Will Russia invade Ukraine

Discussion in 'Economics' started by VicBee, Feb 14, 2022.

Will Russia invade Ukraine?

  1. Yes

    21 vote(s)
    36.8%
  2. No

    36 vote(s)
    63.2%
  1. terr

    terr

    It really doesn't matter if he is working off "contaminated" information. Considering your neighbors "Nazis" (whatever that means) is not a valid justification for invading them. Period. End of story. Don't feed the troll.
     
    #81     Feb 16, 2022
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  2. d08

    d08

    Much of Russia and Russians are still living in the 1940s. They constantly talk about fascists and nazis, some are downright obsessed with it. Putin & co. have picked up on this are milking it for all it's worth. Situation in Estonia? Nazis! Situation in Latvia? Nazis! Situation in Ukraine? Yup, it's the nazis!
    But since he owns 90% or more of the media and dictates exactly what they should publish, it's extremely easy to control the Russian population. Especially when the vast majority of Russians are monolingual, so even if they wanted alternative sources, they couldn't get it without difficulty.
     
    #82     Feb 16, 2022
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  3. VicBee

    VicBee

    Careful, you're treading on a thin edge... switch Russia/nazis with US/communists and the argument is the same.
     
    #83     Feb 16, 2022
  4. VicBee

    VicBee

    #84     Feb 16, 2022
  5. userque

    userque

    Check with the author.
     
    #85     Feb 16, 2022
  6. America becoming very very small minded, group think completely outta control. Not sure if the covid virus had some dumbing down engineering, or if it was that people were locked down too long and kept eyes constantly on MSM brainwashing or what?

    IQs becoming drastically lower each day. especially within under 30 yr olds.

    Programming Instruction Kit:

    USA good...Others always Bad...and never question the group think or the media narrative which is:

    Nazis always bad except when they liberated the communist occupied countries(yes, that means ignoring any existing neo-Nazism within these same liberated countries)

    Communist always bad except when they are allied with us in world wars (and, except when they have defeated USA in a major war)

    China always bad except when they are allied with us in world wars (if they start buying our worthless Treasury paper again, they will become good)

    Russia always bad except when they are allied with us in world wars (doesn't matter if they are communist or capitalist or whatever...always bad)

    Any religion not Christian is Bad

    Any color that's not white is bad

    Any currency that's not the US Dollar is bad

    Any oil that the USA says is bad...is bad

    Any govt that's not the USA template is bad

    These are the reasons for wars. Its complex. To shorten this exercise...all countries are bad unless they ally with us in wars...is this a paranoid, psychopathic mentality... absolutely yes.

    *Its a series of twisted, manipulated relationships built on deception and power and completely depends upon media manipulation to push a group think narrative
     
    Last edited: Feb 16, 2022
    #86     Feb 16, 2022
  7. vanzandt

    vanzandt

    Putin is smiling.
    He's learned what Kim, China, and (formerly) Trump, have known all along.
    What they say will move the U.S. markets.
    Either direction.
    Ignore the noise.
    BTFD.

    Edit: for the long haul that is.
     
    #87     Feb 16, 2022
  8. Overnight

    Overnight

    I did that on Jan 3rd. Still waiting. Zzzzz.
     
    #88     Feb 16, 2022
  9. kashirin

    kashirin

    I'm native Ukrainian. How my information could be contaminated if this what I see personally on the ground?
     
    #89     Feb 17, 2022
  10. virtusa

    virtusa

    The big difference is that US media is much more independant than the Russian media that is controlled for 100% by Putin.
    Every day on Russian TV you see fake news how bad EU and US are and how good Russia is. If you try to debunk that in Russia, you end up, in best case, in jail. The other option is death.
    In the US there is still much more freedom of speech and less daily 24/7 propaganda. You clearly were never in Russia.
    Putin eliminates all people that threaten his position. People get killed, poisoned or put in jail for lifetime. Watch the fake trials with Navalny and his close colleagues and the eliminations abroad of Russians who attack Putin.
     
    #90     Feb 17, 2022
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