Personally attacking another user goes against the forum rules.

That surely is not difficult to understand?

If you want i discuss anything, you are more than welcome to post without trolling or insulting.

This post was edited by Prox1m1ty on Dec 30 2023 03:16pm

You can look up my recent posts and let me know which one of them you consider a personal attack.

No need to deflect when cornered. You can just dodge and not reply if you have nothing to say.

Nothing to say to what exactly? As I said I'm open to discussing most relevant issues, even with those I disagree with; In fact especially those I disagree with.
You are trolling and adding nothing, so I am showing you where to find the rules that would better allow you not to be banned for breaking said rules.

Here again is the link to the rules:
https://forums.d2jsp.org/info.php?p=9

It is also available in the toolbar above.

Bro will argue till he's blue in the face that NATO supplied arms and training to do a coup in Ukraine because John McCain made a speech there.

Not really worth fighting over.

Chinese cars are impossibly cheap, yet they haven't been able to establish themselves in any Western or (foreign) East Asian market, evidently due to their shitty quality. That Russia, a place which has run out of other options, has become far and away the biggest export market for Chinese cars just reinforces this point.


Yes, Russia coped with the sanctions better than expected. Their economy is still heavily reliant on gas and oil sales, whose prices had gone through the roof last year and still remained rather high throughout this year. That's why Russia is able to achieve mini growth. Simply put: if oil prices collapse anytime soon, so will Russia's GDP and public budget.


This doesn't disprove what I said. A lot of their manufacturing is tied to the maintenance of their fossil energy sector, and if you look at where the net value added is coming from in their economy, the picture will indeed be heavily skewed toward commodities.

Likewise, who cares if Russia with its 145m people has a similar GDP to Germany with its 81m people if we go by PPP - Germany makes up one fifth of the population and one quarter of the economy of the EU, and then you have to add productive economies like Norway, the UK and Switzerland to get the full economy of Europe - and then the US economy is roughly as big as that of Europe. Canada, Japan, Australia and South Korea are also no slouch. So yes, even if we go by PPP, or even if we go purely by the size of the respective countries' manufacturing sector, Russia's economy and industry is still mangitudes smaller than that of the Western countries and their Asian allies.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Dec 30 2023 05:16pm

Lul? It absolutely does matter that they already controlled the Donbass and Crimea before the invasion. If those places had been the primary target, this whole war would have been unnecessary. The costs of this war have to weighed against the gains Russia made thanks to this war - namely the land bridge from Donetsk to Crimea and a few bombed out cities like Sieverodonetsk, Bakhmut, Mariupol and (in a couple of months) Avdiivka, which are all lying in ruins.


One post ago, you were boasting about what an accomplishment it was for Russia to hold off the Ukrainian counteroffensive although it was fueled by oh-so-much military spending by the West. Now, you turn around and stress that all this Western military spending doesn't actually amount to much.

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Regarding this article again:


This ties in nicely with what I had been saying all along:

so anyway the war is escalating again

a day ago Russia launched its largest set of airstrikes on cities across Ukraine, particularly hitting Kharkiv many times
today Ukraine struck Belgorod in the mainland, apparently using the long range NATO supplied missiles that we were repeatedly pinky promised would not be used to strike "Russian territory" while still intending to attack the DPR/LPR/Crimea.
both Ukraine and Russia have raised formal protests to the attacks on each other at their security council / UN kabuki theaters, but notably Russia directly accused Britain of being behind the attack on Russia today

The major Russian airstrikes from yesterday were clearly a retaliation for the naval ship transporting a shitton of Iranian Shahed drones that Ukraine destroyed two/three days ago - as legitimate a military target as it gets.
But yes, it's an escalation. We'll see where this goes. (Spoiler alert: it won't end with Russian nukes on London.)

i just need the war to end to travel there, although i do know a guy, who traveled through russia without a problem last summer (including crimea and some occupied areas)

cant wait to do my vladivostok motorcycle trip