B.utt P.lug for life!!!

Yeah but praetorians historically loved installing new leaders via assassination

They’re the only ones saying anything or attempting anything official. They know they can’t remove him without the other chamber, but it is important to have these things on the official record for both the public and for a future session of Congress who could do something with it

My underpants are also corrupt

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Oh man wait until you hear about China starting a territory dispute with India, Japan, the Philippines, and building artificial islands to try and claim more territory!

What dumb fucking country tries to start a land war with THE ONE OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WITH A COMPARABLE POPULATION?

They had nuclear weapons. Under a treaty with Russia to respect their borders, Ukraine gave them up. Russia broke that treaty. Now Russia is mad they could very well lose their 2014 gains and wants to negotiate peace, but Ukraine says absolutely not while we’re still making progress on the offensive campaign, and Ukraine is about to launch an offensive on Crimea. Why would they give up ground they’ve gained and ground they could wrestle back?

What is Russia’s perspective? They invaded, and now they’re upset they could lose the land they stole in 2014. They wanted a warm water port. They got it. But then they wanted all of the farm land in Ukraine, so they invaded again. Now they have no hope of gaining the farmland, and they may never get full use of the warm water port in Crimea. There is zero chance the Ukrainian people stop harassing Crimea.

NATO expanded as a result of the 2014 invasion (2017, 2020, 2023), so that member nations can maintain their ancestral lands and have no fear of being invaded by… You guessed it: Russia

So what you’re saying is like: China annexes all of Russia, bombs the hell out of it, and then says “why won’t they just agree to stop fighting? We’re doing this for you! We raped your citizens and deported your children because your leaders are (ironically) Jewish Nazis!”

Why should any sovereign nation give up land to invaders, especially when they’re in the middle of an offensive campaign? The US News is reporting Ukraine is about to start an offensive in Crimea, so why on earth would they stop to negotiate with a bully who is currently getting their asses charred?

When you’re winning at LoL or Fortnite, do you suddenly go to your opponent and say “Hey man! We should stop fighting, and share this victory! I don’t like that I’m currently winning! Here’s half my inventory and points. Enjoy!”

Your username kinda gives you away. You should consider using one of your alts

Yes he is truly on a role!

Ahhh yes! The Wagner “coup” preceded by a military buildup on the Russian side! Didn’t something similar happen in Russia recently? If memory serves, the leader of both coups is still alive and still a person that even Putin can’t just kill off. What was his name? Yevgeny Prigozhin, you say? Tell us more about the coup!

And now Ukraine is hitting downtown Moscow with drones. That coup?

Edit: You see, the trolls don’t know how to respond when they’re not allowed to talk about a subject that could hurt the viewpoint of Russian/Chinese propaganda. Next up: labor death camps! How’s that diplomat from China that went missing? Is Navalny in good health?

Bahaha look at you. “Everyone who disagrees with me is a bootlicker/troll/westerner.”

Don’t feed the troll. He’s an actual professional troll who will try his hardest to drag you into a debate. I like to just keep editing my comments with new links that refute his claims, and that’s when he totally loses it and gives me -30 and himself +55 updoots on a post with a grand total of 18 votes. He’s really aggressive but he’s not very good at his job.

Edit: I can see he has gone through my post history and downvoted everything so I have 0 or negative karma or whatever it’s called… and he did it a week afterwards. He’s a spiteful little troll, isn’t he? I don’t care about updoots. You can’t silence the truth, you dumb fuck.

That athlete represents the government in an official capacity at a world event. You’re making it out like they somehow don’t represent Russia.

I can see by your downvote but failure to reply that you believe the athlete does not represent Russia. Then why have country distinctions at all?

The rules are set up to present a ladylike/gentlemanly behavior in the face of good sportsmanship. There is nothing ungentlemanly or unladylike in refusing to shake hands when a sword tap will suffice.

There is also nothing unladylike about not wanting to touch the person who represents your rapists. If the athlete representing Russia doesn’t like that treatment, they can choose to participate without representing a nation.

There are simple solutions to all of these problems, but the most important aspect is she had an agreement with the official that a sword tap would be appropriate and acceptable beforehand. Downvotes mean nothing without a response. I can sign up for 10 accounts and manipulate the votes too!

Being forced to shake hands with the representation of the people committing war crimes against your family and nation is an awful standard.

“Okay, we know he raped you, but it’s been 17 months. Just get over it and shake his hand.”

I hadn’t heard of the YouTube thing. Doesn’t matter because I don’t use it, but it’s still outrageous.

I am willing to watch an ad or two every 15 minutes, so long as they are no more than a minute total of wasted time. This ultra-monetization crap where it’s a minute and a half every 5 minutes is why people use AdBlockers and pirate media.

Be reasonable as a business, and you’ll get a reasonable response. Flood my free time with ads, and you get AdBlock and piracy.

Americans don’t need to pretend about it. We are well aware that our war machine is what keeps the dollar on top, and keeps our place on the world stage. Adversarial countries are well aware. The reason China has publicly stated they want a military that can compete with the US by 2050, is because the smartest people in government understand your influence only goes as far as your military can reach. That military ability has come at a cost of basic things a world leading country should have at home: healthcare, affordable higher education, etc. Imagine if all of those brilliant minds in the military were instead focused on the issues that face an average citizen!

I had a deployment with Polish soldiers. They are a modern and extremely capable defensive force. It would likely turn into the same thing we’re seeing in Ukraine (smaller force that is well trained and better supplied vs sending a lot of bodies and old tech). I don’t think we’ll ever see a Polish led force invading Belarus or Russia without a massive NATO backing and a lot of foreign units already on the way to support them. Defensively, they will fuck you up. Offensively, they don’t have the man power to go deep into enemy territory.

The Polish have historical grudges with Russia and are chomping at the bit to hurt some Russians. It is probably NATO that is holding them back from sending units to Ukraine

I got banned for quoting a subreddit rule to a mod (as a reason the mod was out of line) after they posted why they banned someone. I may not be good at sports or computers, but I’m part of the team now!