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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1801 » by Zenzibar » Thu Apr 21, 2022 6:10 pm

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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1802 » by 8516knicks » Thu Apr 21, 2022 10:10 pm

Anyone notice the string of Russian oligach's killing their families and committing suicide lately? Now also a string of suspicious fires in and around Moscow - BREAKING: Russia - Dmitrievsky Chemical Plant burned down today on the outskirts of Moscow. This is the largest Russian manufacturer of chemical solvents. Located 250 miles EAST of Moscow. We are beginning to see a pattern develop.And the SAMe day the main building of the 2nd Central Research Institute of the Russian Ministry of Defence, it focuses on the development of anti-aircraft and air & space defense weapons, navigation devices, etc. The roof has since collapsed.
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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1803 » by HarthorneWingo » Sat Apr 23, 2022 1:13 pm

8516knicks wrote:Anyone notice the string of Russian oligach's killing their families and committing suicide lately? Now also a string of suspicious fires in and around Moscow - BREAKING: Russia - Dmitrievsky Chemical Plant burned down today on the outskirts of Moscow. This is the largest Russian manufacturer of chemical solvents. Located 250 miles EAST of Moscow. We are beginning to see a pattern develop.And the SAMe day the main building of the 2nd Central Research Institute of the Russian Ministry of Defence, it focuses on the development of anti-aircraft and air & space defense weapons, navigation devices, etc. The roof has since collapsed.


I have not seen any reports on this. That crazy about the oligarchs. You’d think that they would have had an Plan B in case things went south with little **** Putin.
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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1804 » by 8516knicks » Sat Apr 23, 2022 2:16 pm

i got some of it off that Igor racecardriver's Twitter. also UK newspapers online.
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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1805 » by Jethrobodine123 » Sat Apr 23, 2022 4:44 pm

8516knicks wrote:Anyone notice the string of Russian oligach's killing their families and committing suicide lately? Now also a string of suspicious fires in and around Moscow - BREAKING: Russia - Dmitrievsky Chemical Plant burned down today on the outskirts of Moscow. This is the largest Russian manufacturer of chemical solvents. Located 250 miles EAST of Moscow. We are beginning to see a pattern develop.And the SAMe day the main building of the 2nd Central Research Institute of the Russian Ministry of Defence, it focuses on the development of anti-aircraft and air & space defense weapons, navigation devices, etc. The roof has since collapsed.


Yes, very interesting development indeed. You have to wonder if it's a matter of some Ukrainians living in the country or perhaps sympathetic Russians who are attacking these targets. Could be the beginning of something. The oligarchs deaths are also something to watch, it could become a trend. Some in the wealthy class (those who have stolen from the state) have had it too good for much too long.

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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1806 » by 8516knicks » Sat Apr 23, 2022 5:24 pm

List of Russian oligarchs who have been found dead in mysterious circumstance since Jan, per Newsweek

✔️ Sergey Protosenya
✔️ Vladislav Avaev
✔️ Vasily Melnikov
✔️ Mikhail Watford
✔️ Alexander Tyulyakov
✔️ Leonid Shulman

https://newsweek.com/every-russian-oligarch-who-has-died-since-putin-invaded-ukraine-full-list-1700022
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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1807 » by Jethrobodine123 » Sat Apr 23, 2022 11:50 pm

8516knicks wrote:List of Russian oligarchs who have been found dead in mysterious circumstance since Jan, per Newsweek

✔️ Sergey Protosenya
✔️ Vladislav Avaev
✔️ Vasily Melnikov
✔️ Mikhail Watford
✔️ Alexander Tyulyakov
✔️ Leonid Shulman

https://newsweek.com/every-russian-oligarch-who-has-died-since-putin-invaded-ukraine-full-list-1700022


When you make a deal with the devil that's what you get. Don't feel sorry for these people, they were living lives that kings and queens couldn't imagine. Too bad, so sad.

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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1808 » by 8516knicks » Sun Apr 24, 2022 12:38 am

Jethrobodine123 wrote:
8516knicks wrote:List of Russian oligarchs who have been found dead in mysterious circumstance since Jan, per Newsweek

✔️ Sergey Protosenya
✔️ Vladislav Avaev
✔️ Vasily Melnikov
✔️ Mikhail Watford
✔️ Alexander Tyulyakov
✔️ Leonid Shulman

https://newsweek.com/every-russian-oligarch-who-has-died-since-putin-invaded-ukraine-full-list-1700022


When you make a deal with the devil that's what you get. Don't feel sorry for these people, they were living lives that kings and queens couldn't imagine. Too bad, so sad.

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But to axe your kid to death? That's a bridge too far in any universe.
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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1809 » by 8516knicks » Sun Apr 24, 2022 12:52 am

AND ANOTHER TWO BIT THE DUST...

ukrainetoday.org/…

The Chief Intelligence Directorate reports that two Russian generals have been killed in Kherson Region.

Source: Chief Intelligence Directorate

Details: The Intelligence Directorate says that on 22 April, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched an attack on the forward command post of the 49th Combined Arms Army of the Russian occupying forces, which, contrary to combat regulations and common sense, was deployed a short distance from the line of battle in Kherson Region.
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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1810 » by Jethrobodine123 » Sun Apr 24, 2022 3:18 pm

8516knicks wrote:
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8516knicks wrote:List of Russian oligarchs who have been found dead in mysterious circumstance since Jan, per Newsweek

✔️ Sergey Protosenya
✔️ Vladislav Avaev
✔️ Vasily Melnikov
✔️ Mikhail Watford
✔️ Alexander Tyulyakov
✔️ Leonid Shulman

https://newsweek.com/every-russian-oligarch-who-has-died-since-putin-invaded-ukraine-full-list-1700022


When you make a deal with the devil that's what you get. Don't feel sorry for these people, they were living lives that kings and queens couldn't imagine. Too bad, so sad.

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But to axe your kid to death? That's a bridge too far in any universe.


Obviously, I wasn't talking about small defenceless children, that is an absolute tragedy.

However, the Oligarchs and their wives and grown children who are attending the top schools all over the world, with ill begotten money from the people of Russia, they can all go #$%# themselves. You see it in Manhattan, how some of these people live, it's another world all together. Having been to London, Paris and the South of France, it's an eye opener, the Czars never had it so good.

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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1811 » by thebuzzardman » Sun Apr 24, 2022 3:45 pm

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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1812 » by 8516knicks » Wed May 4, 2022 9:55 pm

Saw Ukraine destroyed their first Russian T-90 tank. 2016 cost in USD was 4.5 Million!
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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1813 » by HighRyzer83 » Wed May 4, 2022 10:12 pm

8516knicks wrote:Saw Ukraine destroyed their first Russian T-90 tank. 2016 cost in USD was 4.5 Million!

Nice. I'd like to see them trash the new Armada.
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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1814 » by Pointgod » Mon May 9, 2022 1:32 pm

Read on Twitter

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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1815 » by thebuzzardman » Mon May 9, 2022 2:07 pm

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Read on Twitter

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The Russian population is fairly uneducated now. They are going on 30+ years of deemphasizing public education, so they have the exact stupid working class they were going for.

I feel like they got a good head start but the USA will catch up. We can't be that far behind.
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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1816 » by Clyde_Style » Mon May 9, 2022 5:45 pm

thebuzzardman wrote:
Pointgod wrote:
Read on Twitter

Read on Twitter


The Russian population is fairly uneducated now. They are going on 30+ years of deemphasizing public education, so they have the exact stupid working class they were going for.

I feel like they got a good head start but the USA will catch up. We can't be that far behind.


The brain drain from Russia due to this war is a real thing. The ones with skills and the sense to know what this war meant for Russian society have skipped the border in the tens of thousands apparently. Maybe we can bring them here to slow down the dumbing down of Americans
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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1817 » by KnicksGadfly » Mon May 9, 2022 10:36 pm

Forgot where I read this recently but there was someone talking about how a lot of these authoritarian governments realized the best way to combat liberal democracy was to utilize extreme nationalism
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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1818 » by N8isScofield » Mon May 9, 2022 11:59 pm

KnicksGadfly wrote:Forgot where I read this recently but there was someone talking about how a lot of these authoritarian governments realized the best way to combat liberal democracy was to utilize extreme nationalism

This is something I learned about almost 25 years ago in Social Studies and yet there are people who I recall sitting in the class next to me who are basically the same ilk as the Capitol rioters. Even education can't combat it. It's appealing to something rotten inside a person which is either innate or learned early at home.
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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1819 » by thebuzzardman » Tue May 10, 2022 11:01 am

Clyde_Style wrote:
thebuzzardman wrote:
Pointgod wrote:
Read on Twitter

Read on Twitter


The Russian population is fairly uneducated now. They are going on 30+ years of deemphasizing public education, so they have the exact stupid working class they were going for.

I feel like they got a good head start but the USA will catch up. We can't be that far behind.


The brain drain from Russia due to this war is a real thing. The ones with skills and the sense to know what this war meant for Russian society have skipped the border in the tens of thousands apparently. Maybe we can bring them here to slow down the dumbing down of Americans


I don't know. Then you wind up bringing in bitter zealous over educated Russian nuts like Ayn Rand, who wind up causing all sorts of long term problems with their BS pseudo philosophy.
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Re: OT: Russia-Ukraine War 

Post#1820 » by Luv those Knicks » Tue May 10, 2022 12:23 pm

Haven't read all 90 pages of this thread - not close, but does anyone here watch Beau of the Fifth Column on Youtube. He's got some pretty interesting takes on Ukraine.

This one I thought was interesting and it makes sense.

God invented war so Americans would learn geography.

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