Possible WW3 thread

[chum1]

Can we pin down dax on whether or not he thinks the US is currently trying to annex Mexico?

[sonofdaxjones]

Can we pin down dax on whether or not he thinks the US is currently trying to annex Mexico?

Just so bad at this, and getting worse 

[yoga-like_abana]

I've heard of the annexation of Puerto Rico but never of Mexico.

[wetwillie]

Let’s stay on topic here, is Russia going to invade Ukraine or not? Don’t think so based on what we know right now.

[Phil Titola]

Let’s stay on topic here, is Russia going to invade Ukraine or not? Don’t think so based on what we know right now.

but Mexico might?

[chum1]

Let’s stay on topic here, is Russia going to invade Ukraine or not? Don’t think so based on what we know right now.

Putin doesn't seem to be the type to walk away empty handed at this point. But he might settle for something other than Ukraine itself. Or he might not.

This is an interesting observation.

https://twitter.com/alexbward/status/1484932958440108035

[wetwillie]

I bet he’s dangling Snowden in front of Biden as we speak

[Dugout DickStone]

Let’s stay on topic here, is Russia going to invade Ukraine or not? Don’t think so based on what we know right now.

My money is on Ukraine to whip those fat, drunk morons.

[Cire]

Putins goal is to destabilize/break up nato and eu. Sow division within the US, destabilize democracy.

Analysts have been screaming this for 6+ years.


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[wetwillie]

He’s not doing a very good job

[Spracne]

He’s not doing a very good job

Considering that California's economy is larger than Russia's, I must concur.

[chum1]

He does have quite a few people in this country regurgitating his propaganda for no apparent reason.

[Spracne]

He does have quite a few people in this country regurgitating his propaganda for no apparent reason.

Oh, there's a reason. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

[LickNeckey]

How would the U.S. react if Mexico entered into a military alliance with China?   Then started letting China build military bases and surveillance platforms in Northern Mexico?

Then lets say that a drug cartel got really out of control (who was getting their chemicals from rogue Chinese companies while other Chinese actors - possibly even Chinese intelligence washed their money) and was armed to the teeth and was murdering all kinds of people on both sides of the border while funneling tons of illegal drugs into the United States distributed across a vast network of cartel member/gangs in U.S. cities.    The U.S. wants to cut off the head of the snake, but an attack on Mexico, even a drug lord compound is considered by the Chinese, to also be an attack on China.

Well, we'd absolutely lose our crap right from the start of any such overtures between Mexico and China. 

So why is anyone the least bit surprised that Russia is reacting they way they are?

So there is not a point?

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Tucker Carlson: Fierce advocate of peace and enemy of the Military Industrial Complex. Does Sergey Lavrov just fax him a list of talking points for his monologue every night?

https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1485809410496737287?s=20&t=OKp7qcAsPk02Yea8fGKHPg

[LickNeckey]

Belarus is firmly a puppet state.

Land grabs in South Osettia, Abkhazia, Crimea, and Donbas.

Destabilization plays in the Balkan peninsula.

Panic in the Baltics

I can't imagine why a nation in the region would be seeking protective alliances...

[Spracne]

Belarus is firmly a puppet state.

Land grabs in South Osettia, Abkhazia, Crimea, and Donbas.

Destabilization plays in the Balkan peninsula.

Panic in the Baltics

I can't imagine why a nation in the region would be seeking protective alliances...

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

[MakeItRain]

Belarus is firmly a puppet state.

Land grabs in South Osettia, Abkhazia, Crimea, and Donbas.

Destabilization plays in the Balkan peninsula.

Panic in the Baltics

I can't imagine why a nation in the region would be seeking protective alliances...

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

 

[MakeItRain]

Let’s stay on topic here, is Russia going to invade Ukraine or not? Don’t think so based on what we know right now.

[wetwillie]

WW3 averted, good job in here folks.

[Cire]

Anyone read?
1997 FFS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
n Foundations of Geopolitics, Dugin calls for the United States and Atlanticism to lose their influence in Eurasia, and for Russia to rebuild its influence through annexations and alliances.[2]

The book declares that "the battle for the world rule of Russians" has not ended and Russia remains "the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution". The Eurasian Empire will be constructed "on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us."[9]

Military operations play relatively little role. The textbook advocates a sophisticated program of subversion, destabilization, and disinformation spearheaded by the Russian special services. The operations should be assisted by a tough, hard-headed utilization of Russia's gas, oil, and natural resources to bully and pressure other countries.[9]

The book states that "the maximum task [of the future] is the 'Finlandization' of all of Europe".[9]

In Europe:

Germany should be offered the de facto political dominance over most Protestant and Catholic states located within Central and Eastern Europe. Kaliningrad Oblast could be given back to Germany. The book uses the term "Moscow–Berlin axis".[9]
France should be encouraged to form a bloc with Germany, as they both have a "firm anti-Atlanticist tradition".[9]
The United Kingdom, merely described as an "extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.", should be cut off from Europe.[9]
Finland should be absorbed into Russia. Southern Finland will be combined with the Republic of Karelia and northern Finland will be "donated to Murmansk Oblast".[9]
Estonia should be given to Germany's sphere of influence.[9]
Latvia and Lithuania should be given a "special status" in the Eurasian–Russian sphere.[9]
Poland should be granted a "special status" in the Eurasian sphere.[9]
Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia, "Serbian Bosnia" and Greece – "Orthodox collectivist East" – will unite with "Moscow the Third Rome" and reject the "rational-individualistic West".[9]
Ukraine should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics". Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible.[9]
In the Middle East and Central Asia:

The book stresses the "continental Russian–Islamic alliance" which lies "at the foundation of anti-Atlanticist strategy". The alliance is based on the "traditional character of Russian and Islamic civilization".
Iran is a key ally. The book uses the term "Moscow–Tehran axis".[9]
Armenia has a special role: It will serve as a "strategic base," and it is necessary to create "the [subsidiary] axis Moscow-Yerevan-Teheran". Armenians "are an Aryan people ... [like] the Iranians and the Kurds".[9]
Azerbaijan could be "split up" or given to Iran.[9]
Georgia should be dismembered. Abkhazia and "United Ossetia" (which includes Georgia's South Ossetia) will be incorporated into Russia. Georgia's independent policies are unacceptable.[9]
Russia needs to create "geopolitical shocks" within Turkey. These can be achieved by employing Kurds, Armenians and other minorities.[9]
The book regards the Caucasus as a Russian territory, including "the eastern and northern shores of the Caspian (the territories of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan)" and Central Asia (mentioning Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan).[9]
In East and Southeast Asia:

China, which represents a danger to Russia, "must, to the maximum degree possible, be dismantled". Dugin suggests that Russia start by taking Tibet–Xinjiang–Inner Mongolia–Manchuria as a security belt.[1] Russia should offer China help "in a southern direction – Indochina (except Vietnam), the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia" as geopolitical compensation.[9]
Russia should manipulate Japanese politics by offering the Kuril Islands to Japan and provoking anti-Americanism.[9]
Mongolia should be absorbed into Eurasia-Russia.[9]
The book emphasizes that Russia must spread anti-Americanism everywhere: "the main 'scapegoat' will be precisely the U.S."

In the United States:

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".[9]
The Eurasian Project could be expanded to South and Central America.[9]

[Phil Titola]

Tucker Carlson: Fierce advocate of peace and enemy of the Military Industrial Complex. Does Sergey Lavrov just fax him a list of talking points for his monologue every night?

https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1485809410496737287?s=20&t=OKp7qcAsPk02Yea8fGKHPg

Dax gets mad when we pin him with the Tucker Carlson card but jeez it's like word for word Dax post.

[Dugout DickStone]

He’s not doing a very good job

Considering that California's economy is larger than Russia's, I must concur.

I think Texas is also ahead of those legit midgets who can't get their bald heads out of a vodka bottle to even have more kids (declining birth rate)

they are a dying nationstate and this is their last hail mary (pathetic) attempt at remaining relevant.  They legit won't go into ukraine because they know there is a decent shot they lose and that would be the end for them. 

[wetwillie]

I’m glad our guy Biden didn’t fall for it, great job so far on this by him.

[Kat Kid]

I wonder if the term "outside agitators" or "Russian sympathizers" has been used before by people trying to discredit the work of American activists.