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@01101000011100100110 Sounds like you're spending time in other echo chambers. Vance also compared Trump to Hitler, but changed his mind after being offered a seat at the table.
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@e33d90 But is Russia pushing forward fast enough? It's been two months since Ukraine pushed into Kursk. If Russia doesn't push them out before the muddy season, Ukraine will have months of autumn and winter to fortify their position. Look what the Surovikin Line did to the previous counter-offensive. If Ukraine has six months to build a Syrskyi Line, that could strain any Russian push next year.
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@PsillyApeUSA This war goes back to their history of 1917-1921 Ukraine-Soviet War. Ukraine was fighting the Red Army, the White Army and Poland (aka Ukrainian Death Triangle) without outside help.
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@LancesArmorStriking People have genuine reasons for supporting Ukraine. Your refusal to even acknowledge that simple reality doesn't show an deep understanding of the issue. And because it's not based on a strong understanding, your conclusions are just as weak. How do you know when your opinions are grounded in emotion? Because no one is completely rational all of the time. Even ChatGPT "hallucinates".
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@harleyquinn8202 Russia's artillery has dropped significantly in two years. What's the condition of Russian artillery barrels after firing 60,000 rounds per day? Their firing rate is down by 75% now. It is safe to say that Russian advantage in artillery is not the advantage now as it was, thus the level of losses of Ukrainians is not as high now as you claim.
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@tylerisnthere2922 That grain deal ended 17 July 2023, so there was no "executive orders" there. It looked like a ChatGPT blurb fail. You didn't explain why the shipments aren't stopped since 17 July 2023.
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@davidcolley7714 You've run out of smart points to say if you have to fall back on old tired labels. Bandera has less impact than calling everyone a Nazi.
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@PeterPete The Russian economy grew by 4% by extreme measures by the Russian Central Bank. The rouble is still between 86 - 100 roubles to the dollar.
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@altaimountain "inflation is always a monetary phenomena" is an oversimplification. Simple models are opium of the mind in an increasingly complex world.
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You can't claim 22 times more if Western countries lack the political will. Has the EU sent the million 155mm shells they promised last year?
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@tylerisnthere2922 You're not answering the question. Your "one quick google search" is like saying "water is wet"
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@markopodganjek845 "bank can print money and throw it from helicopter as FED is doing" is a meme. Have you not bothered to look deeper? The flaw in "do your own research" is that you will stop looking once you find what you want to see.
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@SparinHere I can point to where Ukraine and Russia are on a map. They're the two largest countries in Europe. How can you miss that?
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@LancesArmorStriking Are you willfully ignoring the Holodomor? Dekulakization? GKO Order No. 5859ss? Polish Operation of the NKVD? Katyn Massacre? Russian history has been brutal to their neighbors since the Mongols invaded Moscow. Even today, Russians talk about "the Tatar Yoke" choosing to be as vicious to others as the Mongols were to them.
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@christianlibertarian5488 According to other economists, Milton Friedman is wrong. Making "something always..." claims is questionable. Desiring an oversimplified model of the world does not help when the world does change.
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@wolfswinkel8906 No one is backtracking. Just because you don't agree with something doesn't make it "propaganda". Your all or nothing mentality shows what kind of person you are.
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@williamzk9083 Is the F-16 the only option? JAS 39 Gripen was designed to be used with invasion in mind with austere environments.
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Russia is continually falling back in the Black Sea. Why can't the Black Sea Fleet push them back or at least stop the grain shipments?
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@terrysullivan1992 Putin can wait out two years by pulling back and refocusing efforts on attrition instead of taking territory.
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@LowenKM The current aid bills only last for two years. Russia can hunker down for a slow war of attrition for two years. It won't be comfortable but they don't have many options beyond an European winter of discontent or a change in the White House.
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@David.C01552 Where's that world bank report? Why would "the 4th biggest economy,going past Germany and Japan" need to freeze bank accounts in Euros or dollars to avoid a bank run?
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@kalacaptain4818 welcome to economics, it's more philosophy than dismal science. People are not rational actors and should not be assumed such in economic models.
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@davidcolley7714 Ukranians who joined the Berkut lean toward Bandera. Bandera is overrated but propagandists need something to drag out of the dust bin. The future is not the past. The younger generation of protestors are not the same as those older members of the Berkut.
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@simonpriest4345 Russia & Ukraine are in a stalemate and have been for a while. How do you miss that?
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@e33d90 Russia moves forward and Ukraine pushes them back. That's called a stalemate.
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@LancesArmorStriking "genuine reasons for not wanting to support Ukraine" boils down to simping for Russia. Genuinely not wanting to support Ukraine genuinely means not posting about it. Those I know personally who don't support Ukraine just go on with their lives. They don't feel a need to support Russia.
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@SparinHere America is the third largest country (in both land and people) in the world. There will be a wide range of people and opinions, so why assume they're all the same because of "some YT videos"?
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@LancesArmorStriking If Russia wanted peace, they would withdraw. Instead, they talk about Novorossiya and the Russkiy Mir. Listen to Vladimir Solovyov or Dmitry Medvedev, chair of the Security Council of Russia. Or Putin's own essay On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians
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@milanmarinkovic3016 European Union is still a major manufacturer. Germany is the third largest economy in the world and still has the largest manufacturing sector in Europe.
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@johnadam2885 If westerners are cowards, why is there an International Legion fighting in Ukraine? If Russians aren't cowards, why do they need blocking troops? Soviets had Order No. 227 and that culture continues with Russians in Ukraine. The Afghanis under Karzai were afraid to die, so Karzai was a poor choice. The US could have backed Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was a proven leader that kept both the Soviets and the Taliban out of the Panjshir, earning him the name of "Lion of Panjshir". bin Laden was so afraid of Massoud that 9/11 would be called off if they couldn't assassinate Massoud before 9/11. But Bush was too easily flattered by career politician Karzai. Massoud had an engineering degree, so he was more of a hard facts talker, which is how he managed to defeat the Soviets in the Panjshir.
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@milanmarinkovic3016 Why are you throwing out random memes about "Wolfowitz Doctrine" like they're bingo numbers? Have you also read Aleksandr Dugin's The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia from 1997? The ultra-nationalist and authoritarian ideology based on his idea of neo-Eurasianism which requires confronting the West, even if the West does not want war.
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@BratBugarin If Russians are patriotic, why did so many leave during partial mobilisation?
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@r.s.4174 Germany is not deindustrialised. They're the third largest exporter in the world. China's ghost cities and tofu dreg construction is failing.
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@johnadam2885 The US is only spending 5% of their defence budget, so they can afford Ukraine. You should look at the actual numbers, not just your feelings.
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@jesan733 The Mountain Pass Mine in California supplied most of the worldwide rare-earth metals from 1965 to 1995. It turns on and off depending on whether investors get an immediate return on investment. The reason why China is providing the rare earth minerals now is because the Chinese government pays to keep their mines running. It's also cheaper when Chinese companies don't have to pay to clean up the highly toxic mining processes.
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@strapamotortoit The Soviet Union accepted $11 billion in aid from US Lend-Lease, so how are they different from Ukraine?
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@ОнуфрийНечепуренко the GDP of modern economies is not strictly services. Which would have a greater impact on the world if the US stopped its agricultural exports or stopped online pornography?
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Claiming the Ukranians have a magic stealth drone from the Soviet era that can go hundreds of miles through Russia is Ghost of Kiev levels of theorycrafting all over again. It's simpler that the FSB attacked their own Russian bases to push the image as Ukrainians as out of control aggressors to increase support for the war by Russians (just like Putin did to increase support for the Second Chechen War when the FSB planted bombs in Ryazan and 3 other cities).
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@PeterPete Yes, I want to deny that. The Russians are doing poorly compared with what their numbers on paper would suggest. Have you forgotten the 40 mile stalled convoy?
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@PeterPete It's rough for Ukrainian soldiers in Avdiivka. Because war is always rough on anyone involved it. I doubt you would be able to handle it. Do you always surrender so easily?
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@qinby1182 Stop cherrypicking to spin a pro-Russia narrative. Most Western countries have debt below 80%. The ruble is no longer a convertible currency. Russian debt is growing every month the "special military operation" continues. The extreme capital restrictions from Russian Central Bank means you can't take your money out of the country and interest rates hovering around 20% are not sustainable in the long term.
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@qinby1182 Russia and Ukraine are at war, even if Russia insists on calling it a "special military operation". You can have a war and still sell pipeline gas. It's possible to say Russia invaded Ukraine because they wouldn't have to pay pipeline transit fees to Ukraine if it were conquered.
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@altaimountain If you can't bother to spell "you" correctly, why should anyone trust you aren't being lazy with other details?
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@johnhildenbrand2642 Those "gargantuan sums" amount to less than 5% of the US Defense budget. Sending 30 year old tanks to Ukraine saves money because it's cheaper to ship old tanks and missles than it costs to decommission them. Nearly all that money "spent on Ukraine" is actually money spent in the US in American factories to refill American stockpiles with newer 21st Century equipment to replace 30 year old stuff sent to Ukraine. New tanks creates new jobs for Americans.
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@MaximumEfficiency No, they work for the Heritage Foundation. Their Project 2025 is the new BlackRock.
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@ericp1139 Ukraine's allies are not broke. The US is only spending 5% of its defense budget on Ukraine aid. Germany is the 3rd largest economy in the world. The EU without the US is still 16 times large economy than Russia. Ukraine has been inside Russia in Kursk region for two months now. If Russia can't even control its own land inside its country, maybe it's Russia that is slowing down and losing momentum?
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@cameronspence4977 "neither side is technologically advanced enough to use them" is total bullshit. You don't need to be technologically advanced to use combined arms tactics.
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@romailto9299 Having nukes isn't better. Nukes didn't help the US win in Afghanistan, or the Soviets in Afghanistan during the 80s.
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@nikolaypetrov9789 where's the modern weapons? Where's the T-14 Armata? Where's the Su-57? Where's the combat ready force if it's relying on North Korea to supply it? They replaced General Armageddon with Gerasimov. That's a step backward.
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@hegulikekuli Those NATO countries are actually OBLIGED by Article 3 to spend enough on their own defence, but how many are actually spending their 2% of GDP on defence? If they want Article 5 protection, they need to uphold Article 3 expenditures.
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@misterpinkandyellow74 "Russia out produces NATO. 😂😂😂 Even NATO admits it" is pure copium. You can't claim "...admits it" just by saying it. You need actual quotes from real people.
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@frankrenda2519 US spent less than 5% of its defence budget on Ukraine aid, and it still put Russia at a stalemate for 3 years. Why don't you admit that Russia is struggling against countries that aren't even spending 2% of GDP on defence?
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@nikolaypetrov9789 Begging for old shells from North Korea and drones from Iran is still begging. Why is Russia begging?
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@nikolaypetrov9789 Russia has fought in Donbas for ten years now and still hasn't won. Russia can't protect its navy in the Black Sea or protect its borders near Kursk. Supplies from the West continue to increase. If Russia doesn't have a big breakthrough soon, they will run out of money in two or three years.
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@bearcubdaycare Why would Russia need mutual defence when they're the ones traditionally known for invading over the centuries? the Russian people aren't pushed into Putin's arms. The youngest brightest minds have already left Russia. Those who are still there will choose Putin no matter what you offer.
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@user-io3f4dx1j From the 2014 Minsk Agreements to 1774 Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, Russia has a long history over the centuries of not honoring agreements. Russia also persecutes people based on their ethnic origin. On 10 May 1944, Lavrentiy Beria recommended to Stalin that the Crimean Tatars should be deported due to their "traitorous actions". Stalin subsequently issued GKO Order No. 5859ss, during which NKVD agents went house to house collecting Crimean Tatars at gunpoint and forcing them to enter sealed-off cattle trains without food or water that would transfer them almost 3,200 kilometres. Many would die on the way.
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@mitchyoung93 "the daily vids of street brawls between Kiev's press gangs" is Whataboutism. Do those "press gangs" kidnap 19000 children like Russia has done for the Pied Piper of Moscow?
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@GregJ-ft5qk Russia isn't taking ground in the Black Sea. Don't cherrypick one small area and ignore the other fronts.
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@GregJ-ft5qk The more ground Russia takes, the more spread out Russia forces become. Russia is slowly but surely thining their ranks until their supply lines are overstretched. Have you forgot the 40 mile stuck convoy to Kyiv?
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@michaelotieno6524 The more land Russia takes, the more spread out they become. The longer their supply lines become, the longer it takes to supply. Third, Russia lacks the manpower, soldiers are deserting in droves and a huge male refugee population refuses to return home and fight.
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@misterpinkandyellow74 Russia is using north Korean soldiers. Russia has admitted this.
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@michaelotieno6524 The size of the Western economies is VERY relevant. Artillery is still the King of Battle. 8 million shells will shift the needle. It's lack of munitions, not lack of manpower, that is slowing Ukraine. Korea has the largest artillery stockpiles in the world.
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@michaelotieno6524 Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan are COIN conflicts, not LSCO wars.
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@Jimbo2193 "Experts say" is typical propaganda. Appeal to vague authority is a logical fallacy for a reason.
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@evgeniya7853 Global South isn't an economic bloc. They're unaligned states.
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@evgeniya7853 The Soviet Union waged war for FOUR years in the Soviet-Ukraine War of 1917-1921, but was saved by German aid from the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Russia can't win without outside help, be it Germany then or the US during Lend-Lease or NKorea today. Your claim that Lend-Lease weapons were only enough for one year ignores the fact that more weapons would continue to flow as long as the war lasted.
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@Jimbo2193 If you can, why haven't you?
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I thought they were called a Zerg Rush?
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@ Trump's no emperor. He caved on tariffs to Canada and Mexico.
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@ Speak for yourself. Are you American? DONT SPEAK FOR OTHER AMERICANS.
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@ There is no peace with Russia. "Peace for our time" appeasement did not work for Chamberlain. It will not work for Trump.
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@ Ukraine has won the Black Sea. Russia had to move their navy out of Crimea.
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@bernardzsikla5640 Why is Russia trading meters for bodies?
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@harleyquinn8202 Russian invasion forces have not "doubled" to 10000 rounds, because they used to be firing 60000 rounds. That's an 83% drop. You fail to understand that Ukraine has more support inside Russia than Russia has inside Ukraine, which is why Ukrainians can sneak throughout the country to blow up factories, fly short range drones through Moscow or those Russian trains blown up in a Far East mountain tunnel near China's border carrying Russian oil to China. If it's not Ukrainian special forces, it's rebel Russian locals.
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Ukraine is the next Northern Ireland / The Troubles if the US tries to pull an 1938 Munich Betrayal. Ukraine has been at war for 10 years now, unlike Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. There are still 20000 children stolen by Russia. Why would Ukrainian parents stop fighting, even if it required starting their own IRA style group? Look at Ukrainian resistance attacks inside Russia.
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@markmitchell457 The US has three parties: Democrats, Republicans and Trump. If Trump gets reelected, he could remove all support for Ukraine.
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@provisionalhypothesis There's ALWAYS a choice. If Ukraine loses the war, it becomes an irregular conflict like Northern Ireland during The Troubles. If Ukrainians were willing to march through police sniper gunfire to the Parliment during Euromaidan, why would they give up now? Unless Russia embarks on a Holocaust in Ukraine, they can't pacify Ukraine.
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@zorrofox8950 60% of all semiconductor-grade neon comes from Ukraine. After Russia invaded, neon prices went up 600%. That's why chips of all kinds from graphics cards to missle guidance has got more expensive the last three years. "not really rare" misses the point. If Ukraine wins, they can drop prices back down, making everything cheaper, be it grain or computer chips.
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@jorgemunozburgos4401 nuclear power doesn't win wars. Look at Vietnam War. Or Afghanistan, twice. Ukraine is the largest country contained in Europe. They have the space to do anything France, Germany or UK can do. They've shown repeatedly how much Russia underestimated them.
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@Brodahn Yes, look at history. The Troubles in Northern Ireland lasted 30 years with a group that had "no real power". Or the Irish independance before that. How did Ireland become free when it had no "real power"? Or the slave revolt in Haiti that gained its independence?
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@jorgemunozburgos4401 Crimea was its own country for centuries. They signed the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca in 1774, a peace treaty with Russia, which Russia violated when they invaded Crimea in 1783. 200 years after the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, Russia signed the 1994 Budapest Memorandum with Ukraine, which Russia also broke by invading to steal land.
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@BTinSF Israel has been the largest recipient of United States aid since the 1970s. How long would Israeli "capacity for self-defense" last without US military aid?
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@jorgemunozburgos4401 There was no promise about not expanding NATO. This is well-documented in the book Not One Inch by M. E. Sarotte. A suggestion from a diplomat is not the same as a promise from a President. President Bush told Baker "HELL NO"
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@Brodahn No, that's how you want it to be. But you aren't the Main Character here.
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@BTinSF Ukrainians are an extraordinary tough people. They've been fighting Russia for 10 years, only the last 3 years with outside help. They fought the 1917 Ukrainian-Soviet War for four years, against three armies (Red Army, Russian White Army and Poland) aka Ukrainian Death Triangle, without any outside help. It took Germany to force them out of the war.
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@BTinSF Israel has a booming economy due to being #1 in US aid for decades. How would Israel look if only got the aid that Ukraine got?
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@BTinSF Or Israelis would turn on each other, just like Israelis assassinated their own prime minister for attempting peace talks. Ukraine isn't that vicious.
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@VAXXINHARDCORE Russia should give Kaliningrad back to Poland.
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@lqr824 Your longer comment is garbage. You should be ashamed of how muddled it is. You need to communicate more clearly.
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@Mikilangelo All sides lose men in wars. This is real life, not a GI Joe episode where the bullets zoom past everyone so they can continue giving speeches and one-liners.
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@a.brekkan4965 Are you cherrypicking Österreichs Bundesheer videos?
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@antebratincevic6764 So if I disagree with you, then I'm the one who's a bot? Not very nice.
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@antebratincevic6764 "Ukranians drive expensive cars, and at the same time here we have thousands of homeless people without any income." is the same rhetoric I've heard about local welfare recipients for over 30 years. If you want to tear people down, you should expect others will do the same to you.
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@youuuuuuuuuuutube Italy is third-most populous and third-largest economy in the eurozone, so that's not saying much for Russia's economy
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@sel7245 If it's won in a very short time, it's not a war. That's just a battle.
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@astromikael Because Bush chose Karzai, a slimy career politician, over Ahmad Shah Massoud, a proven fighter who kept both the Soviets and the Taliban out of the Panjshir Valley, earning the name "Lion of Panjshir". Massoud had an engineering degree and was educated in Europe. bin Laden was so scared of Massoud that he would call off 9/11 if they couldn't assassinate Massoud before 9/11. Karzai's control fell apart when his money fountain dried up.
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@thijsjong The focus is not on Gaza. The focus is on the US Election. They're not "eating the dogs, eating the cats" in Gaza.
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@ragnardunderdase3473 Capitalism is better suited to supplying 300k soldiers than dictatorship economics. Neither Russia nor Ukraine is sending "all your men" to war if they're only sending 27 year old men or older. Russia hasn't even started pulling middle class men from Moscow or St Petersburg.
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@BarryGee-pm6rv You may not have noticed but Ukraine has been in Kursk for two months and the muddy season is coming soon. If Russia can't push them out by the muddy season, Ukraine will have the rest of autumn and winter to reinforce their position in Kursk.
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@forbaldo1 Why did Stalin kill 10 Million of his own people?
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@mutantgenepool If the US has chosen to back Ahmad Shah Massoud (known as "Lion of Panjshir" for keeping the Soviets and the Taliban out of the Panjshir) instead of Karzai, then the US would have left a stable Afghanistan years earlier.
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@philipdupont2308 New York state has more people than many entire countries in Europe. NY is bigger than Netherlands, Belgium or any Nordic country.
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@JaroslavBrabec-iz5eb Stop making up random bullshit.
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@Chantillian Look at how long the Soviet Union was in Afghanistan.
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@PeterPete Okay, I'll be waiting to hear from you in 30 days.
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@Dicka899 Russia hasn't retaken the Black Sea or Kursk. Why so slow?
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If Russia had enough volunteers, they wouldn't need North Korean soldiers.
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The war is NOT about to end. "Russia’s casualties are at a low ebb right now whereas they have only been increasing for Ukraine." is wishful thinking that you have no proof for.
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@altaimountain Or it's a fundamental article of faith for certain groups that worship market forces.
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@gareth4045 Cold hard numbers do not care about vibes. If you want to get the facts correct, you need to think professionally. That includes spelling correctly.
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@christianlibertarian5488 How do I know you will act in good faith with an economist who has a different worldview than you?
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@gareth4045 "usage changes according to context" sounds like a step toward post-truth ideas. You're offering vibes, not "cold hard fact". How you communicate shouldn't change what you communicate.
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@Nauda999 Some people seem to enjoy culture wars, but those suck too.
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@DrVictorVasconcelos That's not cutting through the bullshit. That's just adding noise to a noisy internet.
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@Nauda999 price wars don't suck for customers
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@wolfswinkel8906 You are not objective.
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@gregvanpaassen Advertising copy-writers or financial analysts can do production of materiel, or for logistics. Like Russian bakeries are being used to produce drones.
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@major__kong Why doesn't the US have the labour supply?
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@whitescar2 But does Germany have more raw materials than Russia to make that stuff? I thought Germany's economy was based heavily on exporting finished goods?
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@whitescar2 The Germans invent things if they can't import them. Germany's Haber-Bosch process has increased food yields that caused the population explosion from around 1 billion in 1900 to 8 billion people in 2022. Half of the nitrogen atoms in the body of an average person today once passed through a chemical plant and participated in the nitrogen-to-ammonia Haber-Bosch reaction. Over half the people living today would not exist without that German invention. Perhaps no other human invention has had a more dramatic impact on Earth than Haber-Bosch chemistry.
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@whitescar2 Rare earth metals aren't rare. The Mountain Pass mine in California was the world's largest producer of rare earths in the 20th Century, but RE refining is extremely expensive or highly polluting. China does not care about pollution so they can produce more than everyone else at a lower price. The Mountain Pass mine in California has gone through many cycles of going bankrupt and going dormant as the price swings. The wastewater from that RE mine is radioactive because of the presence of thorium and radium, which occur naturally in the rare-earth ore. A federal investigation later found that some 60 spills—some unreported—occurred between 1984 and 1998, when the pipeline and chemical processing at the mine were shut down. In all, about 600,000 gallons of radioactive and other hazardous waste flowed onto the desert floor, according to federal authorities. By the end of the 1990s, Unocal was served with a cleanup order and a San Bernardino County district attorney's lawsuit. The company paid more than $1.4 million in fines and settlements. That would never happen in China. So there's no WW3 problem caused by China restricting imports of rare earth elements. The problem is the struggle between corporations wanting cheap rare earths versus local cities who don't want radioactive leaks or blackened skies.
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@Eder-bk5mm "3 days to Kyiv" is the grandchild of previous Soviet "Seven Days to the River Rhine" thinking.
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@traumvonhaiti The difference was Prague was at peace in 1968 and didn't have "little green men" instigating seperatists in Slovakia in 1960, but Ukraine had been fighting "little green men" in its east for eight years before Hostomel so they had years to prepare for exactly that situation.
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@NDJ1978 Afghanistan, for both Soviet and US, were COIN operations. Ukraine is LSCO, which is different from Libya and Iraq. If you keep going down the list, you should make sure not to confuse the two.
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@Leiska86 Taliban Afghanistan was crushed due to the help of Ahmad Shah Massoud, one of greatest guerrilla leaders of the 20th century and was assassinated on 9/9 as part of the 9/11 attacks. Had Massoud survived, his Northern Alliance would have turned the country against bin Laden. bin Laden would have called off 9/11 if he couldn't assassinate "the Lion of Panjshir" first.
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@dpelpal Russia hasn't lost yet. Both Russia and Ukraine are armies made up of 50 year olds.
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@NDJ1978 The MIC does not exist. it's been overtaken by Big Tech.
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@NDJ1978 Why can't Russia control the Black Sea against an opponent without a Navy? Russia backed out of the grain deal, but can't blockade or sink the grain boats leaving Odessa for African markets.
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@traumvonhaiti It's not a fight or flight situation. Hostomel was part of a larger counter-offensive, which involved blowing up all the rail links on the Russian-Ukraine border to the east 300+ miles away.
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@NDJ1978 Can you explain the confusion?
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@NDJ1978 The Strait of Hormuz still carries a third of LNG and 25% of oil. Until that flow is blocked, those rebels are just showboating for optics, not control. The Ever Given did more to block trade than the rebels ever did in the Strait of Hormuz.
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@NDJ1978 So why can't Russia sink grain boats in the Black Sea? Are you saying those Red Sea rebels are more powerful than the Russian navy?
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@traumvonhaiti Kyiv put up a fierce fight when the Mongols invaded, so they have a long history of not surrending, unlike the Moscovites who chose to submit and grew rich as their tax collectors instead of facing the decimation that Kyiv faced at the hands of the Golden Horde.
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@dpelpal America could have prevented 9/11 if Bush had given more support to Ahmad Shah Massoud and the Northern Alliance over the empty promises of Hamid Karzai.
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@NDJ1978 Why are Houthis more effective than Russian Navy? Houthis don't have an aircraft carrier like Admiral Kuznetsov or flagship of Black Sea Fleet, cruiser Moskva which was the most powerful ship in the region. As of 31 Dec 2023, Ukraine has moved 13 million tons by sea on 430 vessels, since the grain initiative ceased.
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@ThomasTomiczek But can Putin win? Wouldn't a "win" in Ukraine just become an insurgency like The Troubles in Northern Ireland? The Ukrainians have been fighting on and off for over a century now, from the Ukrainian–Soviet War from 1917 to 1921 where they fought both the Red Army and the White Russian Army in the Ukrainian Death Triangle to the Orange Revolution in 2004 and Euromaidan in 2014.
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@MarcosElMalo2 I always see Perun's Sunday video. It wouldn't be a proper Sunday without it.
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@LowenKM Minsk Protocol and Minsk II were signed by the current Russian Federation, which broke both of them. So it's not just "the former and now non-existent Soviet Union" but the current Russia. It's a pattern going back centuries to Imperial Russia signing the 1774 Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (like the 1994 Budapest Memorandum) and deciding to invade Crimea in 1783. The Crimean War followed later.
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@truthseekerodinson5094 If there's still 2.7% unemployment, there's still more workers that can fill jobs.
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@truthseekerodinson5094 Ukraine signed the first Minsk Protocol in August 2014 with the current Russian Federation, which broke it. So French president François Hollande and German chancellor Angela Merkel tried again with Minsk II in 2015. Trying to handwave away the Budapest Memorandum is ignoring how the same thing happened with Minsk I & II (and Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca if you want to go back to 1774 Imperial Russia). Russia's aggressive behaviour continues to be the same over the centuries.
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@Gilder-von-Schattenkreuz Russia's attempts at pacifying a conquered Ukraine would be no better than England's attempts to pacify Ireland during the time of Troubles.
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@milanmarinkovic3016 Russia has no right to terrorize Ukrainian speakers in Kursk Oblast, so Ukraine went into Kursk. Budapest Memorandum was not based on Ukrainian neutrality. Read the document. If Russia wanted that, they should have written it into the document before Russia signed it. Or Russia could have included it into Minsk Protocol or Minsk II, but Russia did not.
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@milanmarinkovic3016 Those citizens don't need to risk life and limb fighting if they're willing to build millions of artillery shells for Ukraine like the EU promised last year. Defence factories are better paying jobs than Walmart greeter, Amazon warehouse or having people scream and curse you all day at a call center.
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@ericp1139 Russia didn't last in the 1853-1856 Crimean War. It ran out of money. Even the 1917 Ukrainian–Soviet War took four years as the Ukrainians fought both the Red Army and the White Russian Army in the Ukrainian Death Triangle with no help from the US.
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@AlexKarasev "Minsk I & II signed in bad faith" is a meme that Russia repeats. If you ask for actual quotes or other proof, all you'll get is deflection and distraction. Russia breached the clause by interfering in 2004. Look at the Kuchmagate Cassette scandal. Yanukovych lost his election and called in Russia troops in response.
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@StepDub I'd say at least three years, not eighteen months. Eighteen months is way too short. It's "three days to Kyiv" thinking.
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@koja69 Russia does not respect agreements. "I am not even sure I can consider you a human being" isn't a civilised way to act towards others.
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@AlexKarasev Eighteen months after the war, but wars drag on for years. This war can easily go for another two years. Let's wait until 2027 before we see how this video held up.
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@black_triton9264 The Kiel Institute Ukraine Support Tracker paints a different picture. More than 3 NATO members can make the 2% commitment.
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@silafaupaulmeredith7251 Mexico does not want to "join a Security Alliance" with overseas powers. Have you forgotten the Zimmermann telegram? Or were you never educated on that? Not every country acts like Russia. Minsk 2 only exists because Russia violated Minsk I. Mexico has the right to choose and they chose Free Trade Agreements with the US and Canada. Show me where this "...but according to Merkel" quote was printed in a newspaper or recorded in a video. You can't just put words in Merkel's mouth. If you can't show where she said that, you've shown us lies. Why should we trust a proven liar?
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@texazwhyte2791 US inflation is down. US unemployment is down. Producing new tanks for the US to replace the 30 year old tanks sent to Ukraine is creating new well paying jobs for Americans. Infrastructure reconstruction is creating more jobs for Americans. Crime in US is down, consumer spending is up.
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@texazwhyte2791 "cutting interest rates" does not mean printing more money. cutting interest lowers mortgage rates, which increases home sales and saves current homeowners more in their pocket. increased home sales leads to more construction jobs created. Did you get "printing more money" bit from social media gossip? People will say anything there.
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@amunra5330 If Ukraine was sent what the US sent the Soviets during Lend-Lease, Russia would lose the war, just like the Germans lost against the Red Army.
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@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 Is "migrant crysis" a new DLC patch for the upcoming Crysis 4 game?
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@moonstone3662 I'm guessing the statistic was pulled from a RUSI or SIPRI report. Have you read their reports?
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@thomasthereal4067 1974 was fifty years ago, not 40. The F-35 requires much more infrastructure to support, which limits its use, compared to JAS 39 Gripen, which was designed with good short-field performance for a defensive dispersed basing plan (Bas 90) in the event of invasion.
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@user-yq2wk6yg8s Do those TV documentaries have actual names or are you just amplifying rumors?
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@Zedgo99 "Because capitalism" has become a thought-terminating phrase. Is everyone reduced to a mustache-twirling supervillian or NPC in your eyes?
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@yellowtunes2756 "vast majority of NATO countries admitted to have completely run out of equipment" doesn't actually name the countries, because you know you can't back that claim up.
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@Andreas-gh6is The Ukrainian aircraft can use bombs or glidebombs. If Ukraine can get Franken-SAMs to work, they can work the same magic with other munitions. Ukraine has got generations of experience from being the heart of Soviet military production.
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@romailto9299 It's not Russian nukes that contain the US. It's the US election. The 1853 Crimean War didn't last 5 years and it bankrupted Imperial Russia, which sold Alaska to the United States.
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@richard2218188 The "west" had a choice between Ahmad Shah Massoud (who kept modern Taliban and the Soviets in the '80s out of the Panjshir) or Hamid Karzai (a ivory tower politician with no military experience). When Karzai's money dried up, his influence through corruption went with it. bin Laden was so scared of Ahmad Shah Massoud "the Lion of the Panjshir" that he would call off 9/11 if Massoud couldn't be assassinated before it.
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@richard2218188 Russia lost the First Chechen War. Putin had to bribe one of the opposition leaders in order to win the Second Chechen War. Even now, the son of that leader is extorting Putin for millions to keep Chechnya from breaking away again.
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@nikolaypetrov9789 Trump can't even build the Wall. He didn't get rid of Obamacare. He acts like he's on a reality TV show, not a leader of a country. If Trump gives up on the war, it's a sign to China that the US is weak. Expect prices to be so much more expensive from China. If Russia ended the war now, wages would collapse. So many companies depending on government contracts would go under. How many millions would leave looking for jobs?
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@ericp1139 The US election.
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@nikolaypetrov9789 No one is winning this war. Ignoring things that don't agree with what you want to see is not truth.
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@ari_a2764 Ukraine's biggest problem isn't manpower. It's how to adapt strategy when promised aid does not show up. You can't clear a city with promise notes.
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@ari_a2764 "You will find figures of shell production easily" means you can't find them. Otherwise, you'd tell us the name of the report or Org that released them.
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@ari_a2764 zalushnj "admitted" no such thing. You're just spin doctoring to see what you want to see.
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