US Politics

Are you a Russia bot farm?
You’re just repeating Lavrov’s talking points verbatim.

He'll just want a carry after 10 mins.

Have you seen the new shed on Corbyns allotment? How's he paid for that? I'm just asking questions.

Is it necessary to call him gullible and idiot because you disagree with him?

If someone posts idiotic stuff they should be prepared to be called an idiot. I don't care if he's Mohammed I'm Hard Bruce Lee, chatting shit is chatting shit.

I think he was wrong (along with everyone else at the time), on the assumption that Russia's military power would overwhelm Ukraine.

I think he was right that Russia's economic and financial position gave Putin significant room for strategic maneuver, and indeed that has proven to be even greater than expected given Putin's relative success at resisting the impact of sanctions, developing relationships with non-aligned countries, and conversion to a war-time economy.

Setting aside his forward predictions, his analysis of the dense sequence of events that led from 2008 to 2022 seems hard to dispute.

lol

Jeremy Corbyn

Yes.

Next.

I definitely thought it would be done in 10 days or less. My inclination is that the war and sanctions have been much more detrimental to Russia than Putin planned for and the Putin's/Russia's ability to ride it out has been so partly to getting the economy on a war footing but more so due to his grip on power, his ability as a dictator and how high the stakes are for him.

This could not have been in the plan for putin, even as a worst case scenario, could it?

You seem to think that there's a link between these two events. Could you explain what it is?

I don't think you have to be a Putin sympathiser or have swallowed a propaganda pill to be able to read a map and understand why Putin would not want the EU and Nato to be on their doorstep and reduce Russian controlled access to the Black Sea down to ¼ with the remainder being controlled by Nato allies.

They clearly would have struggled to invade once Ukraine were in Nato.

Let's all remember there are audaxers, roadies, gravel-grinders and gulp time-triallists behind all these usernames. You know, people

This could not have been in the plan for putin, even as a worst case scenario, could it?

No. But to bring it back round to the US I think there is a lesson here in the consequences of surrounding yourself with yes-men.

Thankfully no Triathletes tho.

They're the worst.

I have to admit, I'm not even that convinced that the invasion of Ukraine had much to do with NATO. I think it may have just been the line that stuck in the propaganda war. A half truth that plays well. Just as likely that the war is more about Putin's ego and/or power struggles.

Sure about that? He’s probably active on numerous forums and is paid in potatoes

Frank is a seasoned audaxer and been 'on here' since 2008. Defo not a 'bot'.

Seasoned like been under the sun too long

Have you considered that he might have been taken over by the woke mind virus though?

On near complete counts, I make it that just over 127k votes would have swung MI, WI and PA to give Harris 270 ECVs. Just under .8% of voters in those states.

Looking at 2020 Biden won each of those by:

MI 154k
WI 20K
PA 81K
Total 256k

(figs rounded down)

Very tight states.

Would flipping those states won trump the potus?

Yes

Are you sure?

My math:

MI = 15
WI = 10
PA = 19
TOTAL = 44

KH 226+44=270
DT 312-44=268

Def would have been riots.

Yes, but the OP highlighted that Zelensky pushed plans to join NATO in 2023. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and made his big offensive to take the rest of Ukraine in Feb 2022.

I think the question was if Trump had won those states in 2020, would he have beaten Biden. If so, the answer to that was yes.

2023 was a typo in his post i think