Quote from: DaRude on September 12, 2025, 02:18:02 PM

Quote from: Severus111 on September 12, 2025, 10:01:04 AM

Pupin fatigue is becoming as real as BLM fatigue after watching a video of a Ukrainian girl trying to escape Putin's war only to have her throat cut by a violent black thug here in the US. You could not make this shit up for a horror movie. Sanction the shit out of both Russia , antifa terrorists, Black lives matter and punish every other communist,marxist & jihadist sympathiser that has destroyed our peace on earth. Russia , Iran and China must take great comfort in the fact that there are so many treacherous marxist and jihadist mobs marauding our countries they will not need to send armies to destroy us at this stage.

Problem with that is that they already applied all sanctions that disproportionately hurt Russia three years ago (as everyone knows, sanctions always hurt both sides). Sanctions that hurt both sides equally were applied two years ago, and now at round 20 only thing left to sanction are things that will hurt west more than Russia. But uneducated still call for more sanction as if it's some kind of magical weapon, and to keep the appearance of control and power politicians are now pushed to apply sanctions that hurt themselves more than Russia. We see that when USA overplayed its hand and threatened China with even more tariffs but instead China took a stance and indicated that a strong partnership with Russia is essential for their own national security and geopolitical strategy. Then USA applied tariffs to India, but instead it pushed India closer to Russia and China. Bottom line any additional sanctions now might have some short term effects and political gains, but long term they're counter productive and just strengthen China by pushing countries away from the "west" and to China's sphere of influence.

But honestly at this point I'm not sure what Trump prioritizes more, undermining left EU governments and bringing more "right" governments to power in the EU or not providing China with more discounts

Look all I know is that somebody has got to give here or we are all going to be led by the nose into a slaughterhouse and that includes russian,european and other ordinary folk who just want to be left alone to be able to live in peace and be able to afford to put food on their tables and fuel into their gas tank. The cost of living is becoming unbearable for many people who are struggling because of what these politicans are wasting our tax dollars on. I actually meant santions against ruling elites so apologise for the generalised wording but of course words do matter so I will edit.

Putin et al are more of a threat to russians at this stage than outsiders while western marxist left politicans are the greatest threat to democracy and our way of life in the west. Why is russia not in a european alliance anyway? they could be the same as germany, france and even stronger and wealthier if all that wealth and resources wasnt being hoarded by plutocrats instead of opened up into free trade agreements and cooperation with europe? Russians are generally europeans by nature and should be one of the most important parts of europe not some multimix alliance. This is because of political groups both sides wanting things their way or the highway and they are all bringing us to disaster including russians. These f*ckers running both russia and most of europe and other places are all plutocrats while the rest of us argue over the scraps among ourselves.