Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Meanlucario
No I’m saying Russia isn’t a military threat to NATO, it’s a threat to countries like Ukraine.

@Background Pony #7F4F
I read it that you mean Russia’s threats were its neighbors, not that it was a threat to them. My mistake.

Ukrainian Citizens visiting Russia and Russian Citizens visiting Ukraine right as the war started be like:

Seriously though, what happens to these folks?

Russia’s economy is entering what is possibly the most precipitous tailspin in modern economic history.

Mimicking the rapid fall of Venezuela, the Russia asset and futures markets have shed billions and billions of dollars. Days of closure of Russian commodity markets have resulted in many major Russian companies plunging to their lowest ever prices, likely to bottom out the moment the markets reopen.

Russia will likely enter a recession soon even if sanctions are lifted. With the possibility of spiraling into a full on mini-depression if said sanctions last for a few months.

With over half their foreign cash reserves frozen, and major Russia asset holders like Germany moving to freeze even more, Putin only has a small, and ever shrinking cushion to work with.

If sanctions last a full year, and continue to ramp up, we could even see the complete collapse of the Russian economy. Particularly if major consumer countries divest from Russian oil and gas.

@CaptainXtra
Nothing good is my guess.

It seems like Russian bots/shills and the Far-Right are trying to brigade Twitter by making Putin out to be the good guy, since there has been an increase in posts that have phrasing along the lines of #IStandWithPutin

@Background Pony #1F81
Oh no…

That’s some dumb shit.

@Background Pony #1F81
Looks like someone forgot the n in stand.

And yes there are russian trolls on twitter that tried to get rid of nato earlier.

@igotnopicks
Look up “stan.” It’s depressing.

@Background Pony #1F81
Getting real tired of this bot s##t happening whenever a country f###s up.

So, how much longer until this time period can be considered Cold War 2?

2 years later he finally admits it wasn’t a “perfect phone call”.

@CaptainXtra
We’ve been in a cold war with China for awhile now.

If this happens, would Russia end up like the poor countries in Africa, where children will starve, and people in wealthier countries like Burkina Faso will run donation campaigns?

@Background Pony #1F81
What does the Far Right even want? A return to the pre-Civil War era where non-whites were slaves and scientific progress was nonexistent?

@Wiimeiser
Most likely. And the alt-right just wants to be Nazis.

At the very least they want the return of Jim Crow, the restoration of “traditional gender roles,” and for LGBT+ people to get back in the closet so they can pretend they don’t exist.

@BlitztheDragon
The day the Jim Crow laws are restored is the day I officially give up on humanity.

@BlitztheDragon
I’m a straight white guy, so two of those wouldn’t apply to me (though still things that shouldn’t return), though the gender roles would fuck me up since I’m not able to work and would rely on the woman I marry to bring home the bacon.

@Background Pony #7F4F
Yeah but they are least likely to attack us.

After Russia’s plan to attack Moldova was revealed, the nation has now requested to join the EU.

@Meanlucario
But aren’t they family?

@Dustcan
Oof.

@Background Pony #95EA
Putin doesn’t think so, and this type of conflict would give rise to paranoia and fear.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, AKA the doomsday clock keepers will meet over what is going on in the Ukraine.

Putin shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant
Needless to say this will have far reaching consequences if they damage the containment vessel.
Russian aircraft violate Sweden airspace
A pair of Su-27’s and a pair of Su-24’s. This is the last thing that needs to happen over there. Fuck it I hope they join NATO and piss off Adolph Putin even further.
A Russian chopper also violated Japan’s airspace.

And I just ordered this shirt:

The Jan 6 call committee has concluded that Trump did in fact break several laws in trying to overturn the election.

I mean. We already knew that, but thanks for making it official. Now to quote Farron Cousins: “Good. Now arrest him.”

@lonewolf
That shirt is kind of cringe