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I like how people are still debating this under the context of "it's not intercepted".
Hamas rockets are homemade, it doesn't have enough power to blow up like that. Any video of hamas rocket strikes has about enough power as 3 grenade stuck together. It blew up a balcony, not the whole building. This explosion is an explosion of a weapons of war.
There's also the claims that it doesn't hit the hospital, but the parking lot of the hospital. But the thing is that this hospital is having an over capacity, the parking lot is filled by patients who can't be housed.
The idf literally running around like a headless chicken with one theory to the next, starting from old videos, to aljazeera broadcast, to "we don't hit the hospital itself, just the parking lot". Now they are also claiming that the explosion power is because of a bomb attack, not rockets, to explain away why the "failed hamas rocket" has so much power.
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@Diggnuts "they are just about as united right now as possible" you don't live in ukr. You don't know what it's like. I've been in odesa, donetsk City, and bakhmut back in 2018 and several years before that. I can say the majority of eastern and southern ukr is vehemently pro rus. Even in the city like mariupol, after being captured, have more than 50% pro rus citizens in it. If you need some film evidence, check out bald and bankrupt video where he visited bakhmut before 2022, where his driver he talked to complained about the name of the city being changed from artemovsk (old soviet name) to bakhmut. To this day there are lots of people being dissatisfied with the de-russification that's taking place there where the citizens are historically tied to its slavic origin from the days of kievan rus, both ancestrally and culturally. Ukr and rus church are both orthodoxy, originating from the byzantine days.
There are exceptions of course, like kiev, lvov, and the area closer to poland, which are pro-EU majority. But remember that during elensky campaign, he campaigned upon the idea of solving the civil war, equal rights to russian minority, taking power from the oligarch that runs the country, and tackling corruption. The idea of solving the conflict and giving back right to the people resonate with many, which is why he won the election despite not having a political background. He didn't even speak ukranian after being elected, he's a russian speaker. Now he's jumped into the ban-derites bandwagon and turned his back on his people, and broke all of his promises.
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There was an official back in the 80s or 90s who said the US should, at all cost, prevent the alliance between russia and china. Now, nato has rejected the soviet proposal to join nato in the past, but russia, for many years since the statement, has actively sought to be part of europe and its economy. Instead of accepting russia and letting it be part of western sphere, the west repeatedly antagonizes russia and its people, all the while accepting its resources at a discount. After all, hegemony is not about friendship or alliance, it's about submission.
This is the result. And now the same idiotic and recist policy makers who caused it are now upset at the outcome.
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@emberspirit6375 numuves had a video about it, i forgot the title, but something like "is america really a democracy"
Mark rutte just seized the lands of dutch farmers because of the green agenda. Protest in germany as well as france, but it fell on deaf ear. UK Johnson had resigned, but his replacement shares the same ideology. In fact everyone in the parliament is in support of ukr, whatever the cost.
The solution to all this would have been so simple, and even better before the war began. If nato just give guarantee not to expand further. Today it can still be stopped through diplomacy, but at this point russia would want land concession, which is bad for ukr. But the west cant do that because it will be perceived as defeat. Especially after investing so heavily in ukr's victory with it's "advanced" weaponry (i put quotation because the way the media sells it, their weapon is space tech while russia is using medieval trebuchet. Admitting defeat would cost the arms manufacturer a lot because if their weapons dont win the war in ukr, the reputation of their weapons would be tarnished. and they had much power over US politicians, which is why no one is pushing for peaceful, diplomatic solutions).
The lawmaker, the politicians, the billionaires, and the 1%, they can weather through this coz they're rich, so they can play the long game with russia. The common people however, can't. Even today you can observe the standards of living in europe is dropping hard. EUR has reach parity with USD, even though both is facing recession. The US can bear through this, because if they forego the green agenda, they can become energy independent. The EU relies completely on imports for their energy. but for some reason the EU is following them to the gates of hell if need be, for reasons beyond me.
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@TK-zb6jx maybe you should study the history of this war first before asking that question, otherwise you wouldn't have asked.
A democratically elected government was overthrown by a western backed coup in 2014. In it's place, a pro western, anti russian leader was installed (there's a leaked call from nuland deciding who should lead). Many in the eastern and southern ukr didn't approve of the coup, to which they held a referendum. Crimea asked to join russia, while donbas is asking for autonomy. In response, poroshenko government sent in the military to suppress the "dissenters", which led to civil war. Minsk agreement was signed, and giving donbas an autonomy was part of the deal. A deal that ukraine continuously violated. Then de-russification took place, where russian as a language was removed from the country with a huge russian speaking population. Curriculum about russia, soviet history, culture, and anything russia was incriminated. Right wing brainwashing summer camp for youth was erected, while the west kept training more and more racist, white supremacists and russian hating paramilitaries like the aidar, azov, the right sector, kraken battalion, etc. Then poroshenko talked about hosting a nuclear weapon and joining nato. That's a huge security threat. Remember cuban missile crisis and how much it is a threat to the US. In light of the suppression and oppression of the russian speaking/identifying citizen, as well as a nuclear threat that poroshenko proposed, russia moved in. Have you even heard of the peace deal during early days of war that goes smoothly, then BoJo came along and suddenly the peace agreement fell apart? Ukraine pravda reported it.
Lots of people are saying that if they identify themselves as russian they should move to russia. That's equivalent to saying african american should move back to africa if they identify themselves as an african. Besides, if people tell you to move away from your home because you didn't like the government, would you do it?
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@kalebg.7507 it's a book about a random girl who suddenly got superpowers because she "merged" with some cosmic being. the book follows the story of how the US government, and later followed by north korean government, tried to kill her for no reason. the book then proceed to explain how her power works in an incomprehesible and rather ridiculous ways. the book also goes on how she solves earth problems by creating even more problems (in most cases, she literally broke the earth). the book is riddled with scientific details but the science is all wrong, and the writer is very specific about the numbers even though it does not contribute to the plot whatsoever. in fact, the book is filled with filler details and characters that would not be mentioned again after a few pages. also, in the book, everyone in the world praised how kind, loving, and caring Theresa is, even tho she's a tyrannical, racist, self-righteous maniac that abuse her powers plenty of times for her own benefit.
you wont find a better way to lose your sanity than by reading this borefest.
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@Mark-xv5lb 3 day victory what? Ukr demands russia to pull back if it wants to negotiate, and russia did, to which ukr claims "victory"
"Losing Kharkov" is a stretch, russia never controlled anything more than a strip of land not far from belgorod, and it's sparsely defended too, easy target.
Kherson is a pullback, not a victory. Even the guardian, a british media, said as much.
War is not all about territory. If the defender is all dead, then russia could march all the way to the Polish border unopposed. And let me remind you, this has been over a year and yet all the western support still cant push russia out of the 20% of the 600 sqm country.
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@riverrushforth i think you don't really know that these billionaires aren't that interested in improving economies. With wealth comes power, and i can assure you they don't want competition. There is a full documentary on how these people have in their best interest to keep you poor. I don't want to get into it because this comment would be too long. Not to mention that most of their business relies on keeping you reliant on their products through convincing you that you need them even when you don't (luxury items are great examples), as well as the fact that they are keeping surveillance on you (google, microsoft, game provider, telecom provider, etc) saying they keeping it only for advertisement purposes even though they know more about you than your own mother. They are not interested in the environment, only profits. But there is money to be made, as well as image improvement from showing that they care about environmental issues. I don't deny that pollution and climate change is a problem, but these people are taking full advantage of it, fooling you that they care, while being the biggest producers of carbon footprint themselves.
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@aosiel the value of the dollar does not fluctuate as much due to its status for reserves currency. Since it broke away from the gold standard, the value for it is pretty much what people agreed to, and also affected to some degree by market demands. But most importantly the fact that the US issues bonds, sell it, and print money to pay up that debt, means that it's a literal ponzi because they can keep printing cash to pay up for the debt that has allowed the US a lot of free room for excessive spending, inflating the economy beyond it's supposed size. Other countries cannot do this because
A. Their money is tied to gold
B. It doesn't have global reserves status that allows them to break free from the gold standard to have a (relatively) fixed value based on trust like the USD.
The USD is the whole backbone for its economy, once its trust crumbles, its true economy will show itself to be smaller than the BRICS. And ever since the over-weaponization of the sanctions, countries are now ditching it en-masse. BRICS money is about to come out, and the saudi which has been the backbone for the USD supremacy in energy trade, is now pivoting away to the east, and has agreed to trade its energy outside the USD. This is major, but its effects wouldn't be apparent for a few months or years from now.
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@RainerMichelle and where have you heard this? Do you live in russia? I got friend in Volgograd, Chelyabinsk, Novgorod, and quite a few in moscow and you know what their worst opinion of the government? Unhappy. Not angry, no resentment, and certainly no desire for revolt. take a walk in moscow, ask people's opinion. Did you know youtube channel 1420? They're basically people following western ideology, they often interviewed random russian on the street asking for their opinions of the war in ukr. Go watch it, you'll learn something. Unless russian economy is on sri lankan level, nothing will happen. I can guarantee it.
I dont know what you mean drafted. Are you talking about ukrane? Because none of my friend in russia whose in military age and had attended obligatory service is being drafted. In fact, russian standing army is at 1 million strong, not counting reserves, and the one deployed to donbas is around 200k - 250k. So what's the point of drafting when they can just pulled more from that 1 million spare troops? In fact, through rotation, they can rotate each 250k to serves 3 months before being replaced and wont have to go back for a year. I think you need to stop consuming too much western propaganda.
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@NiKKrope there are tons of them. Before he became president he's a comedian. His company, kvartal95, is bankrolled by an oligarch that support right wing extremist. His campaign, he basically made a movie about him becoming a great president. Again, bankrolled by shady folks. When he was elected, he promised to end poverty and oligarch control over the country, despite being backed by one. promised to end civil war and settle the issue with russian counterparts, while in reality he did nothing and constantly pushed for western alliances to become ever richer, and oh boy he's rich. He has tons of money saved overseas, i think there is also issue where he didn't disclose his wealth but people know how rich he is. There are reasons why corruption is very high in ukraine, even before the war. If you need to know more, you should find news between 2014 - 2020. Even western media like france24, bbc newsnight, and many more doesn't have much good to say about him. But now suddenly they all backed out on it and call him a hero
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@mudshovel289 do you even live in SEA? I lived here for a long time and I understand that everyone had issue with everybody, not just CN. Indonesia has scuttled Chinese, Thai, Philippines, and Malay, Vietnam fishing vessels for "illegal fishing"
Likewise so has Malay, Vietnam, and others too, capturing, sinking, or scuttling each other's ships.
Our problem is not just with CN, it's with everybody. And as the comment above said, it's a geopolitical miracle because we never let those issue (which can usually be a casus beli) we just let it slide and focus on what really matters, such as economic development and mutual cooperation where it works. And CN has been the economic patron of SEA. So don't try to sell us that BS.
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Each of those had drawbacks. Solar is unreliable in winter and at night (and there's a need for storage such as battery). Wind only available when there's a fair wind (not too weak or too strong) and if it's close to the sea, the maintenance fee also go up due to corrosion.
Non renewable is highly reliable, and the only way it could cause an issue is the lack of supply.
"Place panel in sahara and transport the electricity to europe" is something some people had said, but no that is not feasible at all, extremely expensive, prone to disruption, then there's the issue of the electricity weakening. Not sure how to explain in english, but electricity goes weaker the farther away it needed to be transported. By the time it reach europe, it will only be a trickle of what was sent.
If renewables are as reliable, feasible, and affordable, the whole world had already switched to it.
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@cooldudecs russia is a country of 145 million. the mobilization numbered 300k + 70k volunteers. that's less than 1% of russian population. scholars, teachers, university student, and those who worked in essential industry does not get mobilized. you need to diversify your information sources, otherwise you will be misled like this.
and no, russia did not lose 400k on ukr, even the unverified, and never explained number from uk ministry (which sourced from ukr ministry of defense, well known for it's inaccurate intelligence data) amounted to less than 200k (source that actually verified the number of death put it at 20k, to which all has name, location of death and which regiment they served) and the total of the people fleeing mobilization numbered around 200k which mostly went to georgia, while smaller number went to turkiye and even smaller to southeast asia and neighboring Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
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lost all it's allies? russian allies are only syria, belarus and kazakhstan. it has an agreement with china but not an alliance. same goes for india. southern america does not condemn the operation, in fact they are openly siding with russia, neither does asia and southeast asia, except singapore, taiwan, and japan. but those are western leaning countries and have never been russian allies. indonesia did condemned the attack, but only because they are the leader of G20's. and they never openly called it an "invasion". literally no one else except those western leaning countries are directly against russia. meanwhile the rest of the world kept buying russian wheat, mineral, and energy, while europe did try to ditch the reliance and suffered inflation from it. all the while being their biggest trade partner. so no, russia is doing very, very well. so well in fact that the ruble has been top performing currencies in the world since the beginning of the operation.
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@yippeeki-yay490 any proof to that? Last i check, india, china, turkey, hungary, and south america is ramping up their energy purchases. And the reason for the increasing ruble value is due to increase in export but huge decrease in imports. You're saying it's getting traded less? Both india, china, africa, and recently, turkey has had a deal to do purchase using national currency only. If anything, it's the usd and euro getting traded less, and it's value reflected by that.
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@DannyB-cs9vx somebody will. If ukr attack belarus, whatever their targets may be, it will be considered an attack of uninvolved nations, justifying a retaliation or direct intervention, just as is the case if rus decided to attack poland because "it has ukranian tank there that's being repaired".
If foreign troops deployed to ukr, it will be considered an escalation. But if ukr is the one who started attacking belarus, belarus can move in onto ukr proper with it's army without it being considered an escalation due to the fact that ukr attacked first. Same thing happened in Georgia back in 2008, when pro Georgian troops fired at rus peacekeeping forces in a disputed territory and rus moved in to the capital to force them to sue for peace. You may get a different narrative from the media about that conflict, but it doesn't change the fact that according to UN ruling, it's the Georgian that attacked first, basically provided a legal basis for rus to intervene directly without repercussions. Same thing will happen if ukr decided to attack belarus territory.
Belarusian army may not be as strong, but opening a new front will provide a measure of headache for the ukr army, especially with their own offensive facing a stalemate and them continue to lose territory in kharkov region. Have I mentioned that rus also had over 100k troops stationed in belarus right now? The ukr military knows this, they won't do what you suggested for the reason I mentioned above. If they made their decisions based their current emotions like how you feel right now, they would have lost long ago. This is why critical thinking and tactical consideration took precedence over everything else. And they know this.
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@pudboy123456 kharkov city, which is in the kharkov oblast, has never been a russian objectives. The russian didn't hold the city, only the outskirts of kharkov city, as a distraction and to extend the ukrainian line of defense. It's manned by around 2k soldiers, covering an area more than 80km. Ukraine had to bring around 15k troops just to take over the place, suffers around 2k losses against 2k russian mix of DPR troops and rosgvardia organization, which suffers very light casualties (this info comes from AFU troops interviewed by the Washington Post) the russian basically put up minimal fight and pulled out. Donbas has always been its objectives, which is why ukr never won anything there.
Saying russia retreated because it pulled back from a region it didn't want to defend is kinda dumb. There's an old saying "he who defends everything, defends nothing". There's still a whole of donbas which ukrane never manages to take back. And then there's the disaster of an offense in kherson.
I do admit that the pullback is a major political disaster, but militarily it's a great call. Remember that russia only supplied around 200k troops to ukr, there's no point trying to defend every inch of area with a limited amount of troops. Yet the ukrainian still suffers heavy casualties in every fight.
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@nonseans funny you said that. Russia just built an LNG plant near the source of nord stream 1, meaning they can still sell the gas, just not to germany.
You said russian economy didn't do well, but you provided no proof for it. A lack of unrest alone is enough proof for russian economy doing very well, unlike the west. Look at britain and it's major strikes and living cost spike. It's unaffordable to live in the west.
Lost kiev battle. Lol. Failed to capture a city, yet the whole luhansk oblast, almost all of donetsk oblast, kherson, nikopol, Zaporozhye, and so on. If memory holding makes you feel better, keep doing it. Won't change the fact that russia controlled 25% of ukraine tho. That's 1/4th of a 700km square country. What an embarrassment.
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@ErikB605 if russia wants to make top profit then yeah. But between supplying a hostile country or selling it elsewhere, the choice is obvious. And like i said, it's sustainable due to the high market price and high demand. China, india, and UAE keeps buying more and more russian energy to refine and resell at an inflated price. Recent reuters article had outline that the EU is buying more indian oil and chinese LNG. Where did you think it came from? And russia is selling crude oil to india for a 30% discount. That's not a "fraction". At the end of the day, the point stands, russia can play the long game, even at a loss of profits, the export income is still more than enough to support the russian economy. And time is not a luxury the EU has, either they will cave and lift sanctions, or they will resort to dictatorship. Protests had started all over the EU. prague, paris, amsterdam, etc. All came from the same root, high market price due to sanctions.
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Let me tell you what these railways are about. Back during this era, zambia was blockaded by several western colonized neighbors, so zambia came to the US and asked them to build railways to help support the economy. They refused. Then they came to the brits, they too refused. And then they came to china. China during this time is facing its own difficulties, but they said "it's going to be difficult, but we'll do it" and so they mobilized their resources and people to build it. Even china has no such infrastructure, yet they are building one in zambia, when no advanced, financially capable rich western nation is willing to. 70 people died during the project, buried there and forever cherished by the zambians. They still tell this story to this day, a truly selfless act of distant neighbors who were willing to help others in time of need when they themselves struggled.
And the people of the west are confused on why africa is pivoting to china who's "authoritarian and evil", when the belt and road initiative has lifted african economy by quite a margin, when the west hasn't build them anything.
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No, the whole rush to kiev thing was to enforce the minsk agreement and to make sure they get the neutrality deal. There was no such thing as a regime change agenda. There was "denatzification" sure, but it only includes the disbandment of the natsees paramilitary of ukr, it does not include the removal of elensky. The western media created, set, and pushed the goal for russia, and when those goals were not achieved, they said that russia failed. Even though russia never, ever officially set any goals except denatzification and demilitarization of ukr, nothing less and nothing more. Look at all of putin's speech since february 22nd and show me where he actually said he wanted a regime change. Stop twisting the truth and trying to gaslight people, Sky Noobs.
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@lepetitroquet9410 curious how your statement on recession does not correlate with facts on the ground. Price of everyday items in russia is stable, cost of living does not increase.
It is also funny that you claim to know more about the economy, but can't even understand that for a commodity exporting country, a GDP is irrelevant, and thus a higher recession does not have much impact on the economy as a whole. Contrast this with the EU which is a products and services based economy, they need the base materials to produce their goods, most of which comes from russia, especially energy. Russia can sustain itself, while the west cannot. And the ruble purchasing parity power (PPP) is at its best.
There's no protest in russia. At least not the economically motivated one. Meanwhile there have been countless amounts of protest in the EU, which reflect its economy and living cost. So yeah, you're comment is completely misleading.
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@vyros.3234 it's much deeper than you think. there's no way what you proposed is going to get approved. do you know how much these defense company made by supporting a certain country in eastern europe? they are buying weapons with taxpayer's money, send it, and list it as foreign debt for that particular country, and maybe it would be paid back one day, probably, in the meantime it's going to give leverage for the IMF and world bank to control the future of that country, but who's the immediate beneficiary for the weapons procurement? i know raytheon made a bunch. and those politician's offshore's account only getting more fat.
even now they are ignoring the inflation in america because that's not in their interest and they are doing it blatantly and publicly because they know the public is not gonna do anything about it. this is the state of the country now, and it's sad.
if the government is actually works in the interest of the people, the price of insulin in america wouldn't have been 10 times the price anywhere else. and as long as these politician is in power, nothing is going to change for the common folk. voting does not change anything. besides, what is the point of having one or two clean politician when the majority that holds power is corrupt af?
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@MrWise_Christian yes. So far for battle video there's headhunter (very pro rus) french foreign legion in ussr (rus leaning but post rus loss too). for reporting there's patrick lancaster, graham philips, eva k bartlett, and more. For map there's defense politics asia, new world econ, military summary, and rybаr. For discussion theres jackson hinkle, the duran, dreizin reports, and the new atlas. For news there's bloomberg, reuters and the hill.
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@lepetitroquet9410 2011-2014 is irrelevant to the argument because the conflict has not happened back then. Lots of stuff happened including during the trump era where he gave lots of drilling and fracking permits, which at some point broke the global oil price so much that it went negative. But compare this to the start of the war on february 2022, the price for oil has significantly increased, at some point it has reached above $100 per barrel, until there's a stabilization in the market after russia started selling to proxies. And like i said, oil price cap would not work, till now russia still sells oil to the EU albeit not in a high profile manner through the use of greek tankers. It's still cheaper than the oil at the spot market, but they don't give the same discount like they gave to china, india, and brazil. But this can be stopped completely and they can focus on selling to others instead. Forcing the EU to buy a premium from proxies or the spot market. Recently the indonesian oil company, PERTAMINA, was asked why they are not buying russian oil, and their response was that the demands for russian oil are all booked up. Meaning that if they stopped selling to the EU, they can easily shift this to other potential customers like indonesia or africa. You also completely ignoring how the company like gazprom is making it's highest net profits of $41b, compared to the $29b in 2021. Check out also western media articles where it says russia is profiting more by selling less due to the high global oil price. Russia is not losing, they are gaining both profits and influence in the global stage.
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the "female player authenticity" issue comes from male player disguising themselves as female to take advantage of vulnerable/lonely straight men who thought to seek a possible relationship while enjoying their hobbies of gaming. many had fell to the tricks, so it's no surprise many guys are wary of the player who claims to be a female. it's not sexism, it's being cautious.
most female players gains more respect and treated better, because of their gender alone. my female clanmate got so much help boosting her game character by veteran male player, the same effort that took me 3 months to achieve on which she did in 2 weeks. female player don't get harassed, they get supported. all they need to do is to prove that one is a legit female. if the female player is not comfortable with revealing identities or having insecurities about their appearances, they can still do an anonymous voice chat online, and if they don't still believe it, tough luck for them. or better yet, don't tell them that one is a girl, especially if they didn't asked. not trying to disprove that toxic/mysoginystic guys exist, but they aren't the majority.
finally, for guys, don't seek a girlfriend in game, please. there's 0.01% chance it'll actually blossom into a working relationship. go out, socialize. it would hurt more if that "girl" you've been dating for the last 3 months is a 300 pound dude who lived in his parent's basement.
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@nonseans finished how? Military presence is strong in donbas and kherson, the economy is doing very well, the political situation is fine inside russia. Meanwhile ukrane economy is about to hit hyperinflation and collapse (western economic analyst said this), it's western backers are facing a crisis, military support is dwindling (new york times). I'm outside of russian information bubble, thank you very much. Every source i provided so far comes from western sources, not RT or sputnik. Maybe YOU should get out of western propaganda bubble for once. It might hurt your feelings but better than constantly being lied to.
Winning ONE battle does not win the WAR. History has proven this time and time again. Besides, it's a breath of fresh air isn't it, ukrane winning for once, after losing every other battle for the last 6 months, lol.
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@lukeamato2348 "really good" i swear this is always how it goes with regular people.
T72 has many variants, the refurbished russian ones had optics, sensor, auto targeting, literally everything leopard 2 have. For all reasons and purposes, it is a modern tank. Now, ukr T72 is old, and only goes through minimum refurbishment.
The huge majority of the tanks in this war got knocked out by either mines or artillery rounds. Tank v tank combat is extremely rare, and usually whoever shoots first, wins.
Donated leopard 2 numbered around 14, which is a more modern one. The majority donated by germany is actually leopard 1, and did not go through refurbishment. It is not going to make any difference. The ukr forces are not confident of both variant leopard armor that they are attaching their own reactive armor as extra protection. Nothing about it is more advanced than what ukr already has.
You can't cram a 6 months training into 4 weeks. The crew wouldn't be able to use the tank efficiently. Doesn't matter how good a tank is, if the crew can't coordinate properly, it is nothing more than a hunk of metal.
14 regular tanks don't win war. Turkey had lots of leopard 2 and when it launched an attack against insurgents in syria, many were destroyed by a rag tag group of insurgents. If a group of insurgents could take it down, what will happen when it faces a real army?
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@richardkey1678 wow, you clearly have no idea how tank works.
Ruz tanks have autoloaders, which reduces the crew size and speed up reload. The shell is placed in a "carousel" mounted under the turret. When the shell penetrates the turrets and hits the carousel, it triggers an explosion. But this isn't that common of an occurrence, most of the tanks were actually disabled by mines and artillery. In case of artillery, no tanks or crews can survive a direct hit, be it weztern or ruz tanks. In case of mines, mostly what happens is the crew left the tank, and then drones dropped a bomb through the open latch to prevent its recovery either by the enemies, which launched the turrets away. This is mostly true for T72 and some T80 model. I'll explain further below.
Western tanks like the arbams has no autoloaders, instead it is manually reloaded by a crew. The shell is stored INSIDE the tanks, protected by a blowout panel. The blowout panel does helps prevent catastrophic explosions killing the crew, but it's not a guaranteed 100% protection, it depends on where it got hit and how. Even when there's no direct hit, the storage sliding panel alone is infamous for injuring the loader's hand.
T90 carousels had a protection around the carousel which prevents the shell from hitting the carousel, and will prevent the death of the crew, while the T15 is actually WAY safer, more modern design. In fact, it is the only 4th generation tank available for now. The panther is still in the testing phase while arbams x is still pretty much a sketch.
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@alainlefebvre9860 it is not. Look at the IMF published economic prediction where russian actually experience growth this year. Lookup also the news of russian energy discount which turns out to be much smaller than many expects.
Meanwhile the EU is suffering from both inflation and recession, while in the US it has already begun with many smaller banks declaring bankruptcy or having to be bailed.
The patience you are talking about, by the time it happens, if it even happen at all, will be when the west already collapsed. But of course, no matter how childish, proud, and dumb their policy has been, they would not allow themselves to crumble, right?
10 rounds of sanctions, over 11k sanctions. Yet almost no effects. How sad. There are worlds beyond the EU and US, you know... And they are all happily trading with russia.
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@yippeeki-yay490 showcase of the bayraktar, m777, himars getting destroyed, or a showcase of javelin getting plundered?
China just extended military tech partnership with russia. So does iran. Turkey, one of the most important and strategic nato members, just started partnership of with russia to improve their drones when erdogan went to sochi.
Who's buying western equipment? Ah yes, poland bought a few himars. Lets see, what else getting sold... Nvm, cant find any. Taiwan deal is not finished so it doesn't count.
And guess what? Himars, the "game changer" because it destroyed an unimportant bridge that the russian had deployed several poontoons around it? Russia had the tornado s system, which is similar in specification and accuracy but had longer reach (50% more, in fact. For the medium missiles, himars can reach 80km. Tornado s can reach 120). Unlike western missiles which are bulky and cant reach crap 🤣🤣🤣
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@yippeeki-yay490 it's impressive how everything you just said is wrong. Countries are ditching the Petrodollar. They don't want theirs to be confiscated because they did something the US didn't like. Nobody cares about sweden and nato. They are militarily insignificant. And them ditching the kurdish refugees by sending them to turkish dungeon says a lot about their value of human rights. It's human rights but only when it suits them. And they are still pretty much on the turkish hook, if they try to do anything to undo the agreement, turkey can still pull the plug and block their membership. Hungary and serbia has agreed to keep buying russian oil and gas in increased volume. Germany has been pretty staunch on their gas issue, look where that got them. Protest everywhere, latest one there's a video where habeck trying to tell people why they should stay to their choice of not buying russian gas, and he was jeered and called warmongers. In another tour the people are shouting for them to open nordstream 2. The people and the leadership clearly have disagreement. And look where that got bojo, draghi, and the other one in baltic countries. They all stepping down because of the economic crisis they created.
Comedic actor only become a hero in a mainstream western media, everyone know he's a clown that had a stash of millions overseas, and a cottage both in the US and the UK. Recently, even western media is reporting on his corruption. Amnesty international has condemned ukraine use of human shield. Cbs has called them out for corruption. Both parties are getting cancelled by people like you for bringing out the truth because it hurts your feelings.
What sanctions? Russia has managed to get a workaround for it in many places. Mir payment system is now accepted in china, africa, turkey, uae, india, several european countries, and many other countries as well as several countries that are going to do business with russia in the future such as countries in south america and southeast asia. You are one of those people who thinks that europe and the US is the only country to do business with and the rest of the world is insignificant. That's colonialist logic.
Russia future is bright. The economy reflects it. But the crisis in europe and US is very apparent, there's no way to hide it. The white house just changed the definition of recession to hide the recession they are in, but people aren't stupid. You'll probably buy it tho, considering how much msm crap you are regurgitating right now. Russian military is also very capable, it is shown by how much western equipment they have destroyed. If they are waging war the way US did in iraq (indiscriminate shelling, shot every citizen) ukr would have fallen a long time ago. And civilian casualties reflect that. So far russia only has caused 4k civilian casualties, compared to 1 million by the US invasion of iraq.
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@aroace7913 that's why they are getting refresher training. In the US, a marine had 3 months for an entry level training. In russia, there are about a year of mandatory service. It's hard to forget such things that last for that long, and there's also screening during the mobilization. Meaning anybody with a disease/condition, obese, or other issue will not be enlisted, even if they have prior training. Then there are multiple veterans who have served in real combat in syria and other places, re-enlisting for either patriotism, desire to participate and make changes, or just to make some bucks.
Remember that ukrania, in comparison, did not deploy reservists or veterans (it's already deployed and most had died. Currently they are putting green recruit at the front and saving the elite for a special operation. Source from western media, an action that was praised even though it will lead to a huge loss of life), the troops, especially during the kherson offensive, are mostly green draftees that were trained for a week (sometimes less, i heard an account that one guy had 2 days of training with a dummy rifle). They've had over the 7th round of conscription now, and they are fighting against trained reservists.
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@TheShadowOfZama "better conscription service" I've explained this part. Many accounts said that they don't have enough training to be put at the front. But there are worse problems, many account from the advancing troops said that during their advance, they are not getting enough artillery cover but getting bombarded to high heaven from artillery, aircraft, and kamikaze drones at the same time. I don't agree with your assessment of the russian training because I've been in one myself and i have to disagree with you, but even the western media had said that this is pretty much an artillery battle. Russia has shown again and again that it is willing to concede land if it meant getting advancing troops into a pincer, or pulling out completely in case of lack of defending troops (such as the case in kharkov). The soldiers saw minimum combat, and the vanguard are pretty much the LPR/DPR veterans, chechen fighters, the wagner group (which are a well equipped elite mercs) while the russian forces are mostly reservist in the back or used to plug the gaps in defense. So even if, for miraculous reasons that what you said is true, it still doesn't make much difference because while there are contacts in the front, russia still has a superiority in equipment and artillery support.
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@stigandrmyrardalur5208 these people ignore the 14k dead people in donbas, ignored the violation of minsk agreement, ignored the blocking of irrigation to crimea, ignored the news from before February 22 about the rise of right wing paramilitary and the US ties, ignored the US plan to extend russia in it's rand paper. It doesn't matter to them that land belongs to the people, and their ancestors. They don't care that the country has it's bloody origin in the fastcism, collaboration with nasees and the slaughter of 200k people in poland in cold blood.
They lacked wit, and they think that as long as ukraine wins, it will be okay, as if this is a football match. But justice wins in the end. Russia has prepared to move in november, to end this once and for all.
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FYI ukr had imprisoned all of its political opposition under the charge of "russian collusion", every single one of them. It also has the highest record on human rights abuse, mass killings of unarmed civilians. Russia killed militants, not civilians. Over 8 years ukr had killed 14k civilians, and russia, to this day, stands at 4k which mostly because ukr keeps hiding in non-evacuated urban areas (hence the human shield narratives)
Africa relies on russia exports of wheat for food, and the business relationship with china, as well as chinese infrastructure project has greatly increased african economic output, and cut down on unemployment. Something that does not happen under western control. Ask yourself this: why is it africa did not prosper under the west, and is now starting to improve under china and russia. Russian presence has improved african security, while china has improved the economy. This is why the majority of africa is leaning towards the two nations and moving away from the west. Things are not good now, but it was worse under the west tutelage. Not to mention how african personally feels about the US and it's lack of respect. When China needed something, they asked. When the US needs something, they tell.
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@reformisu2673 they're using SU 57, new tupolev bomber, new terminator tank, new electronic warfare system including gps jammer, drone jammer, and more. They are also bringing in the S400, kalibr missile, tornado missile, iskander missile, etc. Some of older equipment have modern refurbishment also, several modern guided artillery round, and more.
Don't base your believe on western media, it'll turn you into an NPC parroting their narratives.
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@pavelow235 i did not say things can be a weapon, i said things can be weaponized. It's a different thing. Weaponinzing means using an item that isn't originally created as a weapon.
At which point i said things can be a weapon depending on how many hours an object is used in a weaponlike manner?
Then you proceed to provide your own understanding of what a weapon is using an outdated dictionary description, which is in itself an etymological fallacy.
A child could understand this rudimentary concept of what a weapon is and what is weaponizing. yet here you are spinning widely accepted terms into something else. So i will quote this directly from wikipedia
"A weapon, arm or armament is any implement or device that can be used to deter, threaten, inflict physical damage, harm, or kill. Weapons are used to increase the efficacy and efficiency of activities such as hunting, crime, law enforcement, self-defense, warfare, or suicide. In broader context, weapons may be construed to include anything used to gain a tactical, strategic, material or mental advantage over an adversary or enemy target.
While ordinary objects—sticks, rocks, bottles, chairs, vehicles—can be used as weapons, many objects are expressly designed for the purpose; these range from simple implements such as clubs, axes and swords, to complicated modern firearms, tanks, intercontinental ballistic missiles, biological weapons, and cyberweapons. Something that has been re-purposed, converted, or enhanced to become a weapon is termed weaponized, such as a weaponized virus or weaponized laser."
I rest my case.
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@RainerMichelle its funny that your argument is trying to discredit me by saying im bad at math, even though at no point we were discussing math, or the 3:1 casualty ratio. and the thing about the 3:1 casualty ratio is that it includes minor injuries, meaning that if a soldier got knocked down and had to be brought to hospital, but capable of serving still, they're going back. And as I've said before, the 30k dead number is BS. Even western analyst estimates are only around 10 -15k max. Some even say its 7k. Which put the 3:1 ratio to less than 50k. I'm not sure why you're so insistent on it being 100k, no official figures ever came out, especially not that much. And if you bring this figure to a non-BS analyst, I'm sure they'll laugh.
This is then followed by your claims of non existent russian partisan movement within russia itself. There's been no terror attack within russian land. There's not a single western media report about it, in case you refuse to believe russian media. even though western media are the propaganda merchant. The terror attack on kherson is done by ukr spec ops operating behind enemy lines. The majority of people in kherson and mariupol is russian supporter, and the majority had taken on russian citizenship application. I believe france24 did put out figures, i forgot how many but it's in the thousands.
Thousands more russian joins ukranian army? This, LMAO. Who told you this? Why would you believe this? Eve kids would now how much of a BS this is, it's laughable. Even the ukr themselves had trouble filling their army quota and had to resort to conscription, and there's been talk they're conscripting women next. Who in their right mind would join the losing sides, when ukr losses is around 200 dead and up to 600 injuries each day (ukr official figure btw). Thats a battalion death and another 6 battalion injured every 10 days. And we know ukr likes to downplay their losses so expect a much higher figure on the ground.
You really need to wake up from your fantasy, make-believe la la land.
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@Homer-OJ-Simpson it's quite funny how you took issue with the methodology of combing the social media and grave survey, calling it uneducated. When this is exactly the methodology used by BBC funded research in a collaboration with a think tank to research the verifiable number of casualties. When you're calling a solid methodology used by a think tank "uneducated", it really shows who's the uneducated one here.
"They verified 20k and with the estimate it's actually 50k" excuse me what? What sort of rubbish methodology would actually multiply the number of dead by 2.5 times without any explanation? And why are you proceeding to multiply it by another 4.5? "Casualties are usually about 4.5 of that" what? Source? Lol this is the funniest thing i read today 🤣🤣🤣 seriously, battlefield is a large place. Multiplying everything based on the most active region of conflict makes no sense when other frontline is in relatively quite situation.
"Released footage of human wave tactics" okay where do i watch it? Please provide a source.
It's weird how you never seem to be able to grasp how your own methodology of "counting a number of dead tanks from drone footage and pictures and then multiply it by average" despite how this makes no sense at all. First, how do we tell that a picture and drone footage is not that of the same tank taken at a different angle, or different time? Second, how do we know that the destroyed tank belongs to ukr or rus, considering both used the same tank? It's like counting the average number of yearly fallen apples in an orchard without considering the change in weather, disease pest, etc. None of that. Just multiply it!
And finally, no source, and i mean NONE, who came up with the 30k casualties number ever explained how they came to that number and what methodology they used, and you are the closest one who even put out a speculative methodology which you attributed to the 30k figures they came out with. Usually when calculating things like these, what you do is track down which regiment fight where, how many casualties in that regiment in a certain battle. It doesn't have to be precise, but you can at least get an idea of the average number of casualties in different fronts each day. 200k? That's literally half of the deployed rus forces. The frontline should have been crumbling in many places by now if it's true. Seriously, which regiment suffers what amount of casualties? Which regiment had been reinforced? No explanation at all. Maybe its you who should get education lol
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@jaarneal that is such a long paragraphs for a plain argument not backed by verifiable or searchable data. But I'll respond to it.
-its very clear by now that the tanks support is a pure bluff after russian gain, to intimidate russia. But russia knows it's a bluff, which was proven just a few weeks after. First, abrams has not come to ukr. It may come at the end of 2023 at the earliest, and in reality, may not even come anytime in 2023, since it is going through "refurbishment" which is a fancy and roundabout way of describing downgrade (cant have them yanks tech on the battlefield coz russia may take it, says pentagon) and it will come in a small batch, gradually, not all at once. What's more, 30 is the maximum number that will be sent. Leopard is also going through "refurbishment", and the only one that has arrived are the outdated leopard 1, as well as a few of leopard 2 from poland (idk the exact number, but it's more than 10 but less than 20). In fact poland has been the greatest patron of tanks in the whole ukr war. Despite being sent tanks from 3 countries, The tally of the announced shipment this time is small, it's less than 100 in total, most of which are either old or stripped down tanks, and may not even arrive on time.
-you really need to check public polls held in germany, US, and UK, which are the most hawkish in terms of support. In the US alone, 53% is now AGAINST supporting ukr, around 30% is in support, and slightly under 20% is now unsure. That IS NOT THE MAJORITY. That is a steep decline in support. The figure is much worse in germany.
-i'd like to welcome you to many western sources news which has now shown their doubt on ukr counteroffensive prospect. First, russia has greatly fortified the area where the assault is going to be launched. Second, ukr kept pouring resources in defense of bakhmut, which has cause dismay in many western media (even bildzeitung is now publicly blaming elensky if bakhmut turned to a catastrophe), and then there's germany intelligence reporting to the bundestag about ukr 3 digits losses daily in bakhmut sector. I also want you to read elensky recent statements on his insta which describes "tank deficit". This, on top of lackluster support for artillery munitions.
Finally, go back to kherson and how dozens of offensive attempts failed with big casualties, and only succeeded after russian orderly and professional pullback (the guardian editor even "praised" surovikin it because it was so quick and left no major equipment behind and almost no casualties during the pullback, which many analyst has claimed to be not possible prior). If they have trouble storming when they have more equipment than they do now, how are their prospect of success be higher this time?
So yeah, their chance of success in the summer is very slim. And even if, by some miracle, it succeed a little, ukr military capacity will be severely degraded it cannot fight any further. And even british military has now said that for all the equipment sent to ukr, it may take up to 10 years to replenish them all back.
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@lepetitroquet9410 here's the thing:
-russi@in purchasing power parity is not tied directly to ruble, this is true. i chose to just say ruble and avoid the word russi@ to avoid c3ns0rsheep. i thought you would understand what i'm implying instead of jumping at it to try and discredit me with it. i was clearly mistaken for putting too much hope on that.
-i did not say it does not matter that russi@ did not produce anything anymore. in contrast, russi@ has nationalized many products locally instead or relying on imports. exports of raw materials are not measured into GDP, this include gas and oil through pipelines, coal, etc. things like refined oil, LNG, and other processed commodity however, is.
-i dont think you know how market works. a cut of more than 30% of supply is catastrophic for the economy. and you are saying that other countries can provide it? sure, but not at competitive price. you can see for yourself what the cut of 43% of energy supply has done to europe. it's right in front of our eyes. but i think you are going to ignore that because accepting it is saying that you are wrong. EU is importing US LNG at a ridiculous price. and the result dozens of companies and hundreds of small businesses have gone bankrupt because they've lost their competitive edge in affordable energy. qatar and algeria has said that they are not selling their LNG at a capped price, and to this day the EU has not found any alternative, reliable supplier who's willing to sell for less. will this destroy the EU? of course not. nobody believes that. just as the sanction does not destroy russia, or hurt it, for that matter. it will, however, turn EU into a 3rd world economy.
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@jcym9058 when did peskov said that? And what did he say exactly?
NFKRZ has been a, I'm quoting here because he said it himself, a "american weebs". He has an unconditional love for the US and it's culture and strongly despise russia, its conservative culture and its leadership. He also said it himself he's doing everything he can to avoid mandatory service, and to top it all off, his description of the mandatory service sourced from "a friend" who gave an extremely biased account of his experience that's based only on the bad things he had to go through during service, while leaving out any information on the training itself. Then there's a thing where in russian we like to exaggerate stuff during conversation about things to avoid making the conversation dull. It's like me saying that "i had a terrible experience at hotel X, the food sux". to a listener, people would just assume that hotel x sux, even though i had a good and polite service, good bed and a clean room with proper heating. He had never served himself, and he doesn't want to, so his account is not valid.
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@andrei19238 the EU has rules about stamping out corruption, economic stability, as well as rules about economic contribution, etc. Ukr fulfilled none of this requirements, yet they are fast tracking them into the EU.
Ukr has been applying to n@to since 2015, nato never gives a clear answer to them. They are intentionally dangling this opportunity in front of them just to provoke rus into action so they can put a shock and awe sanxtions to destroy rus economy. It failed. Remember that right before february 22, рutin phoned biden asking to reject ukr entry into n@to. Biden gave no clear answer. And blinken even says if ukr wanted to join, it is their sovereign right to do so, in complete disregard of the treaty they signed off about no n@to expansion further east.
Rule of law don't matter to the waestern hegemon. By law they have no right to place sanxtions on rus without the UN explicit approval, yet they did it anyway. By law they have no right to seize rus asset, currently they are working on it by publicly declaring that they are trying to find legal loophole to do it. Your argument means nothing
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@jeanmontinat1681 this is one of those unconfirmed misinformation. This news ran by business insider, in which it is constantly reminding people that they sourced it from meduza. Everytime western media says "according to x" or "blah blah blah, x says" it is a method to avoid responsibility because it was quoting someone. Now, meduza is a latvian based, vehemently anti-russian media that's not even part of the mainstream media, so it's credibility highly questionable.
I have a relative in riga, even she had never heard anything like that going round. If such a thing did happen, why haven't we heard anything about it even in public social media like telegram or vk? You may argue that news media may hide it, but nothing like that can be hidden from social media, just as the case of recent sukhoi slamming into an apartment video and news.
Seriously without further confirmation i have no doubt this is false news, about as false as the story of general Pavel, who is actually a border guard which picture was taken in 2013 which several british media ran with, the sun in particular.
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@donbabilio8298 now you are just spouting nonsense. Biden had printed lots of money, so much so it has led to the current recession it's in. It's started since the day of trump after the china trade war but i will not discuss this thoroughly because i doubt you are interested in the truth.
Russian "junk" weapon has so far destroyed lots of western sent equipment as well as making sure that the tide of war did not change at all. In fact, none of the "game changers" touted by the media have done anything that favored the ukranian. Remember that pre february 22, ukr had a biggest standing army, over 3k tanks, close to 300 aircraft, lots of apcs and many more military equipment. Now they are completely dependent on the US handouts.
Russian economy may be smaller than the US, but it is a major global commodity exporter, unlike the US which can only print more money as long as there is trust and demands, both of which are showing signs of degrading credibility.
US had advantage in fighter jets and stealth bomber, as well as advanced microchips. But these by no means are that much superior. Stealth tech is on the decline since the advent of better military radars as well as the more advanced anti aircraft system, a tech which russia has a lead in (the pentagon themselves admit this). This was shown on how israel stealth fighter never ever entered syrian airspace guarded by older S300 system, instead they are using the jets to go the fringe and launch a long range missiles from there.
And russia also has its own non-commercial microchips plant, and whatever it lacks, it can import from china and malaysia. So you see, russia is not at a disadvantage, tech wise.
Ukr is backed by the US, no. 1 military superpower. And nato, world's biggest military alliance. And the EU, world's biggest economic alliance. A total numbering 38 nations, and russia is fighting alone. Yet they still get the upper hand. If the economy size is indicative of anything, the US wouldn't have lost in nam, afghan, and iraq.
You are just spouting out whatever you read on CNN or BBC, which does not reflect the fact on the ground. Try to do your own research, will you
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@donbabilio8298 you're a pole... That explains a lot. Typical brainwashed poles are filled with so much hate towards russia you no longer have common sense. Not every poles are like you ofc, some still have common sense. but maybe that's why your country has become so broke that you have to constantly beg germany to pay "ww2 reparations"... Poland is a good example as to why not to put xenophobes as a leadership of a nation. Maybe if you act more like the rest of the world, you won't be feeling cold this winter 🥶🥶🥶
Meanwhile we have cheap and accessible gas, grain harvest is great, food is secure, economy is secure without inflation, no strikes, no whines, no protest. Have fun, enjoy the winter my polish friend! Maybe one day we can become friends again, and maybe we'll sell gas to you again!
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@TheDemigans another defense line? It's already 30 lines deep and spans over many kilometers. And guess what, the ukr didn't even make it to the first line of defense! What a joke lmao. It's supposed to finish in 3-4 days, here we are almost 3 weeks later.
Kharkov lines are literally on the outskirts of kharkov city, manned by a few hundreds of troops against 6 thousand ukr forces. Obviously the ruz got beaten back, but these are not really a decisive victory; when the line of defense broke, the ruz simply pulls out, except for one company which miscalculated the number of the attackers, decided to face it off alone and suffers a relatively big casualties. And the ukr forces did suffer big losses, much bigger than ruz forces because of ruz great reliance on artillery instead of direct combat. but they managed to push the ruz back nonetheless. The thing is, this is the only thing ukr fans ever flex about. It's been a while since then but these are the only things you guys keep repeating. Ukr didn't gain any major territory anymore, it's the ruz that did. But war isn't all about territory, especially when you no longer have the troops to defend them. If ukr is winning so much, why are they doing a mandatory concsription just now and forbidding people from leaving town and throwing them into insufficient 2 weeks training abroad and then send them immediately to the frontline?
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@HR_8035_YEA china and india has always abstained in important votes. They can't vote against because it will cause diplomatic issues, but everyone knows abstaining on anti-russian votes is equal to giving support, and the fact that they are not doing anything that goes against russian interest while continuously doing business which helps russia weather the sanctions is more than enough evidence. You don't need to publicly declare your support especially if it meant it will cause diplomatic issues. You seem like one of those americans with the "you're either with us or against us" mentality, who can't comprehend the idea of being somewhere in between (aka balancing act)
I've never said that russia can win against nato militarily, I've said nato would never make a move against a nuclear superpower whose nuclear arsenal dwarfed that of the world's no. 1 superpower. This is a fact, not "beliefs". While i cant say if russia can beat the alliance, I dont think russia can be beaten on its own homeland. Nato military doctrine revolves around having air superiority, and russia is one of the biggest nations on earth whose air defense system and layered tactics is the best on earth (the pentagon itself admitted this). So trying to gain air superiority on russia is nigh impossible. Just check how many aircraft ukr has left compared to before february 22. Lancet and geran drones, new tupolev bomber, new kinzhal missiles, actually outclass similar western weaponry in quality. Russia is not being defeated, defeated enemies dont hold 25% of the 700 square miles nations. You are just coping hard.
The evidence of western economic decay is right in front of your eyes, yet you still trying to find a way to reason and think it's going to hurt russian economy somehow. It does not, and it will not. Russian partners had already more than made up for it's loss. Have you read the article from tomshardware, detailing how russian pc market is doing okay despite sanctions, because third party supplier will always send in computer parts despite the claim that russia is running out of chips? It's funny.
Ukr don't have navy huh? Well its a land battle. You don't drive ships on land. Air force? They used to have them, but russia has dismantled it by it's superior air defense system. Before feb 22 ukr has the biggest standing army in europe, trained to nato standards for the past 8 years. So if any indication, that's what nato army woulr fight like, losing hundreds of thousands of troops just in a year. This is an attrition war that neither ukr nor it's sponsors can sustain, but russia can.
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@ashokafulcrum4795 you clearly have no idea about cause and effects. I've never talked about indonesia specifically, but it is a good example. Indonesia has it's independence less than 100 years ago after 300 years of exploitation and slavery. An economy doesn't just recover, and the populace doesn't just immediately become educated in an instant to contribute to the economy and trade.
Your next paragraph is a complete contradiction. First off, the lack of education to the people outside of those within the nobility circle due to colonialism contribute greatly to the issue of industrialization. Mobilizing citizens for industrialization means cutting workers rights through long work hours and small pay. This will quickly boost the industrial capacity but cut down on workers rights. Then you are talking about having workers rights where it will contribute to whether they will succeed or not. Seriously?
"European imperialism brought even technology and political measures to build up an economy quicker" i can tell you that the technology they brought in is an equipment, not the technological knowledge on its production. And the political measures they brought, is to build up on exploitation. I studied indonesian history, I don't rely on anecdotal evidence of the romans. Ever heard of "Rodi" which is a dutch violent form of exploitation and forced labor to create plantations? Which later followed by the japanese "Romusha" which is an even crueler form of forced labor that leads to starvation? You then talk about resources extraction. Where do you think the resources are going? To the exploiters of course. Local people get nothing.
You are quoting a textbook definition of economy which is correct but oversimplified. Again, this takes time to develop, it doesn't happen overnight. Indonesia is a fast growing economy, but compared to europe colonizers, it didn't have a head start because like i said, they are only getting independence less than 100 years ago.
After all the barebone explanation that does not consider all angles and bringing up some basic economic principles, you are directly saying that the colonialization does not contribute to today's economic woes. Despite the evidence on the ground on how many former colonies are to this day facing economic and social challenges after getting their borders split up and put historically incompatible groups of people within the same border, you have the guts to simply denounce all of that. Seriously, you are in no position to do so. Corruption happens in every nation, especially the US where lobbying is legal, but it is a global economic power. So your corruption argument has no merits.
James Robinson, who is more qualified than me but most certainly more qualified than you, wrote an article on cepr titled "the economic impact of colonialism", which is a much more credible source than you, who barely had any idea about colonialism.
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@SpecialMuppetOperation copied straight out of the media. First off, John bellinger are a well known MIC shill. Second, the article 51 in regards of military aid is vaguely outlined and has several loopholes, same loopholes the US use to provide tiewan weapons despite tiewan not being a member of the UN and legally recognized as 🇨🇳 territory (lookup the ruling in regards of the ousting of the Cheng Kai shiek party representative in the UN)
Not only this, the UN charter also allows intervention or SMO under pretext of not only under direct threat, but also if ethnic civilians are under threat abroad. Funny how he says it's exceptional without deliberating HOW it is exceptional, when the 🇺🇲 used the exact same pretext to intervene and launched SMO in Iraq under the context of 911, of which the link connecting the two has never been proven (which according to the same guy, supposed to be illegal) this is why the neither the UN nor the ICC can charge Putin for the war, instead only charged him with kidnapping (which are bogus, because they have no legal jurisdiction to do so as well as the fact that the kids are not prisoner and the parents can get the kids back anytime they want)
To top this all off, the 🇺🇲 is part of the rome statute, to which it got convicted to have launched an unjust war, to which the 🇺🇲 retaliate by pulling out of the rome statute and threatened to invade 🇳🇱 as well as threatening the life of the judge's as well as other court member's children who were studying in the 🇺🇲 at the time. Funny how that works huh?
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@danieldach4697 11 wave and it all failed. I don't know what you mean isolate from the global community, literally almost every nation outside the collective western nation is doing big trade with rus still. this include a giant economy like china, rising global power like india, the huge majority of africa, the majority of south america, all of the arab league and OPEC+ members, as well as central and southeastern asia. that's not at all an "isolation".
now, while the sanctions do have some effects, particularly for the automobile industry, rus economy as a whole is doing very well. in fact it will register gdp growth by 0.9% this year and even higher next year. meanwhile the collective western nation is facing an economic contraction between 3% to 7%. many businesses are now leaving, in fact these are the worst performance of the western economy in a long time and it only getting worse. banks are falling left and right.
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USD has ditched the golden standard, which means it's value as currency depends solely on how much the world would be willing to buy and use it. many countries constantly buying and keeping a stock of USD in it's bank for international trade, because it is a widely accepted currency. having the world change that, it would crash american economy so hard. so america would make sure it never happened. in terms of analogy, they would go as far as beating up a helpless young child if it means keeping they can keep the value of dollar intact. the nato alliances, which mostly composed of us allies (which in reality more like vassals) in europe, would not agree to this, because america won't.
every country puts their own interest first. they don't care if other country go to war with each other, as long as it doesn't affect them. so world peace, which every politician (and the UN) constantly reminds you is what they are striving for, has never been their priority. and sure as hell they wont ditch USD just for the sake of it.
as for currency that does not have any ties to any government, we already have that. it's called bitcoin. but the thing is, since it's not owned by any government, there's no regulation, so the price of bitcoin can be manipulated by major players at any time, which makes it not a very stable currency for international trade. also that country wont be able to profit from it, making it less desirable choice. and if bitcoin suddenly become accepted worldwide currencies, the US and europe could just ban it's use and trade for it's citizen, forcing them to only use dollar/euro. which would remove bitcoin reliability as currency.
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They tried to cause a coup in russia, but at this rate it might go the other way around. Meanwhile in russia people are more united than ever because the majority felt that the west unnecessarily targeted them common folks when they were opposed to the conflict in the first place. Now the majority approved and even waved the Z, Putin's approval went to a high 90% while biden's gone down the gutter. The world had a good thing going, but now due to ambition and arrogance of some people, we common folks are the one to get the brunt of it due to commodity prices skyrocketing.
After all this, did russia even gets "punished"? Gas price stable, food secure, and sure, no McDonald's, no Playstation, no steam/netflix. But not having that, it's not the end of the world. There are many ways to get around that anyway, like buying through a middleman, vpn, or good ole pirete bey.
So what the heck do we suffer through?
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@peterbeer8657 i see lots of this argument that "there's no sænction on food and fertilizer". it's true, but that's not the issue here. it's the sænctions on the mechanism that facilitate the trade which is the problem. there's sænction on sw1ft which facilitates payment, rus simply asked for some agricultural bank to be exempt so it can facilitate trade. then there's a sænction on the shipping insurance, which brittain is the leading nation in that regards. without it, shipping is risky for both buyers and sellers.
Market availability is not an issue here, the fact that ukr exported so much grain to the EU that it actually sinks local price means that the EU wouldn't have bought for more from other sources to hurt global grain availability. Rus no 1 grain exporter, true, but it is also the biggest supplier to poorer nations while ukr supplied mostly to Europe.
the fact that the u$ does not commit to the agreement despite rus has extended the deal 3 times, shows that the u$ cannot be trusted. despite all the virtu signæling and moral haranguing, it has contributed to the world food security issue far beyond the grain deal would have supposedly alleviate, because rus is the top global supplier for food and fertilizer, which is the guarantors of food security. So far 200.000 tons of rus fertilizer that is supposed to feed the world is still stuck in European port even after agreeing on freeing them as part of the deal it signed. if the u$ cannot honor the deal it signed, then rus has no obligation to do so either. And let's be honest here, it has never been about feeding poorer nations.
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@isn0t42 no it is cheaper, they are purchasing it at a discount, not a massive discount like what they are giving ukr pre 2014, but a discount nonetheless. However, direct transportation through the pipeline is what makes it especially cheap; even the one transiting through ukr, which transit fee is mostly covered by gazprom.
Gas from other sources are either inadequate in supplies, or have a very long transit by ships, and are usually in the form of liquified natural gas, which is way more expensive and is not very useful for chemical manufacturing (especially fertilizer) because it's pure liquified methane. Yes, the EU still buys Ru LNG, but it only helps a few sectors even with a subsidy, and is still much more expensive than natural gas, especially when Ru are done giving discount.
Slovakia and Hungary still get their natural gas through the pipeline, until recently when ukr shuts off the transit.
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@Bishop46066 oh please. Bohorodychne is a small settlement, meanwhile the kherson counteroffensive just never happened. In fact, they have changed it into a kherson counter defensive because they lacked troops and equipment to advance. Avdiivka and bakhmut, a major town, is being grinded down and on the process of being captured, while they are suffering huge losses in kherson front. Another himars has been destroyed, as well as m777 (with photographic evidence) and a major storage for himars missile has also been destroyed (with video evidence), something the ukr is running out of.
Russia future is bright, African leaders is lining up to shake russian hand aside from a few ex british and french colony. South america is heavily tilting to russia. Turkey, a nato ally, just accepted a ruble-lira trading partnership. China, a global industrial complex, is russian ally. Asia is also on the side of russia, aside from singapore, south korea and japan. Funny that south korea didn't want to meet with pelosi after the taiwan provocation, despite being an ally. And there will be no war with the country you mentioned, unless they are the one to start the provocation. And those countries are facing crisis on it's own, it'll be too busy to start a war. This war is a result of western provocation in the first place, just like they did in taiwan few days ago.
166 days is a short time, compared to how long the US took fighting in iraq and afghan.
It's weird that you have a more defeatist mood now lars, you were one of the staunchest "ukraine is winning" commenters a few months ago. Looks like you did your research after all. Don't worry, it won't be long now. Come autumn (maybe even sooner) ukr will declare surrender, may even be unconditional. Then you can cry in the shower and came out as a new man. Or women. Whichever your liberal gender you feel like having.
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@Bishop46066 my sources are independent sources, as well as film evidence and a map made by pro western sources. Your "sources on the ground" argument is not compelling, because it can be worse than russian propaganda in terms of validity, as well as verifiability. Russia has a car industry. Both personal car, public transport, military transport and cargo trucks. Kamaz, lada, uaz, gaz and more. Look up "russian automobile manufacturer" on wikipedia. A while ago russia just donated and sold busses to nicaragua. Have i mentioned russian airplane industry is also going well? And anything that can't be produced locally can be acquired from china, turkey, iran, middle east, and asia. Like, good god man, where do you even source your info...
Then you proceed to speculate on russian future, despite the fact is pointing otherwise. Brics is expanding, new global reserves currency is being formed, mir payment system is taking root with any country that's doing business with russia, discarding swift payments. Dedollarization is progressing well especially after the US provocation of china (china dont want usd to plummet due to economic reason but now i doubt they cared much. They can take a bit of economic pain for better future) Meanwhile eur is reaching parity with usd due to inflation and economic crisis. And sweden, your beloved country, just signed a death warrant by joining nato. Not because of russia, but because it's a sinking ship, economically. This, is not a speculation, it's based on available data and supported by western economist. can the EU save itself? I have no doubt they can. But they can kiss goodbye to generations of decadence and comfort of a high living standards. It will be a slightly better 3rd world country
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@Bishop46066 yes, i am well aware of the terrorists attack by ukranian saboteurs. Considering these are the same people that bombed their army pow camp as well as a nuclear power plant and dropping illegal petal mines in civilian areas, why should i be surprised. Meanwhile more and more ukranians are moving to russian controlled region to avoid conscription. Also it's kinda funny that you kept bringing up about the bridge like the rest of western media. The russian forces had repaired the antonovsky bridge, but they are also deploying several poontoon bridge around it, so it's really not an issue. Those trained troops? The training in UK is not adequate, it's barely enough for troops to survive (4 weeks of training, really?) and it cant even replace the loss they are suffering. Also they are running out of men of serving age to train that they upped the age limit to 70. In perspective, the US and canada already had tons of instructors on the ground since 2015. If they are effective, the ukranian would have won by now. But like you said, it's been 166 days. 166 days of constant defeat. And elensky had done another address, saying the situation is desperate, about a while after his infamous vogue photoshoot.
I have no doubt that your prediction of russian and sweden future is about as accurate as your prediction of ukranian victory.
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@Bishop46066 see? That's the kind of stuff i talked about. Apparently your "nationalist media" is the most trustworthy sources ever. And it is not dangerous to speak the truth in russia, like, you don't even live here. How did you know? Youe "nationalist media" told you that? War commentary sources like military summary, which is reporting about russian military movement is still active despite there was an attempt to keep the info hush hush on the russian activity, the channel run by foreigners like 1420 is still running, despite asking "dangerous" questions on the street of Moscow. The only thing ever came out of you is speculation on russia based on your own personal prejudice against russian. Something you've admitted in the past comments, as well as statement like "me and my nationalist friends" etc. You are neck deep in your own bias that you won't accept any truth even if it's placed right in front of your eyes. I've disproved untold amount of your biased info by now, something you dont even try to argue because you realize you have no proof to back up your false claims, and i dont feel like doing it anymore. In fact, considering your severe lack of reliable information sources as well as biased personal beliefs, i wonder who's being censored to a truthful information here, because you do have symptoms of a brainwashed people.
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@sluxi why bother going on the defense and sacrifice lives when you simply have to adhere to the minsk and offer neutrality! And no, "sovereign decision" excuse wouldn't fly, because when russia did the same and accepted soviet nukes as a sovereign choice, the US went bonkers. Remember that before the 2014 maidan event, ukr had lots of benefits from rassia starting with subsidized energy, military support, and more, while the rassian minorities who lived there lived free. Since 2014 the nutzee government has started to oppress the minorities. Even poroshenko said "their kids will sleep in the basement while ours will sleep peacefully in their bed"
Remember naftali bennet, ex isreal pm statement recently, that it's russia who's negotiating sincerely. Then there's the budanov statement who said that the negotiation was a farce to buy ukr time and they have no plans to honor it. Then there's angela merkel statements about the minsk, as well as a arestovich statement who said that russia did negotiate in earnest not long after his sacking.
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@pm4995 there is. If anything I'd say it's one of the best time to move. The majority of Ru citizens are actually middle class, especially in and near major cities. Ru actually suffers from labor shortage right now, if you have qualifications for it. If you are from central Asia or have Slavic origin, this process may even be easier. Of course a country as big as Ru has some degree of uneven economic distribution, but the problem is some people use these minorities (who are predominantly indigenous who lived a simple life in difficult regions like Yakutsk or large part of Siberia) and use them as an example of how Ru actually is, even when their own country has fair share of similar issues, except for a few European countries no bigger than a few cities which are significantly easier to manage.
Cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg has a high living cost, although compared to European cities they are cheaper. Regions like Krasnoyarsk have an industrial base but often poor air quality (at least back in the day I was there). Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, and several other cities are fine. I wouldn't recommend regions in or near the Caucasus, they're alright but things may become unstable at any moment. Generally, anywhere to the west of the Ural is fine. From what I heard however, most foreigners usually moved to Ru small town due to cheap living costs, but usually not too many employment opportunities so they either started their own business or drove to a nearby town to work.
If you want to move, know your skill sets first, it will be easier for you to decide which city to move into. Don't bother looking for jobs in the defense sector, they don't employ foreigners due to sensitive issues in regards to military production. Also learn Russian.
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@sluxi last i checked from the bbc verified russian death toll, its at 16k, as well as possible additional 60% unverified ones, which is only a little over 20k.
Meanwhile ukr losses, according to EU commission chief, it's "more than 100k" as well as germany intelligence service reported daily death of ukr in bakhmut stood at 3 digits, not counting the wounded.
Use your mind for a second, if russia has the superior firepower, artillery advantage of 10-1, as well as advantage in electronic warfare, air superiority in donbas, as well as secure supply lines, why would russia suffers more casualties? It does not make any sense.
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@happydays4302 your few early paragraph is coherent and I'm going to respond to them. However this is immediately followed by the thing you've been doing for the past several comments, an opinionated and mostly false, such as russia not allowing a human corridors when it's the azov guy that kept the civilian in just to avoid shelling. I will go back to this later. Lets go back to the start.
-russia did fund and support the separatist. But you are mixing up the timeline to fit your narratives and omitting other stuff. First, the maidan coup happens. Then the people of crimea and donbas held a protest on the toppling of yanukovich who is a citizen of donbas himself. In response, they sent their military to brutally suppress the protesters, branding them "traitors" in odesa alone, they are burning protesters in a building (look up odesa burning news from 2014) this led to immediate guerilla war and referendum which was held immediately in crimea and donbas, to which russia then send aid to the freedom fighters so they dont get eradicated.
-when i said minorites, it's counted as a whole nations. But these "minorities" made up more than 80% in crimea, more than 70% in donbas, and around 60% in mariupol and kherson, respectively.
-the claim of russian torture is unsubstantiated. There is no concrete proof for the event to prove it even happened. It's nothing more than another sympathy gaining attempts by the government. Remember how they are lying about the poland missile event, there's nothing stopping them lying about this. Think about it, if they do have concrete proof, why haven't they brought it up to the international court by now.
-the whole human corridor stuff has greatly reported. Remember how mariupol easily fell after the evacuation. Which put credence to the human shield claim. When backed into the factory basement, they are trading civilians for food. Look it up. This also put credence to the fact that they are holding civilians hostage.
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mike carson this is the most speculative, uninformed arguments i have ever read. No russian retreated from kherson. Not even the mainstream western media reported about it. Meanwhile ukraine just lost peski and half of bakhmut. The so-called "zelensky line" is crumbling and the ukrainian counter offensive planned for august had yet not happened, even when we are already halfway through august. This, however, did reported by western media, saying it "might not happen after all". Russia have no reason to use nukes, not when they are beating ukraine on every front. But if, for some fantasy reason russia used nukes, how and when ukraine going to get their own? Their economy is stalling, they've defaulted on several debts, how do you think they would get any money to purchase nukes? And where are they going to put it so the russian wont blow it up with guided missiles the moment it arrived?
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mike carson the only sources that reported that are the pravda and kyivpost, both ukraine based media that serves kyiv propaganda directly because every other ukr based media had been shut down for "being russian collaborators". Bbc did an interview with a governor of mykolaiv oblast, which is an ousted governor with no credibility left and resided in kyiv because the majority of mykolaiv and it's central city, kherson, is under full russian control. He said that russian top commands retreated from kherson. He did not provide any proof to back it up. in fact, he is the only one who provided this supposed "information". Considering how many times ukraine had lied, this is barely a reliable source of info, mike. Just like the ghost of kyiv, Zaporozhye avenger, 54 recaptured settlement, 1 million army, and august kherson counter offensive.
That's a very embarrassing call out, mike. Maybe you should verify your sources next time lol
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@pudboy123456 it is part of the early offensive, the reason they are still holding it is because it provides distraction, as i have stated, to stretch the ukrainian defense, while also being a supply line from Belgorod. But it is NOT the only supply routes available. which is why russia is abandoning it.
The narratives about the "russian leaving military equipment behind" was proven to be false. I think i have explained this before in this thread, but if not, the whole thing came from telegram, and the "proof" associated to it comes from an old video of military hardware recorded in crimea. In fact, it is the only proof provided for this claim. Russian pull out was done in an orderly manner, as well as it can in a conflict. A major contrasts to ukrainian pullout from lysychansk, which is a major blunder. The difference is that russia hold a showcase for the captured equipments, available to the public. Which is more than adequate proof on top of embarrassing recording from drones of UAF running away in a disorganized manner.
They've launched another assault towards kherson, true, but what's it like now, episode 35? And it always had a predictable storyline, which is it always ended in failure. Also it's a funny claim that russia continues being destroyed, when ukraine casualties figure is at jaw dropping number. Ukraine can't sustain this, it will collapse before winter comes, along with its western backers. Look at russian economy. Look at western economic and political situation. No need for explanation.
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mike carson begging? How is it buying drones and ammo begging? Russia pays for what it buys, this is not elensky lol. He's the master beggar, and a choosy one at that. Everything he acquired, he didn't pay for, only registered as "debt" lmao 🤣🤣🤣
Meanwhile the pentagon analyst said "our weapons stock is critically low"... Cant even produce rounds anymore than 12k per year, a fraction of what russia produced. Same country that claims to have "advanced tech" lol what an embarrassment 🤣🤣🤣
BBC themselves said that russia pulled out, and it's the only major victory they got. Remember when they got chased out of mariupol, severodonetsk, lysychansk? Now bakhmut is encircled and they are about to run out of there too, lol. You're like that one kid who supports a team that hasn't won for the past 7 months, then they won once and lose your mind over it while knowing full well it's the only win they can ever score
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The truth is that china isn't the only one with claims to the SCS. All the countries in the region have a claim to it, and have been attacking, arresting, and dismantling each other's fishing boats to make a point. But these had never been a huge issue, which is why they are still trading, meeting, and attending a summit like this because there is a greater interest that binds them together. But of course the media will only push one sided narratives to the issue, despite said country has largely backed down and let the status quo be mostly frozen. Why did SCS become a point of contention? Well, foreign militant countries miles away are constantly driving their battleships through the region under the pretext of "international waters" and threatening the blockade of the mouth of the Chinese port which is the main source of its exports revenue. Otherwise there would have been no issue. For context, Manchuria which was Chinese territory, had been under rus since the sino-russo war, but the issue was never brought up, simply because it is better to let the issue freeze than risk unnecessary war, especially since the region had not been militarized and did not pose any threat to China. It all comes down to the matter of security. China push it's claim to prevent militaristic nation to push it around, but in turn it also unsettles the other claimants which it had no conflict with. The issue can easily be solved, as long as that one nation stop being a threat.
Also ASEAN is founded under the idea of non-interference on each other's internal issue, so why does it keep bringing the issue of Myanmar up? Well, each of these countries owed the IMF billions.
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@P-IN-JP categorizing people into an arbitrary number of "types" is pretty much a no-brainer move, so I don't need to respond to that. What I can say is that people can either stick with the old ways of exploitation, or break free and make their own destiny according to their own values. You people claim to be fighting for freedom and human rights, yet selectively enforce them only when it suits you.
Uranium dug by french company, sold on europan spot market for 218 euros, and then paid the country they dug from 11 euros for it. Usually the contract goes by either 50-50 or 70-30, this is 5%. If it's not exploitation, I don't know what is.
Rus has never involved in this type of behavior, so far what they did is the opposite of what you claimed. Free grain, debt forgiveness, military assistance, and more. We don't speculate on the future, only deeds. And if we judge by deeds, rus is definitely a superior choices.
If you want to be a slæve, be my guest. But it doesn't mean everyone else also has to.
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I said this because: they are provided with food that some of the locals can't even afford, yet still they asked for something "more palatable". They are provided with camps and tents yet they ask for better housing inside a building. They were told not to leave their camps, yet that's exactly what they did. Locals got kids, and now there's 3 burly men in the neighborhood, locations unknown. Tell me how you would feel if you're a parent that lives nearby?
After all these, they still had the gall to ask for citizenship and property.
In case you didn't know, it was the locals who at first insisted for them to be taken in, when the government rejected them, all under the pretext of "they are brothers and sisters of faith". It isn't long for them to figure out a quarter of them and not even Muslim, and the majority that are, can't even quote the 5 tenets. And their behavior is beyond what is acceptable for the locals.
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Another year? Poland is already pestering germany for "ww2 reparations" france and germany is already complaining about the US lng price. Protest in the czech republic, many towns in germany, strikes in france, the netherlands already lifting 92 sanctions, none of them are able to agree on a price cap, greek keeps shipping rus energy, another protest in moldova, alternative leadership in both sweden and italy, companies in the EU already fleeing to hungary, china, and the US... I'd say it's already beginning.
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@Bishop46066 "nationalist friends all over the world" glad to know! My most reliable source of information is my uncle's best friend's antivax mom but I've been thinking that my flat earther friend might also be a reliable source!
Ooo i see so it's personal for you, which explains your confirmation bias approach to anything russian related. You just have a strong hate against anybody russian, and that's sad. You even admit being nationalist right wing. Amazing. Do you support bandera ideology also? I'd like to know. Maybe start massacring poor russian farmer you never met in your life?
Russian low innovation? Sad to hear. Telegram is russian messaging app that even ukranian still used to this day. Italian parmesan cheese? We've produced those locally now. McD? Since it left, my life had been in shambles. I miss the american obese diet so much. The new McD replacement offers the same food, but i eat along with the containers that has the brand so it doesn't taste the same. And guess what? Stable gas price, stable oil price, stable food stock and price, anything imported has local equivalent for half the price. We are so bad at innovating that our air defense system happens to be the best in the world. We are so bad at innovating that our economy remain stable, unlike the sanction regime enactor. I've said it before and im gonna say it again, if germany is so innovative, why cant they innovate a way out of the current economic crisis and resorts to coal?
And guess what? Sweden took in a bunch of terrorists and criminals that now occupy the governmental position, that turkiye had to intervene and ask for extradition to save your people, but i guess you're too much of a woke nationalist to realize that. Sweden best cleanest country amiright?
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@bakenumber4 trust me if all conflict can be solved with love, trust, and forgiveness we'd be in heaven. Turning back now and ukrainian will declare victory and claimed that russian have retreated. Thus making russia looked weak. The common narrative in the west is that russia attack ukraine simply for the sake of oil, completely ignoring the facts that if ukraine joined nato, it means not only it's ally belarus is encircled by hostile nations, also they will be able to place weapons that can strike directly at moscow. As putin said, security of russia comes first, and it's non negotiable.
I know it sounds cruel, but it's the reality of war and geopolitics. If everyone loved and trusted each other there wont be war, there wont be nato, there wont be weapons. But that's a fantasy
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I'd like to point out that the US gov did ask for it, but russian government asked for a 1:1 exchange or no deal. The thing is, the whole "merchant of death" thing is greatly overblown. It was started by the media, which parrot each other's headline, it's not his title before he was arrested. He was arrested in thailand on a bad deal set up by the US government agent which has no jurisdiction there. He's a russian citizen, true, but he's not working for the government (as the Hollywood spin off movie suggests. In reality that movie is 80% fiction). In fact he's been involved in many sketchy things over the years, that the russian government didn't care much about his release, he's not important to the kremlin other than for the look that it's working to save it's citizens abroad.
The exchange is greatly unpopular, because many viewed that wheelan, who was arrested in espionage charge, working for the US, is a better candidate over someone who was chosen over identity politics. Because of that, the US government has now made a move to arrest russian citizens living in the US on bogus charge to have them exchanged for wheelan.
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@TrilobitesRTasty upset me? Not at all! The mеdia pushed narratives that you are forwarding here does not upset me, or anyone for that matter. We've heard it often already.
Ah, the good ol' "russiаn economy is the size of south koreа" arguments. Very funny, and very inaccurate.
Russiа is commodity-based economy, meaning that it exports more raw materials than finished products. Comparing the gross domestic products (GDP) does not work without factoring in the purchasing power parity (PPP) into the account because the results would be highly misleading. And russiа is the sixth largest economy in the world in terms of PPP. Hence why the price hikes all across the globe after the sаnctiоns, which really outlines the importance of russiа within the global economy.
Wages also does not represent much, especially when comparing between countries due to price difference for similar goods. Which causes differences in living cost. You can try comparing the living cost in the major russiаn city (Moscоw) to New York and you'll find the living cost in moscоw, the most expensive city in russiа, costs significantly less than new york, the most expensive city in the US. So even if russiаn made less money, they still enjoy the same living standards (if not more) than the americаn counterparts, due to cheaper rent, food, and transport. Making less money in russiа doesn't mean russiаn is poorer compared to americаns.
Lastly, russiаn economy has been very stable throughout this year, while the westеrn country is suffering inflаtion and will soon face recessiоn.
Get REAL education on economy, dont just push whatever the mediа shoved down your throat, you are embarrassing yourself 😂
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@mattbowdenuh western hegemon refers to a group of nation within the collective west group, not specifically a hemisphere. It's a group of nation within the Anglo-American sphere of influence. The western democratic value is something greatly overhyped and always fell short. A democracy (demos-kratos; people's power) is a system where the people have the final say on the decision made for the public, which is represented by a democratically elected officials. Unfortunately this is not always the reality. The US is a good example for this. Research shows the bill passed does not favor the people, instead it favors the economic elite. A group of corporate elite like the big pharma, or the MIC, holds major sway over the politicians decision through lobbying. It is a nation runs by corporate elite, not the people. Just look at the price of insulin and compare this to other nations because the big pharma holds the monopoly over it. The bill that forces politicians to hold less stocks so they wouldn't do things to favor said shares, is overturned. Does that sound like democracy to you?
The same can be said for the EU. The European commission members are not even elected, and their decision, such as the current state, favors its own agenda, instead of the interest of the people.
Freedom of speech, journalists freedom and rights, yet media that does not favor the ukranian narratives is blocked by major corporations like google and meta. Especially russian media. But not just that, the shadoban also fell on independent journalists like the gray zones, and many more. Instead the mainstream media lies about the current state of things and constantly pushes its narratives to control the public opinion. Which goes against the second amendment. The twitter files are a perfect example for it. In russia things may not be perfect, but at least the government took care of its people and its economy.
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@haroldwonder446 I took no position, I just enjoy seeing people on both sides delude themselves in fantasy. If you hear your side of the story, it usually goes that there's still hope, somehow, so long as there's constant supply of money and weapons which supply is dwindling (thanks to the private mic and it's artificial scarcity tactics to jack up prices for that. They're profiting off big time. Now a shell that usually costs 400 usd a piece had cost around 3000 in the EU, thanks to that), even though all the data and facts point to such act only delaying the inevitable. Meanwhile the other side spins a fantasy that Ru is now able to take the entire natto alone.
The only thing that matters is that Ru win the economic war, and are very likely on its way to win the actual war, while ukr as well as the EU are losing both. The one who came out somewhat unscathed is the US (although it's also facing its own economic problems). The true winner is china and those that aren't involved such as the majority of Asia, who had secured global pivot from the west and building its new multipolar order.
My advice, don't concern yourself with these headaches.
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@origamimambo545 the specific documents that pertains to his inquiry DOES fall within the presidential records act. What's funny is how you are asking me to go easy on joe but not donald, when joe literally has confidential documents found in his home not once, not twice, but multiple times!
Say what you want about donald, at least he has integrity, and he promised things everyone wants. Joe got nothing, all he does is sleep and destroy the nation when he's awake. When a choice is between a fart and a turd, go for the fart. Personally I'd rather choose the ex military lady or kennedy jr, but considering how polarized the nation had become, donald is the better choice since no way people i want to lead would ever have a chance to even make it to the polls.
And let's be frank here, this is not about law, it's about forcing an opposition to back down in 2024 presidential election, which is as anti-democratic as it gets.
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@lepetitroquet9410 500k per year is a theoretical maximum production output, not the current production output. This sourced from the CEO, the same guy who says they can ramp up tank production and even place a factory in ukr, always followed by "if we have the appropriate funds". He also put out a lot of price tags of around 80-100 billions "to make it a reality".
Quoted from Reuters:
"The 51 billion euros in the defence budget will not suffice to purchase everything that is needed. And the money in the 100 billion euro special funds has already been earmarked - and partially been eaten up by inflation," he said.
Obviously he's asking for more money.
I hope you know how ridiculous this is, the guy is trying to profit off the war. If you compare this to the amount of Germany willing to put out as "aid" for ukr, you know how much of BS he's selling. For comparison, the US, current top producer in the whole western sphere, produced 24k shells a month, up from 16k shells a month before the war. And only able to reach 84k shells in 2028. Yet he's claiming to be able to produce around 43k a month (500k a year) TODAY.
The million shells act was based on the idea of chipping in all the remaining shells, both for training and defense and replace it with cash, in hope of producing more in the future to replenish it. Many EU country had outright rejected the idea and it has so far been a failure.
But even if we believe his magical number, 43k shells each month is still only worth 7 days of fighting at 6k fired each day. For comparison, rus fired 20-30k each day.
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@ThilinaAd the video you mentioned, it was shot in ukrane, not russia. but no AA system is perfect (or any war instruments for that matter. come to think of it, this also applies to every man made object, like mobile phones. which is why we have warranty), one or two accident happens to all system at some point, even the patriot (there's a video for it too) it should not be used as a basis for it's performance due to statistics. 1000 successful launch and one malfunctioning missiles doesn't mean that the system as a whole is bad, that's just nonsense.
these claims that russia is using an S300 for ground attack has never been verified. the claim comes from ukr ministry of defense as well as ukr ex spokesman like arestovich, which has proved yet and again as an unreliable source of information. they are using it as a basis for it's claim that russia has run out of missiles (which is again, untrue). funny you're quoting that without knowing the full story behind it.
then you proceed to claim about the system being unreliable despite the fact that the pentagon themselves claimed the russian layered air defense system is the best in the world, and these people are experts in their field. so your opinion really does not matter.
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@MrRisenKill striking a consulate, as I said, is a violation of multiple international convention, the act itself is atrocious and unacceptable. I am not comparing which "atrocities" are worse, that is not what the discussion is about. True that such an act you described is a vile crime against humanity, but this doesn't mean it's ok to strike a consulate because "it was less atrocious".
This is like saying that, if committing such crimes you described on minors is unacceptable, doesn't automatically mean its acceptable when done to adults. Again, this is not a comparison. It simply meant that, even back then, people understood that hitting a consulate is a provocation on a military level and will very likely lead to more wars (which creates more suffering)
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@zerohours. The US MIC is technologically advanced in some regards, such as stealth tech, some improved sensor tech for military purpose, tho not as much as the media tried to sell it. Russian missile tech, for example, are much more advanced. And the new generation radar is getting better at tracking stealth coated jets. The current artillery munition round in the US stood at a mere 14k a month which they promised to raise as much as 36k a month. In contrast, ukr fires over 6k round a day, which means after the increase, it will only last 6 days. Compare this to rus firing at a rate of 40-60k rounds each day. and missiles like those of the himars are also at critical stock. There is an interesting article in RUSI (no, not that rusi. It stands for the Royal United Service Institute, UK based think tank) titled "the return of industrial warfare" which should give some rough ideas on rus vs US military industrial production capabilities.
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@natetheskate6325 you're making it as if EVERYONE fled. There's less than 100k people that left russia out of fear for mobilization, which is partly the paper pushers fault, but remember russia had over 140 million citizens, 25 millions of which is combat ready. So the people that fled are less than one percent of the combat ready people, and compared to the total population, it's a grain of salt. And let's not forget that there's also 70k people that insist on going as volunteers on top of the required 300k that was mobilized. So it's not as much of an issue as what the mainstream media says.
Yes, iraq is a US failure. Look at it now, weak, constant infighting, barely heard from. Not as bad as libya, which is pretty much a civil war battle royale. Which is also the US fault.
The territory that's recently been integrated, or annexed, if you prefer, has been through a rebuilding process. Even the western media reported it, where russia brought in construction workers from NK, to rebuild the integrated area. A huge contrast to what the US did in syria, libya, iraq, and serbia, which left nothing but rubble and suffering.
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i don't see the point of tariffs. when they are instated, the tariffs will simply be passed onto consumers. for some goods that is critical and can only sourced abroad (such as affordable machinery), consumers will have no choice but to buy them anyway, even at higher price. people who rent such equipment will also have to pay more, so their service fee goes up. which caused more pain for self than the targeted nation.
for goods that is produced locally and are competing with foreign sourced ones, this will create temporary preference for locally produced alternatives, but when the demand surpass supply, the locally produced goods will also surge in price. not only that, some will actually prefer not to increase production to artificially increase the price of their produced goods, so that they can profit much much more for producing less.
TL;DR it hurts the targeted nation a little, but it hurts own nation much more.
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Sanctus Paulus 1962 i think you are referring to the kherson oblast population, not the city population. Kherson is split in two, just like the severodonetsk-lysychansk conobation. I do admit i made a mistake by referring to bakhmut, a city which is not yet under russian control when i meant severodonetsk-lysychansk which is bigger, as well as mariupol which is even bigger. Both of which under russian control and both of which has a bigger population.
Again, i made a mistake when I referred to bakhmut instead of severodonetsk-lysychansk conobation. But when i said the river, i meant the that if one counted the population of kherson on both sides of the river, its still less than the population of severodonetsk-lysychansk.
What failures? Ukrane tried time after time to take the city, and repelled each time with major losses. They only got it after russia decided to leave. That sounds like winning to you? You have a very low standards for victory. Even now the majority of troops are pulling out of kherson city due to the location being in the reach of russian bombardment. Not to mention they've lost vugledar, pavlovka, and the dire situation in bakhmut. Their economy is sinking and electricity infrastructure is about to hit a point of no return. That is not winning.
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@miajaimson5862 it's an omission of truth mixed with a twist of personal narratives. The truth is that the coup was western backed. Several leaked phone calls from the US senate, including nuland, proved this. The paramilitary that stormed the government building, was trained and armed by the west. People in the east of ukr didn't approve of the coup and the new, anti-rus gov that has taken over, and sent a petition to rus and held a referendum. crimea wants out and joined russia, while donbas asked for autonomy. In response the ukr sent the paramilitary that hates rus people through and through, and they brutally suppressed the civilian "dissenters". BBC news night did a segment on how much of a right wing, racist and fascist those paramilitaries were. So did the guardian and the telegraph. The OP either knows nothing, or simply twists the truth for the sake of his narratives. But no matter, truth always prevails in the end. I'd say good shelling, the b@nd€rites deserved it.
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game company sometimes forwarded their advertisement campaign to a third party, particularly if they want to advertise a game to an audience in a different country that doesn't speaks english/the other way around. most of the time the company didn't provide much ads source like pics/videos, they expect the third-party advertisers to check the game and make the ads from that.
but the third-party advertisers would just took the money, and then throw in a random, possibly related pics/video or a mash-up gameplay between unrelated game, etc. it is in part the company's fault, they should at least make sure they're hiring a competent folk that doesn't just grab the cash and do a lousy job at making the advertisement that could possibly get them into legal issues. but most chinese/korean game company are cheapskate, instead of hiring competent advertisement company, they forwarded it to a sweatshop-styled advertiser to cut the spending on advertising.
and funplus isn't the only company doing this, i've been seeing these type of misleading ads done for many games since 2012 on facebook. crappy facebook game with dynasty warrior ads gif, crappy kingdom building that used mount and blade siege montage. i dont know if it's still a thing over there since i've been using facebook so scarcely, but this thing is at least a decade old by now.
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@frederikpedersen689 not true at all. even during trump, US intelligence service launched an attack against rus electric grid through hacking. in case you can't tell, trump is a republican. there's no difference between the two party, it's a uni party led by both ne0cons and ne0libs which pursues their own agenda and ideological hegemony. republican is still part of the US, you are trying to deflect blame through illogical reasoning.
"who the us attacking" lol. ask iraq, afghan, vietnam, syria, libya, korea, literally every south american nation, iran, and many more.
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@InfinitiG37XS "european don't want to get invaded by russia in the 90s" russia is in crisis in the 90's and the SSSR literally collapsed in 1991. what are you even talking about. ever since the reestablishment of the russian federation and all the way till 2010 where it ended, rus economy were in crisis and it can't even properly establish an army for defensive war, let alone wage war. the reunification of german happens under the agreement that they get words that nato stop expanding. people keep saying "where's the agreement then" well, it was a verbal agreement, and it was not signed because the soviet know they are in no position to push for such deal since they themselves were in a tight spot. but an ex CIA agent has confirmed that this deal did take place in a public speech, so that's that.
what about china? well what about it, what did china do? trade with russia? do you forget or simply be ignorant that ONLY the UN can impose sanctions? otherwise it is unilateral and illegal, and thus no country on earth has to abide by such rules. so chinese, indian, african, central asian and south american trade with rus is perfectly legal under the UN charter.
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@Broodje worst worse how? The amount of treaties the west broke surpassed both china and russia combined. And remember that russia had been trying to diplomatically avoid this war through talks for the past 8 years. But none of it's concerns were ever addressed or accepted. Now they are saying that china is bad because of the debt trap policy and all that, when they are the only nations forgiving ridiculous amount of debt, while the only one playing the debt trap policy is the US private financial institution like jp morgan, stanley something, as well as national and international one like the IMF and the world bank.
And please don't start on the "dictator bad" rant... You dont live under their leadership, you dont have any idea what it's really like. Approval ratings of these "dictators" are higher than the "democracy" like the US. No leader is perfect, and the fact that putin manage to keep the nation and economy stable during these turbulent times speaks volumes of his capable statesmanship. Which is why everyone i know supported him. China lockdown policy is bad, sure, but understand that many chinese actually approved the CPC leadership. Poll shows It's less about WHO led the nation for them, but more on HOW the nation was led. Which is why the chinese approved the CPC through thick and thin. Not saying that there's no disgruntled or dissatisfied people at all, those kind exist everywhere, be it in russia, china, even the US. But the majority approved. So it really does not matter how "democratic" the US think of us. We are our own nation, we chose our systems and values.
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No way this would work. Ukr govts especially the hardliners would never agree to any land cessation.
Moscow would never provide any money as long as the murderous nationalist still holds power in the AFU military.
Funny thing is that back during yanukovich reign, he asked putin if it's okay if he joined the EU considering ukr is already in the eurasian economic union. Putin says yes, in fact it is better that he does, it will be a prosperous prospect to be in two economic alliance rather than just one. Brussels says NO, to join ukr has to quit the EEU. And during this time, russia gave a huge discount on oil and gas sold to ukr, on top of transit fees for supplying energy through ukr to the EU. Then the western power, especially those within the Nuland warmongering party, staged the euromaidan after fostering the paramilitary for a few years. Look at what happened since the coup. The paramilitary was sent to take down any opposition and brutally oppressed the russian minority and erased its culture.
Everybody knows that elensky is a puppet, it's those paramilitary natsees banderite extremist and its western backers, they are the main issue standing between peace.
If this goes on and no negotiation is done, I'm afraid global wheat supply would be disrupted, leading to skyrocketing wheat products globally.
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@hellothere1656 the taliban and mujahideen is not a terror group. They are freedom fighters, regardless of their ideology and practices. Just because you didn't hear anything happening in afghan during that period doesn't mean nothing really happens. Religious insurrection had begun since the british invasion, that's where it started. When british left, people return to their traditional religious custom, they don't become a democracy. US funding and support of the mujahideen during soviet invasion draws many ideologically radical groups to afghan, complicating the issue further, and re awaken the old ideologic fervor once more, but this time the ranks were swelled by the radicals. This led to the 911 events, which again is directly due to those historical events. Think about it, if the Soviet is the sole reason for their plight, why are they attacking the US?
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@bullveigh2526 if you still believe that russia lived under tyranny and have next to no freedom, you clearly have never been to russia. 79% russia supported putin still, and approve of the SMO. I dont know what sort of "freedom" you are talking about. We live just like everybody else. We work, we eat, we drink, etc. If it's about criticizing the government, YOU CAN ABSOLUTELY DO THAT. NFKRZ, 1948 (or whatever the number is for that channel) they are spewing anti russian BS on youtube all the time, yet at no point they got arrested for it. And you clearly have never been to russian telegram and see how angry people are during the kharkov defeat.
What's not allowed is an act of sedition, this is illegal in almost every country on earth, including the united states. Unfortunately, this is what the western media often twisted, ommited the sedition part, to create this narrative of russian citizen crackdown.
Did you know that in ukr, the same act of criticizing the government can get you imprisoned? Check out AP reports for it where they are arresting the guy who has a negative opinion of the elensky government on social media. This is the country touted to be the "defender of democracy and european values"
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@bullveigh2526 i moved back and forth between russia and germany between 2012 and 2015 for work, now i settled down in southeast asia and only return occasionally to russia from time to time. So i know this very well. I also understand of russian perception outside of russia, i have met some people who's more supportive of russia here in the southeast asia than russians themselves, as well as people who saw russian as animals due to their personal view regarding the current war. Again, listening to only a few russians to confirm what you believed can lead to confirmation bias. Besides, there's no way to tell that the russian you met are saying what you want to hear, considering how much russophobia has taken place in western nations, where having a pro russian view can get you either killed, fired, or expelled.
We're not afraid of anti russian extremists in ukr, we are afraid of anti russian extremists being officially backed by nato. Remember the no nato expansion agreement. Then there's the issue of russian minorities getting killed all the time by these extremists. There may not be war in europe for a while (although you seem to forget Serbia) but there is war everywhere else, all for the sake of cheap energy for the prosperity of western nations. But understand that globally, people are tired of it. This is why the pivot to the east is taking place right now, globally. Same reason why BRICS is becoming so attractive to many nations.
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@hellothere1656 you didn't even try to argue that you are a muslim anymore and changed the subject. Btw al jazeera is part of the same western leaning media. The list are: france24, die welt, kanal13, abc, cnbc, msnbc, cnn, every british media, al jazeera, crux, vox, and many more. Check the polls, people have significantly lost trust on the msm. Which gave the rise to the independent news reporting. This is why independent media like democracy now and the gray zone has become more and more attractive.
People fled the crisis zone all the time. See mexico, venezuela, syria, even pakistan. The economic crisis is the main drive for migration.
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@hellothere1656 that's is complete horsesht. Lookup wikipedia article on who violated the minsk agreement the most. Ukr shelled donbass day and night despite signing the agreement to give donbas autonomy and to cease any aggressive action towards it. Again, this is what happens when you only listen to the MSM. You get brainwashed by the all gaslighting and memory hole.
The soviet action against every single of those nations are the results of US meddling. They tried to prevent communism from spreading into afghan, so they staged a coup, which led to soviet intervention. Same thing for georgia. Then ukr. The same action the US do that led to many deaths in indonesia, outright invasion of vietnam, iraq, libya, syria, etc. There has never been more toxic nation that caused millions of death in the world. You are complaining about russia being an imperialist colony that killed many when the US took the native american lands and put them in concntration camp called "reserves". Russia action is defensive, US is aggressive. As for the tsar era, that does not count because every country did the same thing. Napoleon, dutch east indies, british empire.... All invade everyone else.
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@hellothere1656 again, this comment shows how misinformed you are. Russia action is defensive, many analyst said as much. Even general Douglas macgregor says the same, along with scott Ritter, and many others. The proof for US intervention in ukr? Dont argue about this if you are too lazy to do research. There's Victoria nuland leaked phone call which serves as direct proof. Then there's US training of the far right militia which then handed over to canada. This is all talked about in the US media, I don't need to go over this. If you have not heard, then you are not qualified to have this argument.
The people of donbass composed of russian minorities. Dont assume things you don't know about them. I have relative who lives there, and i doubt you even know about the continuous shelling of city, urban center, and school by the same paramilitary trained by the US for the last 8 years. Even poroshenko himself said that "our kids will sleep safely in their homes while donbas kids will sleep in the basement" this is the regime you are supporting. A literal N A Z E E S. Need proof? Look for bbc news night reports from 2014. And the guardian article from 2018 about brainwash summer camp which is no different than the reich youth camp. DO NOT ASSUME WHAT DONBAS CITIZEN FEEL, YOU DON'T LIVE THERE. Or are you going to tell me you live in donbas now? Because your fantasy is getting wild.
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@hellothere1656 how funny you are claiming that Kazakhstan and china isn't happy, despite previously stating that china knows the US is after them. Kazakhstan is not even angry, they're indifferent. So too is china, and india, and the the rest of global south like the middle east, africa, and south america.
I've already provided proof, all from western media sites. Yet here you are, asking for more. Meanwhile so far you've never provided any, nothing but baseless speculation. Bailed russia when? It's the reason of the soviet collapse. The bailout in question comes with lots of strings attached, including the control of russian energy. But russia managed to get out of it.
Your response to the statement about donbass being russian minority makes no sense. Sure there's a hundred thousand fleeing the country during mobilization, but 143 million stayed. Does that mean 100k people hate putin and 143 million love putin? U funny guy 🤡🤡🤡
Compare the number of civilians killed during 8 years and during first week russian invasion. Sure! 14k vs 800! Today the number stood at 6k, but still not half of the ukies killed in 8 years! The figures comes from the amnesty international, by the way.
This is all that's going on. You speculate, i provided source to back up my claim, you speculate again. This is an endless cycle, kinda like talking to a goat. You need to understand that repeating the "russia bad" mantra over and over wont make it a reality. The global south, which makes up of 85% of global population, agreed with my view, so your opinion really does not matter 🤣🤣🤣🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
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@hellothere1656 again, this is full of speculation. What cracks in relationship? Putin and xi has communicated, even hold military drill together, during russia war with ukr. The jet engine can be outsourced from many, including russia, ukr isn't the only one producing it. And like i said, the bailout comes with lots of strings attached, it has nothing to do with preventing russia's collapse/split, when the US itself is the supporters of baltic states secession, This also comes with the takeover of russian energy and resources. It is a literal debt trap policy which the US accused China of doing, in hope of controlling the national resources. But russia managed to wean itself off the debt, and set itself free. "Do you have any idea how many countries received training from the US" this is not even an argument, you literally proved my point. the US has no business training several groups of far right, russophobe anti-russian militias without seeking to put the country on track of war with russia. I've provided the proof of the coup, there is nothing more to say than that the US involvement are so thorough and all-in.
Funny you said that 143 million don't have the luxury to leave, when putin approval is at 79%. Only a few russians disliked putin. You, however, know nothing about this and believe what you want to believe because you are so delusional. You don't even lived in russia, i don't know how you came to this conclusion. I did read, however, the same narrative coming out of british media. Russian are patriotic people, but just like everywhere in the world, there will be some who didn't like the government, for whatever personal reason they have.
3k and 20k? From the UN? Kindly provide sources please! I can provide the amnesty international sources if you want 🤡🤡🤡🤡
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@Deno2100 everyone knows the danger and effects of climate changes, but we simply have no reliable alternatives for the moment. This is not something we can rush. Ditching hydrocarbon all at once may save the climate, but it will hurt the livelihood and create an economic disaster. Look at europe today, a small cut of 30% source of hydrocarbon from russia already led to a catastrophic socioeconomic in europe. Ditching it completely will destroy the society we have built, sending us back to barbarism and conflicts, which stems progress and transition to green energy completely, which will then lead us back to hydrocarbon, for no gains.
If the WEF agents are as good as they say they are, they should not have told us to ditch hydrocarbon; they should provide us an alternatives by investing heavily on promising green tech like the fusion reactor or more durable wind turbine that does not produce too much E-waste on both production and maintenance like we currently have. But they don't, their goal is to make money and push for more control, not losing money.
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there is a limit to lies they can push. as a source of public information, there is an integrity to protect. if they kept saying that ukr is winning but the red area on the map is only getting bigger, they will lose people's trust. best they can do now is not telling the whole truth like ukr losses, capture, retreat, or defeat.
generally if you want to know how truthful a news source is, look at the stance the country that's the news is based. france, under macron, is in favor of diplomatic solutions. meanwhile Burger and Fish'n'chips are in favor of war. germany is hopping in between. which is why DW is basically germany CNN. china news sources is more truthful, but they will not cover russian losses, at least not in terms of number.
the west based their info from ukr sources, doesn't matter if its true or not as long as it fits the propaganda they are trying to shove. the 2 food countries are named that way not out of resentment, just trying to avoid cesnorship.
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@Ytuser485 that sort of circumstantial evidence is easy to manipulate. Especially after the fact. And I can point out multiple of these so called "intercepted calls" on both sides which proven to be false, including the one ukrgovt provided at the UN which allegedly came from "deceased ru soldier" This is the kind of manipulation tricks any authoritarian regime do to justify their actions. There are also "evidence" of dtrump collaborating with the Kremlin, and this accusations is backed by multiple intelligence agents mind you, yet when probed, the link collapse very quickly, even some of those agents tried to vindicate themself by arguing that on technical and legal basis, they didn't state what people say the do exactly, basically they only insinuate the point and not making a verifiable accusations. And these "11 parties with Kremlin ties" happens to be opposition, pushing for peaceful solution, whereas the remaining, not persecuted ones are in line with the govt agenda. Your comment is proving my point, not refute it.
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@akselmani chinese chipset like those made by SMIC is actually okay. Plus homemade chips as well as the imports are also okay for the purpose of running the server, corporate, weaponry, etc. It is also pretty decent for its needed purposes. There's no need for a gaming grade chipset unless the situation demands. Plus, there's always a third party seller that can forward those to russia if the legal route is unavailable. And if the war did not end the way the west wants, i doubt they will lift the sanctions either. So even if the war ends, there's no guarantee the global price will stabilise. The 2014 sanction is punitive to russia, the latest ones hurt everyone in the world more than russians. even the mid/low income people in a country with a strong economy is affected. But the one that felt it the most is the poor in 3rd world countries. Egypt, africa, sri lanka. All having food shortages. Russia is seeing decreased wheat export due to sanctions and india just banned wheat export, while indonesia banned palm oil export. I fear global recession is where we are all heading.
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@RonBerg1 not sure why you said russian aircraft havent done much, they fly hundreds of sorties mission each day (the number is 200-300 according to new york times). Aircraft like SU 25, SU 27, SU 30, SU 35, TU 160, and to a limited extend, SU 57, all have done their parts. SU 25 fly directly over the combat zones, while more advanced aircraft like the SU 35, SU 57 and a dedicated bomber like TU 160 usually carries long range guided missiles and fire them from behind the lines (tho not always, TU 160 in particular has flown deep into ukr territories to hit distant ammo depot/repair station, that according to latest reports, any damaged equipment had to be serviced in poland, because russian keeps striking repair station in ukr). There are tons of video taken from the missile camera hitting ukrane ammo depot, and whenever Konashenkov's report says "using air based missiles" this is what he meant. Ukr had done a dozen offensives towards kherson region, and each time they were repelled thanks to air support. If you want to see a video of russian aircraft in ukrane, go to odo puiu event channel, he seems to have a fascination with airplanes. Channel like french foreign legion in the ussr also had some videos of the war.
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@RonBerg1 i do follow quite some indian channels. Amit segupta, wion, tfi global, free democracy, and more. Turkish media too, like TRT. I don't speak arabic. But I've seen arabic skit making fun of biden. I also follow chinese media like cctv, ctgn, shanghaieye, then also south american media like telesur. All of these media condemns the west and it's proxies, not russia. If you think i live in an echo bubble, you are wrong. I follow many media, including western one like bbc, france24, cnn, nyt, bloomberg, ap, dw, reuters. I know that venezuela aircraft was just seized by argentina due to pressure from collective west, the excuse they are using is that it carries iranian signatures. Argentina is neither part of nato or EU, so sanctions shouldn't apply. The only thing i can say about the west is that it impose it's rules upon others yet do anything it wants using weak justification. US had illegally occupied northern syria for years and stole their oil simply because they dont like the leadership. Now why are there no sanctions for such blatant violation syrian sovereignty and international law? It's rules for thee but not for me. Collective west is a hypocritical, thieving colonialist power that impose it's rules on anybody it wants but do whatever it want regardless of international law. Have you read anything on rules based order? Nothing within it's pages mention anything regarding international law. They make the rules and it applies only to others.
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@RonBerg1 ok, i guess we can discuss this in the future when it all came to pass. Bear in mind I'm not the only one saying what i said. Many analysts had predicted that the western hegemony is already on its way out. In fact, people had been predicting this since 2019, about the coming of a multipolar world that works on the basis of "law based order" instead of western "rule based order". The future is in the east, exactly in asia. The whole economic weaponization which is totally against the rules of the free market (that the west themselves popularized) had backfired badly and it worked greatly into the russia/china favor. So much so that the UK had relaxed the sanction a few days back, something the western media mostly kept quiet about. Which is why you see the US sowing chaos in ukrane, taiwan, and now kosovo. They are trying to stop this advancement towards the multipolar world through the great reset. This is not a wild conspiracy theory, go to the World Economic Forum official youtube channel. You'll see for yourself.
There is no need for me to join. I've fulfilled my mandatory service, and if i do enlist, by the time i finished training the war would already be over. Not that there's any guarantee they'll sent me anyway, russia had 1 million standing army and around 2 million reserves. The one deployed in ukrane numbered 250k. That's a quarter of standing army, rotated every few months. This is not ukrane that train it's troop for 2 weeks (some only got 2 days) before being sent to the frontline. Mark my words, this war would be over before winter. If it doesn't I'll come back here and i will tell you how wrong i was and you were right all along.
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@notaspy1227 according to verifiable sources, it's around 20k and approximately 60% of that not verified. these are the dead with names, which regiment they belongs, etc. BBC has an article on this.
of course, you can also believe the 200k figure which was never explained or broken down, who died and from which regiment if it makes you feel better.
the narrative that russia is charging into an MG in human wave, as well as the shovel narratives, that is pure fiction, just like the 200k figure.
you are not trying to argue my point, meaning you dont have facts, only fictional "feel good" narratives that have no basis in reality.
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@lukeamato423 there's no "build up". at the speed the west is arming ukrane, the ukranian will spend it faster than there are chance for build up. the german gepard has been destroyed, the ukranian air defense has been greatly degraded (the leaked documents admit as much) the tanks donated, only a few of them are modern and it's limited to the abrams (which has not even arrived yet) and leopard 2 (14 of them, courtesy of poland) the rest are old T62, unrefurbished T72, leopard 1, as well as some T55. it numbered in hundreds, but ukr has over 1k tank at the beginning of the war, and it is more modern. ukr aerial capabilities are virtually zero, and the army are green recruits who had 2 weeks training abroad.
so tell me, what build up are you referring to?
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@albertohusay3002 200 aircraft won't litter a 600 miles square nation, and 200 isn't that much. Then there's the issue of airports where the aircraft is to be serviced and fly from, of which only a few remain operational. At the beginning of the war, ukr used air attacks on a daily basis. Now, it can't even provide proper air support for its current offensive, and that alone says much.
The whole hooblah about defeating ukr in a few days is a strawman pushed by western media. No one in their right mind would believe a force of 40k would be enough to occupy a city with a population of 10 million. Rus strategy is basically coercion through force, to strong arm ukr into not joining an alliance that is for all reasons and purposes created to counter rus. If it worked, not only there will be very little bloodshed but also it wouldn't put russia in a position where it needed to occupy any territory. This is why they pulled back when it didn't work and focused on destroying the ukr military instead like they are doing now (demilitarization), and it has worked perfectly well. In fact, it has worked so well that many nato countries are complaining about depleted armory. In the UK alone, it will take approximately 10 years to replenish all the donated equipment.
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@ashwinidombale7158 that's quite a self-insert right there friend! But here's the thing: first, children are a curious being. in the drama, the person who was thrown down the well is pretty much okay, so i have no doubt she can't yet comprehend how much of a life threatening issue this was since the only place she saw it happened, everything is okay. I have no doubt she thought she was just playing around. And you know that at one point i thought the same as you, that I've never done anything horrible when i was a kid, but then i started to think back of the things i did, the reasoning behind it and how it makes no sense to me as an adult. And i have put a friend and myself in danger because we both thought the thing we did was not as dangerous as it's supposed to be, since the people who did it on the TV were okay. But this sort of phenomenon happens to many, there's been news where the children were basically trying to re-enact the WWE wrestling, particularly the elbow drop. A kid died, and everyone understands that the kid meant no harm since the elbow drop in WWE never killed anybody. Now as an adult we know the WWE staged, but kids don't and probably thought it was cool and they wanted to be cool also.
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@Liam Miller that is so untrue. The US has hit debt ceiling, inflation is still high, and dedollarization is going forward. Even the mainstream media is now talking about the effect of dedollarization, and more and more financial analyst are also talking about it. Even major US debt holders like the Switzerland bank and japan is now ditching the US Treasury bond en masse due to losses. This, on top of UAE talking about accepting oil payment outside of USD, is starting to hit the US. The effect will not be immediate, but it is coming.
China economy has just reopened, and more and more country is now getting RMB as reserves currency, at least until brics reserves are released. Have i told you argentina and the UAE as well as indonesia and several other nation is now considering joining brics? The US is on the road to ruin. Aging population is not an issue, the US, Japan, and italy has faced it for decades, but it's not collapsing. Get your news from reliable source next time 🤣🤣🤣
Taiwan? Seriously? How will the US set up a safe supply lines miles and miles away from it's mainland and taiwan being directly within the range of chinese anti ship missiles as well as cruise, ballistic, and hypersonic missiles? The US colonel and military analyst has said that the US has no chance fighting in chinese backyard.
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@theHDLify "if ethnic russian wants to be russian, they should move to russia" the land belongs to the indigenous. It's their home. They owned it. They've lived for generations in it. If they wanna take their land to russia, that's their choice, and their rights. Again, it's not 3k, it's 10k including the freedom fighters. And while i can say some is actually "collateral", you can't prove that all of them are. And the fact that ukr deliberately targeted the urban areas with petal mines meant that ukr killing of civilians is deliberate. Then you proceed to the unproven claim of deliberate russian killing and sexual assault. If it really did happen and they have proof supporting the claims, why did no one have ever brought it up to the hague yet? City bombings and russian civilians collateral? Oh right, let's see... According to the amnesty international, ukr military is using a meat shield. Not verbatim, but that's basically what it is. Something which the ukr government condemned and threw a tantrum over for being called out for.
English isn't my first language, so forgive me about some incorrect phrasing and grammatical error. I don't think i need to clarify this part because you seem to have understood them. As for bucha, an independent investigation was launched by the UN that covers not only bucha but also many other places found the results "inconclusive" and "crimes are committed by both sides". No mention of bucha to be true. Many even suggest that the dead in bucha is actually what ukr called "collaborators" and now they are dead.
I'd like to remind you that minsk came before the munich speech and nukes reacquiring statements. Which means that while russia accepted the minsk peace proposal for the sake of peace and upholding its Budapest agreement, ukr actively sought to break it by reacquiring nukes and not honoring the minsk. Budapest memorandum alone is enough for ukr protection, and by joining a military alliance against russia, ukr literally threatens the security of one of its protectors that is supposed to guarantee its safety. Again, by honoring the minsk, none of the feb 24 event would ever have started in the first place.
This part I don't get. you are acknowledging that the speech is taken out of context, meaning you have either seen it or acknowledge it's existence, why are you still asking me the link for it? Or maybe it's not the case that you've watched it and just making up some excuses about it's "being taken out of context"? Besides, youtube does not allow links anymore, I'm sure you can search for it on either google, youtube, or if you can't find it in either place, try yandex. Edit: i found it on one youtube search, on a channel called slavyangrad blog, along with translation.
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@theHDLify none of those areas you mentioned wants to secede from russia. Even Chechnya. There are a few foreign funded groups like the shekh al mansour regiment who wants to secede, the same one who now fights for the natsees that tramples on their religion by dousing bullets in pig fat, but who cares about them, they are irrelevant.
please provide sources with evidence of the video "russian shooting civilians" and "russian admitting committing crimes". Testimony from russian that's ukr prisoners are not valid, everyone knows how ukr is treating its prisoners of war. Hint: castration, torture, and shooting in the legs as well as outright execution.
You did not refute or provide evidence to deny the bucha events. So i can confidently say it's falsified.
Crimeans, even in recent bbc interviews, considers themselves russian. It was not an annexation when the whole population wants to be with russia. Even before the war it has a special status with it's own government, so it has every right to secede and merge with other nations, and russia has every right to provide protection from similar attack like the one in odesa or donbas. If ukr wanted peace, it should have negotiated instead of continuously shelling civilian areas. But clearly it is more interested in murdering unarmed civilians. Also, you are not denying the petal mines story which is now also been talked about by western MSM
Accusations of rape also extends to the ukr paramilitary group towards donbas populace, even wikipedia has noted this. Meanwhile none of the returned female soldiers from mariupol have any rape claims.
Now you are accusing me of making stuff up when that's all you've been doing with all the unproven allegations and a bunch of deflecting. I have no desire to continue this conversation when you don't even see the donbas citizens as people, just like your natsees patriarch in kiev. People say righteousness always prevails, and so it is up to russia to free the oppressed minorities, as well as to demilitarize the natsees and its backers. Russia did it in 1918, 1945, and russia shall do so again.
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@NickW92 you're trying to counter the argument by belittling ukrane, which is quite a pathetic copium. Need i remind you that before the war that it had the biggest standing army in eastern europe, almost 2k tanks (which is 10 times what the UK has) more than 200 fighter and air to ground support aircraft? It was literally the strongest army in eastern europe, stronger than poland, even before all the military and economic support. If the whole EU and nato can't even keep this nation from losing, how is it going to win in a direct confrontation?
I also like to remind you that the seized (or liberated) territory is the heart of the ukrane economy. Most fertile farmlands, biggest industrial complex, and biggest urban center. If ukr had to relinquish this area in a peace settlement, it will basically give away all of its important organs to keep itself alive. Why seize the area that the population hates you and provide no economic values when you can just seize the area where people like you and provide a huge economic value?
Finally, putin has said that the goal is denatzeefication and demilitarization, not a complete capture of the country. In valdai speech he even said that it is a pointless endeavor for the reason i stated above.
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@GrandmasterFU666 You don't need a court of law to maintain trust. If you think so, then there's something very wrong with you. And i doubt befriending people like you is a good idea. A guarantee is given, if one is unable to fulfill that, for whatever reason or excuse, then there is no obligation to trust them either. If they said they wont expand nato but did anyway, then their words that they won't wage war on russia is not to be trusted either. So why should we sit idly by and let them do what they want that goes against our interest?
You then touched the fact that russia continues supporting the separatist. Of course we do, your army didn't pull back to give the donbas the peace and autonomy they asked for. So why should we? We're not going to sit idly by when ukr army slaughters our kinsmen. And guess what, if ukr leave donbas alone, the LPR/DPR would have stayed where they were because even russia will not support any idea of expansion of donbas!
The budapest memorandum is about trading nukes in exchange for protection, nothing else! Nothing about crimea, nothing about donbas. Based on your logic, then russia can do it because it's not in the document! But even if we step back and accept the idea, ukr decision to join nato is on it's own a threat to the protectors (which includes russia) when the budapest alone is enough to guarantee ukr safety. What kind of protectorate threatens their protector? And if the protector's security is threatened by the protectorate, then it's the protectorate who dishonors the agreement signed and thus we are not obliged to follow them either!
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@jamesreisenauer1778 5? Seriously? No there's only 2 battleship sunk, that includes the Moskva and now the ivanovets. There are 3 landing ships as addition which are sunk, which, as the name says, landing ships, used to transport goods from ru proper into Crimea (although to a limited degree) and can't fire cruise missiles so it will be relevant in the actual war. There's no 5 battleship sunk, that's fantasy. There are more than 30 ships in the black sea fleet that can fire cruise missiles. The war had gone for almost 2 years now, and there were only 2 of them that were sunk. At this rate, it will take 30+ years to sink them all, and that if we consider ru won't put any new ships into their fleet. 2 years on and the support is already flagging, and you're expecting them to change the trajectory of the war? I'm not sure if you're ridiculously optimistic, or just delusional.
What claim? The post from pro ru blogger, or official claim? Because ru officially didn't put out any claims about which territory is about to fall, in fact they only ever announce a territory has been taken AFTER it was properly, completely, and securely in their hands (bakhmut, lysychank/kramatorsk, avdeevka, all announced after capture and has not been recaptured since). A complete opposite to ukr officials who always blab about "taking back 30 villages" which apparently has no name, or a grandpa's house/chicken farm which was called a "village". Then there's the "ukr has taken back 50% of the territory" claim from ukr backers which probably used an esoteric math to come to such absurd calculation. You are merely passing off unofficial ru claims as an official claims.
Face it, ukr is close to being finished. Even the leadership is in crisis, and the commander in chief refused to be fired by the president. How wild is that? We don't hear that kind of BS on the ru side. And how does that offensive go anyway? Didn't we get a trailer for that? Seems like it has a bad ending and there doesn't seem to be a plan for a sequel 🤣🤣🤣
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In 2 weeks time the russian will have finished their refresher training for the mobilized troops. There's a build up in belgorod, as well as belarus. In less than a month, russia will open several new fronts in kharkov and northern kiev, against ukranian military who's getting worn out. Remember that the ukranian is pulling troops out of kiev and odesa for their offensive in kharkov and kherson, respectively. without nato direct involvement, this war is reaching it's endgame.
On political front, russia is getting closer in it's gas deal with nato ally, turkiye. The plan to exert a pressure on the armenian to get out of the CSTO and join us led alliance to extend russian front, has not bear fruit. The global south is getting ever closer to china and russia, undermining the sanction regime led by the west. Political crisis is facing the UK and EU as well as to a lesser degree, the US.
On the economic front, all of the ukranian backing country is all facing an economic crisis. It's global, but they are getting the brunt of it. Lots of shortage of gas in germany, oil shortage in france, inflation crisis in the UK, leading to mass protest everywhere.
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