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[Tundra Tiger]

Well thank you for that bucket of ice cold water Oscar... though you are probably right about how he would handle it.

 

[PARA45]

Sorry brother didn't mean to. Unfortunately, I can see him doing that. Hope I'm wrong.

 

[mdwest]

What I'm afraid of is that if Trump doesn't win the nomination, he'll run as an independent (the man can't accept defeat), and phuck us all by taking those voters who would vote for him, vs. voting for someone else.

Sadly, I think you are correct..

It'll be another Ross Perot situation (conservative majority gets split, leaving a minority liberal ticket an easy win)..

In todays situation, the left will go into the election not really liking their candidate, but committed to voting for whoever is on the blue ticket which will result in low voter turn out on their side.. but will easily pull at least 40-45% of the vote..

The right will go into the election clearly divided.. the Trump supporters will be highly committed.. he'll pull 15-20% of the total vote (not nearly enough to even be remotely close to winning the day).. leaving the red candidate with 30-40% of the vote (not enough to win the day)..

Blue wins by a comfortable margin.. even though no one on that side of the aisle thinks their candidate is cognitive, much less capable..


As crazy as this might sound... what could win the day is a neutral ticket... Have a hard right leaning conservative like DeSantis run.. and pick up Gabbard for VP (a democrat)..

Gabbard has been red pilled enough at this point she is a centrist compared to almost everyone else on the playing field.. and no longer leans hard left on any issues that I am aware of.. but she remains a registered democrat, comes from an extremely blue state (that she would carry), is a woman, minority, and former army officer... she brings a ton of diversity that would pick up votes from across several blocks that matter in elections..

Politically this would be nearly impossible to accomplish.. the GOPe and RINOs would shit themselves.. and the Democrats would disown Gabbard.. Getting much needed dollars into the campaign would be close to impossible.. and you could almost guarantee every political ploy both parties could come up with would be fielded in an attempt to stop it before it ever got traction..

But when I look at pretty much any other option.. All I see is Biden back in the white house for another 4 years...

 

[PARA45]

It'll be another Ross Perot situation (conservative majority gets split, leaving a minority liberal ticket an easy win)..

That is exactly what I was thinking. I also love the idea of DeSantis & Gabbard, but boy would that be a serious kick in the balls to both parties.

Hypothetically speaking, let's say trump wins the nomination and gets reelected. The sh*t show that would follow would make the last eight years look like a walk in the park. Trump would go for blood for what the left did to him, and the sh*t show would continue because now Trump would be calling the shots, and nothing would be done to fix our economy, and everything else that is wrong now.

 

[Wheels]

Even Democrats are starting to be concerned. Perhaps there is a chance at reform.

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[Red Leg]

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/13ok4q6

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/13ozn0g

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/13opjm4

Ukraine has a demonstrated gift for seizing the initiative and forcing the Russians to react. Soon after the invasion the Ukrainian Army began to form a unit of Russian dissident emigres, Ukrainians of Russian heritage, and former Russian POWs. The unit initially was intended to fight alongside Ukrainian forces.

Not a lot has been heard about them until yesterday evening, when the commander of this formation broadcast the first clip above across Russian chat channels such as Telegraph. Early this morning, the unit launched an attack into the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation.

The second clip is one of the political leaders of this free Russia movement.

I have no idea how large the unit is, I would be surprised if more than battalion strength (500-600). But they have driven several kilometers inside Russia, seizing several small villages, and causing a great deal of panic. In the process they have also shot down a couple of Russian helicopters.

I have little expectation that this will cause a general uprising of any sort, but I am confident this raid is intended as a shaping operation for pending Ukrainian attacks elsewhere. Russian forces have to react, commanders have to shift focus, and like F-16s and modern armor, such a raid on Russian soil increases the pressure on Russia to get out of this quagmire.

 

[Wheels]

At minimum, a Captain and a Rear Admiral need canned just for the appearance of this ship.​

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[sierraone]

Its been 48 years since I have been on a warship, but I believe this one is in the worse outward condition I have ever seen.

 

[wesheltonj]

. . . However, it matters not in the least: DeSantis is going to be the nominee, at which point it will be a very easy decision.

Doubtful, primary voters are hard core 3 & 2 R’s with a few 1 R’s voters.

 

[mark-hunter]

At minimum, a Captain and a Rear Admiral need canned just for the appearance of this ship.

Maybe they took in one of my operation managers with cost cutting campaign agenda!
Paint costs!

 

[geoff rath]

Its been 48 years since I have been on a warship, but I believe this one is in the worse outward condition I have ever seen.

The french won't let them scrub it down, Bastids!!

 

[wesheltonj]

Maybe they took in one of my operation managers with cost cutting campaign agenda!
Paint costs!

I’ve never been on a warship too, but my father was a mariner in WW2. He said it was daily painting, every day somewhere on the ship.

 

[PARA45]

 

[WillMFerguson]

https://apnews.com/article/zimbabwe...street-trade-d3398d7036a9c813635af333c6cb25c0. Interesting but not surprising.

 

[Dragan N.]

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/13ok4q6

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/13ozn0g

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/13opjm4

Ukraine has a demonstrated gift for seizing the initiative and forcing the Russians to react. Soon after the invasion the Ukrainian Army began to form a unit of Russian dissident emigres, Ukrainians of Russian heritage, and former Russian POWs. The unit initially was intended to fight alongside Ukrainian forces.

Not a lot has been heard about them until yesterday evening, when the commander of this formation broadcast the first clip above across Russian chat channels such as Telegraph. Early this morning, the unit launched an attack into the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation.

The second clip is one of the political leaders of this free Russia movement.

I have no idea how large the unit is, I would be surprised if more than battalion strength (500-600). But they have driven several kilometers inside Russia, seizing several small villages, and causing a great deal of panic. In the process they have also shot down a couple of Russian helicopters.

I have little expectation that this will cause a general uprising of any sort, but I am confident this raid is intended as a shaping operation for pending Ukrainian attacks elsewhere. Russian forces have to react, commanders have to shift focus, and like F-16s and modern armor, such a raid on Russian soil increases the pressure on Russia to get out of this quagmire.

One of the groups involved in this is the Russian Volunteer Corps.This is a unit of the Ukrainian army made up of Russian citizens,mostly Russian neo nazis. The leader of the Russian Volunteer Corps is a fellow named Denis Kapustin or "Denis Nikitin". You can read more about him here:

Russian Hooligan, Neo-Nazi and Martial Artist Denis Kapustin Barred from Schengen Area

The German authorities have imposed a European-wide entry ban on the Russian hooligan, neo-Nazi and martial artist Denis Kapustin, who is also known as “Denis Nikitin”. Kapustin is the founder of the neo-Nazi fashion label “White Rex”, which is older than a decade, and one of the most...

www.schengenvisainfo.com

Denis Kapustin,the leader of the R.V.C. is also the founder of White Rex,which is a white supremacist MMA clothing brand. Kapustin is a Russian who grew up in Cologne Germany. He was involved in right wing football hooligan fights and later founded this white supremacist MMA brand. He was banned from Germany, as well as other Schengen countries, and had his papers revoked for his neo-Nazi and white supremacist activities. His group advocates for a "white revolution" across Europe. Perhaps some of our German members such as Foxi could shed more light on Denis Kapustin. The Russian state also wanted to arrest him. So in 2017 he moved to Ukraine and with Russia's invasion of Ukraine he founded the Russian Volunteer Corps. So you have a Russian neo-Nazi fighting on the side of Ukraine, led by a Jewish-Ukrainian president, against the Russian state. You could not make this $hit up.

 

[mdwest]

 

[Red Leg]

Belgorod raid: Who are the fighters infiltrating Russia from Ukraine?

Russia claims to have routed two groups that crossed the border from Ukraine.

www.bbc.com

This is a somewhat more balanced report as one would expect from the BBC. What the groups do clearly seem to desire is essentially a mono-ethnically Russian state which would focus on the needs of the ethnic Russian people rather than the Imperial Tsarist and Soviet pan-Eurasian model.

Both groups are Russian Nationalists (Russia first?) and decidedly anti-Putin. I am not entirely sure that makes someone a Nazi anymore than it does an "America first" Trump supporter.

 

[Dragan N.]

Belgorod raid: Who are the fighters infiltrating Russia from Ukraine?

Russia claims to have routed two groups that crossed the border from Ukraine.

www.bbc.com

This is a somewhat more balanced report as one would expect from the BBC. What the groups do clearly seem to desire is essentially a mono-ethnically Russian state which would focus on the needs of the ethnic Russian people rather than the Imperial Tsarist and Soviet pan-Eurasian model.

Both groups are Russian Nationalists (Russia first?) and decidedly anti-Putin. I am not entirely sure that makes someone a Nazi anymore than it does an "America first" Trump supporter.

Ilya Ponamarev is some blend between an anarcho-communist and a social democrat, here are some of the things his party advocates for:

• equal access to education, to create equal opportunities for everyone
• a non-restrictive government which would be gradually replaced by direct democracy
• promotion of social and business entrepreneurship and innovation to transform society
• visa-free travel and abolition of national borders
• replacement of the presidential republic in Russia with a parliamentary democracy, based on clear separation of powers, a strong independent judiciary, and[32] federalism (with most taxes collected and spent by the regional governments)[33][

The two bolded points are elements of anarcho-communism or marxism. The rest I would say are more social democratic points of view.

However Kapustin is very much a neo-nazi or should i say a "national-democrat". He believes in democracy but only for ethnic Russians and other white people. I assume the non-European ethnic groups would be ethnically cleansed from this hypothetical ethnic Russian state. Much like Nazism is "national socialism". I.e. socialist benefits only applied to ethnic Germans and "aryans".

His political equivalent and ally in America is a fellow named Robert Rundo:

American Hate Group Looks to Make Allies in Europe

Trips to Ukraine. Mixed martial arts events with a white supremacy flavor. California’s Rise Above Movement goes on the road.

www.propublica.org

Two Infamous White Nationalists Still Have a Platform for Their Podcast Somehow

The MMA fighters, one Russian and one American, are dispensing 'real world' advice on starting hate groups, on a podcast hosted by a San Francisco-based platform. Anti-extremism groups are calling for it to be taken down.

www.vice.com

Here is a BBC article on Robert Rundo:

Robert Rundo: US white supremacist arrested in Romania

The co-founder of the Rise Above Movement is accused of carrying out violence in the US.

www.bbc.com

I personally don't see much in common with Kapustin's "Russia First" ideology and Trump's America first ideology. Trump and the vast majority of his supporters are not racist. I would hazard a guess that most of Rundo's and Kapustin's supporters are. Trump's America first policy applies to all American citizens. Regardless of their race or ethnicity. Kapustin's Russia first policy applies only to ethnic Russians and other white people. This is a fundamental difference. Kapustin and Rundo wish to see a "racially pure" America and Europe. I would say those are neo-nazis indeed. I have never heard Trump calling for a "racially pure" America.

You can read more about Rundo and his Rise Above Movement here:

Rise Above Movement - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I know its wikipedia but this entry is well referenced. You can check the links yourself. Rundo is Kapustin's American political equivalent and ally. I see very little in common between them and the average Trump supporter.

 

[Doug3006]

Peter Zeihan has a bleak prediction for Ukraine, pretty much regardless of the war’s outcome. Prior to the war they had a decades-long decline in birth rate. They have more people over forty than in their thirties, more thirties than in their twenties…etc. This doesn’t make different than the rest of Europe, except……they now need to separate their younger women from their younger men to send the latter off to war. Who knows what the real death toll has been, but it has been horrendous, and not at all supportive of a post war baby boom. Combined with a deliberate effort on Putin’s part to send Ukrainian children back to foster homes or detention in Russia, and the combined hit to Ukraine’s population has been devastating.

So, for those of us hoping for a Ukrainian victory, we may get our wish if the Ukrainians can somehow outlast the Russians in this war of attrition. But Ukraine will be a hollow shell. Russia may get their victoryinthe long run.

 

[Red Leg]

Ilya Ponamarev is some blend between an anarcho-communist and a social democrat, here are some of the things his party advocates for:

• equal access to education, to create equal opportunities for everyone
• a non-restrictive government which would be gradually replaced by direct democracy
• promotion of social and business entrepreneurship and innovation to transform society
• visa-free travel and abolition of national borders
• replacement of the presidential republic in Russia with a parliamentary democracy, based on clear separation of powers, a strong independent judiciary, and[32] federalism (with most taxes collected and spent by the regional governments)[33][

The two bolded points are elements of anarcho-communism or marxism. The rest I would say are more social democratic points of view.

However Kapustin is very much a neo-nazi or should i say a "national-democrat". He believes in democracy but only for ethnic Russians and other white people. I assume the non-European ethnic groups would be ethnically cleansed from this hypothetical ethnic Russian state. Much like Nazism is "national socialism". I.e. socialist benefits only applied to ethnic Germans and "aryans".

His political equivalent and ally in America is a fellow named Robert Rundo:

American Hate Group Looks to Make Allies in Europe

Trips to Ukraine. Mixed martial arts events with a white supremacy flavor. California’s Rise Above Movement goes on the road.

www.propublica.org

Two Infamous White Nationalists Still Have a Platform for Their Podcast Somehow

The MMA fighters, one Russian and one American, are dispensing 'real world' advice on starting hate groups, on a podcast hosted by a San Francisco-based platform. Anti-extremism groups are calling for it to be taken down.

www.vice.com

Here is a BBC article on Robert Rundo:

Robert Rundo: US white supremacist arrested in Romania

The co-founder of the Rise Above Movement is accused of carrying out violence in the US.

www.bbc.com

I personally don't see much in common with Kapustin's "Russia First" ideology and Trump's America first ideology. Trump and the vast majority of his supporters are not racist. I would hazard a guess that most of Rundo's and Kapustin's supporters are. Trump's America first policy applies to all American citizens. Regardless of their race or ethnicity. Kapustin's Russia first policy applies only to ethnic Russians and other white people. This is a fundamental difference. Kapustin and Rundo wish to see a "racially pure" America and Europe. I would say those are neo-nazis indeed. I have never heard Trump calling for a "racially pure" America.

You can read more about Rundo and his Rise Above Movement here:

Rise Above Movement - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I know its wikipedia but this entry is well referenced. You can check the links yourself. Rundo is Kapustin's American political equivalent and ally. I see very little in common between them and the average Trump supporter.

I generally agree. I see nothing virtuous in a "mono-ethnic" state. However, should Russia decide to pick lint from its Russ central naval for the next several decades, they would have my blessing.