Russian Invasion of Ukraine

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Eunos_Cosmo
That part of Russia is almost entirely undeveloped. Just look on google maps, it's just a few outposts and very few roads. The nearest population center to the Bering Strait, IIRC is Vladivostok which is a good 2,600 miles away. I sincerely doubt there would be any movement, from either side, on that side of the world.

edit: As far as I can tell, Russia does not have a single rail or road link between the Bering Strait and Moscow. As they must say in Moscow, you can't get there from here. The closest road-connected outpost I could find is Seymchan, which is still over 1,000 miles from the Strait.
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Fair enough.
 
Dennisch
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Can’t imagine anyone risking their life for $1m to arrest Putin. I’m positive all the people he lets get close to him are beyond such wealth.

But, reading comments from others on that, Alexander has had first hand accounts of standing against Putin, so there’s history between them to lead him to making this offer.
 
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A million dollars? What's that now... about... 300 quadrillion Rubles?


Eunos_Cosmo
This is interesting, but couldn't Putin simply offer...any amount more to not do that? I'd be willing to bet Putin has more cash than anyone on Earth.
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Konanykhin only has to pay one person to get to Putin... Putin might have to pay millions of people not to...
 
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Eunos_Cosmo
That part of Russia is almost entirely undeveloped. Just look on google maps, it's just a few outposts and very few roads. The nearest population center to the Bering Strait, IIRC is Vladivostok which is a good 2,600 miles away. I sincerely doubt there would be any movement, from either side, on that side of the world.

edit: As far as I can tell, Russia does not have a single rail or road link between the Bering Strait and Moscow. As they must say in Moscow, you can't get there from here. The closest road-connected outpost I could find is Seymchan, which is still over 1,000 miles from the Strait.
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I was looking at this just a few days ago and Russia has an airbase stocked with Mig-31 Foxhounds for intercepting purposes. The area might be relatively unpopulated by people but it's very populated with Russian military. They're well aware the US is only 50 miles away lol.
 
Eunos_Cosmo
That part of Russia is almost entirely undeveloped. Just look on google maps, it's just a few outposts and very few roads. The nearest population center to the Bering Strait, IIRC is Vladivostok which is a good 2,600 miles away. I sincerely doubt there would be any movement, from either side, on that side of the world.

edit: As far as I can tell, Russia does not have a single rail or road link between the Bering Strait and Moscow. As they must say in Moscow, you can't get there from here. The closest road-connected outpost I could find is Seymchan, which is still over 1,000 miles from the Strait.
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Russia has Ugolny Air Base and the 50th Coastal Defense Regiment near Anadyr and the Mys Shmidta Air Base in the precise middle of nowhere Chukotka.

The US has all sorts of stuff in Alaska too from air bases to RADAR installations. There's also a fighter wing with F-35s.
 
inCloud
Yeap, our local Google + biggest taxi operator + food delivery.
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Gotta be honest, those Yandex robots are kinda nifty. I don't live on campus anymore so I never got to try them but the students seem to like the service partnership. I can only imagine how successful Yandex could be in the future if Putin didn't make these terrible decisions. I wish you luck as well. The Russian people deserve better than a bunch of oligarchs absorbing all their wealth at the top.



 
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Keef
Gotta be honest, those Yandex robots are kinda nifty. I don't live on campus anymore so I never got to try them but the students seem to like the service partnership. I can only imagine how successful Yandex could be in the future if Putin didn't make these terrible decisions. I wish you luck as well. The Russian people deserve better than a bunch of oligarchs absorbing all their wealth at the top.



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I think I saw some pictures on CNN of some destroyed military vehicles in Bucha.
 
Eunos_Cosmo
This is interesting, but couldn't Putin simply offer...any amount more to not do that? I'd be willing to bet Putin has more cash than anyone on Earth.
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Assassin: VLADIMIR! I'm here to kill you!

Little Dicky: Here is more money than the contract gives you!



Do you think that would work?
 
Dennisch
Assassin: VLADIMIR! I'm here to kill you!

Little Dicky: Here is more money than the contract gives you!



Do you think that would work?
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Assassin: Killed while pausing to think about statement
 


Global Hawk surveying Kaliningrad. We've got our eyes on 'em.
 
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Keef


Global Hawk surveying Kaliningrad. We've got our eyes on 'em.
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They've been in the area for a while, though the first one shared was FORTE11. There was another one folks mentioned, only because it had 666 as a numeral designation.
 
Eunos_Cosmo
@inCloud - While I agree with you about soil and such, there are two things. First I think you overestimate how ordinary people, especially older people, can cope with profound change of relocating to other countries. I know of people who have won green card lotteries to come to the US, voluntarily and enthusiastically, (from the middle east) and found themselves isolated and sad here despite the fact that the standard of living is much better. Second there comes a point when a person like Vladimir Putin is a danger to humanity broadly. I sincerely doubt Putin would take Ukraine (I think he will) and then be content. There's evidence he is planning something for Moldova. What's Moldova mean to the world? Or Estonia? Or Latvia? Or Lithuania? Oh...Poland...that one's pretty big. Romania? How many millions have to suffer (either a little or a lot) for a single man's delusion? I genuinely worry what comes next. The best thing that could happen is the Russian armed forces just refuse to continue attacking Ukraine.
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Two of these are not like the others. Ukraine and Moldova are not part of NATO. If Putin were to decide to attack Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, or Romania, then NATO becomes a huge problem for him.
Danoff
This is why I say the benefits outweight the drawbacks. But there are a lot of functions of country leadership that benefit from a great deal of experience as well. Obviously Biden has tons of experience in government, including as vice president. But I can see advantages to parts of the job for a leader that has been in the seat for a long time. A lot of Biden's experience in the Senate is useful for certain domestic policy, but less useful for dealing with current foreign issues, for example.

I'm not advocating that the US needs an autocracy or a longer-term president. I'm just recognizing that our leadership may consistently underperform in certain specific areas because they're always so relatively new. And I think it's clearly worth that price to avoid the other huge downsides, some of which Russia is experiencing today.
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There is institutional knowledge available to presidents. Sitting presidents talk to former presidents for advice. There are also Cabinet member or former Cabinet members available for knowledge too. It is not nearly the experience vacuum it could appear to be.
Joey D
Russia has Ugolny Air Base and the 50th Coastal Defense Regiment near Anadyr and the Mys Shmidta Air Base in the precise middle of nowhere Chukotka.

The US has all sorts of stuff in Alaska too from air bases to RADAR installations. There's also a fighter wing with F-35s.
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There are also two squadrons of F-22s stationed at Elmendorf.
 
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Heartbreaking. Khodorkovsky - former wealthiest man in Russia, was sentenced for 10 years after he charged regime as corrupted. Even after 10 years in prison and almost 10 years as philanthropist and immigrant he asking for forgiveness for what our country doing with Ukraine.
 
According to Le Monde, 4 Russian jet fighters (2xSoukhoï Su-27 + 2xSoukhoï Su-24) violated the SWEDEN airspace today.
Russia still playing with more matches...
inCloud
Keep in mind that Putin cant just decide to nuke someone.
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Please, play me more of that sweet music. :bowdown:
Today was the monthly Alarm Siren test day in France. Medias felt the need to remind it to people to prevent panic.

Edit: i forgot the word Sweden...
 
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Milouse
Today was the monthly Alarm Siren test day in France. Medias felt the need to remind it to people to prevent panic.
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Monday the 7th is ours, we already had it in the news as a reminder that it will go on.
 
Blitz24
I wonder who voted against it...

Sees Paul Gosar's name

We should probably send them all to Russia.
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Tom Massie would probably fit right in with Putin's circle since Massie rather enjoys Neo-Nazi propaganda.

What really surprises me is white supremacist Marjorie Taylor Greene didn't join her buddy Gosar. I figured they would've bonded at their pro-Putin comrade Nick Fuentes' rally. Matt Rosendale is the only one that sort of makes sense considering he's super anti-war and isolationist.
 


Man eventhough im in Australia everybody is also feeling this war.

Power of globalisation. Everybody thought conflicts would be regional or local but nope every conflict always draws in another power.
 
Joey D
Tom Massie would probably fit right in with Putin's circle since Massie rather enjoys Neo-Nazi propaganda.

What really surprises me is white supremacist Marjorie Taylor Greene didn't join her buddy Gosar. I figured they would've bonded at their pro-Putin comrade Nick Fuentes' rally. Matt Rosendale is the only one that sort of makes sense considering he's super anti-war and isolationist.
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This probably was why.
 
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