Just curious, whats the closest you've ever been to dying?
IME most everyone gets religious pretty quick in some form or fashion when they feel the reaper knocking on the door.
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IME most everyone gets religious pretty quick in some form or fashion when they feel the reaper knocking on the door.
not every religion believes in hell, per se.
An atheist, a vegan and a CrossFitter walk into the room. How do you tell which is which?
Don't worry about it. They'll tell you within a few minutes
So do y’all think Steven Seagal is leading any of the Russian special forces?
Here's the whole interview. Go to 26:30 to hear the scoop on the Nordstream event.
At the rate things are going sideways, the 50+ senators getting satphones this week is starting to make sense.
Wonder if there's a way to see how many have quietly bugged out from DC?
I’ve noticed the same. It’s uncanny.
Very informative video:
Starting from 18:00 or so in the video is something Larry said which I think is very true and very important. Russia, having the largest land surface area in the world, is also the richest country in the world when it comes to natural resources, and now, also food (!). And now, Russia finally learned how to export its resources without being ripped off too much. And, can you believe it, some really stupid people in the west decided to sanction such a country, which has real material wealth, which a lot of other countries need badly.Very informative video:
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They know that either the Russians are planning some type of attack, or the feds are planning a false flag. (On the power grid maybe?)
From the frying pan into the fire for all of us here pretty soon if more sensible heads don't prevail.
i dunno, they go on and on and speculate a lot on basically anything they find "on the line" but as far as i know, they aren't faking what they share.
''A Restaurant Owner & A Bunch Of Convicts'' aka WAGNER took on and beat Europe's largest and most well-funded army in Bakhmut there had to be some alcohol involved right!?
Well......., there is some sparkling wine in underground cellars and a whole factory that just happens to be the largest in Europe. Artemivsk Champagne Wines Establishments was signed into existence at the end of June 1950 by the order of Joseph Stalin, vinery is situated 72 meters deep underground in former Gypsum mines that provide an ideal environment for wine storage. Artwinery’s buildings occupy 16 hectares on the ground and 25 hectares underground. with a capacity of 25mio bottles per year its the largest champagne vinery plant in Europe
About 9 million bottles of wine were left after Ukrainians evacuated 1milion bottles, still there, deep in the winery in Bakhmut, on the frontlines of the war.During battle Bakhmut, battles took place on the territory of the champagne wine factory. All the buildings of the factory above ground were destroyed.
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Well......., there is some sparkling wine in underground cellars and a whole factory that just happens to be the largest in Europe. Artemivsk Champagne Wines Establishments was signed into existence at the end of June 1950 by the order of Joseph Stalin, vinery is situated 72 meters deep underground in former Gypsum mines that provide an ideal environment for wine storage. Artwinery’s buildings occupy 16 hectares on the ground and 25 hectares underground. with a capacity of 25mio bottles per year its the largest champagne vinery plant in Europe
About 9 million bottles of wine were left after Ukrainians evacuated 1milion bottles, still there, deep in the winery in Bakhmut, on the frontlines of the war.During battle Bakhmut, battles took place on the territory of the champagne wine factory. All the buildings of the factory above ground were destroyed.
A champagne made in Donbas - Outriders
Posh shops and boutiques are located on the main street of Kyiv in a (a large department store), renovated by Rinat Akhmetov, the wealthiest Ukrainian. It is a kind of an island of luxury, where many Kyiv residents and guests come just to have a walk because it’s Centralnyj Uniwersalnyj Magazin...
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Woah..Well ''A Restaurant Owner & A Bunch Of Convicts'' aka WAGNER take on and beat Europe's largest and most well-funded army in Bakhmut there had to be some alcohol involved
Well there is some sparkling vine in underground cellars. Artemivsk Champagne Wines Establishments was signed at the end of June 1950 by order of Joseph Stalin , vinery is 72 meters deep underground in former Gypsum mines. Artwinery’s buildings occupy 16 hectares on the ground and 25 hectares underground. with a capacity of 25mio bottles per year its the largest champagne vinery plant in Europe
About 9 million bottles of wine were left after Ukrainians evacuated 1milion bottles, still there, deep in the winery in Bakhmut, on the frontlines of the war.
Any age estimations on the wine? Goes back to the days of Stalin ..?
Gotta be worth a chunk of change no?
The old stuff was probably 'evacuated' before the battle and given how long the battle lasted you can imagine ''evacuation'' of wine was an ongoing process. At its peak they had 50mio bottles aging underground.was always worth a chunk of change as was some of the premium stuff, but wine is generaly being aged in unlabeled bottles with codes on it , without original books on hand who knows what is what.
I can imagine enterprising individuals on front lines will be 'liberating' what is left in bulk , relabeling it as xyz and selling much of it of as cheap booze
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Only one way to find out! Who’s bringing the steaks?The old stuff was probably 'evacuated' before the battle and given how long the battle lasted you can imagine ''evacuation'' of wine was an ongoing process. At its peak they had 50mio bottles aging underground.was always worth a chunk of change as was some of the premium stuff, but wine is generaly being aged in unlabeled bottles with codes on it , without original books on hand who knows what is what.
Col Daniel Davis - another American with a very clear understanding of the situation:
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remember at the start of the war, when Ukraine was saying they didn't have any small weapons to arm all their citizens....
And here's this cache, sitting useless.
No money to be made by using their existing inventory.
Some people and organizations are making a killing, while hundreds of thousands are slaughtered.
Same as it ever was.
Wagner Chief Warns of Russian Revolution over Ukraine War Failures
Wagner chief warned of another Russian revolution akin to that of 1917 unless the strategy of the war in Ukraine is drastically altered
www.breitbart.com Ukraine is losing 10,000 drones a month to Russian electronic-warfare systems that send fake signals and screw with their navigation, researchers say
Sophisticated electronic-warfare systems are contributing to the loss of about 300 Ukrainian drones a day, a new RUSI report found.
www.businessinsider.com 
They've been supplying Ukraine with AGM-88 missiles for quite awhile. Supposedly, the Russian air defenses have been knocking them down without much trouble.
This article is from Sept of last year.
Russia says it intercepted two American AGM-88 HARM radar hunter killer cruise missiles
Russian air defense systems successfully destroyed two American AGM-88 HARM cruise missiles on September 11, says the
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Generally I consider Breitbart to be pretty biased in it's reporting but having run this concept thru other sources I believe it to be true.Wagner Chief Warns of Russian Revolution over Ukraine War Failures
Wagner chief warned of another Russian revolution akin to that of 1917 unless the strategy of the war in Ukraine is drastically altered
I wonder if this is why so much time, money, and weapons are being sent to Ukraine? Kinda like when the Wall came down in Berlin - We basically bankrupted Russia over the shit they were involved in in Afghanistan and the USSR tumbled down. Maybe it's cheaper to supply Ukraine with the materials and money to wreck Russia than dealing with them. Think about a world without Russia - Maybe they'll Balkanize.
Nahhhhh. Never Mind.
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typical ruskie proganda; the agm-88 is not a cruise missile but a M=2 missile that would need highly sophisticated anti-missile tech. You would need s400 capability and that would be an expensive exchange.They've been supplying Ukraine with AGM-88 missiles for quite awhile. Supposedly, the Russian air defenses have been knocking them down without much trouble.
This article is from Sept of last year.
Russia says it intercepted two American AGM-88 HARM radar hunter killer cruise missiles
Russian air defense systems successfully destroyed two American AGM-88 HARM cruise missiles on September 11, says the
Too funny. You pointing out propaganda.
Sieg Heil, Putin! Puntainista!
America's best interests lay with Russia ending this war with total victory.
Ohh come on now. Don't get all pissy. Tell me some more about how the uke's are kicking Russian ass and that the Russians are not really in control of Bakhmut.
Even our own news sources indicate that the agm-88 aren't doing all that great.
Russia claims that they are easily defeated by using decoy radar emitters.
One that ran out of fuel and hit an apartment:
www.nytimes.com
Parts of another one, that hit a house in Kherson, after being intercepted. This one had shrapnel hits from the interceptor that knocked it down:
www.thedrive.com
Both of those articles are over 6 months old.
Russia claims that they are easily defeated by using decoy radar emitters.
One that ran out of fuel and hit an apartment:
A U.S.-Made Missile Went Astray in Ukraine, Injuring Civilians
An air-launched AGM-88B missile, built to destroy enemy radars, apparently missed its target and hit an apartment building in Kramatorsk in September.
Parts of another one, that hit a house in Kherson, after being intercepted. This one had shrapnel hits from the interceptor that knocked it down:
New Evidence Of AGM-88 Anti-Radiation Missile Use By Ukraine Emerges
Pictures that appear to show the remains of an AGM-88 missile in Ukraine have emerged online for the second time in a week.
www.thedrive.com Both of those articles are over 6 months old.
Lots of Putin cocksuckers around here think he is a hero but Putin’s butcher has some doubts. Says the Russians better live like more like north korea for a few years or they will be reliving 1917 pretty soon.
RIGA, Latvia — Fresh off his claim of victory in capturing the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Russian mercenary boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin warned that Moscow’s brutal war could plunge Russia into turmoil similar to the 1917 revolution unless its detached, wealthy elite become more directly committed to the conflict.
In a lengthy interview with Konstantin Dolgov, a political operative and pro-war blogger, Prigozhin, the founder and leader of the Wagner mercenary group, also asserted that the war had backfired spectacularly by failing to “demilitarize” Ukraine, one of President Vladimir Putin’s stated aims of the invasion. He also called for totalitarian policies.
“We are in a situation where we can simply lose Russia,” Prigozhin said, using an expletive to hammer his point. “We must introduce martial law. We unfortunately … must announce new waves of mobilization; we must put everyone who is capable to work on increasing the production of ammunition,” he said. “Russia needs to live like North Korea for a few years, so to say, close the borders … and work hard.”
“My advice to the Russian elites — get your lads, send them to war, and when you go to the funeral, when you start burying them, people will say that now everything is fair,” Prigozhin said in the interview.
Prigozhin’s rants often undermine Moscow’s official line and almost certainly would result in harsh punishment for anyone else. The country has outlawed criticism of the military and many citizens have faced prosecution.
While regular Russian military officials keep a lid on the number of casualties in Ukraine, Prigozhin said that 20,000 Wagner fighters had died in the battle for Bakhmut. Even if an undercount, the figure eclipses the last official number given by Moscow in September, when Shoigu claimed that 5,937 soldiers had died.
Military experts attribute such a high death toll among Wagner fighters to its commanders’ brutal tactics of sending waves of poorly trained convicts to exhaust Ukrainians, at times threatening the prisoners with death if they retreat.
Private military companies are technically illegal in Russia, but Prigozhin has operated with impunity, deploying his fighters to countries in the Middle East and Africa, and to Ukraine In Mali, Wagner soldiers are suspected of war crimes following reports of executions, torture, rape and abductions.
While Prigozhin has sought to cultivate an image of himself as a fighter, appearing in full battle gear on the front lines in countless videos, he falls squarely among the Putin cronies who have become billionaires off their government connections and contracts. Like his fighters, however, Prigozhin is also an ex-convict: He spent most of the 1980s in jail for robbery.
So far, Prigozhin remains unmatched in publicity, succeeding where some regular commanders have stumbled, in some cases in humiliating fashion.
Military experts, for example, pointed to a staged clip of Gen. Col. Alexander Lapin that emerged Tuesday, showing him commanding a small group of troops to fight off a mysterious two-day incursion in the Belgorod region, a staging area for Russian forces that borders Ukraine.
The clip, in which Lapin is seen walking alongside a convoy of armored vehicles shouting, “Go forward, guys! For the motherland,” was ridiculed by some Russian pro-war bloggers as “embarrassing” and “laughable.” Local officials, meanwhile, fought off questions from civilians alarmed about a breach in the border.
“I have even more questions for the Defense Ministry than you have,” Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a live question-and-answer session with local residents after militias made up of Russians fighting on Ukraine’s side in the war stormed a checkpoint in Grayvoron district and infiltrated nearby villages.
Gladkov said Tuesday that one woman died while being evacuated during the attack, and eight people were injured. Russian officials claimed to repel the attacks, while the militias responsible said on Wednesday that they were still actively fighting inside Russian territory.
“We are living in a very difficult period,” Gladkov said in a separate statement. .”
The disruptions in Belgorod continued Wednesday, with multiple drones targeting a gas pipeline and residential buildings, Gladkov said.
In his interview, Prigozhin said there was an “optimistic scenario” for Russia’s war: Western support for Ukraine wears out, and China brokers a peace deal, allowing Russia to keep occupied Ukrainian lands.
“I don’t have much faith in the optimistic scenario,” he said, adding that instead Ukraine could partially succeed in a highly anticipated counteroffensive, pushing Russian troops closer to the borders that existed before hostilities began in 2014. They could also attack Crimea and continue pressing on in the east, armed with more Western weapons, he said.
“Most likely this scenario will not be good for us,” Prigozhin said. “So we need to prepare for a difficult war.”
Washington Post
RIGA, Latvia — Fresh off his claim of victory in capturing the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, Russian mercenary boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin warned that Moscow’s brutal war could plunge Russia into turmoil similar to the 1917 revolution unless its detached, wealthy elite become more directly committed to the conflict.
In a lengthy interview with Konstantin Dolgov, a political operative and pro-war blogger, Prigozhin, the founder and leader of the Wagner mercenary group, also asserted that the war had backfired spectacularly by failing to “demilitarize” Ukraine, one of President Vladimir Putin’s stated aims of the invasion. He also called for totalitarian policies.
“We are in a situation where we can simply lose Russia,” Prigozhin said, using an expletive to hammer his point. “We must introduce martial law. We unfortunately … must announce new waves of mobilization; we must put everyone who is capable to work on increasing the production of ammunition,” he said. “Russia needs to live like North Korea for a few years, so to say, close the borders … and work hard.”
“My advice to the Russian elites — get your lads, send them to war, and when you go to the funeral, when you start burying them, people will say that now everything is fair,” Prigozhin said in the interview.
Prigozhin’s rants often undermine Moscow’s official line and almost certainly would result in harsh punishment for anyone else. The country has outlawed criticism of the military and many citizens have faced prosecution.
While regular Russian military officials keep a lid on the number of casualties in Ukraine, Prigozhin said that 20,000 Wagner fighters had died in the battle for Bakhmut. Even if an undercount, the figure eclipses the last official number given by Moscow in September, when Shoigu claimed that 5,937 soldiers had died.
Military experts attribute such a high death toll among Wagner fighters to its commanders’ brutal tactics of sending waves of poorly trained convicts to exhaust Ukrainians, at times threatening the prisoners with death if they retreat.
Private military companies are technically illegal in Russia, but Prigozhin has operated with impunity, deploying his fighters to countries in the Middle East and Africa, and to Ukraine In Mali, Wagner soldiers are suspected of war crimes following reports of executions, torture, rape and abductions.
While Prigozhin has sought to cultivate an image of himself as a fighter, appearing in full battle gear on the front lines in countless videos, he falls squarely among the Putin cronies who have become billionaires off their government connections and contracts. Like his fighters, however, Prigozhin is also an ex-convict: He spent most of the 1980s in jail for robbery.
So far, Prigozhin remains unmatched in publicity, succeeding where some regular commanders have stumbled, in some cases in humiliating fashion.
Military experts, for example, pointed to a staged clip of Gen. Col. Alexander Lapin that emerged Tuesday, showing him commanding a small group of troops to fight off a mysterious two-day incursion in the Belgorod region, a staging area for Russian forces that borders Ukraine.
The clip, in which Lapin is seen walking alongside a convoy of armored vehicles shouting, “Go forward, guys! For the motherland,” was ridiculed by some Russian pro-war bloggers as “embarrassing” and “laughable.” Local officials, meanwhile, fought off questions from civilians alarmed about a breach in the border.
“I have even more questions for the Defense Ministry than you have,” Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a live question-and-answer session with local residents after militias made up of Russians fighting on Ukraine’s side in the war stormed a checkpoint in Grayvoron district and infiltrated nearby villages.
Gladkov said Tuesday that one woman died while being evacuated during the attack, and eight people were injured. Russian officials claimed to repel the attacks, while the militias responsible said on Wednesday that they were still actively fighting inside Russian territory.
“We are living in a very difficult period,” Gladkov said in a separate statement. .”
The disruptions in Belgorod continued Wednesday, with multiple drones targeting a gas pipeline and residential buildings, Gladkov said.
In his interview, Prigozhin said there was an “optimistic scenario” for Russia’s war: Western support for Ukraine wears out, and China brokers a peace deal, allowing Russia to keep occupied Ukrainian lands.
“I don’t have much faith in the optimistic scenario,” he said, adding that instead Ukraine could partially succeed in a highly anticipated counteroffensive, pushing Russian troops closer to the borders that existed before hostilities began in 2014. They could also attack Crimea and continue pressing on in the east, armed with more Western weapons, he said.
“Most likely this scenario will not be good for us,” Prigozhin said. “So we need to prepare for a difficult war.”
Washington Post
Go fight and find out, basically any real Putin notcocksucker should put his feet where his mouth are (supposedly) not. Otherwise you’re simply an amusing and sometimes annoying (by reminding us “cocksuckers” how human stupidy can be infinite) sideshow regurtitating whatever propaganda feeds your emotions.
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