Ukraine 2030 — the freest and most digital country in the world. Without bureaucracy, but with strong tech industry. Cashless & paperless. This is the future we are building. pic.twitter.com/XWs4E1pPGJ— Mykhailo Fedorov (@FedorovMykhailo) July 14, 2022
Just dogshit on every conceivable level. Seven years!
Like the conflict isn't going to rumble on for another three or four as regional militias try to grab power because Green Shirt Guy and his mob fuck off to Switzerland with the aid money, leaving the country to (further) melt into another Eastern Europe Authoritarian Themepark. Because sure as shit those Azov motherfuckers aren't going to go back into the fold with all that military hardware kicking about.
It's going to be fascinating to see what happens with Zelensky. I can't think of a U.S. proxy war that similarly lionized its local puppet ruler. I'm not getting my hopes up, but there's at least some potential for folks to realize they've been had.
That came out a decade or so before 9/11, though, and a few puff pieces don't come close to the wall-to-wall Zelensky propaganda we've seen over the last year.
Say the war turns hard against Ukraine in the next 12 months, and say Zelensky takes the money and runs instead of getting couped by Nazi hardliners in his military. That (hopefully) would be a lot more jarring.
Like the conflict isn’t going to rumble on for another three or four
laughs in Afghani Insurgent
You fucking wish it'll be over in four years. I've got my money on somewhere closer to forty.
Because sure as shit those Azov motherfuckers aren’t going to go back into the fold with all that military hardware kicking about.
I mean, there's a conceivable world in which Ukraine becomes another tin-pot military dictatorship, a la Panama or Zimbabwe or Israel. Azov gets folded into whatever personality cult governs the country for the next generation. The army just drives around in humvees doing some fascist mix of state security and highway robbery to whatever residents can't escape. And those residents eventually spill into the long-running guerrilla insurgency that justifies the ultra-authoritarian dictatorship.
But the idea that you're going to do anything productive with the vacant real estate under these social conditions is absolutely delusional.
Just dogshit on every conceivable level. Seven years!
Like the conflict isn't going to rumble on for another three or four as regional militias try to grab power because Green Shirt Guy and his mob fuck off to Switzerland with the aid money, leaving the country to (further) melt into another Eastern Europe Authoritarian Themepark. Because sure as shit those Azov motherfuckers aren't going to go back into the fold with all that military hardware kicking about.
It's going to be fascinating to see what happens with Zelensky. I can't think of a U.S. proxy war that similarly lionized its local puppet ruler. I'm not getting my hopes up, but there's at least some potential for folks to realize they've been had.
It's gonna be that one "Anti-Soviet freedom fighter puts his country on the road to peace" article times a thousand
That came out a decade or so before 9/11, though, and a few puff pieces don't come close to the wall-to-wall Zelensky propaganda we've seen over the last year.
Say the war turns hard against Ukraine in the next 12 months, and say Zelensky takes the money and runs instead of getting couped by Nazi hardliners in his military. That (hopefully) would be a lot more jarring.
laughs in Afghani Insurgent
You fucking wish it'll be over in four years. I've got my money on somewhere closer to forty.
I mean, there's a conceivable world in which Ukraine becomes another tin-pot military dictatorship, a la Panama or Zimbabwe or Israel. Azov gets folded into whatever personality cult governs the country for the next generation. The army just drives around in humvees doing some fascist mix of state security and highway robbery to whatever residents can't escape. And those residents eventually spill into the long-running guerrilla insurgency that justifies the ultra-authoritarian dictatorship.
But the idea that you're going to do anything productive with the vacant real estate under these social conditions is absolutely delusional.