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dwise1 Member Posts: 5949 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5 |
Troll. At least LNA is not trying to charge us for his translations from the original Russian, ну?
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5949 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5 |
Russian soldiers captured/defected in Ukraine say that they were told they were sent in to protect the Ukrainians from Nazi occupation.
If they really want to fight Nazis, direct them to the Kremlin. Or to CPAC. Or to a Trump rally. Forrest Gump: "Nazi is as Nazi does."
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5949 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5 |
Why did you go with the Tzar spelling? Of course, the only proper spelling is "Царь". There are four different ways to transliterate the letter "Ц". "Tzar" is one of four possible transliterations from Cyrillics, which Wikipedia.en gives as: "Tsar (/zɑːr, sɑːr/ or /tsɑːr/), also spelled czar, tzar, or csar". Similarly, consider the Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский). His last name starts with the letter, "Ч", whose sound is like the English "ch" as in "check" and the Spanish letter, "ch" as in "chalupa" (yes, Spanish dictionaries treat it as a single letter). And Italian also has the sound which is a "soft c" followed by and "e" or "i" (eg, "ciao!"). Other languages might not have that sound and so need to find some other way to write it. Like the "Ц", the "Ч (our "ch" sound) is an affricate, the combination of two different consonant sounds (slightly basdardized): eg, "Ц" = /ts/, "Ч" = /tŠ/ (Š is like our "sh" sound). Hence languages like French and German have to write it as a combination of two letters, namely "t" combined with their way of writing our "sh" sound: eg, French "ch" -> "tch", German "sch" -> "tsch". Therefore "Чайко́вский" gets transliterated as:
Added to the problems of transliteration we have our off-the-wall English "phonetic spellings" which only serve to confuse language students (especially due to English vowels being radically different from everybody elses'). Therefore, I always prefer to refer back to the original for pronunciation. Just for fun, consider the English "j" (eg, "jungle"). In English it's also an affricate (/dž/, a voiced "ch"--/tš/), but in French it's a pure sound (/&zcaron/). So the German word for "jungle" is written "Dschungel"; the French just discard the "d" sound and change it to a pure /ž/, hence "jungle".
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5949 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5
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Phat writes:
I doubt that. He likes the attention but he doesn't like people constantly wanting him to do things. Trump is itching to become a Western Leader again. Of course, Phat's statement begs the question of whether Trump has ever deserved being considered a leader, especially since he was doing the bidding of his master, Putin. The general staff of the German Army said of their Kaiser Wilhelm II, arguably an eerily prescient pre-saging of Trump, that he couldn’t lead three soldiers over a gutter, but even there Kaiser Bill's leadership skills far outshone Trump's. But besides Trump's pathological need for constant attention and ego fluffing, Trump's "running" for the Presidency is motivated by two very important factors:
So Trump's motivation to be President again is not to serve, since that would make him a sucker. Rather, he has three basic motivations:
So will Trump actually run for President again? Only if he is absolutely assured of winning, since his fragile ego could not survive losing yet again. Rather, I predict that he will lead his followers along as long as he possibly can, misleading them into believing that he is going to run until the last possible moment. We've seen him do that kind of thing before. And as long as his followers think that he will run, they will continue to send him money, so he will milk them, that cash cow, for all the money he possibly can. Just the other day I saw an article where some group is suing Trump for not announcing his candidacy but rather leading his followers on.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5949 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5 |
I don't know whether it's their official name, but the Ukrainian Foreign Legion is accepting veterans with combat experience and who are physically fit. 60-year-old Senior Chief Malcolm Nance has volunteered and is serving with them now:
quote: That Wikipedia page on the Legion says that they're more than 20,000 strong. Also that they're getting volunteers with no prior military and have had to sort that out ("On April 1, 2022, Ukraine announced that recruitment will be temporarily halted in order to sort out volunteers who don't have any military background"). And Malcolm Nance's decades of work in the intelligence community included a concentration on Russian activity. He also speaks Russian.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5949 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5 |
Real politic tends be tricky. Sorry, but do you mean Realpolitik?
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