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You could die, but It’s a risk he’s willing to take
How is this possible under such a great leadership >

If it’s the gays, turn to page 58
If it’s the Jews, turn to page 82
If it’s the Anglo-Saxons, turn to page 39
To get over yourself and stop being a fascist spazz, turn to page 101 >

Odd, this book only has 100 pages? >

It used to have 101 pages though, but Putin tore the last one out >

Which is completely unrelated to the rumors about toilet paper shortage >

No need for toilet paper. Just slip down stairs and let poop on trousers. This glorious way. >

Hahaha brilliant >


President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that there were shortages of some medicines in Russia and that prices had gone up, despite the country producing more of its own drugs.
While prescription drugs are exempt from Western sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine, their delivery to Russia has been hit by transport, insurance and customs hurdles caused by the war and other restrictive measures, industry figures say. >

Why did he even say this? He cannot even do the classic "our sick are dying because of the West", because he would admit that the sanctions do work. (as presented in this nice presentation Business Retreats and Sanctions Are
Crippling the Russian Economy)
Someone care to give their best bet? >

It's the usual "our enemy is strong and powerful and we must all be united (behind me) to survive, also the enemy is weak and pathetic and we're much stronger (thanks to me)", "we must attack unprovoked and invade, because the enemy is attacking us to invade us".
This is part of his "the west is attacking you the people and i'm defending you" rethoric. >


"we must attack unprovoked and invade, because the enemy is attacking us to invade us".

This threw my mind into a loop lmao >

"Preemptive self defense" is how one person from state media put it. The amount of double think required... >

If the leader of a totalitarian country is admitting to problems, then they must be so big that they're impossible to conceal. >

If Putin admits that “some” medicines are in “short supply” it means they have been completely out of a lot of medication for months. >

The next step is denying medicines ever existed. You mention the word “medicine” and next thing you know is you are falling off a window. >

I think the next step is actually that lack of medicine isn't causing any issues and they never needed the stupid western medicine in the first place, it probably causes gay. Then we go to your thing. But I don't really know, this algorithm is confusing. >

This man russians >

I hope its only medicines Putin needs. >

Maybe there's a shortage because he took all the medicine for himself. >

Ship them some rectal cream. >

They will need a lot to get rid of Putin. >

Which translates to we ain't got shit. >

That’s just completely evil. You’re advocating for bombing hospitals and schools, killing innocent people. Children in schools never had a say in who the leader of their country is, and they shouldn’t be punished for it when it’s out of their control >

It doesn’t matter if that would stop Russia. We shouldn’t become the bad guys just to accomplish our own goals. If we become just as bad as the enemy someone else will view us as the enemy next >

So I should sit here, read how my friends die or some random Ukrainians die, or wait till Russian missile crap will fall on my head during another Russian attack, but life of regular Russian should keep going as it was... "We are the good guys, we should suffer".
At this point of a war, after all they did to us, i literally want them to experience the same, as cruise missile with 900 kg of explosive in the middle of the day right into their houses, for example, or wake up from in the middle of the night from an explosion on the next street. >

No, we shouldn’t just sit around. Say Ukraine does get cruise missiles - great, use em to destroy Russia’s military infrastructure and prevent them from launching more missiles at Ukraine. Yes, what Russia’s doing is absolutely abhorrent, and nobody should be subject to that kind of terror. That includes Russian people. 
The reason that there’s a very clear-cut good/evil dynamic in this war is that Ukraine has been complying with international law and all of the other institutions that hold the world together. What do you think is gonna happen if Ukraine starts bombing maternity wards and kindergartens like Russia’s doing? They’re gonna be seen in exactly the same light as Russia currently is, and international support will dry up quickly.
Please stop advocating for war crimes, my friend. I understand your anger, I really do, but this isn’t the way. >

American pharmacies are short on some medicines. 
I’m guessing if Putin’s saying it on TV though, that the problem is a lot worse than he’s making it out. >

Went to a check up recently and they asked if I needed Tylenol and said I needed a script because pharmacies were running low. >

Well we are in the middle of flu/COVID season. But things are probably far worse in Russia given the sanctions and economic downturn. You know a situation is bad in authoritarian country when the government actually has to publicly address the issue rather than cover it up like they normally do. This suggests that the problem is so bad that they know the public won't believe any claims about there being no problem. So instead they'll blame the pharmaceutical industry and the regional governors cause the Tsar is never wrong. >

I've been referring to it as FLOVID. lol >

The Florida man’s Covid? >

I hear in Florida they pretend it doesn’t exist. The mindset is if they pretend it doesn’t exist it isn’t really there. >

Some common ground, for completely different reasons. >

Putin Khan should not be waging an aggressive war. >

I feel bad for the individual Russian people but I love what this Ukraine situation has done to Russia as a nation. Somehow Putin managed to fuck up even worse than we did with Iraq. >

Difference is that the US completed its stated objective of toppling Saddam's regime (same goes with the Taliban in Afghanistan).
What the US failed at is nation building which frankly speaking is very hard to achieve.
I think only Japan andnGermany counts as a modern day case study of a successful nation building (under occupation) and that was relatively easy since both countries were far more "developed" than Iraq and Afghanistan was.
Russia is simply embarassimg since before the Ukraine invasion, they were considered 2nd best and "near peer" in terms of their armed forces. >

It's interesting how the US, UK, and France succeeded wildly in nation building with Germany in the late 1940s.  I wonder what the difference is between now and then. >

The difference in comparison to Iraq and Afghanistan?  A lot.
Germany (and Japan) had an established national identity which was recognized by the populace throughout their borders.  Iraq and Afghanistan did not; they're a result of foreign powers haphazardly clumping together a bunch of different peoples into largely arbitrary borders, and have never been a fully cohesive nation with full unity within their own borders (at least within modern times).  Major difference trying to nation build when the populace isn't fully on board with even being a unified nation under the same leadership, much less when they already with good reason resent your prior historical interference.  
There was also the shadow of the USSR looming over both Germany and Japan.  Germany itself obviously already had half of itself left within Soviet control, and Japan still to this day is in dispute over control of the Kuril Islands (and many have forgotten that Soviet declaration of war and imminent invasion was itself as or more important to Imperial Japan's capitulation as nukes).  Lot easier to get people to work with you when they're fully aware there's a much worse alternative if you pull out and leave them on their own. >

In addition to that both countries also had heavily industrialized economies prior to WWII, and basically they needed to go through some hard years during rebuilding but with the investment poured in through the Marshall Plan, both experienced economic "miracles" and their economies rebounded massively. >

[You begin to play the world's smallest violin.]