Unrest in Ukraine

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Originally Posted by Leo656

"I thought you Russian guys would all stick together?" He got all animated and was like "That guy not Russian! He from f*cking Ukraine! Those people are crazy!"

Isn't it funny how no one, not even the liberal nuts who would appear in this thread, have nothing to say about the comment although Russian-guy's comment was inherently racist? But if you make a blanket observation about another group with habits central to one location, you'd have cries of racism.

Originally Posted by Mayhem

Stopping Ukraine joining NATO is definitely one angle. The fact Ukraine has a **** ton of valuable resources (such as rare metals and other minable assets) is probably another given prices on them have been rising last few years due to COVID etc.

A noteworthy amount of super conductor and semi-conductor materials are imported here from Ukraine.

Originally Posted by Sumac

Russia has more resources.
Annexing Ukraine basically will make it a huge money sink for the Russia (and that is without money, which Russia would need to sink into fighting local guerillas).
And given horrible state of Russian economy it is a complete insane plan. But Putin had proven that he and sanity run on separate lanes, so...who knows.

Our spineless social justice President has done nothing. Trump would've been all over this as his record of action points out. Germany took action before Biden for God's sake. Germany. That's like saying that France launched a full out offensive against terrorism - it's unheard of.