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If it’s almost certainly coming anyway then you may as well throw them a bone first

And if it isn’t coming anyway, then you’ve done a little bit to screw up the plans of impending worldwide fascist domination

I’d call that a win-win

Tell that to the power vacuum left behind after…

No! Two things are never allowed to be true at the same time!

In any other situation I would agree with you, but are you confident that deserting the Russian army fucks you over more than living in North Korea does? Because I’m not really sure.

No probably about it, he’s come right out and said so.

And last year you could have also said “nobody is going to threaten nuclear escalation with all of NATO at once” and I’d have believed it, but look where we are

The article states nothing about this and has no images implying it.

Uh, Russia will be too broke to continue funding their war offensive in Ukraine, and then if they try to continue it anyway they’ll be too broke to continue functioning as a nation. That’s kind of the point of sanctions. Did you read the article?

Payment scuffles between Russian companies and Chinese banks have escalated in recent weeks, with nearly all Chinese banks stopping transactions with Russia. Some banks have even returned payments for goods that had already been sent to Russia, out of fear of being targeted by sanctions, a Russian media outlet reported.

Drop the war, investors return, everyone is happy. If they want to continue the war they better start checking their couch cushions for rubles. That’s what the sanctions are for, that’s what they do. It’s a lever to pull to convince Putin to back off his warmongering without resorting to direct violence against Moscow and, undoubtedly, innocents caught up in it.

China is pulling all their funding from Russia due to sanctions. That’s the article we’re in the comments of.

Astral Yeehaw, what a fucking band name, that’s legendary

I love White Wolf games for this reason. Many other reasons too but this is a fun one. Like playing VTM, it’s super easy to get caught up in all the pseudo-Victorian drama of the vampires and then suddenly panic when the vamp hunter eschews his wooden stakes and garlic and instead shows up with a flamethrower. It’s modern times out here baby. Like shit, I just spent two hours walking across town because I forgot our setting is set in fucking 1998 and I can just call a taxi.

It is in this thread, it posted two days ago with a high reliability rating. People downvoted the shit out of it.

If all that they have to continue throwing at this war is casualties, Ukraine has already won. Russia may have plenty of meat left but they do not have equipment left. And no war, especially a modern one, is going to be won without equipment and vehicles. Ukraine has NATO support behind them and Russia has… North Korea, maybe China if they’re feeling charitable that day.

Genuinely thought that’s where I was until I saw this comment

You keep thinking that bud. Your eyes are blinded to the truth of the world. But you’ll find out.

It’s close enough to work for napkin math, just don’t try to build a bridge to these specifications.

As far as I know that’s already the case.

But nobody is going to know about it except you and (optionally) whoever you hired to do it if not yourself, so you’re only getting fined/arrested for it after you’re caught going 180mph.

Not really… It’s not that anything he says instantly becomes law, it’s only that he can’t be charged with committing a crime. It’s not a cheat code that lets him create or modify any law because the change or new law just won’t be recognized by the government. It isn’t a crime, per se, it just gets ignored. Or it gets voted on and the GOP squashes it.

Fucking lol,

This entire thread is people giving you answers that range from reasonable to nuanced, and you sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming about how the only options are murder or nothing.

I don’t get to pull this quote out very often, so please, feel honored.

What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Trump’s election proved that most of America’s governmental system was based around a series of “gentlemen’s agreements” and an expectation of fair play. America is not resilient to betrayal in any fashion. If one person stops respecting the rule of fair play the entire system crumbles.