Coach Red Pill

Blade Runner

Crow
Orthodox
I don't think his dating videos were very good. They're heavily poisoned by his atheistic worldview.
On the other hand, his videos about how to navigate social politics and career issues are pure gold.
He's intelligent but not the type that I believe many women would find all that appealing. Not having met him in person, I don't know, but that's my guess from what I see.
 

911

Peacock
Catholic
Gold Member
He's OK, he was just on the Duran earlier this week.

This being said, getting through the Kharkov battle later this year or early in '23 is going to be hairy for him, because at some point before the fall of the city, the SBU is going to purge local "traitors".

If I was in his shoes, I would at least use the time he has to learn the language, and build a small network of potential safe homes.
 
He's OK, he was just on the Duran earlier this week.

This being said, getting through the Kharkov battle later this year or early in '23 is going to be hairy for him, because at some point before the fall of the city, the SBU is going to purge local "traitors".

If I was in his shoes, I would at least use the time he has to learn the language, and build a small network of potential safe homes.
It's honestly pretty ridiculous that he hasn't learned more Russian/Ukranian by now. In effect his personal life is one of these "rootless cosmopolitans". I say that as an otherwise fan of his. Take some italki classes daily for goodness sake! I mean you are mostly in your apartment all day anyway!
 

Maddox

Kingfisher
Protestant
It's honestly pretty ridiculous that he hasn't learned more Russian/Ukranian by now. In effect his personal life is one of these "rootless cosmopolitans". I say that as an otherwise fan of his. Take some italki classes daily for goodness sake! I mean you are mostly in your apartment all day anyway!

I'm surprised he can get by without knowing at least some of their language. I didn't think any of those cities over speak much English at all.
 
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Tom Slick

Pelican
Orthodox
I stopped listening to Lira a few months ago when the drama got too much, but he's still going and here's a response message from American Krogan to something Lira posted on twitter today.

I have no knowledge of this historical event, but I give much, much more credence to American Krogan on this kind of topic than I do Lira, whom I do think has his own credibility in other areas, such as his coverage of the Ukraine War and other, more recent happenings.

American Krogan said:
"Based" Gonzalo Lira is spreading misinformation about Wounded Knee and American history on Twitter (). If you're actually interested in what happened at Wounded Knee, I discuss it in depth in Chapter Two (https://odysee.com/@americankrogan:3/BioShock-The-Hatred-Chapter-2:0) of my BioShock series. I start talking about it from around 38 mins in to about 58 mins in. Unlike random memes on social media, I actually read and cited several historical sources.
 

Brebelle3

Woodpecker
Orthodox Inquirer
Mike Adams interviews Lira if anyone is interested.

This will be a 2 part interview with part 1 produced today.

It's about an hour long, but worth viewing in my opinion. Gonzalo talks about Europe being finished, Russia/Ukraine, and what we'll see this coming winter.

 

budoslavic

Eagle
Orthodox
Gold Member


UPDATES: Gonzalo Lira argues that the Americans have declared war on Europe; Noah Carl draws attention to an older piece he wrote on the “Nord Stream 2 theory” of the Ukraine war; hints of a possible method and an earlier, aborted attack on the pipeline are found in these stories about an underwater drone armed with explosives recovered near the pipeline construction site in 2015. Two Nord Stream 1 leaks have now been identified; like the Nord Stream 2 rupture, they’re near Bornholm. There are three ruptures in total.
 

Parmesan

Kingfisher
Other Christian




Definitely a possibility. I wouldn't dismiss Russia, I know it's not a popular take on this forum, but if the rumors of Putin being ill, or concerns about a possible coup, it could be a hedge to ensure his strategy can't be subverted.
 

Easy_C

Peacock
Russia would have the motivation to shut off gas, but I do not believe it is likely they would do so with this timing and method.

Russia's best advantage would be to shut off gas timed to coincide with Europe's first major cold snap this year. That would maximize the impact of an acute shortage and create the greatest possible civil disruption to pressure European governments. Doing it this way also requires an intact infrastructure.

This method would be Russia denying itself flexibility in how to tackle the issue. They don't need to damage the infrastructure in order to achieve that objective. It's only western actors who need to damage the infrastructure in order to shut off gas.
 

Thomas More

Crow
Protestant
Russia would have the motivation to shut off gas, but I do not believe it is likely they would do so with this timing and method.

Russia's best advantage would be to shut off gas timed to coincide with Europe's first major cold snap this year. That would maximize the impact of an acute shortage and create the greatest possible civil disruption to pressure European governments. Doing it this way also requires an intact infrastructure.

This method would be Russia denying itself flexibility in how to tackle the issue. They don't need to damage the infrastructure in order to achieve that objective. It's only western actors who need to damage the infrastructure in order to shut off gas.
I expected Russia to take further actions to cut off gas, but they don't have to blow up their own lines to do so. They can just cut the flow from their own facilities.

As for timing, I was thinking they would do this after the breakaway Ukrainian Oblasts are officially incorporated into Russia. Once these become Russian territories, Russia will react much more severely against any attacks against them, and I expect a very strong response over the first incident, especially if Western weapons systems are used.

I would expect all remaining Russia energy flows to be cut off, and I would expect Russia to take steps like breaking other pipelines, or damaging LNG unloading facilities in Western Europe. Besides attacks targeting the Western European countries supplying Ukraine, I would expect a lot more attacks against Ukraine generally, taking out all their infrastructure, and attacking command and control facilities wherever possible.
 

Ember

Hummingbird
Other Christian
Gold Member
Control of the gas tap give Russia immense leverage over European countries. Sabotage of those two pipelines removes a huge chunk of that. There is no way in a million years that any sane Russian leader would say goodbye to that leverage.

The pipelines will take years to fix. Only the US leadership and GAE could possibly benefit from such an action. Gonzalo Lira is spot on when he says they have committed an act of war against the European people.
 

911

Peacock
Catholic
Gold Member
I'm not sure if it would take years to repair that, at worst they will have to redo a small stretch of the pipeline. I would assume that there are valves that seal off sections of the pipeline in case of a major leak or accident. But it will probably be too late to save this winter season, they would have to start right away, and the political will is not quite there yet.

One important factor in the (((GAE))) motives picture in this operation is that this would accelerate the Israeli offshore gas project, which wouldn't be viable without cheaper Russian gas being out of the picture.
 
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