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Politics Russia Declares War on Ukraine

Started by Worm, Feb 23, 2022, in Life Add to Reading List

  1. Guma
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    No, they are pretty smart and big corporations are not funding directly Russian regime through taxes.
     
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    https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia...mbat-in-ukraine-u-s-officials-say-11646606234
     
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    Updated list:
    • Apple has limited their Apple Pay
    • Facebook blocked Russian advertisers from running ads
    • Nintendo suspended digital sales
    • Twitter was limiting access & labeling all tweets from Russian media outlets
    • EA Sports is halting sales in Russia & Belarus
    • Microsoft stopped all sales
    • Creator of Doom II developed a new level to sell and will donate proceeds to Ukraine efforts
    • Elon / starlink sent satellite dishes and activated service for Ukraine
    • Airbnb suspended all operations in Russia & Belarus
    • Google has banned all ad sales to Russians
    • CD Projekt Red stopped sales to R&B
    • Reddit banned links to state-supported Russian media outlets
    • Gran Turismo 7 pulled from sale in Russia
    • Amazon’s MMORPG New World Russian Localization Halted
    • Shell & BP exiting Russian operations / sell assets
    • WWE Network pulled
    • Visa & Mastercard: Russian-issued cards can only be used in Russia and for Russian products
    • Netflix stops streaming in Russia
    • Tik Tok suspended new videos from Russia + livestreaming
    • Cogent (internet backbone provider) cut service
    • PayPal suspended service
    • Samsung halted shipments
    • Blizzard and Epic paused game sales

    Feel free to send more
     
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    why would they need a green light from just the U.S.?
     
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

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    Poland wants the jets they send to Ukraine replaced. U.S. is going to provide them with replacement jets I believe.
     
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    Not gonna happen.
    https://notesfrompoland.com/2022/03...hter-jets-to-ukraine-despite-blinken-remarks/
     
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    Hopefully the U.S. or another European power can step up & provide the jets.
     
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    Americans are definitely going to feel the whiplash from this. During an election year, hard to imagine Democrats don’t get blamed for this unfortunately.
     
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    No one wants to be a target of Russian aggression.
     
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    @Enigma @Slyk Ok, this is happening after all.
    https://www.gov.pl/web/diplomacy/st...ry-of-state-on-providing-airplanes-to-ukraine
     
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    Do nukes fail to work if the country
    Targeted? Isn't this a good thing?
     
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    I still don't understand this:

    "The authorities of the Republic of Poland, after consultations between the President and the Goverment, are ready to deploy – immediately and free of charge – all their MIG-29 jets to the Ramstein Air Base and place them at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America."

    Why would they place them at the disposal of the US instead of Ukraine? Do they for some reason need to hand over their MIG-29s to the US just so that the US can hand them over to Ukraine? Cut the middle man out -- if it's Poland offering their MIGs to Ukraine, then just offer the MIGs.

    ...and if it's Poland, then why are they going to a US airbase located in Germany?
     
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    Good call. We are giving them to Ukraine as NATO. Do you want another country to take a brunt of Russia aggression? If we gave them directly Putin would start bombing our bases. Also NATO countries weren’t keen on us handing Ukraine those jets not so long ago. So you have to understand it’s about minimizing the risk for all and sharing it instead of singling out one country.
     
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    It's too bad we don't have pipeline somewhere
     
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    Most of those are useless now
     
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