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  A boot licker!
context: This man looks so fucking done.  I wonder if he'll end up accidentally falling out of a very high window at some point in the future. >
  
  There were rumours all year that his alcohol consumption was spiraling out of control and that Putin had to warn him to dry out. I guess he must have done well enough to get promoted. >
  
  Russia might be pretty different if Medvedev were in charge tbh, he's probably only going along with it because he needs to. Without Putin around, he might have chosen another way. >
  
  I doubt it, he is the same shit as Putin but just in a different package. >
  
  Putin is the real boss, I think only Putin can be Putin. We've never seen Medvedev without Putin, I think if you take him away then Medvedev would have a lot more freedom to change priorities. >
  
  the list of suitable friends shrinks every day doesn't it? >
  
  It wouldn't be this way if Russia could get their roaming gangs of upper floor windows under control. >
  
  At least start a screen drive or something for the less fortunate ones? >
  
  🎵  In the arms of an angel, fall away from here, from this dark cold fifth floor... 🎵 >
  
  Medvedev’s 2023 predictions on twitter were super stupid that Putin saw it as the right qualification for the job. >
  
  How are the Russian people reacting to it though? That is the important portion of it 
  If they are in a majority agreement then this war is not stopping >
  
  Majority of russian decide nothing. >
  
  But they love when Russia is stealing land from other countries. >
  
  also like all of Americans like to nuke japan, vietnam and some any east country; or it is another things? >
  
  I see you are a very well read historian >
  
  Enough to see the same. >
  
  Yes, these are virtually identical. On an unrelated note, when was the last time you visited an ophthalmologist? >
  
  His most famous phrase as a president: "We don't have money, but you hold on!" >
  
  Doubly hilarious as he said it to a Crimea local after they annexed them with promises of better life under Russia >
  
  And thus, Russia's MIC became twice as shit and ineffective as it was probably before. >
  
  Now everything will go to mansions and super yachts! >
  
  Another rearranging of seats on the Titanic. >
  
  Seems like this move is basically admitting because of extreme crippling corruption in their military / military industries Russia has been crippled and this new commission is the attempt to fix that. More of a internal political move than anything else. Putin invading Ukraine not knowing his military was full of rot is worse than a man walking into a whore house not knowing his dick doesn’t work. >
  
  How do you know this? Never mind. Medvedev just got set up to be the fall guy for Putin. Sad. >
  
  
  In a rather coincidental turn of events, Vladimir Putin had been scheduled to visit the city of Nizhny Tagil on December 24, one day before Maslov’s death. This trip was cancelled at the last minute. >
  
  So now when the desired results are not met they can blame Medvedev instead of the Kremlin. I hope their office is in a one story building. >
  
  Remember the time when Medvedev was president and Putin was only Prime Minister? Oh wait that was just for show… >
  
  It’s particularly interesting to see him go off and say that the US markets will all go to Asia. 
  People aren’t paying nearly enough attention to the economic war being waged by China against the U.S. right now and the part that the invasion of Ukraine plays in that fight. 
  The first week of the Beijing Olympics had xi and Putin voraciously proclaiming their “friendship unlimited” agreement. 
  Then a massive telltale is that Putin waited until after the Olympics to invade. There is a lot of knowledge in this fact. 
  Russian military school has a defense class.  And the first rule of it is that you NEVER invade Russia in the winter. The Rasputita mud swallows everything that it comes in contact with. 
  So this means that either Putin, every one of his generals, colonels, advisors and planners just missed that day in school, or xi was calling the timing and/or the shots. 
  The Beijing Olympics was a major point of nationalist pride for Xi and if IOC history is any indicator he paid a handsome bribe to have them in Beijing despite the fact that there are about a half million other places on the planet more suited to hosting a Winter Olympics than Beijing is.  From manufactured snow to a ski jump built in an old shougang steel mill, it was a odd location for a country that paints its trees green to keep up appearances. 
  Putin waiting to invade cost him his 3-10 day “soft war” victory plan of being able to blitz kyiv, takeover government and business and then just perch.  
  So the obvious question is why is Ukraine important to China? 
  Well the majority of the semiconductor grade neon used in EUV lithography comes from Ukraine. Specifically the 4 regions of the Donbas that Putin claims he is liberating at all costs from BBQ’s, windsurfing, and all the other evils of western society. 
  Donetsk, Luhansk, zaparozia, and Kherson all have a pretty unique history due to the USSR space race of the 1950’s and 60’s.  The USSR spared no expense building out critical infrastructure during that time.  And one of the major points was steel, aluminum and titanium manufacturing. Each of which uses giant coke ovens where ore is melted.   And attached to each of these coke ovens is a air separation unit that condenses and separates a variety of gases.  One of which is Neon which is critical to the space race in the 50’s, lasers for the star wars program in the 1980’s and EUV lithography in the present. 
  In fact most of the gas imported to Taiwans TSMC, where the majority of the worlds semiconductors are made comes from Ukraine, or at least did before this year. Since the start of the war prices of neon have gone up 5000% and TSMC has begun a 3-7 year process of building their own independent supply chain inside of Taiwan.  
  Why is it so important? Well frankly the word runs on semiconductors. Facebook to ford trucks, the US economy is completely reliant on a item built a few miles off the coast of China on an island that China has built an entire military circle around via their belt and road initiative. 
  From turning airstrips into islands and paying Cambodia into letting them build a port/military base there, xi has been sparing no expense to make Taiwan his own. 
  Had The Russian army not been completely eviscerated internally by corruption and grift, and had Putin’s invasion gone as projected, xi would have held the heavy majority of the neon gas production outside of Ukraine in his control.  
  And it would have allowed him the leverage to take Taiwan and with it, control the US economy at the stroke of a pen. 
  Simply by dictating that his internal A.I. based censorship and surveillance program within the MSS, get priority on GPU chips over any U.S. company, Xi would have been able to gut the US economy and takeover as the worlds default currency.  
  In 2012 xi proclaimed that he would “control the internet” and no one really took him seriously.  
  US intelligence was hyper focused on the Middle East and the “war of terror”.  China as a matter of policy was considered a trading partner and not in any way an adversary. 
  So when this shitbird says that the “markets will move to Asia” pay attention to the un-obvious. >
  
  Fantastic and informative post. Thank you. >
  
  Is it? This post seems to contradict itself. 
  China controls the USA with neon production in a country it doesn't control, and would likely find itself in dire straits if it tried to control?
  China forces Russia to delay invading a country that also develops neon causing them to fail to conquer it and as such fail to control it?
  The Olympics are a massive point of pride for China, so much so that completely controlling the US economy is less important?
  Russia could have totally just taken kyviv if they'd just invaded earlier because the muddy ground is clearly the only issue Russia had?
  That's just what I picked out at a quick glance through, I mean, I haven't even checked if any of these claims about neon production are even valid but I've never heard of either ukraine or Taiwan being leaders in it before so I'm cautious about that too.
  There's plenty of completely reasonable reasons for why Russia did what it did without China "masterminding" it for neon. Dunno, not saying its all bullshit just seems like conjecture.
  EDIT: So I doubled checked the neon claim, and it seems yes, ukraine produces a lot  but like... its extracted from the air. The reason other countries don't produce it is simply due to lack of infrastructure making it cost prohibitive. If that ever changed, other countries would start producing it quickly. You could argue something about Taiwan as a gpu producer but like... the whole ukraine war if anything makes it LESS likely to happen. Maybe this was china's plan, but if it was it just proves china's plan was flawed as fuck. >
  
  Besides, if the stakes were that high US support for Ukraine would have been on a whole other scale. >
  
  Medvedev is just a blogger without any power whatsoever.  His only job is to convince  putin and all the world, that he is worst than Putin, and Putin has no reason to fear him. Because he was a president,  and was much better than Putin now. So whatever he say or write, just know that another "job" he was given is completely empty, he has no power or people that he can give orders to. Stop paying attention to Medvedev, he is a poor alcoholic. >
  
  This is Russias problem. Putin won’t hire the best person for the job because he knows it could lead to his death, so he appoints his crocked best friends who are as corrupt or more so than him lol. And they have no fucking idea what they are supposed to do 👌
  Look pretty for the camera and wish death upon women and children >
  
  ”Russia is so patriarchal of a society that even the first lady is a man” >
  
  Hopefully followed by falling out of his office window by next week. >
  
  Great news, always a good thing when Putin appoints incompetent people into key positions. If Shoigu and Gerasimov didn't have control of the military, things might've played out very differently. >
  
  Because a puppet yes man is always the best choice. >
  
  So, made responsible for something actually important, and with expectations for results.
  I would... not go anywhere close to windows if I was him. >
  
  something actually important and… from a practical point of view, all but hopeless. >
  
  Another toy steering wheel for Medvedev. >
  
  Being in charge of Russia's Military industrial Commission sounds like a retirement position. >
  
  He is not in charge,  he is "first deputy". As many other deputies >
  
  He's one of the ones in charge. I didn't mean he was the top guy. >
  
  This guy is about to suffer a severe case of the suicides >
  
  Make sure you stay on a windowless ground floor office