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  1. Russian Players should not be on tour during the War.

    From a pure military standpoint, halting hostilities while advancing wouldn't make sense. Ukraine would first need to stabilize the front lines, which doesn't seem likely right now. I'm curious, how do you guys see all this play out? After the 2023 summer counteroffensive that burned tons of...
  2. Russian Players should not be on tour during the War.

    To put things in perspective, the US has existed for 250 years, yet they've only really been an empire for less than a century. Some say their decline is already happening, but the actual fall... None of us are going to live to see it, and neither will our great-grandchildren. Now compare...
  3. Russian Players should not be on tour during the War.

    Yeah, I think you may have consumed just a tiny bit of propaganda too much for your own good. China cannot allow this scenario, for various geopolitical reasons. That fact alone is part of the reason why various attempts to isolate Russia have failed.
  4. Russian Players should not be on tour during the War.

    You can never be 100% sure.
  5. Russian Players should not be on tour during the War.

    My brother, I can have a discussion with you, but I can't do your thinking for you. Time to start putting two and two together.
  6. Russian Players should not be on tour during the War.

    There are about 30K Ukrainians in Croatia right now. Not a small number, considering we're a country of 3.8 million.
  7. Russian Players should not be on tour during the War.

    BRICS countries were never going to support sanctions. And the Russians proved incredibly creative in finding ways around them. Westerners thought locking Russia out of SWIFT was going to be the death blow. The move was considered extreme at time. Not even that worked. And who do you think...
  8. Russian Players should not be on tour during the War.

    People in the West once believed Russians would turn on Putin after being left without the McDonald's. Time to let go of that fantasy, Putin will be running Russia from his death bed. The question too few people in the West are asking is, who comes after him and what if it's hardline...
  9. Russian Players should not be on tour during the War.

    There's something like four thousand Ukrainians living in my home town right now, many of them men of military age driving around in BMW's and Jaguars. From what I hear, not a lot of them plan on going back once the war is over. Seems that mostly the privileged class managed to get out. I can...
  10. Russian Players should not be on tour during the War.

    Another history lesson from the old M51... June 1995. The war in Croatia won't be over for another two months. Croatia doesn't protest "Yugoslavia" taking part. ("Yugoslavia" in name only, really just a Serbo-Montenegrin state that'll eventually get renamed and break apart) Croatia doesn't...
  11. United States Smash 2026, Los Angeles, 6/26-7/5

    Matsushima is superior to Harimoto in almost every aspect and he's still about three or four seasons away from his peak. Maybe even five. This kid is a serious contender for the 2028 Olympic gold, mark my words.
  12. Russian Players should not be on tour during the War.

    I'm honestly a bit baffled that the mods allow this thread to go on. Nothing is likely to come out of it other than bad blood among board members.
  13. Russian Players should not be on tour during the War.

    I see your point. We should definitely nuke Isengard.
  14. Russian Players should not be on tour during the War.

    The Trump regime massacred a school ful of Iranian children in broad daylight, thus I hereby demand Kanak Jha be banned from all competitions, effective immediately. Also, he's clearly boosting.
  15. Russian Players should not be on tour during the War.

    ETTU shared the titular sentiment, CAS disagreed. I, for one, am glad that Sidorenko is playing. Serbian athletes competed in the 1992 Olympics when the regime of Slobodan Milošević committed genocide all over former Yugoslavia and no one made a huge fuss over it.
  16. United States Smash 2026, Los Angeles, 6/26-7/5

    Sidorenko's adaptation is impressive. Anyways, Truls is done here. The injury is obviously bothering him.
  17. Nagasaki: "I've never liked table tennis that much to begin with..." (#1169)

    Brazil isn't a superpower any more. That 7-1 loss against Germany in 2014 cursed them.
  18. United States Smash 2026, Los Angeles, 6/26-7/5

    Are those hickies on Truls' neck, lol 🤣
  19. United States Smash 2026, Los Angeles, 6/26-7/5

    So do I. Getting the urge to smash your racket every five points isn't expressive play, it's emotional disbalance
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