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Booger says

Assuming that they actually get any volunteers.

A few cases of vodka and a few packs of cigarettes ought to do it as a sign up incentive.

HunterTits says

richwicks says

No, it can't.

Think you seriously need help, dude. You takin' your meds?

I think it's funny you can see the US government regularly lie to the population, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbFdLjrOsqU

There was NEVER any intention of passing that $2,000 "stimulus check". Ever.

But you think Russia's government can be trusted. That's what you are saying.

What's a little annoying is that I can see consistent patterns and because I apply these observations not to just my government, but ALL governments, you think this makes me crazy - well really, you're just insulting me because I dismiss claims that you accept because I'm FAR less gullible than you are.

There's no reason to trust anything that is being claimed by the Russian government. Public statements about intentions to pass bills are often to cause a reaction from the public - i.e. posturing. Maybe whoever is pushing the bill (supposedly) is just posturing because they oppose the war, because they have a bunch of investments in Ukraine they're losing.

I'm not exactly cynical, but I'm fucking completely aware of how this world works. I'm naive, I'm not gullible, and I'm PROPERLY suspicious.

Russia isn't in any danger of running out of military men. They have conscription still. They have nuclear weaponry. This idea that Russia is in some some sort of desperate situation when Ukrainians of fighting age are FORCED TO FIGHT with Molotov cocktails against TANKS - read the writing on the wall. Look the stupid tactics of Ukraine - these people buried themselves in a TOMB under the Mariupol steel plant - our bullshit fucking propaganda was trying to spin this as some sort of plan - it was obviously a desperate move because they HAD to know the the Russians, who BUILT THE DAMNED PLACE and had FULL PLANS TO IT, would know how to just seal them in.

I'm tired of the fucking propaganda, and I'm tired of idiots repeating it.

I'm sick and tired of people trusting our major media, believing governments, how FUCKING GULLIBLE ARE YOU?

When the bill is law, you wake me up. Any idiot can propose any fucking bill.

It appears that Russia is fighting a war of attrition, and is going to drag this out for YEARS. Europe is going to be in a bind when this time, next year, they stop selling oil to Europe, but maybe they won't, maybe they'll just double the cost. They already put a floor on the Ruble by tying it to gold, this is an EXTREME break from the financial system something that the US has gone to war over in Iraq and Libya - if rumors are to be trusted.

richwicks says

HunterTits says

richwicks says

No, it can't.

Think you seriously need help, dude. You takin' your meds?

I think it's funny you can see the US government regularly lie to the population, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbFdLjrOsqU

There was NEVER any intention of passing that $2,000 "stimulus check". Ever.

But you think Russia's government can be trusted. That's what you are saying.

What's a little annoying is that I can see consistent patterns and because I apply these observations not to just my government, but ALL governments, you think this makes me crazy - well really, you're just insulting me because I dismiss claims that y...

If the rumors of Putin's illness are true, then I believe that he is implementing his legacy, whatever that is, before he departs this earth.

We can argue whether he is right or wrong, but impending certain death clarifies the mind. If he's a soon to be dead man, he might be saying truly what he means, similar to deathbed confessions.

stereotomy says

If the rumors of Putin's illness are true, then I believe that he is implementing his legacy, whatever that is, before he departs this earth.

There's no such thing as a supreme leader, people can only operate with the co-operation of the people below them, and there's always people above them. There's the fanciful idea of the pyramid structure, put people oversee and are overseen by groups of people. Putin isn't in control, a group is, and with that group it's circular oversight - A is over B is over C is over A.

Putin isn't in the control that the mythology claims he is. This is a construct. The US ALWAYS does this. Kim Jong Un is not supreme leader. He's supreme figurehead, just as Putin is. If Putin drops dead tomorrow, there will be no change in policy and Putin doesn't control policy, at best, he has some limited input to it.

Putin has more control than Biden does of course, Biden is purely a figurehead and has no oversight. Obama and Bush Jr. were purely puppets as well.

Booger says

Bd6r says

WRT to Russian bill, it is a win-win for them. They get cannon fodder to throw against Ukrainians AND save on retirement payments as old farts are utilized!

Assuming that they actually get any volunteers.

They have their methods to persuade their subjects to volunteer RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

RWSGFY says

They have their methods to persuade their subjects to volunteer RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

I question if they are actually volunteers, yes.