Octopus Overlords

Dogstar wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 3:35 pm

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 3:01 pm Many Russians take pride in their ability to endure hardship, especially if it’s seen as a patriotic sacrifice.

This is true, but you need money to finance the cost of troops and equipment for territorial acquisitions. I don't think Putin can just hardship/loot his way from one territory to fund the next expansion (there's a 4x space game with a species like that). If we figure out a way to limit Russia's ability to sell/profit from oil/gas...

LordMortis wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:36 pm If am reading the analogy to its conclusion, Trump and conservative America think that Mexico is ethnically US and should be annexed?

Edit: Damned you Izzy!!!!!

"I said, 'How smart is that?' He's going to go in and be a peacekeeper. That's the strongest peace force. We could use that on our southern border. That's the strongest peace force I've ever seen. There were more army tanks than I've ever seen. They're going to keep peace, all right."

Grifman wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 6:11 pm Of course we knew this was coming;

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:33 pm I didn’t think he would sink that low, but once again he’s sunk lower than I thought any human being ever could. How anyone could possibly view Trump as anything other a traitorous piece of human shit is beyond me. You have to really hate to love him.

Dogstar wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 1:52 pm No matter what though, the sanctions need to come in hard and fast.

President Joe Biden said on Tuesday the United States was imposing a first tranche of sanctions against Russia for launching an invasion of Ukraine and promised that more would come if there are further incursions.

Biden, speaking to reporters at the White House, said the United States would impose sanctions against two large Russian financial institutions and Russian sovereign debt. Sanctions were imposed against Russian elites and their family members as well, administration officials said.
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Biden said the sanctions in the initial tranche applied to VEB bank and Russia's military bank - Promsvyazbank, which does defense deals. He said the sanctions against Russia's sovereign debt meant the Russian government would be cut off from Western financing.
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The sanctions on the banks come on top of designations of Russian "elites" the Treasury Department accused of being close to Putin, including Aleksandr Bortnikov, director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), and Petr Fradkov, the chairman and chief executive of Promsvyazbank Public Joint Stock Company.

Also hit with sanctions was Sergei Kiriyenko, a former prime minister of Russia.
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Russia's Sberbank (SBER.MM) and VTB (VTBR.MM) would face American sanctions if Moscow proceeds with its invasion of Ukraine, a senior U.S. administration official told reporters.

Tucker: It may be worth asking yourself… why do I hate Putin.. Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 11:27 pm I just...I don't even know what to say anymore.

Tucker: It may be worth asking yourself… why do I hate Putin.. Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?

It may be worth asking yourself… why do I hate Hitler.. Has Hitler ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?

Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him? Has he shipped every middle-class job in my town to Russia? Did he manufacture a worldwide pandemic that wrecked my business and kept me indoors for two years?

"Is he teaching my children to embrace racial discrimination? Is he making fentanyl? Is he trying to snuff out Christianity? Does he eat dogs?

Defender of the Fatherland Day (Russian: День защитника Отечества Den' zashchitnika Otechestva; Kazakh: Отан қорғаушы күні; Tajik: Рӯзи Дорандаи Ватан; Kyrgyz: Мекенди коргоочулардын күнү; Belarusian: Дзень абаронцы Айчыны) is a holiday observed in Russia, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. It is celebrated on 23 February, except in Kazakhstan, where it is celebrated on 7 May. In Russia and Belarus, it is a public holiday and, usually, an off-day.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the Kremlin had decided to carry out a “special military operation” in Ukraine.

“The situation requires us to take decisive, swift action,” he said in an early morning speech, adding that adding that Moscow would carry out the “demilitarization and denazification” of Ukraine and end eight years of war in eastern Ukraine, where Kyiv government forces have been fighting pro-Moscow separatist militants.

Putin also told Ukrainians to give up their weapons and to return home.

Grifman wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 11:45 pm Just today, the Poles announced an increase to their defense budget, a larger army, and the formation of a national militia. They obviously don’t trust the Russians.

Grifman wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 11:45 pm Just today, the Poles announced an increase to their defense budget, a larger army, and the formation of a national militia. They obviously don’t trust the Russians.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 12:53 am It’s made the cut for a 2nd printing on P500. I look forward to adding it to my massive backlog, especially seeing as I never finished processing NW:Korea.