There isn’t supposed to be a “win”; from the point of view of the American neo-cons steering us into this mess, it’s about cultivating another never-ending conflict they can use to launder money with. They had to get something rolling after they lost their gig in Afghanistan.
I just spent a few minutes searching for it to no avail, but I remember seeing a 4chan post around the time season 1 dropped that purported to be written by one of the token males on the production or writing team. He described one meeting where the lead producer went on an angry rant about how trump and right-wingers were “dickheads” and then the staff decided to make the Nilfgardians a stand-in for trump followers. And so, they designed the Nilfgardian armour thusly: https://i.redd.it/tkyqqxby1r131.jpg
The author of the post described how he was ignored when trying to bring some sanity to the discussion. I wonder if this DeMayo guy is the author of the 4chan post?
I was only 14 or so, but they totally claimed W cheated against Gore via the state of Florida where Jeb was governor at the time. There was a big deal made of “hanging chads”: the little punched out piece of paper that hadn’t in some cases completely detached on the ballots in Florida.
I mean he’s not 5 but that’s not bad for 12 I’d say.
Yes it is you dickless dipshit. It was an attack on civilian infrastructure without strategic importance to the war effort that served only to terrorize and demoralize Russians by hitting a symbol of putin’s reunification of crimea and Russia. How about you shut the fuck up so you don’t look any more retarded than you already do, you pathetic intellectual lightweight?
How was it NOT a terror attack? It was an attack on civilian infrastructure far away from the war zone. It was done because of the symbolic meaningfulness of the bridge (uniting Russian with Crimea). It was clearly a terror attack, just like the Dugin assassination.
It’s interesting to see what I think is the social media-induced sense of artificially constructed reality be manifest in the thinking of our policy makers. The recent Ukrainian “victories” that are currently talked about matter-of-factly in western media have “recaptured” essentially empty cattle-country that was strategically unimportant. They came at the cost of scores of Ukrainian lives - entire brigades wiped out - and massive amounts of equipment NATO can’t even replace quickly. being destroyed. The Russians comparatively have lost few lives and haven’t even mobilized their newest equipment yet. If you lose soldiers that you can’t replace, armed with weapons you can’t replace, at a rate of ten to one for a hollow ‘victory’ you’re not really winning. BUT you can claim you are, you can claim it’s a turning point, and you can hope that you’ll make your enemy stumble and instigate a political victory. And if you’re a moron who fundamentally believes in the importance of appearances, that if your Instagram/LinkedIn profile is perfect then your life is perfect, you can probably fool yourself into thinking that doing retarded shit like bombing civilian infrastructure or throwing half your army into a meat grinder to score a temporary win in the “information war” is wise.
How I know I’m an asshole: I read the article and think “my god this is horrible.” Then I click the link and see what she looked like, think “ew, would not bang” and immediately any fucks I give evaporate. Oh well, maybe I’ll say hi to her when I go to hell.
So “people watched the show too slowly” according to Neil because Netflix reported that there were not enough viewed hours of the show in a 28 day period to justify a second season. Doesn’t that just mean not enough people watched it and those that did didn’t like it enough to keep watching? What a pathetic cope. I used to read Neil Gaiman stuff and I had no idea from his writing that he was such an insufferable goddamn faggot.
the Chinese starting to collapse as their economy dies
I agree with your post except for this. China is better situated economically than the west. They have actual manufacturing capacity, graduate more stem students every year than the rest of the west combined, and through their alliance with Russia have better access to commodities than all of Europe. Don’t hold your breath waiting for them to collapse. I’d put my money on them inarguably being the dominant superpower within 20 years.
Well they may sometimes pay lip service to those beliefs but when it comes to the actual capitalist entities in their lives they eagerly spread their buttcheeks and beg for it. Big pharma especially apparently is exempt from their ire.
Lol I saved this so I can rub in your face what a brainwash victim you are after Russia pushes Ukraine’s shit in within the next few months. All the territory you boomers crow about Ukraine taking back was strategically worthless farmland and cow-country basically. Russia withdrew because they felt no need to sacrifice lives to protect NOTHING- because winning a war is more about destroying the other army than taking useless land. Meanwhile the Ukrainians have lost absolutely massive numbers of men and equipment Zerg rushing the Russians. The Russians just mobilized 300k men and are massing soldiers in Belarus. The Ukrainians simply don’t have the trained manpower left to withstand the kind of storm that’s coming; it’s likely that their recent offensives were a kind of desperate final push (like the Germans at the end of ww2) to try to lash out and do enough damage to try and force a political incident in Russia and end the war through citizen discontent. Doesn’t look like it worked!