Because Vlad is murdering them and their families….

https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/12/accidental-defenestration-and-murder-suicides-too-common-among-russian-oligarchs-and-putin

Guess why?

Oh, we care.  We care so much we went to war and fought for the past 20 years.

But it wasn’t a rage-filled, emotional thing.

Some of us are a bit more cold and steady about the serious things.

10% for the Big Guy?

C’mon… you can say it

WHAT did all these oligarchs have in common?

You believe that the war is hurting the EU more than Russia.  

Why would you NOT believe there are 57 genders?

Both require gullibility and acceptance of propaganda.

You’ve proven to be susceptible

Random thoughts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine...

A big part of the Ukraine-hate, or the "I hate both of them" stance seems to be at least partially knee-jerk and reflexive. The American Left is in power right now (save for SCOTUS) and we hate them, we hate the MSM, we hate Academia, and we hate Hollywood, all with good reason.

And add to that, the whole Hunter Biden board membership scam, Biden himself bragging publicly that he threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine to get favors, then out of sheer TDS, the Democrats and MSM turning Trump asking Ukraine to investigate Biden-related fuckery into a goddamn constitutional crisis and impeachment.

And then after a very shady election that ousted Trump and put demonstrably senile Biden in in the White House, and anyone with doubts about election integrity gets mercilessly gaslit... the Left/MSM loses their absolute shit over Jan 6th, acting like a couple of broken windows and Pelosi's stolen laptop is worse than the British burning D.C. during the war of 1812, the Civil War,  and Pearl Harbor combined.

All while we watched Antifa and BLM burning actual American cities for over two years, and largely getting a pass...

So we're pissed. Understandably so. Pissed enough that we'd (coc) already, in Minecraft,  if it wasn't for mortgages, jobs, and kids. You know, that actual "productive class" kinda stuff.

Add a little more, Covid bullshit, and record inflation, that puts a cherry on top of the whole shit-pie. And the Left gloats, demanding we eat it.

So to me it looks like we're so angry and polarized, that we're now no longer recognizing when the "broken clock is right twice a day for one minute by blind luck"-effect.

The White House doesn't have our guy in it, and both he and the MSM are "for Ukraine", so people are naturally against it. Nobody in their right mind actually approves of Russia or Putin, so the rationalization is that "They hate them both", perhaps believing that it conveys some astute sense of world-weary cynical wisdom.

I'm sure Ukraine is corrupt as fuck. However, not uniquely so by second or third world standards, especially for a former SSR.

And absolutely, there's graft and corruption whenever the US pours billions into an ally of convenience, or to oppose our main enemies in some proxy war.

Hell, sometimes the corruption is so open that people just don't see it, and just assume it's part of the status-quo, like how post WWII, so much of NATO didn't put their share of GDP into defense. That the American public then subsidized, either through taxes or inflation via deficit spending. Which either got handed over as military aid, or by our huge overseas presence. And that enabled stuff like European socialized medicine single-payer healthcare, which our own American Left likes to lecture us about.

I dunno. Maybe it's like being the richest guy out at the bar with his "friends" and is expected to buy most of the drinks. If you don't, they get pissy about it, and you're wondering if it's better to have some company, or sit at home alone with your principles.

But as to Russia and Ukraine, I liken it to the end of an action movie. Where the bad guy is flat on his back, because he's had the shit beat out of him. And everyone is standing around talking, and doesn't notice the bad guy has staggered to his feet one last time. He's wobbly, but he's pulled a knife, or maybe a backup pocket pistol.

And the little guy who's a small time crook of some sort, and has been nothing but a whiny bitch or comedic relief the whole movie, is the one who actually shoots him, putting him down for good.

If one sees the usefulness of gutting Russia economically and militarily as it tried to pick itself off the floor one last time since the Soviet Union collapsed, then $14 billion without US boots on the ground  is pretty cheap as these things go.

To put things in perspective, that's roughly what 7 B21 bombers will cost us when devopment, procurement,  and maintenance is counted. And there's decent odds we'll never even use one of them to drop bombs or nukes on a peer, or near-peer enemy.

Yes Comrade, the Founding Fathers never considered “Federalism.”

Tell us more about YOUR country’s “Central Government”

Europe will be fine, when this is all said and done.  Putin is fucked.

This HAS to be a parody.

He is LITERALLY regurgitating Russian propaganda, straight from the Russian government.

If anyone needed an example, here it is.

Tell us more about how only 6,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine.

Where DID you get that number?  C’mon.  You can say it.

Was it from representatives of the “Central Government”?

Tell us again…

WHERE did you get the number “6,000” in describing how many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?

@oswald01

Where did you get this statistic from?

Can you provide a link?