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flipht, to Ukraine_UA in Republican Congresswoman Greene launches effort to oust Johnson following passage of Ukraine aid

I haven't heard anyone caring. The people who would be upset are busy with culture war screeching. I think the Biden admin did something very astute by upending Trump's entire social policy within the last month - it gives a bunch of left leaning groups a win to attribute to him, and it pulled focus from these folks who can't seem to maintain their anger at any one thing for more than a week.

Everyone I know who watches politics from the right is up in arms over the title ix stuff. None of them are paying attention to Congress right now.

flipht, to Ukraine_UA in Estonian president: Ukraine's right to attack military targets in Russia 'entirely legitimate'

Tongues and thumbs.

flipht, to Ukraine_UA in Minister says Russia to face 'maximum limitation' in Starlink terminals usage soon

Elon would lie and give them the coordinates for schools and hospitals.

flipht, to Ukraine_UA in Why some far-right Republicans are hell bent on ending further aid to Ukraine

People will seriously scream that you can't assume malice when stupidity explains it, but at the same time we have Occam's razor - the simplest explanation is usually correct.

And if these people were stupid, sometimes they'd benefit the American people and harm Russian oligarchs. But the evidence shows close to 0 help for Americans, and every action they take aids or provides cover for kleptocrats here and abroad. The simplest explanation is that this is their intention.

flipht, to Ukraine_UA in FT: Over 50% of Russians blame Ukraine for Moscow terrorist attack, survey shows

Literally only people on whom propaganda is working.

flipht, to Ukraine_UA in Shoigu: Russia to form 2 new armies by the end of 2024

Is North Korea supplying these too, or will they just mass arrest and conscript prisoners?

flipht, to Ukraine_UA in Speaker Johnson vows not to delay assistance for Ukraine: We won’t allow terrorists and tyrants to march through the globe

Sure, Jan.

flipht, to Ukraine_UA in US: Russia attacked Ukraine with North Korean missiles at least 10 times

There's a great book called The Dictator's handbook that explains why the Russian oligarchs couldn't give less of a damn. There's a YouTube video called Rules for Rulers that does a good recap of it, and the overall political theory behind all of it is Selectorate theory.

The long and the short is that as long as resources are available to the elite, and as long as they have enough to keep their underlings satisfied, the only time you have real unrest is when the dissatisfication from the bottom outweighs the resource allocation from the top.

Which they've done a good job of preventing by keeping the populous off balance and unable to organize.

flipht, to Ukraine_UA in Russia’s Medvedev threatens to nuke US, UK, Germany, Ukraine if Russia loses occupied territories

The take is actually grounded in history.

The US has notoriously bad spy craft when it comes to Russia. We spent literal decades believing they were an equal power, spending vast sums on defense to make sure we didn't fall behind. The government funded all sorts of "studies" but anyone who questioned the narrative got blackballed, and the people who kept getting that work just parroted back what the generals wanted to hear.

And then the iron curtain fell and the Berlin wall came down, and we saw the state of their military...and it was abysmal.

We are seeing the same thing with their basic war capabilities right now. Ukraine has been able to hold them off, more or less, for two years using mostly NATO cast off equipment and sunflower seeds.

There's a pretty good book that goes over a lot of this by Anne Jacobsen called The Pentagon's Brain.

flipht, to Ukraine_UA in Reuters: War in Ukraine has cost Russia up to $211 billion, US official says

The people they lost have have been young men and prisoners, mostly - people they don't actually want, and are happy to find a way to remove.

And the dream of actually participating in world society is nice, but it would require them to stop the rampant corruption in their society. Which is unlikely, since all the way up the chain is a kleptocracy.

flipht, to Ukraine_UA in EU proposes sanctions on Chinese firms aiding Russian war effort

Hey hey hey now. We want to shut off the tap to people we can't ignore, not shut off their tap to us!

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flipht, to Ukraine_UA in Speaker Johnson preemptively rejects Ukraine aid bill as it moves forward in Senate

His marching orders are to keep the narrative alive that the border is unsafe until the election.

Deal on the table to fix everything they're complaining about? Reject it.

Voters don't pay attention, especially not his voters, so it's safe for him and will help out any republican in a tight race. It's disgusting, but tactically sound.

flipht, to Ukraine_UA in Musk denies Starlink sales to Russia

Even the word conservative is a lie when they say it. Conservative is a method of not changing too much too quickly - it makes sense on paper. The problem is that their entire movement has abdicated it's intellectual responsibility and instead is actively regressive.

It makes sense not to change everything all at once, conserving some aspects of history and making sure nothing falls apart. But conservatives and progressives should have the same end goal of making things better, even if their methods and speed differ. These people see things that are absolutely fine and are curious about it because it undermines their narrative for themselves.

flipht, to Ukraine_UA in Russian military uses Starlink inside Ukraine, intelligence confirms

Or in this case, pretend to donate to the defenders and then charge them after the fact, and then give them away to the aggressor through third parties.

SpaceX says that they don't do any business with Russia, so these are either stolen, being sold by a third party illegally, or just showing up in unmarked boxes. Considering who Musk is, I will not be surprised to find out that he made this happen indirectly.

flipht, to Ukraine_UA in American political commentator Tucker Carlson spotted attending ballet in Moscow — Meduza

Was his wife with him? If not, she should be concerned about what activities were planned for after the ballet.

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