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Russia doesn't have any mercenaries... Uless you call Ukrainains mercinaries.
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They have no heavy arms there. They are also decomitioning the plant. The area has been shelled by US supplied Himars..
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@user-es8si3cv8b Chechenains are to russia as texans are to american. An alnalogy..
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The Ukraine millatary should clear the mines they are blockaiding their own ports with. The russian millatary cleared other ports east of there that ukraine mined.
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Mercinaries are not covered by the Geneva Convention...
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@allydea Is there any possibillty for DW to end it's hellucinatory machinations? When russia dictates terms in the Ukraine, do you think DW will be able to acknowledge that reality?
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A war crime.... Prime suspect is brandon who said that Nord Steam Two would never be operational.
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It takes time to train on these intergrated weapon systems.... Ukraine has some people traing in germany and in polland on a nato standards four month training regimon. It is hard to imagine how they can get those heavy weapons and personel on the battel field in the break away provinces at that time... If I were a betting person I would say that by the time the personel is trained, russia will have liberated the donbass.
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Siemens, the german company that services the pumps, signed off on the maintence issues that the pumps were expiriencing causing an emergency shutdown of the single pump in operation.... Siemens has been working on a work around from the sanctions but has failed to get the nessessary equipment to service the pumps.
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The greatest threat to nato is nato.... I've seen the enimy and it is we.
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@sands7779 It is a ridiculous statement to say that Ukraine has not targeted civilians in its very long war against the Donbass... Early on Ukraine targeted Ukraine civillians in Odesa by throwing them in a building, cealing it up and burning it... There is however an alternate reality that is easily quoteable.
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@rocky137 I still doubt the effects of chinese impiralisim [or what ever you call it] All the chinese have to do is give people a better deal than the west who has perhaps given them not a very good deal.
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OK. so lets run brandon.
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... To get out the invading Ukraine forces who station themselves there... I fixed it for you.
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There is considerable question about what realestate will be considered 'Ukraine''... There is also considerable question about if/when the EU will recover from the sancions.
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Who benifits from this? Brandon actually said he would shut it down. Some posit a theory that, in the word of one very good comedian, dark brandon did it.
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Too funny.
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It is probably better if russia wins and implements minsk+. Sanctions are not related to the war in that the goal was the sanctions and war was the means to the sanctions.
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@marshmallowpuff4899 ... All I am saying is if china wants to expand it's industrial base, like they have been doing, china need to keep the cost of living down... They can't do that by giving away natural resources to a tiny few and bailing them out, not if, when they fail... We do that in the west and we know what it is like.... It leads to the tiny few having all the assets, asset price inflation, debt deflation and the cannibalizations of industry [deindustrialization] .. What we are seeing in the west.
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@rogersmith8480 The producers of war machines and amuntion are mostly US interests who make their equiment in the US where energy is cheep.... Even if it weren't the political pressure of the millatary industrial complex has had the US alocates about a trillion dollars a year from the US treasury alone.... The expansion of Nato is a way of insuring US exports and is one way to keep the dollar stable.
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@patrickribeiro9167 That tends to be what Ukraine does.... I am not sure that I can counter the assertion that they were using the plant as an amo depot.... That seems very unwise. Why would they have to use it as a depot while the allies have a clear advantage in the LPR, DPR as well as almost all the way to Odessa in the south?
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@sebastianwrites True... Ukraine didn't instigate the war and they had no choice in the matter... When they had a goverment that wanted to have closer ties with russia they had a CIA led coup in '14. That goverment stepped up shelling in the war in the east that was going on for eight years in febuary. Those were orders from the west.. Now the west is interested in making a stable war in Ukraine but they are running out of Ukraine conscripts to do so.. The main reason for the west's interst is to sanction europe... It may seem like a werd conspiracy theory but most things sound weird to people who don't know anythng.
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Kiev still has over 90% of it's beutiful buildings and infrastructure. With any luck it will be a thriving metropolis in the future as well.
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That is not clear yet. If they want to keep their industry they need to intervene on behalf of the people.
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Who dug in to the russian region for eight years with the support of the US? Who shelled the nucliear power plant?
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Mercinaries are not covered by the Geneva Convention.
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Did the US decide to tell the germans which lies to tell about china as well? Are you going to pay us back for the lend-lease equipment we are sending to Ukraine in dollars?
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@TonyA-ex1sj Russia won in Ukraine and turned around and won in on the economic front... It feels good to laugh anyway.
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There is a prediction of famine and starvation of millions of people, mostly children, because of sanctions against not only russian grain but more so russian fertilizer. Stories like these break my heart. I hope it can be avoided.
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@saveriodipoce2201 Sendibg weapons to Ukraine is an end in it's self.... I am a mechanical designer in the US... Please send us money in Dollars so that we can make more.
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Please refference Earl Grey who claims to have found a rand report on these issues before the start of the russian offensive in ukraine. While you point out that there is great deal of interest in building war machines for profit, that report suggests that is not the only consideration behind the push to create the EU and expand Nato..
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@hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hP How is Ukraine a sovereign contry? They got couped in '14 and Victoria Nuland installed the person she wanted, Russia was winning on the Donbas battelfield in '14 and got a peace agreement that was never followed. Then on April 1'st of 22 they were ready to sign a peice accord that was the original agreement that they came to in '15 when they were instructed by the west to not sign. Ukraine is taking all of it's instructions from the US. Close to a half million Ukrainan young men have died in this conflict.... The weird thing is that the war was about sanctions and the sanctions atually stenghthen the Russian economy... I am looking here to see what the western press is saying... It is amazing how many people have the impression that Ukraine is winning and soverign.
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@Groggybandito Ukraine has been mining the ports in Ukrane that are not occupied by russia. At one time it left a lot of grain stranded for months....
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And they need to reimburse the US in dollars for the weapons we sent and buy more weapons from the US... As a mechanical designer this profits me personally...
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The social media war might turn to how unstable Putin is and what he will do if russia loses.... "We could win but what would that do to the unstable putin?" ... "What would he do if we embarrase him?"
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Typical for DW to say that russia destroyed the last bridge when it was done by Ukraine.
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@Surfbird11 Russia explicitly said that there would be a price if ukraine attacked it on the main land.... Ukraine attacked critical infrastructure for crimea, which is in russia and was used both for civilian and military use. The electrical grid in ukraine is also used for civilian an military purposes. Russia had the option of destroying this critical military infrastructure earlier and/or any time they chose to... Evacuating civilians from a war area and declaring martial law in that area prevents ukraine from using civilian clothing or vehicles for cover in attack or supply operations and for using civilians as human shields. Ukraine's innocent military personnel will continue to pay the highest price.
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Too funny...
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Not sure.... They will have to clean up after their pipes freeze and so many people die.
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Tell them to pay us back for the weopons we made here in the US... In US dollars.... Do they think their security is free?
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They thought Sievierodonetsk would be liberated in a week, then they sudenly planed on three days.. Turns out, the ocupiers left to the other side of the river in three hours. That quick retreat could save much of Sievierodonetsk's infrastructure.
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@Nine-Signs I like that. You characterize financialized capitalism as prioritizing rich men's dogs over commoner's children.
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@scottball6431 They pick off Russian POWs and russian civillians and 'colaborators'... I don't think that is good PR...
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@ricardosoto5512 So the CIA coup in '14 was not a factor in turning Ukraine west facing and the start of the civil war? Who knew? Then have the call for sanctions to isolate europe starting in '21 and the lack of the US being able to save the europeans from those sanctions as well as the loss of the war in the Ukraine on the ground. Does no one in the US run any simulations or have any strategic planning either economically or millatarily?
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It was how the US won WW1 and 2... They beat the UK and Europe... I am not sure russia wants to do that.... Ukraine is the poorest contry in europe.
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They think for what the US wants and make promises to them...
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Russia is not profiting from the war. It is profiting from the sanctions....
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I forget their asks in febuary.... What were they and have they canged at all?
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Arguably DW is full of more nonsense than Lavarov or Putin... What has happened is that russia is occupying much of the russian ethnic areas of the Ukraine, will take the rest of the Donbass soon and is in better shape economically than the west... ... The west has lost economically, millarily and continues to blame all of it's calamities on russia. The west's policies lost and indicate that they can't do an analyisis of a ledger in a candy store.
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@tonyatgoogle6076 Not really, dave said brian dived down the steps on purpose.
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Jim Stewart My understanding is that Ukraine had the secound most powerful millatary in europe. It was certainly being deployed to kill Ukrainians before it was destroyed.... Russia has consistantly asked for that to stop, for Ukreane to be nutral and for Ukraine to denazify.... For seven years agreements were signed that to that effect and violated by Ukraine and the west... That ask is still in effect and is unlikely to be softened during the coflict that was designed to achieve that political end. The west's goal is to keep the conflict going... How does it stop?
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@redakteur3613 Isn't it 'funny' the way everything we thought would happen under comuninsm [a theoretical economic state of being] is now very real and happening under 'capitolism' [a word coined by an admirer of captiolism marx].. What is really happening in greese and other contries is we have a state of feudalism.
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Russia has huge quantities of materials, people and technical skills.... They will find out how to rebuild most of Ukraine which by the end of the war will be called russia.
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@John Brower I struggle to get some understanding of how the chinese will conduct their oportunity to become the new hegimon... Needless to say the US, who essentially owns the EU, has laid waste to much of the near east, africa and latin america.. Ruin everywhere... This leaves the world open to china's rapid imperialist [gain of hegimony] expansion... All china essentially has to do is make a better offer than the US...
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It neither proves or disproves that russian millatary was behind those deaths. The UN said they don't need any investigation or proof.
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I was here to see if the EU was going to blame russia for the spike.
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Context? I thought you were giving the CIA line on everything.
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@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage Perahps Zelensky will have to ask for money from the russians?
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Sadly it is US and EU banks vs the rest of the world...
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@shashankinamdar7670 In twenty years the EU will look very different.... Much of Ukraine will be called russia and will be rebuilt... The part of Ukraine that russia left behind will have a lot of trouble catching up....
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@Nine-Signs Very good observations [good catch] My meantor in these issues is Michael Hudson. He wrote 'supper imperialism' in the early seventies which was about establishing a world currency. He got no interest outside of the CIA who used it as an instruction manual and successfully established the dollar as the world medium of exchange. Now-a-days he has interest from the chinese for the same reason... I have bunches of hunches by listening to Michael Hudson... One of them is that the chinese won't sink dollar investors because the want cheap resources from contries that don't use chinese currency yet. The international chinese currency area ain't much yet and if they stiff dollar investors there might be some retaliatory measures that will make dollars harder to come by for chinese companies.
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The war in the Ukraine is eight years old....
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@shashankinamdar7670 Biden has an analogy to the cuban missal crisis. I believe it WAS in the US's best interest to get the missals away from US borders.... There could have been a war over it. Is it in Russia's interest to get a nato army, with missals off of their border?
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The war has been going on for eight years since the coup in Ukraine... Mostly it is against russians in the east of Ukraine.... Imagine mexico shelling an english speaking area of mexico and outlawing english, the secound most popular language in mexico?
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@viperabyss Maybe if t the russia hits the dam the ukrainains will have to back off because ukraine, and the collective west, doesn't have the arterlery for a sustained fight at those ranges.
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@viperabyss Russia has many times the artillery and delivery systems that Ukraine and the collective west has... Not to mention the capabilities of these systems. They have a safety priority with their military personnel and a go slow approach.
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When you have an alterlery piece, small arms base, command post of the occupiers by the hospital then sometimes russian civillians get killed... Russians are reticent to kill other russians.
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New reports surfaced that the Azov stuck in the steel plant are offering to give up their civilian captives for food.
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@jonathanwilson2363 You got to figure that a defending army seeks shelter.... But do they deliberately target one kind of shelter over another? I figure you can make corilations given enough reliable data.... thinking out loud.
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 @navinkumar6388 Iran captured a UK ship? .... Try not to throw out factual staments that may not be true.
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Many of the sanctions are supporting the russian economy... The real target is the EU and they are suffering.
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@bluecardholder I made bunches of statments... You ask for proof of which statment?
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@ccchan10 Probably true. Why do they need foreign direct investment anyway when they hold more than a trillion and their export market is in dollars? Do they have a meter that makes more sense than western style GDP and if so why don't they publish it?
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@benghazi4216 I suppose you are talking about the basic rule of 'law' that bails out criminal cartels and throws the victims of those cartels out on the street.... It is reasonable to expect that that is the basic rule of 'law' because it was instituted by a former editor of the harvard constitutional law review. The money and the 'law' work differently in china.
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If they invested in the west over the past twenty years their investments would be backed up by the fed...
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@bluecardholder In other news biden's minstry of truth has been disbanded. Sorry, not sorry, that your favorite goverment board is gone... Perahps you are holding it together... I am a former democrat myself.
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@snaz27 My prediction: US marines in Moscow by March.
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Senseless afgnainsan war for the 'defense' industry.
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Siemens is a german company that services the turbines.... Siemens has signed off on the mechaical failures that are not reparable because there is no work around the sanctions against russia as they are now.
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I get the impression that there is a point of contention that has to do with money that is not being discussed.
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Exactly! But who do we have to replace him with?
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@cybourne5910 My impression is that it is leading away from the failed economic and millatary proxy war in Ukraine as well as the general econonic malaize in the west.... The next manufactured mainia...
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The conflict is between US hegimony and anyone who could rival that hegimony.... Now that the hegimony has been broken, the US is acting out self destructive...
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@oyekunbiadams8742 The US has been arming and training Ukraine nationals for years. The war from the west's prespective is, arms sales, issolating europe from russia and drawing russia into a forever war... Russia seems to have taken much of that to it's advantate and helped create a dual pollar world economically.
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@bg1616 I think Ukraine forfited its right to be a contry when they accepted a color revolution orchistrated by the CIA elevated traditional natzies to political power, dug in millatarily with the help of nato along the russain border and started masecering their own.
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@sergeyb8 A regon on the russian border that is primarily russian speaking that voted to cecede from urkraine and join russia.. There are/were laws on the books to outlaw russian language and there was shelling of civillians.... Bucha, north of Keiv, demostrates that urkraine is more than willing to mass murder it's own people...
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You mean Family Guy?
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In the US we have a new minstry of truth for that...
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In the west we call them Iraq, Afganistan... Lybia, Syria.....
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@drmorcoch9338 I think it is like the greed of particularly the green politicians in germany... All of europe is a bannana republic to the US....
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@rickybunch36 Ukraine had the secound largest and well equiped army in europe. Secound only to russia.
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@MrJdsenior That and they were dug in in around russian populations who they didn't allow to leave...
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@gluteusmaximus1657 A lot of alternative facts in the west...
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The idea that they are demostrating that they can blockaid computer chips seems like a more sobre explanation than the one's that are floated by many in the leftist circles that I listen to... I would hope that nothing bad happens here like it is happening in many parts of the world.
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I feel like there will be a minie industrialization in the US....
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@avibhagan It has already been going on for eight years... The west wants it to go on indefinately... How does it stop?
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Good catch.
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They will pay us back for the US made weopons in dollars that we sent to keep Germany free.
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Only by listening to russian disinformation can you tell that russia won both the economic war and the ground war.. Russian disinformation comes from many sources. Here in the states we have independent journalists who do their best to get the story right. We also have the ministry of truth who can't imagine anyone having an opinion that someone didn't pay for. The idea is that everyone's opinion is based on who gave them money to believe it.... If you have an opinion that varies from the main stream media narrative then someone paid you to believe that.
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Ukraine is willing to fight to the last ukrainain and kill everyone in the east.
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There is an eleged rand report [january 2022] that lays out the controlled demolition of the german economy pushed mostly by US controlled green party pols as the reason for the war in Ukraine...
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 @Gypsum179 weapons systems... They hire US citizens first.... I was a bike mechanic over the summer.... I favor databases and computer assisted design.
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@Gypsum179 Chicago is considered 'out east' if you are on the west coast of the states. I am also a mechnanical designer... I believe we will be paid handsomly..
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@rogersmith8480 I am confused about these crazy schemes myself.... Who are the owners of the cartels that control the US goverment?.... My meantor, Michael Hudson, suggests that it is the banks that loan against assets and not to bulid industry that is one of the interests that is bringing the west to it's knees... The iron maiden in the eighties said that there is No Alternative to owning stocks in everything and extractive polices of the west.... She and Reagan framed out neoliberalism so well; "There is no economic value in somthing that is not fully owned by someone." Then they assembled a very powerful machine to inforce that... A machine that is now craking... It is true that if you bill someone for something that was formerly free or cheep, it raises the GDP but it also causes poverty and instabillity...
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@rogersmith8480 I am quite curious.... It is clear that I have very little power and no one cares what I think.... Michael Hudson seems to know what the heck is going on, having written the documents that lead to dollar hegimony after Breton Woods.
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@armenrastgouian2988 The grid wasn't taken out and the dams stopped Ukrainan equipment and troops from reaching the front line.
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I suppose if it was the US that attacked Ukraine, Kiev would have been leveled by now like bagdad.
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@namur-iq6ih It is sad to see so much distruction.... 'Notable that the destruction in Syria, Afganistan, Lybia and Iraq dosn't get as much media coverage. [Or any]
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@JMAssainatorz I tend to think everything the west puts out is a lie... .... If you do a deep dive into any news story it is almost certainly a lie... I got real tired of it for five years when the media said 'putin installed trump' again and agan and again... Now in the US we have a new minstry of truth [literally a cabenet level department] that is throtleing journalism and the US has been trying to extradight Julian Assange for years to face prison for the rest of his life for revieling the truth..
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@JMAssainatorz In the future I feel as if I will not have access to other news sources.... I will be feeling that everything on the news is lies and I won't have any access to anything true.
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@danielgriffin8132 She is quite cute... .
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@bg1616 Ukraine had a choice to do whatever the USA and Nato wanted... By coup... Until russia stopped them... Imagine if China was digging in in Vancover BC Canida, killing US citizens? Yes they coud do that until the US stopped them.
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I get the impression that Z is fighting just to stay alive. He is not in contol of his own secruity services and continually fires them...
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So much for the western narrative.
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Good catch.
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But they are US resources and we intend to get those resources from both russia and china.... Otherwise our banking sytem can't even survive with massive bail outs.
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@firbolg Iraq, Afganistan, Syria all targets of NATO as well as economic stanctions aginst many contries in the itnerest of the US and against the EU... Nato is targeting the EU with economic sanctions in the interest of the US...
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No good options... Time to become nihilist-accelerationist.
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 @richardnixon7248 I think it is resignation. Trump is very similar to biden and hillary.. Trump was much better than obama because he was less effective....
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Russia hasn't invaded any contries in a very long time... Nato has many times, the US even more.... The idea behind the war is to separate europe from russia and china economically so that US cartells can take advantage of europe.
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@Kmdr_Robotnik Best comment EVER! Too funny... What is REALLY happening is Siemens, a german company that services the gas pumps has not found a way to work around the sanctions and get the pumps working again. . Let us hope that europe don't face crisis of such a magnitude and recovers from the santions, neoliberal order and new cold war soon.
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@DianeMerriam Nato has been all over the middle east and north africa defending US hegimony... They are the same guys that support econmic warfare against any target the US deems a target... Now EU is targeting it's self for sanctions for US interests like they did in '08.
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They used their technical term 'millatary technical response' meaning that they will be doing what they have to do to defeat armies and weapons systems at their door.... Russia is pretty much done with their 'special opperation' in Ukrane.... The war was mostly for sanctions against europe...
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@49525Bob See... I told you.
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My understanding is that the russian fleet was insuring the security of the grain shipments when it was hit by it's ukrainian counterparts in that effort.
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Yes.... President Biden held a press conference with Shultz that if russia invaded ukraine, nord stream two was toast... When asked by a reporter how he proposed to do such a thing, he said "Believe me we will get it done" He was directly threatening German's essential infrastructure in the presence of the german PM and the PM just sat their and took it... Then when there was protests in germany against shutting down the pipelines... The pipelines spontaneously exploded.... Blinkin then said it was a tremendous opportunity for the US.
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@grahambaker6664 You seem to understand some nuances about the protests in Germany as well as the problems associated with the Siemens pumps... Although the story out of russia was that the pumps needed servicing... R U german? I am firm in mine and perhaps your belief that the Hegemone was responsible for the destruction of the pipelines. They did threaten and celebrate the destruction of the pipelines... If so that is a war chime against major infrastructure... I can't see how this ends well.
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@grahambaker6664 Interesting... U got the word on the ground with the protests and Siemens techs.... 'Warping young minds at warp speed... About the bubbling in the baltic. There ain't no investigation or the findings are the state secrets of the danes, sveds and.... 'Cause the godfather said so... I feel like it is unlikely that our suspicions aren't true... I think the suspect is guilty or the researchers would publish their findings.
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@aredub1847 The original poster is suggesting that he has specialized knowledge about this.
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@sanjarsocool Not necessarily.
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And what is the density and stability of such mountains? We are to believe that chinese growth is built on asset price inflation as if there is no other way.
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@bluecardholder You pulled 'your a liar' out of thin air....
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@bluecardholder Be out with it... What are these riddles in which you speak? Say something... Anything.
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@glenndickson7627 Too funny...
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 @ccchan10 .... Do the chinese have a metric similar to GDP that measures production? What are those relative assessments? ..
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It seems as if the EU is paying more for sanctions than anyone can imagine.
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@alberthenriette8976 Imagine an army occupying a hostile area.... The first instict you might have is to use the available infrastructure for transit and housing.... My understanding is that Ukraine also had consintrations of civilians that they shelled or baited the russians into shelling... This stuff is so much fun to think about ...
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Yep.... Useless.
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@BlutoandCo Russians have very little assets there to do like an amphibious landing.... The only thing they have is boats that can off load equipment on a peer.. Ukraine had been killing it's own civilians for eight years on the border of russia. They stepped it up as a provocation for war... The main asks from russia for seven years was nutral ukraine and stop killing russians... That was signed by all parties in '15. Now they have a few more asks but it looks as if they don't trust any of their negotiating parties.. Russia has defeated the force that was killing russians and they took more ukraine... If it was the US Kiev would have been flattened.
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@FAL87 I don't have a spell check on this and my spelling was never all that.... When the watter pipes freeze in german domiciles, we will see what happens... I am in the US where things are better than the bannana republics of europe. As a US citizen, I certainly stand with my interests and the interests of my countrymen..... We are in for a rough ride as well.
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@kaltenburg2637 We also have video of a lot of russian tanks being blown up.... Most are videos of Nato tanks.... We also have video of bodies in Bucha, north of Kiev... The bodies were killed by Ukraine. Speculation is that they were suspected of colabarating with the russians. Good luck with the MSM narrative... I wounder why anyone believe it anymore.
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I am not sure it matters what happened anymore.... They are doing the typical 'can you prove russia didn't do it?' Technicque... When they start making possible allogations and ask people to prove them wrong, it seems like the facts don't matter anymore. They have done this with the most outlandish allogations imaginable.... The technique is this: they make a claim that is outlandish, they back up that claim with a bombarment of factual statments, some of wich are clearly true and others that are clearly fabricated, if some of those claims are adjacent to the allogation, they keep on saying that they are proof that the allogation is true because it is adjacent to the allogation.
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Russia had problems getting paid for the gas as well as Siemens getting equipment that they shipped to the west. Definately a war crime against europe.
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@bubbasmith179 There is no difinitive proof that the US did this... It is odviously a huge war crime against europe.
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@howardnguyen8257 You are probably right.... The guys that bombed the nucliear power plant in Ukraine may have been rouge actors or had the blessings of someone in Nato... How many thousands will die because of the pipe line being bombed?
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@katealeksen4168 It is NOT TRUE that russia can't finance their war machine because of the sanctions... Their commodities [read COMMODITIES] are selling for more than they did earlier and the russian currency is the BEST PREFORMING this year... I wish the west would come with a plan that makes things work... How is it that they don't have no one [HERE] that can ballance a candy store ledger?
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@aslampervez2294 Sad is what it is.
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@netzoned The point I was making in an earlier comment is that the video IS a deep dive into facts that don't address how those bodies got there and how they died.... Or it doesn't address the central issue.
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@netzoned I tend to think it follows the similar pattern as the other reportings in the western media... False flag, justifcation for war for dollar dominance, natural resources... I listened to scott ritter's assesment of the bodies here as well...
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The past couple of years have been a big eduction in double speak for me.... As ubiquitous as the west's narrative is, the US doesn't seem to have great narrative control.... My impression is that the people of the US mostly don't believe them any more. We had years of going to war for humanitarian purposes, other international actions based on questionable evidence.... 'Trump was instaled by putin'... Now we have a department in the goverment that is commonly reffered to as 'the ministry of truth'...
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As an american and a mechanical designer, I stand to benifit from this war because of the hardware that is being thrown into the grinder. I don't wan't to see western civilization die at it's own hands like this. The west has declaired war on russia and it's people. When russia brings out the biggest guns in it's arsinal it is considered unfair.
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@krollpeter It would be better if we acually stood together and stop stealing...
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The history is that Yelsen was strongly incouraged by the US. After that the life expectancy in russia declined by three to five years because of privatizing mostly by US interests. After that putin was thought to be an ally of the US's liberal economic policies. When he wanted to make russia strong russia and putin became a target... Ukraine was one of the tools that they used to target russia.
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@netzoned There is a deep dive into facts..... Like there is a fly on a dead human body... or they were wearling a certain brand of paints. Not that that addresses anything pertentent... The main narrative around the bodies is that they were extra judcial pont blank range killing by russians. There is no independent varification of that claim... From the video evidence there are people who claim that the bodies were less than two days old and that there was no on line evidence of bodies before that... That was after the retreat of the russians. You can be sure that the russians won't retreat again unless there is a treaty to do so.
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Biden made an analogy of the cuban missal crisis when russia was arming a state at at the US border.... That threat was removed... When the US arms a state that borders russia, that threat is being dealt with as well.
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@uilnosaj That is why it is so sad to see so many of them die.
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@Herman Lutzer Would you please pay us back in the US for the US weapons and aid to Ukraine we are sending after the conflict is over? in US dollars of course.
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Forgot the ground game.
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The EU is a bannana republic of the US. They are willing to do more than what the US wants to destroy their economies and societies.
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Sadly this war has been going on for eight years... Yes we certianly need the foodstuffs from the Ukraine and from russia or a lot of people will die.
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Russians are reporting that the lefovers with no food, water or weopons are under orders to shoot anyone who surrenders... Very charming.
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The ground game was lost a long time ago... Ukraine is running out of men... The west is saying that they need to stop because they have no idea what an embarrassed Putin will do if he loses.
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The war started eight years ago...
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Perhaps more russians lost their lives than Ukrainian nationalists. Lets hope this nonsense ends soon.
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@sew_gal7340 Europe is the new US's africa and/or latin banna republics in the americas. One image in my crystal ball has the US over extended trying to keep control of the energy crisis chaos in europe and not have the resources to try and control africa, so africa can utilize their resources....
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Germany is determined to make the world safe for banking and other interests that are supported by US policy.... To the distadvantage of germans.
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@epaminon6196 If europe stays the course and swears off cheap energy, keeps it's energy monopolies then water pipes will burst in the north.... Big towns will be in huge trouble with hunger, cold and lack of mobillty... ...What do you think would happen under these probable sercomstances? Historians tend to think that uprisings happen when people are under that kind of critical biological stress....
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Only thing they can do is to pray for a mild winter.... . Right now they are struggeling with the energy crisis theory.... When everything shuts down in the middle of winter and the pipes start busting they might have to reconsider their postions or there will be nasty coups.
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@bobhabib7662 I tend to think china will follow through with their industrial capitolist agenda. That means that they need to keep down the cost of, among other things, housing.
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Russia is going to find out how much it costs to rebuild most of Ukraine.
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@thevan4476 I is not clear that china will take the west's approach.. If china wants to remain competitive in the world labor markets they need to keep the vulture capitol at bay and keep the rents low. If the chinese take a nationalized restructuring approach they that will raise huge alarm bells in the west.
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@fernandocruz4877 My undersanding is the intersts that own the US goverment want to sell weapons, gass and oil, pharmasuticals, IT and want to continue to 'liberalize' economies so that the banks can own infrastrucure and assets. . Other sources: china and russia supply some of these things at lower cost...
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What does occupieing donesk serve? They have been occupying it for eight years, digging in, killing and torturing people and digging in.. Time to give up and save ukrainan lives.
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@evamasters5028 I am a proud russian bot who changed my FB profile picure to a literal russian bot two years ago when everyone insisted that putin installed trump... Again, after fighting russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine for months the US media has to give way to the fact that russia is winning all of their millatary objectives and that the forever war that the US wanted will come to an end by next year.. As well as being a russian bot, I am a mechanical designer in the US. I stand to profit from the increase in spending on millatary hardware in the US because of all the weapons we sent to get ground up... Sorry about all the Ukrainians....
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@Coldpines28 Checians are russian... It is like New Mexicans are americans.
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@sebastianperez759 The US is employing ISIS in syria.... So much for the war on terror.
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@evamasters5028 What is a russian bot? In the US it was someone who didn't beleive that trump was insalled by putin.
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@andreasschmidt5857 I am not sure how mercinaries fit into intergrated millatary systems and command structure... I am sure russian commanders have their hands full trying to orginize local combatents... Patrick Lancaster visited a LPR or DPR encampment-command post the other day... They impressed me as a group that could occupy an area and not so much for an offensive or mop up opeations... Needless to say it, there is little information getting out on russian command structures and offensive opperations. The only one I listen to about that stuff is Scott Ritter... I am not an expert.
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My impression is that most of the war crimes infliced on Ukraine are by the Ukraine millatary aganst russians and russian 'colaborators' As an example, one of many, there is some evidence that masecres in Bucha were an opperation carried out by what the Ukraine millatary called a 'clensing opperaiton' or 'safari' by a batallion known as 'safari' to rid the area of 'russian colaborators'
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Again... Just as the mines that are discuraging ships from leaving Odesa were laid by the Ukrainians, so too the bridge from Sievierdonetsk was destroyed by Ukraine... Both actions by the Ukraine goverment were blamed on russia. DW news is like reading Riplies beleve it or not by the way they are telling fantastic lies.
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There is no problem in the west about sending weapons... The point is to send weapons and have another profitable forever war. Unmitagated victory.
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@paulblichmann2791 Looks like the new cold war is the 'world community' against China-Russia-Iran-India... Orwell was a genious.
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@headoverheels88 I think they are dupes... The US cut off the EU's oil and gas, stopped them from doing buisiness with russia and china.... Iran, Venezula, Cuba.... When you steal peopel's dollars they won't what to do buisiness in your banks and with your currency.... That is a direct action against dollar hegimony done directly by the US. The only bright side is that they will be employing mechanical desigenrs for defence contractors..... I gonna get me one of them postions.... Manufacturing has been shrinking in the US and western europe.... At $50/hr and it is not as if you have to be part of the disinformation industry making war.
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@elbibwen3019 I suggest Garland Nixon... He has a more commedic way of explaining... He also has Ritter on at least once a week.
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@vettemuziekjes Terrorism is a term coined by 'the world community' .... Falls under 'rules based order'.... This is a minority of the world defined by US hegomony.... What I think you mean is that these explosions whiped out much of the evidence.... It was a war crime as described by international agreement, an attack on civillian infrastructure.... It is also an attack against nato and nato is supposed to respond to that with a unified front against the attacker... We all in agreement as to who we think the actor is that destroyed the pipelines... It is important that we get some proof.
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Olaf Sigurson Acording to former marine officer and WMD inspector and wistle blower, scott ritter, sanctions agaisnt russian grain and fertilizer WILL, not might, cause millions of starvation deaths next year. Ritter has been keeping up with the ukrane issue for personal interest..
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@machismo4256 So far we don't have any proof... Deliberately destroying civillian infrastructure is a war crime and this is a very serious attack agaisnt many nato members... Although the head of a nato state threatened to do such a thing and it happened is not proof.
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These lies are more about US domestic issues and supporting millatary contractors than it is about russain behavior or creating a hot war. The real reason for the US reporting on this is to distract from the democrat's inevatlbe loss in '22 and '24 because the democrats won't fullfill any of their campaign promises.. Their campaign promises are where they could save the western world and they are maknig all kinds of excuses not to.
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It has been going on for eight years.... Lets hope it stops.
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This guy has to be a comedian: Relentless russian propoganda: " Russia is accusing nato of conducting a proxy war with russia"... If you are to believe US forign policy people who have a descripion of their goals in this coflict "To degrade Russia's milaltary and economic capabillities in the world" ... ... What is the definiiton of 'proxy war'? ... Is it arguable that the US controls nato? ... Does 'propoganda' mean it is NOT true? ... Is this a literal lie or is it 'literal lie "ajacent"'? I have been studying us media linguistics... This guy seems to be a mester from our 'ministry of truth' ... And in the US we have a new official minstry of truth.
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European politicians gladly sanclin themseleves to keep the US happy... Anything like an economy in europe will cease to exist next winter because they want to service US and european vendors...
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@sjishah Democracy is doing whatever the US wants even if you are unimployed, broke, cold and homeless...
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@chrisbrown4002 The stated goals of the west via the Ukraine war is to weaken russia economically and milatarily. Killing some russians in Ukraine with the weapons we are sending will not fullfill those goals.
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@lancerevo9747 Russia avoided the attack on infrastructure for a long time... In the first iteration, their strategy was to present an army to Ukraine and hope they surrender, the second have several control centers that were relatively well supplied.. Now that they know there is no hope of sewing for peace, they are setting up a unified command structure and doing stuff that is nasty to ukraine in order to liberate their targeted areas. I don't know when the west will have to give up it's PR strategy... The west is really looking elsewhere hoping that the war will inspire sanctions that are going to be killing the EU...
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@OleksandrBarraniv321 The US and russia seem to be willing to figth to the last Ukrainian man... Is it possible that Ukrainians will be tired of getting killed and stop?
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@jesusaguilar4585 I feel like it was a massive intelegence failure on the part of Russia. The kids were taken as POWS to Ukraine, they wern't supposed to be on any part of a hot zone, my undestanding is that some of them died. Many who were captured have nasty injuries and are not happy at all.
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Mostly US millatary pirates oil that the US deems illeagal. They only stop and make amends when there are millatary assets that threaten the offending contries oil tankers.... The prime example is Greese. The empire is crumbling...
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@attsealevel I suppose it is better to add to the US's war chest.... As an american and a mechanical designer, I am sure to benifit from that.
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Biden thinks it is similar to the cuban missle crisis when russia put missiles on the US border.... When the US puts missiles on the Russian border there is a way to remove those as well... The destruction of the pipelines and the attempted destruction of the bridge leave the infrastructure that takes more mentions to the russian border vulnerable. It is not an operation similar to the one in Iraq, that was termed 'Shock and Awe' where the US tore the place apart.... These are russian brothers and sisters.... But infrastructure that is used as logistics for destruction of other russian teratory is vulnerable to attack....
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@jesusaguilar4585 Yes... The draftees in Kirsk weren't alowed to be in direct combat or a combat zone... It was a huge failure of Russian intelegence that they were caught in the middle. It is notable that a bunch of mechanics and cook enlisted held back the onslaught in Kirsk for a short time.
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@Jahvec They have a tendency to be soverign.... Sanctions have been strengheing food, money and other economic soverenty.... When Russia was our [I am US citizen] 'friend' these were things that were in serious doubt. Homelesness as well as a decreasing life span were huge problems... If you are German you are probably about to experience the soverenty that you turned over to US as German manufacturing is relocated in the US. With respect to Russia Putin became a huge boogy man in the US because he stopped the kinds of things that Germany will most likely be subjected to.
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@DSan-kl2yc .... In an alternative universe.... There I fixed it for you. It is difficult to agree on a narrative when looking at different sets of facts...
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Siemens, the german company that services the pumps, signed off on the maintence issues that the pumps were expiriencing causing an emergency shutdown of the single pump in operation.... Siemens has been working on a work around from the sanctions but has failed to get the nessessary equipment to service the pumps.
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@sebastianwrites That it was a putin installed goverment isn't an impression that I got... If it was a putin installed goverment, it was a soft coup and not the unconstitutional coup that the west employed.... My information comes from the documentary in '18 "Ukraine Burning" which I believe is now censored in many places but I belive it is still available where I sit. Yes loads of people are dying in Ukraine and most are Ukrainian GIs killed by orcs. Those Orcs will have to collect, identify and transport all those dead conscripts.... So the orcs didn't raally win the war... One of the off-ramp speculations are that there will be marketing that putin is so unstable that it would be dangerous to embarrass him. It's all bad...
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@Ukie88 Siemens it's self is signing off on their inabillty to do work arounds for the sanctions so that they can maintain the equipment. They had redundancy before the sanctions took hold.... Now they have a single piece that has some issues where they can't put it back on line... It is notable that the main target of these sanctions is not russia or china but to keep western monopolies financialy stable by subjigating europe in the new cold war.
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@Ukie88 OK.... I am not sure who is doing the project mangelment of this... But Siemens signed off that the single pump was not working....
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@Crmson117 I don't think Siemens is lying... They have the commision to service the turbines.... They just want to get paid.
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@catalinxnecula My feeling is that the EU is not in charge here.... It is we americans who are calling the shots... Stay warm.
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@eddiebravo5593 We have a huge advantage when the world runs on dollars and we can print dollars... How ever far away, industrial powerhouses are even more of a threat today to feudalistic economies as they were two hundred years ago when Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations.
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@AstroGremlinAmerican Is it true that the report by Seymour Hersh that Biden, along with a team of four including Victoria Nuland, blew up the Nord Stream piplines has not been covered in the German press?
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Is it true that the report by Seymour Hersh that Biden, along with a team of four including Victoria Nuland, blew up the Nord Stream piplines has not been covered in the German press?
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He is a hack... .Russia withdraw from Kiev, Ukraine nationalists kill suspected russian colaborators there and blame Russia.... It is possilbe that the russians are giving proposals during a supplying opperation in preporation for an offincive in the russian eastern part of Ukraine.
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@The.Curious I dispute that Zeleinski is in charge of the millatary and his country. My impression is that the ultra nationalists and the US are asserting control... Just as the US has control over the EU and nato. It is arguable that the crushing economic sanctions to isolate the europeans will cause political instabillty there by winter
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@eddiebravo5593 What I seem to think is if the shanghai coop agreement group, which includes russia, china, iran, india... can join with other economic engines, some of which have had their assets in dollars and oil stollen by the US... Can they become a hedge against US hegimony? Sure china can mostly function all by it's self but it also has a world wide belt and road initiatives where they are making ports and rail lines all around the world.... This is what the real threat to the US is... The US's modle is economic liberalism, meaning they want to be able to own everything and charge what they want... People keeping their capital in house, not charging exhorpentent rents on it is a real threat to that model.
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@alexflayz3600 ... After Ukraine wins the war and kills every russian on the planet that is....
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@ricardosoto5512 On the flip side... Those who accept weird popular conspiracies are maybe too satiated in things that really matter in their own lives to pay attention to the world around them. From responding to this kind of scollarly weirdo, I am sure that you will forget this disussion and not revisit this in two months time...
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You need to set economic policy that serves yourselves, not US impiral interests.
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@briancollum1060 Indeed there is no jusification for targeting hospitals, schools, residential blocks uless you have an occupation that is dug in to those residential areas... The russians did some shelling of the positions of the nationalist partisans and brought in the Chechins to do the mop up in Maripol... Reports are that the nationalists were keeping civillians in those areas and not letting them leave... Vidoes of the nationalists killing 'colaborators' and russian POWs as well.
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@leachimy24 POWs who are russian often get killed... Those who are partisans [Ukraine nationalsts] get through a russian POW intake process... Civillians often get targeted dirrectly by Ukraine light arms and shelling.... Lie dead in the streets...
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@owenb8636 I don't know what will happen but it is clear that russian can take the donbas.... There is no indictation that that alone will be enough to end the war... My assumption is that russia won't budge on demillatarizing, ukraine and having hostillties that have happened in the donbas for eight years stop.... The US won't budge on controling the narrative in the west and sending more weapons they want a stable war. So what are the failure modes for the US's goal of having a stable war? These are speculative: Ukraine people get tired of sending people to die or going to die and have a grass roots effort to stop, Ukraine generals do a coup and stop the war [this was attempted during world war two in Germany] and political instabiallity in the west because the sanctions are causeing economic hardships. It could turn itno a ten to tweny year war like Iraq, Afganistan, Syria.... Which goes to show you that US policy is not racist. They will kill who ever they have to to make their political/economic objectives. I am from chicago..
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The only goal of the US is to have a stable war... They have had false flags before for chemical weopons in Syria, WMD in Iraq as well as some questionable claims in the case of a province outside of Kiev... Germans are nothing but sock puppits to the US... My understanding is that they have no expectaion of freedom of speech that we have here... And freedom of speech is beaing challenged here as well.
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Russian bot or not, the west seems to be losing the economic and millatary war... The driving force behind the offensive is to isolate europe from russia so that western interests can buy european assets at a fire sale as well as weaken russia... Weakening europe worked but it is possible that europe will become nationalistic and kick out the americans.... Weakeing russia failed. Russia decided that it will not accept payments to made in accounts in western banks and insisted that they be payed in rubles.... The ruble gained 50% since last year against the dollar. Soon all the flap will turn to china.... It is not clear that people will forget urkraine-russia like they did lybia, syria, iraq, iran, venezuela, afganistan... What will we be called when we notice that china wins that conflict? Chinese Bots?
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@baronvonlimbourgh1716 The joke is on the whole world for obama... But they don't seem to get it yet.
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Please send us money for the US made weopons... Send it in dollars...
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@juliuszkocinski7478 I can throw out a speculation... Ukaine had about 200 civillians trapped at the steel plant as well as many GIs marked with swasticas... The GIs wern't really doing anythning effective other than saying that Mariopol was constested and in theory if the russians blew up the plat they would give it as an example of where the russians killed civillians. It was a strategy during world war two that germans wouldn't retreat and would be anialated holding ground... My thory is that they blew up the bridge so that they could hold GIs in the area on the other side of the river. Some claim the russians have between 10 and 20 times more alterlery than the Ukrainians.
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