Ukraine

[Bunion 2020]

these forums are a perfect example of people being ridiculed immediately for trying to find a compromise or a middle ground on anything.

While I agree to an extent, in this particular thread I haven't really seen much of an attempt at compromise. Unless compromise means that a sovereign country that is a democracy by definition and was invaded multiple times by a dictator is expected by some to either give up territory or just roll over. @Otzi, peaceful and non-violent gatherings to protest would be a fine start. And not the piecemeal gartherings to date. But who will organize them? Occupy is done, ANTIFA doesnt exist and the D party is more and more irrevelent and feckless. The far Left is painted as AOC, Omar and Greene.

[Meconium]

But who will organize them? At this point in time, it would have to be social media. It would have to rival large size protests not found in the United States of America

[jono]

I remember when Jon Stewart organized a rally because that was the day I learned an acquaintance from Eastern Europe was Very invested in making me believe he was running for president. If only.

[Bunion 2020]

Meconium, you are not wrong. This is veering close to a political discussion and we would not want to sully the clean and sterile confines of the PR with that. Thx

[ötzi]

It doesnt have to be organized it should be organic, lots of groups and individuals ending up at the same place at the same time. What it needs are places and times, and word of mouth and social media and every other way news gets spread. Memorial Day is an obvious date. State capitals are an an obvious place. Noon is an obvious time. So, heres the deal, theres gonna be a massive shitkicking protest at noon on Memorial Day, at your state capital building. Tell your friends if theyre like-minded. Bring a drum or a tuba or a first-aid kit or whatever you think might help. Be there.

[Cisco Kid]

https://events.pol-rev.com/search?se...entType=EVENTS

[muted reborn]

3pm works better for me.

[ötzi]

Fashionably late is always in style. You might miss the effigy-burning, though.

[Cono Este]

You guys are nuts if you think polyass is anykind of middle ground. You’re so left, you’re crooked,

Relative in Norway got,busted in his radio shack by a Nazi collaborator, killed him, went and lived up on the glacier formyrs until it was safe to come down.

Just an idea.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

^^this is the kind of jibberish we need right now, thank you for your service

[Bunion 2020]

Leftists who hate Russia? Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... Mass hysteria!

[mcski]

Cono made it with cows and Lee Harvey

[Bunion 2020]

He was on the grassy knoll but could not save Kennedy from the CIA assassins bullet.

[The Nuclear Option]

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is most certainly NOT a duck, according to Cono.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

This is what I meant when I posted that TDS is more fitting for MAGAtards than libs/leftists/democrats. Totally deranged

[jono]

Every accusation is an admission.

[Bunion 2020]

In 2016 when Trump beat HRC none of us leftists were happy but aside from a few nuts claiming bullshit, we accepted it grudgingly. In 2020 when Biden beat Trump hordes of nuts would not accept the results and to this day still claim the election was somehow rigged. Then there was an attempted overthrow of the election results using both the courts and violence. In 2024 when Trump beat Harris we, the deranged again have accepted the election results. We continue to exercise our constitutional rights to free speech and are threatened with jail.
What do you say Trackhead? Compromise time?

[mcski]

This is what I meant when I posted that TDS is more fitting for MAGAtards than libs/leftists/democrats. Totally deranged

For real. I tried to post a comic after your post reflecting that, but the box fan appears to have eaten it

TDS is a confession

[subtle plague]

I like the "one time in Bandcamp one of my relatives stuck a flute in her pussy and killed a Nazi with" cono

Could be a quote from: American Cono II - Return of the nutjobs.

Gesendet von meinem Pixel 9 Pro mit Tapatalk

[bennymac]

In 2016 when Trump beat HRC none of us leftists were happy but aside from a few nuts claiming bullshit, we accepted it grudgingly. In 2020 when Biden beat Trump hordes of nuts would not accept the results and to this day still claim the election was somehow rigged. Then there was an attempted overthrow of the election results using both the courts and violence. In 2024 when Trump beat Harris we, the deranged again have accepted the election results. We continue to exercise our constitutional rights to free speech and are threatened with jail.
What do you say Trackhead? Compromise time?

Yeah that may all be 100% true but also it can all be easily countered with an anecdote about a headline someone saw about some people who said 2024 might have been a rigged election so yeah checkmate.

Both sides are the same if you squint your eyes and don’t think about it.

[MultiVerse]

It took just a few hours for Friedrich Merz to conduct one of the sharpest U-turns in recent political history. At lunchtime last Friday, Germany’s chancellor-to-be received a sobering briefing on the state of the economy from finance minister Jörg Kukies. Kukies explained that after two years of stagnation and with more clouds gathering over Europe’s largest economy, Berlin faced a €130bn budget shortfall over four years and dwindling growth potential... Within days, the centre-right leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) struck a deal with the Social Democratic party (SPD)... The two parties agreed to loosen the country’s constitutional debt brake and inject hundreds of billions into Germany’s military and ageing infrastructure — a breakthrough upending more than two decades of conservative fiscal dogma.”

https://www.ft.com/content/006db78c-...c0223e68310bb1

[ex-powderbroker]

Elon is on the wrong drugs or not enough. Someone needs to adjust his dose already.

[Casey E]

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https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/03/06/how-do-ukrainian-soldier-fatalities-compare-with-russias</div>
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Body count estimates, note Donnies &quot;numbers&quot;, paywall, but here goes the text:</div>
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&quot;DONALD TRUMP appears determined to end the war in Ukraine&mdash;and on terms that are strongly in Russia&rsquo;s favour. He and his vice-president have harangued Ukraine&rsquo;s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the Oval Office, warning him that he has no leverage and that he needs a ceasefire or he will have no country left.</div>
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However, the latest casualty figures tell a different story. This is a bloody war, but Russia is bleeding more than Ukraine. And it is taking almost no territory.</div>
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The invasion has come at enormous cost to human life. New death-toll estimates show that the fighting has become more deadly with each passing year. Our charts below show the latest figures, which are drawn from intelligence agencies, defence officials, independent researchers and open-source intelligence.</div>
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Start with Ukraine. Data from UAlosses, a website, show that at least 65,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died since the start of Russia&rsquo;s full-scale invasion in 2022. To get their numbers, researchers combed through news articles and social-media posts to compile a list of soldiers who are known to have been killed. They found another 55,000 who are missing in action, which could put the death toll at 120,000.</div>
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In September 2024 a leaked report from a Ukrainian intelligence agency suggested that at least 70,000-80,000 soldiers had died. These numbers do not include civilian deaths, on which there is strikingly little data. Many tens of thousands of civilians are believed to have been killed.</div>
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Russian deaths, however, are even higher. BBC Russia estimates that between 150,000 and 210,000 soldiers had been killed as of February. Other places have produced similar estimates. The International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think-tank based in London, reckons that as of early January, at least 172,000 soldiers had died.</div>
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Mediazona and Meduza, two independent Russian media outlets, put the number between 160,000 and 165,000 by the end of 2024. They use inheritance and other records to arrive at these estimates, which are also available by week (see chart 3).</div>
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These data suggest that Russian deaths have increased exponentially, from about 20,000 in 2022, to about 50,000 in 2023 and nearly 100,000 in 2024.</div>
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Monthly casualty estimates from Britain&rsquo;s ministry of defence and war activity detected by The Economist&rsquo;s tracker also suggest that the fighting has become more intense. In December a British official said that Russian casualties (including dead and wounded) were on track to reach 1m within six months.</div>
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Despite Russia&rsquo;s size advantage, these numbers suggest that roughly one in 30 men between the ages of 20 and 49 has been killed or injured in the past three years.</div>
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Mr Trump has cited very different numbers for those killed in the conflict so far: &ldquo;We have numbers that almost a million Russian soldiers have been killed, about 700,000 Ukrainian soldiers are killed. Russia is bigger, they have more soldiers to lose. But that&rsquo;s no way to run a country,&rdquo; he said on January 20th. A former NATO official told The Economist that these figures, &ldquo;like much else he says&rdquo;, were not credible.</div>
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This higher death toll in 2024 comes with strikingly little change in territory (see chart 4). By our calculations Russia captured only 0.57% of Ukrainian territory in 2024. At that rate it would take another 141 years for its soldiers to conquer the whole country.</div>
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Ukraine is not obviously losing this war. No matter how much pressure Mr Trump puts on Mr Zelensky, he will not be inclined to accept a Carthaginian peace that dooms his country to a chaotic and miserable future&mdash;or which leaves the door open to another invasion. &quot;</div>

[Cono Este]

Mcski, that’s some funny shit.

“Don’t ever hit a man unless you are positive you can get away with it” so many lessons in that one.

If I told you guys I met Harold ramis in line at Nordstrom once, never mind.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

No one cares