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    Social media says he won a trial or something, I dunno. Whatever it is the whole world sure seems happy about it.
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      Editing … She is going to appeal right? I can't wait for part 2!! And meanwhile, there is a war in Ukraine or something I dunno. But that's boring.
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      Editing … Is that war still on? Not heard a peep in ages
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      Editing … I heard on TV yesterday. Biden doesn't want to supply Ukraine with long range rockets, or anything that can reach Russia. but boy howdy is he going to supply them. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-rocket-systems-ukraine-not-meant-strike-russia-white-house-official-2022-06-01/
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      Editing … we should send Johnny Depp over there, he can throw wine bottles at the russkies
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      Editing … and amber can shit on their beds
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    • Nodley
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      Editing … So US and Russia are basically at war. Nice. I think I'll keep my UK tax money though.
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      Editing … This just popped up on my suggestions. I already knew Russia was all about gas but it might be interesting to somebody who doesn't know what they're fighting for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo6w5R6Uo8Y
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      Editing … Russia has so much land, but still wants more which is ridiculous. Dreams of getting the borders of the russian empire again.
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      Editing … We all need to get those heat pumps installed and we can just bin natural gas off and bankrupt Russia. Then what will they do? Our governments want the taxes off of what we pay to energy comapnies though, so that's the reason we just sit and do nothing.
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      Editing … Agree just stop importing gas and oil, but corrupted asssholes like hungarian ruler (name?) prevent such. Russia is bluffing all the time with their threads, but everyone believes them somehow. Not seeing that their military is heavily corrupted and incompetent. Ukraine asked for german help to deliver equipment, too bad the Bundeswehr seem to have not enough to invade a dwarf state.
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      Editing … It seems Germany has cancelled the Russian gas pipeline and will be using other gas within a couple of years. I hope that's the route we're going too. It's difficult to get information out of the British government though, they just deflect questions so they aren't held to a decision if things change.
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      Editing … But if I'm paying £2000 a year for my gas and a full heat pump install is £5000 I'll be in profit in 2.5 years. It's an easy solution for me. I think I should get it done asap. I'm hoping the government start handing out grants though, I don't want to spend money I don't have to. And if I get solar panels on the roof too I'll be able to charge my electric car up for free overnight when all that stuff happens. All these silly wars can be avoided if everybody just pulls together.
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      Editing … Gas pipeline is officially on halt, technically done. Alternatives are now nervously looked, recently read about thoughts buying coal from Columbia!
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      Editing … Anywhere is better than Russia. You just can't go around invading countries nowadays, as long as they get away with it they will do it again. If you watch that video next up is Turkmenistan or whatever it's called next to Iran, the next biggest country with gas.
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      Editing … I think the sanctions are the worst idea of the decade next to lockdowns. It seems smart but the sanctions are not doing anything to stop the war. The only thing the west have done is fuck themselves over and hiked up the price for food for the rest of the (especially developing) world. We are helping to destroy what little is left of our world economy. A worse economy actually costs people healthy years of their lives. It’s no joke. These sanctions are only there to make people feel like they are doing something. But there are enough countries who want gas and oil. Russia can just sell to China and India. And even if they couldn’t, no way will Russia stop spending money on their war. They will cut costs in other areas way before that happens. Hurting the Russian economy will only hurt regular Russian civilians and ourselves. The poor will suffer more and more if this continues. Sanctions also increase the oil price. Russia only needs to sell half of their oil and gas to get the same amount of money and they get to keep more of their resources. It will take a long time before we get out of this economic crisis. Sanctions are always a very bad idea. It’s criminal imo. War is never about good guys vs bad guys. This is a very complicated affair that started more than 10 years ago.
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      Editing … Well, are there better ideas than sanctions? Usually diplomacy but with Putin (for example XiJinping, Orban Erdogan etc..) becoming pointless since last decade. So? Saving world economy under free trade policy giving wealth to everyone and avoid global warming? Too late China wants rule the world and crushing opponents (like Germany) to dust. India? See themselves as successor of China in 40 years do not giving a shit about climate risks or poor people either. My thought? We were lucky in the past, as now bad things are happening people think of short sight solutions. Deseases like Covid will appear more often also(my guess). And now war in Ukraine, some "vip" in Germany wrote a letter to Kanzler Scholz, more or less "demanding" he should tell Ukraine to just give up! If you want peace prepare for war (quote from ?). Appeasement didn't work in the past and won't work in the future. See no other solution with the current generation of politicians all over the world.
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      Editing … Doing no sanctions is better than doing sanctions. Sometimes doing something brings more harm than good. Same as in with Germany in WW1. If we're unlucky this will only drive Russia and China closer together. You'll get a more divided world. We could also stop sending weapons to a warzone. It seems like another good option. The more weapons that are delivered to a warzone the longer a war will go on and the more casualties will fall. It is the only thing that is proven to help. The more countries that are invested in a war the worse it is. Same for all the proxy wars like in Yemen (which is a tragic disaster). Giving humanitarian aid is the only ethical thing to do as a country who is not directly involved in a particular war. That and diplomacy, but no one likes that anymore. Zelenski did not want to do diplomacy with Putin either. He could have done it but he chose not to. We could do diplomacy but instead we are actively creating enemies. It’s a big mess and we can’t clean it up no matter how much we want to believe we can. We can however stop making it worse. I'm all for not making it worse.
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      Editing … You surely mean 3rd Reich before WW2, WW1 is pretty different. Going further back Napoleon was he ever satiesfied? Back to today, Yemen a true shame like Libya and to the worst: Syria did diplomacy help? No as Russia under Putin don't care anymore, which got closer to China a while ago. Why? Common goals! China wants to annex Taiwan and claim territories up to the coast of Malaysia! Putin tried to kill Zelenkij, would you trust him? Putins demands are unacceptable of course as well. We are not making enemies, they are already here, they were just hiding. A change of leaders of these said countries would be gift of god (a wish). We are buying us time by doing nothing and let other suffer which is the worst to me. For over a decade attempts tried to make it not worse already, the results are unsatiesfying at least.
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      Editing … Yeah I mean the damages that had to be paid after ww1 that crippled the economy for years to come. Of course people have the instinct to want to do something. It's only natural of course. But what we are doing is not doing any good I think. I think it’s even doing massive amounts of harm to not only Ukraine but the whole world as well. Our economies are intrinsically dependent upon each other and lives are tied to that. You can try to slowly get a more independent economy, but a sudden impulsive shift will cause damage and people will be hurt but the effects or even starve and die. But it’s not a damage you can easily assess. In Yemen, Libya and Syria the west has helped to escalate these conflicts. The west are cunts too sometimes it’s just the way it is but to us it does not seem that way because we think we are the good guys but there are no good guys. There is just conflict between the various wants and needs of different parties. It is the trick to de-escalate conflict and keep damage to a minimum but that almost never happens because a lot can be gained from war by many parties including us sometimes. There are a lot of things we have done to not make friends before the conflict escalated in war such as expansion of nato and eu influence nearer to the Russian boarders including an economic zone in Ukraine with a literal fence. No actions justify one country invading another but you can see the massive amount of dick comparing contests between the EU, NATO and Russia were not helpful to participate in. Putin is not a man who will look after his people. He does not give a damn so sanctions are just for show. Russia would be better off if they had a better president of course. Zelenski though is also not a “man of the people”. Who gives regular civilians guns? It’s like if Pippi Longstockings became a warlord. “you get a gun and you get a gun! Everyone can have a gun!” You’re just sending people straight to their graves. Civilians are no match for experienced soldiers who have fought in real wars. Also giving out free weapons to just about anyone is terrible idea. Criminals have run rampant with them and civilians don’t only have to worry about escaping the war but also crazy people with guns. You should protect your civilians not encourage them into their deaths. It’s not pretty. Nothing you can do now except try to not fan the flames of war. I just hope it won’t drag on for years to come.
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      Editing … Also I don't know what's going with Johnny Depp but I hope he gets so much money he never needs to make another movie ever again.
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      Editing … Caspian Report did one or two great reports on this topic as well. (I believe this one) https://youtu.be/BeacXBxPARQ
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