With recent events, has anyone started making the wargames? Here is the chart of strategic modifiers I'm developing. All stats are in percentiles.

1. Engineer & spread virus to cut off trade with prospective enemies: +14 to economic rolls during combat phase
2. Promote environmental conservation: +25 to fuel supply for military purposes
3. Direct & fund political extremists in enemy nations: -39 to enemy nations' morale rolls
4. Tell public that nuclear war isn't likely: -18 to public-opposition modifiers before directing nuclear strike

Sir Kill Alot wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Pretty scary what is going on in the Ukraine.  

Yes. I have some friends in Poland and am pretty proud of what they are doing to help.

mbassoc2003 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Distraction politics. It's all smoke and mirrors.

Finally, something we can agree upon - a wartime president is often assured of reelection. In the meantime, he's chosen the best people to do it with:

Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine | The Nation
"Post-Maidan Ukraine is the world’s only nation to have a neo-Nazi formation in its armed forces."

Here's how they deal with undesired minorities. (For 'undesired,' read 'all.')
With Axes And Hammers, Far-Right Vigilantes Destroy Another Romany Camp In Kyiv

Here's what they're doing now.
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https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai ... 993877ea7e

red_bus wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Yes. I have some friends in Poland and am pretty proud of what they are doing to help.

Seems a more positive contribution. I understand that Poland is donating their entire fleet of MiG-29s.

mbassoc2003 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:The consequences of that inflation ware guaranteed to happen.

Earlier this evening, we heard that the US economy grew more last year than in 40 years. Up until now, I've been hearing that inflation grew more last year than in 40 years. Po-tayto, po-tahto.

We also heard that "Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he'll never gain the hearts and souls of the Uranian people." ...I stand with Uranus!

red_bus wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:I have some friends in Poland and am pretty proud of what they are doing to help.

Presumably your friends are not these:
People of colour fleeing Ukraine attacked by Polish nationalists | Ukraine | The Guardian

At least we know who to blame:
https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/read ... 77738.html
Although the article in the above link exclusive blames Ukrainian border guards for mistreating non-white refugees, the title of the piece is "Discrimination against Black people fleeing war in Ukraine compounds Russia’s crimes."

sauromatian wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Since I realized I'll get nothing but propaganda from news about the war, I decided to go to a more reliable source - late-night talk radio. There I learned there is this great site called paranormaldate.com

Not sure what it's good for, though. If you want to date a ghost, that pretty much sounds like a metaphor for being single, & so if you need a dating site, you've already got what you're there for. If you want to date an alien, you should know that "dating an alien" is a euphemism for mechanical marital aids & other sex toys, which are bought outright instead of met through dating sites. If you want to date bigfoot, I believe those are the sort of people you meet through any ordinary dating sites, & so there is no need for a specialized site. Maybe I should go back to the war propaganda.

A person and their ghost partner could even discuss the war propaganda without emotionally triggering each other.  How many romantically engaged people can say the same in 2022?  A match truly made in Heaven.

Sir Kill Alot wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:There is no propaganda in $4.57/gallon of gas in NY

I just paid $0.70/gallon more than I would have before the war began. Remind me again, what was the purpose of the Iraq War? What is the purpose of this war? Why did Dick Cheney's assistant Victoria Nuland go directly from engineering one of these to engineering the other?

There would be no war if those who run the empire do not want war.
This war is happening because it is desirable.
It may be inconvenient to you and I to pay more for our food and fuel, but we don't have any say in what happens and there is nothing any of us can do about it. So why give a F?
Hopefully, some people will wake the F up from being 'woke' and begin to understand how the world around them works.
But I doubt it.

10 years from now NYC will be a world class shithole like LA and SF, with endemic crime and homeless encampments and the AG deciding not to prosecute crimes perpetrated by the homeless.

The plebs will continue to beg for their free ride through life, and the DNC will continue to offer them bribes in exchange for votes and tell them it will all be rosy and they are the victims of the evil business men and their Russian/Chinese masters.
These same plebs wouldn't ever dream of investing money in arms manufacturers, because they aren't 'green' or 'fluffy', and they will neither care nor question why their Gods are heavily invested and making millions out of the war machine.
And the masses will pretend they didn't know ten years ago that this would happen, and its all a surprise, like we are doing right now pretending we didn't know.

When it is all said and done, the inflation is already baked into the pie. You have to pay. You have no choice. The inflation occurred two years ago. It already happened. It has nothing to do with the war. The war is just the excuse that is being rolled out for the idiot class. If the Russian government had said, "Happy birthday,' and sent a few billion dollars of new farm machinery and a voucher for 5 years of free oil, instead of tanks to Ukraine, you'd still have to pay for all the inflation that has occurred in your money supply. Only the narrative would be that these evil Russians are flooding the market with free oil and agriculture and trying to destroy Ukraine's economy with inflation, and hey presto, what you are paying is the knock on effects of the evil Russian economic war in Europe.  

Better off just watching TV and believing all what you're told to believe. They have some good photos dead children and devastated mothers. If you don't believe what you're being told by your TV  in the face of imagery like that, well them maybe the government should be locking people up for the safety of the rest of us.

Hey. Good luck. Here's send you best wishes from my family.