Yes, Russia is being stopped over the past year, losing ground every day, and caught in a quagmire because Ukraine is getting none of our weapons and/or selling them on the black market.

If you want to find our bullets, just look in a Russian corpse.

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The other issue is that there is zero accountability/ability to audit where the aid actually goes. By design. We've had posts/articles documenting this difference but it bears repeating.

The gist of it is that unlike Afghanistan/any other war we don't have folks tracking where specific aid/funds are going on the ground, so we have to trust the Ukrainians to do it.

"Oversight from afar" of $150 billion plus (by now) of weapons/money shipped to Ukraine.

Yeah, right.

Forever war. Trust the Xidens.

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So you want auditors and boots on the ground in combat to confirm things are actually being used appropriately?

I actually have a family member who went to Afghanistan as part of an audit team. Let's just say…there's a lot of waste.

No, I don't want American combat forces on the ground. It's a corrupt mess by design tho.

A Ukrainian soldier tells a Vice reporter that it seems like his government's plan is the deliberate eradication of its own population:

"Our equipment shoots heavy artillery only 5 times while theirs shoots 500. I don't know what the government's plans are, but it feels like the… pic.twitter.com/hsXUK1qsLX

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) June 30, 2023

The military intelligence officer I quoted here reflected a much wider frustration in army. Many complain they were pushed into a counter-offensive before they were really ready. Of course, they would not be saying this if the counter-offensive was more successful

— Oliver Carroll (@olliecarroll) June 30, 2023

29 June 2023#Zaporizhzhia Oblast, #Ukraine

Damaged Ukrainian Leopard 2A4

This appears to be a previously undocumented loss.https://t.co/76VZre5DDS pic.twitter.com/r74OKApYVY

— Naalsio (@naalsio26) June 29, 2023

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HRW reports new evidence of Ukrainian use of banned landmines

Human Rights Watch has said it uncovered new evidence of indiscriminate use of banned antipersonnel landmines by Ukrainian forces against Russian troops who invaded Ukraine in 2022.

The group called on Ukraine's government to follow through with a commitment made earlier this month not to employ such weapons, investigate their suspected use and hold accountable those responsible.

"The Ukrainian government's pledge to investigate its military's apparent use of banned [antipersonnel] mines is an important recognition of its duty to protect civilians," Steve Goose, Human Rights Watch's arms director, said in a statement.

HRW said it shared its findings with the Ukrainian government in a May letter, to which it received no response.

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It's been a magical 24 hours, with two living saints meeting each other to discuss religious convictions.

I see some people might think I’m joking. She really went down there to talk about the environment and not the war itself

National Geographic Ecology Definition: Ecology is the study of organisms and how they interact with the ENVIRONMENT around them.

The world is such a stage… pic.twitter.com/KuNzilW8Cq

— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) June 29, 2023

So is Z the size of petite teenage girl or is Greta T a giant the size of the world's greatest, bravest defender of sovereign democracy?

It you support Z and Ukraine after that stunt then you are just as gullible as the ignorant teen puppet and he sidekick actor friend in that picture.

Man people will wave any color flag in an effort to "fit in" with what the mainstream tells them is popular.

Would any supporters of the Ukelele like to defend this? Or will you be sitting this one out?

This Greta Thunberg golden child of environmentalism blows my mind.

Props to whoever is behind Greta Thunberg because they are brilliant.

Who the **** is this lady?

Somebody's kid?

Instead of buyig their kid a Nintendo they decided it was some sort of environmental prophet.

Great thunberg is being passed off a some sort of biblical figure.

The argument for cimate change is so bad, that they had to got get some weird kid as a mascot.

This lady fly's around all over the world.

They are teaching about this kid in schools and you see her mentioned all the time.

When in history have we ever listened to a kid about anything.

Now all of a sudden global warming is so bad that we are listening to a kid on hat to do about it.

Greta is the kim kardashian of climate change.

Famous for being famous.

Next they are gonna send greta thunberg to law school.

It'll be like legally blonde but with some weird chick named greta.

Greta Thunberg is the Gary Coleman of climate change.

Shows up on random shows and acts crazy. And famous for being famous.

Godspeed to this lady though. She made hay while the sun shined.

Any one of anybody's dumbass kid could've been greta thunberg but they ain't

Greta gets up every day getting paid for being greta. And your kid ain't.

The idffernece between greta and your kid, is that greta gets paid for being stupid.

Greta Thunberg is an instathot for climate change.

She was an influencer before it was a thing.

Greta thunberg won't miss a meal for the rest of her life.

So credit to her for that.

If you are reading this you''ll be hearing about this kid for the rest of your life.

She's globally famous like nelson mandela,the dali lama, gandi or barak obama.

She's just there.

One of those poeple that nobody knows what tf they actually do, or did. They just famous for being famous.

Ukes taking tons of land today and pushing to Mariupol and melitipol. Looks like Nortex is getting overdrive
updates directly from Ms Zakharova.

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Would any supporters of the Ukelele like to defend this? Or will you be sitting this one out?

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She probably should have gone to see Putin since he's the only reason the war is happening in the first place. Would you like to defend him bombing civilians or will you be sitting that one out?

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Would any supporters of the Ukelele like to defend this? Or will you be sitting this one out?

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She probably should have gone to see Putin since he's the only reason the war is happening in the first place. Would you like to defend him bombing civilians or will you be sitting that one out?

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You probably should have ignored it. Refutation? This is just pitiful. Have a great weekend buddy.

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Would any supporters of the Ukelele like to defend this? Or will you be sitting this one out?

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She probably should have gone to see Putin since he's the only reason the war is happening in the first place. Would you like to defend him bombing civilians or will you be sitting that one out?

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You probably should have ignored it. Refutation? This is just pitiful. Have a great weekend buddy.

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Will do. Enjoy openly cheering for a mass murderer!

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Would any supporters of the Ukelele like to defend this? Or will you be sitting this one out?

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She probably should have gone to see Putin since he's the only reason the war is happening in the first place. Would you like to defend him bombing civilians or will you be sitting that one out?

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You probably should have ignored it. Refutation? This is just pitiful. Have a great weekend buddy.

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Will do. Enjoy openly cheering for a mass murderer!

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You talking about cheering on Teslag? He is the one always clamoring to stack more bodies...

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Ukes taking tons of land today and pushing to Mariupol and melitipol. Looks like Nortex is getting overdrive
updates directly from Ms Zakharova.

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More great news justifying why they do not need another dime (not time) nor bullet from us.

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Ukes taking tons of land today and pushing to Mariupol and melitipol. Looks like Nortex is getting overdrive
updates directly from Ms Zakharova.

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More great news justifying why they do not need another time nor bullet from us.

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There's always more Russians to kill

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Would any supporters of the Ukelele like to defend this? Or will you be sitting this one out?

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She probably should have gone to see Putin since he's the only reason the war is happening in the first place. Would you like to defend him bombing civilians or will you be sitting that one out?

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You probably should have ignored it. Refutation? This is just pitiful. Have a great weekend buddy.

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Will do. Enjoy openly cheering for a mass murderer!

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You talking about cheering on Teslag? He is the one always clamoring to stack more bodies...

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Nope. Referring to the dictator who started a pointless war that's resulted in the killing of tens of thousands of his own people and another few thousand Ukrainian civilians, that PlaneCrashGuy is openly cheering for for some reason.

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J. Walter Weatherman said:

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Would any supporters of the Ukelele like to defend this? Or will you be sitting this one out?

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She probably should have gone to see Putin since he's the only reason the war is happening in the first place. Would you like to defend him bombing civilians or will you be sitting that one out?

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You probably should have ignored it. Refutation? This is just pitiful. Have a great weekend buddy.

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Will do. Enjoy openly cheering for a mass murderer!

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You talking about cheering on Teslag? He is the one always clamoring to stack more bodies...

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Nope. Referring to the dictator who started a pointless war that's resulted in the killing of tens of thousands of his own people and another few thousand Ukrainian civilians, that PlaneCrashGuy is openly cheering for for some reason.

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No, I think I have it right and you seem to line up with Teslag.

Most of us want the war to end without more bloodshed, but Z is interested in photo ops with demented little puppet girls and "acting" like he is a tough guy by wearing olive green for 1.5 years.

If you guys want to cheer murdering Russians, there's a thread for that.

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Would any supporters of the Ukelele like to defend this? Or will you be sitting this one out?

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She probably should have gone to see Putin since he's the only reason the war is happening in the first place. Would you like to defend him bombing civilians or will you be sitting that one out?

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You probably should have ignored it. Refutation? This is just pitiful. Have a great weekend buddy.

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Will do. Enjoy openly cheering for a mass murderer!

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You talking about cheering on Teslag? He is the one always clamoring to stack more bodies...

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Nope. Referring to the dictator who started a pointless war that's resulted in the killing of tens of thousands of his own people and another few thousand Ukrainian civilians, that PlaneCrashGuy is openly cheering for for some reason.

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No, I think I have it right and you seem to line up with Teslag.

Most of us want the war to end without more bloodshed, but Z is interested in photo ops with demented little puppet girls and "acting" like he is a tough guy by wearing olive green for 1.5 years.

If you guys want to cheer murdering Russians, there's a thread for that.

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I would also like the war to end without more bloodshed, which Putin can do immediately by going home.

The decade between 1991 and 2001 may have been the most peaceful time in American history.

Prigozhin's media empire is shutting down.

Director Evgeny Zubarev says the infamous troll farm had existed since 2009 and confirms the many investigations into it were correct:

"It was important to discredit opposition journalists. They were trying to destroy the country!" pic.twitter.com/taOhZIxYRW

— max seddon (@maxseddon) June 30, 2023

Good. Less propaganda from one side at least.

It's all propaganda.

The average person now has the ability to render 4K video.

6-months from now we are going to be arguing over whether what we are looking at is real or AI rendered.

We are about to lose the ability to quickly determine whether what we are looking is real video.

We'll be in a situation where everything is considered propaganda by default until proven different.

I agree, to an extent. Wagner being 'out of action' (including Prigozhin) for the time is good though. That guy has always been a clown/evil-doer.

France is in trouble. The scale of these riots is moving into unchartered territory. If there was a mass uprising even their military would struggle to contain it. Has a new #Revolution begun in France and will WEF #Macron keep his cool or will he 'lose his head'

- Nearly 500… pic.twitter.com/dWnK6GHMNY

— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) June 30, 2023

We certainly need more truth tellers, which perhaps are showing up on the world stage.



I am curious what the next CCP-Blackrock-WEF play is. I certainly would not have guessed 'collapse/revolution in France' but right now I am getting suspicious. The Ukraine war has sort of served its purpose for them (inflation/BRICS strength/instability in Europe/weakening of 'western' arsenals and financial reserves). They are also facing push back on their 'green' (communist) agendas from place like Sweden/Denmark even, and Zeihan had a piece out recently about the increasing demographic desperation in China.



Who knows? I think they know their boy Xiden isn't going to be in office 5+ more years, and need to make a move soon while they still operate the US exective branch. The replacement/successor can't be equally/more of a sell out to them.

I, for one, will not celebrate our collective role/guilt at sacrificing a whole people in the interest of some sort of internet joy favored by the CCP/oligarchs of Russia/Ukraine alike, Greta Thunberg, and the Biden familia.

Please, stop acting like you give a **** about Ukraine or Ukrainians and spewing this self-righteous bull**** about how Ukraine is being "sacrificed."

You love to complain that Ukraine is only fighting because we keep giving them the weapons to do so, as if they have no choice but to do our bidding. They COULD at any time choose to capitulate to the Russians, regardless of anything we give them, yet they continue to choose not to every day. It's almost like they want to fight for their homeland. If you really supported Ukrainians, you'd want us to send them even more arms so they could end this faster on their terms. But no. You don't want to give them anything. You want them to capitulate to rapists, murderers, and war criminals because you just care so much and don't want to see them suffer anymore.

You love to blame Zelensky for continuing this war and accuse him of only doing so so he can convince to get rich from graft and corruption, yet there's no evidence of that. Are we expected to believe he got himself elected in 2019 so he could get Russia to invade in 2021 and get rich off the war? Maybe, just maybe, he doesn't want to set his country overrun and parts of it taken by a bunch of troglodytes.

You also love to blame the US for somehow starting all of this, again with no evidence. You, like the Russians, continually insinuate that we pushed Ukraine away from Russia politically and orchestrated a coup to get Russian backed leadership ousted. It couldn't possibly be that Ukrainians were tired of Russian influence and manipulation. No, they should be happy to stick with being someone else's vassal state instead of taking charge of their own sovereignty and determining who they will align with.

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Would any supporters of the Ukelele like to defend this? Or will you be sitting this one out?

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She probably should have gone to see Putin since he's the only reason the war is happening in the first place. Would you like to defend him bombing civilians or will you be sitting that one out?

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You probably should have ignored it. Refutation? This is just pitiful. Have a great weekend buddy.

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Will do. Enjoy openly cheering for a mass murderer!

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You referring to TeslaAg?

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Please, stop acting like you give a **** about Ukraine or Ukrainians and spewing this self-righteous bull**** about how Ukraine is being "sacrificed."

You love to complain that Ukraine is only fighting because we keep giving them the weapons to do so, as if they have no choice but to do our bidding. They COULD at any time choose to capitulate to the Russians, regardless of anything we give them, yet they continue to choose not to every day. It's almost like they want to fight for their homeland. If you really supported Ukrainians, you'd want us to send them even more arms so they could end this faster on their terms. But no. You don't want to give them anything. You want them to capitulate to rapists, murderers, and war criminals because you just care so much and don't want to see them suffer anymore.

You love to blame Zelensky for continuing this war and accuse him of only doing so so he can convince to get rich from graft and corruption, yet there's no evidence of that. Are we expected to believe he got himself elected in 2019 so he could get Russia to invade in 2021 and get rich off the war? Maybe, just maybe, he doesn't want to set his country overrun and parts of it taken by a bunch of troglodytes.

You also love to blame the US for somehow starting all of this, again with no evidence. You, like the Russians, continually insinuate that we pushed Ukraine away from Russia politically and orchestrated a coup to get Russian backed leadership ousted. It couldn't possibly be that Ukrainians were tired of Russian influence and manipulation. No, they should be happy to stick with being someone else's vassal state instead of taking charge of their own sovereignty and determining who they will align with.

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I'm apparently one of only about...40-60 percent of this forum that gives one iota about actual Ukrainians. Happy to keep standing by them despite our government's complicity in their collective death.

To your eventual second point/gripe, I am also one of the ones who has provided a plethora of links to how Nuland and biden started this war recklessly. Here is yet another link. You're more than welcome to disagree and enjoy war porn footage thinking you are enjoying the deaths of one side which is uniquely bad and your support is righteous, but it's factually wrong what you have stated above. The war has made Ukraines status as a vassal state, if even that, one way or another an inevitability. Congrats as to your enjoyment of that transition.

Ukraine and Russia are both demographically doomed, the former before the latter, but whatever, as some would say. 10 percent for the big guy.

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Russia's central bank sounded alarms on the economy Friday as the falling ruble and a record labor shortage add inflationary pressures.

Policymakers kept the benchmark interest rate steady at 7.5%, where it has been since September, but signaled an increase may be coming soon…

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"The rouble continues to crumble," Alor Broker said in a note. "It lost another 1.4% in value yesterday, despite stabilising oil. The target for the dollar-rouble pair of 90 is approaching and is likely to be reached."

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In addition, Russia is struggling with a labor shortage caused by a) the mobilization of 300,000 men of working age for the war effort and b) the flight of as many as a million men from the country to avoid the mobilization. The war itself is now the focus of the Russian economy which will create its own problems.

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"The problem is that the military-industrial complex in Russia has never been able to convert its know-how into some civilian areas. This means that the imbalance will grow and a "bubble" will inflate around the military-industrial complex," Alexandra Prokopenko predicts.

"Everything will 'shrink' in civilian areas because all the resources will flow into the military sector. This has nothing to do with normal growth. Therefore, in the short term, the sanctions have failed, as they are called, to bring down such a beast as the Russian economy. But in the long term, it is deeply ill."

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Anecdotal but my parents were young newly marrieds after WWII. And seeral years after the ware had ended, marrying in 1950. But getting consumer goods, like household appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines and stoves required being on waiting lists as the manufacturing sector had to reconvert back to what they had been producing prior to going all in on thewar effort and retooling everything.

Those things do not turn on a dime. And the war is not over yet for Russia.

It's not real hard to find similar inflationary/economic/currency worry articles/anecdotes here either though. Are they really/functionally a 'peer' economically? Heck no. Neither were North Vietnam, or the Taliban. But…

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Please, stop acting like you give a **** about Ukraine or Ukrainians and spewing this self-righteous bull**** about how Ukraine is being "sacrificed."

You love to complain that Ukraine is only fighting because we keep giving them the weapons to do so, as if they have no choice but to do our bidding. They COULD at any time choose to capitulate to the Russians, regardless of anything we give them, yet they continue to choose not to every day. It's almost like they want to fight for their homeland. If you really supported Ukrainians, you'd want us to send them even more arms so they could end this faster on their terms. But no. You don't want to give them anything. You want them to capitulate to rapists, murderers, and war criminals because you just care so much and don't want to see them suffer anymore.

You love to blame Zelensky for continuing this war and accuse him of only doing so so he can convince to get rich from graft and corruption, yet there's no evidence of that. Are we expected to believe he got himself elected in 2019 so he could get Russia to invade in 2021 and get rich off the war? Maybe, just maybe, he doesn't want to set his country overrun and parts of it taken by a bunch of troglodytes.

You also love to blame the US for somehow starting all of this, again with no evidence. You, like the Russians, continually insinuate that we pushed Ukraine away from Russia politically and orchestrated a coup to get Russian backed leadership ousted. It couldn't possibly be that Ukrainians were tired of Russian influence and manipulation. No, they should be happy to stick with being someone else's vassal state instead of taking charge of their own sovereignty and determining who they will align with.

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It's not real hard to find similar inflationary/economic/currency worry articles/anecdotes here either though. Are they really/functionally a 'peer' economically? Heck no. Neither were North Vietnam, or the Taliban. But…

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Not arguing with that.

My point was more that our manufacturing capabilities both during and after WWII were more nimble to make those pivots required at the time.

Russia's apparently is not. We had Rosie the Riveter. They have Olga, the bikini waxer in Moscow and St. Pete. (That's a joke, sort of.)

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Not arguing with that.

My point was more that our manufacturing capabilities both during and after WWII were more nimble to make those pivots required at the time.

Russia's apparently is not. We had Rosie the Riveter. They have Olga, the bikini waxer in Moscow and St. Pete. (That's a joke, sort of.)

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I'm not really sure what your point is, sorry. Russia has declined a full mobilization as they are hitting their recruiting numbers relatively easily now. That's also why they have the 'luxury' of moving away from/terminating the mercenary outfits now.

Munitions, weapons, it's all in adequate supply, basically. Not perfect supply or 'where they want it to be' but adequate. The Saudi's and Iran by comparison have somewhat similar 'resource' driven economies and are also doing 'ok' for the ruling class. This is a bit of an amusing war on their doorstep that has enriched (and further empowered) their oligarchs and ours (and the Bidens), is what I am saying.

I will keep my eye on who really hates this country (and has been tweeting about how horribly racist it is from a yacht in the Mediterranean this week off Greece):

Yep.

Always has.

Always will.

Attained unbelievable privilege and still whines.

— txaggal (@txaggal) June 30, 2023

Sorry to derail y'alls pillow fight ... but I've been seeing so many Russian POW pics/vids lately I couldn't resist.

Lol

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Ukes taking tons of land today and pushing to Mariupol and melitipol. Looks like Nortex is getting overdrive
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More great news justifying why they do not need another dime (not time) nor bullet from us.

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They're doing it BECAUSE they have the materiel we have helped them with...

JFC

The Russian president kissed and took selfies with regular Russians this week, a startling image for the germaphobe presidenthttps://t.co/WNs9dE7plL pic.twitter.com/fqS42jI4eW

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) June 30, 2023

DEVELOPING: Hill investigators taking closer look at April 16, 2015, meeting Joe Biden had w/ Burisma exec Vadim Pozharskyi at DC's Cafe Milano, which took place same period FBI informant says Burisma made $5m bribe. Meeting arranged by Hunter & Archer, now cooperating with House

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) July 1, 2023

It's both funny and sad how a few million bucks to…a certain corrupt quarter can tilt the course of history. I guess the messes of the balkans have been more portentous than some of us have thought/hoped, though.