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Anastasis

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  1. Y’all got to really admire the Aggy audacity of dismissing the warnings of Kennan, Cohen and a litany of cold wars diplomats as “Putin talking points, right off Lavrovs desk” and then in the next breath regurgitating literal Putin media talking points from a Tucker fn Carlson interview.
  2. No socks. Don’t blame me for yalls cock talk.
  3. yall getting weird.
  4. I hope that you are able to find some peace.
  5. Good to see that 986 just relegated to rolling out propaganda artistry again. And who laps that shti up.
  6. The post marketing safety studies report out in 2029 timeframe unless timelines continue to get pushed. Same as with any novel therapeutics. You are actually the guinea pig.
  7. Only regional nuclear power is Israel. Oh fuck.
  8. I fear that tbh, but think that this just devolves into sectarian violence. And devolves isn't quite the right word, maybe just a difference rebalance on the scales. But in terms of the risk for blowback directly to the US, salafism is a greater threat imo. Again, just based on the priors.
  9. Granted. I think it's gonna be interesting to watch play out. Hopefully it's not salafi mujahideen two electric boogaloo.
  10. Also shia. Particularly the ones that flew planes into the WTC on 9/11.
  11. This shit is like dealing with TradCaths vs. the people that want to replace the Nicene creed with the pledge of allegiance. I mean not a perfect analogy, but in concept.
  12. Salifism is Sunni doh. The perps of 9/11 were aligned to this particular ideology within Islam.
  13. Iran is shia predominantly.
  14. I am kinda surprised at OK and NV. What am I missing about RI?
  15. I am happy for us to be isolated from supporting salafi-jihadist movements in any way. Just given the priors.
  16. Just offsetting the neg strafers like you.
  17. Here are the population adjusted numbers for federal spending.
  18. Population numbers would be the most obvious potential confounder in those data. These others are certainly worth considering though.
  19. You just gonna go all out with the brainless crowdsource move huh bolverk? This board is special.
  20. You should post the links.
  21. Will everyone stand and slow clap?
  22. We don’t have anything to worry about until the AQ ideological progeny start flying planes into our buildings again.
  23. Like I said, none of these takes are really outside of the mainstream. Here's a piece from NPR on it. Under the tags takes you through Yeltsin's re-election with oligarch support and finally the emergence of Putin. Look I understand that there is an element of monday morning QB'ing involved here, as with all this stuff. But we have to be willing to learn from our mistakes. We can't even get to that point though if we cannot acknowledge that there were mistakes and ramifications that we have to work through today. This isn't just related to post-cold war policy in general and russian in particular, it generally applies to every single continent on this earth. For example, check in on dailies coming out of Syria. How 'shock therapy' created Russian oligarchs and paved the path for Putin https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/22/1087654279/how-shock-therapy-created-russian-oligarchs-and-paved-the-path-for-putin The Rise Of The Oligarchy The Russian oligarchy arose out of the mayhem of rapid privatization in the 1990s. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian president Boris Yeltsin, a leader in the revolt against communism, had to figure out how to transition from a command-and-control economy to a market one. Yeltsin turned to the Russian economists Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais, who, with the aid of Western advisers, hammered out the details.
  24. Damn dude, that's some pretty racist shit man.
  25. I just gave you shock therapy as one example. I think that it is a pretty mainstream assessment that shock therapy was a failure, primarily hurt ordinary Russian people, consolidated broad anti-Western sentiment, and directly led to the rise of the oligarchs. We botched the biggest moment of influence at the end of the Cold War. Both economically and militarily.
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