
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orange sky posted:Holy poo poo I can't believe that people itt are actually defending or rationalizing Putin's actions, talk about brainworms. Dude's obviously belligerent and out of his mind, the world just let him have Crimea with barely any consequence and he wasn't satisfied with that, he started this whole thing out of sheer fear of losing power. The world isn't full of comic book heroes and villains. People do things for reasons that make sense to them. Trying to understand that and realistically how much leverage you actually have isn't appeasement, it's just critical thinking and good judgment.
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Feb 24, 2022 05:42
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https://twitter.com/EchoMskNews/status/1496703387412410374?s=20&t=LRY-CgOZp2wdVcIX7GfqHA Putin's video was recorded on Monday according to the metadata
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Feb 24, 2022 05:43
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drat never miss a shot to self-promote
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Feb 24, 2022 05:43
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Good soup! posted:correction: volume off
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Feb 24, 2022 05:43
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Jay-V posted:freakin zerg russia'd putin is a dishonorable thug who does not respect "no rush 5 min"
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Feb 24, 2022 05:43
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DesertIslandHermit posted:WATCH PUTIN END A loving WAR
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Feb 24, 2022 05:43
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If putin annexes Moldova literally nobody will notice or care
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Feb 24, 2022 05:43
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:Volume on Israelis are Russians and Ukrainians too so volume won’t make a difference lol
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Feb 24, 2022 05:43
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Cao Ni Ma posted:You know how the taliban sort of just walked into kabul and took over because they had a bunch of incognito fighters setting everything up before the bulk showed up. Yeah thats whats happening right now it really does seem like it, guess that'll solve the whole 'what does the average Ukrainian think about Russia' debate fast huh
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Feb 24, 2022 05:43
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CNN saying the Biden administration was drawing up plans for potentially evacuating Zelensky
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Feb 24, 2022 05:44
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twoday posted:This war is going to last like two days lol
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Feb 24, 2022 05:44
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Here's to fossil fuels! The cause of, and solution to, all the US's foreign policy fiascos!
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SchrodingersCat posted:The extent of US knowledge into the Russian military plans makes me wonder if there was some sort of handshake agreement on this or if Russia outright told the US "This is what, how, and when it's going to happen." And the US/NATO knew there was no legit tactical way to defend Ukraine, or for Ukraine to defend itself. I imagine Russia just didn't give a gently caress that their plans leaked like a sieve because they knew nobody was going to do anything about it. so the US response was just to leak all the intelligence constantly in the hopes that the bad PR would kill or stall the invasion, figuring that since nobody had tried that one before it was worth a shot love the situation where some belligerent state just rolls into another country and nobody in the world can do a thing about it because doing anything about it just makes things worse for everybody. feels very Iraq.
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