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BlueOak replied to Razard86's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Failure is also part of you if you decide so. Whatever you experience and decide that means is what it is, speaking collectively also. -
@Something Funny I have no power over anything happening in Ukraine, nor do you. I don't get to make a call. If I did we'd already have troops in Ukraine. You are projecting massively onto an opinion you don't like something that doesn't exist. If I die in Ukraine it'll make no difference whatsoever, the world will still be in the same place. Would I go if we got into a war and we were called up, yes. Do I now qualify for your hero card? Or is it conceivable that a world war to stop Russia is worse than a war fought in the east of a country? Giving up land to Putin is just going to encourage him to do more, as he has done again and again. Because nothing has changed about the world. Another foreigner who can't shoot a gun dying there will make no difference whatsoever. All war is psychopathic, most of the world is that way. I value consciousness more than anything. This the best of a bad choice.
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@Something Funny You are incapable of realising all people want the same thing: safety. There is no twist of the words, it is two perspectives looking at the same problem with different solutions. You are incapable of this because all you can do is demean someone who disagrees with you; thus, we have conflict on the macro and micro. Its the old they are bad I am good nonesense you are just repeating it again. Here i'll reflect: You are a coward for wanting to give an aggressive tyrant more land, and trying to sacrifice all these lives for nothing. Your perspective must be proved 'right' to make your ego feel good, and those who disagree must be proven to be the 'bad guy' so someone else can come along and tell you how great you are.
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I don't want Europe in a war no. That's some absurd definition of a coward you've got there. War is nothing to be proud of or want. If it can be contained until Russia cannot fight anymore then that is the best of a bad bunch of choices. I've endless proof as i've been debating and talking about this for years, but I won't waste another word on someone like yourself. All you've got is venom for someone with another perspective why the hell do you engage in conversation? Ridiculous.
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Its precisely because I do not want a wider european war that I advocate for keeping the war as far away from Europe as possible. I actually almost did join in at the start, my earlier posts here were thinking on the idea, till I was told directly that untrained foreigners are not needed, because despite your fantasy of: Ukraine does not need untrained manpower, they lack the gear to outfit hordes of throwaway soldiers like Russia does. Instead they use better gear, better training and better tactics to bleed the Russians. The situation does not need to 'turn around' or magically do anything. Once again: Its to contain the war in the east of Ukraine, that has been the strategy for about 2 years now, and that is exactly what is happening. Russia keeps running headfirst into it. Russia is down to tanks from the 60's and earlier, it cannot replace anything advanced, and its stockpiles were its main threat to Ukraine and the west collectively in any conventional fight. That and its population, which it is burning through, a population that was already in decline. Its economy is not doing well at all, so that decline keeps speeding up. You do understand that the Russian economy compared to the EU collectively is only 1/10th of it. Not including the UK, America, or other NATO allies like Japan, South Korea, Turkey etc. Your reasoning that this is somehow a competitive point is nonsensical. Sure Russia retools its factories impressively, but if you are thinking that they would come out on top if the EU or NATO collectively actually started a war economy, that is pure fantasy. Ukraine shoots down almost all Russian missiles. The cheap mass drones from Iran are more effective. You argue against yourself at the end. You say Russia can outproduce everyone, yet somehow Ukraine and the EU will have the same amount of production in any downtime if the war gets put on hold. You can't have it both ways. An army is limited by how far their logistics stretch, it struggles to build this up in war time because people keep targeting them, in peace time it can build supply deports, rail connections, roads, ammunition stockpiles etc. This then allows it to push much further. This isn't even talking about how much harder it is to invade an entrenched position than one that has just been taken.
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Its blindly obvious what will happen. Its not predicting the future it's me telling you this is what Russia is doing and has been doing 8 times in a row, and then everyone telling me why it's doing it and then me saying yes, none of that has changed, so they'll just do it again. True Putin's KGB fossils are not immortal, but there are a dozen of them or so left, I hear. After that, we'll get fewer people caring about a dead empire called the USSR. Non-stop war until Russia cannot effectively fight it controls what happens. It blunts Russia, their stockpiles are almost gone, BRICS has delayed this happening but they cannot prevent it entirely. See Syria, which Russia has had to pull out of. An element of certainty is exactly what every country bordering Putin's Empire wants. Without that certainty, countries suffer economically, politically and socially. Keeping the war and Russian control as far away from them as possible benefits every single eastern European country. The region has repeatedly fought wars with Russia and repeatedly had Russia or its previous incarnations meddle in their internal politics. Now to Ukraine. Keeping Russia in the east is on the Ukranian's side also. If Russia gets to rearm, regroup and go again, it'll be twice as bad. They'll have fresh troops, new funds, new equipment, and supply lines, that's a terrible idea. Wars can be very long bloody affairs some last decades. If Putin really wants to fight forever until he has no economy or country left, that's up to him. Ukraine will be heavily invested in by the EU but nobody is going to help out the remote communities dotted over the giant landscape of Russia that Putin has drained of men and their futures.
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Me accepting the dictator in me, or the authoritarian, took a hell of a lot of work, and when we cannot do that internally, we create an external condition for it to be reconciled. In this case, authoritarianism vs democracy. The only way peace exists is for both sides to take on enough of the other for parity to be found, otherwise, all we get is: THEY ARE BAD. WE ARE GOOD. And the rejection of that part of ourselves. Which is conflict, which eventually bubbles up into a larger war. The victim mindset is well documented and yes fear and unsafety can cause it, I sat it in for about a decade of my own life.
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West = World. East = World. etc. This is humanity. Until that's accepted as inside your own chest too, be ready for a lot more war.
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See what I mean, peace is an impossibility when one's own position and actions cannot be objectively looked at for fault. its like people think they just wander through life and have no bearing on it whatsoever, that attitude in Russia leads to alcoholism and the victim mindset most people sit in. There is no masculinity at all in that, and all day I hear about this void of it in society; well there it is on show.
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Which will last until Russia invades again. For their 9th war into former USSR territories. They and the posters here will say: It's the wests fault, and list a few reasons they feel this way to justify the next war. I will say I must be a mind reader to have predicted this 5 years ago huh. Like I don't have 8 previous examples to look at, Russia repeatedly telling me it, and every previous condition for this war not only being still there but exaggerated on both sides.
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You can grow more easily in harder times. The contrast between you and reality is greater. By you I mean all definitions of that, from the thoughts you have, to your body/mind, your environment, community and country etc.
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We could do a mega thread but that will be a long thread
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@Hatfort You can't trade the ruble anymore till 2025 due to hyperinflation; all trading has been ceased. Interests rates are above 20%. You will see no changes because nothing can change. This was an emergency measure to stop it crashing. Honestly I think you have blinders on if you think this is a healthy economy, there are not many on planet Earth right now least of all this one with the work force being killed off and a large percentage of GDP going into dead production like missiles. Beyond that Hatfort I'm fed up with the personal insults, so on this topic I am done communicating with you. I don't know how much you understand about economics. A 30% drop can quite easily kill an economy or send it to ruin. It does, however, make the fuel more attractive, but seeings as Russia imports most everything beyond the basics, the quality of life past the basics will become increasingly hard to afford. I am no expert but the squeeze here seems to be on Gazprom, as that was what was keeping this import/export balance with a weak currency in the black. With it Russia could always seem to tip the scales, now it's more sanctioned the balance has gone the other way.
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@Scholar I could say they are god and their want to do something about suffering is a perfectly natural part of their existence/consciousness which has developed to this point. Easing suffering is something all humans do for themselves and many for each other; it's one of the primary things that drives human development. In this scenario acceptance of the result of that action is where acceptance comes in, not only a passive acceptance of the status quo. Ex: You decided to reply, that was an action for a result. Instead, you could have passively accepted the reply above; both would be acceptance if you accept the result. @All Consciousness develops in different forms. This needs more study, the process of it, rather than accepting it at face value. The connections between forms of consciousness always needs contemplation and is the primary way we understand anything, but the collective development aspect has relatively little time devoted to it. I am a vegan. I understand suffering is suffering. I still kill pests in my house, and some of them suffer. What is a pest? I defined that, or at least accepted others' definition of this. Why is it a pest? because I decided it or accepted it. This to me isn't enough, it's a poor answer, and doesn't take into account the effect pests have on others around me for example, or those I interact with. I show this to hopefully get people to think collectively.
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I would say this is a neutral tone from a fiance site with a minor update. https://fortune.com/2024/11/30/ruble-collapse-currency-crisis-penny-us-dollar-wealth-fund-vladimir-putin/ I am not a person that thinks the country collapses, its got too many partners propping it up, but I do repeatedly say the decline in Russia is going to be sped up because too many people want that to happen. Another Update:
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BlueOak replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Info dump on this yesterday. Turkish F4 Phantom intercepts Iranian F14. There is a ground clip of it. Very unpredictable which force will win out. My prediction is that Syria will not have one government but two or more areas of control. One for Turkey, One for Israel and One for Iran. Unless one government can somehow walk this tightrope between the regional powers. -
BlueOak replied to jacknine119's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Your experience of life is the connections you have and how you relate to the world around you. Some of that is dictated to us, most of it we choose. What do you want to experience in this life? -
Well put, I think the victim mindset would probably offend Putin.
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BlueOak replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Yeah with the way things have turned out, its in Israel's and the US's interest now to boot the regime out and create a buffer state for Israel between Iran and Lebanon etc. Before it was merely useful to get involved, now its a higher priority and with Russia pulling forces out from everywhere, stretching what's its got thin, I think the regime is done. What we might see is Iran, North Korea or indirectly China fighting there. This is where the US and Iran might fight, or their special forces at least -
Elements of Socialism. It is the glue to regulate aspects of humanity that otherwise harm the collective, as well as provide for those who are stepped on by others.
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Russia has had 8 wars to establish control over former USSR territories; if that isn't expansion, tell me what is? I go by people's actions more than their words, of which there have also been plenty of threats from Spain to Alaska. Russia projects military power across the globe. That's what most wars we all hate America getting into are all about—fighting Russia-influenced or backed regimes. Why is there a need for me to tell you America is psychopathic when seen in an expanded context? Is this for a wider audience, or are you trying to genuinely convince me of this? Because you can stop there. China, America, Russia, the UK and France every world power acts as if the only way to exist in the world is to club the other guy. As i've said many times Russia has done plenty of meddling in nations, they just do it with guns, training, special forces, assassinations, intelligence data, and money, rather than big pompous nation-building exercises that people watch on TV and get annoyed about (mostly, unless Russia is hitting an underdeveloped African nation in turmoil or they just want to eradicate population centers aka gassing Syrian rebels, Bombing Chechen fighters or Drone striking Ukrainian cities). The real question is why do countries act like they do, a better question than that is how to change it The answer to your question i've said 5 times now at least. People need to villainize the other side to fight them. Which is what most of the energy of these threads are focused on. Their bad we are good. I could just write that in place of most of these posts, then my various attempts to get people to realise the futility of that. That's 90% of your post. These guys were bad, so that justified what we do next. This is a terrible place of reasoning to be in. There are a multitude of reasons for this war, but one you point out is to shrink their border with NATO so they can more easily guard it, while having a shrinking population. Actually, many empires try one last push before they sputter out, Mongols, the British, the Americans, Rome, Greeks, and the Russians—it happened all through history. In the wider context, this war is the acceleration of Russia's shrinking. It obviously has the appetite for such a burden because it's doing it right now. If you are going to say Russia's actions are defensive, then i'll say Eastern Europe's actions are defensive and ergo their allies. Invading another country is not defensive, I don't care how you spin it.
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@zazen So instead you've picked a date that suits your moral compass better? Therefore you can moralize the current invasion is justified. See Afghanistan, Iraq - September the 11th etc etc. You are doing exactly what you claim I and others do, when I repeatedly in my replies say this is pointless. If we were to take your logic back to its source it would end up pointing you at human behavior when organized into the collective called country, especially among certain expansionist cultures/communities.
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Russia is not the USSR. Just like Ukraine is not the USSR, despite how badly old men want to recreate that scenario. The world is different to what is was in that era. Hence the nukes did not belong to Russia, and why they had to be negotiated for. Democracy in a Russian proxy government? Come on Bobby.
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Oh and BTW all Russian Ruble Trading has ceased till 2025 as it entered a period of hyperinflation, so they can only barter now. https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/russian-rouble-down-by-one-quarter-since-early-august-2024-11-27/ https://www.youtube.com/live/sY-PX9pVK_Y?si=xj8CeZf9RpRchtL1&t=1171 Everything is fine? All great over there I am sure.