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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

DJT begins to ask if it’s possible that Putin has been less than truthful and earnest.

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Those last few sentences have got to be fake.

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Putin announces three-day Russian ceasefire in Ukraine from 8 May
26 minutes ago
Thomas Mackintosh
BBC News, London
Vitaliy Shevchenko
Russia editor, BBC Monitoring

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a temporary ceasefire for the war in Ukraine.

The Kremlin said the ceasefire would run from the morning of 8 May until 11 May - which coincides with victory celebrations to mark the end of World War Two.

In response, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called for an immediate ceasefire lasting "at least 30 days".

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62j1848509o

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15 minutes ago, Parliament said:

So game on for the next 10 days then shut it down?  Russia just continues to fight WW1.

Well I hope it ends with somebody storming Putin's palace then.

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On 4/28/2025 at 4:08 AM, Hagbard Celine said:

Putin announces three-day Russian ceasefire in Ukraine from 8 May
26 minutes ago
Thomas Mackintosh
BBC News, London
Vitaliy Shevchenko
Russia editor, BBC Monitoring

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a temporary ceasefire for the war in Ukraine.

The Kremlin said the ceasefire would run from the morning of 8 May until 11 May - which coincides with victory celebrations to mark the end of World War Two.

In response, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called for an immediate ceasefire lasting "at least 30 days".

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62j1848509o

Sounds like a great time to bomb some Russians. Shouldn’t have any problems finding them on the 9th.

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On 4/29/2025 at 2:46 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

Russia returned the body of a young journalist it had imprisoned in February.   Now we know her body came back without eyes, a brain, a larynx, and other organs.  She was a stringer for Radio Free Europe.  

This is a free speech administration. Except when it comes to Radio Free Europe. We are closing that down, it’s full of lies. Except when it comes to not murdering young Ukrainian women and tearing apart their bodies. You have to understand, there’s so much killing on both sides. 

Her name is Viktoriya Roshchyna.

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This is example eleventy billion in Russia’s despotic history of the value their culture places upon human life. The world would be better off just walling off the country from the rest of civilization. As horrific as TFG is at the moment this is a country with century upon century of examples of how little the life of a person matters.

At a certain point the blame for how Russia operates cannot just be placed upon Putin and his cronies when generation after generation operates in this manner. 

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On 4/29/2025 at 7:46 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

This is a free speech administration. Except when it comes to Radio Free Europe.

And Radio Free Asia

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12 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

This is example eleventy billion in Russia’s despotic history of the value their culture places upon human life.

The Russian nation is the same collection of shitbaggery they’ve always been.

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On 5/1/2025 at 3:43 AM, Parliament said:

The Russian nation is the same collection of shitbaggery they’ve always been.

Well yes. My last class this semester I spent a good amount of time studying about the mentality of the average Russian over the last 80 years as well as the mentality of the Russian government/dictators in charge over the same span. To call Russia’s societal organization a mess is doing the word mess a disservice.

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On 4/26/2025 at 11:08 AM, Hagbard Celine said:

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europe also has to get their ass in gear and get to zero reliance on vlad's pipelines - some big names rely on vlad for 100% of their natural gas - fix your own geopolitical problem - it's the only way to have any leverage with him until he expires - the pipelines are the reason europe has been kicking the can down the road - dem or pub we can't fix that for them

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04547pr9vqo

EU plans to end Russian gas imports by end of 2027

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maybe the eu parliament actually has a plan

it's not in that article

achieving this goal requires the conversion of the need for natural gas to something else

OR

new sources

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converting industrial use of natural gas to something else is one thing

converting domestic use of natural gas is something else entirely

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we flare 2.45 TRILLION cubic feet every year, primarily in north dakota, wyoming and texas

this would have been a spectacular opportunity for the houston economy but liquefaction and cryo upstream requires investment and returns profits over time

in other words it's not eagleford instant heroin

 

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12 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

we flare 2.45 TRILLION cubic feet every year, primarily in north dakota, wyoming and texas

this would have been a spectacular opportunity for the houston economy but liquefaction and cryo upstream requires investment and returns profits over time

in other words it's not eagleford instant heroin

Huh.  A forward-thinking US government, building on natural alliances and partnerships with Europe, could build a win-win-win scenario where US LNG both solves a European energy gap for decades, and increases US exports of a valuable commodity (you know....exports....that thing that balances out "imports," which helps close a "trade gap").  Oh well.

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the LNG problem had a lot to do with the general shrug over the crimea grab in '15 and 90% of europe's impotence to counter the '22 invasion

shame on petrohouston and supershame on phil gramm, kay bailey, john cornyn and ted cruz who have had a combined 120 years in the senate to figure this out

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38 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Huh.  A forward-thinking US government, building on natural alliances and partnerships with Europe, could build a win-win-win scenario where US LNG both solves a European energy gap for decades, and increases US exports of a valuable commodity (you know....exports....that thing that balances out "imports," which helps close a "trade gap").  Oh well.

It would have been a natural solution.

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Can you imagine trying to replace Russia with the U.S. as a source for such a critical resource in light of recent events?  Yeah, neither can I - not anymore.

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53 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

the LNG problem had a lot to do with the general shrug over the crimea grab in '15 and 90% of europe's impotence to counter the '22 invasion

shame on petrohouston and supershame on phil gramm, kay bailey, john cornyn and ted cruz who have had a combined 120 years in the senate to figure this out

In the European context the problem of LNG has long been a problem of terminals, which cannot be turned on overnight and for which there needs to be a demand. Germany only finally brought their first online in 2022 after the full-scale invasion. NS2 basically existed as a canard to prevent Europe (specify Germany) from building out alternate infrastructure and to keep themselves on cheaper Russian pipeline gas. 
 

It’s a longstanding foreign policy failure all around but an honest reading is that the Germans wanted to delude themselves and it’s unclear if any pressure could have brought them around absent the forcing event. 

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this is our failure, us, texas, specifically, houston

no pressure would have been needed

the germans would not have been 'forced' to do anything

the dutch would have easily agreed to build a terminal and pipeline for a cut of the action

where the fuck were the think tanks?  this is exactly the kind of thing that gets done at the naked owl dance in july every year

it's jabillions of hard cash for the taking

we didn't bring our first terminal online until '16

us lng shipments to europe doubled in '22 after the invasion

we could have been way ahead of this

there are currently ~400ish lng boats afloat with ~300 on order

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But isn't part of the LNG issues here the development of terminals that are economically sound, environmentally neutral and community safe?  Aren't there two scheduled for near Boca Chica where Elmo keeps dropping rockets out of the sky?  There's a pretty good podcast on how that's a monumental catastrophe in the making down there.  

 

Progress Texas podcast on SpaceX and the RGV

 

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It looks like the sanguine shores of beautiful and restful Crimea are the remaining beachfront resort options.  

Female tourist should remember to bring their contraceptive supplies, and families urged to bring a sufficient number of pets to consume in the event local food stores are out of provisions.  And ignore the drones. 

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3 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

 

I work with a guy that come to America from Romania 20ish years ago. He was very happy with the election results.

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On 5/7/2025 at 5:26 PM, Hagbard Celine said:

where the fuck were the think tanks?  this is exactly the kind of thing that gets done at the naked owl dance in july every year

 

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The ‘think’ tanks were writing policy about banning porn, keeping trans out of UIL sports, and dismantling the EPA.

The right’s policy engine has devolved into grievance, power consolidation, and deregulation. The idea that one could come up with a novel solution for enterprise to support policy goals doesn’t even cross their mind. It’s about resource extraction and zero sum. The chips act is now some sort of demon spawned by wokism as opposed to an attempt to secure national security and much needed chips. But even then that’s more of a zero sum solution. Exporting Nat gas is a rising tide floats all the west’s boats that should be the win we crave.

And the left isn’t going to ally with hydrocarbons because… they’re bad. All the time. No matter what. No questions asked. In every use. Now go and flog yourself 100 times for even thinking about this topic. You earth killing degenerate

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On 5/6/2025 at 8:23 PM, UpperWestside said:

Well yes. My last class this semester I spent a good amount of time studying about the mentality of the average Russian over the last 80 years as well as the mentality of the Russian government/dictators in charge over the same span. To call Russia’s societal organization a mess is doing the word mess a disservice.

I think it goes back much further than 80 years.   For whatever reason(s), the Tsarist monarchy was super-resistant to the Enlightenment and stayed locked in to about the 15th century or so relative to European monarchies.

Arthur Koestler, a former German communist writing against Stalinist communism in Darkness At Noon, called it "vivisection morality," a willingness to cut on a living being in the name of "advancement."  But Stalin was less an aberration than a reversion to Russian mean.

Some Anastasis-style Russian apologist called this "Russian racism," but there's something going on over there that's not good and has been there for a long time.

 

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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

I think it goes back much further than 80 years.   For whatever reason(s), the Tsarist monarchy was super-resistant to the Enlightenment and stayed locked in to about the 15th century or so relative to European monarchies.

Arthur Koestler, a former German communist writing against Stalinist communism in Darkness At Noon, called it "vivisection morality," a willingness to cut on a living being in the name of "advancement."  But Stalin was less an aberration than a reversion to Russian mean.

Some Anastasis-style Russian apologist called this "Russian racism," but there's something going on over there that's not good and has been there for a long time.

 

I read something once about Russians.   They fear no one except everyone.  

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3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

I think it goes back much further than 80 years.   For whatever reason(s), the Tsarist monarchy was super-resistant to the Enlightenment and stayed locked in to about the 15th century or so relative to European monarchies.

Arthur Koestler, a former German communist writing against Stalinist communism in Darkness At Noon, called it "vivisection morality," a willingness to cut on a living being in the name of "advancement."  But Stalin was less an aberration than a reversion to Russian mean.

Some Anastasis-style Russian apologist called this "Russian racism," but there's something going on over there that's not good and has been there for a long time.

 

Probably use lead pipes for their water.

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6 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

I think it goes back much further than 80 years.   For whatever reason(s), the Tsarist monarchy was super-resistant to the Enlightenment and stayed locked in to about the 15th century or so relative to European monarchies.

Arthur Koestler, a former German communist writing against Stalinist communism in Darkness At Noon, called it "vivisection morality," a willingness to cut on a living being in the name of "advancement."  But Stalin was less an aberration than a reversion to Russian mean.

Some Anastasis-style Russian apologist called this "Russian racism," but there's something going on over there that's not good and has been there for a long time.

 

I would concur with all of that. As a society their mentality has been a mess now for several centuries. It’s no wonder that democracy got less than 10 years when you see what the average Russian is used to. What I looked at for the eight decades since the war was the Russian World War II cult. In a way it’s fascinating how that cult took hold in society, but at the same time hanging your hat on the war’s outcome has not gone so well for their nation as a whole. That’s kinda Russia in a nutshell.

Even when given a chance to advance and modernize across the board they just stick with what they know so here we are with their newest despot. Putin won’t be the last one they have. It would take the western world going in there during the next Russian societal and governmental collapse and remaking the entire country. Won’t happen, but that’s what it would take.

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In the last couple of days I heard the German chancellor tell Ukraine to strike as deep in Russia as they could.  Video from Moscow area:

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Russian asset and dumbest American president in history is maybe, perhaps, starting to figure shit out after at least 10 years that he’s being played like the stupid, fat fiddle he is.

Photo below cracks me up.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/trump-putin.html

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President Trump has described President Vladimir V. Putin as “savvy” and “genius” for invading Ukraine, while bragging about his “very, very good relationship” with the autocratic Russian leader.

Mr. Trump has helped the Kremlin recast Ukraine as the villain rather than the victim in the war, and has publicly berated President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in the Oval Office and blamed him for starting the conflict and undermining peace negotiations.

But four months into his term, Mr. Trump’s preference for praising and excusing Mr. Putin has not stopped the bloodshed in a war he once bragged he would end in just 24 hours.

After weeks of Mr. Trump claiming he could leverage his relationship with the Russian leader to bring peace, Mr. Putin’s continued aggression has prompted even Mr. Trump to question whether he has been strung along.

“We’re going to find out whether or not he’s tapping us along or not and if he is we’ll respond a little bit differently,” Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. “I’m very disappointed at what happened, a couple of nights now where people were killed in the middle of what you would call a negotiation.”

After a call between the American and Russian leaders last week yielded no breakthroughs, Mr. Trump appeared ready to distance himself from negotiations altogether and said it would be up to Russia and Ukraine to stop the fighting.

Russia then, over the weekend, unleashed one of its largest aerial campaigns against Ukrainian civilian targets. That prompted Mr. Trump to describe Mr. Putin as “absolutely CRAZY!” and to warn that Russia was “playing with fire.” Mr. Putin’s spokesman in turn dismissed Mr. Trump’s comments as an “emotional reaction.”

It is unclear that the friction signals a fundamental breach between Mr. Trump and the Russian president. Mr. Putin has been a central character in both of Mr. Trump’s terms in office — Mr. Trump suggested in 2018 that he believed his Russian counterpart more than U.S. intelligence agencies about whether Moscow had interfered in the 2016 election — and Mr. Trump has often spoken admiringly of Mr. Putin.

And although Mr. Trump has hinted at the possibility that he could impose a new round of sanctions on Russia if Mr. Putin does not budge on peace talks, he has yet to take any action. Mr. Trump said on Wednesday that he was still intent on negotiating with Russia and he wanted to see how talks played out over the next two weeks.

“At this point we’re working on President Putin and we’ll see where we are,” Mr. Trump said.

But Mr. Trump is facing growing pressure to take a harder line. A chorus of foreign policy experts and members of Congress says it has seen enough to conclude Mr. Trump is the one getting duped.

Senate Republicans have increasingly called on Mr. Trump to ditch his friendly approach to Mr. Putin and impose penalties on Russia. Even Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, a close Trump ally leading a bipartisan push to place sanctions on Russia, has argued Mr. Putin is “playing us all.”

“The president is the last one to figure out that Vladimir Putin doesn’t want a peace deal, that he’s playing for time, and he’s been playing the president, and it’s about time the president wakes up and understands that,” said Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee.

The White House declined to answer specific questions about how Mr. Trump would proceed with Mr. Putin or the effectiveness of his approach thus far.

“President Trump has been clear he wants to see a negotiated peace deal,” the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said in a statement, which also cast blame on the Biden administration. “President Trump has also smartly kept all options on the table.”

Until now, Mr. Trump’s preferred option appeared to be enticing Mr. Putin. After publicly berating Mr. Zelensky, Mr. Trump sent a personal emissary to Moscow, Steve Witkoff, a real estate developer serving as his special envoy, to negotiate with Mr. Putin. Mr. Witkoff picked up Mr. Trump’s rosy language, saying that he spent the meeting developing “a friendship, a relationship” with Mr. Putin.

After his clash in the Oval Office with Mr. Trump, Mr. Zelensky has refrained from criticizing Mr. Trump’s approach, making it difficult for the administration to use him as a scapegoat. Mr. Zelensky this week called for himself, Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin to have a three-way summit, something Mr. Trump said he was willing to participate in if necessary. For now, he said, the administration was focused on speaking with Mr. Putin.

At the same time, Mr. Trump has shown little willingness to send additional foreign aid or weapons to bolster Ukraine.

Mr. Trump at times has approached Mr. Putin as if they have a shared bond.

“Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me,” Mr. Trump said of the Russian president as he sat alongside Mr. Zelensky in the Oval Office, alluding to the investigations into whether the Trump campaign had colluded with what the intelligence agencies determined had been a Russian operation to tilt the 2016 election in Mr. Trump’s favor.

This year, Mr. Trump dismantled the Justice Department effort to collect evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine for eventual prosecution in international courts.

The result is a more emboldened Mr. Putin with little incentive to end the war, according to foreign policy experts, an outcome they argue Mr. Trump should have been anticipated.

“It does sound like from his various comments that Trump is starting to understand what was clear from the beginning of all of this, which is Russia is the problem here,” said Richard Fontaine, who is the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security and a former Republican national security official. “Russia is the obstacle, Russia is the reason this war started in the first place, not Ukraine.”

Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who supports taking a more hard-line stance against Russia, welcomed Mr. Trump’s “acknowledgment that Vladimir Putin is a brutal dictator — a fact that Ukrainians have been living with every day since Russia’s unprovoked invasion began.”

But Mr. Trump has made threats of economic penalties against Russia before, only to back off. Representative Gregory Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Mr. Trump’s recent comments about Mr. Putin represent a “change of words, not a change of actions.”

“There are things he can do right now — sanctions is one, but also giving the Ukrainians what they need to defend themselves,” Mr. Meeks said. “He’s been played by Putin for a long time. He’s been played by Putin from the very beginning.”

 

 

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1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

Ukraine launched massive drone strike inside Russia and destroy 40+ aircraft. some accounts say this attack destroyed 1/3 of Putins bomber force

 

Good coverage in the DT thread.

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5 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Politics here, news there. That was the mandate from the overlords.

don't get me started on that bullshit. that place is what the old CR was and this is now an actual place to discuss current events and politics (despite what the resident magats want to believe), because the two almost completely intertwined. I don't feel like I have to couch my comments or try not hurt fee-fees over here - and besides, I simply do not see how you can discuss the current conflict in Ukraine without making it political. I'm good.

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2 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

Ukraine launched massive drone strike inside Russia and destroy 40+ aircraft. some accounts say this attack destroyed 1/3 of Putins bomber force

 

haha fuck you putin you cocksucker.

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It looks like Trzaskowski won Poland's presidential election by a razor thin margin. Exit polls are 50.3% to 49.7% and 50.17% to 49.83%. Would be very good news for Ukraine and Europe.

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wut? i was enjoying MAGA poisoning other global elections. what's the happs here? yes, i know poland has far right disease like everywhere else. Is there really a substantial anti-Ukrainian side there or more just a populist grab bag of everything influencing the election (like US)

because thats some short sighted shit if they can't hang on for Ukraine. 

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9 hours ago, staboner said:

wut? i was enjoying MAGA poisoning other global elections. what's the happs here? yes, i know poland has far right disease like everywhere else. Is there really a substantial anti-Ukrainian side there or more just a populist grab bag of everything influencing the election (like US)

because thats some short sighted shit if they can't hang on for Ukraine. 

More Russian influenced right wing populism. Nawrocki's Law and Order party aren't exactly aligned with Russia. They're who signed contracts for a big buildup of the Polish military. However, they're against a lot of EU and Ukrainian interests and will jam up Polish politics.

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11 hours ago, Parliament said:

The successful assault on Russia's ability to project power makes Ronald Reagan very happy.

Reagan?  That woke fucking Californian?  MAGA farts in his general direction.

 

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