General Politics Discussion (IX) [ARCHIVED] • Page 1194

Tulsi Gabbard fucking suuuucks, my god

 

She’s the worst

 

Why is the venn diagram of people who think Putin is unhinged and people who think he can be annoyed into submission a perfect circle?

Someone please teach the liberals the difference between how diplomacy works in movies and how sanctions work irl.

 

Hell of a line

 

So basically NATO will get frisky whenever they feel like it.

 

insane

US intel seemingly went with a maximum disclosure position and was spot on except for exact timing. I would imagine they’d be pretty forthright with what they were seeing

And even outside of US intel, all you needed was TikTok and twitter to see Russia was amassing an absurd number of troops along the border

 

Yeah, that's a good fucking line. I wish this wasn't real life though.

 

Chills

 

Saw a video on Twitter of an apartment building taking a missile. Ugh.

 

For those that missed it, got a lot more posts/updates in the Invasion of Ukraine thread: Invasion of Ukraine • Page 2 • forum.chorus.fm

 

Quick reminder to be wary of optimism based on the underdog narrative. Consensus is that Russia didn’t start this at full force, and their being forced to kick up the severity of the incursion is bad news for everyone. Attachment is a deleted second tweet.

 

Oh cool, just openly questioning the institution of diplomacy now.

 

Trying to hide what is going on from your citizens....

 

gm

 

These threads (second is a response) deal with some stuff I studied closely in school and I think will be interesting to a lot of us.

The focus here is on public opinion but there’s some talk about the “pressuring oligarchs to pressure Putin” idea we’ve been discussing here and there as well.