If that’s the case that we lost the Cold War then Vietnam is when we lost. We had to give China access to western banks to get them to stop supplying NVA. Now just look.
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Treasury Department Sanctions Two Ukrainians Who Worked With Manafort
Just don’t call them “oligarchs”. That would make judgy-wudgy unhappy.
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He might not take well to the level of editorial redirection that is routinely practiced in those places.
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Which is where we won. We’ve got a strangehold on the world’s economy via SWIFT, it’s how we can cripple russia in seconds after they cross the border into Ukraine.
They’ve been trying to get an alternative up, but that thing’s handling like literally a few tens of thousands of dollars in transactions, an absolute joke.
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Or having to “balance” his articles on Ukraine with the Moscow point-of-view.
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Yup. If we cut them off from SWIFT their oil trade is dead in the water. Biden basically told them yesterday that they will be cutoff from all Western banks if they set foot in Ukraine, at his press conference.
We should also cut all their links to the World Wide Web by laying siege to their fiber links. Isolate them COMPLETELY - the world can do just fine without them. The issue is that the Russians have nukes so the question is how dangerous will they become when their economy rapidly implodes.
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Not gonna go nuclear. Russia’s got their big populations just crowded way to close together in too few places. Lose Moscow, it’s basically over for the country.
We can afford to lose D.C., NYC and a few others and still have a totally functional country, just a mess to clean up, but not existential.
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Good points. They have vulnerabilities we don’t have. Our SSBN fleet remains our biggest threat, is essentially our final volley if everything else goes to Hell and would end their existence, and they know that.
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Speaking of kookooranians, what’s going on with Lev and Igor?
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What, is Josh caught up in this scandal, too?
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Not gonna go nuclear. Russia’s got their big populations just crowded way to close together in too few places. Lose Moscow, it’s basically over for the country.
Besides, it’s better to do a little creative government sponsored internet hacking and cripple their infrastructure than cause massive brick and mortar destruction and then have to feed them through a long cold winter.
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Well, that’s the advantage of the nukes. Not so many mouths to feed.
I’m not saying we won’t get our hair mussed.
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Not like most people would miss D.C. or Hell Angeles anyways.
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This thread. Jesus.
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Which Jesus? White Jesus? or this guy?
(post removed as it did not turn out the way intended… my apologies … it was a beaut)
Oligarch: “Sirs, might I exchange my rubles for Monopoly Money? I can launder it through a fellow in South Florida. All on the up and up.”
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Maybe not, he hasn’t written a single article about Democrats in disarray or Biden’s approval ratings.
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