steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
what?
Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24
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So, you think anarchists should only be passive and pure?
Very selective quoting there. You omitted a significant part.
bimble
floofy
Well, that counts as good news then.
Those cruise missile rockets cost hundreds of thousands of £ each I just learned, what a stupid world.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Latest total I saw from an article yesterday was that they’d fired off 775 so far (so over 800 with last night’s attack). Getting on for a billion quid, or a few day’s worth of gas sales to Europe.
Do you think everyone in Ukraine is able to fight and that it's a good idea to cheer on young militants and old grannies with machine guns to battle to their deaths from behind a keyboard? Seems like rather a waste to me and not a good idea.
Do you think the Ukrainian state has the right to force people to fight for it when they just want to flee the country because of war?
I'm afraid it is true that there are other ways that the people of Ukraine can be supported that don't involve fighting aswell.
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nogojones
spelling is overrated
The British ruling class didn't have much to benefit or loose from intervening in Spain.
There's a moose loose aboot this hoos
Fascinating. You've missed the point though.
This is indeed a very silly thread.
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A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Only if you regard the people in Ukraine who are being killed and being maimed now, as we type (Ukrainian and Russian plus others) as mere ciphers there to support your pontification. But that would make anyone who felt it a bit of a cunt TBF
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Do you think becoming a vassal state under Putin should be resisted?
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floofy
660 million euros sent from Europe to Russia for gas in just one day (3rd March)
so you're right, for all the fanfare about sanctions they can afford the missiles.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
TBF, they already own the missiles.660 million euros sent from Europe to Russia for gas in just one day (3rd March)
What doesn’t bode well is that the summary has misdefined the fundamental attribution error. It’s nothing to do with attributing things to other people, it’s about misattributing causes to individual characteristics rather than the background situation. If they don’t even know what the fundamental attribution error is, which is one of the most basic parts of social psychology, I don’t rate their chances of tackling the more complex parts of it.
To be fair, maybe that’s just the person writing the summary but it doesn’t encourage me to read further.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
And, they are not easily replaced, it's not like you can pop down to 'Missiles R Us' and pick them up.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
This is quite funny if true
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I liked something I saw posted last week, when someone was asking why Ukraine haven’t destroyed that column, and the reply was basically that it was going nowhere, a 40-mile long prison camp that had to feed itself.
bimble
floofy
i found this thread helpful, it's directed at people like me.
But I have a question:
If, as does seem to be the case, Putin is doing a lot of work to try to ramp things up & goad NATO into some kind of response (like with the 'your weapons convoys are now a legit target' thing), why is he doing that, what for?
I mean he doesn't actually want a war with nato (& if he does then he could just make it happen) so why as that man puts it do we have to resist "Putin's attempts to inflict the burden of escalation on us"?
But I have a question:
If, as does seem to be the case, Putin is doing a lot of work to try to ramp things up & goad NATO into some kind of response (like with the 'your weapons convoys are now a legit target' thing), why is he doing that, what for?
I mean he doesn't actually want a war with nato (& if he does then he could just make it happen) so why as that man puts it do we have to resist "Putin's attempts to inflict the burden of escalation on us"?
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WhyLikeThis
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I think you need to read the article. It accurately characterises fundamental attribution error and proposes a reasonable take.
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
The old thing
Artaxerxes
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clicker
nanook rubs it....
IMO (totally unmilitary) it's become a game of bluff . I don't think Putin meant it to, but he didn't envisage much of what has happened.
He's now, unexpectedly to him, got to convince a lot of 90%(?) of Ukrainians to agree with his demands or change his demands. I don't think he's ready to change them so soon.
So currently he can only use fear to get them to backdown. So the threats are getting bigger to scare people.
He's fairly confident NATO won't intervene. And he's letting us know that means any weapons , no matter their circuitous route.
Perhaps he thinks NATO would rather try and talk Ukraine into concessions than engage in war. Putin could then look on those concessions as a victory and not lose total face. I know that's prob too simplistic.
I think I'm just trying to think of any way this madness can end as quick as possible.
dilute micro
esse quam videri
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dilute micro
esse quam videri
You haven't seen silly.
bimble
floofy
Thats a decent answer.
He might be making these semi-ridiculous threatening statements directed at Nato, instead of just getting on with his shitty war in Ukraine, because he realises now that his best chance of any sort of Victory is if 'the west' starts encouraging Ukraine gov to make concessions. Maybe its just not working yet.
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