We're so disconnected from that kind of human to human vulnerability and compassion on this side of the pond that it just dulls every day life to me from a social perspective.
So much is taken for granted, people taken for granted, and our culture is so individualistically driven. We're so focused on leveling up within this imaginary playing field at seemingly ANY cost, that we so often leave people behind without a second thought. We take the easy route of division and building up our fences, sparing effort only for that which serves us or our objectives over choosing the way of compassion and understanding that is at the root of our nature.
Such displays of selflessness toward people that aren't in our immediate circles is unheard of these days and that saddens me. Here, if a stranger is in distress or in trouble they are treated as invasive and ignored. The only times we make a genuine effort for such a person is if it's caught on phone camera or broadcast from some local news hub to create some kind of hero narrative.
The thing too is no one would've known what LM did if HW didn't shout him out.
And see, thats what defines your character in life. Not what you do on social media, its what you do when no one is watching, nor may ever learn about it. And the fact that you did something good for another regardless just because it felt right.
I can see why those good and brave Canadians would independently up and leave to go help over there given the kind of ##### we've endured watching here for two years.
I would be next to useless but lately even I would consider going and partaking in something that really matters over listening to these first world "issues" of late.
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WSJ reports Russians are planning to nationalize assets of companies that exit the country. Guess they are ready to kiss any foreign investment goodbye.
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Russia’s government legislative commission approved measures Wednesday that pave the way for the nationalization of property of Western companies that are exiting the country.
The commission’s role includes reading and assessing laws that the government intends to propose to the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament.
Russia’s dominant political party, United Russia, said on Wednesday that the latest measures seek to prevent bankruptcies and preserve jobs at organizations that are more than 25% owned by foreign entities of “unfriendly governments.”
United Russia has been pushing for the nationalization of operations of Western companies leaving Russia in response to the war in Ukraine.
Dozens of Western businesses have said they are leaving or suspending operations in Russia.
The measures include a provision that will enable members of the board of directors at designated organizations, or Russia’s federal tax service, to appoint external management to keep operations running.
Still, owners will be able to object to the appointment of external management within five days if they agree to resume operations or sell their interest. Alternatively, a court will appoint external management and shares of the organization will be put up for sale. New buyers will have to retain at least two-thirds of the workforce.
^ And just to put that into spatial context, there was about 11-12 seconds that elapsed from them firing to when it hit the target. Different systems have different speeds, but with that length of time, the launcher is likely 3-5km away from its target.
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This is why I have zero sympathy for any Russian deaths, I hope every one of them that crosses the border into Ukraine goes home in a box
How about for the conscripts? Or anyone else who isnt to keen on being there? Is one reddit post all you need to wish death upon possibly hundreds of thousands of individuals?
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I realize I'm a few pages away from Huntingwhale's & Kn's good news, but I've been really sick so only just now able to stop in to check on how they were doing and holding my breath that it was a happy ending for both. I'm so incredibly relieved for everyone involved. I am hopeful that healing can begin; this was utterly awful to bear witness to, it was easily 100 times worse for you all to go through. And, an amazing act by Legoman, to show such humanity during such a time of inhumanity being perpetrated. Well done.
Pointman, I hope you & yours are faring well too. Been thinking about you and other Russian citizens caught up in something they don't want. Anyway, I'm back off to bed, I hope this BS ends soon.
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How about for the conscripts? Or anyone else who isnt to keen on being there? Is one reddit post all you need to wish death upon possibly hundreds of thousands of individuals?
Every dead Russian soldier means less innocent lives lost in Ukraine, so yes death to then all. Exceptions granted for those with strong enough morals to immediately surrender to Ukrainian forces or even just going MIA. But every Russian soldier firing a weapon in Ukrainian territory doesn't deserve to go home
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If we really want to #### up the Russian advance what the west should do is dump vast quantities of booze in front of them, truck in #### loads of Everclear and leave it lying around in every house, drunkenness is the bane of any low moral conscript army and has done for the Russians on more than a few occasions
WSJ reports Russians are planning to nationalize assets of companies that exit the country. Guess they are ready to kiss any foreign investment goodbye.
I’m surprised that Russian hasn’t cut the world off their energy supply. At 10 million bpd (7 million export) the world cannot keep up to that much of a supply cut. Government oil reserves at around 1.4 billion barrels and a total of 4 billion dont last very long. 571 days, in addition in that kind of pricing environment you have a contents where future barrels are worth even more then todays barrels. In addition you kneecap the EU populations.
It would instantly raise the price of oil even further putting economic pressure on the world enforcing sanctions against them. Then you agree that if you stop supplying arms and end sanctions oil supply returns.
The challenge is that the oligarchs probably don’t like that option.
good, this will mean no matter what peace is arranged no one is going to be investing there in decades
It’s really bad news in my opinion.
It gives Putin the opportunity to reward loyalty
It hurts western companies economically
At the end of this conflict leaving Russia without a path to normalization is akin to Germany at the end of WW1.
It reinforces Putins strength and message.
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This is going to sound crass, but isn’t it better for the country of Ukraine to fall than for WWIII break out and human annihilation?
The west is supporting as much as they can without escalating the situation to a global conflict in which billions will die.
I'm late to this but your very post can be cut and pasted verbatim and have any country substituted for Ukraine and to be logically consistent, you'd have to make this argument every time.
It gives Putin the opportunity to reward loyalty
It hurts western companies economically
At the end of this conflict leaving Russia without a path to normalization is akin to Germany at the end of WW1.
It reinforces Putins strength and message.
Putin is already in charge and runs the country at his whim, Russia isn't going back to normal after this is over because it never was normal, it was always Germany in 1936 we just choose to pretend otherwise.
Given that I would rather Putin is in control of a poverty stricken broken country with little ability to strike at other countries, its how we broke the old Soviet regime
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I’m surprised that Russian hasn’t cut the world off their energy supply. At 10 million bpd (7 million export) the world cannot keep up to that much of a supply cut. Government oil reserves at around 1.4 billion barrels and a total of 4 billion dont last very long. 571 days, in addition in that kind of pricing environment you have a contents where future barrels are worth even more then todays barrels. In addition you kneecap the EU populations.
It would instantly raise the price of oil even further putting economic pressure on the world enforcing sanctions against them. Then you agree that if you stop supplying arms and end sanctions oil supply returns.
The challenge is that the oligarchs probably don’t like that option.
They need money from something. The energy supply is the rare source of funds they have left. They'll probably threaten it in the winter or do it for a day at some point. But long term, it's not viable for them.
I’m surprised that Russian hasn’t cut the world off their energy supply. At 10 million bpd (7 million export) the world cannot keep up to that much of a supply cut. Government oil reserves at around 1.4 billion barrels and a total of 4 billion dont last very long. 571 days, in addition in that kind of pricing environment you have a contents where future barrels are worth even more then todays barrels. In addition you kneecap the EU populations.
It would instantly raise the price of oil even further putting economic pressure on the world enforcing sanctions against them. Then you agree that if you stop supplying arms and end sanctions oil supply returns.
The challenge is that the oligarchs probably don’t like that option.
Wouldn't that eliminate their main source of external funds?
It gives Putin the opportunity to reward loyalty
It hurts western companies economically
At the end of this conflict leaving Russia without a path to normalization is akin to Germany at the end of WW1.
It reinforces Putins strength and message.
The Germany WW1 comparisons will apply if ten years after the war the west is still smashing the Russian economy. So we've got ages until we have to worry about that.
I’m surprised that Russian hasn’t cut the world off their energy supply. At 10 million bpd (7 million export) the world cannot keep up to that much of a supply cut. Government oil reserves at around 1.4 billion barrels and a total of 4 billion dont last very long. 571 days, in addition in that kind of pricing environment you have a contents where future barrels are worth even more then todays barrels. In addition you kneecap the EU populations.
It would instantly raise the price of oil even further putting economic pressure on the world enforcing sanctions against them. Then you agree that if you stop supplying arms and end sanctions oil supply returns.
The challenge is that the oligarchs probably don’t like that option.
571 days is probably more time than Putin has here without his main source of funding. Lets extend that with some good ol fashioned war time rationing, extra production from OPEC nations incoming and it starts to look like a losing bet for Putin to make.
