This fucking guy
He's one for the ages
Ukrainians are angry at a tone in Western #media lately that #Ukraine is losing
#Disinfo from the usual #socialMedia #troll farms and #plutocrat influenced channels shilling a #narrative for a corrupt #agenda
So what does #Zelensky do?
He goes to the frontline in #Kupiansk and films himself there
While the #West repeats #Kremlin lies that #Russia controls it
😂
Zelensky is something else
Tough, crafty, true
In a world of dipshits
#History is going to very kind to him
We're all groaning under the weight of corruption lies bigotry narcissism ignorance...
And he's just out there showing the world what a true leader looks like, like it's easy
Of course it's not easy. I can't imagine the difficulty. Putting on a strong show every day under the cataclysm #Ukraine faces
#Zelensky's the real deal
In 50 years:
"#Trump" will be said with a sneer
"#Putin" will be spit like a curse
"Zelensky" will be said with cheer
I know my mental health could be better dealing with all the shit going on while managing age related health issues and helping run our local Indivisible group, I can't imagine how much stress he is under.
It's a miracle he's been able to manage everything as well as he has.
History will be exceedingly kind to him.
Glory to Ukraine indeed.
yup, i hear you
we're dealing with shit, we're under stress, we're having difficulty...
well if zelensky can do it, we can do it!
inspiration
on the contrary, when does freedom ever not come at heavy cost?
i say the reason we're suffering under trump in the usa is because we gave up on internal maintenance against bigotry and ignorance
and now we're *really* going to pay
no
putin is the same way, today, that stalin used to be
but i wish putin was the way stalin is today, if you catch my drift 😉
zero problem! i got you. i was just riffing off your comment for joke possibilities
and then of course, what i did was read your comment out of context, and now that i see the context, your comment makes perfect sense and i sound like a lame reply guy 😅
it changes everything
i have a feeling the next conflict the usa gets into is going to be humiliating
all this super expensive equipment
and it can be taken out with a drone for a couple hundred bucks
the whole world is watching what ukraine is doing keenly
@benroyce @Darkphoenix @tlariv Nobody has given the complete inventory of what’s been onboard all of those Russian cargo planes to Venezuela, just saying.
It could be that in addition to BUKs and Pantsirs, there were ample amounts fiber-optic drones and military drone warfare trainers on them.
And Trump is terrified of that precise thing happening you just described, because losing face is his worst nightmare. 🤔
@benroyce @Darkphoenix @tlariv The USA always gets knocked on its ass in the first round.
The USA usually wins in the last round. The Vietnam exception was political.
I remember when the Bradley was a boondoggle. The Ukraine seems to be getting good use out of them now.
@mike805 @benroyce @Darkphoenix @tlariv
We lost in Vietnam because we were wrong and evil. Same reason we lost in Afghanistan. Same reason Russia will lose in Ukraine.
the usa is currently being destroyed by maga
this country is now far away from being in a celebratory mood about itself for a long time. and it will first get even worse
the problem is you're depending upon some sort of intelligence behind the scenes that can correct and perfect and prevail
maga is the antithesis of that. it's the elevation of the stupid. it's hubris. and that means the usa will not adjust, it will just depend on "rah rah america da best!" mindless bullshit while it gets its ass handed to it
there is zero intelligence in charge now
that is a profound weakness, especially as the morons think they can start a war
@benroyce @Darkphoenix @tlariv The "other side" doesn't have a plan either, besides just keeping things going for as long as possible.
It reminds me of the USSR. When the anti-Gorbachev coup happened, people thought there was some grand master plan. No, just a bunch of old drunks who wanted to keep their pensions and drivers.
The USA looks like nothing so much as the late USSR, which of course invaded Afghanistan thinking their tech would prevail.
Do we get a Putin someday?
@benroyce @Darkphoenix @tlariv Another place where the analogy fits: the USA screwed up the USSR's infrastructure. The USSR was buying Western tech covertly, but the CIA got their shopping list and sold them a bunch of defective parts, some engineered to fail after a short time.
China has similarly infiltrated American and European infrastructure. If we got into a war with them, a lot of things would just not work. People keep finding LTE modems in things that have no good reason to have one.
@dnkboston @Darkphoenix @tlariv
what they have is hypersonic missiles, the best in the world
the bet- right or wrong, i don't know, i'm not a military analyst, is that these hypersonic missiles decimate the us navy in minutes
i have no clue how things actually stack up
but i do not believe the usa is in an easy position to repel china if they choose to invade taiwan
inexplicably, the usa is working on but has no operational hypersonic missiles. because they know something? colossal hubris?
@benroyce I agree, they'd be hard-pressed right now to repel China if they attacked Taiwan. They'd have to have a plan, but that requires intention and commitment. Xi knows how easy it is to buy Trump, so I have no delusions about us helping in any way.
How good is Chinese equipment and materiel? Everyone thought Russia could not be beat, but everything about them was all talk and bluster. My bet is that China is similarly, well, vulnerable.
@Darkphoenix I would say that Xi is less delusional than Putin, has more control of the other stakeholders, and most importantly, much more money. As of now and, let's say a decade forward.
But China is still plagued by corruption, which means massive budgets don't necessarily translate to good weapons and training. Yes, there have been purges, but that was of people not aligned with Xi. He let plenty of other corruption slide. @benroyce @tlariv
@dnkboston @Darkphoenix @tlariv
yup
i think Xi appointing himself president for life is colossal weakness
it leads to all the typical scenarios of yes men over true intelligence, blind loyalty over effectiveness, etc
however i also think that if china is going to decline over this weakness, that's something that is going to play out over decades
such that even with the weakness planted, china will not be internally hamstrung by it for a long time to come
@dnkboston @Darkphoenix @tlariv
all those extra guang gun men in china due to one child policy and misogynistic bullshit should meet all those russian women widowed by putin's stupid malice
however, there is another, far more scarier way china can "dispose of" the social problems that come with guang gun
start a war
@benroyce Yes, but you also want to be wary of giving those men really good guns and training.
I like your other suggestion better.
@Darkphoenix @tlariv @benroyce
It doesn’t matter one bit where you come from. What matters is how well you can read reality and offer solutions.
Of course, not being a billionaire would help, otherwise your worldview is completely skewed — what could you ever hope to solve? Unless you received an impeccable education.
Do you know any billionaires who were great statesmen?
There was one in Italy — a very controversial one — whose story is quite illustrative.
He’s really quite brilliant.
"how do you a make a point simply, effectively, widely, and with pizazz that devastates Russia's sleazebag bullshit"
Zelensky knows. Every time
I literally had a dream last night that Zelenskyy rode on drone with a helicopter above him with a wired harness and he was pulled off the drone as it flew into a Russian ship as a propaganda video.
I admire Zelenskyy and pray that Ukraine will be safe but I don’t idolize him, so it was definitely unusual.
I also dreamt that I made a very thorough inventory of lightbulbs in my house and which ones were burned out or dimming so you know. It was an exciting night.
😂
i on the other hand idolize zelensky, so in my version of your dream, he also changes out my bad lightbulbs
But he's a loser because he wears his soldier clothes in his other job, too. We needed JD Vance to remind us that he and his master are such awesome leaders they can't do anything but lead from behind.
'Way behind.
Florida behind.
@RustyRing @benroyce wtf you even saying? Can’t read your own text? Your script falling short?
He’s literally at the front, dumbass.
it was sarcasm
but because there is no vocal tone or facial expressions on social media, we have to explicitly indicate when we are being sarcastic
like a (/s) or a winky emoji, whatever
some people resent this
that everyone should be able to see it. that the indicator cheapens their wit
ok
but somebody will think you're serious, regardless of who is at fault, and then we get drama
we have to indicate sarcasm
no way around it
@benroyce @MasterMischief @gimulnautti @RustyRing
I really agree with everyone on this thread.
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