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2022-04-11 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Desperate Ukraine tells U.S. ‘bureaucracy' is no excuse for failing to provide critical weapons and ammunition

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Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-04-11 10:04|| || Front Page|| [19 views ] Top

#1 Looks like they'll have to make do with that $15 Billion cash we already gave them.

Posted by Cesare 2022-04-11 12:52|| 2022-04-11 12:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Why don't they try throwing wads of dollar bills at the Russkies? Worked for the Taliban.

Just saying.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-11 13:26|| 2022-04-11 13:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Zhang Fei is always such a joy to read.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-11 13:28|| 2022-04-11 13:28|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ You ain't bad yourself, Dron. I've learned a lot from you.

Posted by Matt 2022-04-11 13:41|| 2022-04-11 13:41|| Front Page Top

#5 They've toned it down since the beginning of the invasion. Back then they were saying "We hate you, give us arms." Now they are reduced to trying to guilt the US into donating arms.

Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2022-04-11 13:44|| 2022-04-11 13:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Really? Ohh thanks, just a pedestrian mind here. [sobs]

Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-11 13:52|| 2022-04-11 13:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Why don't they try throwing wads of dollar bills at the Russkies? Worked for the Taliban.

We already do. About a billion dollars a day.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-04-11 14:14|| 2022-04-11 14:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Giving billions in gold to appease an enemy actually did work brilliantly in one place in recent years: Chechnya. Worked brilliantly, in fact. With piles of gold (literally), Russia turned Kadyrov from an implacable enemy into a staunch ally. Every man has his price.

SSSHHH! You can't say that.... why that there's the PUTLER you're praising!

Posted by Fat Bob Thrating1879 2022-04-11 14:39|| 2022-04-11 14:39|| Front Page Top

#9 I'd say you're deliberately misunderstanding what I'm saying, but you're probably just lying through your teeth.

I'm upset that Joseph Robinette Biden, of the Burisma Payroll, always seems to "accidentally" make decisions that involve turning over huge amounts of our economy to Putin and his allies, and for a much longer time than when Putin went to war (again) in Ukraine.

If y'all weren't fake ass pretend populists y'all might have actually managed to scrape up some energy to be upset about that. But you don't, and it says a lot.

I think we've had this conversation before under a different 'nym for you.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-04-11 18:02|| 2022-04-11 18:02|| Front Page Top

#10

Posted by Phiting Brown2268 2022-04-11 18:32|| 2022-04-11 18:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Please don’t try the linguistic snob thing here, Phiting Brown2268. It demonstrates a certain level of class insecurity — and interferes with recognizing actual ability.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-11 20:18|| 2022-04-11 20:18|| Front Page Top

#12

Posted by Phiting Brown2268 2022-04-11 20:34|| 2022-04-11 20:34|| Front Page Top

#13 Paging Phiting Brown, your fry cook job wants you to finish your shift.

Please exit your mom's basement.

Posted by Woodrow 2022-04-11 20:59|| 2022-04-11 20:59|| Front Page Top

#14

Posted by Phiting Brown2268 2022-04-11 21:11|| 2022-04-11 21:11|| Front Page Top

#15 Which English? I was reared bilingual English and American, where both dialects of the language were my parents’ — and many of their friends’ — Nth language. Mama learnt English at Oxford University’s private high school after the war in Holland, then emigrated to New York City for university. That was after her native German, Dutch, and French. Her favourite cousin was proud to speak English with an Oxford accent, her French from the Sorbonne, and naturally the family spoke Hochdeutsch with a Hildesheim accent, the purest of the pure, while Mama’s English is deliberately Standard American and her French picked up in Geneva while she was at medical school escaping the matchmaking efforts of her mother and her first mother-in-law, both very managing women. Mama found the Flemish I learnt in Brussels highly amusing, but the Dutch look down on the Flems as ignorant hillbillies.

Daddy polished his English while serving as a Russian translator for the Hindi regiment stationed in Iran during the war, which was layered on top of his four mother tongues of Russian, Latvian, German, and Yiddish — typical of his peers in his birthplace — classical Latin and Greek, Hebrew, and enough Arabic and Farsi to get by on the street. He was nearly forty before he arrived in America, and his attempts at strong language sounded like he was working from memorized conjugation tables.

And after living in a variety of places, my second person plural is as likely to be you guys, y’all, or you lot, depending on the last person I spoke with or the last thing I read. And as a sheltered child of an ivory tower, I rely on Mr. Wife and the good people here to translate all sorts of American vocabulary I hadn’t previously encountered.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-11 21:26|| 2022-04-11 21:26|| Front Page Top

#16 Don't worry about PB.

He will be too busy inhaling furious amount of Russian wang tonight to respond very much.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-04-11 22:10|| 2022-04-11 22:10|| Front Page Top

#17

Posted by Phiting Brown2268 2022-04-11 22:12|| 2022-04-11 22:12|| Front Page Top

#18 And, of course, the argument about language deftly deflected away from the Truth They Do Not Want To Acknowledge: that Biden's actions are intentionally helpful to Putin.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-04-11 22:27|| 2022-04-11 22:27|| Front Page Top

#19 ^ Acknowledged.
Agreed.
Asseverated.
(That's a 1,000-ruble word. I accept dollars - even if fewer and fewer will.)

Posted by Phiting Brown2268 2022-04-11 22:32|| 2022-04-11 22:32|| Front Page Top

#20 Individual one (Saying Snootily): Where I come from we don't end a sentence with a preposition.

Individual Two: Oh. Where do y'all come from, bitch.

Posted by badanov 2022-04-11 22:59|| 2022-04-11 22:59|| Front Page Top

#21 Individual one (Saying Snootily): Where I come from we don't end a sentence with a preposition.

In German, the prepositions that end sentences are really separable verbs. As it happens, very often it’s the same in English, which Indiv.#1 is ignorant of — an inheritance from English being at root a Germanic language.

;-) A number here, including our badanov, trained as journalists, with a hefty dose of grammatical training. Which makes their deliberate use of the colloquial idiom even more amusing to a certain kind of mind.

Asseverated.

A new word for me — thank you! (For several semesters in a row there were never enough of us to justify a beginning class in Russian at my university, so I finally gave up and took Hebrew again. So I don’t know how to say it in Russian. Sorry.)

Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-11 23:21|| 2022-04-11 23:21|| Front Page Top

#22 I don't either. Yellow blue bus!

Posted by Phiting Brown2268 2022-04-11 23:38|| 2022-04-11 23:38|| Front Page Top

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