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and a Ukrainian flag you can hang on your wall to make masturbating to your heroes torturing prisoners even more fun Petie: https://twitter.com/ProudSocialist/status/1505763312981655552?s=20&t=zuIzvwLGvBRFD6gmKTH2qw

Something for Pete1111 (who calls me a lying machine) `to masturbate to; Russian POW's of the Nazi Azov Ukraine army being tortured and executed. Get your poppers ready Pete1111, there's plenty of these being proudly spread around together with vids of dead soldiers' mothers and families being called on their cellphones and laughed at and more of POWs being buried alive (while NUDE !!! oh boy Petie!!)

and you haven't proven they have non-nuclear warheads.

I think any normal unbiased person would assume country A is putting nuclear warheads on "defensive" missiles outside country B's capitol if that's a strategic advantage militarily and there's no inspection. p.s.- there's no Easter Bunny either.

The Russians invested a lot in decoys for their missiles that can overwhelm anti-missile systems. Those decoys had never been inspected by the US before. When anti-missile missiles miss their target because of decoys they explode somewhere. The US claims 3/4 of the Russian missiles were shot down in the training base attack. Where did they land when shot down? Probably at random, just as many missiles and anti-missile missiles do. In urban areas that's deadly. And even admitting 1/4 got through to their targets means the US is a long way from any Iron Dome type defense system. The "defensive" missiles on the US base on the Polish/Ukrainian border can and probably secretively do use some nuclear warheads. There's no "inspections". That puts missiles an hour from Moscow. That's what experienced people from all sides have been warning the US not to do or it would provoke war. We did it anyway.

My point is there are missiles flying everywhere in Ukraine and because there are so many more than other wars (and possibly because the Russians are masters at missile evasion technology), a large percentage do not hit their target and land at random. And those little shoulder-launched missiles are rarely accurate in urban areas. Doubling, tripling or quadrupling the number of missiles already flying around is not civilian population-friendly. But that's our US plan. People need to realize that air war now is not airplanes, and certainly not helicopters, but missiles and drones. A lot of them. And they can be launched from hundreds or even thousands of miles away from planes, ships, or land. And they're not as precise as the military corporations propagandize us to believe they are. The US Patriot missiles just placed on the border with Poland on the same base there are nuclear missiles pointed at Moscow are an acknowledgement that in the training base attack many of Russia's missiles got through. (And they were launched from Russia so Ukrainian/US anti-missile missiles had almost 1000 miles to detect and destroy them). What happens when a nuclear missile on the ground is hit by an incoming missile? I'd be surprised if neither side launches a big false-flag incident to escalate. In the west at least only PR and spin matters, not reality. Russia also needs to rally popular support. Sanctions almost always lead to increased government support. We've been through this many times including Iraq and Venezuela. And being friendly to the US is going to become very dangerous in Russia again as hate of America increases. Ultimately the US must keep the U.S. dollar as the universal financial currency or our economy collapses. Our best friends the Saudis just saying they might switch to the Chinese Yuan last week had the US and Boris groveling while they beheaded 84 people, including gays. Kicking Russia off the dollar has a downside too. Obviously I'd say Ukraine and Russia should have agreed to ceasefire line observers in Donbas. Or autonomy. Or something. They signed the treaty.

I understand international relations well; I do not understand war. I don't know why Russia used this as a reason to go to war with Ukraine as a whole country but maybe that's the way wars work. IDK. I would have preferred an international, maybe UN, peacekeeping force on the ceasefire line in Donbas. But Ukraine and US would say "no". I think Ukraine, Russia, Europe, and the poor 3/4 in the US, will be much much worse off now, even if the fighting stopped tomorrow. (it won't). And yes, in the US half our budget and much of our economy is based on military weapons and corporations and so war is really good for the rich. So we keep going into one after another killing millions of people in the meantime. Cannon fodder for Wall Street. The rich who get richer off our wars and would love a WWIII have unfortunately never had to consider what nuclear war would do to their bottom line and are just batshit crazy enough to think it won't harm them.

When America is in "go to war" fever it's worse to try and be neutral and look at both sides' views than to be the enemy. My training to see both sides in international matters doesn't fit well with the pro-war mob whether it's Iraq or Russia. Good. Damn good. From well before the war started I repeated that adherence by Ukraine to the Minsk treaties signed by Russia and Ukraine and negotiated by Germany and France was the best course for Ukraine. Does anyone sane think the war in Ukraine now is better than recognizing the autonomy of Donbas? It wasn't even worth the 14,000 lives there since that 2015 treaty. Worse, avoiding nuclear war should be any sane person's #1 goal and we weren't even this close to war in the Cuba missile crisis. President Zelenskyy today on NBC evidently told Lester Holt that we may now be in WWIII. Indeed we may. Wars don't stay limited or diminish. They always spiral. And all this airplane talk shows how we don't realize what war is now. It's all missiles (and drones). The cruise missiles that hit the training base were launched from airplanes in Russia over 800 miles away. Most of the hundreds of missiles fired do not hit their target but land and expode somewhere. I just read in a Brit paper that yesterday the US moved two huge batteries of Patriot missiles to the airbase in Poland next to the Ukraine border pointed at Ukraine and Russia. I think it's the same missile base that Russia started this war over. No one cares that we are rapidly moving to nuclear war. I remember how Iraq was also going to be a glorious short war and the people would welcome NATO with parades for saving them. Ditto Libya, Syria, Vietnam, etc etc etc. This war will most likely follow that spiral or worse. I don't think this was worth the many lives that will be taken and certainly not a nuclear war just to save Ukraine from recognizing Donbas's autonomy. I don't have to support my country's genocides or corporate manipulation into serial wars to be a patriot. Fuck anyone who says that. And anyone who doesn't mind a WWIII is crazy.

All you do are personal insults.

If you don't think this war is growing that's your right to that opinion. But nasty personal insults are all you know.

Things that popped out today: there was no mention of the nationalities of those killed in the attack on the training base. It had been called "Camp Gator" and was run by the Florida Nat'l Guard. If there were any Americans it would set off demands for war with Russia. If they were spirited out by the US two weeks ago it means the US realized this might happen. Of 2 dozen missiles, stinger missiles shot down 18. Ukraine in retaliation unleashed missles on the Donbas capital building killing 17 civilians but there was hardly a peep from the war media. Biden is going to have to give into a no-fly zone after Zelensky speaks to Congress wednesday. That is an act of war if a plane is shot down. But there have been very few Russian planes as the missiles were shot from airplanes over Russia. They go that far. The war is still spiraling.

Oliver Stone's landmark documentary "Ukraine on Fire" history of Ukraine from 2016 is free on YouTube:

The war's been on for less than 2 weeks. I don't assume it will be over in another 2 or that an incident or escalation won't happen. You can't control wars once they start. Usually if you bet on the worst when a war starts you'll win as the only predictability is that they spiral. We need to remember that only 10% of the world's population is "western" and the rest don't march to the western media drummer or care about European drama. Worldwide the China vs western conflict is paramount and certainly China is glad for Russia being "kicked out" of the west, tradewise, financially, monetary wise, and every way. But "measured response" unfortunately gives away what will happen when China seizes Taiwan. I saw this online from a Chinese poster: "Ukraine literally does a Presentation about what the west would react when mainland unify Taiwan: 1. Economic sanctions 2. Light up the landmark buildings 3. Condemn/Protest 4. Stand with Taiwan ONLINE 5. NEVER SEND TROOPS How bad could it be? Wake up! Taiwan separatists" The alternative is the media keeps ramping up it's Germans cutting women's breasts off in Belgium stories until the the west escalates to major war. Once you've unleashed the dogs of media you can't bring them back to reason. I certainly hope I'm wrong but I would have never believed it could get this far either. Now we're going to get a lot more blood that will escalate tensions and hatred. I hope it ends well but it usually doesn't.

Do you really think the people dead even so far are worth not compromising at all on Donbas autonomy? And yes, if Poland or anywhere had a small breakaway area that wants autonomy or independence I'd always say "let it go" instead of killing thousands of people over that issue and especialy risking nuclear war. That's true whether it's Scotand or Wales or Catalonia, or Quebec, or Modolva, or Slovakia or Donbas or Ukraine splitting from Russia. It's not worth the bloodshed to keep people against their will. And self-determination is a good thing. I have friends who are Russian-Ukrainian and Ukrainian in Prague and friends who are Russian and I wish the best for all of them. I think it's awful governments have failed us such that so many people will be killed. Now we are headed into a war between nuclear powers escalating a lot every day we have to figure out how to stop. It won't be easy and a lot of people will die. It wasn't necessary. Also- fear of the powerful aggressor causing other countries to yield is the US position in almost every one of our many invasions. Half a million murdered by our blockade on Iraq and a half million murdered by our troops. etc etc etc. How dare the Russians act that barbaric ! The US thought it had a patent on barbarism.

Typical insults from small-minded pro-war sycophants in the lead-up to every single war. If you're not for going to war you're friends with the enemy. Insults are all you have because there's no halfway intelligent reason for war with a nuclear power. Like all our last dozen wars and invasions they turn out to be stupid and bad for the US. And this one is the big banana that could kill half the US population. For nothing. Try making intelligent arguments for a war instead of crude stupid insults. Do you not realize that is a video? And it is a hilarious one on the pro-war media's lies .

Not being blood thristy and staying objective is not unpatriotic. This crazy jingoism at the start of all our wars is. It gets Americans and many others killed for nothing. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya were miserable bloodbaths for everyone for nothing but they weren't nuclear wars. But, but, we've really got it right on this one ! No. This is the same war hysteria as the other bloodbaths , just a lot more serious.

Finding it ironic that Putin was America's candidate to lead Russia and that Zelensky was Russia's choice to lead Ukraine has nothing to do with taking sides. Neither does finding irony in Condolezza Rice (with a straight face and serious) saying a country invading another country is a war crime. Nor war criminal Hillary talking war crimes with the blood of around a million (not white) people on her hands with Biden right behind. The pro-war media is ridiculous in what it can get away with in the lead-up to all our wars it pushes. We always go into a pro-war hysteria in the US at the beginning. This isn't a video game or a movie; a lot of real people are really dying on both sides. And a rapidly escalating war between nuclear countries has been unimaginable from 1962 to today. Hot war between the US and Russia?--OMG. Inflaming passions just kills more people. It's hard to be objective but it's necessary to save lives. And it's not completely illegal yet. (But the censoring of opposing views is getting there fast).

main stream media should probably never go live:

Putin was the democratic supporter the US helped make sure won in Russia. We gave a ton of money to help him and Yeltsin win the democratic election against the communists and had the CIA etc all working to get him in. He expected Russia would be a US ally. Instead because of middle east politics we changed to a policy of destroying Russia. There's consensus that was a stupid US move. In similiar irony, Zelensky was the pro-Russian candidate who won overwhelmingly in Ukraine's election. He promised elimination of corruption and alliance with Russia. Corruption has gotten much worse under him and Russian friendship is dead. He came under control of one huge oligarch. Zelensky as pro- Russian comedian and candidate:

pain in the ass

perfect example today of the absence of journalism. the Under Sectretary of State in Congressional testimony yesterday said Ukraine has bio weapons labs they are scared will fall to Russians. Biden's press secretary today says that information was put out by Russia and China so we should be on alert for a bio-weapons attack from Russia. Our pro-war media won't touch the odd story. wtf? Sadaam's bio weapons of mass destruction argument? update: our government has finally published the official spin that every media outlet is to run. Not true obviously from what the Asst Sec of State testified yesterday but only spin matters: https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-warns-russia-may-231621400.html

Britian overextended itself in the 1800's spending all it's resources on war until by 1914 (the last time Europe was in war lust like the present) it was a lesser power. The USSR overextended itself in the later 1900's trying to control too many countries, especially in Europe. Now it's a lesser power (except for those missiles). The US for a while has been spending half it's discretionary budget on our military to control the world. But as a capitalist country most of that money is wasted. We pay $1000 for toilet seats and $800 for hammers and one of our biggest national expenditures is the F-35 which would be worthless against China. After massive spending our military corporations still cannot figure out a working supersonic missile. Our corporate military budget means Americans have to have less income security and healthcare than other similar countries for less effect. We've borrowed to overextend ourselves for many years and we're rapidly diminishing as a power just as Britian and Russia did. It's China's century and our wars in the middle east and now wars between western countries just hastens China's hegemony. And don't think "our" corporations or banks still rule the world. Those corporations are increasingly multinational by the day. (If anything Google and Microsoft are more Indian and many corporations are minority American-owned -and-run now.) The effort we've been making to de-couple from Chinese technology has also been expensive and disrupting the past few years and is showing mixed results at best. However awful the coming Chinese domination may be, the US domination of the world is ending very quickly. I hope the crazy news leaks today that the US has biochemical labs in Ukraine and that it has hired 500 ISIS/al Queda fighters to help fight in Ukraine are not true. If either is true this war is really spiraling out of control (as they usually do).

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Anyplace I go I carry emergency large bills or $100 ones folded in the bottom of my sock. Been "robbed" 3 times in a decade but no one ever checked sock bottoms. Wallets can be picked without taking them out and are the worst place to keep much money. Money exchange is a PITA everywhere. Many times I find the hassle of getting good rates and the loss on leftover cash makes it easier to just always pay in US $ for escorts at least. If they'd just take credit cards !

I suspect as much as Russians like to vacation, MasterCard and Visa may have shot themselves in the foot in this war and Russians (and probably others) will be dumping them for the Chinese card or even better some politically-neutral card. I'm wondering how all those world's best gay Russians on Chaterbate, F4F and OnlyFans are getting paid. Also about that visa-free ferry from Helsinki to St Pete this summer. And most of the routes I'm taking US to central Europe this summer seem a lot cheaper and faster on Turkish with a stop in Instanbul. Weird that Turkish seems like a "safer" bet than other airlines right now.