Putin is confidently planning on the Trump Clownshow administration pulling US support, which will be very bad for Ukraine and later for Europe.
Fwiw, on the scale of likelihood of Trump pulling support from Ukraine, it went from from “likely” to “possible but unsure”. Zelensky had been a master in entertaining Donald Trump and stoking his ego to not stop the aid to Ukraine completely. I mean, of the many news of Trump withdrawing support to many countries, the initial rumour of withdrawing aid to Ukraine has been unequivocally quashed by White House, which is a rare exemption under the current Trump 2.0.
TBH I have been avoiding most Trump coverage, but if Zelensky does better at playing him than Putin has, bravo! What a clown show.
Tbh, Zelenskyy, right up to the very last moment, believed that Russia wouldn’t really do it. The CIA was fucking begging him to take it serious (even broken clocks, I guess).
Poland, OTOH, seems to have a raging hate boner for Russia, and wakes up wondering if today is the day it gets to drag Russia to Hell with it. I also don’t think Ukraine will ever completely chill, it’ll probably remain an ulcer for the rest of Putin’s life. I don’t think an expansionist Russia gets much further than Poland.
I swear Poland joined NATO just so they could trigger article 5
We did. Every russian soldier on polish soil wont be coming home.
Poland will have its borders even if it’s on the last map of humankind
Many moons ago, I heard this idea about Russia, and why they had so many attractive women.
It was posited that due to their substantial wartime losses from WW2, there were far more women than men in the populace, so any dude could snag a hottie. And then they had progeny that also grew up to be hotties, creating a higher density of hot people.
I don’t know if this is real, but I think it’s interesting to think about.
Extremely noncredible
noncredibleeugenics (or to be more technically correct, oversimplified and misapplied mendelian genetics).
I don’t know if this is real, but I think it’s interesting to think about.
Sure interesting to think about, but it’s definitely not that easy, genetics are hella complicated and humans are not peas.
humans are not peas
Speak for yourself, flesh-plant!
Sounds credible, reminds me of this old Icelandic beer ad where they asked why Ireland has no pretty women and Iceland is full of them. Blame the Vikings
Russia has particularly many attractive women? Russia has many women that use silly amounts of makeup, but this is probably the first I hear of Russia considered having an unusual amount of attractive women.
It has a lot of women in bad economic circumstances ready to enter some kind of sex work. So that’s nice.
This you?
Exactly, she’s so hot.
No, I’m much uglier.
I expect by August, at the latest, Trump will pledge U.S. boots on the ground to free the Russians in Ukraine from their Ukrainian Nazi occupiers and oppressors.
Man I can’t even call that out as beyond possiblity…not because there’s any significant evidence one way or another at the time of writing, but just because he seems to be able to just fuckin do anything and no one will do anything about it courts, Congress, staff, or otherwiseeeere
I was joking, but the fact that it feels concerningly plausible says plenty.
Right lol
Europe can, he can’t do logistically without especially the base in Poland
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Yeah, but Russia is fucked regardless. They have the same demographic shift towards old people like the rest of the world, but they also throw away their young men in an idiotic war, have high levels of suicides, rampant drug abuse and alcoholism as well as a raging AIDS epidemic.
Not that Putin cares. He will be dead when Russia collapses.
