This was my original name on this forum that I used for like 10+ years. I changed it a few years ago as a joke and just changed it back since the joke got old.

India is not a future threat to the US in any shape or form.

Doubling down on the stupid even after people explained it to you.


Oil prices only recently (in the last few years) broke through and started trading above the ~60 dollar range, before that since 2015 ish they were below, even as low as 40s. Producers may cut back production and operate at a small loss for a little while not many years. Transport/insurance add costs but that's around 10-20/barrel at most knows better and he can opine, that wouldn't take the price of per barrel from 20 to 80 or 100.

Point is, they are in green, and have been in the green.

That is true in regards to India, as a matter of fact if you look at certain meme sites, reddit , the Anti India Rhetoric started since 2014 - 2015. But at a slower pace but still significant as compared to China. It will take around 15 to 20 years to gear people up and used when necessary.
They didn't go full on and bash India because currently they need India as part of the Containment strategy, but it is ruffling a lot of feathers because India still stand by Russia.

Til certain meme sites define foreign policy

What utter drivel.

I didn't go through the reasons for or against Putin ending the war. What I argued against was your claim that only Ukraine can end this war when it is obvious that Putin could also end it any day if he wanted to.

This stupid talking point that only the Ukrainian leadership is to blame for the suffering of their country because they "foolishly" keep fighting a "hopeless war" puts all the responsibility on the attacked country and absolves the actual attackers of their (much much greater) responsibility. It's like telling a battered rape victim: "Why didn't you just lie still and let it happen? Because you fought back, he had no other choice than to bash your face in."



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Regarding oil prices: it should be fairly obvious that Russia is fine with an oil price in the $80/barrel range, but it's hard to gauge how much of their ballooned wartime budget they can cover at this prices. They could definitely cover their pre-war budget at this rate, but their expenses have undoubtedly skyrocketed due to the war.

But even if they are currently running a deficit, it's not so huge that they would run out of financial steam within 1-2 years. Realistically, nobody should bet on Russia running out of money as the reason that ultimately ends this war. The long-term ramifications will imho be severe for Russia, but it's not gonna end the war in the short term.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 6 2024 01:24pm

That's what Europe did for decades. Didn't stop Russia from bombing Chechnya into the ground in 99/00, from messing with the Ukrainian elections in 2004, invading Georgia in 2007, messing with Ukrainian politics in 2013, and so on and forth. And that doesn't even include the instances in which Russia threatened Ukraine and the Baltics from the 90s through the 2010s and/or closed the gas tap at the height of winter to blackmail them.




China would never have accepted an economic order led by US rules and regulations.


I wouldn't go as far as calling India a geostrategic ally of the Russians. They are economic partners and India has a dependence on Russian military tech which traces back half a century. India wasn't able to immediately cut all ties with Russia, nor would it have been in India's self-interest. Doesn't mean that they act like an actual ally, they're not vetoing UN resolutions against Russia or sending them shells and drones like Iran and China do.

In reality, I believe that India has become a geopolitical power in its own right; they are neither fully aligned with the West, Russia nor China.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 6 2024 01:37pm

I would agree with this point (obviously overlooking the west pushing for this war in the first place) if it was like year 1 into this special military operation, where the money was flowing and people still cared.

Now however, people with your line of reasoning will destroy what's left of Ukraine and the leadership gets to fuck off to Miami.

There is absolutely no way Ukraine wins this war without the gibs and the gibs just dried up

Lol. A vote. Got it.

Russia targets civilian structures, and you think that means they are winning. Lol