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Russia will gain eastern Ukraine territories and hold them, as it has Crimea

5 (45.5%)

Russia will temporarily gain eastern Ukraine territories before being forced out of them

2 (18.2%)

Efforts to confront the Russian forces and get them out of Ukraine will lead to Putin's escalating and attacking NATO countries directly with missiles or other destructive measures

0 (0%)

The NATO/World response will be so mild that Putin will go ahead and take the rest of Ukraine

3 (27.3%)

Today Ukraine, tomorrow Moldova and who knows where else

1 (9.1%)

Total Members Voted: 10

Voting closed: March 01, 2022, 01:18:43 PM

[LarryB!]

The Right wants to make Greta the voice of all Green progressives because it makes it easier to discredit them and steer away from actually discussing the factual basis of carbon reduction policies.  They could select the definitely non-autistic Bill McKibben or Jane Goodall or Amory Lovins, but then they would have to address the evidence instead of sniping at a teenager with a disability.

LOL
Greta is far from being the only one laughed at for her forecasts of doom from climate change.

Andrew Tate is not laughing.

Greta burst on the scene as a hyper aware kid who rightfully saw her future as impending doom and folks heckling her are a bunch myopic assholes.

Wonder who taught her to see her future like that?

People are born with the senses.

She saw the situation
She heard the voices of reason
Her brain told her should be done
Her heart gave the ability to step forward.

To put this in a way you will understand, that girl is more man than you will ever be.

[facilitatorn]

Bambu will never understand. It is the core of how he has built himself, a very dense core.

[bambu.]

Yes, bambu has never professed to be a genius, rather just a 70% student doing his best.
Having failed his final high school exams...(being run down by a car on the highway in his home suburb, massive concussion and no skin much left on one side of his face...at age 16 going on 10...didn't help matters)..........at age  18 he started in the workforce.
He knew nothing much about anything...put hot water in his car radiator to warm up the car so it would start.
It started...but only went one suburb before stopping.
Nice motoring club roadside assistance man explained that you don't do that.
Noted. lol

Fast forward 60 years...and bambu has realised that his adopted wisdom over the decades is as true now as it's always been.
Wisdom is mostly commonsense.
No 1 radio host...(he's still alive...is on internet radio now):
"commonsense is not always common".

[bambu.]

Bambu will never understand. It is the core of how he has built himself, a very dense core.

bambu understands:
China is building two new coal-fired power stations per week...while the West beats itself up over CO2 emissions and ruins its economies.
LOL

[facilitatorn]

No one feels sorry for you.

The closest you can get is making folks sorry you are here.

[bambu.]

No one feels sorry for you.

The closest you can get is making folks sorry you are here.

LOL

Not looking for sympathy, nor expecting any.
Much worse happens to people in their lives.

I learnt to play the game...took a while, but got there at about age 27.
'Dingo cunning' ...along with "look after yourself first in this world, son...because nobody else will"...and bambu-wisdom was born. 

Walk, talk, work, and drive slowly...mistakes can be costly and fatal.

Stay out of the seas, lakes and rivers...misery, wheelchairs, limb-loss and death await.
The sea is cruel, as are the lakes and rivers. Everything from rogue waves, high seas, capsizing cruise ships, sharks, crocodiles, stingrays, and all sorts of creatures pedalling pain and death await....including flesh-eating monsters/bacteria.

[facilitatorn]

You had completely given up on life and became an out and out shitty cunt by your mid twenties. That sucks. Sad no one was around who could have steered you straight when it would have made a difference. Maybe if there had been YouTube in those days

[bambu.]

You had completely given up on life and became an out and out shitty cunt by your mid twenties. That sucks. Sad no one was around who could have steered you straight when it would have made a difference. Maybe if there had been YouTube in those days

No active HR depts in those days. No stress management classes back then.
Overworked, underpaid, bullied and harassed? that was bad luck for you.
Need a rest? you must see a psychiatrist.
I told the psychiatrist how I was being used and abused, he sympathised with me, gave me some pills and a medical certificate for 2 weeks off work.
Because it was long ago and basically a govt job the sick leave was generous...full pay.
The easy thing to do was leave, as many did.
I stayed and fought the battle, to get and keep the 50% staff home loan discount...when home loan interest rates were 17%.
Also low interest Union credit union personal loans.
I needed to keep my home.
Be nasty to me, when I'm being nice to you and doing my best?
I will feel 'nervous' and offended and have the doctor give me a week off work to recover...and you'll be minus a staff member for a week.

[LarryB!]

No observations on the inner turmoil of Russia?

[Oilcandide]

I posted in News General, will move it over here....

Wagners are stirring shit in Russia, maybe will get some other former splinters like the Chechens to join up.  My favorite news snip this morning was a report of a Wagner column moving north of Voronezh and some witnesses in a small town said they had stopped to...do some shopping.

[bambu.]

Wagners fighting Russians...great news.
Hope they slaughter each other.
Would give the Ukrainians a better chance .

[Oilcandide]

And then there's the Byelos suggesting it may be a good time to oust Lukashenko.

A group of Belarusian volunteer fighters that has helped Ukraine defend against the Russian invasion urged their compatriots to stay out of Russia s internal strife and prepare to rise up against their own authoritarian government.

Favorable conditions for the destruction of the dictatorship are rapidly approaching, a spokesman for the Kastus Kalinouski Regiment said in a video posted to the groups Twitter account Saturday. This is the beginning of the end of the great tyranny.  - from WaPo report

[LarryB!]

I posted in News General, will move it over here....

Wagners are stirring shit in Russia, maybe will get some other former splinters like the Chechens to join up.  My favorite news snip this morning was a report of a Wagner column moving north of Voronezh and some witnesses in a small town said they had stopped to...do some shopping.

Chechyns are supposedly moving in to back up Putin.

[Oilcandide]

Prigozhin seems to have figured that out. 

Civil war cancelled today.  Maybe next week.

[facilitatorn]

Word is Wagner is heading to Belarus. I read this as a pause rather than a cessation in hostilities.

Meanwhile Ukraine keeps chewing away Russian artillery and logistics.