Comments by "Kath" (@Kath-nd6pj) on "The Telegraph" channel.

  1. As Christians we should be supporting whoever needs protection from genocide. Their ‚religion’ matters not.
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  2. Yes, their turn of phase is as if they are accusing Ukraine for the audacity of even asking for help. That These fighters that have for the past year been face to face, day after day in the war zone may have a diffiert view of certain situations than some USA learners generals miles away, hiw dare they! Many analysts have noted that warfare with drones has moved on, western military is learning alternatives from thise n Ukraine all the time. As for disagreements within the Ukrainian leadership, Churchill was for ever at odds with the military minds, with allies leaders, with everyone at some time or other throughout the whole of WW2. Even more so than us puplic were ever nade aware of.
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  3. Quality reporting today. Good reporting from Georgia and a great interview Dom.
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  4. Get a feeling the price for those Iranian drones was military assistance or/and hacking the Israeli defence dome, cyber attack or such.
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  5. „0ut of strength and WISDOM“. Spontaneous laugh out loud from me!
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  6. A cynic could say, they sell more weapons this way. Come up with the good stuff too fast, then less chance of getting rid of the unwanted near obsolete first. Saving on storage costs etc. But chances are they mostly feared Russia then Putin’s new friends in China, North Korea and India would get their hands on the more modern technology in ambush.
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  7. @richardmarsden5610 The statement Putin announced “I have no plans to take Karkiv”. Is to be read in the same mode as back in .February 2022: “no plans to invade Ukraine.” Kremlin has long ago announced they want the whole of Ukraine. Putin only wanted to appease Xi with that announcement.
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  8. No. Real harm done. Russian expert said we assume Russia considers Germany will not make the same error again and have released the tape to cause upsets within the allies. Russia has spies in Ukraine too. If they valued this way of listening they would have kept quiet about it hoping to gain further and more important information in future.
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  9. @frank834skinner3 except no one is attacking Russia. Ukraine is defending itself by countering their war machine.
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  10. @djfrankwhyt5860 with hands tied , they did know but were prevented . That has changed since then. More drones, jamming etc.
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  11. From the funeral prayer: “Good will not be defeated”
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  12. Russia would have turned the gas back on!
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  13. The UK unfortunately closed its ammo factories and moved production to Hungry years ago. Bad choice it seems considering Hungry‘s present stance to aiding Ukraine.
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  14. Rubbish.
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  15. Probably can estimate factory output and they know what weapons were loaded onto transport from N.K. They may have a track on cash transaction with Iran? There are many ways Military experts can estimate such things. Never underestimate the enemy seems a prudent rule to me.
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  16. In the USA WW2 they raised money with „war bonds“
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  17. Difference is we have checks in place. In places like Russia everyone knows the voting is just a charade.
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  18. Same could have, and was said of the situation of the allies many times during WW1 and WW2. But some things are morally worth persevering for.
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  19. Don‘t forget apart from the critic Trump got for not visiting the USA burial grounds, he did appear impressed by the parade in Paris and asked for the same to take place in Washington.
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  20. They picked up a radio message saying lost contact. I should think equally or even more so of a loss for Russia will downing of the the specialist crew into the sea. Is it likely there are more or fewer suitabley trained pilots than planes?
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  21. Stay in Russia then
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  22. @RyanBrown the Russians were in Afghanistan before then. How did they get on?
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  23. A huge amount of Ukrainians are not in the country right now and there are sways of the Country under occupation. A fair election would be nahe impossible. Unnecessary extra admin apart from the danger of election centres being bombed. If Puin can bomb cafes he would most certainly bomb them too. The U.K. had a special combined government during WW2. In wartime the people need to pull together. We had many displaced persons at that time too. Entirely different for Putin. He wants to display his „popularity“. The results are preprescribed anyway. Plus he recently changed the rules alowing himself extra terms in office (previously restricted). So he must make good on that power grab move to fein legitimacy to his „poplar“ presidency.
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  24. Not Russian built.
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  25. Trump and Carlson have visited Orban in Hungry earlier on in this war. Trump has praised Orban enthusiastically too. But neither interested in visiting war torn Ukraine. I believe Trump would love to visit Putin, but is more worried about that image to actually go. Huge wonder what the Russian diplomatic Plane parked alongside Trump‘s private plane recently was all about.
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  26. @goldenoriolesilverbirch8220 she would not be in charge of what Russia does. Only that Russia are atm. having a lot of problems with their ethnic provinces in the Eastern regions. Possibly because the Russian army no longer has a grip there having being relocated to the war in Ukraine, or replacing their troops in Africa. They could also have gripe that so many of their youth and older menfolks have been recruited into this war and are coming back deceased, or just missing. And also China is quietly making moves into the Eastern parts, while Putin’s focus is on Ukraine. Moldova, Poland etc. it is normal to keep an eye on what is happening in neighbouring countries. And believe it or not most of Europe is worried for Russia. We do not want even more fighting and it is better if Russians too could live in peace with their neighbours. Does not change the fact that Putin needs to get OUT of Ukraine. Russian resources could then be returned to general maintenance, upkeep and prosperity for ts own country and people. How they deal with the increasingly fractured country will be up to them. Putin seems reliant on perpetual war footing to stay relevant and keep strong hand on power. Putin is Russia’s worst enemy, not the rest of Europe.
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  27. Trump has no problem with lies. He tells one after the other. A bit of a hobby of his. Crowd sizes, personalities praising him. Highest ever this, lowest ever that. „stable Genius“. On and on.
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  28. And longer term profits to the armament industry. Imagine it had all been over by now?
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  29. Apetape375 Masses of graves were dug for the discovered bodies in places like Bucha. Russians slaughtered civilians.
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  30. Quite a lot of rambling though. I found it very hard to follow to be honest.
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  31. Different reports so either Three or four were in in the terrorists car.. However six have been captured and beaten up so far. Someone suggested one or more had been Moscow taxi drivers. To me it seems they are trying to divert from why it took an hour and a half for security to walk from one end of the street to the other. Doors locked. No on hand concert security etc. By quickly arresting whoever as soon as possible. If they beat them enough they will confess to anything and they willlook strong and efficient. Strong, brutal, efficient being adjectives that most please boss Putin.
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  32. That was scuppered by what was discovered in .Bucha when they returned from The meeting with the Russians in .Ankara. Plus knowing that Putin had backed iut if every deal he made in the past.
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  33. Yes, ignorance. Hope he knows more about US diversity.
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  34. There is a lot of interference with the comments on this thread. I have had three totally harmless comments rubbed out, even the replacements have gone. Only a devotee to Russian aggression and Putin enthusiast could have objected to my posts. I wonder how many other loyal Ukrsine the Latest fans are being deleted.
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  35. The Azov is the name of an area by the sea of Azov. The troops from that area carry the same name andcwere the most brave after the Russian invaded. They defended the ironworks and withstood relentless Russian tank attacks almost to the last man untill final surrender of the steelworks. with onky the very basic of weapons, home made Molotov Cocktails etc.
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  36. @johngawrylash7732 yes all that, but also for the interpreter. Most likely his words were checked over to make sure he said what Putin approved of.
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  37. The have. They have been warned by India and China not to use them. If fully maintained is another matter, but 60 or 70% of them should be still viable.
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  38. @smith7658. Please explain? Is this not a U.K. newspaper?
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  39. How much were we in debt to the USA and Canada after ww2? Not fully repaid, including interest, until around 2006 I believe. Extended several times due to special relations. Ukraine is doing its best with a much smaller manpower. They are ingenious in many work arounds and deservedly the help they can get.
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  40. Humbug..
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  41. As long as the Russians vacate Ukraine, hopefully faster than they vacated Afghanistan.
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  42. That is what. Is implied! Pretty cold this time of year, so must be a vital move!
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  43. The grain used to be shipped out to Africa, Asia etc by ship via the Black Sea. Because of the war this transport by train has been a work around. Previous reports have said the reason it gets stuck in Europe is because the onwards transportation for bulky grain works out as too expensive. Yes, Russia has been stealing Ukrainian grain from the eastern regions. They can more easily shift it over land Eastwards.
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  44. @Chat-Mayevskogo then join up and do your bit to help fix it. I am sure your expert help would be well received. I heard he is doing quite well at routing out internal corruption. But bow to your better knowledge.
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  45. „That’s why I kept this going so long“ Because it was a stitch up. Trump wanted this. He had been friendly with Two leaders that visited that week. So decided to pounce on Zelenskyy and weirdly make himself appear the big heavy punch guy against those of Eurooe. Was it instigated to „impress“ his fan club? Or Putin?
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  46. Hi again, copy paste man.
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  47. A birthday gift from Iran/Hamas? Sobering thought: Putin is younger than me! I had no idea, he looks so much the shifty eyed evil godfather and old.
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  48. @RyanBrown probably a Brit type joke, but at face value just stinks like an UNNECESSARY insult to those not, like me, from the UK!
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  49. They were flagging. Natural I suppose as rationing was hard to bear. In 1943 a British AA battery was sent on a tour of the USA, presumably to bring home what living under bombardment was like. They visited and held demonstrations of air defence accross the USA military institutions ie West Point, Wilmington, Boston, Laramie. Including attending the Boston Bond Parade and Hollywood Bowl. They were entertained and made welcome.
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  50. Is it true that our (U.K.) amo production was moved to Hungry years ago? So does that mean, with Orban mates with Trump, Carlson and Putin. (Has had meetingsvwith all three). That they are not fulfilling the deal?. At the same times as milking the EU for subsidies? Or have I got that wrong?
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  51. Because 1991 is what all the ex-soviet countries freely opted for. Yes russia too chose independence. Some Ex-Soviet countries joined a new Russian Federation. Ukraine, Poland etc not among them.
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  52. A professional liar. Ex-KGB
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  53. @bezdownunder5481 Worse this year, unknown before to most. Probably due to age of the I nstilation, but also because through out Russia many jobs, such as in this case maintenance is not happening with money and manpower going into the military. There is a shortage of farm hands and many of the young have left the country too.
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  54. A bit difficult when the USA armament industry has pushed for being the weapons manufacturer of NATO. For example 2023 Poland alone donated much of their older weapons to Ukraine and placed a $23.8billion order with the USA for new. Big business for the USA.
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  55. @Interglacial other countries maybe. However from today the US do not want Ukraine to buy any more US weapons. Trump said „no more money“ and not to join NATO. Previously the US money was for buying US armament and according to Trump joining NATO requires buying even more.
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  56. That is good to know. And definitely a benefit when election fever can run riot on such things. Or muddying the field. She has bestimmt topics of greater interest to the electorate that she needs to address. They want to hear about how she stands on Internal issues and of course the main focus is to debunk everything Trump rattles on about. A different more policy pushing opponent, would need a different campaign.
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  57. @tashaware6819 yes, and it was the Ukrainian element of the USSR that built them. Russia kept the codes. Ukraine did not want or could not afford the maintenance to keep them from becoming unstable, so were not worried too much about passing them on to Russia. Peace in exchange seemed a good deal at the time!
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  58. Because Storm shadow was a joint venture with France. They need to get their heads together and finally release the stupid restrictions.
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  59. Not all bad fir the USA. In effect most of the money stays in the USA. These loans to Ukraine have in part reduced US costs in storage and inevitable decommission of aged US-military equipment. Giving cash towards the more Moden replacements for your own. Production giving employment and tax revenues to the states these factories are in. Plus for decades the US armourment industry has increasingly encouraged other NATO countries to buy from them (revenue for the USA) rather than developed their own (competition). And it worked. Poland for example has put in a huge order just last year. If the USA presents the largest manufacturer of certain items, stands to reason they are the first call when stuff is urgently needed.
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  60. @yudhihartadi6636 and they voted for independence in 1991.
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  61. He is pissed of with NATO because he asked why he had not been invited to join soon after he took up presidency. He was told NATO does not recruit members, they ask to join. And it has to go through the process. He made it clear that considering the importance of Russia he expected to be taking into NATO on his own terms and not have to wait in a queue like all the minor countries. Hence not invited and not officially applied to join. As a previous podcast said, Putin sees himself as a too big a player to talk with countries he sees as insignificant. He is unwillig to get around a table with Zelenskyy. He wants to hold talks ONLY with the big boys present, ie the USA, which he considers his equal. And yes, waiting for the lightweight Trump.
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  62. The connection? Another issue as mentioned in Dugin’s manual for the Russian Generals. “foundations of .geopolitics”. Reclaiming soviet influence areas. Break up of the European Union, stoking unrest in the Near East (Arab, Muslim and Israel) Promote internal disturbances to weaken power of the USA (- states promote riots along race lines) He mentions inflaming uprisings and rouge states in Africa too. I forget what the 1997 books says about managing Australia and the Far East. In general it is abiut undermining democracy worldwide. Putin has followed several chapters of this book already.
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  63. @oliverhiestand7098 Maybe the version Germany is transferring to the U.K. is of better use there for some military reason such as can be fired from further away and/or from ships ? And the ones the U.K. are to send to Ukraine more suitable for their use? Pretty sure they will have their reasons. As for the bridge. I had the impression early on that they felt the bridge needed to stand as an exit path for the occupiers when Ukraine reclaims Crimea when it can then be destroyed. Things have likely changed since then though. I am confident they will find a way to bring it down.
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  64. I am wondering about the effects of any heavy metals or other chemicals settling in the agricultural land and waterways. If these poisons enter the crops they grow there, or how long it will take before the pollutants in the soil disperse.
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  65. Saw the first part. Great.
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  66. There are several sightings, and two videos taken in Russia. One near the eastern boarder. Other media has speculated that Putin may be considering placing them as boarder protection along their eastern. Boarders to then free up their Russian guards to be used against Ukrsine.
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  67. Miners, unions and steel workers for me brings to mind Poland’s Lech Wałęsa.
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  68. @nenadmitrovic3469 Seems my previous reply was deleted. So will now only say: there is enough evidence to contra your claim. All for the tribunal to reveal.
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  69. In Europe we do work together on such projects. The Tornado was a collaboration. Germany, Britain and Italy I believe. France and Britain have developed aircraft together. Our aircraft carrier has US plaines on it. Is the USA going to sell its most up to date to other nations?
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  70. Why were the Wagner Warriers formed, financed and weaponised by Putin in 2014 in the Donbass, Ukraine? To commit underhand crimes he did not want to blemish his official regular army with. Putin‘s long term plan always was to take Ukraine, then Moldova etc. he wanted to back track the 1991 vote for Independence that. Russia too embraced at the time!
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  71. One dimensional view.
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  72. Usually a report needs confirming from more than two reliable, preferably opposing sources. In war it is Common for Information to be restricted. Anything endangering the troops, or that would pre-warn of a sting operation for example. There will be a certain amount of massaging the truth on the battlefield I would imagine. Things that could dampen spirits at a critical time. Anyway, it is not required that every little detail should be shared in real time. Those in the thick of it deserve more respect than that. Press releases followed by journalist confirmation. A bit more difficult in Russia though with state run news and independant journalist either banned or locked up.
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  73. @williammorris584 of course they are outnumber. Take a look at a map. Russia has the largest landmass of any country on Earth. Much larger than the USA. They have been importing troops/workers from Afrika, India etc to make up for the loss of manpower in general and now with the NK weapons they have imported tens of thousands of NK troops. The fighting has been between Russia and their allies masses and far fewer on the Ukrainian side right from the very start. Hence Ukraine has had to fight smart rather than senseless slaughter attacks.
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  74. The med iteration is surrounded by cities built by various previous occupations. Moden day Turkey and Italy could make claims to towns in Tunisia for example using your reckoning. The Romans built roads and founded towns in most of western Europe (ie Colchester). Most big cities in Europe have a multiple of ethnicity origins. As your city building in Ukraine was a result of colonisation, that logic gives Spain and Portugal rights over big chunks of South America? What could modern day Greece or Egypt re-claim? We know Putin likes to re-write history books to claim “Ukraine does not exist”. But looking into it Ukraine was a place before Russia even existed, so let’s stick to the present day shall we. Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, Latvia etc are ALL individual countries and have jurisdiction over their own land TODAY.
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  75. That Slovak statement makes me worried about the EU. Orban is already using Hungry’s membership to try scupper EU’s support for Ukraine. These Russian friendly countries could be planning taking over EU’s direction. Russia has already exerted influence on eastern German (Ex-DDR) politicians. This Irish politician story could also fit this spread of Russian Influence. Putin’s. Tactics were always long term. Example: the insurgents placed in Ukraine 2014; the tactics used to keep presence in Moldova etc. Both Trump and Putin agreed on wanting to weaken Europe. For Trump the commercial power; for Putin, as we now see, the political and military strength. They win via creating discord and Brexit fits in there. Farage uses Trump tactics!
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  76. And he said he was once prime-minister and now foreign minister, so it shows they fully agree with regular voting and democracy. Unlike The power hungry despots around that are trying tooth and nail to hold onto dominance in their roles.
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  77.  @Hereford1642  military aid and domestic politics are too separate things. Ukraine exports the grain, it is the shippers and non-Ukraine ports that need to find the money to forward it on. Yes, this is where it needs to be sorted out, but maybe because they would rather ship their own grain than pay for Ukrainian grain to be shipped? It puts up the prices, so should make home grown and Ukraine imports equal in value, this is what needs sorting. But this is a whole other issue than providing ammunition and armament for Ukraine to repel this aggression. The Polish people know this. They know first hand of Putin’s oppression and by neighbouring Belarus. The people may be a bit tired as they have helped and harboured Ukrainian Refugee families from the very start, but are still the biggest supporters of Ukraine, considering the alternative!
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  78. Agree, she has guts and determination. Probably bounced off the tenacity and determination of the locals she encounters. Admiration all around,
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  79. He does plenty of research. He is not simply a parrot.
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  80. Leaving clear tracks in the snow.
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  81. Or David versus Goliath.
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  82. @marisabenson1222 their president does not have a majority. Those bringing this ruling are the ones that have more clout, and probably back handers from Russia.
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  83. Things got pretty dark for the winning side too in both world wars. Some things for the good of all just have to be achieved.
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  84. Azov is an area, and it gives its name to an extension of the Black Sea. Look up Azov Sea. Why not research why Putin‘s mercenary are called the Wagner Warriers. (Hitler‘s favourite composer)
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  85. @JohnCSmith no, it is being reported elsewhere too. Russians are still hovering, but Ukraine’s forces have cleared them out of at least half. Guess it is still ongoing.
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  86. @todd1770. He said that to defuse the situation. There are Interviews Putin gave since that show him being asked about preferring Biden and the Russian reporter was laughing, with Putin thinly disguising his grin. Then later the Russian late TV show were discussing the Harris/Trump debate. They spoke about the Russian sourced suggesting a bias towards Harris, then all five laughted and said „ and the Americans are so stupid - they woud believe that.“ anither dais, „Yes, they are soneasily fooled“.
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  87. Oh no. Not lots of biggly. Please no.
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  88. Russian Military expert Oleg Glazunov? Best let him keep wondering.
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  89. Doubt it.
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  90. They have one pretty new tank, that is so modern and impressive it is only allowed out for Moscow Parades.
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  91. They all have their roles.
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  92. I am thinking the opposite Don. Putin wants discord. He not just welcomes but knows he is creating friction amounts the new “friends” he is visiting. Putin wants crisis and wars, that way he feels he will stay relevant. China claims to want peace (they worry about their future international commercial transactions) They agree with Putin that spreading democracy with open free media coukd be seen as a soft power threat to their dictatorships, but they also apprechiatte that they need free passage through the Uez Cann Al etc. they enjoy the openness of other countries, protected by the many ciuntrues of the .west. Xi may have underestimated Putin’s dedication to stirring up governments - starting with bribery, developing dependency then cashing in with threats of guilt filled fear of disclosure. Even internally I am sure Putin has stuff on ALL of his aids, the ones he gave power through favours. This is so he can dismiss them at any time when he feels the need, or they may be becoming too influential.
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  93. Sabateurs will use anything to hand. There is a rumour that the French used as Labour to build bunkers along the northern coast by the occupying Germans added sugar to the cement mix to make it weaker. I do not know if this was true. We were on rations in the U.K. so I suspect sugar was very expensive at the time.
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  94. Sticks and stones ….
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  95. They record this Monday to Friday. There are no updates over the week-end.
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  96. What is there to report? Ukraine is withdrawing to behind their fortifications and the Russians are going forwards to fill the gaps. Three hamlets so far.
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  97. South East of Kharkiv.
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  98. Avdiivka, Donesk is further south. Draw a line direct North from Mariupol.
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  99. Russia is a big place and they have used Aeroflot planes in the past.
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  100. @davidshapiro292 we no longer live in the Middle Ages. A “boarder” suggests there are two (or more) involved. It could be that one country wants to split, or two countries want to swap aras for administrive reason for example, but there is a discussion, an agreement met. One bully country cannit just walk accross the boarder and declare, “this land is now mine” Zelenskyy did March 2022 offer to give those regions the vote on if they want independence from Ukraine , but Putin ignored him because he had lied about his true intentions and at the time was not interested in a dialog with Zelenskyy.
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  101. I do not think Putin has a conscious. His ego and self belief is too great. He will not die with regrets. Every time something does not go his way he considers it some else’s fault. Like someone else we know. The one that admires Putin most.
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  102. There was an ongoing battle against Putin‘s insurgents and his private army The Wagner Group in the Donbas region since formation of the group in 2014.
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  103. Don I read on another comment yesterday that Russia had around 9 A-50s. Of those 4 or 5 (I forget now, think he said 5) being recently upgraded to A-50U ie equipped with additional improved instruments/Equipment. Or something like that. If he knew for sure or not, I do not know, only what I read.
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  104. I used to have my radio tuned into Radio Free Europe When I lived in Southern, then West Germany 1970s. Better music and upbeat American DJs This was before unification.
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  105. Oh, let him/her be. Whoever it is they are boosting the visibility. It is a question of them declaring themselves the village idiot by not keeping Schtum!
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  106. Fine, keep laughing. Better that way. Better than expecting us to operate according to the Russian playplan.
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  107. @MultiBattlecry What are epections?
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  108. Except the USA is selling amo (a loan, that in part is in hindsight being in part wavered under protest) However all those EU and NATO countries that donated are ordering updated versions from the USA, millions, especially Poland. So the USA, the strongest supplier, is making a lot out of their suffering.
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  109. Wishing him a speedy recovery.
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  110. @KittyCat There is a package for the southern border in the bill Trump is requesting Johnson to block. He wants to delay any action taken on the boarder untill November so he can campaign on the inaction.
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  111. They have no choice. Trump is there and they have to just get on with it. Newest: Trump wants to own .Greenland. He has been taking lessons from Putin!
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  112. @dimas3829 Passing through. The grain shipments hindered by Russia has to find alternate river/land routes to reach its final destinations.
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  113. Just part of in-depth reporting. War has consequences far and beyond the front line. Personal stories show more of the truth surrounding the war. It also shows more of the activities and aid involved in helping citizens cope with the pressures of war on individuals. The whole person.
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  114. Yes, agree, it is as if they do not like honest free speech!
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  115. @dmitrykabanov1924 he only says that to motivate his minions into dying for Russia. He himself very much wants to survive. Like with any other despot, the blame will lie elsewhere.
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  116. @terryross2388 the Ukrainians in Kursk allowed Russia to evacuate their citizens. They did not mow them disown with bullets along the agreed evacuation route like the Russians did in .Ukraine!
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  117. The Istanbul plan was at the start, when Russia had more ground. After the discovery of the atrocities committed in Bucha, there was no stomach for a peace plan. After all Russia had already broken all of the past three agreements they had signed up to.
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  118. @Interglacial Which bits are ridiculas? Please enlighten us.
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  119. Soviets, Polish etc. . History. That does not give Russia the right to invade Ukraine or Moldova now.
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  120. What? Intentionally delay the aid set aside for Ukraine fior over 6 months so that Trump can make political gain from a dire situation? And it is Biden, that did a bad job?
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  121. There are various nationalities in the French Foeign Legion.
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  122. No. But he still thinks he can just just click his fingers. It is symbolic only to his ideas on involvement.
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  123. Like they had a choice
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  124. So why did NATO partners jump in to help when the USA called in on article 5 after 9/11? The first and only time so far. Is this a oneway article?
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  125. @krazyswede11 hence the name?
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  126. And the planes. Are they not due soon? Or is the mess in the US Parliament holding them back too?
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  127. I find the audio easier. I can listen while getting on with life. As with football on the radio, the text carries the descriptions. Otherwise I would be tied to the screen so not to miss what they are talking about. There are videos with map references elsewhere.
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  128. Russian ships are responsible for hostile acts in the North Sea as far as Iceland. And surveillance over the Black Sea would not be relevant if Putin took his troops home to Russia.
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  129. “Peace-loving and patient” lol
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  130. So what is the situation from your learned view? Please explain.
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  131. He may or may not mean all he says, but Trump is open to be used by those using him as a vessel. They may stick him to his words. We have just had November the 5th here in the U.K. it is possible that ‚Project 2025‘ if implemented could make Trump (or Vance if he pegs it before then) the US American Guy Fawkes.
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  132. Loved the nerdy bit. A good communicator with excellent knowledge of the English language too.
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  133. Plucky Ukrainian Zarina Zabrisky is in Kherson. She records videos of her walking in the city showing what it is like living there. A few days ago she mentioned these drones targeting civilians on the streets like Don said. She showed private cars belonging to residents under the cover of trees while they hope they will not become targeted. She worried that soon the leaves will fall. People waiting for a bus or getting in their cars are targeted by Russian drones. It is endless. Yes, like a shooting range. This is awful.
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  134. The hat, probably made in China
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  135. It is because the accrued depreciation for the now obsolete also cost more in decommissioning costs than just exporting them to Ukraine.
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  136. Followed by snow and the ground hardened by frost, so OK for tracked vehicles.
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  137. Been there before.
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  138. But that did not reflect the reality did it? Putin wanted to take the four areas. He had a replacement for Zelenskyy ready when he sent his column of tanks towards Kyiv. Feb 2022. This was before any mention of an offer of peace. March 2022 Zelenskyy anniunced OK we will not join NATO and will offer the eastern areas of Ukraine the vote on if they want to be independant. But that was not what Putin wanted. So he ignored Zelenskyy. The Kremlin have since many times confirmed Putin wants the whole of Ukrsine, Moldova etc. he wants to go into history as a zTsar like mastermind and creator of a Soviet style dominence.
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  139. So what are they doing in Mali, Central Afrika etc? Extracting assets.
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  140. In the U.K. during ww2 we had conscription ages 18 - 41. Exemption for essential industries, medical, farming etc. objectors oftern did non combat stretcher work. National service between 1939 - 1960
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  141. If we had this instant reporting during WW2 there would have been several dia moments when all was lost. How did that end? This is grown-ups war, not a teddy bear’s picnic!
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  142. Russia has said that. To block Ukraine off from the Black Sea. With no ports to export from and weakened economy, they will come back later for the rest. Kremlin has already said Kyiv is Russian.
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  143. They did not. The military training academy is where it always was. Same as any university or college building in your country. They may train military medics there too I guess.
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  144. @kevinleecaster2698 why not? Criticism does not hurt anyone. Only offers chance to clarify. Up for discussion. If in the right they will be big enough to take it.
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  145. How much of that was stollen Ukrainian wheat?
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  146. Genuine question. Can the Ukrainians not set the co-ordinations themselves? They seem to be doing so with their own missiles. They do need the satalite surveillance, but locating what they see, should be something they can do themselves I would have thought. It is not as though Military people cannot read maps! Are we not beyond basic Boy Scout skills here?
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  147. This investigation unit entered three days later. The bodies were detected from satellite images earlier; on date of withdrawal of the Russian led forces. Phone calls boasting about what they did wee intercepted. Yes the international investigation will reveal all. This will NOT be forgotten or avoided.
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  148. @nenadmitrovic3469 Three days later the abandoned area was entered and the bodies discovered corresponding to the satellite images taken on the day the Russian forces left. There are intercepted phone calls of .Russian forces boasting about what they did. It is possible collaborators were attacked. Happened in the aftermath to WW2 (my dad was there to prevent such things in Trondheim ie tar&feathering) All will be revealed in an international investigation. This will NOT be swept under the carpet.
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  149. Any news on Viktor Sokolov?
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  150. One USA aircraft carrier is already operational off the coast and another plus 3 more Marine vessels are on their way to aid Israel. Not sure if that counts amoungst the aid $$$ figures or not. Both places have different needs.
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  151. Who?
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  152. I think Putin getting away with illegal war crimes (especially against women) is something that Trump admires, not someting to find abhorrent.
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  153. Roshel?
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  154. @taralown7023 Shoot the messenger?
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  155. It has got around that with Trump, flattery is the best tool.
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  156. I worry about the intelligence sharing. With Musk having a free hand where an unelected and not sworn In person has no Right to shove his nose!
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  157. People are dying in Syria. Analysis happens after an event. And this podcast is one day behind.
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  158. The Russians there are interlopers.
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  159. The devaluation of the Rouble and fewer opportunities to obtain credit?
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  160. Copy-paste man again. Been quiet for a while. Wonder what woke him up again?
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  161. There are women in the army in Ukraine. Recently I watched a program where a women soldier had pioneered a program of designing uniform more suited to the female body. She said, when they first joined it was impossible to find anything that fitted. Body armour etc. there is a lot of innovation going on in Ukraine . War and dia situations make for creative minds.
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  162. I disagree with your Aussie observer. I think Putin knows too well that they want to be free of Russia. He cares not what they want. He has spent over 20 years planing on gaining that land back. Has used insurgents, misinformation and his private armies to spread mistrust and to csuse an uprising in and around the Donbass area. There is a small group in the eastern areas that have had enough (putin aggitated battles) they do not want to be ruled by Ukrsine or Russia. They know too well of Russian brutality.
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  163. Iran and Iraq do not get on, so not sure how that will work out for Putin.
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  164. American, Australian, U.k English. Pronunciation and word choice Depends on the tutor. Her accent is Georgian. Her own. Free travel throughout Europe and if your job depends on it (like pilots) many Europeans enroll in overseas courses.
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  165. Why not? When the rest is very clear as it has been told many times over?
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  166. Said.. „while western Governments are reluctant to do that……“ I do not think they are invited for their reciting skills. Experts in their field only. If it where a video maybe subtitles could help foreign listeners. I have problems with some American and some Asian speakers too, but persevere. All for the cause! Not this guy though, being English myself, I hear him just fine.
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  167. @user-ok2mn4bw7u Ukraine is older than Russia.
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  168. @51madmitch Nepal is stepping in to prevent more of its citizens being drawn into the Russian/Ukraine conflict. They say around 100 of the approximate 200 that joined the Russian army have gone missing. They are demanding Russia pays compensation to the families of those that died wearing the Russian uniform. Previously reports said their was a lump sum paid to the family on enlisting to fight for Russians from the poorer areas, then a comparably good salary for those while on the front. Assumedly this meant less costs to Russia should they “go missing” die soon on the front line. So does this also apply to foreign recruits too? Remember the father from one of the African countries asking the press how his son, in Russia on a scholarship, was found to be in an Ukrainian prisoner of war camp? And now refugee families being told they will be deported if their men folk do nit join the Russian army.
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  169. @Crimeajewel they will have to find a Substitute for Trump‘s visit. Or maybe he will take catering with him.
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  170. @rexcandy because that‘s theft. If we did that, who would want to Invest here orvtrust our banksvever again! Stopping them from accessing it because of thevwar. Even using the Interest because that was earned here, seems reasonable, but the money is not ours, however it was earned.
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  171. They will simply revert to making moonshine.
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  172. Let’s hope he understands US politics better than he does that of the U.K. The British are a diverse nation. But then so is the USA, not too many generations ago. Have your individuals forgotten their mixed roots?
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  173. Sorry for your confusion. Never mind.
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  174. Francis, I take Putin’s remark re in future better health care to mean, distance re fear of the COVID virus. To distract from the more probable reason be fear of being poisoned. I noticed that in Saudi Arabia or the UAE he was not that bothered about keeping germ free! So only Moscow seems to be that unhygienic.
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  175. Seems to me Orban considers Ukraine cannot win this war and they want to be on the ‘right’ side of Putin if and when. As a EU member with all their western military equipement friends to share info with Russia? Recently a (possibly Russian fan) boasted that Hungry was the only EU country doing well economically in comparison. If so, they would move from being a subsidiaries dependant to being a net contributor to the EU monetary pot. So doubt Orban woukd want to claim that to keep the finances floweingbfrom the EU. I believe they are takers of Russian oil, so hold the short term view that with winter approaching being friends with Russia is their main concern. So sad that they are such shallow thinkers. The bribes their leaders are getting tying them to Kremlin bullies will not bode well for the citizens of Hungry in the future. Are they counting on another ‘rescue package’ on par with the one with Ukraine for their future? Not do sure, after such betrayal the West would be so willing anytime soon.
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  176. He says a lot of things. Each time he embellishes more then more lies into his newfound „history“.
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  177. @urbangypsy4335. Respect is earned. Trump has no problem insulting all,and sundery. From pushing himself infront of world leaders for a photo to dissing war dead, mentally I’ll and disabled. Then all,the unneccary name calling. For someone so obviously chuffed with himself for being so uncouth. He and his supporters seem amazed that he should get ripped for it. Plus he is nuts and self obsessed.
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  178. More likely Putin’s Wagner group trained HAMAS. They used similar tactics in the Central African Republic and elsewhere in .Africa.
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  179. I hear it was a DIY store, with around 2000 shopoers. With the recent attacks a lot of people are out buying materials to repair their homes.
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  180. Why? Did she direct the storm there?
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  181. Firstly Trump has nothing else to do than create mayhem. Secondly with all the lines down etc extra unnecessary helicopters blocking the skies are more of a nuisance than a help. All hands needed by the rescue mission not entertaining passing by dignitaries.
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  182. Both were replies to comments now deleted, so mine look a bit silly, but hey, that’s the way it goes.
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  183. They can only 1. report on as much as has been confirmed. 2. They can bring in people that have personal experience to share for interview and 3. they can make their own judgements on known facts, but have to say their personal opinion only. If someone that was there reports in, free to post on here.
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  184. Trump has said a lot worse. No hesitation in criticism of our London mayor for example. Main trouble is Trump can insult whoever he wants, but holds a grudge against anyone that exercises the same degreee of „freedom of speech“ as does his Twitter/X pal. No he shoukd not have used such bad language in public, but neither should Trump. If only by being extra super polite back gives a much more satisfying result!
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  185. What points would they be.?
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  186. Again my reply has been scrubbed! Zelenskyy’s delemma is ongoing and is more to do with Putin in a Moscow bunker than with the offer of friendship and help.
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  187. Walls or canvas?
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  188. @dimas3829 The Crimean tartars think differently.
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  189. They have no ambitions to „take“ Moscow. Imbiss Putin with the imperial ambitions. As long as Putin keeps sending in new troops, Ukraine feels obliged to send then on their way out. Ukraine only wants the Russians to go home. Ukraine wants the independence they choose in 1991 as do all the other ex-soviet countries that voted separation from Russia back then.
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  190. Putin’s plans for Ukraine are nothing like the neutrality enjoyed by Austria and Switzerland. No plans for free votes by the citizens of Ukraine. The Putin approved replacement for Zelenskyy was primed and ready to be inserted by the Kremlin back in .February 2022. And Putin has since confessed that he does not consider Ukraine as an independent country, or even as a separate country.
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  191. They have a new underwater amusement park a couple of planes some ships and a submarine to play with.
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  192. Or deluded
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  193. @uku4161, exactly. Putin is now using Donkeys in the supply chain for the front line. He is sending injured troops on clutches back to the front lines (presumably the tactic is they die in exchange for discovering the line of fire) instead of sending them to hospital and/or on leave to recover. Take note Trump supporters, this could be a great way of saving pension and health care money! I bet Putin did not mention any of this in their special telephone tête-à-tête meetings.
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  194. Misuse of the wonderful word Heritage.
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  195. @Vonfleet he is speaking in the Kyiv based mode. They believe showing Trump he can be a winner will sway it. The Trump worshiped ‚strong man‘ Putin is no strongman in battle or economics. No point in elaboration on Russian genocide or other warcrimes. It depends on how much the Kremlin Propaganda . Is ingrained into Trump‘s team. In the week Trump won the election Putin authorised explicate photos of Melania‘s model career to be released on Russian National TV With the female Talk Show presenter smirking. I cannot believe this was to wow favours from Trump. They say they know each other, so would Trump really be flattered to such publicity for the USA First Lady? Or was it as a warning to Trump? Does he have stuff on Trump? It was definately a Message to Trump, but what?
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  196. But the waiting, have faith, is costing lives. Sometimes things are bigger than your own self. End effect is no-one is impressed with over indulgen brattish behaviour.
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  197. Not sure Putin is told the correct numbers, even if the Kremlin kniws. They all fear for their jobs.
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  198. It is clear Trump has got his briefings on what is happening in Ukrsine from his phone calls (at least 7) with Putin. Trump admires Putin. He knows he cheats (praised Putin for writing 4 obasses into Russian ownership - without conquering them in 2022). Said he was clever! Trump feels appearing in friendly comoany of the „big“ players is what proves he Is „big“. Imsge is everything. Trump does not care about right or wrong. He believes everything Puin says. All of Trumps remarks concerning Ukraine are Putin’s misinformation as if direct from Putin’s mouth. Putin said in 2022 that Zelenskyy was not the legit leader because he did not want to deal with him. He had his own choice ready to take over in Feb 2022.
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  199. Tubthump from the trump academy.
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  200. @pavelzmiev1578 Saying it over and over again. Copy and paste into every conversation here, does not make your statement true!
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  201. They still do not have permission to use the long range ones though. Due to containing American made parts, even the U.K. and French donated ones are Vorboten by the USA.
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  202. Yet those „stated goals“ were all phoney.
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  203. Mitch McConnell says they are deliberately delaying the deal. They are putting all their bets on a Trump success and direction from him is to prevent anything happening now as Trump wants the right thing to happen on his watch,. He has McConnell‘s backing innthus. So it shows this „urgent“ situation of the boarders is not so urgent for the Republicans as they make out. That doing the right thing for the USA, for Ukraine and world order comes after personal gain. Thousands more lives can be lost than need be as lost as Long as this delaying tactic wins „glory“ for Trump. Emperor’s Clothes!
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  204. Still best to know where they are, or at least know they have not been sold to the highest bidder.
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  205. They are two separate roles. One has to work out military moves and possibilities, the other work out what is of interest for the people of country. How to supply the numbers of soldiers the military is asking for is the presidents Job. He said for each soldier it needs 6 tax payers, so that means his concerns also are about keeping the economy running. No easy task at times of war. He said he has economists to tackle that job, but I can see that the ultimate decision has to be his as job of President. The military does not run a country. They can make demands for what they need, but it is the government that has to work out what they can get and how. Then back to the top general to work out what he can do with what is made available. A continuous flux.
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  206. @Interglacial_optimist Sorry for your pain. Must be awful suffering such boredom when day in day out over 2 years 7 months civilians are being bombed and soldiers die defending their homeland.
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  207. Turkey wants it.
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  208. I appreciate that far more worrying things are going on in the USA at the moment to keep them preoccupied and busy, but I am very disappointed never the less. I do wonder if the only thing that shifts US opinion is $$$. The very idea that more assistance should not be offered because they fear Ukraine will loose and they would be unable to capitalise on what have already loaned? Maybe their Munitions industry is only just coping and the extra oders on hand of this conflict for example from Polland of $23.8B is enough for the interim. It does seem Biden is unable to show his electorate the boost this war is giving to the US economy. Trump‘s interest in a private army for him inspired by Putin’s Wagner Group is a worrying aspect only just come to light. I was only joking when I said Putin can propose a Trump Tower in Odessa and Kyiv alongside Moscow and St.Petersburg under the right conditions. After seeing Trumps recent tactics I really do wonder.
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  209. He hangs onto that single The Time quote from a disgruntled expolitician like it is gold dust. Brings it out several times per day. So easy to ignore more credible sources when it serves self interest.
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  210. My daughter came back from Sri Lanka in December. She said some hotels are exclusively full of partying Russians.
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  211. @petergreenwood7731 Loose and they no longer exists. It gets no lower than that!
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  212. Yes, and in 1943 there were massive amounts of calls within the USA for them to pull out of WW2. A huge scale PR job was undertaken to keep the people on board and continue with Boston Wars Bonds, recruitment etc.
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  213. He did that last time. He did nothing the first 6 months than undue everything Obama had put in place. Such a petty man. Then today, with Biden standing there, he said the previous admin was evil! No way did he show any regret for his embezzlements etc. this is the maniac the whole world is adjusting to. From caring for our shared planet to stroking his ego. So many companiy owners and governments have sold their souls..
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  214. @richardmarsden5610 No worries. Best let Putin holds on to his fantasy beliefs.
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  215. Can we turn Trump around to have more empathy for the survival of Ukraine? Maybe our King should visit Kyiv? Trump newly indicated he considers himself as the US King. He also mentioned previously he saw himself as Jesus (surviving the shooting), but it would be harder for us to materialise another Jesus.
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  216. @Sr.Princip “Referendums” at gun Point by a foreign power do not count. A pol held after fleeing of the local residents and deporting those captured under war conditions and without international observers does not count. Those areas are internationally recognised as Ukrainian. So get your soldiers dirty boots off their land, let the lawful residents return, then and only then can Ukraine hold referendums to see what HIS people want. But after all the evidence of the torture, abductions, rapes, murders, pillaging your troops have inflicted on those your villainous leader claimed he was “rescuing”, I doubt anyone from thise regions would choose Russian oppression over living freely in .Ukraine.
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  217. Also put the life of the source and family at risk.
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  218. Take anything Putin says with a pinch of salt. What he says depends on who he wants to dupe.
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  219. Yes
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  220. The West did embrace Russia. In 1991 Russia (along with Ukrsine and others) chose independence. Gorbachov opened up Russia. Only after so many years of communism they found it hard to adjust. Oiligads practicly stole the countries assets and created so much unemployment. This enabled years later Putin to take such a hold. From the onset he followed his plan to reverse the path to Glasnost. His model was Stalin and his aim to regain the Soviet regions. He wrote about it in 2021 and Kremlin Rhetorik currently reveales his true intentions.
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  221. And imposed talking Russian (for schooling) onto them.
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  222. Oh dear. Thanks for sharing.n
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  223. Turkey would not let two small mine seeker boats into the Black Sea, they would not allow submarines. I think the idea is to not escalate. No military ships not already there in their home ports. They said.
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  224. @williamcanfor21 I am certain he knows this. @Realist369 is just trying to act clever - or is an idiot. Or both!
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  225. Again my reply has been scrubbed. What? Russian appeasers are definately working hard on here.
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  226. Lol.
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  227. @Joey, yes Russian citizens have been arrested for that, but they are not likely to do it to Carlson, so he will come back (if they are not after a valuable prisoner-exchange) to swear it does not happen. As if with him being there, they will let down their guard and allow him to make any real discoveries. Propaganda and espionage are Putin‘s speciality.
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  228. No, I hear it at the same volume as before. It does seem to be squashed between two others, but it was before - so no different according to my ears. Here in the U.K.
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  229. @teddykayy maybe because the only bother this is to Russia is they have to care for thousands of evacuees. With just the one off payment of $100, plenty for them to find new accommodation! They do not have to worry about the atrocities their occupiers are committing in Ukraine. So a completely different situation. I do not think Putin really cares if those people decide they prefer to be part of Ukraine. He is quite happy to flattern his own people to ‚show his strength‘.
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  230. @Saleemsan Not about the person, just that voice jarred so. Just that it came day in day out and I too found the monotony of it getting annoying. And no, have not heard Tony Blair‘s voice in an age.
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  231. Yes, people can project lots of things, but now they have evidence to hand. Proof.
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  232. Is the USA really going to increase from 3.4 to 5.0% of GDP? That is quite a hike considering. I feel that will take quite a chunk out of the customs charges (Tariffs) the US importers will be paying into their treasury. Although the gain will be the sales for the US armament industry. In Part financed by the increased price due to the tariffs on the imported military quality metals.
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  233. Shows alliance. A return of favours. Where Russia presumably is offering something in return. North Korea is a loose cannon. Russia has nuclear and rocket knowledge, both of which Kim Yong Un Is interested in.
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  234. @jaymacpherson8167 England does not have a prime-minister Jay. Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales each have a First Minister, otherwise combined we have a U.K. Prime Minister in Westminster, .England. Sir Kieran Starmer is our U.K. Prime Minister.
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  235. Should read : *land grab.
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  236. @LacRagem no, not new. We have curtailed a tyrynnt before. Took many years and loads of help, but good must win over evil, so be it. BTW. Putin has been preparing for war since before 2000- Started by keeping his own Generals in Check. Those out of favour Fall out of windows. He financed a number of private armies ie Rusics . In 2014 Putin formed The Wagner Warriors in Donbass and sent in insurgents to prepare for this take over dream of his. Extended by change of law his presidency to life time tsar. Previously Chechnya a previous victim. Putin has his country on wartime footing since day one. When he took back from Ukraine the soviet nuclear weapons under agreement of protection and with previous Presidents ‚persuaded’ them to hand over their tanks and reduce their armament. The aggression of 2014 persuaded the Ukrainians to vote for rejection of the ever increasing pressure from Russia. They voted for the freedom of independence they had originally opted for back in 1991 at the disolving of the Soviet Union as did many other ex-soviet countries (including Russia also voted for independence.) Some have joined together as the Russian Federation, , but not Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, other Baltic states. Etc.
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  237. More proof, if needed, that Putin is going senile.
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  238. Lol. Big B for Billion as apposed to not so big M for million. After a few extra noughts, it get harder to imagine what that sort of money looks like!
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  239. The teachings of Aleksandr Dugin run parallel to Putins convictions. So any Kremlin member is likely to share those beliefs too.
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  240. @dimas3829 Putin’s plan all along was to invade and take Ukrainan soil. . His insurgents placed into The Donbas area and his private army The Wagner Warriers (that a reference to Hitler’s favourite composer) formed by Putin in 2014 in the Donbass specifically to stir up trouble for the Ukrainan administration with the aim to prepare for his nvasion, As a Russian at home in Ukraine said. “If Putin is liberating me why is he bombing us? He is liberating me from my home, my business and my family and loved ones.”
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  241. Added to that. Those living in occupied areas do NOT feel liberated. They have stollen Ukrainian’s homes and are advertising them “buy now before the prices rise later” to Russians to replace the Ukrainan families they banished to Eastern Russia with russuan as occupiers.
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  242. R u using windows?
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  243. @lifessogood2995 only because your bully boss has no respect for the law. Either humanitarian, international or home country law. His daddy’s Money paved the way, so now on the big screen he sees being big and rich gives right above respect honor and fairness.
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  244. Should only the highly populated areas decide what the whole of the country does? There may need to be a middle ground 50/50 using both systems maybe, but neither system alone is 100% fair in my opinion.
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  245. *aproach
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  246. They were pre-warned back in Feb 2022,. Initially they though it just a threat, but had not imagined Putin would really continue with all the world watching! Then as it progress they needed to be sure and wait until Putin‘s troops and tanks were on Ukrsine's‘s soil. It was Putin that bought WAR to Ukraine, not the other way around!
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  247. @picklethepirate your „hand outs“ were in fact a boost to modernising your own military supplies/reserves. The weapons money stayed in the USA. Old, in part outdated and soon to expire ammunition went to Ukraine. And contra to Trump‘s rant: Most Europeans and others DONATED their tanks etc. The then shortfall for own defence orders for replacements or upgrades were made to the USA armament industry. Poland‘s armament order alone worth millions. D Trump‘s bully tactics and embarrassingly broadcasting Putin‘s dictated fabricated version of ‚facts‘ makes him appear the greatest lying and deluded „president“ ever. Does the USA no credit at all. What does.the USA gain by him and Vance openly supporting the aggressors. Vance getting in bed with the newest fascists leaning party in Europe. All under influence from Putin’s misinfirmstion programs of infiltration and electronic warfare. It is Vance, Musk and Trump’s naivety that is the biggest danger to the USA, . „From within“. To quote from Vance.
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  248. Keeping the new brigades separate would make sense if they are using different supplied equipment. Assuming they have been trained to the highest possible level on which ever tank etc the country training them has supplied. As Long as their allocated commanders have more battle experience.
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  249. 💩
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  250. Also recruiting from Africa.
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  251. UN Peace keepers. Not all will be also NATO members.
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  252. Arguably none of Putin‘s business. Not his country. Ukraine would not be so desperate to join NATO if it were not for Putin‘s actions. Putin is the reason Sweden and Finland joined, and they are not the ones he picked on, just showing his reckless barbariicism rattled them.
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  253. Exactly why they have not been able to intervene earlier. Russia is not even letting the Red Cross into there POW facilities.
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  254. @dunlop8295 My first thought was after a short stay in detention he became “unfit”. They are into electrification over there.
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  255. A possibly worse reaction to that amo factory visit in which Zelenskyy thanked the employees for saving thousands of Ukrainian’s lives is the incentive it Gave the Republican party to turning it into a party political argument. I read the Republicans are demanding an investigation. The governor present was a Democrat and they claim it was an election PR. They want investigated if The visit including the flight on a US state plane etc was paid for by the US taxpayer, claiming it was a democrat party event and using public funds is disallowed. I would have thought it a state visit, and funded like any other such visit. Question should be why Johnson and Trump are refusing to meet with Zelenskyy, Trump HAS spoken to Putin he recently said. Could it be that like Putin he does not recognise Zelenskyy as the Ukrsinian president? Could that be why at his latest rally he did not name him so. Said „ I will get Zalanski and President Putin on the phone and end this war“.
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  256. @user-du6oz7lo4s Actions speak louder than words. What Putin is doing is more Hitler like in this scenario.
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  257. Again the person I am replying to has deleted their post. Wow!
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  258. Accurate info from .Russian sorcery are so very hard to come by. However what we DO know is “As of July 1, hundreds of attacks by Russian forces with cluster munitions have already been recorded in the settlements of the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv regions.” Ukraine has been dismantling those they received from the USA to use as individual shots. Received during a shortage of regular ammunition. (I believe used individually attached to drones). Exactly what happened that day in Belgorod will become apparent later or at the end of the war. All will be revealed.
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  259. This podcast is at least one day behind any action. Come back tomorow.
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  260. Russia is not “taking” anything they are destroying. Apart from plundering even for clothing they have not been supplied with.
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  261. I have the feeling the U.K. is higher up the list for revenge from Putin. He has already threatened to blow our „little island“ out of the water. We are less than 20 miles from Salisbury and I cannot forget or forgive Putin for the Russian ‚tourists‘ he sent here to murder by poisoning two of his own and through their carelessness killed a local lady and ended the career of one our local bobbies with wrecked health. A lot has changed for the worse for Russia and especially their relationship with the neighbours since Putin forced himself into power then extending his „reign“ by means of law change. Similarities with Hitler are uncanny, and there are other wanna be autocrats elsewhere willing to crush peaceful democracies if it gains them personnel power and notoriety.
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  262. Sorry: unable to „edit“ my typos. It was Time Magazine. NOT The times.
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  263. Ukraine does not want to live under Putin’s thumb, like Belarus. Russian troops, Russian mercenaries go home, no one would have died had they not invaded. Simple.
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  264. @sebastianforbes1 Putin ignored the warning by Iran, so allowed the ISIS terrorist attack to take place for “good Russians” that had done nothing wrong to be slaughtered, only so he could justify a new surge of interest in HIS imperialistic war against Ukraine and Moldova. Putin wants his Stalin sized entry into the history books. If that means 10 years war, so be it. Hiw is that having concern for HIS (Tsar) people.
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  265. Except Hitler was the invader. In this scenario Putin is the Hitler with ambitions of dictatorship over an enlarged imperialist Russia.
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  266. That would be UN jurisdiction, and any action is vetoed by UN member Russia.
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  267. Such a stupid Voice too. It has to be some meddling by outsiders surely?
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  268. And a few days behind. Nothing wrong with the reading on the combat thing.
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  269. In Ukraine he said. The Russian people are not having their homes stollen from them. He is not saying obliterate Russia. That is Putin’s talk: Putin’s aim: to obliterate Ukraine, the country, the people and their culture.
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  270. that is not what he said. He said complete defeat in Ukraine. (Putin could easily just withdraw of course, but that is unlikely to happen). He was saying if Russia is not defeated in this land grab, then a future of this type of disorder will escalate worldwide. The Russians are not being denied their homes, Russia will still be Russia, just as there is a Germany after the tyrant Hitler was sent packing. Obliterating another people, their homes, their culture is Putin‘s plan for Ukraine. No one attacked Russia.
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  271. From the time of Willy Brant the „never again“ has been broadly engrained into those of the then West Germany. On the other hand the area of ex-East Germany know too well of Russian style oppression. „Walls have ears“. They had the Stasi and Putin himself was sent to work for the KGB there in his formative years. After unification I believe they really did trust in perestroika and glasnost. Wishful thinking maybe, but of course Putin taking the reigns at the Kremlin changed all that. Maybe Merkle thought him just a growl no bite bear and offering friendship would passify him. .
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  272. Several things were different with Germany. War has not been taken to Russia. Ukraine has enough to do. They only want Russia out of their land. Shifts within Russia will have to be political, not from outside imposed war ones. Putin has been consolidating ties and influence with other anti-USA and anti-democracy countries. ‘Us against them(democracies) telling us how to live’. I t is not only Putin. The .Kremlin is very anti-democracy atm. Putin’s speciality is KGB style influence. His meeting now with Iran , has been timed to spook the USA into believing they may additionally be getting aggression from them. Discouraging even more Republicans to halt money and weapons going to Ukraine they may well need themselves soon. I woukd not put it passed Putin, that he had something to do with the timing of this HAMAS attack on Israel. There are signs that Wagner (a portion of their warriors did return to Africa - Putin has asset interests there) trained HAMAS fighter. Looking at the atrocities coming to light - their are similarities.
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  273. Female hater ‚Coach Red Pill‘ Does not sound like a very likeable person to me „self defined dating coach“!
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  274. I am getting frustrated with all this backing down and slacking of support. If only it was better known that, despite the so trigger words “Pearl Harbour” and mid way into the participation of the USA into WW2, their support was waiting. Imagine how today all the victorious films”our guys rescuing Europe” “how we beet Hitler” etc would not be there and Europe so different from today if the USA continuing participation and the moral boost it did for the Belagerer Europeans would never had hapoened. I have loads of evidence on a trip even your historian seems unaware of. Album full of photos, leaflets etc. my dad was one of a BritisH AA Battery that was shipped to the USA IN 1943 to take part in a tour of many military towns of the USA including Wilmington, West Point, Boston, Laramie, L.A. etc They put on demonstrations and took part in exchanges of ideas. Our “boys”were also entertained ie Hollywood Bowl and met many film stars that were also promoting support. I surmise that even then the USA was suffering a certain amount of fatigue as initial failures and casualties numbers must have been having an effect. If more knew that as late as 1934 it was considered the USA was in need of a boost for moral to this extent, maybe they would find it easier to recognise the same pattern here and today.
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  275. It is in dollars, so not directed at us. I dread to think how many adds they have to sit through to watch a 2hr film(movie) on US TV? At least the five or six added inside this article can be ‚skipped‘ if need be.
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  276. @edmend55 Russia, the aggressor, has been using NK weapons / ammo since the start. Friends of Ukraine have been supplying weapons for them to defend themselves. Also Fire engines, ambulances etc. to help with the civic infrastructure Putin is destroying in Ukraine. Bearing in mind Putin‘s Russia has systematically stripped Ukraine of their planes, tanks etc after the nuclear weapons deal and with consecutive governments of Ukraine under the promise of peace since 1992. Now 2024 NK is supplying their own National troops to fight in Ukraine, so with your logic in reverse any other nation willing can send their national troops in to fight in RUSSIA? Or if the Koreans remain in the defence of Russia, in Russia, does that entitle foreign National troops to fight in defence of Ukraine in Ukraine? Not just individual volunteers?
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  277. So where is saxony! Equals Germanic.
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  278. No it was not. Just preparing to pounce. Putin played him. Trump was a disaster. Putin knows Trump would do nothing to stop his take over of Ukraine. Then further unaposed to take Moldova, Georgia and to continue. No more autonomy for them. Trump is a peacock swayed by flattery, too easy prey for Putin and other dictators after the destruction of a fair and peaceful world order. Trump is too self serving, he does not have the vision to see what would happen if these things are just left to wander.
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  279. With her gutter language, should hope not. But what is the point?. They have again thrown the decision into the wind. Not agreeing with her is not enough. Are the others spineless? Are they waiting for all these brave soldiers to be killed so their decision is made for them?
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  280. A would look a bit conspicuous with huge armament 1,000 miles behind enemy lines.
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  281. Unfortunately parasites have already bought up some of it. Taken advantage of their dia situation,
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  282. In other words the final break down of thevwest will not hapoen until after Trump‘s term, so he does not care. He can back Putin for short term own gain and „nach mir die Suendflut“. Following Generation can deal with the outcome. Same as he did by announcing a date for the withdraw of US troops, then blamed Biden for the added problem of a prepared counter ie withdraw under attack!
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  283. It is the hate Trump has fired up. My enemy’s enemy is my dear friend Putin.
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  284. Improved design since the Kursk.
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  285. @HappyBear376 Kyiv
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  286. There are many foreign journalists in Moscow.
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  287. jordanrich5992 maybe considering the speed, but nothing like the Blitzkriege I read about. Kriege is war. Blitz as in ‚Donner u Blitzen‘ (Thunder and lightening). a thunderstorm! So devastating and as quick as a flash maybe. The original blitz Krieg I read about was pretty indiscriminate bombing of factories and whole communities set on fire.
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  288. Rubbish. Russian stirrer.
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  289. Still appears infantile with no regard to how it looks from the outside. This hesitance from the USA is giving extra boost to Putin’s resolve especially confidence in awaiting for the election of Trump. His hackers must be working overtime.
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  290. @user-it4qr2ge9m Only in the Russian school history books rewritten by Putin 2021 - 2023! Most can recall the Russian General’s quote “Odessa is Russian, Kyiv is Russian”. And can read the 1997 book by Dugin, the 2021 writings of Putin to reveal Putin’s to reveal his true ambitions. Putin has destroyed Russias long term credibility.
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  291. Russia’s intention is always to promote doubt. They see no reason to shiw actual proof. Quite the opposite. If they had real evidence of spying saying what alerted them to it would give away What they consider sensitive. In other words what would be worth spying against. They do not hide the links of overseas assinations (short of actual evidence) back to Putin because showing his reach is considered a warning to others. Same here. They do not need evidence, just a flex. of power.
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  292. @Rahul-l5r9s just read your second comment. What Trump said was a lie being peddled by Putin‘s Kremlin. A made up reason to make the invasion more palatable to any one who would listen. Norway a founding member of NATO boarders Russia. Putin KNOWS the defensive alliance had no intention to invade them. His unwarranted aggression has resulted in two more neutral countries joining. New NATO member Finland now has the longest boarder with Russia. Longer than the Ukrsinuamn boarder would have! Why make up Ukraine is doing something unreasonable? Because wants their land, their minerals, their crops and most importantly their people. Their engineers such as those that designed the first soviet tanks. They built planes and rockets. But also to reinforce their dwindling troops numbers. Putin really is evil. Trump is being naive in siding with him.
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  293. So they are on a more equal setting with the vodka drunk Russian?
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  294. The Chinese vessel had a Russian captain.
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  295. U.K. did not fully repay the USA WW2 debt untill 2003. Russia will have to pay for much of the Ukrainian re-build.
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  296. Maybe Russias new appointment with his new angle new talk of “minimal losses”. Is a precursor to announcing a general draft. They want to give the impression of care and of lessons learnt? I doubt in these early stages he would dare say anything Putin does not approve of. Lies are OK with Putin, but what lies will need his approval.
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  297. Finland and Sweden were like Switzerland proud of their neutral status. They only applied to join NATO because of the Russian invasion into Ukraine 2022. NATO was not the reason for the invasion. One of many deflection tactics of Putin. They already shared a boarder with a NATO founding member, Norway since 1949 and knew that was no threat. Real reason was Land grab and exerting power of ex-soviet proportions and a history book entry for tsar Putin.
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  298. It may well be that Putin’s wish was to reduce NATO influence in nearby Europe, but that was not the reason because invading a neutral country does not change anything. Maybe to shore up more land under Russian control as a counter, but why should Ukraine give up its sovereignty for Putin. A bit ironic then that his neighbourly aggression has caused two previously contented neighbours to get jumpy and apply to join NATO.
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  299. Since 2004.
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  300. In this case The aggressor in the wrong, Hitler with grandiose ambitions is Putin.
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  301. Says Putin.
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  302. Question. Is Zelenskyy’s trust in good faith from Trump ill founded as he seems to have copied Putin’s stance on ‘taking’ a desired nearby territory when he said he wants to take Greenland. And how can the USA rebuke China for world pollution when he wants to back track on all the environment protection programs?
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  303. Yes, his own a he is putting up the costs to all metal used in the USA.
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  304. Rubbish. Repeating does not make this true. Putin has bombed cities indiscriminately from day one. Ukraine fights on the front line. They send missiles to destroy munitions supply and production facilities and other military targets. The car park in Belgorod did not have a missile sized crater. It was NOT aimed at. Ukraines target was the Russian rocket launchers beyond Belgorod. They also that day destroyed an electronics factory outside of Belgorod. The damage in residential Belgorod killing 25 Russians was a result of the Russian’s air defence and the shrapnel they bought down over the town.
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  305. That is what Putin will have all his underlings believe, that he is invincible! That is how he hangs onto power. A wanna be Stalin, about to be proven WRONG.
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  306. When? Who has cleared the using of seized assets? And how?
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  307. @living-wellon-less5669 Ours are not screw-in but bayonet light bulbs, so give them a bit of slack please.
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  308. Why did he invade then? Or was that column of tanks with a replacement for Zelenskyy headed for Kyiv Feb.2022 just a TV show?
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  309. It is in mainland Europe, so could well be. Wild Animals do not know boarders. And in Europe there is a certain amount of resistance/carriers within their wild animal kingdom. We are the exception here on our island. Hense our quarantine laws. Pets can be vaccinated, but the wild life is at risk, which in turn threatens our livestock, pets and all our animals.
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  310. He should stay there. They are short of men for the front line. If refuses the call they can always arrest him, then he can wait for his pal Trump‘s election to be „exchanged“ for a spy one Putin inserted into spy Russia puts valued on being returned. Such as one of Putin’s insurgents into Africa to start wars there and deal in Russian weapons.
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  311. @Anonymos321 please explain.
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  312. ‚disrepectful‘ they throw one accusation after anothet at Zelenskyy and then talk over him as he tries to reply. Three against one, they are they are the shouty disrespectful ones! He said Zelenskyy is leading us all into WW2, but it is Trump that is doing so. Trump is not blaming Putin for invading. Trump is siding with Putin. He is happy for Europe to be overrun by Putin. And if the US Americans think this would NOT effect them, then they are just as obtuse as Trump!
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  313. Hahahaha.
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  314. It’s short sighted. Read up on Putin’s long term plan. And your citizens are wrong when they believe under Trump Ukraine would not have been attacked. Trump PRAISED Putin for his illegal annexation attempt of the four Ukrainian eastern regions in 2022. Putin has Trump’s number, and he knows how to play him.
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  315. Maybe they are not training trench warfare, but an alternative way.
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  316. So since 2022 Putin has been attacking facilities of Ukraine and with weapons from other countries. Newly weapons AND troops from the nuclear country NK. Even before with his insurgents, then later with his private Wagner Warriors Amie’s created in the Donbass 2014. Rusichs, etc.
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  317. No but from North Korea they are.
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  318. His ego is too big.
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  319. Tanks etc are surely not particularly a defensive vehicle. More advance.
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  320. Because testing is needed. It was the last two, not four!
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  321. Those reports were still unverified at time of recording. On the internet there are various conflicting reports. Yes, all say Russian has pushed back considerably, but saying some Russians died in that 14 miles walk through the pipes. Others that they spent 3-4 days in the pipes expected to fight at the other end - not sure where that would be or what awaits them. Some say they were killed on arrival, others that their were captives, ithers say they the Russians then killed two and captured two Ukrainians. The details will most likely emerge later on with any corresponding.Reports.
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  322. @TheBKnight3, no the sub docked OK. Failed 2016 and this one Jan. 2024. No nuclear warheads are used when undergoing these missile firing tests. They say the testing equipment caused the fail, and this would not have happens if a warhead had been fired in action, but who knows. And it is more fun to call out a failure anyway.
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  323. According to Russia The IL-22 was damaged but managed to land. The A-50 they lost contact with, so this would be the one that disappeared into the sea.
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  324. Why is my reply to this always being deleted?
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  325. @phillyboyfloyd7050 trumpmis not „going to stop the war“. He is in cuckcoo land. Same as Kim Un did not stop firing rockets. Putin wants Trump to let him take whole chunks of land they have still not been able to gain by military means. It is a farce.
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  326. @phillyboyfloyd7050 Trump is not going to stop anything. Same as Kim-un just kept on firing rockets. Putin wants Trump to hand him huge chunks of land and cities they have still not been able to conquer via military action. Putin does not want peace. War is keeping him in power.
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  327. There are always delays in updating maps. Cannot give too much detail away to the otherside. Also the battles are ongoing and the front line fluid. So many times the Russians claim to take the same village only to find they are miles away. On the other side Russian bloggers claim Ukraine forces are so far advanced, when Looking for confirmation reveals it is at most an advance party, the actual Ukrainian troops have not advanced that far. So the difference is claims and verification.
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  328. The Telegraph showing their true colours attacking even the dress sence of our Prime Minister. I had been most impressed with the quality of the reporting untill that slipped in. Listen every day. Were such comments made re Sunak? Apologise if I missed that.
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  329. @kareingebrigtsen5435 I think he means the alliance. NATO did not exist. Was formed after and as a consequence of WW2
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  330. @superflyguy4488 the bits I watched were all about the veterans. The politicians met up the following day to honour and thank their aging heroes. As for Russia including their soviet state contributions in fighting for the same cause on the eastern front (not actually d-day landings) they were included a few times after the end of the Cold War, but Putin has shut his country down again and is conducting his own imperial attack on neighbouring countries. There were many Polish fighting with us in Britain. Had their own polish airforce section(whatever it is called) within the RAF. I begin to understand why now. I was unaware of Stalin's alliance with Hitler against Poland etc before. Stalin only switched sides after Hitler turned on him.
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  331. @Joekd6.1 Putin’s insurgents later aided by his private army the Wagner Warriers formed 2014 weaponised and financed in the Donbass specifically for that job of agitation in preparation of an excuse to invade. The Russichs and more additional groups were also used to cause trouble for the Ukrsinian admin. Same approach in Moldova - next on the list.
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  332. Unable to edit: intended: “attacked later…”
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  333. I have no fear of rationing. Plenty of parkland that can be dig up for veg and returned to community gardens after. I could get myself a few chickens for eggs. Teach our young the self sufficiency skills learnt from our parents, the previous wartime generation. Now mostly forgotten.
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  334. LOL, that is some reach! We do not have missiles to spare on such nonsense.
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  335. Over forty missiles. Overwhelmed?
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  336. Is the media.
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  337. @carolhunter3671 Maybe they. Do not care because what has happened so far already has them producing at full capacity. This is not just by Ukraine spending the money from the U.S tressury, but all the European countries that have DONATED their stocks to Ukraine have put in orders for new updated replacements and more. Poland alone has put in an order for $23.8B worth of weapons. This will keep the factories going for many years. Maybe it is enough that they can manage for now and they want to keep it running longer into the future. Not just hier then fire. Maybe they believe these Russian bots that Ukraine will fall and the USA will not get their long term investment back. They need to tell the decision makers that the USA sitting on a pile of money in isolation will not reconpensate for the extent loss of world order that Putin’s plans have set in motion. An anti democracies surge in the oriental Far East, Africa and southern America. The Near Eastern Arab lands already shaky on democracy, with Iran delivering weapons to Russia. But Putin willing to share knowledge on atomic warfare and rocket firing to such unstable countries like North Korea must be warning enough. “No man is a an island” and that applies to country too.
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  338. My second reply to this has now been scrapped. Why? Nothing controversial . Is some Russian apologist in control of deleting sane posts?
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  339. It‘s war and the country is as one.
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  340. I think he knows that. British, “uninhabited” was just a fake “slip of tongue” joke.
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  341. Same as the Atlantic is not a “drink” Re our island cable connection: “… our stuff arrives in Cornwall, comes out of the drink there….”
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  342. What is that supposed to mean please?
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  343. Yes, Turkey even stopped the mine clearers we donated from entering the black see from the south. No military ships.
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  344. That guy is a numpty for sure.
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  345. @laurencehastings7473 there has always been and still is the option for world trade to be in your own currencies, with or without BRICS. It has just proven simpler, more convenient and cost effective to trade In a common currency. First choice US$. There will eventually become a dominate used withi BRICS if not already. Pretty sure Putin would like it to be his Roubles, but that would be difficult to push for because of the current instability. For China to push for the Yuan would upset Putin, so who knows?
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  346. Despite Wagner fighters being pulled into the Russian military forces, they are still operating as Wagner mercenaries in Africa.
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  347. Yet we have ‚the‘ bomb, so should be concerned about shelters.. ?
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  348. @MatthewChampiones True, but everyone here has access to the internet, just a question of will. :)
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  349. @tubthump With a president that changed the law enabling himself to stay in power beyond the usual allotted max period, and that keeps the opposition party leaders locked up in jail on trumped up charges to ensure Putin wins.
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  350. Three Of them were.
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  351. *indeed..
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  352. He has been brainwashed by Musk.
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  353. He is a self promotor with a taste for sensationalism. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story!
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  354. @timothykatende8484 not deep into Russia. They are doing that with their own manufactured drones. They want the ban on using US made missiles on Russia soil lifted so they can fire at the troops that are sending bombs to Ukraine, mainly Kharkiv, from just over the boarder. Waiting until they reach Ukraine does not give them enough time to stop them.
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  355. Except the goals Putin broadcasts are fictional. His real goal hidden. To take control of Ukraine. Swallow it completely, then move on to Moldova and further. Defined in Dugin’s 1997 book and Putin’s own essay 2021.
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  356. @hpharridan Sorry, Trump does. Not stand by people that are no longer of use to him. Trump does not like losers according to Trump. He cannot stand being overshadowed either. It will not be long before Trump and his best buddy Musk part company!
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  357. Was Cnut/Canute as brutal as Putin? Confess to not knowing much about his conquests, but then back in 1016 I guess all combat was pretty brutal.
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  358. He did not. He advised not to make a rash decision. To take time to decide. His duty is to the Ukrsinisn citizens. The discoveries of Bucha were what made up the minds of Zelenskyy and their Parlament.
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  359. Stop or increase what?
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  360. Open your eyes. It is easy to see why.
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  361. Also Romiania has a new Russian anointed head that says he will no longer support Ukrsine. That is bad news for their combined neighbour Moldova!
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  362. That was the Soviet Union. Gorbachev opened up Russia. Putin has closed it down and has zsar ambitions. His speeches are more Hitler like than ever before.
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  363. Suddenly we get adverts upfront!
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  364. Merry Christmas all.
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  365. Would that be: bol***ks? Just guessing.
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  366. Yes, Lots of trolls, yet it is my note that got removed! Just mentioned that Putin follows the teachings of modern-day Rasputin called Aleksandr Dugin, so likely others in the Kremlin do too.
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  367. News came through after the deadline for this report. Check in again tomorrow.
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  368. Don‘t think they built them. Just oligarch‘s Stollen Money bought them.
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  369. @user-uq9pg4 Those Russian trawlermen missing out on smuggled whisky.
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  370. @zebedee5158 They have no experience of trying to run a country under constant bombardment. Not just the need for all to pool resources, an election cannot be fair with so many displaced citizens. And Ukraine has chunks of their land under occupation, how are they and those abducted by Putin supposed to log their votes?
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  371. @philipmarwood9327 Lancaster has been backing the Russian takeover of the Donbass since 2014. He is not a truth-sayer, he is after notoriety and a happy agent for Putin and Wagner. The troubles in the Donbass due to agitation from Putin financed insurgents. Wonder my he went quiet these past two years? The aggression coming from Russia hard to excuse. He is back because Ukraine is stepping up in trying to free their land from the invaders. He is reporting on the attacks coming from Ukraine, yet is happy to ignore the reasons for it. The reasons for Putin’s attacks is to take over the country. The reason for the Ukranians is to get their land back. All the Russians have to do is go home. Donbass will then get the chance to vote to leave for independence if they wish. Ukraine cannot do anything for them with the Russians there. Lancaster has ignored the Russian interference in that region from the start. He is in a position to be able to look behind the scenes, but chooses not to. Chooses bias for impact over the truth.
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  372. The
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  373. Donbast is under Russian control. Patrik Lancaster is a showman as true to the truth as Tucker Carlston.
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  374. That fits!
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  375. He means Hungry has not been able to. Orban is following a path his people do not want, but have put up with because taking back handers from Putin at the same time as milking the EU for every subsidy imaginable at the same time as not wanting to pay in their full dues has made them appear „clever“ to the likes of Trump. Unfortunately being able to throw them out of the EU has not been a legally option so far, but rules may have to change for sure. Orban is not a team player.
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  376. @stephenlyon1358 stop being disrespectful, when all the poster is doing is trying to find a solution to the folly of them electing a criminal non-player. Like fitting our aircraft carriers with US planes, when we used to have our own. Europeans have let our best engineer cross the pond thinking we are all working for the same ideals. The U.K. has contracted our ammo production to Hungry. No longer such a good idea since Orban. We have just crippled our steel production ourselves! It is a if we (all the West) were giving Putin an invitation! I like most wanting a happy world, hate the idea of isolationism , but unfortunately Trump leads the way and it may well turn bad for all of us, especially the USA armament Industry if we are forced to do the same.
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  377. @Interglacial Hitler’s thoughts entirely.
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  378. Scotland ?
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  379. What % of gdp does the USA spend on NATO?
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  380. Trump will tell Putin and claim it as his own.
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  381. Because the task was done. The election is over, so neither here nor there. No more potatoes being paid, so they can shut up shop.
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  382. @RyanBrown not cry, but it is a traggety Trump is backing the wrong direction for Russia, Ukraine and the USA. He has chosen evil lawlessness over Christian doing what is Right. Attack rather than protect. Lying for own gain.
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  383. Said 61 of 70 shahid type drones and one missile downed. How is that 100%?
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  384. Twelve?
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  385. He was there in Feb 2023 to assure Zelenskyy that the UK support would continue if the government changed.
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  386. And he was in talks with Zelenskyy at the D.-day memorial event in France, and when he was here in the U.k.
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  387. And he had talks with Zelenskyy when at the D-Day memorial event in France and when Zekenskyy was in the U.k.
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  388. @hamishstewart5188 we think like the Australians on this. Not bothered in the least. We know who he is so no skin off our noses what others say. People say Boris, Trump, Putin. No confusion there.
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  389. He was knighted back in 2014 by our then queen for his achievements in his pre-politician career so his full title is actually Prime Minster Sir Kier Starmer. But he tends to not to use that honorary title himself.
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  390. @david Not true. NATO is not participating. NATO and non NATO countries have sent mostly decommissioned equipment, not the latest issues. And Ukrainians are not trained to use the more powerful equipment. Ukrainians are doing this 80% on their own against the ‘massive’ Russian terrorist army.
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  391. Trump must know only too well that sensitive stuff such as military casualty figures are not announced. Since his time in the White House. He has made this idiotic statement re civilian deaths and fallen buildings before at some of his stand-ups / rallies. areas. Never heard of air-raid sirens? Of underground train terminals? Of air-raid shelters? If the buildings have not been fully evacuated then the attack was too fast for the warning system. Of the residents unable to leave due to health or such. They would go to the most secure corner and sit it out. Unfortunately, after seeing how animated Trump was telling this at his rally it looks as if he took pleasure in seeing the destruction. Rather than keen to offer help to put a stop to such attacks on private citizens. Guess they are just LOOSERS in his mind.
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  392. @Jamie It is not Christian to massacre and ethnically cleanse fellow human being citizens. Christians are on the side of humanity, whatever the religion.
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  393. @gdiwolverinemale4th only a despot like Putin would be vein enough to seak for glory. These civilian otherwise pacifists are fighting for their very existence.
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  394. They are not playing cards.
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  395. By keeping them “authentic” and poor he has a bigger recruiting ground. It is not the sons of oiligards or sons from the effluent Moscow or St. Petersburg (Stalingrad) suburbs that Putin is sending in to fight.
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  396. @Trader98V they hit and occupied it early on in this invasion. Even dug in and contaminated their own troops! They were pretty soon chased out again.
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  397. @LynRegan. He struggles with Slavic sounding place names, as do many, but his English is clear to me (from England).
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  398. No way would that work. Putin has now openly acknowledged that he will not shift untill all his conditions are met. What he has not outlined is that his ultimate aim is to take control of the whole of Ukraine and Shogu has also stated that Russia fies nit accept Zelenskyy is the rightful president of Ukraine. What that means is, they would not honour any agreement made with Putin and even if they did sign some sort of peace plan, they will not stop. Maybe pause, but just continue with the destruction of Ukraine as a separate country later after one, two or more years.
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  399. Why?
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  400. Cried Wolf too often. No one believes Putin, apart from understand that whatever he SAYS indicates he will DO the opposite. How many months of “no plan to invade” up to the very day of invasion! And the other thing learnt is that whatever he accuses others of is what he himself is planning.
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  401. @edmend55. They have such a huge country, ever wondered why they need to go to war to add to it? Because warring keeps his people under control? He wants the Ukraians because they built the first soviet tanks, they built planes etc. Why has Russia this year abandoned their new super jet fighter plane production?
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  402. nd6pj 6 minutes ago Yes, and Churchil was for ever battling with one general or another. These people digging and making much of any conflict amongst the top desiders in Ukraine need to realise this is war, fast changing situations needing wide ranging imaginative solutions which need discussing.
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  403. At The BRICS Meeting Putin showed a paper note. Ever hopeful.
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  404. @alekseyef1714 Yes, for vodka etc, but that is not so important as the destabilisation Russia is trying to install by ferrying refugees and terrorists from Asia and africa specifically to funnel into Finnland cross boarders.
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  405. It was the initial draft ofbthe minerals deal that he refused to sign. When he went to Washington there had in the meantime been many changes made. The wording approved and he did go there to sign the minerals deal. There is no peace deal yet. Zelenskyy was arguing he needed security. They threw him out and, as far as we know, before any sort of deal was signed.
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  406. Agree this is BS. No one from the USA would hint a U.K. charity worker should go to the USA to employ locals to rebuild bombed out houses. Must be the potato snaps at work.
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  407. Navalny was pro-Russian. No way was he a CIA agent.
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  408. Except we are more than just our biological parts.
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  409. @superflyguy4488 Putin has already done this in the areas of Ukraine his troops control. The main real reason for Putin‘s invasion. He has conceded excavation access rights to China.
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  410. And from what I heard from after spineless copy cat JD Vance‘s slimy speech in North Carolina Trump may well get in. Apparently it all hinges on NC and they were lapping it up.
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  411. My first thought. I am not sure how big they are. Depth. From photos they look just a bit longer than tug boats. Transporters that carry tanks could surely transport one, even two? Problem there would be a suitable airport. And easily spotted both on the Rhine/Danube and the air transporter. There has to be an alternative route.
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  412. Does Ukraine issue war bonds?
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  413. Yes, Putin like Hitler needs to surrender, but no one wants him, so he should just take his troops home to repair Moscow’s heating pipes and get the troops back at the farms to breed chickens for egg production instead of factories for bombs.
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  414. What if the Russians do not want to leave their homesteads in Kurst. Will,Russia force the red cross to remove them?
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  415. @frankshailes3205 Plenty of ill-informed smarty-pants will in drunken stupa freely say what they would do if in charge, so to ask someone who could be more clued up on international affairs what they would do if …seems a reasonable question to ask to me, at least on this matter.
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  416. I would say the truth is Russia has killed far more civilians than soldiers. And that with the wave after wave system the Russians have used means far more of their soldiers have died in this war, even before they get to the line of conflict.
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  417. @marisabenson1222 that would be supposing he WANTED to know the truth!
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  418. Zelenskyy is the legitimate leader of the Ukrainian Parlament under wartime martial law Putin is a dictator. Not freely elected because he locked away or had murdered all feasible opponents. He also changed the law to allow himself to extend his terms beyond the democratic agreed two terms only. Hence no longer a free vote, but dictatorship. So he is fake. Under martial law he could be legit, but he has refused to admit he caused a war in his neighbouring land.
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  419. Martial law. Putin is the imposter. He murdered or imprisoned all opponents and illegally extended the usual two terms only law so he coukd vote himself back in.
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  420. It will take time before many are ready. They do not send them to the front after 5 or 8 days like the Russians do.
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  421. Clever eagles to stay away. I assume the bombed out tree lines gave them no where to nest.
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  422. @robertsteele474 ‚Money set aside for mortar shells.‘ Who said it was US money? I am not saying this is out of the question, but most of the money coming from the US is being spent in the USA, so likely does not cross borders. The Ukraine has received more in cash from the combined European countries and there are separate private civilians setting up funding for various specific purchases. The US dollar is in the main remaining in the US. Buying from your ammunition and armament industry.
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  423. „We are expected to believe“. Belarus. Says it all.
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  424. @user-whu What dOes WEF stand for ? President Putin is a traitor to the Russian people. He „managed“ his re-election for life. He sold them short on his ego Land grab war over their health and individual prosperity.
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  425. Says who?
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  426. Who is ‚they‘ please?
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  427. Those the Russians tortured and murdered in places like Bucha and most killed during the southern invasion, such as in Mariupol, Kerson etc. were civilians. Russia has been bombing towns
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  428.  @bganonimouse2754  there are plenty that keep to the ethics and only report what they see, If second hand more sources are needed snd if not collaborated - they say so. Just two Steve Rosenberg, Lindsey Hilsum. Not ‘celebrity’ status, just doing their job.
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  429. @aac74 if that was the case, then Putin would never have invaded another country. He and the Kremlin have confirmed many times that they want tUkraine, Moldova, Georgia etc. reform the Soviet. Stop now and he could concentrate on improving the lives of their citizens and improving infrastructure. Have plumbing in everyone’s home instead of sending his troops overseas to loot toilets and kitchen appliences! Instead to stay in power (for personnel gain) he is setting Russia into a war ecconomy. All the money going into the war effort. It is sad, but each dictator has to invent an enemy in order to frighten the citizens into continue supporting said dictator. This is what Putin is doing!
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  430. @swamiranganathan4476 not from what I saw. The meeting yesterday in Paris was totally different to the awkward one in the USA last month.
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  431. @richardmarsden5610 i would have thought the delemma Zelenskyy finds himself in is ongoing and much more to do with booty seaking Putin determined to destroy Ukraine whilst they take control,of the people, deny their free peoples existence and steal everything they own. That is what Zelenskyy has to grappel with. Friendship and offers of help may seem allein to Putin worshipers and the concept difficult to grasp, but it does exist in the humane parts of our globe.
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  432. What are rainecaos please?
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  433. @philipmain5701 wow, I learned a new word. Had to look that one up! Although I will probably forget it again before I get the chance to use it myself. The trials and tribulations of old age!
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  434. @Gunni1972 It is not a daily Telegraph initiated topic. It was in our National paper too. NOT the price of eggs as such, but reporting that it is something going around in Russia. The news is that with all the things happening in Russia and Ukraine it is the price of eggs that is the hottest topic being protested about in Russia.
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  435. Why now?
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  436. @mariaharvey4177 Putin says what Trump wants to hear. Putin only wants recognition on the world stage restored. Trump obliged. Putin can perpetuate his lies now to a larger audiance with Trumps backing.
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  437. @alfonsoalbano120. Another lie peddled by Trump. He has been corrected by dozens of people in the know, but continues with the the same string of lies. Hence this is no misspeak, but blatant deliberate lies.
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  438. Maybe the 100 year thing is in anticipation that Trumps deal is that he will not allow or would vote against Ukraine joining NATO?
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  439. I feel he would gladly hand the whole of Ukraine over to the Russians if Putin allows him to build his dream Trump Tower in Moscow. But they could wrestle for who would be besties with Kim Jong Un. Like Jong Un, Trump is too easily flattered, to make clear headed decisions.
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  440. @errolkim1334 The Austrian painter elegy fits like a glove to Putin the delusional invader.
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  441. @maja-danmark9362 There will be more as they get nearer to areas needing liberating. Putin has been steadily working on infiltrating the Donbass region since 2014.
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  442. @timothykatende8484 Winter has barely begun. Make your reassessment at the end of February, just in time Putin’s 98% garanteed reelection.
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  443. Bad enough they are in the UN and are blocking the support of Ukraine against genocide from Putin.
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  444. @richardmarsden5610 Well he would say that wouldn‘t he? Does not make it true. In the same way Putin maintained he wasn’t planning an invasion into Ukrsine - right up to the day before his columns of tanks rolled towards Kyiv.
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  445. @martavdz4972 maybe there is external interference. There are delays, stops and start for me. An electrical storm?
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  446. A purring kitty cat
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  447. I think the Danube source is around the black Forrest, so southern Germany. It would also depend on the depth of the canal joining the Rhine to the Danube to complete a journey from the north seas to the Black Sea.
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  448. The next four years are nothing in comparison with this pivotal situation as to what happens in Ukraine NOW.
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  449. Maybe he has spent a lot if time in Germany. They say England, Frankreich etc but also: Die Schweiz and Die Türkei.
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  450. Re: the intro. Who owns the voice after Trump saying „fascinating“ ? And can someone translate the French for me please.
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  451. Trump Never had a deal with Mexico. He was (and still is) nothing but a wind bag. Makes a lot of campaign noise to mock his followers and win votes only. No sense there. Why should Mexico build a wall other than one of their own - a fence with wire tops. . Trump want anything else, then he needs to come up with the money and on US soil. The wildlife and ecosystem would suffer with a solid wall.
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  452. It just shows the Republicans do not care that much about the boarder as they make out, by rejecting the part of the ‘deal’ they themselves insisted on, They want it delayed so Trump can come in as hero of the day. Another feather to his campaign hat. Do they think the electorate are stupid? They can wait an extra year before their presious border deal comes to be? And that is if Trump wins rather than looses them votes. What a switch, Do the Republicans realy want to be the ones keeping the borders open? Seems like the USA, their policies, all go out the window when it comes to Trump. Even now as he reaches out to those he hopes in Putin’s corner. Angry Zelenskyy could not provide the dirt he wanted on Biden, his attention ha swung to Hungry.
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  453. Putin can always claim (as with everything else) it is Ukraines fault. He can claim those boarders where he deployed his conscripts to were not part of the front line before Ukraine invaded. The fact that they had not had enough training for anything like that he will bury in his twisted discombobulated speeches.
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  454. Trump has already dismissed the „special relationship“- Said last time around he already chose to phone Saudi Arabia first because they had put in a huge valuable order (planes etc) Under Trump the USA morals are for sale.
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  455. Western journalism is „crazy“. Well he should know. Just wait until he finds out how much his own efforts into craziness fall behind what is expected of Russian grade crazy journalism. .
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  456. Good things come in small packages.
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  457. Accounting for National average life expectancy. Putins 71 would be 77 in the USA and 81 in the UK.
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  458. @Bird_McBride wrong.
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  459. @snowsnow4231 huge, yet impotent.
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  460. @andrewharrison1194 I also believe our mental health can be the root to most illnesses. Malnutrition etc, anything that impairs our bodies ability to fight illness and recover. Even in the case of genetic illnesses. It is not inevitable we succumb. Only it takes a lot more mental and bodily health not to to than ones with healthy genes resisting flu.
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  461. There has been precedence for this, which is how the Kherson city leader can be so certain of this consequence. When Putin took his troops to Chechnya to “settle” some fabricated riff. They flattered the capital, thousands dead, yet managed by force and bribery to get the son of the leading family on side. Chechens even have their own regiment on par with the Wagner Warriors fighting within the Russian military. Although, like Wagner somewhat chaotic and unpredictable. But they are pretty brutal and no followers of ‘rules of war’.
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  462. As if Russia would just handover part of his hard earned gain on a plate to Rumania and Hungry should he succeed in this invasion. . Russia has already mention they want Moldova themselves. And they will eventually go once more for Kyiv. Unless of course these dissidents of Rumania and Hungry have already held meetings with Putin and offer support in other ways. If not they will indefinitely be deminions to Putin, as with Belarus - so Putin gets back the Soviet power he yearns for.
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  463. Most are used to it.
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  464. Huge country bridging Europe and Asia. Putin wants the attension. How can what happens there not effect us? No one is invading Russia, but Putin sends his assassins to murder people in our country. Putin threatened to blow our „insignificant tiny island“ out of the ocean and has sent his subs and ships to take an unhealthy interest in our oil-rigs and under ocean communication cables.
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  465. Please, Who speaks after Trump in this intro? Says „fascinating“
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  466. @brombo00 Too late. Putin‘s ruthless disrespect in not upholding boarders has persuaded Sweden and Finland to join NATO. And ONLY by joining NATO will Ukraine from now on feel safe. This is all Putin‘s doing. Russia was safe before this invasion. Putin knows this. Instead of giving freedom to his own people, he has tightened his ultimate control over them and this attack on a neigbouring country was supposed to deflect them from his mistreatment of his own people.
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  467. Ukraine was the buffer zone before. Russia does not keep to any such agreements, they are just a ploy. They shared a border with NATO founding member Norway since day one of the alliance. Did not bother them. They will be back for more. They have almost taken over Georgia by the back door (political interference) are trying the same creating unrest for future invasion of Moldova and elsewhere, like they did since 2014 in Ukraine. Putin wants control over all the ex-Soviet countries and wants to turn Asia, Africa and South America against Democratic Western Countries. This is to be his legacy of Glory. Most certainly not doing it for the Russian people. He is butchering them. This is for himself!
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  468. Lol
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  469. @izzythompson9982 utter crap! After voting for independence following the dissolving of the soviet Union Ukraine relquished their Soviet nuclear weapons to Russia. Previous presidents on promises of peace and protection transferred tanks, planes and other military equioement to Russia as Putin demanded they reduce their military presence. Feb 22nd 2022 Putin denied he would invade. Feb 24th he invaded on a host of lies. Then in March 2022 Zelenskyy replied: OK, we will not join NATO, we will give the eastern areas the vote on if they want independence. But Putin ignored him. He did not react because? Two main reasons. 1) he (at the time) refused to acknowledge Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian President of Putin’s choice had been unable to follow his troops into Kyiv because the cue ploy was unsuccessful. Instead Zelenskyy had stayed to protect his country and people from being stollen. 2) the reasons Putin gave for the invasion were fake. He wanted to take the land and then on to Moldova. His true intentions have since been revealed. The rebuilding of the Soviet influence under his control. His so called “plan” has twisted and turned each time new evidence has become exposed. None of Putin’s original claims hold true
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  470. Happens with me too. The more I try to remember someone‘s name, by repeating it in my head - come to the crunch and it is gone! Does not make a good impression at job interviews!
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  471. Which country is the poorest? Mali? Somalia? Why are they fighting NATO.?
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  472. So Orban has inside Kremlin knowledge? Putin‘s next Lukashenko. Did Putin promise Hungry a slither of Ukrainian land?
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  473. @Horseracingtip there are press of all persuasion in Europe. Free press in Russia had to leave the country. And even accross the boarders they are being persecuted by Putin’s mob.
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  474. Do we have Russian infiltrators here? My post keep being deleted when I confront obvious Russian false-speak.
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  475. When still part of NHFTA and the Paris Climate Agreement etc?
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  476. They can name it whatever they like in their own language. We call Lake Constance what Germany calls Bodensee. What we call on maps the English channel is called La Manche by the French. This Russian re-naming thing is just some stupid copy cat thing to show how stupid Trump‘s ego mind workings are. The Bay of Mexico is a geographical name which can be renamed on US maps if they want. . We still call a car bonnet and boot what US Americans call a hood and trunk. I suspect Trump’s praise for Putin‘s act of simply re-naming ‚Russian’ those four Ukraine Oblasts back in Sept.22 must have sparked his desire to re-name something. Even though to date they remain in Ukraine as 270,000 in Kerson City alone can testify.
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  477. So Dom was correct, just over 60miles. Approx 62 and a half miles.
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  478.  @gmw3083  I did, I am also aware of the accusations and cleared by investigations involving the manufactures and suppliers of the machines in Italy and Germany. About the imposed counting cut off Point in some states delaying by law the counting of the postal votes until after closing of the in person voting stations. Which Trump trued to say were votes hidden under a bench. Then when he tried to shut the doors in some places leaving voters outside in the queues not yet placing votes. But the main thing was his appointing a director of an opposing postal delivery service to head the Postal service, who then dismantled the speedy sorting machines. This apart from on the day asking a Gouverneur „we need 9,000 more votes, please…. „ There was more attempts at voting fraud by your Hero Trump than anywhere else. Puts third world dictators to shame!
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  479. @sebastianforbes1 yes because it would mean he has finally understood what is actually happening. But he will not. Trump has become messerised by Putin. He wants to have unchecked power like Putin and so assisting with (program 2025) breaking down democratic rights in the USA. Farage too did. Putin and Trump‘s bidding in wanting a weakened Eu.
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  480. I am not sure Putin knows the correct number killed. Even if it IS relayed to the Kremlin. They fear for their jobs.
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  481. Another source says they are investigating Hiw they can adjust to effectively interrupt the electronics in flight.
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  482. @peterthompson6651. He wore suits prior to the war, He would be Russia’s top prestige target. More of a liability to the soldiers in his group than any help, their main job would be protecting the president rather than sticking to the task in hand.
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  483. They contain most of Ukraines minerals. Mines, oil and gas along with Crimea. The real reason why Putin wants them.
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  484. 8 @F4R4D4Y no he does not. Martial Law. Even Ukraines opposition leader says an election during a war is not sensible. Putin is only looking for excuses to halt Trump‘s process. Putin knows his in part occupation and his continuous dropping bombs is making elections impossible and cannot take place. He knows Trump will believe his twist on facts to put the blame on Zelenskyy re no elections.
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  485. They were aware of that. Shitbags, just to make some petty point. They want to seem “big” and show they can “make noise”. Very manly - not!
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  486. Omg. I really do not want to hear HIS lament day in day out. Please spare us that!
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  487. Did I hear that Sweden said they would send troops? Or did I imagine that?
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  488. Get more mine eradicators in there would probably be a good first move.
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  489. What is the new each?
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  490. @joshuapaul2022 Putin is the Hitler in this scenario. His army did the invading. This always was an arrogant attempt at land grab according to documentation found in Dugin’s 1997 Foundations of Geopolitics. Putin’s private army, the murderous horrendous actions of the Wagner Mercenaries, followed by the abduction and attempt at obliterating of the Ukrainian folk and culture shows which country harbours the most NeoNazi ideology.
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  491. @craigshagin5506 This is likely true, but by then it will be too late. There seems to be a weird understanding of ‘emergency’ aid. Putting it off until Trump can bask in glory is playing into Putin’s hands and costing thousands of lives. Trust in the USA will sink worldwide. Putin’s connections re-enforced with even more African countries; a growth of confidence in communist leaning South American countries and the rise of fascist influence in Asia even in Europe will become bolder. If Trump was not intentionally Putin’s tool, then he has in fact become one.
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  492. In that Bild interview Orban was asked if Orban had told Zelenskyy that Hevesy going to see Putin next when was in Ukraine. Orban Said no. After More questions he said he did not have mandate. Said he was gathering information for himself, because he believed the killing would only end with.a peace plan. Was asked if he had recently spoken to Trump. Orban replied that Trump’s son had visited him three weeks ago. He said he had not told anyone about his visits. The interview was held after visiting Putin, so when he was asked if anything was gained, he said there was more. A bigurprise in the next few days. So i am assuming he was hinting at his (since) visit to China. So from that wevlearnt he had a visitbfrom Trump‘s son, he interviewed the German head of military on thevsituaiin. Got samevinformatuin from Zelenskyy without telling either that he would then be reporting to Putin followed by Xi in Chins.
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  493. Tell Putin to take his men back home to Russia and that would stop the fighting. Simple. No one, East or West had any intension to invade Russia. This is all purely Putin’s egocentric ambitions.
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  494. @sebastianforbes1, Zelenskyy is first of all NOT a dictator. Secondly he is not depriving “his” people of anything. The Russians are, by attempting to destroy all of Ukraine’s infrastructure. North Korea are not actively at war. There is no excuse for Kim Un’s enslavery of his own people.
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  495. Maybe in the USA and other places where Putin is not on their doorstep. Too many countries here have had first hand experience of run ins with how he operates. He is trying to put the freed Russia back into the box of oppression. And does not want those surrounding Russia to prosper in independence . It undermines his rule. Only 20 miles from here a Putin ordered assassination was botched and killed a local woman and left two other seriously ill from Novichok poisoning. The smirk on his face when he explained those two we had identified as the assassins were infact „tourists visiting our beautiful cathedral“.
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  496. This was a special edition. The usual ‚Ukraine the latest‘ runs Monday to Friday. They sometimes broadcast these pre-recorded one-off interviews in the interim. I get to hear the broadcasts one day later. So will be listening to the usual updated Monday broadcast tomorrow, Tuesday.
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  497. Also Interviews with front line soldiers are not usually a good oversight of a battle. Because it endangers lives they cannot give away too much info of their positions or ammo situation. Posters from WW2 announced „Careless Talk Costs Lives‘ as Martha also said she will not give away too much information about her father. Likely he does not reveal much. But also the view from a trench is limited. What happens when, where reveals itself later and announcements should only happen after the troops involved are debriefed and out of danger.
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  498. @Hovercraftltd That would not explain the footage of a plane falling from the sky. They could now in theory be enjoying life in South America somewhere. Whether it realy was Prigozhin and a top commander of Wagner on that plane or not an innocent pilot and co-pilot were murdered in the process (no parachutes were seen). And it seems Russia is now short of pilots, so an own goal in that sense too.
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  499. The most stupid thing was hiw Elon Musk‘s responded on X. Belittling the reporter that showed the footage and quoted the Chechen Generals boast. He has Trumps diplomacy skills of insulting the easy target scape goat instead of handling the facts, Why was he so scared of simply saying Kadyrov made that stuff up. Instead of going for the messenger?
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  500. @AllanPeda, Kim Jung Un, Putin’s newest pal?
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  501. And what happened last time such promises were made. Putin wants ALL of Ukraine, .Georgia and Moldova too. We try to help and find we are prevented by the USA. Even NATO membership. Falkland’s? The only time article 5 was evoked was 9/11 by the USA. There are fascists operative in Europe too now. Austria, Italy? Those three (UK, Germany and France) could sign a joint agreement, however this is a huge task. Even Eastern Germans seem to have a yearning to be back under Soviet rule! Short memories I guess, or infiltration.
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  502. Jet skis are so noisy, and not really that fast. No surprise they were discovered!
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  503. Robert Steele just declaring himself as a Wally.
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  504. Front of where? Moldova does not share a boarder with Russia. It lays between Romania and the west of Ukraine. Russia is currently using the same tactics In Moldova they have used since 2014 in Ukraine. They have sent in a contingent of troops (in Donbass it was insurgents and Wagner) into the eastern single pro-Russian run Moldavian state of Transnistria along their Eastern boarder to Ukraine. They are currently trying to whip up resistance here the same as in Donbass. But unlike Donbass it does not boarder Russia it is simply a settlement or .Russians living there, same as the USA has a settlement of mainly Hamish in the state of Pensilvania. Putin plans another go at Georgia after Ukraine and then Moldavia. All part of “The Plan“.
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  505. One possible reason they stripped the captured drone operators before executing them was because, those not in uniform can be categorised as spies, and the same rules on prisoner treatment do not apply? Those Russian assassins that were careless with their novichok poison were according to the Kremlin “tourists”
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  506. Yes, they have sold out to a megalomaniac. They now have a government . Prepared to poison the earth for profit. They call all the green peace,, environment protectors, people that want to avoid internal conflicts and protect those without a vice as “woke”. Every humane organisation is now “woke”. We created a parliament to represent the people and prevent dictators and big business from crushing the little man. To creat environment protection rules and ensure policies had the population as a whole in mind. The USA has just reversed history and voted for a man that want unrivalled rule. He cares not for the ocean floor. For clean drinking water. He wants domination of world importance (changing the NAME of the Golf on Mexico). Why? Should the USA Be so sensitive to an imagined inferiority complex that the name of a landmark must represent them? Does Trump feel inferior to Mexico? The USA has now fully engulfed the support of big money is the lone reason for living ideology. And that is a vey ugly trait. Bully your way to “success”. Means a defeat to me.
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  507. @lobstermash I think it delusional to think flattery (or selling out in my book) will square the corner. Trump is better prepared this time around. He is more determined to get his draconian policies through. He was greatly annoyed on how sensible advisers stopped most of his deranged plans. This time he has more of his totally unqualified own people in place. He can rip up the rule book. As for helping Ukraine? The opposite. He is copying Putin’s tactics (which he praised at the time of the fake annexation) with his approach to .Greenland. For that plan of his to sound reasonable I am betting he will at least approve Putin’s three region annexation, if not the whole of Ukraine. He really does believe the bully is the king of the playground.
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  508. Ps Trump. did move the Israeli embassy, which i think went some way to embolding the fighting there today. Also he blames Biden for the messy withdraw of US troops, , but he caused the extra difficulty by pre-announcing (loves to hear his own voice, discreet does not show him as the greatest!); the time table, also leaving the allies out of the information loop! He is no team player!
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  509. Yes Putin‘s ethnic cleansing. He bought in a lot of Russian families into Crimea after stealing the land. Still does not make it Russia though. He has already sold Mariupol homes stolen from the fleeing Ukrainians to Russians „Buy while the prices remain low“. Was on the Posters. Despicable. And proof he had longterm plans all along. More lies.
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  510. Andry is no lion. He is a wanna be toothless Russian bear.
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  511. @sebastianforbes1 So why were conscripts with upto10 days abandoned by their commanders left alone to guard the boarder?
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  512. Where is „here“?
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  513. You need to know that why? I do not see why uptodated maps of Manövers should be made public anyway. Let the invaders discover for themselves what is what.
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  514. Liberation? So The Russians have gone back to Moscow?
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  515. Previous prisoner transports had far more accompanying guards according to one released prior.
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  516. Does that include advertisements that I do not have? Those times do not correspond to the ones on my podcast.
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  517. @junkscience6397 The Telegraph is a UK paper that we pay for with our subscriptions. We got used to adds mid way through that were ‚skipable‘, but this an onslaught for a country used to add free TV! We do not live in the USA (yet). ,!
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  518. The Russian money overseas is mainly money the Russian oligarchs have syphoned off the system for own gain. Putin included. Money-laundered. Oligarchs endetet to Putin set up accounts and schemes on his behalf.
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  519. Maybe Ukraine should place iron potbelly fires in the landscape for the drones to lock onto? Something iron and very hot? Use up their drones.
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  520. No one wins in wars. Facts remain Russia invaded, .Ukraine is defending.
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  521. @petergreenwood7731 A Russian win woukd mean Ukraine no longer exists. Democratic Europe as we know it neither. Refugees escaping ruthless authoritarian regimes would have nowhere safe to escape to! Other autocratic dictatorships are taking note. Anyone that thinks the USA and every other freedom loving country will not be affected by such a monumental defeat is delusional.
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  522. I do not think there are tanks on those boats - yet.
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  523. Same error laden cut and paste every day. So tedious.
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  524. I still reminisce about Boudicca! ! Considering I was born not far from Colchester. But of course not the same as sharing tales with people that were actually there.
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  525. Trump needs a history lesson. It was NOT Russia alone that lost so many to ww2. It was the Soviet Union led by Stalin. Putting aside that Stalin was at the beginning an ally to Hitler and murdered and starved many Polish etc even before Hitler turned on Stalin and Britain and the USA joined in. Ukrainians were also among those thousands dying under Stalins command. Both militarily and starvation due to theft of crops and severe winter conditions.
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  526. And because Russia has such a greater pool. They will not become operational untill much later. Like with the young men under training to be pilots, these will be future troops.
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  527. Russian drones have landed in Romania and passed through Polish air space.
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  528. @terryross2388. Several and daily. Just follow the news. Kryvyi Rih, Karkiv, Odessa yesterday.
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  529. When the truth is do obvious, how is it “one sided”? Putin lies. “Feb.22: we will NOT invade”. He is so see through how he blames the other side of what he intends to do. He has re-written history (even changed school history books) to fit his imperialist plans. So when any commentator says the opposite to what Putin portrays, they are nearer the truth than Putin’s own speech. Even his own foreign poisonings are on purpose obviously initiated by Putin - as a boast declaring his reach and a pre-warning to others, yet obviously officially denied by him.. Putin is a master at spreading a mist of confusion, yet dedicated observers know the signs to follow.
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  530. I would like the date written underneath each one. I have been away 10 days and am having difficulties catching up on the ones I missed.
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  531. Puppet Traitor Vladimir Rogov has to furnish messages tsar Putin wants to hear back to Moscow.
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  532. The only truth in Trumps tweet is that there are oceans each side of USA. All the figures are hugely wrong and EVERYTHING, sounds like it was dictated to him by PUTIN. .
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  533. Why?
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  534. @blacksnowflake5370 check the many videos. They have the newest FSB models.
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  535. @burritosls How were the missile attacks at Kyiv and Odessa not aimed at civilians? OK Odessa is on the south coast and Putin wants to steal the whole of the coast to link up with his next conquest, Moldova, but Kyiv is far away from the front line. Purely an attack on non military buildings resulting in the murder of many civilians.
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  536. Arestovik is unhinged. I just went though his interview. Seems to have skipped the bit about Putin marched in with a column of tanks and a replacement for Zelenskyy ready briefed. Only they were pushed back out. Zelenskyy‘s March 2022 public announcement agreeing to not join NATO and to give the eastern regions the vote for independence when unacknowledged by Putin because, well he (at the time) refused to recognise Zelenskyy as the legitimate president but also thise were not the real ambitions of his invasion.
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  537. So instead of exporting their mined materials they are making stuff themselves. Bombs and ammunition? How about washing machines and planes? And hampers of food?
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  538. Yes. Zarina Zabrisky a Citizen living there makes videos of life there from time to time. Real-time walking along the streets.
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  539. @danp2965 kettle - black.
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  540. @techmeltz77. Trump has also said Zelenskyy started the war and so put USA into the position that they voted with Russia and North Korea at the UN. Trump is in negotiation to make ecconomic deals with Putin. As well as intending to rob Ukraine of their miners ls. Trump does NOT support Ukraine to get their land back. He will simply arm twist Putin to give him the minerals that are in Russian occupied land. Trump has no morals. He has seen $$$ signs and wants to win. Putin is equally corrupt, so Putin is Trumps preferred bed fellow.
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  541. I think ätrump will stop the sanctions against Russia. Trump is all about money. He is bullying all western Partners to buy more from the USA (if we want the products or not). So he will be keen to return to selling to Russia. He dies not care that it will bring more mightbagsinst Ukrsine and by default dsmaged to Eirooe too. Trump does not see the link between Putin‘s war and damage to the USA. Priorities for Trump is his own (hotel in Odessa snd MoscOW) deals and ones that bring cash/ taxes he can spend on reliefs for his Rich supporters
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  542. Putin ignored Zelenskyy’s response to the invasion of March 2022 offering to agree to not join NATO and to give the Eastern sections of Ukraine the vote to become independent of Ukraine. Putin ignored him because he had his own choice of replacement for Zelenskyy ready. Refused to recognise Ukraine as an sovereign country and refused to even address Zelenskky, who he repeatedly said he did not accept was the legitimate leader, even though zelenskyy was the Ukrainians choice as president. This speaking with Zekenskyy would only interfering with Putin’s real aim to take the whole of Ukraine under Russian control, bound by obligation of favours, as with .Belarus and next in line, Moldova.
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  543. @operator9858 there are plenty of bogs and wetlands though. And atm freezing weather with ice and snow. Whatever the conditions, it applies to both sides, so there is that.
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  544. Yes, pro-Russian. I saw a video he put out some years ago. He is very selective on the views he shows, warped and not the whole picture. He seems to live there. Back then he was videoing the Prussian occupied Ukraine, no mention of Putin’s agitators, The Wagner Warriers that must have been there at the same time and we’re very visable for the locals, as I had seen videos of them with their Russian supplied weapons occupying one of the major hotels. He is an American, Very anti Ukraine. I think he must make his money in Russia selling to Americans that he is an independant on the ground, and to get the income from video-likes and US Donnars his rhetoric has be contraversal ‘on edge’ . The balanced truth would never do!
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  545. On The Russian TV a while back they dad say After Kyiv they would head for Berlin. A bit of a warning I suppose.
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  546. Wrong on all counts. Ignoramus!
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  547. Mike Johnson has been taking orders from Trump,all along. The nine months hold back on promised aid 2013 over to 2014 is what cost Ukraine their Southern offencive. And caused thousands of unnecessary Ukrainian seasoned soldiers’ deaths. ‚A Stich in time‘ And Trump & Johnson‘s petty politics game made sure it was NOT on time.
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  548. @briancarno8837 it was a trap. Wait up a few days.
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  549. @jonathon5411 What it cost to put together and what it is worth as in functioning are two different valuations.
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  550. Loosely Zeitenwende means changed times or age of re-direction. Lit. ‚Turn‘ of ˋtimes‘
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  551. @bobbymozza. He did say Putin was very clever. When he announced he was writing those four obasses over as now Part of Russia.. Trump did say, now that is a brilliant move, , Putin is so clever. He realy did think Putin could simply declare those areas as Russian and that was that. Probably where he got the idea of taking Greenland and Canada from. Emulating his hero Putin. Facts are it is up to Ukraine who they want in charge, and they did NOT choose Putin. Plus even now after three years they still do not have there troops in charge of those 4 areas. If Trump is trying to force Zelenskyy to „gift“ those areas Putin put his name to it would include huge areas they do NOT so far occupy, including many towns and cities. Zaporizhzhia alone with a population of over 700,000.
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  552. @Costa. Look what having then in the UN has accomplished! It was a different Russia when they joined the UN. Putin has turned it into the land gab monster it is today.
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  553. There would be no reason to finger point if their word had not been given. How is any other nation in this world ever going to trust in the US if they cannot be relied on in such a major important role as this. The promise was made. By all accounts it was bipartisan, yet because Trump, an egocentric with no office at all in government, wants Chaos to prevail in order to campaign on that Chaos to get HIMSELF elected the speaker decides to shut up shop. Trump is working for Trump and deliberately or inadvertently for Putin too, not for USA interests, otherwise the border money would by now be flowing.
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  554. Different starting out point.
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  555. Are not different weapons used with different ammo? I do not know but assume Our submarines, ships, planes fire different ammo from tanks etc. AIr defence would be the same and rifles of course.
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  556. @KittyCat Wake up. It is Trump that instructed Johnson to obstruct this bill. The bill includes the border package, it was added to appease the Rupublicans and passed by both parties. But Trump does not want it to go through. He wants the border troubles to be unsolved because Trump has realised it makes a good rant for his election Rallies. Tump works for HIMSELF, not the USA. Irrelevant to him the border situation and the unnecessary deaths of brave normal citizens of Ukrsine defending their homes.
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  557. @KittyCat The rescue plan for the southern border is in that bill Johnson is blocking. Trump does not want it to go through. He wants it stalled untill November, to get as much damage as possible for the USA border because he wants a broken border to be a major rally point. Trump thinks of himself ahead of the USA Iinterest and ahead of the more than necessary deaths of brave Ukrsinan civilians defending their homes.
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  558. Third time my post has been deleted. Nothing controversial.
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  559. Jake Broe said Russia is bussing the Kursk refugees to Zaporizhzhia., probably to act as civilian buffers. So transporting from one war-zone to another!
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  560. ago @deusmorthem441 Not dumb. If Putin wants Kursk back he can do a swap. Also, it is Russia that is scared to fight forces against forces. They bomb towns etc to rubble while taking field after field. Then daily long distance shelling of civilian areas. Russia is taking the war to the citizens trying to weaken the support resolve. So far Ukraine has captured military defenders while rushing though the area and aiming at taking out every replacement or support troops and supplies Russia is sending into the area.
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  561. @CountDuckEgg. They have NOT lost all of Kursk. Over half they took is still in the hands of the Ukrainians. And Ukrsine invaded without flattening the peoples’ homes. Russia is using their traditional Blitz Krieg destruction system - on their OWN peoples’ residential buildings!
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  562. Also, when Ukraine took the land they allowed the Russians to evacuate those that wanted to leave - without ambushing and using snipers to pick off civilians like the Russians did with the humanity evacuation corridors pre agreed in southern Ukraine. The Russian troops then ransacked and looted the shops and homes of their own they were assisting to evacuate!
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  563. Wartime offers opportunities to spiv types and black markets. Another thing to be vigilant against. Worse possibly those using our sanctions to sneak a way to both undermine our efforts for own enrichment.
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  564. Sorry mate, your Trump has been talking tosch as usual. Norway is a founding member of NATO and is on the border with Russia. No problems there, and Putin, the professional lier knows it! He pushes the blame forbany of his illegal ambitions at the door of the USA and your Trump, eager for the attention is so gullible. Putin would eat him alive. Just because Trump wantsva Moscow and St.Petersburg Trump Tower!
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  565. It is in the USA.. payments to the armament Industrie, jobs etc. No one has stollen anything.
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  566. I still find Trump’s rhetoric as dangerous. The way he was speaking about taking control of the canal and then when demanding a USA has a hold over Greenland. By “wondering” if it was even lawful that Denmark has a right to Greensand has echo’s of. Putin’s speach when hhe saidvhe considered the sale of Alaska to the USA as illegal. Threats to Canada and the petty promise to rename The Gulf of Mexico as the gulf of America. “Sounds nice”! Sounds like the USA have voted in a wanna be dictator.. their right of course, but still worrying imo. Then Musk. There are fhiusands of people clever at something, but that dies nit make them experts on everything. The fame has greatly enlarged his head. He should keep out of U.k politics, he is (for us) a foreigner and no one here voted him into our government. As far as I can tell he was not voted into the US Government either, just bought himself a position of influence. But then that is USA’s Affair not mine, money talks. Party politics is different there. However, buying votes, then has the cheek to talk about corruption elsewhere.
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  567.  @fortunateone6857  where did I say they did? Donbas is in Ukraine, Russian speakers are living throughout all ex-soviet states. Ukrainians and Russians living there.  Putin‘s Wagner Warriers were specifically formed in Donbas in 2014 as agitators. He also sent insurgents into that area specifically to create unrest and avenge Ukraine‘s bid for independence and rejection of the Moscow supported candidates. Putin wanted to take control over Ukraine even back then. Even earlier in his 2021 essays. All part of the plan.
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  568. @Corgiengineer. I think that was a Russian initial report on an attack that took place on the 5th of September. Ukraine announced it was 6 jetskis, the Russians chased them off after some fighting. The Russian speachman updated later that it was six. Russia captured one of the Ukrainians after he fell off the machine into the sea during the escape and later broadcast a arecorded view of him captured.
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  569. He was talking about the Kyiv resolve.
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  570. So why was the plane flying East, away from Belgorod.?
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  571. @nenad6787 we were in a good place before Putin took over. The end of the Cold War. The space programs and various cultural exchange events. Russia opened up to the rest of the world. The Soviet Union into independent countries etc. Then along came Putin with his imperialistic ego. His KGB training working to undermine the governments of the neighbouring countries and beyond. Any isolation FROM Russia for the own protection of these neighbouring countrues that just want to be free from Putin’s hand in their pie.
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  572. And our phenomenal numerous conservative changes in who they put up as primeminsters has absolutely nothing to do with external influences, purely internal Conservative party doing.
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  573. I had the Impression that with some. Of The first clusters delivered to Ukraine they separated out the parts and dropped them with drones. Am I wrong on this?
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  574. The African and south eastern Asian countries are flattered with Russians pandering. They are falleing big time for all the Russian propaganda. The worst I have seen recently is what is being shown on and commented on by The Hindustan News on uTube
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  575. In jest I trust. I do not think even Trump would like a boarder so close to Russia. Curious is what would happen with Alaska if Trump continues to antagonise a riff with Canada? Putin has (2023) already mentioned he does not consider the sale of Alaska to the USA as legitimate. (It is Putin’s surge on the history books looking for reasons to take claim to foreign land.) If Trump thinks Russia’s theft of Ukraine is justified, then why not Alaska. If he believes countries have a right to annex neighbouring land, then maybe Canada should take Alaska?
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  576. Trump and Putin are not planning peace for Ukraine. They are planning Ukrainian capitulation and sharing out of Ukaine’s Mineral deposits. Putin already has the Chinese exclavating in the area they occupy. Start of the war it was their grain they stole.
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  577. So that justifies what Putin is doing to Ukraine? But then Trump wants to banish the palestinians from their land, so maybe they are best buddies. Putin is the puppet master after all. I can’t believevwhat Vance said. He does not have a clue about what is really happening, yet accuses Zelenskyy of ‚putting on a show‘ for visitors. Ths was a show for Trump to act the big man. Cann‘t believe he is so zealous of the genuine hero’s of Ukraine.
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  578. Equipment includes body armour, munitions, medical supplies, ambulances and other vehicles along side what they need and can be sent. This is war and Ken what’s it is just a malicious silly Billy.
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  579. This will greatly devalue their currency. Will have to print more money to cover such huge payments, more than makes sense. Hitler did the same and their paper money became worthless. Total collapse. Devalued by the hour!
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  580. According to Richard they are engaging with the Taliban! I thought the Moscow suburbs Theater attack and the street fights (attacking the police) in the Far easten Provences made then an internal Enemy. But guess those they had imprisoned have already been recruited for fighting on the front line by now..
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  581. And?
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  582. Copy & paste. A daily occurrence.
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