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• #4427
Genuine lol here!
Can you elaborate how is this doing any favour to the countries involved?
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• #4428
@user156774
OK, so you're accessing the forum from inside Russia. I have feeling you were trying to convince us otherwise, but never mind. Now back to your suggestion that the democracies in the West are no less flawed than Russia's. What is your evidence for this? What are the rest of us missing? Are you just feeding us low effort talking points from a troll factory or do you genuinely believe this as an individual? -
• #4429
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• #4430
At no point have you tried to convince anyone of anything, you just pointlessly ask about where people are from when people have asked if you've got any local insight as you seem to be based in Russia.
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• #4431
Why do you think you feel it's pointless sharing it?
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• #4432
I'm not sure you are sharing insight TBH, that's mostly what people are reacting to... it's just pointless reactionary rambling to posts that themselves are reactionary, but hey... I guess that's the internet in general so I'm less singling you out than highlighting that if you have insight you've not yet shown it.
But since we're struggling to understand what context you might have, I assume you work in or related to the oil industry and this has been the mechanism by which you've lived and worked where you do, and perhaps that perspective is interesting here as Ukraine does have significant reserves and some economic and strategic aspect does play into this, but then perhaps it colours your experience as anyone working in the oil industry in the last 50 years has had to calibrate their moral compass to allow accepting a lot of things that have happened.
perhaps I'm wrong and you don't work in oil, it matters little... I'm just trying to figure out when we'll go from small comment reactions to actual insight... but as I said, that may be an expectation too far as it's not like the majority here are insightful most of the time (specifically including myself) — but as you've claimed to possess insight, do share.
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• #4433
Oh, and why is Russia blocked from LFGSS.
- Mostly bots, very large numbers of bots.
- Quite a bit of spam.
- A few scams (trying to sell very cheap Russian track frames for exhorbitant money and not always delivering).
- Some trolls with very poor English, which I do assume were part of troll farms.
But... the Russian ban is a very old one, just like the Vietnam one, and essentially goes back to when the forum platform was running on vBulletin, and at that time we were low-hanging fruit as tools existed that enabled spammers and bots to work against hundreds of forums at a time. The majority would've ended naturally once we moved to Microcosm as none of those tools worked any longer. However the Ukraine and Russian scams selling crappy track frames continued, and so even though it was then low traffic I kept the bans in place, but as Ukraine had actual real users (a few in Odessa, one I think from Kyiv) that was a CAPTCHA... Russia was never a source of real users (why would it be, it's a London forum?) and it was exceptionally rare for anyone to visit... so the benefit of removing the block was never there, so I left it.
Which is as good a reminder as ever that I should look at the firewall blocks and see if any of these rules still look like they're needed.
- Mostly bots, very large numbers of bots.
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• #4434
It's hardly singling you out, you've dominated the last few pages with gibberish and I did also say that seems to be the norm... but you explicitly declared you have insight, you're invited to share it.
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• #4435
Meh, I'm bored... you're just a troll.
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• #4436
It's a London forum? Maybe once, but now it tolerates Provincials, Europeans (post-BREXIT,why did morons waste their votes) and even Canadians, Australians and sundry Colonials. Keep LFGSS British, London for Londoners alone I say!
Actually, I don't, I am rather glad that anyone with something to say is welcome. Those with nothing to say can fuck off regardless of nationality.
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• #4437
He got nuked?
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• #4438
More the LFGSS version of being thrown, errrr... "accidentally falling" out of a window...
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• #4439
Yeah... bad timing on his part, I'm very stressed today and didn't need a patronising troll turning up.
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• #4440
Thank you though. Less noise is a good thing.
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• #4441
Oh well...
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• #4442
If we had the option of getting the gas we would very likely have taken it with one hand while pointing fingers at Putin with the other. “We” being Denmark and our southern neighbor.
Now that we were forced to look to other dictatorships for gas, we did, and cut energy ties with Russia.
There would never have been enough courage by politicians in the west to cut our gas dependency to Russia. So thank you Ukraine or whoever did it.
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• #4443
So thank you Ukraine or whoever did it.
I wouldn’t go so far as thanking the rogue elements in Ukraine that possibly/probably did it. Higher gas and energy prices, to which the nord stream explosion contributed, go hand in hand with excess deaths due to inflation, cost of heating, etc.
Arguably an act of war against their own (soft) allies.
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• #4444
Finding it annoying to navigate the media’s inconsistent use of ‘drone’ in the conflict.
Last night Russia attacked Ukraine w/ 75 drones. Were they 75 UCAVs like a Reaper that can manoeuvre and launch multiple separate missiles and bombs attached, or were they loitering munitions aka single-use suicide drones? I don’t know, does anyone here?
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• #4445
They tell you.
" Iranian-made Shahed drones"https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/irans-jet-powered-shahed-drone-could-be-a-problem-for-ukraine
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• #4446
Cheers. Problem is that Russia also has Sukhoi UCAVs, and it is tedious to dig through multiple media outlets to understand if Russia sent scores of planes over Ukraine or sent scores of missile-bomb crossbreeds.
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• #4447
We are already seeing how different the war is going to be this winter compared with last. Last winter Ukraine's air defences were hopelessly inadequate in the face of massed drone and missile attacks on civilian infrastructure. Not any more. And now Ukraine is retaliating with its own drones. Every attack on Russia soil (and especially Moscow) weakens Putin. He cannot even blame the West for these drone attacks since Ukraine is prohibited from using Western supplied weapons inside Russia. FAFO.
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• #4448
Putin paying lip service to Kissinger’s ghost is really something. Formidable as the man was, he was in no small part responsible for policies that permitted and caused a lot of evil shit all over the world.
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• #4449
Months of planning with the United States was tossed aside on that fourth day, and the already delayed counteroffensive, designed to reach the Sea of Azov within two to three months, ground to a near-halt. Rather than making a nine-mile breakthrough on their first day, the Ukrainians in the nearly six months since June have advanced about 12 miles and liberated a handful of villages. Melitopol is still far out of reach.
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• #4450
He cannot even blame the West for these drone attacks since Ukraine is prohibited from using Western supplied weapons inside Russia.
That's not going to stop him pointing the finger and his supporters (there and in the West) believing it. Besides, Western countries are giving financial support to Ukraine as well, so who can say where that money was spent?
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