Youtube comments of Kath (@Kath-nd6pj).

  1. It was the American led allies that at the end of WW2 agreed Russia should be the „liberators“ of Berlin considering of the many thousands of Soviet deaths suffered. The responsibility of the surrender process in germany was divided up between the Soviets, the French, British and Americans. Germans that experienced that time told me that they were scared stiff of it being the Russians. The stories of their brutality, rapes, pillaging etc had been told ahead of them.
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  2. Putin does not want to ‚make A deal‘. He wants Ukraine. Zelenskyy represents his people and they do not want to be citizens of russia. Peace agreements take time if they are to succeed. 8 years on average, they are complicated. A 3 day ‚deal‘ can only be a stitch up. Putin has no interest in keeping to ANY agreement.
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  3. @Donovanwashere But that is all he knows what to do. Stand out on square with a bible held high. Photo shoot with rescued hostages. At a grave site with a grieving family. When he was in office he spent so much time tweeting. Instead of his real duties he continued to hold rallies, because he needed the drama, the continuous praise and adoration. More than the job in hand.
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  4. @Chrispackettt angry? But not grown up. No self control, no considered arguments. If hitting a child means you have lost the argument, what does throwing bricks at the police, smashing your neighbours car, or vandalising your local environment mean? Morons.
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  5. @Craig121000 don‘t you think those attempting to set fire to occupied living quarters, scaring sleeping small children, destroying random peoples cars, smashing their way through highstreets, hurling bricks at our police etc are making a bit of a hash of „addressing the problem“. I think every single one should be made to pay for ALL thevdamages caused. It must be known to all by now that certain councils are short of cash. Shortages in the NHS etc. I do not want to have to pay for the burnt out buildings and vehicles, for the smashed windows and massive clean up.
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  6. Thank you for bringing the facts. What we need is calm to cope sensibly with difficult times, not an extra layer of hysteric drama . Relief workers and rescuers do not need an extra helping of chaos to deal with!
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  7. @ignacio3890 And you have lots your marbles. Russian casualties are around 300,000 so far. And your maths is bad also. What is 20 x 40.,000? Not that hard, but you say 1.160,000 ? Russia has almost four times the population of Ukraine. So, yes the percent wise the numbers are high. @ between 70,000 and 100,000. Which is up to a third of the Russian casualties. Russia is using prisoners to fight and asking foreign students to sign allegiance to Russia.
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  8. As Christians we should be supporting whoever needs protection from genocide. Their ‚religion’ matters not.
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  9. Putin only needs to send them to the front, for the pension money to be no longer needed.
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  10. I consider it the other way round. Elon knows Trump was mocking electric cars. But realised Trump was desperate to avoid jail and Musk‘s money could get that done. Being near to the president is the best he could manage as an imigrant born in South Africa.
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  11. He is a populist, not a journalist.
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  12. @MidCoastAdventures by way of contrast.: A picture that stays in my mind from the start of little man‘s escursion. An Ukrainan farmer in his tractor addresses a Russian soldier standing by his stationary tank. ( Maybe it has brocken down, maybe run out of diesel - not sure ) The farmer says. „what are you doing here? Do you want me to tow you back home?
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  13. Finland and Sweden do have effective armies. Better than most in snowy winters. Both have subscription and like Switzerland can call on huge numbers already pretrained. Being nutral all that time means defence is of high importance. Finland has experience of fighting against Russia.
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  14. This video is not the full story, that is why. Probably aimed at USA Republicans.
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  15. Considering the area he is working in IS on Ukraine soil.
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  16. @RWorfel1 she has spent the past three and a half years being vice-president. Has represented the USA in many overseas trips, gathered vital geopolitical information, met and conversed with dozens of other world leaders. I would argue she has already had much more experience than you recognise. Maybe because she does not mention „best ever“ „greatest crowd“ „no one else has ever …“ about herself enough for you?
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  17. @aubreyhuff46 “It’s a bluff”. “He says big to negotiate for less” or “to get a better deal”, “he does not mean it”. I am fed up with hearing such enablers. He is soon to represent the USA on the world stage. Why on earth have you elected a bully to be your top guy? His rhetoric sounds as if he is at a continuose conflict with the world, especially the countries allies. Putin, Hitler, Kim Jung- Un and Xi- Jinping get praise and admiration. The guy is sick in the head for sure. He lives for and feeds off division. He so much peddled the “look at me, I am hard done by” last time around - and he was actually the President. Getting people to feel sorry for him! Got given a fortune to start off on life, yet non stop he still sets it up that HE is the one hard done by. Yet Any controversy is of his own making! Why am I the only one that see that?
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  18. 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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  19. @rulik006 exactly. That is what the demonstrating Hungarian citizens were wanting to know after the last elections.
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  20. @Craig121000 so what is your master plan to fix our country - for all of us. Plus this prime minister has only been here for five minutes, has not even had time to burn his breakfast toast yet! Have a bit of faith man, and try helping your neighbour instead of taking the bit of aggression before you even know why. You may even make a few friends.
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  21. Putin‘s private Palace retreat is well protected with air defence. Probably all his top supporters have commandeered the best air defence systems for their own private properties.
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  22. At least he admits he was corrected. Will not stop him repeating the same lies at a later date though.
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  23. Yes playing cards. Gambling with other peoples‘ lives.
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  24. Yes using his third language. He made one huge error, which led to Trump getting most annoyed, a single word. He said ‚since’ instead of ‚at’ the beginning we fought alone. Meaning the first few months when alone they pushed the Russians back from the advance on Kyiv. A tremendous achievement that no one exoected possible, especially not Putin! This was before any countries got their act together, so possibly why Trump was not aware it happened? But Trump immediately thought it a lie, Ukraine had plenty of aid (much later). However, that is no excuse in my book. For someone wanting to be so involved in the peace process, he should be up to scratch on such things and have immediately realised the since/at misspeak.
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  25. Quality reporting today. Good reporting from Georgia and a great interview Dom.
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  26. That is the surface impression they give out, but they do want control of the minerals, the oil, gas and the wheat fields. They also want control over the people to boost the Russian military strength. Like they did with the Chechens. Also Ukraine did the engineering on the planes, tanks etc in the times of the Soviet Union, They want that back. Dugan himself said they want their imperial status back.
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  27. Mixing names is something that happens. My dad used to mix our names up all the time. I visit my brother and call him my son’s name, then vice-versa when back home. Is this just me? But your media has gone to town on this. Shallow. The actual achievements of the conference ignored. Every venue, all day long. None want to miss out on this „scoop“. But one thing is clear: no way is Biden confused into who he is speaking to. He well knows the difference. But Trump IS misguided, he believes and trusts in Putin. Biden would never make that error in judgement. He is the true defender of the USA.
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  28. Our village was also on the flight path towards London. In those days (night bombing missions) you could still disorientate the navigators by lighting up fake towns in the middle of the countryside while we were on black-out. Not possible these days though, since radar and progress since.
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  29. @johnwalker8045 what planet are you on? Apart from not being sure which countries are served by Ryan Air, how do you think they could get on a plane or get visas if fleeing their own countries?
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  30. Exactly. A threat of tariffs is meaningless when there is (officially) no trade! He said I may be considering …. It was an empty pretend “threat”. He only said that because he knew what plans he had to scooper Ukraine’s progress. Trying to pretend even handedness. He is much too transparent to pull that fake speech off.
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  31. It still does not matter much too most of them. According to most in Mosco and St.Petersburg it is something happening in the south.
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  32. 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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  33. Mr Trump, the war could stop tomorrow. Just tell Putin to take his troops back to Russia. End.
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  34. @wlfrnfdjf. Because the guy that is behind the project just said so; on camera?
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  35. @jasminegiltendez1515 With Trump’s Project 2025 freedom flies out of the window.
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  36. Thank you. I have learnt something about your country. Very interesting. Greetings From the U.k, I knew little about Estonia apart from taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest. Winners in 2001? And hosts the following year. With your experience of the oppression from neigbiuring Russia, you are well qualified in understanding why Ukraine is so desperate to escape Putin’s clutches. Russia
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  37. @adrianahernandez7402 I do not think he goes to church that often. At least not one that preaches the love of God, love thy neighbour or the parable of the Good Samaritan. When I think of the church he mistreated during the campaign to get a whole community of Latinos on board. They were so honoured with his visit when he faked an interest. The USA is for sale to the highest bidder. Today he said why he prefers Saudi Arabia to USAs loyal allies. Money over morals. He said because in 2016 SArabia had spent a huge amount of money ordering armament! They have oil, lots of it, So are very rich. A huge amount of money means nothing to the Saudis. But now unfailing Support and working together over generations is of no worth to the boss of the USA. Her words meant nothing to Trump, he sold out on morals many years ago.
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  38. That was before Putin.
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  39. @DieFlabbergast. A lot of countries have Russian speakers same as English speaking Welsh and Irish. It is still Wales and Ireland. Crimea is Ukraine. And was at point of gaining independence after the split of the Soviet Union. Ukraine rented out the port Sevastopol to Russia as home to their Black sea fleet. Russia imported ‚construction worker‘, ‚dock worker‘, ‚maintenance‘ etc families into the area. Pushing out locals. ‚Little green men‘ arrived and took control. The Russians deported ethnic Crimea Tatars banishing them from their land. The ‚vote‘ to join Russia was no more legit than the September 2022 farcical elections in the four Ukrainian ‚annexed’ Oblasts.
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  40. He had his say, but the media people tried to shut him down. They do not want to be banished like all the free press.
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  41. Unfortunately he sticks to the ground floor. Has a food taster and sits at a desk 1/4 mile long.
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  42. Forget Trump past mistakes? Have you been hypnotised by this traitor?
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  43. Trump has invited him to work for him in the White House. (The real reason Musk has changed his Rhetoric and is supporting Trump) Musk was born in SA. Does the USA birth certificate rule only apply to Presidents?
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  44. @SuperBenette what things? please let us know. It would be good to get a few facts here. I know a bit about different types of customs duties. Worked in import / export in my youth! I heard Trump mention VAT some time back. But that is European Sales tax, not tariffs on imports. Tariffs have a different purpose. How VAT works (Mwst in Germany) stands got Value added tax, or Mehr-wert-steuer. All produce have sales tax on them in Europe. Some country’s have different rates. Lower or exempt for food, childrens cloths, horticultural or so. For those in the European Union there are no trading barriers, So the vat paid in one country is transferable throughout the Union. However goods arriving from a foreign country have the VAT added to be equal to the internal goods. And it is only on the ‚value added’ so at each point of transaction the wholesaler‘s vat bill to pay is the tax % of the selling price minus the tax % pre-paid to the supplier. This results in the sales tax (VAT) paid by the end consumer is exactly the same for imported goods as it is for home produced. Hence NOT the same as tariffs, duty, import tax.
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  45. @christinecraig7473 what has that got to do with this attack on children at a dance? The police do not have just one thing to deal with. Give them a break!
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  46. „0ut of strength and WISDOM“. Spontaneous laugh out loud from me!
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  47. @alexandrert948 that is so NOT true. Only in the USA is money more important to people than the health of your citizens. Your children have to give praise to your flag every morning at school? Why? To remind them how “great” they are?
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  48. Except things have moved on since WWII. Drones. The Russian forces are coming wave after wave. Each time a high proportion of their tanks and personnel carriers are being destroyed. Even by their own minefields.
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  49. Thank you for that explanation.
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  50. @alucardelrojo8675 yes all Democratic countries have limits on the length of each presidency and on how many times they can be re-elected. However in times of war true honest elections are impossible. So conditions call for ‚Martial Law‘. It cannot be fair elections when all citizens are not able to vote due to the nation being at war. Also the time, energy and waste of money campaigning against each other is better spent with all the elected working together to fight for the greater cause. There must be more reasons like use of resources, but you get the drift! Actually in 2021 Putin changed the Russian constitution to enable himself to remain the leader for extra terms as well as lengthening the terms from 4 to 6 years. He can in stay in theory stay in power until 2036.
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  51. @akyhne Ukraine was given independence from The Soviet Union, as was Russia. Ukraine did not BELONG to Russia. Even though Russia was the leader of the Soviet Union. It was a Union of many countries. As of today some of the smaller countries and regions of the old Soviet Union re-joined together with Russia to make up todays Russian Federation. Very much larger area wise than even the USA. The Russian Federation includes 21 republics, 9 territories, 46 regions, 1 autonomous region, 4 autonomous districts, and 2 cities of federal subordination: Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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  52. Please it is Ukraine not The Ukraine. It makes a difference in Russian.
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  53. @Pomegranate that is another subject. One does not take away from the other. The children bombed in Gaza were not victims of the 17year old Welsh stabber.
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  54. @ … By then those caught up in the Russian zone became accustomed to the soviet ways. It became the DDR and was where Putin spent his formative years training as a KGB agent) After the destruction and administrative upheaval of the war The residents of the DDR became accustomed to soviet style order. After the wall came down, even now, people were not accustomed to taking responsibility about their own choices. So much was decided for them under communism they found the dismantling of the Strick admin framework unsettling.
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  55. @shawnsarvaa6804 agree, but 15 years ago large deposits of oil and gas were discovered around the Crimea enough for Putin to start rewriting history books and exercising his Imperialistic urges. He recently said the sale of Alaska to the USA was illegal! That got me wondering if that is where Trump got the idea that the USA should buy Greenland, back in the day..
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  56. @motozappa225 a lot of people “grow up” after their teenage years. Even ones that made history change their minds. Hopefully the burden of nation responsibility or influence of others in getting her policies passed will guide her to sensible desicions. It is currupt leaders open to Putin’s bribery or falling fowl to his cyber-attacks and propaganda that are a lost cause. But she is still young-ish.
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  57. 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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  58. He wants his empire, that is what he means.
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  59. @digitalcajun1570 Yes, easy to use the “translate” button, but some of us know that Spectrum is talking bs. Hense Mark’s comment. We get this all the time on other venues. Putin was a KGB General, he has cultivated this infiltration culture for yonks. And the things Spectrum wrote follow the same Rhetorik pattern, gives away his true identity. If not coming from that culture then possibly he is just an idiot just copying these “truths” that he read somewhere. Repeating falsities does not make then real.
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  60. @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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  61. @mazzolaro1 Please explain to me why any nation should willingly ‚loose their statehood‘? Russia is already huge, they do not need more land. They only need a government more concerned with the welfare of their people than indulging their wannabe Tsar in building a new empire.
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  62. Because they are houses in a Kibbutz. How many Kibbutz are there in Iraq?
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  63. @georgekaradov1274 DJI have such drones. Russia is not making new tanks. They are pulling old ones out of storage and “renovating” them. They recently got jeep type vehicles from China and missiles from Nirth Korea along with drones from Iran, and goodness knows what from Turkey.
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  64. 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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  65. Unfortunately it will be a bit hard to write off his son. He has made himself Trump’s right hand man for a place in the White house, despite not being born in the USA. Trump is set to win, so Musk has access to all the rule breaking he could wish for.
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  66. @GingerHippieFishing. Europe is the continent. The EU is an ecconomic alliance that most, but not all, European countries belong to. Hence the EU does not have A army. Each Eurooean country does though , to a greater or lesser degree. Also many European countries (not all) are in NATO.
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  67. Your armourment industry is making a fortune. Just the DONATIONS alone of tanks Poland GAVE to Ukraine then placed a huge order for upgrades with thE USA was worth 23.8Billion. Then 90% of all that “money” you are loaning to Ukraine is staying in the USA for the purchase of ammunition and armourment. The older items already sent to Ukraine saved your government in storage and demilitarising costs, as they are not your current models. So realy where are you loosing out? More jobs, taxes paid and your own military updating their own assets.
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  68. @frank834skinner3 except no one is attacking Russia. Ukraine is defending itself by countering their war machine.
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  69. @djfrankwhyt5860 with hands tied , they did know but were prevented . That has changed since then. More drones, jamming etc.
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  70. From the funeral prayer: “Good will not be defeated”
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  71. In old English a trump is the noise a fart makes.
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  72. Wrong. Putin had found a Russian/Ukrainian he wanted to replace Zelenskyy with. He would not speed with the elected leader Zekenskyy. March 2022 Zekenskyy made a speech, OK he would agree to not join NATO and would allow the eastern Donbass regions of Ukraine a free vote on if they wished for independence. But Putin ignored him. Putin said Ukraine was not a country and Zekenskyy was not in charge. He had his own guy in tow and thought he had it all sewn up, the invasion, the cue signed and sealed.
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  73. @chrisblanco2980 are you saying the American government operates as it did 100 years ago. Or maybe 200 years ago with slavery? All countries move on and the German government has many checks and boundaries in place. The Basic Law was set up in 1949 start of The Consitution of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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  74. How dare you Talk of walk in the park. Real people fighting for their very existence! Watching video games and war films, has this turned you into unfeeling monsters? There is no comparison when it is the here and now!
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  75. But each of those media has a system of control. It needs the vigilance of monitors to keep children safe for example.
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  76. Russia sees itself as a superpower because they mix the two: Russia and Soviet. This is why Putin wants the Soviet territories back and under his thumb. It was Ukrainians that designed and built the first ‚Russian‘ tanks for example.
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  77. @Dystopix Many Jews I know criticise Israeli politics.
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  78. Also, Putin is happy to have Russia on war footing. It gives him better control over the people. As times get harder in the rural areas, he will have more poor eager to be soldiers. Thousands are dying each week. He needs more. They are getting more and more dependant on him, so will do what they are told, to survive.
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  79. Yes, same as Switzerland.
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  80. Again what has that tondo with this dance?
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  81. Helping a country defend itself should not be conditional to „what is in it for me“. Trump‘s envoy is devoid of moral or Christian values.
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  82. Russia would have turned the gas back on!
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  83. @dunwundering835 irrelevant. She is not the one making the claims. The guy that wrote Project 25 is on camera boasting about it.
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  84. 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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  85. @Markyxll do not underestimate savvy partners. If they are really close, she will be well aware of how he works. That he wants to protect her by trying to stop her worrying about him. She will do likewise. Try not to show her worry so he can decide more clearly. He will do what he thinks right. She knows that. Nothing messes with right decisions than fear.
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  86. Rubbish.
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  87. Thank you Jake for level headed reporting. Farage had not intended to take part in our July 4th elections. It was a surprise rushed move by Sunak, many caught off guard. Farage was in the USA busy attempting to glow in the Trump entourage. He is an agitator, got his way with Brexit, but did not stay around to do any of the nitty gritty to make sure it worked for the U.K. as he had promised. Did Trump and Putin’s bidding with their combined wish for a weaker Europe. At least that bit backfired! Putin, Trump, Farage, they are all the same; they want disgruntled and divided nations to own advantage.
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  88. Russia has already employed the Chinese to excavate minerals in the occupied areas of Ukraine. And I agree. Putin had most likely already spoken to trump with a deal on dividing up Ukrsine.
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  89. 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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  90. We saw footage of the site before Russian military blocked it off and sent the civil fire engines etc away. There was only one deceased body on view. With over 60 on board you would expect more to be scattered about.
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  91. In the USA WW2 they raised money with „war bonds“
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  92. @VladimirProteïne lol. I was thinking of this when I saw in this footage film of the Russians packing up a sofa for evacuation! Do they really think Ukrainian soldiers are short of sofas? There was a tall long bix which could have been a fridge freezer, so they really do think they will be looted! Ukrainians evacuating under Russia fire are packeting just a few bags. Big difference in urgency and priorities.
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  93. Thank you Bill Cameron and Robert Persichitti. Luckily my dad survived or I would not be here. We owe it to those who did not return to always do our best to make this a better place for ALL to live.
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  94. The main thing with social media is that people only watch ones of their own mindset.
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  95. @noahway13 So you changed your mind and the hundreds of extra unnecessary deaths are irrelevant. Soliders from a relative small nation already exhausted from two years of fighting now on the back foot needing to make up for time lost. Due to lack of amo allowing Russia to move ahead with less ability to hold them back. Europe was already engaging to “step up”. It is just that the USA is where the main manufactures are. We are buying from the USA. US manufactures are the biggest suppliers for all NATO ciuntrues. Increasing manufacturing is easier if you have the factories already, but do you realy think Europe has been doing nothing? But maybe you are right. Maybe other countrues should stop purchasing from the U.s and make their own stuff. Bound to lead more towards that I guess. Incentives are there.
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  96. Difference is we have checks in place. In places like Russia everyone knows the voting is just a charade.
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  97. Musk has arrived. He is as near to being President as he could hope for considering he was born in South Africa and not the USA.
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  98. I remember the speech Zelenskyy was talking about. It was back in March 2022. He addressed Putin. It was before the details of the Bucha slaughter had been discovered. And was in reaction to Putin’s original demands. He said he would agree to not join NATO. That he would give the three eastern areas the free vote if they wanted to become INDEPENDANT from Ukrsine, and something else, I forget now. But Putin did nit reply or react (at least publicly) at all. Why? Putin had commented that he did nit consider Zelenskyy as the legitimate representative of Ukrsine. Remember in the very first set of columns of tanks towards Kyiv he had also prepared to send a replacement for Zelenskyy as his choice of president. Back in the beginning of 2022 in his announcement Putin even refused to say Zelenskyy’s name. He refused to acknowledge his authority. Then another reason why Putin ignored Zekenskyy’s response is because Putin’s reasons for the invasion were fake. He did not care about the people of the regions he took claim to, he wanted the regions for Russia, not to be independant. Putin wanted to take Control over Ukraine with his own leader there, not.Zelenskyy. He wants Moldova too. So back in the beginning of 2o22, like Zelenskyy told Friedman, Putin simply ignored him. .
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  99. Ukrainians fought in Afganistan too.
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  100. Sorry I meant to type Iraq not Iran. Spell check!
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  101. 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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  102. 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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  103. 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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  104. Stay in Russia then
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  105. @RyanBrown the Russians were in Afghanistan before then. How did they get on?
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  106. @geng8667 have you ever wondered why.? Except they thought they could just watch the spectacle from afar Little did they know that the stink bomb would waft across the ocean.
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  107. 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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  108. The cut of this video: Right: Tucker is huge, full in screen. Left: Lex is smaller and at the bottom of the screen. Is this intentional?
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  109. Not Russian built.
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  110. 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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  111. He can say what he wants. He is has not broken any laws or been imprisoned for his views. Yet he broke his contract with the BBC by doing so. That is why he has now left. He does not like the BBC contractual restrictions on expressing personal preferences in public. I like him and he had a good run as one of their top paid pundits. His choice to leave and be free of the constrictions coming with the job. As a private individual he is free to take sides, just like anyone else.
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  112. @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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  113. It changed direction. Possibly electronic interruption/block.
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  114. 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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  115. @tristankerr3655 why not. Makes perfect sense to me. Oh because Putin said so? Putin himself once made enquiries about joining NATO. He said it was not fitting that his Russia should have to File an application and wait in line with the many lesser countries. So used to buying or bribing for special treatment I guess.
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  116. And longer term profits to the armament industry. Imagine it had all been over by now?
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  117. Apetape375 Masses of graves were dug for the discovered bodies in places like Bucha. Russians slaughtered civilians.
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  118. Quite a lot of rambling though. I found it very hard to follow to be honest.
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  119. 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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  120. Put your glasses on, How many Kibbutz are there in Yemen of Iraq?
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  121. Keep repeating that one article from The Times by a disgruntled ex-government employee does not make it more correct than it never was to start with. The latest hits in Belgrad were aimed at the local Electronics factory. It was the incompetence of the Russia air defence that this one was bought down in the residential area. Putin has been targeting Ukrainian cities indiscriminately since Feb 2922. Said so himself. “To break the Ukrainian peoples’ resolve.” Get this into perspective!
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  122. They’d grab anyone right now. Stupid lad. They do not care what he has or has not done. Any oppertunity to get someone suitable as an exchange for one of their own they DO want. For that reason he is stupid. Betrays wife for fake girlfriend, that is just his weak ego oiled by flattery, but putting himself in a situation to be a pawn for exchange is real stupid and irresponsible.
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  123. I agree so much with you Caolan. Just take a breath occasionally please!
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  124. @Yuri-z2y Donbass is in Ukraine. I thought Russian soldiers are in occuoation of most of it? Zelenskyy announced in reply to Putin‘s February aggression in March 2022 that OK we will not join NATO and will give the eastern regions the vote for if they want independence. But Putin did not reply. At the time Putin was annoyed that his plan to replace Zelenskyy with Yanukovych had not worked and would not even say his name. But also because in reality Putin wanted the land, not independence for The Donbass etc. A lot has happened since then, but after the war, I am sure they can arange independence for The Donbass if still wanted.
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  125. I have no objection to a prayer. Does not exclude added actions. Alternatives could be: Stop myself and campaign for Ukraine. Or — …. fund raise for Ukraine.
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  126. 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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  127. Why? So they can die fighting for Russsia in the killing fields? Even those studying in Russia are arrested for visa offences and ‚offered‘ a service in the Russian army in place of imprisonment.
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  128. @ugniusneimontas4498 but Zelenskyy was not the one that invaded. Putin can halt it for peace anytime. Ukraine is defending itself from invasion. Do you or Lex not think that Zelenskyy WANTS peace? Of course he does, but it is the aggressor that needs to be told to stop. Stop defending means surrender. Why should Lex be asking the country to stop warding off the bully? .
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  129. @ananke2104 They did. Russia has systematically attacked town centres, shopping malls, hospitals, etc. Yesterday’s mamouth missile strikes were all aimed at cities and built up areas. 30 dead. Ukraine has attacked oil depot, armament etc. thus is the first time they have hit normal houses. After two years of Russia flattening their towns and villages. Look at the images of bombed out Ukraine tiwns. You think a whole town was a military target?
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  130. Yes, ignorance. Hope he knows more about US diversity.
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  131. There was that Russian diplomat’s plane that parked up next to Trump’s plane a year or two ago. Where was that now? Florida? or similar.
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  132. 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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  133. 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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  134. @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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  135. @daveofyorkshire301 at the point of Russia loosing. Even in Russia there must be people that can see Putin has no good plans for their future, and they must/will take measures to curb the madness. People like ex-premier Medvedev and madcap Russian T.v presenter have been gunning for using nukes since the start. Putin the voice of reason! There has to be some reasonable people in Russia, not just the elite. mad at Putin that they cannot go and enjoy their yachts and villas in .Italy and other places on the med.
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  136. 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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  137. @smith7658. Please explain? Is this not a U.K. newspaper?
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  138. @mal2ksc. Of cause. Known to seafaring communities and part of training to be a captain. They learn the maps of where they are. Every fisherman knows areas where they are not to even drag the sea bed. Same as the response to SOS and mayday calls for help. They cross international boundaries. The high seas has their own non-national set of rules. Every Captains knows this and to break these rules was a deliberate act of WAR. Because you say ‚sabotage‘, but that would indicate either an illegal personal vendetta, or if on behalf of a country, it IS an action of WAR.
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  139. 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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  140. @michaelwilson9921 In this case they do not have the job of ‘comimg up with a plan.” They have been trusted observers, have issued detailed maps following and verifying the battle movements. Invaluable to the cause.
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  141. I second this. Keep up the courage Jake. We are all behind you. A difficult situation seen with such clear vision. We and the USA have never needed your analysis so badly. I just hope enough US Americans are listening.
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  142. @camillagustafssonmood3913. I am curious to know why people think he HAS to tell all. I listen to and watch as much of Jake‘s reporting as I can and value his work, but private life is private. He has mentioned several times that he has a good balance of downtime to keep him sane. This is good to know as the footage he needs to peruse in detail (much more than gets used here) can be most harrowing and the books he mentions reading up on background information are also very intense. I respect Jake highly for his seriousness and work ethic. His friendly, sincere and balanced personality shines through. But we do not OWN him. I have no right to know details of his or his families private life. Certainly anything that could bring danger to those he cares dearly about. But then where I come from it is considered intrusive to ask about religious believes. That is private.
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  143. X is encouraging views of only one side. Don’t be fooled!
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  144. They always arrest/accuses quickly, no matter if on evidence or not. They just ‚make‘ the evidence to appear to fit the charge. There were four in that car. I was unable to count how many were shooting in the building to confirm, just four. But so far they have arested and beaten up six. Somewhere I read that more than one had been working as a taxi driver. Are they just picking up random immigrants? While the professional shooters left by the back door? They are beating them to say what Putin wants to hear. Pretty soon one taxi driver will crack and say Zelenskyy himself recruited him.
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  145. Norway does not agree with Diesen.
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  146. Should Putin and Trump realy agree they share out resources etc from just”taking” then Putin will soon turn. Stalin and Hitler collaborated together at the start of WW2.m it was not untilnHitker turned and started to attack Russia that The Soviets started tonfight against Hitlers 3rd Reich.
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  147. @geoffreymaloya4799 NATO did not ask Ukraine to join. Ukraine did not request to join before Russia invaded. Ukraine gets support because Russia invaded. After the dissolving of the Soviet Union Ukraine owned a lot of nuclear weapons. In an attempt to make the world a safer place all nuclear powers were in discussions into how to prevent any dangerous escalations. Ukraine agreed to give up its weapons in exchange for guarantee of protection should they be attacked by an outside force. Signed by Ukraine, Russia, the U.K. and the USA. Russia went back on this agreement in 2014. No consequences followed, so Putin staged this follow-up ‘Special Operation’. Feb.2022. No wonder he refused to call it a war. This is not NATO helping Ukraine, it is all these individual countries. uK and the USA. Signed that agreement. The other ex-Soviet countries because they understand Putin’s real intentions and want to live under the vice of .Russia no more than Ukraine does and the western European countries too because they also know too well that Putin cannit be trusted, goes back on his word and becausevPutin has been messing around poisoning people in other countries, comings war crimes in Ukraine, causing havoc in Europe and in .Africa. No-one would have done anything, just left the status quo if Putin had not invaded a neighbouring sovereign country. Putin was not afraid of NATO. He knew they were peaceful having been neighbours with Norway since it was formed. This was just one of his many lies. In fact he is to blame that Sweden and Finland decided to join. They would have preferred to remain neutral, but Putin’s overbearing attack on a friendly neighbour, Ukraine, made them decide to apply to join NATO for extra protection. He has single handitly increased not decreased the presence of NATO in Europe. .
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  148. Humbug..
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  149. Don‘t we know!
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  150. Re a prisoner swap. The battle experienced AZOZ Ukrainan fighters will be much weaker after years of Russian imprisonment. More motivated, but it will be a long time before they could go back to the front line. If there was not a security risk (spies). Many of the Russian teenage conscripts may calculate that they would be better off NOT returning to Russia. Although fear of retribution to their families back home could influence their decisions.
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  151. @joshuapaul2022 Many of those ‘facts’ are false. Of the few that are correct, they are out of date and no longer apply. So!
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  152. @Jimmy are you really comparing how the US Marines treat their forces with how the Moscow generals treat.their from the back of beyond army recruiters?
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  153. Also in ww2 it was the Soviet army.
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  154. As long as the Russians vacate Ukraine, hopefully faster than they vacated Afghanistan.
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  155. That is what. Is implied! Pretty cold this time of year, so must be a vital move!
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  156. 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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  157. @bomadsen2392 wishful thinking. He brought up the Greenland issue during his last term. Then 2022/3 praised Putin for writing three regions of Ukraine into Russian ownership so I do unfortunately think he is being serious at least about Danish Greenland. Also doubting Denmark’s conntection with .Greenland. Putin said something similar during period of speeches re re-writing Russias history. Putin said he has been through the parsers and considered the sale of Alaska to the USA May have been illegal. So Trump is not the first to think you can grab land and question legality of ownership. A bit sad that it copies a dictator with dreams of an empire rather than an upholder of rights.
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  158. @jurgnobs1308 that could well be the case, but they fought for our freedom to choose for ourselves what to do with our lives. They chose to live life to the full and travel one more time to .France. They are now both in heaven and at eternal peace.
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  159. @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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  160. @mikael no end of my posts are deleted or are not even released after I submit. I used to think due to dyslexia and the many times I return to correct typos etc. each entry takes me a long time. Maybe they think I alter too much! But now I think it is because I try to out right events of March 2022 and Russian bots do not like the truth.
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  161. There are huge differences in numbers because casualties of war mean killed AND out of action. Depending on if the calibrater counts “out of action” to mean including hospitalised, permanent out of action, captured or likely to be able to return to fight anither day the real, final numbers will not be known until after cessation of the hostilities. And years after that people, like my dad, will suffer from injuries obtained during war. In his case WW2.
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  162. @busterdee8228 very sad. And it will take generations to put right, even if the new Kremlin shows the will to take the psychological clamps off their people.
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  163. All discussion need not be confrontational. There is nothing wrong with listening to two, speaking in a civil conversation. A breath of fresh air considering the subject being discussed, Maybe it is “in a bubble” and does not reach those that need to hear this most, but I do not think people that need vulgarity or twisted “truths” to spice up their lives would be interested in plain language and would find adult speak totally boring. But for the rest of us it is the balm we need after having to cope with the irrational baloney and outlandish untethered insults that have been pushed our way. Trump rally speak really is NOT the best export from dear old USA.
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  164. Putin sent the Wagner forces there after Prigozhin’s “March” on Moscow. They were seen to be apparently training up part of the Belarusian’s army according to Lukashenko But I believed Belarus got fed up with their bad behaviour. They tried to attack the western boarder which got Lukashenko tetchy. I believe most have since moved back to what Wagner were previous up to in Africa.
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  165. From hearing the many pleas the Russian underling foot soldiers and the wives and mothers are direction towards their ‚great leader‘, they still seem convinced the fault lies with his conduits, Generals etc. they seem convinced Putin does not know how much they have been let down. No one told them their air defence Systems for example have been moved to protect his palaces.
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  166. „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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  167. On BI she says she is an American. Working as a combat nurse in Ukraine,
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  168. If they are so wealthy, why were they robbing Ukrainian normal rural houses of kitchen appliances, technology and even toilets? Consider soldiers on the front apparently actually get a bonus above regukar regional pay?
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  169. Ship navigation: Port / red is left. Starboard/ green is right.
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  170. Hi again, copy paste man.
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  171. 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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  172. @MarekKolenda Turkey has one foot in both worlds, which can be to our advantage at times. They still do not get on with Greece though. Some grudges never change. Turkey does control what shipping goes into the Black Sea though. Only non war ships are allowed through the straight. They stopped Russian war ships, but also (weirdly) the two minesweeper the U.K. had donated to Ukraine in 2023.
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  173. @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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  174. 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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  175. Dodgy tea.
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  176. 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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  177. 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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  178. Hi Jake, I am so sorry that „ free speech „ has bought out all the nutters in hate, I had no idea it was this bad. This is no time to create a diff between our nations, when a combined effort is needed. I think many Europran countries have got the message that we need to pull our socks up on Europe. Eg Poland, France. New work together ( protecting the Atlantic cables) alliances: Norway, UK, Germany, But on military equipment we are very lacking and everything we set up today will take long to come into fruition. . But relying less on the USA will have to happen in time.
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  179. A professional liar. Ex-KGB
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  180. To be followed by the ignoramus JD Vance? Hopefully they elect someone that understands a bit more about world politics along with more sympathy for the workers and wanting to heal the divisions within the USA.
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  181. @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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  182. @ieoeodidjeksoejskoddijekso2322 Unfortunately it will be one of his doubles that falls out of the window, the shell of the man Putin will possibly be whisked off to somewhere in South America.
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  183. Because it is the right thing to do. Putin’s attack on Ukraine is not a single action by him with no consequences elsewhere. His Wagner troops helped train the Hamas fighters in Africa. His alliance with Iran and Syria, now North Korea. India is not paying for Russian oil in Russian currency. What “favour” do you think Putin is paying Iran with for the drones and Kim Yung Un with for the missiles?
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  184. If he looses he will sound like thunder! How long he will be able to draw out the cry “I was robed” with threatening court cases is anyone’s guess. They are unfortunately already setting the scene in preparation.
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  185. 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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  186. @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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  187. 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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  188. @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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  189. In The meantime United Arib Emirates have suspended their order for Fighter Jets from France because of his arrest. Not sure I understand the politics of that, but it is a head ache for the French. I think maybe they do not understand that Arrest in France means their will be a fair trial, not a henchman job like elsewhere, so maybe it will b sorted out. Surely the UAE cannot support a system that facilitates paedophile rings and traffickers for example?
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  190. @aripulkkinen57 re ammunition. i read somewhere we foolishly contracted our ammunition out to Hungry. If true that was a mistake considering how friendly there present guy is with Putin. The problem is I think, that when warned they did not search out alternatives for energy and proudly continued buying cheep from Russia. They enjoy subsidies from membership in the EU, yet still pander to Putin and try to veto as much as they can.
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  191. Farage said so himself, he is not there to work for you in Parliament, he sees himself as the disrupter. So these people only represent the reaction he wants. God help us all.
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  192. 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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  193. @jimtakahashi4638 To be fair Germany has been picked out for a direct threat from Putin of a nuclear hit. And after the USA they have been the second biggest donor to Ukraine.
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  194. 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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  195. @readisgooddewaterkant7890 He said he had no intention of invading Ukraine right up to the 21st February 2022.
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  196. @jaygorny, yes they freely go there to be lied to. But a few did leave after hearing too much nonsense.
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  197. @yudhihartadi6636 and they voted for independence in 1991.
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  198. 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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  199. 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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  200. @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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  201. @stephenking4170 the „let them eat cake“was attributed to Marie-Antoinette, the Queen of France and is quoted to show 18th Century aristocracy disconnect to the troubles of the peasant population, start of the French Revolution. In fact there is a bit of discrepancy in the lost meaning in translation word on word, but the gist is there. There are 43 monarchs worldwide, 12 in Europe. So „Queen“ does not automatically relate ‚UKˋ.
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  202. 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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  203. Saw the first part. Great.
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  204. They would have to be crazy to do that. Not to long ago Putin was saying it matters not tonhim, because they have BRICS. Lol
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  205. The Chinese golf carts.
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  206. 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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  207. We closed down and moved our ammo production to Hungry. Bad choice considering their closeness to Putin atm.
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  208. Miners, unions and steel workers for me brings to mind Poland’s Lech Wałęsa.
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  209. @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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  210. 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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  211. @apo.7898 Wives grandparent and children left for safety and are being hosted in Europe. The children attending schools, the adults trying to provide a normal childhood as possible for their next generation. Many are also supporting our combined efforts to send aid to their folks back home fighting for their future and freedom. Same as in WW2 we sent thousands across the Atlantic for safety and Canada sent us their troops, as did India, Australia and NewZealand. Looking after non combative civilians at time of war is in part a burden balanced with what help they can provide such as running bakeries, and jobs that keep the economy going. But knowing your children are safe must bring a big relief to those on the front line.
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  212. @SerendipityChild Good one. And quick sarky sense of humour. Lol.
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  213. Some suppose Prigozhin was slipped out to Africa to rejoin his Wagner Warriors there. The plane crash just a ploy. I feel sorry for the pilots and staff on board whenever an assassination is conducted this way. What with the plane maintenance and spare parts shortages, Pilots is Russia must be an endangered species by now.
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  214. 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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  215. One dimensional view.
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  216. I read a in other comments that it is nit cool to own a Tesla in Germany any more. But owners are having trouble selling them on. She wrote those parked in the streets have wheels smelling of piss!
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  217. @user-wj6dt5bq3w. He has actually. Not with those words outright. His actual words were mocking warnings from western observers when two days before the invasion he said: „rubbish, it would be stupid, I have no intentsion to invade Ukraine“ But Putin has written essays and shown maps of what he considers rightfully „Russian“. Kremlin folks have mentioned these areas by name and Putin is already making the same moves on Moldova he did originally on Ukraine. He regularily interferes in neigbouring countries goverments KGB style: in the past crushed Chechna and made moves on Georgia. Putin had intended to overrun Ukraine and boosted by their numbers continue further in his aim to recapture the influence and power of the Soviet sized past, taking back these territories. He has already made moves on Moldova and Estonia. Underhand disruption and bribery first, then physical take over.
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  218. Don’t know much about the seas of the pacific, but the recent protection of the important trade route via the Red Sea against the Houthi was NOT the USA on its own. Also the ongoing fight against piracy and smuggling off the .West .African coast. You are NOT alone in this.
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  219. @owen. If that is your view. But would you have lost more or less without fighting alongside allies? Which is the only country to have applied NATO’s article 5?
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  220. 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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  221. Probably set it up himself. Loves controversy and publicity.
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  222. @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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  223. 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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  224. 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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  225. 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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  226.  @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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  227. @martinwilliams4318 Yes, there are Russians in the U.K. too that do not approve of what Putin is doing, same as most Jews I know do not approve of Netanyahu‘s actions. The Russians also in danger of assassination! But the behaviour of these groups of partying young in South Asia are different. They are flaunt their connections are rude to the locals and are in no way apologetic regarding the bloodbaths their leader is initiating. Or remorseful for their own citizens that are sent into that battlefield. Indirectly they ARE responsible, but because those sent to die come from the poorer far Eastern district, they just congratulate themselves for being from the elite and rich!
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  228. 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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  229. He does plenty of research. He is not simply a parrot.
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  230. @jemerlia No country within NATO is/was interested in invading Russia. Putin knows that. If so NATO missed their chance when the Russian missiles landed inside the Polish border killing two Polish farmers. Instead they dismissed it as an error missfire. It is good Putin is interested in history, but we are living in the here and now. He was recently even talking up irregularities in the 1867 sale of Alaska to the USA.
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  231. When Trump said : they are emptying the asylums and sending them to the boarder, we did not know he was talking abiut Musk and son!
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  232. @rajshah7734, Where did you earn your diploma on world economics? I think you need a refund!
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  233. Italy is a country of extremes. They have bounced from one extreme to the other throughout time. The stability of the middle ground eluded them for so long.
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  234. Leaving clear tracks in the snow.
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  235. And from the U.K. We have nukes, so does China and North Korea. So where does this leave Putin‘s „supporting countries that have nukes“ rhetoric?
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  236. Or David versus Goliath.
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  237. Then you have Vance!
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  238. @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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  239. Does not sound overly American to me. Ukrainian accent sure. We do get the occasional European visitor with an American accent, Italien etc. Most of the Germans and French tend to speak in British English; although the French struggle with the ‚th‘ more than most. As for the influence of American TV Shows and films (Movies) a lot of our own youngsters have also adopted American vocabulary and even pronunciation.
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  240. 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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  241. 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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  242. @GiorgiVardi no one is perfect, but Zelenskyy is the man for this moment. As already mentioned Churchill had many flaws. His decisions and style of wartime premiership constantly criticised. And as previously mentioned immediately voted out after the war ended. Just be grateful you have him and get together to get the job of ousting these Russian invaders done. Even if most if you have Russian relatives. Our Royal Family also had German relatives!
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  243. @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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  244. @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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  245. So because the fight against this invasion is getting even more difficult for them you are recommending running away.
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  246. Oh no. Not lots of biggly. Please no.
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  247. @user-sf3ks1yl5b I believe they fear evoking mistrust in the banking system and others may withdraw funds. Also which country should go first? Others may or may not follow.
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  248. Russian Military expert Oleg Glazunov? Best let him keep wondering.
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  249. That was one year after Putin invaded. He was talking about the supply to Russian troops in Ukraine. Putin had already started the war. There was no intention to attack Russia, prior to this. Only Putin knew he was about to invade, after claiming the opposite.
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  250. Doubt it.
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  251. @JakeBroe We can hope so. But Russia has been busy selling up housing in those occupied territories ie Mariupol at knock down prices „before the prices rise“ to get families from Russia moved in. Simultaneously shipping non-compliant Ukrainians to Far Eastern territories as well as their children thefts. The longer this takes the more difficult it will be getting the homes back for those displaced. Zelenskyy will have thousands more immigrant Russians to cater for.
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  252. They have one pretty new tank, that is so modern and impressive it is only allowed out for Moscow Parades.
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  253. They all have their roles.
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  254. That ukrsinian soldier is thinking of all his comrades that did not return with him from their latest deployment. Hearing that melody and words will likely bring their faces visibly to mind. They work in such small close units on the front.
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  255. 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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  256. 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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  257. Sticks and stones ….
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  258. @nolifeoffline8118 There was a disgruntled sacked proRussian position that gave an interview with the Washington post I think, could have been a Times News interview. Boris was one of the first to arrive in Kyiv. The delegates had returned from Ankara and the atrocities of Bucha came to light. Boris spoke about this in a TV report. He said Zekenskyy had only just got the reports and was deliberating on what to do. Relating also to what had happened in 2014 Boris told Zelenskyy the decision was purely his. Boris merely told him to take his time; not to feel pressurised into making a rash decision. (Equivalent to sleeping on it) Whatever he decided was best for him and the people of Ukraine Boris would support his decision . He offered friendship between the U.K. and Ukraine.
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  259. They record this Monday to Friday. There are no updates over the week-end.
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  260. @FunnyBunny-pd5xx Almost none of what he wrote is true. This is a copy & paste set piece that pops up every now and then. Russia does not even try to hit military targets with their ground to air missiles, they regularily fire them at cities. Putin himself said they are to intimidate the civilians. One of Russias missiles fired from their ally Belarus ground did spend some time in Polish air space before being redirected towards Ukraine. Before that one of Russias missiles was shot at by Ukraine‘s airdefence and that landed in Poland. Poland can confirm that for you. Meanwhile Russia last year sent hundreds of drones and missiles aimed at Ukraine‘s grain storage units by Odessa and near to the Danube, many of these landed in neighbouring Moldova. Moldova is the next country Putin hopes to annex after Ukraine and is not in NATO, So please explain what „advantage“ do you think Ukraine would gain if they were the culprits to fit your conspiracy theory. Ukraine really does not have spare ammunition to waste on non military targets. They have downed planes, bombed aircraft on airfields, sunk ships, destroyed tanks and ammunition depots, shot at Russia air defence systems etc. amazing achievement considering „they only shoot at civilian targets“!
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  261. Rubbish.
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  262. Russia has had a boarder with one of NATO’s founder countries, Norway, since, well since NATO came into being 1949. Putin knew NATO was no threat. Now, because of Putin‘s moves towards imperial aggression, Russia has a far longer boarder with NATO, the full length of Finland, and soon to follow Ukraine!
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  263. 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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  264. South East of Kharkiv.
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  265. Avdiivka, Donesk is further south. Draw a line direct North from Mariupol.
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  266. And many of the young have fled the country.
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  267. There is already the go ahead for ambulances and cars from London. Different councils and organisations are sending convoys of pick up type vehicles as well as easy to fix less electronic cars. Former converted in workshops in Ukraine to mount firing systems, the latter to ferry people or aid tonand from front lines. Said they are less conspicuous, so in some circumstances more usefulmthan Military looking vehicles. A group of donated fire engines eat off for Ukraine from here last year too.
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  268. @bpd8426 we are talking about the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, not the UN. The USA has bases all around the globe. The U.K. too has a bigger than average presence, hence a bigger budget. Why would any small landlocked country need an Aircraft carrier for example. The USA produces a greater portion of the armament the other NATO countries buy, they are more involved in developing new weapons. To keep on top of the game, of course they invest more. But then it being in profits and jobs, You cannot just say it is how much each pays. NATO benefits by other means too from those that join. Information gathering, useful proximity etc. Yes it would be ideal if each could spend 2% and the shock of this invasion is all ready having its effects on increasing spending all round. But like Jake said, do we realy want every nation, however unstable, to invest in their own Nuclear deterrent? . Look at Kim Yung Un and his obsession with rockets. Putin has promised him help in exchange for missiles. All very scary. The quicker those supplies arrive and this war is finished the better. We and the world cannot afford to let Putin and Hitler types think they can just run roughshod over another peoples land when ever they choose.
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  269. @carlsmith8176 all those things you listed, the Canadians want. They can decide for themselves what to spend their own money on. There has to be a reason why Trump wants the land? You make it sound as if Trump is very unwise to burden the US with such a dump! If he wants Canadian oil or minerals etc, he can buy it, the usual way to treat any other soveign ciuntry!
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  270. People from poor regions in India and others from Nepal have been offered a lump sum to travel to Russia to accept cleaning and maintenance jobs in Russian camps. Only after a few days they are clothed in uniforms and sent to fight on;the front line. Currently the embassies are attempting through negotiating to get them back. Not whatvtgey signed up for. Putin is good at talking. Does not hold to his word though.
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  271. Russia is a big place and they have used Aeroflot planes in the past.
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  272. @user-d, Looks like you are the comedian mate, if you must listen to Kremlin approved announcement, please be aware in most instances the opposite is the truth.
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  273. He did not die in prison. He caught pneumonia and he died in Kherson hospital where he was being cared for. A place he was rallying the Russians to destroy.
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  274. @davyjones5509 that second slanderous statement says more about you than we need to know.
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  275. @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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  276. It’s Old Sport, not spot.
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  277. @stinger7799 That would be Putin.
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  278. They would have to change their nationality. Russia is not part of the EU. Unfortunately Hungry is.
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  279. 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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  280. @alalmquist9423. Elan Musk is an opportunist. Trump has promised him an influence in the Whitehouse. Money he has already, power is beckoning. There is no trust with either of them. Both willing to drop the other once goals are met. Birds of a feather.
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  281. 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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  282. 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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  283. 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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  284. 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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  285. In a room full of people not aware of the heimlich manoeuvre.
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  286. Fine, keep laughing. Better that way. Better than expecting us to operate according to the Russian playplan.
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  287. @MultiBattlecry What are epections?
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  288. @Hazard4K. There is hope. Do not give up on hope. Love over hate. Good over evil. ❤️
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  289. @Corbots80 Russia has plenty of resources. Plenty of land too. Putin invaded because he wants to have a Starlin sized entry in the history books. Ego started this war.
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  290. 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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  291. You have been duped.
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  292. @Withnail1969 the lonely WW2 tank that took part in the Victory Parade last year was engineered and produced in Kharkiv, Ukraine. One of the REAL reasons he steals their. Minerals, land and people.
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  293. @Withnail1969 Friends: Putin graciously awards “friends” official positions. He riles one set against another to ensure none gets to be a threat to his ultimate ego sized position. Meanwhile Putin himself is fearful of the Kremlin. They will not tolerate any sign of weakness from him.
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  294. @Withnail1969 the infrastructure of St Petersburgband Moscow is not sufferung to keep the rich Oiligards on board. Or only in as much as those from the poorer regions leave their city sanitary and taxi jobs to die for Putin in Ukraine. They are not mantaining snything in the mre remote eastern Asian areas of Russia. From there they are recruiting there frontline foot soldiers yet allow their dams to collapse from lack of maintenance. Have poor roads, lack sanitation etc and come last in many and every way.
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  295. Wishing him a speedy recovery.
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  296. I recently had to sign my name for my bank on an electronic screen. It looked nothing like my signature on paper with a regular pen. I hope these youngsters were contacted re their votes and it was sorted out. It cannot be too difficult to tick them off from the voters list to make sure there were no discrepancies with duplications.
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  297. @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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  298. @monsieurhercule just your opinion alone. The people of that country had a choice. And they decided on Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy had a choice and decided to do what the Ukrainian electret wanted. He stayed. To say they are “owned” is rubbish. It is because they did not want to Belong to Russia several ex-Soviet countries opted for independence in 1991. And that was NOT triggered by the USA. It started with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Since then Putin has tried with bribery etc to influence and take control back in places lije Ukraine. Like persuading them to reduced their armament. A previous pro- Russian Ukrainian president donated the majority of Ukrainan owned tanks to Russia in some deal involving energy. No doubt to his own personal benefit. This is how dealing with Putin works. He has been working on taking Ukraine for a long time. The Wagner Group was 2014 formed in the Donbass Ukraine by Putin along with insurgent sent in to stir up discontent and problems to make an official invasion possible. Ridiculous to declare any country a punch ball. They have their own voice. About time you listened.
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  299. Quite the opposite. Are you forgetting Winter 2022.
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  300. That land access goes via Ukraine
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  301. 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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  302. Yes, the tell tale word being live. Trying to stay alive. And not have their family, country and very existence taken away from them by force. The alternative would be?
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  303. Even non-armarment such as uniforms, especially winter versions, boots, night vision etc has to be acquired. It would increase every aspect of sending an army to war. Catering, Medicals etc.
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  304. @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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  305. You are not sending money. The money is going to the U.S military and ammunition industry to make and send things that .Ukraine needs. The tax on this industry’s increased profits is going into US coffers., so win, win for you :)
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  306. Burning the Wagner base to get rid of evidence? Are they expecting post war trials?
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  307. Forgot to add that it did not say Putin was asking for it back, just what I wrote above. I think this is related to Putin‘s later day interest/hobby in (rewriting) history. They seem to be looking for any forgotten overseas property that Russia could have a claim to. To keep a register.
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  308. Unfortunately the UK transferred their ammunition manufacturing over to Hungry years ago. Orban has increasingly been parroting Putin’s rhetoric, so that definitely was a bad move.
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  309. Are you proud that Putin could see through you and see how fickle your Nation would be.
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  310. 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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  311. I read that in Germany it was nie impossible to sell on an unwanted Tesla. Parked in the streets many have become smelling of piss.
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  312. I have a question. Recently announced Denmark have gifted Ukraine mine destroyer (ship). But I remember the U.K. donated two (or was it three?) mine clearing boats that were not allowed by Turkey to enter the Black Sea. Turkey was only allowing merchant ships, but not war ships into those waters. So the question is will the latest Danish ship be allowed to sail to the coast of Ukraine? Or did. international rules change to allow all mine clearers into that area at war? After all mine destroyers are not the same attacking warships.
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  313. Yes, agree, it is as if they do not like honest free speech!
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  314. @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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  315. @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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  316. Trump refused to pay him too, when they lost the cases.
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  317. 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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  318. @Interglacial Which bits are ridiculas? Please enlighten us.
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  319. Even if it were. This is still cold blood calculated murder.
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  320. Yes, because you are free to comment. As we are in Europe too. JD Vance was lying at worst or just misinformed by Musk at least. Either way not the best representative or ambassador for the USA on the international stage.
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  321. Soviets, Polish etc. . History. That does not give Russia the right to invade Ukraine or Moldova now.
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  322. 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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  323. There are various nationalities in the French Foeign Legion.
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  324. 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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  325. Agree with that apart from the mention of Elon. Who in the U.K. could possibly”like” Elon after he has insulted so many of us, and is so arrogant to take apon himself to blatantly interfere with our politics, resulting amongst other things in death threats to one of our female politicians .
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  326. Like they had a choice
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  327. 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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  328. It would be a bad day when all countries decide they need a nuclear deterrent. including ones further afield that have population poverty due to instability and endless skirmishes. Who could blame them when that is the only deterrent for despots such as Putin. And who decides who can or who should not have the technology. I do wonder what favours Putin is offering NK in exchange for their weapons.
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  329. @krazyswede11 hence the name?
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  330. Irony is not dead!
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  331. Why is he sitting slumped in that armchair?
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  332. I hate all these references to ‘movies’. Following this war I have read too many smart arse comments of criticism. People have fictional expectations. They joke and smirk with no understanding of the true emotions involved in fighting fir your very existence. Just tune in for a real live ‘movie’ sensation! These are REAL people. With real injuries. Real amputations, no stop off in the canteen between scenes and a soft warm bed to go to at night. There are real families in exile, scared to look at their phones for fear of what report are coming from their partners, fathers, sons. Movies are for those in cockoo land. Sorry, yes i love the cinema and the industry, but people watching reports from Ukraine as a movie replacement I feel are just sick.
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  333. Anyone watch the live stream of the funeral for “Ukraine The Latest” podcast creator director David Knowles? Same beautiful flowers gifted by the Ukrainian London Embassy. Sunflowers and blue hydrangeas (I think). A beautiful soul too.
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  334. And the planes. Are they not due soon? Or is the mess in the US Parliament holding them back too?
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  335. @GuidelinesViolater but what he says is the truth. Putin invested in forming his own private Army The Wagner Warriors in 2014 in the Donbass specifically for this reason. And mobilised insurgents as agitation mobs. All since 2014 and part of his plan to take this land. He is doing similar in Moldova. I believe the Feb 2022 actions were because he is getting old and can no longer wait for his required results. Since Zelenskyy was voted in the fighting subsided somewhat so he worried it was not working. So he took advantage of what he considered indifference from Europe and NATO, to launch this invasion. To succeed in making a Stalin sized name for himself in the future history books. Which always was his main incentive.
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  336. 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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  337. @Withnail1969 Moscow will come to you if we do not support Ukraine to keep Putin in his box.
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  338. 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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  339. But the condition is Euripe buys US weapons. The money for Ukraine from Congress mainly ends up in the USA. THis is why ‚giving’ to Ukrsine costs the US less, In Europe it is not just money,we are supporting the thousands of refugees, supporting aid columns, sending our old ambulances, trucks etc. not everything can be measured in $$$$s
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  340. “Peace-loving and patient” lol
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  341. Thanks for the laugh. If I were American I would likely not find it that amusing. However, no question; he is a joke! An egocentric megalomaniac joke. But not all of a sudden. He was from the start. I guess the Republican thought he was good for getting in the dollars?
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  342. So what is the situation from your learned view? Please explain.
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  343. Yes, the best liars and bullshitters on Earth! Putin has the biggest grin on his face, all dictators rejoice.
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  344. 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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  345. Loved the nerdy bit. A good communicator with excellent knowledge of the English language too.
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  346. 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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  347. Yes, I am surprised she did not get back at him on that. Like; Who is this ‘we’?
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  348. The hat, probably made in China
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  349. @Jondiceful. Also if surrendering only means you then becomes part of a prisoner swap you are in big trouble back in Russia, not being paid the least of your worries.
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  350. @DougWedel two years ago I read they likely did not want to destroy the bridge as they wanted a direct route for the occupiers (civilians) to leave the peninsular. It would be destroyed after Ukraine had their land back. I think they thought with the Russians fleeing over the bridge instead of being trapped there would be less resistance. But a lot has changed since then. So now anything goes I guess.
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  351. 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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  352. @Anita-k. Those that have not experienced real oppression do not fully understand the numb expressions of those living with it thoughout their lives. It is OK for us to critise our governments for the increase in need for food banks, but we have to understand that very few of us have expierenced real hunger. I know mothers that have not eaten a meal one or twice, pretend not to be hungry, to see to it that their children get enough. But this is not ongoing. It happens but very few starve to death because of it in Eurooe or the USA. I try to imagine I had lived like during soviet Russian times of „walls have ears“. You would get arrested, even killed for speaking aloud what you are thinking. You cannot trust anyone not to betray you. This has to have a permanent effect on your psyche. My thinking is that after time you are afraid to even think, to even form an opinion. As it gets you nowhere.
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  353. @Ginny and without that tax relief on the rich Trump would not have run up such a huge Deficit for the following administration to cope with.
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  354. @Ginny with your last post you have told us you are no economist. Believing in Trump, who managed to bankrupt a casino!
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  355. Russian imperialism in by the back door. It will cost you.
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  356. Followed by snow and the ground hardened by frost, so OK for tracked vehicles.
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  357. But what Finkand, France and the U.K. are doing to help Ukraine is as sovereign countries NOT as part of NATO. NATO is not at war with Russia. All the money, training and equioement we are donating to Ukraine is as independant sovereign countrues. Do you mean we can not send USA m a d e weapons? But our own are OK?
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  358. Been there before.
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  359. When he says taxing foreign nations. He surely means. Imposing import tax or duty on goods coming in from overseas. He did this before to „punish“ Chima. Only China does NOT pay the extra fee. Not sure he understands, but duties and import taxes are paid uktimately by the consumer; Americans. It can work by making imports more expensive, so people buy American made. However Trump taxed imported steel, which made American manufacturing of metal items, engines etc, more expensive. The treasury did cash in, but at expense of the American consumer, not the foreign supplier! Thatvis what his vision of taxing foreign countries actually means.
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  360. Then strange that the HT and WION are the first to report this.
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  361. 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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  362. Afghanistan?
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  363. So what are they doing in Mali, Central Afrika etc? Extracting assets.
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  364. 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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  365. @FlockOfBIRDS what? How? Can you explain your question please? I am confused because The EU is not a country. It is an economic alliance of some, not all European countries. How can it annex anything? The only counrtry that has annex anything is Russia, which is huge. 40% of the landmass of Europe, but only 25% of the Russian Federation is in Europe with the remaining 75% stretching across Asia. Although 77% of the Russian Federation population resides in the European 25% of land. The land Russia annexed in Europe however does not belong to Russia but still belongs to the country it was stollen from. So no, the EU and/or Europe have not annexed anything. And the land Russia tried to annex has to be given back.
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  366. 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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  367. Not just in 2028, who takes over when he has his fatal heart attack? Vance?
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  368. This guy has a clear no nonsense voice. Easy on the ear. Not a slurring mumbled at times mocking voice like Trump, which is much harder to pay attention to. Many US accents (to a foreigner):are difficult to follow. This guy, even speeded up, is easy to understand.
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  369. 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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  370. 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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  371. @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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  372. Good grief!
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  373. Pretty sure you can get medication for your infliction. Get well soon. .
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  374. How much of that was stollen Ukrainian wheat?
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  375. OK so pro-life unless it is a child Trump objects to?
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  376. 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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  377. 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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  378. @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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  379. She is making no claims. The words were spoken on camera by the author of the documents ‚Project 2025‘
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  380. @lpjunction Are you recommending that international law should not apply? That only the huge countries with the most money are allowed to keep their own land?
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  381. @JonathanRobson-b6j it does not sound like you are from the U.K. What difference should it make to us in the U.K. which party the Canadians support in their own country?
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  382. Any news on Viktor Sokolov?
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  383. Note for any doubters: “…. Since WE started”. Then to “crush this nation…” ! So Ukraine is NOT Russia then? They ARE a separate nation! Goes directly against Putin’s narrative. Surely he does not mean crush his own nation; Russia? But we knew this all along. Such a shame that so many are falling for Putin’s lies just because it suits their (Trumps) agenda. To whip up controversy/hatred for a divide and so encourage support and donations (money!) for his Presidential sympathy campaign. And if he dies return to the White House, this is an indication on how things will change for the USA too. Putin’s staying power depends on a semi-permanent to (once financing improves) permanent fight against something, anything “other”.
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  384. 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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  385. Who?
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  386. 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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  387. Were there people on board? The plane was flying east away from the boarder and the airport after refuelling. Also the footage of the crash site is not littered with bodies. Only one on view. Since the site has been evacuated, the fire engines sent home and the military have seal the areas off. They claim to have successfully recovered two black boxes, so we wait and see, but the missing bodies do put doubt on their first announcements. Previously they used Aeroflot planes to transport prisoners. Seems to be more they are using the downing of another of their cargo planes as an oppertunity to influence the west into not supporting Ukraine.
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  388. Also Russia gave a list of the prisoners they claimed were on board, half of the page was a list of Ukrainian soldiers included in the last exchange.
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  389. Putin, after Odessia, woukd want to join up with Moldova. He has already been suppling troops in an annexed part of Moldova, same tactic as in trying to turn Ukrainians in the Donbas towards Russia back in 2014.
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  390. @lani6647 Russia does NOT border Poland. On the West it borders Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Norway. It has bordered NATO CO-founder Norway since the very creation of that post ww2 organisation. And Putin knew VERY WELL there was no danger of an invasion by NATO. In fact in 1991 then president Yeltsin wrote to .NATO showing interest in Russian joining. It is Putin that pulled away with plans to re-build Soviet style domination over its neighbours. It is down to Putin alone that now their neighbour with the longest border, Finland, is in the process of joining NATO. Finland and Sweden were proud of their independence from both NATO and Soviet influence and both have their own formidable military ability. Putin’s February 2022 ruthless aggression and invasion has convinced both nations that Russia cannot be trusted and extra security is needed. Both on hand of Putin’s actions decided to apply to join NATO.
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  391. Roshel?
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  392. Trump announced he would up sanctions on Russia ages ago. He does not mean it. He wants to lift sanctions and to have US manufacturers make dollars there. He even praised Russia for upping attacks on Ukrsine „to speed ending the war“. Trump admires Putin and is emulating the exact same tactics, on control over the people (make the workers poor and they will or must be obedient). On ‚Bullies win, so Take what you want.
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  393. How is it a victory? Because they say so? They also said they have no intension in invading Ukraine, just 24hrs before they did.
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  394. @runrau9275 since when does being in international waters entitle you to be being bombed? Nationality of a ship is where it is registered. During WW2 warships AND merchant ships crossing the Atlantic were attached by u-boats.
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  395. @cantiaci I think he knows that. Has been the case for two years now. Other sporting events too. He was revering to the apparent apathy of regulars Russians regarding this war, or maybe subdued acceptance. But sporting events (to the extent of drugging), chess grandmaster, and ballet are all things the Russians usually put a lot of national pride into, so any international banns in these areas must be hitting home.
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  396. @taralown7023 Shoot the messenger?
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  397. It has got around that with Trump, flattery is the best tool.
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  398. Has been for a very long time.
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  399. Trump praised Putin for pretend annexing the three regions of Ukraine. Now he is using Putins tactics with his demand for Greenland. He is dangerous. He caused the chaos of US troop withdraws which he mocks Biden for by announcing the dates. Discreet with military action- not his style. His insistence in moving the Israeli embassy possibly emboldened the present war there.
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  400. We will soon find out.
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  401. A Sharpie in the USA is a felt tip pen in English. In the same way no American would say Hoover when referring to a vacuumed cleaner in the U.k you would be unlikely to say ‘sharpie’ here. Biro is not the same (don’t know what the ink filled roller tip pen is in US English) but it is more likely to be written in England than either Sharpie or ‘felt tip pen’ (too long). Unless commenting on Trump’s understanding of tornados.
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  402. 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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  403. De-Briefing. Is that not normal? After two to thirty months away, what is three days more?
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  404. People are dying in Syria. Analysis happens after an event. And this podcast is one day behind.
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  405. The Russians there are interlopers.
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  406. A lot of US based youtubers immediately, without facts, are saying Zelenskyy hit Chernobyl. They say. What does in bring Putin. Of course it was Putin. The direction, the bomb-case and like you say. It is a scare factor, just to shiw they can, like with the blowing the Ukrainian dam, a few years ago. .
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  407. The guy with the stinger said he shot down a missile not drone.
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  408. The devaluation of the Rouble and fewer opportunities to obtain credit?
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  409. @kh2716, yes, especially as they understand even more about the extent of the injuries, consequences and the pain . No “went to live on a farm” illusions. I am sure every medic, even with high success rates feels they have not saved enough lives, limbs etc, but worse for those aware there is absolutely nothing they can do. Due to location, resorces etc. Gaza, African bush and here.
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  410. Copy-paste man again. Been quiet for a while. Wonder what woke him up again?
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  411. They are protecting their homeland and very existence. Back in Feb. 2022 confronted with a convoy of Russian tanks they made impromptu monotov cocktails. If only to feel they were doing something! Now they are making drones, sheets of camouflage etc. when you are at war, everyone gets involved.
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  412. @Acolyte you explain Putin’s private army The Rusics.
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  413. @dffndjdjd all of Europe is not in the EU. They are two different things. Eurooe is the continent with 50 countries, including Russia. The European Union (EU) is an economic trading union of currently 27 European contries. Ukraine hopes to join once this war is over. There have been discussions considering if the EU should have its own combined army, but so far this was rejected. Atm it is the individual countries that manage their own military. And those in NATO do work together of course.
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  414. 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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  415. @williamrockwell9705 do you pay your taxes to pay for your roads, fire service etc and national security to the sworn in „criminal“ government you voted in or to a private individual who can sell allegiance to anyone in the world.
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  416. 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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  417.  @OptiNihle  Sorry for not flagging the name. I was replying to Shadowboi3684, not OP. Shadow said watching WW2 footage in films made this war look like a walk in the park. However horrific WW2 was, and my father served in that one, comparing does not make this killing of fathers, brothers, sons, the displacement of families, destruction of whole communities, thee mameing any less than horrific. You cannot compare loss when it is your relative that dies. Each one is valuable.
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  418. @ivancho5854, not that I understand much about the industry, but Inrezd recently that Russia is not doing the oil refining much if late. They are selling their oil (and gas ?) at reduced rates to India and other alternatives, but these new buyers are only interested in the cheaper non-refined products.
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  419. @bobbymozza, so you are taking Putin at word? They raced towards Kyiv, took control of the airport and Putin already had a replacement for Zelenskyy prepared. Only because they were stopped in their tracks and thrown out of Bucha, Chenoble, the airport etc did. Putin come up with this offer of „peace“.in Ankara. Boris Johnson did NOT tell Zelenskyy to reject the plan. He said the decision is his. Do not feel pressurised and the U.K. is behind him, what ever he decides. Why did Zelenskyy (his life had been threatened) not run away like the USA offered? Why did he not trust the „deal“ the Kremlin had prepared? Because he knew Russia wanted more and would just come back again. Georgia, Chechna, Belarus, Moldova, Poland, Lithuania etc., they all know that a) Putin does not hold to agreements and b). He wants the whole of Ukraine.
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  420. Iran and Iraq do not get on, so not sure how that will work out for Putin.
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  421. They are parting in Sri Lanka too, according to my daughter. I guess it is good they are avoiding the draft, but still, a bit a shame would go a long way to rescuing their reputation for callousness.
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  422. *partying
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  423. 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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  424. The delay in releasing Nalvanys body may or may not be due to been poisoned. The treatment he got in Sibera would be enough to kill him. Reluctance to release the body I fear has more to do with how to prevent martyr hype to surround his burial or a pilgramige burial site. Like with Bin Laden, they would like him to simply „disappear“.
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  425. Why not? When the rest is very clear as it has been told many times over?
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  426. What is fair? Who is the invader?
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  427. 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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  428. He did not say he would be taxing US imports to pay for child care. He did not say what he would spend this extra layer of taxation on. Last time he reduced the tax on the rich. Import duties and taxation can help raise the costs of imported finished goods (like Ivanka‘s clothing business imports) and make them less competitive to local US produced items. However last time Trump did this it made imported steel more expensive for US manufacturers so had the opposite effect. Yes Donald IS a con man. He knows import tariffs go straight into the US treasury and he can use them immediately. He is therefore taxing his own people indiscriminately under the guise of punishing the nasty foreign countries!
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  429. @user-ok2mn4bw7u Ukraine is older than Russia.
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  430. @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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  431. @Crimeajewel they will have to find a Substitute for Trump‘s visit. Or maybe he will take catering with him.
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  432. @KurtFrederiksen not all of it. Two section are narrow. 12miles from the coast is considered under jurisdiction of that country. This is to protect their environment and for security reasons. So wherever the passageway is less than 24 miles wide it is through traffic by permission. Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway have Russian ships under surveillance as they pass through their waterways or along their coasts.
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  433. @TerrenceHughes he is putting Tarifs on the metals imported to be used in car manufacturing too.
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  434. @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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  435. They will simply revert to making moonshine.
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  436. Money for nothing. That just about sums you scammers up. You‘d sell your grandma given half a chance!
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  437. Thank you.
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  438. @harounel I’d hope Zelenskyy did not give Trump too many details. The comment „takes two to Tango“ was a quip comment directed at Putin. It was to show despite meeting with Zelenskyy He was not being disloyal.
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  439. 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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  440. Pinned?
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  441. Sorry for your confusion. Never mind.
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  442. Ukraine has not ‚ lost‘. 20% of their land with its richness in minerals. Putin is attempting to STEAL it. This is Putin‘s REAL reason forvinvading. First Crimea (Coal, gas and oil) now the Donbass etc.. Next the wheatfields and most importantly the Ukrsinian skills. The engineers that built the Soviet rockets, tanks, planes. He will enforce his army with Ukrainians.
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  443. 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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  444. Americans are too obsessed with looks and physical fitness. President Roosevelt was in a wheelchair did what was needed in WW2. Trump lies and works only in self interest. ALL his self promoting statements were lies. He wants to destroy democracy. Biden will protect it. He knows what is important and knows how to get it done. Slipping up on words (being dyslexic I know this) is not important. What is intended is, and knowing right from wrong. Contra to what is being spun in your media. Biden is respected worldwide for his upright honesty and the role he represents. Trump is considered a disloyal self-centred ego-maniac and very destructive human being. This is just how he comes across from afar. Trump may be held in respect by Putin, Xi, Kim Un and other dictator disrupters, I do nit kniwv too much about them But I suspect Putin, who considers himself a strategist genius, thinks Trump only as a useful tool, easily flattered hence bribable.
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  445. @mikechesh-nq9gj yes Democratic, but it also means 48.11% of us did NOT vote for it.
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  446. 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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  447. Putin does not need any lessons in how to manipulate Trump. The debate only reinforced Putin‘s belief in his own superiority.
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  448. He says a lot of things. Each time he embellishes more then more lies into his newfound „history“.
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  449. @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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  450. @Yon-pm3ez There is no merit in your comment. There is no humanity in holding a competition on the extent of human suffering of one conflict over another. People have lost their homes to flooding, or loved ones to cancer that is a fluke of nature. But here we are talking about pure evil. A deliberate act of attempt of torture and aggression. In both cases. Both are despicable. When it is your loved one you know how awful it is, but it should not be necessary for it to be your own flesh and blood to realise this, human compassion should bring that comprehension. And telling that person what they suffer is irrelevant, because someone else has greater pain is cruel and nonsense too. There is no greater pain than the one EACH is enduring at that time.
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  451. @PatrickBuckley such arrogance. You think these countries with conscription and keeping back all these reserves do not have plans? Every military has any number of plans. Co-ordinating us together and choosing the best options is the next step. Allocation re who, when and where after that. Only recently we put together an alliance to tackle the rouge cable cutting ships.
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  452. 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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  453. @tommymorrison6478 You are jumping guns with that assumption. It is not always the guy that is the main earner. I was employed and supported my first husband during uni. in.Germany. Yes, we were young. At time of divorce we were both working. It is not always about money. The comment was about attitudes in giving credits or loans. In the early 1980s I was told in the U.K. despite being employed and having saved towards a modest deposit that being unmarried I was unlikely to get a mortgage, so took my money to another company that did not have such old fashioned values. Then 7 years later when getting a company in to give a quote on redoing our kitchen I was told my signature was not enough. They needed my husbands signature too. This, my second marriage. My husband travelled a lot with his job and was in Japan at the time! I said he would not be interested in how the kitchen looked and had left the decision to me. It was MY money being used. But this did in a way make sense for a small company, if a partner refuses to pay under any excuse possible ie “I did not approve the work”. I guess they could be lied to and the house was in his name, so there was that. They left the papers and hubby signed when he got back from his business trip.
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  454. 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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  455. Why? Did she direct the storm there?
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  456. 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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  457. 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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  458. @anthonyp3066 How are you going broke when that money is not going to Ukraine as cash? 90% is going into the US arms industry. Jobs, taxes paid, reduced storage cost for old munitions with new upgrades going to your own military.
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  459. 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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  460. 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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  461. @spudrubble do you really think none of the foreign Journalists that reside in Moscow have requested and hoped for an interview with Putin? Hundreds of requests have been denied. The real question is why do you think this one has been allowed. .
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  462. What points would they be.?
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  463. *two? They are not targeting civilians. If you mean The Freedom of Russia Legion, Russian Volunteer Corps even they requested the civilians leave the Belgorod settlements. It is only Russian troops, not the regular, but those trained similar to their Wagner Warriors that are torturing and using rape as a weapon in their advances and as occupiers.
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  464. @mahamadoutraore1077 This ‘stalemate’ is in fact pure defence. involves Ukraine sitting in waiting for expected Russin attacks then obiveratuing them, over and over again. Russia is making some ground, fields, and Ukraine too, but mostly the .Russians are being ambushed and this is greatly reducing their strength and numbers. They happen to have more numbers available for slaughter, but that is up to them, if they keep on coming, and will just take that bit longer.
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  465. Then why do you not beg Putin to stop the invasion. There would be no reason for the bombs to be sent in there if they were not trying to get his trouos off Ukrainian land. The discussion on independents can happen after
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  466. 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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  467. @pgpython but those Russians that were murdered in the Theater are not the same ones that committed murder on the, mostly children, in the Mariupol Theater at time of siege. I can feel sympathy for both. Putin has won if you loose your sense of humanity! Yes, it would be good if there was a way to explain to the average Russian that what they suffered is what Ukraine has been suffering at their military‘s hands. But displaying it as a tit for tat would suggest Ukraine and the west is as bad as their troops were, and I do not believe that. It was terrorists that murdered the Russian civilians. Be they on ISIS or Putin‘s or the Kremlin‘s call. My three guesses.
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  468. Walls or canvas?
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  469. @dimas3829 The Crimean tartars think differently.
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  470. Snake you mean. He has got you all fooled!
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  471. Yes, they blocked subsidy money to Orban because of his dishonesty. He got some of it released as a consession when he voted against releasing Ukrainian support funds last time, which is likely why he is trying it again, he knows the urgency in getting this passed for Ukraine. Effectively attempted blackmail.
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  472. 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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  473. Actually Ukraine came before Russia, so I do not know who wrote what you were watching.
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  474. That would be theft. We do not iwn that money. Same as not owning the seized yatchs, property etc. we can ban the owners of use or access, prohibit they use that money, but itbsrill remains their prooerty held in limbo. There was way back a decision that we can take the interest earned in our jurisdiction while the money remains locked in limbo, but that is all.
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  475. At the moment there are individual volunteers, but by your reckoning this takes away the argument that Ukraine friendly countries should not send troops to assist in defence of Ukraine. Freeing up Ukrainian troops to fight this annihilation attempt by Putin where-ever they feel fit,
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  476. That was lovely
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  477. Lol
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  478. What a load of bollox. Who do you think you are brainwashing?
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  479. 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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  480. The outside 10 Downing Street departure speech by Rishi Sunak was also very dignified and impressive. Check it out.
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  481. They have a new underwater amusement park a couple of planes some ships and a submarine to play with.
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  482. They have ice breakers, a lot of shipping through and around the artic circle.
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  483. Yes, Turkey controls what goes in and out of the Black Sea. They say no warships can enter. Only ones already registered to Black Sea ports. They would not allow the three Minesweepers Britain had gifted to Ukraine enter either.
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  484. Or deluded
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  485. Storing the nukes in the U.K. could also be a reaction to Putin‘s recent visit, ie renewed interest in their enclave on the Baltic Sea. Kaliningrad.
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  486. @lacasadelvideojuego3880 Shortsighted. And that ‚only care for me‘. Will come back to bite.
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  487. If Dagestan is a city, there are realy not many people out celebrating their new bins. Possible just family members of the employees or mates of the video composer!
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  488. @Dubjaxfilms asking an opinion? How can they find out? It has not happened yet. It is anyones guess what is in Trump’s brain. Sometimes it seems he just likes the sound of his voice. He says so many weird things. The discussion is: is this another weird thing or could it have legs? Greenland have already said they are not for sale. Canada are surely not taking this seriously? We wait with baited breath.
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  489. @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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  490. Misuse of the wonderful word Heritage.
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  491. @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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  492. 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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  493. Yalta, after which Stallin went back on his signed promise to give free elections to the eastern areas and how they did not release East Germany untill the fall of the Berlin Wall in the 1980s.
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  494. Not sure Putin is told the correct numbers, even if the Kremlin kniws. They all fear for their jobs.
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  495. I bet Zelenskyy wished he did not have such a good grasp of English having to listen to Trump in that post meeting speech to fox. If his English was at the level of my and Trump‘s Ukrainian he could at least imagine Trump has a decent idea of the meaning of fairness.
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  496. 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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  497. Tubthump from the trump academy.
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  498. @pavelzmiev1578 Saying it over and over again. Copy and paste into every conversation here, does not make your statement true!
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  499. 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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  500. We are all a bit stunned as the worst results happened. but do not be disheartened Jake. Take encouragement from Anna from Ukraine. We will stick with this, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8TmR3VHX27A&list=PLJnf_DDTfIVCYlsANGtNkzMeM9Fdmqzxr&index=3&pp=iAQB
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  501. Yet those „stated goals“ were all phoney.
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  502. Most are sailors on an Aircraft Carrier. Was it not in dry docks? The flyers would have left long ago.
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  503. 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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  504. Still best to know where they are, or at least know they have not been sold to the highest bidder.
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  505. Yes, sometimes our worries can leave us immobilised. But for every bad person/thing out there are a thousand good and kind people. May you find the courage to fight that fear. Remember there is nothing more frightening than fear itself.
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  506. @jmatt98 “pay the tariffs”. Are you serious? Canadians should give up their country because Trump wants easy money by having US citizens pay more for what they buy from Canada? Another blinder Trump has conned you all into thinking China (next Canada) has to pay fees! Import Tariffs are duties and taxes you the importers pay when you buy from overseas. Trump likes them because this is tax paid at point of ship docking. The US transport company has to pay the tax to the US tax collectors and the US company/manufacturer has to re-imburse the transport company before the goods can be released by customs for delivery. So each time a huge sum of US paid tax direct into the treasury coffers. No waiting for year end tax returns that could possibly use evasion tactics. Not sales tax which would show up on every sales docket. This is hidden tax the US public are paying without knowing. Straight into the governments spending pot. Do you think Trump will spend thus tax you are paying on another tax relief for the rich?
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  507. @Sphere723 Imagine this amount of open media in WW2. Back then We were told, „loose talk costs lives“ Times have changed. Whilst good for informing doubters what this Is all about, it has its challenges. Many of which are detrimental to the effectiveness onthe battlefield.
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  508. 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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  509. @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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  510. @JanChodura68 sorry to ruin your exclusivity. I think Poland could be in this club too. Their hit list of top enemies is ever growing! Cheers Czechs and U S Americans.
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  511. @americanpatriot6484 you mean you have not been listening?
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  512. @fletcherreed3259 on which of the issues you have researched did Trump tell the truth about?
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  513. @disturbedmoo but Putin’s “historical references” were in the main made up. He re’wrote history.
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  514. Is it true that Trump called out to all Christians to vote for him. Saying they only need come out and vote once, his people will see to it that after a vote in November, they will not have to come out to vote ever again? he will fix it.? Is he planning for his family to take over and rule as a self appointed King?
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  515. Turkey wants it.
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  516. A bit like the arrival of the doodlebugs then.
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  517.  @planmet  you are probably right. I do not know how to access the weaponary capabilities. Reading that reminded me of my mother‘s recollections of the sound of doodlebugs approaching, then cutting out - silence - while the mind races anticipating where the explosion will finally crash. The hospital behind where she lived got a direct hit. Even though I was not there, that vivid description is etched in my brain. People ask why we feel so strongly about Russian aggression in Ukraine. There is hardly anyone in the U.K. that was not touched by WW2. Remembrance /Poppy Day is approaching. NEVER AGAIN! This is important to all of us this side of pond.
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  518. 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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  519. 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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  520. @ashfield1425 Ukraine is older than Russia. And you are free. With freedom comes responsibility and that does not include bashing someone else up because you do nit like their face! Respect.
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  521. @JohnSmith not so. Ukraine is older than Russia. Much later they along with the Balkans etc joined together as the Societ Union. In 1991 is when the Soviet Union disbanded and several countries, including Russia and Ukraine became separate and independent. Some exsoviet countries rejoined together as the ‚Russian Federation’. but thIs does not include Ukraine, Poland and many others mainly those west of Russia. They remained separate. This is Putin‘s main reason for this war. He wants to be as powerful as Stalin and wants to excert power over all the nations of the once Soviet Union.
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  522. My daughter came back from Sri Lanka in December. She said some hotels are exclusively full of partying Russians.
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  523. Too badly wounded to make it. I am guessing the lightly wounded returned back to base with their comrades.
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  524.  @jez6208  agree. Trying too hard if attempting to mimic our slang, colloquialisms, words of expression. Easy to catch them out.
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  525. @petergreenwood7731 Loose and they no longer exists. It gets no lower than that!
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  526. 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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  527. Lol!
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  528. 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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  529. Jake, Putin used that excuse not to listen to Zekensyy‘s response back in March 2022. He was using „not legitimate“ leader right at the start when he had a replacement for Zelenskyy in tow to place in Kyiv after the tanks run on the airport and Kyiv in February 2022.: only that coup was thawed by the resistance from Ukraine. Start of 2022 Putin did not even use the name Zelenskyy as He tried to scrub him from thought. Later it was unavoidable. At least here Putin is acknowledging he WAS legitimately elected! A back track.
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  530. @StableFrank Are you suggesting that the sale of Hunter‘s art work is financing the downfall of the USA government?
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  531. @richardmarsden5610 No worries. Best let Putin holds on to his fantasy beliefs.
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  532. 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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  533. @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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  534. With daddy‘s help. Saved. Both Trump and Musk.
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  535. If they have done ‚nothing wrong‘ then surely fast tracking is the best way to get them released?
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  536. Also put the life of the source and family at risk.
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  537. Take anything Putin says with a pinch of salt. What he says depends on who he wants to dupe.
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  538. Diesen is wrong. War crimes by Putin and his Wagner and regular forces. Ordering POW to be tortured or shot! Using drones bombs to pick off civilians while they wait at bus stops! Zelenskyy most certainly is NOT the criminal here. He rise to the challenge in following his citizens‘ wish to defend the country, its culture and people. Unlike putin who changed the law to allow him to extend the years he is permitted to stay in power, Zelenskyy does want to hold elections within 90 days of war end. He deserves a rest!
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  539. Yes
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  540. 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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  541. Yes, eradicating polio, such an evil goal!
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  542. Yes, funny Trump says Zelenskyy should tslk sweet about murderer Putin, yet Trump himself will not stop nitbstoo griping about, Biden, Obama etc. he lets NOTHING go. So bitter and revengeful.
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  543. Kath-nd6pj 0 seconds ago Winter 2022/23 with their power supplies down I knitted bedsocks and a blanket for the elderly displaced and bought thermal underwear for those in the cold wet trenches, as a Ukrainian Cafe in London was organising regular Deliveries to their contacts in Ukraine. Independently there were convoys of fire engines and donated ambulances back then driven over to Ukraine. Volunteers giving time and money. All very ad hoc and just given what could be quickly scraped together. Now I guess it is more organised. They know in the meantime more specifically what is needed and the money sent used to better effect.
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  544. The KGB is very much able to plan for long term. Not in tight detail, but they have sleepers and destabilising the west was always on the table directed by Putin. His insurgents offered too slow pressure in Ukraine, hence the invasion. As for destabilising democracies worldwide, plan was always there. Only opertunisticsly they took this moment to bite. Weakend economies due to COVID. Uncertainty re climate change, then the ears Putin was exasperating in Africa causing mass migration: anither burden for western economies. Putin saw his chance. Trump is naive. Anither tools. Both Trump and Putin wanted a weaker Eurooe. Trump for dominence of trade, Putin political. The cyber attacks and influence resulting in Brexit. All made this longterm idiology plan more possible. So nit detailed in planning, but a slow process of creating favourable conditions for Putin’s end-plan.
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  545. And imposed talking Russian (for schooling) onto them.
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  546. @waynekeebler6755 probably the reason Trump finds it so hard to accept his efforts did not work. Placing a rival company shareholder De Joy (whatever his name) in charge of the postal service. Who then systematically destroyed the fast sorting machines. Trying to order poling stations to shut earlier in states with queues of voters still waiting around the block to get in to vote, in states where the number of ballet collection places had been reduced. (Causing the long queues). Then the phone call where he was asking for more votes to be found. Trump believed his hype, he was going to walk it. After all the time and effort he had put in to making sure those in denser populated areas could NOT vote. So if he did not, in his mind, the other side must have tried harder at cheating! Trump: no one cheats better. He is the King of cheating, throughout his life.
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  547. @mikepost8965 so why did the Kremlin spokesman say any troopsvthere would be unacceptable to Russia? Some one is telling porkies. Or both are.
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  548. Oh dear. Thanks for sharing.n
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  549. You forgot, they also had a ship advantage!
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  550. 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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  551. @williamcanfor21 I am certain he knows this. @Realist369 is just trying to act clever - or is an idiot. Or both!
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  552. The justice system of any country needs to be Independent. Balanced and sticking purely to the law.
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  553. Again my reply has been scrubbed. What? Russian appeasers are definately working hard on here.
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  554. Lol.
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  555. 2 @Nauticaa 25% is ridiculous, that must be clear to everyone.,even Trump knows this. It is his style of shock horror, to settle later for a more suitable arrangement. but it is the tactics of a bully and Trump’s intention to rile even his partners that gets this reaction. We are not at war, so such an uncouth transaction style is never going to go down well. There are much better ways to negotiate fair deals with partners.
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  556. @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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  557. 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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  558. @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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  559. @Hamzat22 Poland has been both one of the first to take refugees and one of the strongest to support Ukraine, both the Polish people and the officials. But if farmers are in danger of going bankrupt, that is an internal government Problem. The Polish government needs to take a position and deal with it. You cannot export your problem for another country to solve. Of our farmers are unhappy about lots of things, they have to lobby our government for help. Same with Care homes, or any other business or industry.
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  560. @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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  561. Yes, people can project lots of things, but now they have evidence to hand. Proof.
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  562. @estherV4N3V9, yes and Zelenskky agreed to that in March 2022. He said we agree to not joining NATO and to give the eastern areas of Ukraine the vote on if they want independence from Ukraine. Only that was NOT what Putin in reality wanted. Just an excuse, long since abandoned. He wants the whole of Ukrsine. In the Feb 2o22 with tanks sent from the Belarus regions down to Kyiv invasion Putin had already sent his choice of replacement for Zelenskyy to Belarus, ready to take over. Putin did not reply to Zelenskyy’s reply. At the time he kept up his stance that he would not talk with Zelenskyy. (Woukd not even say his name) because he did not see him as the “legitimate leader” of Ukraine. So, we are here. The war of resistance against overthrow. . And two countries insistent over almost 80 years In not doing so, joined NATO. Sweden and Finland live alongside. Norway also boarders Russia, one of the founding NATO countries. They were no threat to .Russia and Putin knows that. He is manufacturing “excuses”. So ironic that his “fear” of NATO should trigger a fear in his sensible neighbours resulting in a even bigger NATO presence along Russia’s boarders. So adding Ukraine to that list should really make no difference!
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  563. 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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  564. They would employ their larger ships and many types of submarines that currently are not permitted entry into the Black Sea. But, yes good point.
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  565. Hear, hear.
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  566. 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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  567. @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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  568. @tariredom7615. That in the Donbass is a situation that Putin created. He wanted to start a war to take the region back then. In 2014 he financed and created His own private army The Wagner Warriers in the Donbas and also sent insurgents in specifically to agitate and create conditions to “justify” his land grab, same as he did in .Crimea, and is doing in Moldova. He wants all that land to be handed over to .Russia, Only they do nit w@nt that. Russia also wanted independence and to be free of the obligations on the Soviet Union back in 1991. But since being in power (and changing the law allowing himself to remain in power) Putin has back tracked on all the progress made back then as he clambers for imperialistic glory!
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  569. @aguilar43093 You really think the money is given for free? They need to survive. The U.K took until 2013 to fully repay the debt with interest due to the help we had from the USA during WW2.
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  570. @larsrons7937. Good point. I think the U.k has agreed to move a primary troop training program to insude Ukrsine, but am unsure if that happened, or if they found suitable facilities. But even if, they can only go do far. It is the experienced men in the trenches they need to teach the now situation life saving skills
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  571. Taxes on goods from foreign countries are NOT Paid by the sender. They are paid by the importers, ultimately by the American cosumer. The Import duty (these big numbers he says) goes to the US Treasury, but are paid by the American consumers - not the foreign companies!
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  572. The initial Feb.24th invasion was three pronged. From the north via Belarus towards Kyiv, a southern front from Crimea, and an eastern front from the Donbas and towards Kharkiv.
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  573. They are in Thailand too. Partying and being rude to locals.
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  574. Glenn Diesel should move to Russia. He will be a neighbour to NATO instead of living in that NATO nation. Norway, a founding member of NATO which shares a boarder with Russia since day one! Putin knows there was no threat coming from NATO, a defence organisation. He lied abiutbhus ‚reasons‘ for I invading.
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  575. Should read : *land grab.
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  576. I saw another video by a Russian conscript with diabetes sent to the front without medication. He had a seasure during fire exchsnge and was shot. In hospital his wound was patched up and herwagst sent back, despite sonsequentual sight problems. Do these coward Generals think the sick are like them and making it up to avoid duty?
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  577. Love the way Jake pronounces ‚en route‘. Makes me think of a router power tool. So doing a bit of carpentry! I pronounce ‚en Route‘ like the French do. No right or wrong in this, just a cross Atlantic route difference. Lol.
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  578. Big table. Likes being surrounded by lots of dumbness.
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  579. You are pronouncing Hammerstein in American? Hammersteen. I thought it was German? Ei pronounced I?
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  580. Jake, Russia has announced that the concert attack has sparked a jump in recruitment into the army. This would be the reason Putin did not take notice of the warning - even the warning of an ISIS attack on a Theater by their partners, Iran. They always accuse as their thinking goes, so I even imagine that Russia put up finance for the attack with crypto. They most likely actively accommodated the flights into the area. Russia was not being invaded by Ukraine. They did not take the bite offered by the Russian bloggers. Putin wanted to be able to blame Ukraine for the same brutality they had administered in Bucha. And Putin insisting Ukraine was behind the ISIS attack is working for him by resulting in new enthusiasm for a war and hate against Ukraine
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  581. @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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  582. As far as I know the U.K., the Air Force, do not have F-16s. So they may be training pilots in all other aspects apart from anything specific to that plane. From there they would probably have too move on to Holland, Romania, or anywhere else where these planes are for the next stage in training.
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  583. Trump installed De Joy who then destroyed the speed sorting machines. He even had the cheek to try getting poll-stations closed with queues of voters still waiting outside to get in. Then in states where postal votes are not allowed to be processed before the poll stations votes are in,, he tried to claim these set aside votes were fake. He wanted counting to be finished without imclidng these postal votes. Typical Trump, he then accused others of what he was doing, he was doing his utmost to do, he declared the election was rigged.
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  584. @UncleHiward.. You really think Russia has your back? There are plenty of comrades fallen out of 14th floor windows that thought that!
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  585. @laurie9557 much Kinder to agree with lunatics. Tell him he can walk on water, the oceans await. .
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  586. More proof, if needed, that Putin is going senile.
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  587. @Zipbass the EU is a union. Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Norway are also not in the EU. All along with Britain are in Europe, the continent. Unless someone towed the Island away when I was not looking!
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  588. Then you should get in turn look into WHO put mercenary insurgents into the .Donbass, Ukraine to insight war. Putin personally financed and weaponised The Wagner Group formed 2014 specifically for this purpose. Putin’s has utilised his KGB training in infiltration into any number of foreign countries to poison/murder victims. He has tried connections of bribe like control in many Ex-soviet Countries that voted for independence. He wants the power as with Belarus. Many Russians are amongst those Ukrainians that choose to live in a Ukraine free from Russian restrictions. Putin is a despot.
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  589. Initially things were not too bad, infact blooming because all money put into building up the war effort would have filtered through. Then some gains would have been made by who ever took over the businesses that pulled out of Russia. They made money on the grain they stole from occupied Ukraine and sold the homes belonging to the Ukrainians forced out of these areas to Russians at knock down prices. Mainly as part of their ethnic cleansing plan, but also gaining revenue. But now it is becoming trickier to hide from his Russians the lack of money available for infrastructure maintenance. Home heating systems, crumbling dams, especially away from Moscow and St. Petersburg in the eastern Regions where most of their troops are recruited from.
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  590. I doubt Trump will take anything Biden told him on board. He didn‘t last time when Obama went through stuff with him to help get him up to speed. I believe he thinks everyone is like him - and anything they say is in spite and would harm him. In fact Trump made sure that everything Obama put in place, he destroyed. And he only went for that assassination because catching Bin Laden came during Obsma‘s watch, and he wanted to show mussle. He is so childish.
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  591. 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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  592. 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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  593.  @MrSyntheticSmile  I have been unable to find where I read that. He did not say he wanted it back or nullenvoid. I read it as part of his interest in re-evaluating Soviet/ Russian history.   I did find this though from January  „“ Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new decree relating to Moscow's historic real estate holdings abroad, a move interpreted by ultranationalist bloggers as a foundation for future revanchism against Russia's neighbors—and even the U.S. The decree, signed by the president late last week, allocates funds for the search, registration, and legal protection of Russian property abroad, including property in the former territories of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. This would include Alaska, swathes of eastern and central Europe, large chunks of central Asia, and parts of Scandinavia. Russia's Foreign Ministry and its presidential administration's Foreign Property Management Enterprise are directed to carry out the work, ordered to find, register, and protect the "property" in question“
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  594. ​ @MrSyntheticSmile  hi, I did reply a while ago. Seems it was deleted, probably because I had imported a Chunk of text. This is my second attempt to write today. Loosing the will to live! Lol I was unable to find where I read that, but did find a report. It seems Putin had allocated money to finance a comity to find, register and protect any Land or property assets that historically belonged to Russian Territories of the previous Russian Empire or the Soviet Union era. It said this would include Alaska, sections of of Eastern and Central Europe, Central Asia and Scandinavia. This to be completed by the formed; Foreign Property Management Enterprise.
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  595.  @MrSyntheticSmile  i did not say he was asking for it back. I said he was looking into Alaska (along with all Land once Russian). In the piece I first saw it said ‚illegal‘ that was wrong, I apologise. In the text (translation of the document) I found after you asked and tried to post (got deleted - too long?) it translated as to „Find register and legalise.“ . In the replacemnt Text I found next and wrote above the translation said „find, register and secure“. But I repeat none of this says he wants it back, only he wants the comity to see what (they use the word ‚property‘) in the various areas once the Russian federation and Soviet Union they can lay claim to.
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  596. @GovIvey that is not what he is here for. He is attending the UN meetmg. And he is not taking sides. He has bigger problems on his mind! From before he got on the plane he announced he wants to show the President of this year and the two ongoing Presidental candidates his peace plan, because the war is an ongoing probkem. Zelenskyy will work with whoever is the new president, he cannot afford to get mixed up in USA politics! He is trying to save his country and peoples lives!
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  597. @StableF timing. It is not Zelenskyy‘s fault you are having an election simultaneously to him trying to save his country. And it was NOT a rally, he thanked the workers for working flat out to supply Ukraine with desperately needed weapons. He will be meeting Trump, Harris and Biden to show them his battle/piece plans on going. Alongside being here to attend the UN meeting.
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  598. @EricaFi oh no, don‘t say that. Trump will do his utmost to stop it happening, like he did with stopping the boarder bill out of spite (or jealousy because he wants it to be HIS success) Think of all the Ukrainian lives lost that would cause, , possibly even the country.
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  599. @Joe-GMY yes. Just paint the mental Asylum white to make him happy.
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  600. @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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  601. 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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  602. It would have been put back by Wiki staff. I once reported an intruder had written some obvious false ‘fact’ about internments in the Tower of London. They removed the name of the contemporary immediately! .
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  603. Did I read the USA gets fuel from Canada. Pipelines? Is that one of the biggest influences on trade figures?
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  604. Backwards is good in my book if back to politeness and cleaner environment.
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  605. The problem is so many outsiders only hang onto the image of the terrorist groups. Those seeking revenge or an eye for an eye need restraining and put hope into legal Justice. Other outsiders are interested in keeping a waring fraction going for own political gain. Those with interest in the arms industry and those wanting a western ideology and democracy defeat worldwide. It is up to all to influence their representatives that we too do not want unnecessary conflict and to embrace and assist a peace loving administration to make positive progress for Syria. It will not be easy. Neighbours, even once opponents, must make friends again. It is not unusual In any country with an extrem brutal government to only break the mould with an uprising, which because of the oppression mirrors a reactionary extremism. Apart from Ghandi and a few others who used non violence protests. Good luck Syria. We wish you well.
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  606. @TunnelWorker There is no problem at all. No one needs to ‘save’ Russia. Putin is the invader. All they have to do is take their military OUT of Ukraine. All this killing, destruction does not need to be. Not just Ukrsinians. Any Russian too that opposes Putin gets ‘delt with’. Why are you supporting this despot?
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  607. R u using windows?
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  608. There are plenty of intelligent and able people in the USA, but Trump has over more then 8 years been busy convincing the public that “deep state” is evil, so no one believes those with the right experience any more. Why? Because the checks and balances are there to keep a president on the right track and working in the interest of the USA. Trump wants to dumbify the nation, so it works in HIS interests..
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  609. If those Russian paid influencers turn, then they better watch out drinking tasty tea, getting near high rise windows or trips in private planes!
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  610. @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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  611. We are intent on saving a nation and the whole of Europe with repercussions for the whole world and Trump wants to rob the victim and kick him in the kidneys as he lies on the ground by agreeing with Putin to divide between them the defeated Ukraine . Zelenskyy needs to refuse the ‘deal‘ if Trump continues any transactions with Putin. It is no deal.
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  612. 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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  613. @rustyyb8450 soon the amiss will be when Trump directs the tariffs on imported steel paid for by US car manufacturers ( and then US citizens as end consumers) to pay for tax relief to his super rich buddies that bought him the presidency.
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  614. @rustyyb8450 yes The treasury that pays for aid providers and intelligence gathering. Plus Un-elected Musk and his green teenager followers now have the names, bank details etc of undercover investigators. How safe is that?
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  615. *aproach
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  616. 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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  617. @davidthenotorious3600 why do you believe the Kwatch that Ukraine did not want to befree themselves from the situation they were in prior to 2014? Putin was interfering in their eastern oblasts. Sending insurgents to cause a unrest against a free Ukraine. They wanted rid of their corrupt officials that were taking back handers and selling them short to Putin. He had conceded to give 80% of their tanks to Russia, gave up planes too. The uprising was home grown, they wanted the oppression from Russia stopped. There are many Ukrainians that can tell you this, historians, socially aware, those that took part in the protests. Why do you listen only to the warped self-serving rhetoric from Putin. He who set up most of the conditions they were protesting against? As now, other countries, neighbouring and far away were willing tinsupport Ukraine against the bullying, but no one was telling the Ukrainians what to do. If Putin wanted good relations with Ukraine, he is certainly going the wrong way about it. The other countries, Balkans etc that were once part of the Soviet Union relish their freedom from that alliance and are certainly not queuing up to share Putin‘s vision of a return to those dark ages, so what makes you think it is different for Ukraine. That their citizens are incapable of making up their own minds on how they want to live?
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  618. @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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  619. Musk snake a new breed? Or just a South African reject
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  620. That is the problem perpetual liars have. Remembering what is true and what the fantasy they have made up. Putin has gone back in time and re-written events to fit his present illusions. He has recently had the childrens school history books re-written and the children he has stollen from Ukraine have been told Ukraine is not a country; their homeland does not exist!
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  621. 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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  622. @FunnyBunny-pd5xx But the bill being held up by Johnson DOES include money for the boarder. It was added to appease the republicans, it was compiled by members of both parties and has bipartisan support in the other house. It realy is not just the Ukrainian money they want to hold up (dubious reasons) but also Trump does not want the boarder fixed. They want the relief to be put off preferably until after November because Trump wants it to be his main campaign issue. Nobbled by your own party! Since the „break“ Johnson has put forward a new delaying tactic. He says the Republicsn want to make their own boarder bill to replace the present one from scratch. He knows it will take even longer as it has to go through senate again etc., etc. apart from the fact that Republicans took part on the present one, if he wanted that and tibias so very, very important tonthem, why did they not start earlier? Why hold up the one they have already composed? Putin is gaining confidence in this Trump/Johnson self interest and smallmindedness. And hundreds dying needlessly.
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  623. 💩
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  624. Also recruiting from Africa.
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  625. @like_bacon_well_done you mean the agitator insurgents Putin placed there alongside his private army The Wagner Warriers he formed in The Donbass specifically for that purpose in 2014 and the Russics. Putin’s plan did not start in 2022.
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  626. Is that the treason why Putin thought it an opportune moment to invade? A peace loving leader would abandon Ukraine‘s citizens wishes and just allow Putin’s thugs to take away their land and freedom?
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  627. UN Peace keepers. Not all will be also NATO members.
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  628. 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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  629. 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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  630. One Russia official said three the next said two missiles.
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  631. @dunlop8295 My first thought was after a short stay in detention he became “unfit”. They are into electrification over there.
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  632. 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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  633. @user-du6oz7lo4s Actions speak louder than words. What Putin is doing is more Hitler like in this scenario.
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  634. @avex3903 From what? Imperialist Putin is the ground grabbing invader here.
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  635. Again the person I am replying to has deleted their post. Wow!
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  636. Same here. UK
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  637. 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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  638. All the heads of countries congratulated him. Europe including Zelenskyy, then Putin the following day.
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  639. @GraysonDieterich because the media is fickle. Media mould the public into believing the presentation is more Important than the content. Combined they are putting on a facade Hollywood version of the real world. Shallow.
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  640. This podcast is at least one day behind any action. Come back tomorow.
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  641. Russia is not “taking” anything they are destroying. Apart from plundering even for clothing they have not been supplied with.
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  642. The people of Europe also want the Russian troops to retrat back into their own boarders and get their own house in order instead of bossing others about.
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  643. 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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  644. Sorry: unable to „edit“ my typos. It was Time Magazine. NOT The times.
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  645. 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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  646. Maybe Putin thinks. He cannot sell the oil, he may as well use it as a weapon to damage the surrounding countries ciasts.
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  647. Agree with everything you say. Just add that a lot depends on the outcome. Knowing children coming through after the blitz of WW2. At least if you survive and win to be enveloped in love knowing your folks did the right thing. However how do those commenting those terrible atrocities live with that? Drinking lots of vodka?
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  648. X Commenting x. Should read *committing
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  649. Jake check out the interview Orban did. with Bild Reporter. After he had visited Putin (before trip to China). Said he had a visit from Trump‘s son three weeks ago. Said he had told no-one about his visits in collecting information re his peace plan. Said he first asked the German head of military about thevsituation. Next asked Zelenskyy about the situation. Then, (without telling those two) went on to talk with Putin, then to China!
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  650. @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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  651. There are people saying that the Washington Post thing about „do not bomb the refineries“ is fake. Russia exports crude oil, not refined anyway. They are also suggesting the Moscow district Theater „terrorist attack“ is not what it seems. Comparing with the Russian hustiry with such things, Like the Chechnian school attack, which enabled Putin to enforce a stronger hold over Chechnya. Quoteing the police late response and allowing three to escape. They are assuming the real motive is to allow for a bigger response to request for Russian military mobilisation.
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  652. LOL
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  653. AS instead if AI
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  654. Trump deliberately slowed down the postal service when he timely appointed Lois DeJoy as head is the USPS. Immediately DeJoy started dismantling the speed-sorting machines up and down the country. That is when Trumps attack on postal voting began, and he told his voters to turn up in person. He even tried closing down voteing halls with queues still outside waiting to vote in ‚certain‘ areas. The audacity to cry wolf about rigged voting, after all the efforts he made trying to swing it his way.
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  655. 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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  656. Why? You want to die for imperialistic murders? Only your friend as long as you are handling their illegal diamond exports and accepting their stollen oil at knocked down prices.
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  657. And play the victim for sympathy support. His hate is to bring people onside and does nothing to help unite or heal what divisions already exist. Egocentric megalomaniac, even in the highest position in the USA, as president, he managed to make everything about him, the victim! Does not know any other way.
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  658. @nazcamain after this def not, but you are forgetting Afghanistan, Libya and Syria amoungst others like patrolling the sea routes including the Somali piracy and protection around the sues canal area. Further back the Korean War.
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  659. @jemilambi I agree. Russia could not have put much value on their hack. If they thought it would lead to bigger disclosures they would not have exposed the source. Yes, the generals were slack, but The Russians did not learn anything they did not already know. Why release the footage? Only two reasons come to mind. They want to hint at other more damaging possible insecurities they have previously tapped into. Only the German Generals will know if that was likely. I doubt it is. More likely, this was just another opportunity Putin took to try setting seeds of discord and mistrust amongst those supporting Ukraine. Putin‘s KGB trained speciality.
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  660. Why does Vance not admit he is running to be the next president, after Trump collapses.
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  661. @lochnessmonster5149 another numpty. What do you think European countries (not all are in European economic Union) have been doing? Sending in aid, ambulances, fire engines, medic help, hosting the displaced and much more. These are our neighbours! The US armament industry has received so many orders from us, there are delays on deliveries up to three years. Less than half the allocation of old stock from storage allocated for Ukraine has so far arrived from the USA. The US allocation in $$$ mostly stays in the USA as it buys newer upgrades to replace the soon to expire items from the storage stockpile sent to Ukraine. We rely on you for weapons because the NATO alliance has been streamlining and the US produced weapons have become the universal ones used more and more. Our most recent For example Our Aircraft carrier was recently equipped with US off the peg planes. (F35s? I do not know the correct Code for them) It is your industry that makes money on this arrangement, but maybe we have learnt our lesson and we must produce more for ourselves instead of buying in, if there are going to be more restrictions from our old time partners!
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  662. Trump shows no respect. Cannot even get his name right. His name is President ZelEnsky.
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  663. Well done Jake. A comprehensive run down of events leading to this present day situation. A reminder for us all into how we got here. Putin has been weaving webs of compulsive lying for purposes of disorientation and confusion since his days in the KGB. Thank you for lifting the fog.
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  664. That would be UN jurisdiction, and any action is vetoed by UN member Russia.
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  665. Such a stupid Voice too. It has to be some meddling by outsiders surely?
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  666. And a few days behind. Nothing wrong with the reading on the combat thing.
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  667. @jaybey4687, yes allowances for devaluation.
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  668. 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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  669. 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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  670. @jackiedyer7824. All that comes out of Moscow has been lies so far. From the day before the invasion „no plans to invade“ ti the many changing attempts to ‚fake news‘ the reasons for the invasion. It was intended to be a blitz cue, with no time or reason to explained. Putin refused to speak with Zelenskyy in March 2022, when he responded to the ‚conditions‘ „ oK we agree to not join nato, and to give the eastern regions the vote on if they want independant“ because his Feb 22 attempt to replace Zelenskyy with his own man had not succeeded. Now several reasons later he sees it as vital to Putin that he is seen as a tsar like figurehead of a great worthy power and wants to skip any relationship with a minor such as Zelenskyy (his future minion) . He wants his talks to be with the big guys, like the president of the USA, China and such. In order to get the ultimate sacrifice from the Russian people he has told them this war is with the USA and disregards any intelligent input from Ukraine what so ever. For Putin Ukraine does not exist. This is how warped his thinking has become.
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  671. @damntrain5145 if so why is he being a puppet to Putin? Even Xi Jinping of China is out manoeuvring Putin. You would rather a dictatorship than a free voting USA?
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  672. @razpootis5802 thousands of scientist and doctors prove you wrong. Start with your poisoned waterways.
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  673. 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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  674. @afridgetoofar1818 Moron.
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  675. @sofiyagrober2180 the first thing Putin did when he occupied the Eastern Regions of Ukraine in 2022 was to secrete the siloed grain harvest to Russia. then while blocking Ukraine’s Grain exports he offered up the stollen grain for free to Asien and African nations. Easy bribery to gain friends with grain stollen from the very nation you then blame for non-delivery!
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  676. 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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  677. Female hater ‚Coach Red Pill‘ Does not sound like a very likeable person to me „self defined dating coach“!
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  678. I do not see the urgency. While the threat is there, Russia has to keep a force there to protect it. early on, when still considering the Spring offensive (before they were let down on supplies) they said the Bridge was needed for the occupiers to leave by. Then destroy after so they cannot return. Not sure how serious this was or just an idea for consideration. Russia is building a railway line all,along the occupied areas to approach Crimea over Ukrainian land at the moment. For freight/supplies. So they have a plan B alternative to the bridge.
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  679. They do not have the whole of the Donbass Oblast. Putin declared the annexation, but puting your own flag on a map of another country does not mean anything. If they already took the land what have they been doing the past 2 years? Apart from torturing civilians, stealing children etc? Putin is evil like Hitler.
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  680. They do not have the whole of the Donbass Oblast. Putin declared the annexation, but puting your own flag on the map of another country does not mean anything. If they already had the Dongass Oblast, what have they been doing the past 2 years. Apart from torturing civilians, stealing children etc. putin is an evil duplicate of Hitler.
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  681. 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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  682. 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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  683. Bullshit
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  684. Sorry, could not resist: He is not a cheese but a Broe. It was probably auto-correct. No criticism intended.
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  685. Trump’s way is favour for favour. He wants a Moscow Trump Tower, and possibly since this war Putin has promised that if he wins Trump can have Ukraine minerals AND an Odessa Black Sea frontage Trump Tower. His legacy.
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  686. Better than hyping up for drama effect. Cool facts is what we need. How relative it is you can make up your own mind. No need to scream wow, geewizz in a hyperbole intended to convince your own opinion onto the other.
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  687. @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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  688. @melanytodd2929, yes but by the guy that did it. You do not have any facts to support your jump to conclusion that he even was a Muslim! A few days ago when A Romanie father caused a riot people were blaming that on Muslims. In no way ever in history have Romanies been Muslims. Quite the opposite. The Romaines I have accounted were all dedicated Catholics! And the dispute was concerning how they consider child care. You are a one pony hate brigade, and proud of the violence caused no doubt!
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  689. So where is saxony! Equals Germanic.
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  690. @darkweb492 if Russia withdrew their troops from foreign land this war would stop immediately. Get OUT of Ukraine.
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  691. 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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  692. I feel the same way as @simondalzell5635 too. I also agree with Jake that the atrocities Putin’s troops are inflicting are designed to numbify us. The same way he handles the people of Russia to accepting his strong hold over them. From the poisonings he micromanages overseas to show his reach and warn would be defectors to the recent changes in laws re imprisonment. In the same way movies and comedians are increasing swearing and use of words to shock fir attention because they lack actual comic talent. But we must not become immune to it. Better we suffer pain because we care than learn to switch off or worse still become immune or indifferent. Keep up the good work Jake. For the sake of humanity.
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  693. @Heneling, yes but then we have all changed in 10 years. He calls it talking in a weave!! It is called Nonsense to you and me.
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  694. Yes, best ambassador for NATO. his invasion provided proof of his real intentions and that he does not stick to treaties he has signed, so increased Nato membership immediately by two. Sweden and Finland.
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  695. @ramadankadriu5336 I thought most of the the shells from NK were shells originating from Russia.. Apart from that NK does not not spend money on their people. It is a dictatorship spending mostly on rockets and military to keep its people oppressed and poor.
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  696. By the way I once heard Friedman say he was Ukrsinian American. A Russian speaking Ukrainian
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  697. Not Russia, soviets. Included Ukrainians! Russia was happy to join Hitler and attack Poland. They only turned against Hitler when Hitler betrayed Stalin and broke their friendship agreement. The Soviets lost a lot of people on the Eastern front pushing back the Germans. The Germans lost mainly because they had overstretched and had supply problems, then the greatest killer, for both sides was the exceptionally cold winter. And Russian deaths were extra high because of the same tactics they use in Ukrsine today. Pushing men forwards en mass on believing the ones behind have a chance of getting though after the forerunners have been killed. They were and are willing to sacrifice their own citizens. A sacrifice in honour to the regime.
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  698. Putin should not have invaded in the first place. Are you going to just hand over your house and family to a neighbour just because he wants to own you, it and them?
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  699. 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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  700. A would look a bit conspicuous with huge armament 1,000 miles behind enemy lines.
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  701. Unfortunately parasites have already bought up some of it. Taken advantage of their dia situation,
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  702. Unfortunately Trump’s fans would probably have never heard of Orban and will not know that he is not trusted in Europe. A big headache for the Europeans and not the respected influential leader Trump claims him to be.
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  703. “For the free world””. Not for free Greenland? .
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  704. @embreis2257 i do not understand the whole politics of it (Re NATO alliance). But seem to think this has happened in the passed. Turkey was involved in a spat that did not rope NATO into it. The British defended against the Falklands attack without article 5 coming into force. I believe USA did help with shared intelligence and possibly allowing our ships through US waters (I may have imagined that bit) but some logistic help was received. The only time article 5 has been evoked was after 9/11 by the USA.
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  705. Another report about nithing.
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  706. And by point blank lying. Comes from his KGB training. People that know too much mysteriously get poisoned, fall out of high rise windows or get blown up in cars or planes.
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  707. 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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  708. Just as well there are no fact-checks on Russian presidental speeches! So much fantasy land!
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  709. Not surprised he finds Trump irresistible. Both got where they are by convincing others using ‚creative‘ language
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  710. That global view of Britain makes us look so ‘Great’ in fact far smaller lol. With Spain around twice as large as seen in that view. Russia is the biggest country on Earth, so there you go, why worry about ‘little Britain’? We know why, that is enough!
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  711. @edellenburg78 imo They showed those photos (and the female presenter was smirking!) as a WARNING to Trump. Putin has something on him! His top generals and all close to him get ‚favours‘ from Putin. Bribes. If they fallout of favour he can expose them, some generals that resist even fall out of windows. Putin does not like friends that turn against him!
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  712. @arizonastrummer, no the 4 oblasses are not just a buffer zone to Crimea. 1st They are full of minerals etc that Russia wants. 2nd they want to extend the occupation area across to Odessa and to join up with their military occupation area of Moldova. This would completely cut Ukraine off from any sea poets and ease of exporting their grain. Resulting in 3rd. complete control of Ukraines export capabilities and with that bribery and interference influence over their ecconomy. They want complete control over the whole of Ukraine. In my opinion this is the one and only real reason for the invasion. Complete control over Ukraine. Absolute Control over their ports being the pivotal must for Putin.
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  713. It is the hate Trump has fired up. My enemy’s enemy is my dear friend Putin.
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  714. Wrong. Accept capulation? Their tanks did head out to Kyiv and with a replacement for Zelenskyy in .Feb. 2o22. So do not repeat the lies from Putin he did not want the whole of Ukraine. He has several times told us what he thinks belongs to Russia. The whole of the previous Soviet Unuion. You are full of hate. And it stinks. How can you accept a piece that gives away your land. Anything he signs he will back out if later snd vome back fir more. He gas aleardy started on Moldova. So how much of free Europe do you think he should NOT have the right to steal?
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  715. @SnakeP1tPoetry you mean battling against Putin‘s insurgents, Russics and Wagner groups. The later, Putin‘s private army, formed 2014 in Donbass specifically for that role of agitation. Putin wanted a subordinate Ukraine from the start. And was scrapping around for a reason to invade. Then flattened the homes of the people he claimed to be „rescuing“ . Lol
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  716. @RatsAreNice222 but that is what Putin has done. He has invaded and tortured locals, abducted the children into Russia and banished families into far eastern Russia the people of those occupied regions. Sold the stollen homes cheaply to imported Russian citizens and any remaining Ukrainian residents are forced to take a Russian passport for access to all amenities, such as water electricity etc. Ethnic cleansing and land grab. Send the locals away, then hold a referendum on all the imported Russians, done and dusted!
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  717. @iainw5081 Zelenskky is supporting his people. They do not want to be at the beck and call of a murderous Russian despot. Putin does not have good plans for those he holds by bribery. Putin was best friends with Prigozhin. Putin financed and supplied weapons for the formation and adventures of Prigozhin’s Wagner Group mercenaries, look what happened to him: apparently playing with grenades within his plane mid flight! And many more of Putin’s cronies fall from Highrise windows or drink the wrong sort of tea. Good luck claiming to be Putin’s friends.
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  718. Improved design since the Kursk.
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  719. @HappyBear376 Kyiv
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  720. How does a sanction inhibit free speech?
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  721. @tonywagner4836 tariffs. That is why Trump likes them. The money is paid before they are released from Customs by the importers. US citizens fit the bill. Even though he pretends China etc pays! Taxes coming from Income tax, sales Tax, corporation tax is all seen by the public. Some can be avoided by tricksvetc. But Importbtariffs go straight into your treasury, no deductions and before any item is sold.
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  722. @alrent2992 Wrong
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  723. No it was not true. Lying is Putin‘s profession. The reason he went back to the 1100s is because Putin has been re-writing history. Gorbachov opened Russia up and Putin has progressively been closing it down, and successful free countries near by are a threat to the tight fisted control he needs to succeed. 2021 he wrote essays on his ideas of resurrection of the Russian led Soviet Union. Belarus already there, but he has also made moves on Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova, it is just that they, would prefer to remain independent an free from Russian dogma. Thise countries know what it is like and do not want to go there. In fact Kyiv exsisted before therevwas a ‚Russia‘. Peter the Great made St.Petersberg it’s capital, later the capital of Russia moved to Moscow. He is serious when he says he wants to continue in bringing Ukraine and Moldova into the Russian fold. And that lecture part of the ‚interview‘ was designed to try to justify such a move to himself and anyone else that cares to listen. He has already had all the school history books changed and the Ukrainian children they have stollen since 2022 are being told that Ukrsine, their place of birth, does not exist. So with this admittance of his imperialist aims exposed it also shows that he does not care about the will of the people who’s land he wants to steal. He says it IS Russia. Crazy despot.
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  724. Hi Jake, Is no one going to comment on what’s Trump said the other day. “Putin deserves to keep his occupation areas because he lost a lot of men fighting for it.” Or was this just waffle to be ignored?
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  725. There are many foreign journalists in Moscow.
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  726. 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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  727. Be stupid not to.
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  728. Russia has a different definitions for : ceasefire. When early on arranging the humane. path for the civilians to exit the bombed townships under near to occupation, they were just being picked off individually by snipers. Private cars with evacuating families were fired at. Women, children, Obvious elderly and even the immobile being carried were also killed. Then Putin tried to turn this around day by exclaiming we offered exit routes, but Ukraine did not allow them out! For Putin ceasefire means do not fire at us, but we can do whatever we want on YOUR land.
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  729. @Burebista And why Ukraine gave up (to Russia) its nuclear weapons 1994. Agreed was Russia, the U.K and the USA would in exchange protect Ukraine from future attacks. Probably one of the many reasons Putin was threatening by law imprisonment for anyone in .Russia calling his “Special Military Operation” a war. Although as he himself used the w word recently I feel he will use bias in the application if that law.
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  730. Rubbish. Russian stirrer.
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  731. 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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  732. The USA have voted in a morally corrupt leader. They knew what they were doing. He boasted about what he would do. He called every attempt to expose his evil handling, stealing funds etc he called a witch hunt. OK then he proves he IS worse than a witch. And now peace and leading by consent goes out of the window. Putin, Xi, Kim Jung Un win. Democracy and the engine room which work for a living and holds us all together looses.
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  733. WW2 was the Soviet Union, not Russia as of today. This is the real reason why Putin is trying to capture Ukraine and tomorrow Moldova, after that Georgia. He has been using KGB tactics with subversion through bribes and slander.. He almost got Trump.
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  734. @alanhamford2538. That was just another fake excuse Putin gave along with “denazification”. He planned the invasion since forming Wagner in the Donbass in 2014.: Neigbouring Norway was a founding member of NATO, and Putin knew they were no threat. Feb 22 Putin launched the failed cue, and invasion. March 2o22 Zelenskyy announced to Putin “OK, we agree to NOT join NATO and will give the eastern regions the vote on if they want independence.” I heard the speech! Putin ignore him. Did not even reply. Why? These were not the real reason for the invasion. He wanted the whole of Ukrsine with his pick of President in charge. The one he had arranged to insert after taking Kyiv. Back in 2022 he would not even say Zelenskyy’s name. Much has changed since then. Putin has revised ‘reasons’ many times since then, mainly for western ears. And after seeing all,the atrocities committed against Ukraine, not joining NATO can no longer be an option.
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  735. @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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  736. @delphinmagbakolikoa9006 Are you an idiot, or just pretending. She has more idea than you of what is in the shops. Kyiv has Metro. So she is either not in Kyiv or just too far away to go there during an air raid. She is not mentioning the Metro as a means of transport, but as an underground bunker at times of war.
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  737. @tempejkl The wanna be Hitler / Stalin in Moscow is the terrorist invader leader here.
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  738. 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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  739. @leight420 could just be that you do not know as much as you imaging. Or are just unaware that you have been duped by Putin‘s JGB tactics. Tell me: for what purpose did Putin finance and weaponise his private army, the Wagner Warriers formed in Donbas, Ukraine in 2014? Why did he engage the Nazi member lead Russics? The retaking of this land and population was always his longterm plan. It is why he has set up a group in Moldova too. He already „owns“ Belarus. Has a hold on politicians in some of the other ex-soviets too. All part of Putin‘s empire building plan. Even re-wrote the history books too predating as ‚Russian‘ aspects that date before Russia was formed. Putin even looked into the past and commented that he considered the sale of Alaska was possibly illegal.
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  740. The only reason Trump set up a fund of his own s because he can handle the donated cash. If he wanted to do good he could have paid to any one of the many charities actually helping out now and called out to his followers to do so as well.
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  741. @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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  742. @cdt996 that is not entirely what is happening here though. The heavy bombing they are inflicting on the civilians are not part of their street by street fighting. The Russian are using tactics they used in .Syria and elsewhere. Look at all the towns and villages they have captured. Smashed to rubble. They do not capture working towns. They do not know how. As you say it would be messy and too difficult. They are bombing indiscriminately. They openly said they aim at shopping centres and electricity stations to demoralise the people. In Kharkiv, a city nearest the boarder they send out drones and pick off civilians. People hide their cars under trees hoping to will be able to drive to the shops unseen by Russian drones. They had drones drop bombs on them as they, civilians, wait at the bus stops.
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  743. @TheSanAnt0ni0 But that is not entirely what is happening here. Russians are usung the same tactics they used in Syria and elsewhere. Turning built up areas to rubble. Indiscriminate bombing. They cannot cope with Street by street fighting, as you say it is messy and dangerous. They have openly announced (state TV) that bombing shopping centres and power stations is to demoralise the citizens. In the city of Kharkiv, nearest to the boarder they send in drones to pick off civilians. Residents try to hide their cars under trees and hope they can get to them to drive to the shops without being seen. They have had Russian drones drop devices on neigbiur while they were waiting at the bus stop. Civilians. Same as in Bucha, at the very first few days of the invasion, they rolled into town raped and tourtured civilians. Shot at passers by riding pushbikes or walking pushing a pram. These are not soldiers keen to fight soldiers, they are very much into firing into built up areas, hospitals, etc regardless.
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  744. Putin laughed about invading Ukraine uo until the day he did. This is his normal reaction to US led intelligence. And his other sign of intent: he always accuses others of that which he plans to do. Has happened many times in this war.
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  745. So they are on a more equal setting with the vodka drunk Russian?
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  746. Now it is time for all our people to pull out of the USA. LEAVE. Why should our artist, doctors, engineers help those that belittle us and put the rich people in charge of destroying our planet. The many lies hatred and cheating bringing this about. Dictators rejoice! But Our patients is OVER.
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  747. No, it was JD Vance’s speech or lecture in Munich that caused this. He was the one that said European allies were worse enemies than Russia or China because they did not allow free speech (when it is hate speech the U.K. and Germany take action against - and I suspect, the hassle with Musk on x could be where he got this from) Then your man in the interview said he agrees with much of what Vance said in that speech and Europe should not have a fit (or similar words) because of an opinion. In my opinion Vsnce just listens to Musk‘s ill informed rants and does not have a clue about our laws - which he blatantly then criticised!
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  748. The nearest he can come to having the highest power in the land. Being born outside of the USA he cannot Wing it to becoming President. They both used each other. Trump got the money, Elon the power. How that offering audience members money for votes is not illegal, is beyond me. Same as Corporate and Party Deals I guess.
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  749. @neguseametih because he and all of the eastern block plus most of Europe knows that Putin does not keep his word. Four treaties so far broken by Russia. Plus all the dirty tricks (Murders, poisonings) he has ordered to be committed on foreign soil. Putin has no intention of honouring Ukraines independence. The children he has stollen have already been indoctrinated with “Ukraine does not exist”. So there is his plan. He stole their grain in the summer. Did your country get some of that free of charge?
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  750. France has nueclear weapons, Germany does not. Macron does not have to threaten them aloud like Putin does. Putin is well aware without Macron needing to spell it out. Besides the French Legionares are well known as hirer troops separate from the French regular army.
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  751. The Chinese vessel had a Russian captain.
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  752. Also the effects of the shift from Russian oil for example is effecting the economy of some European countries more. Although good that we learn to do without. Good progress made there. Debatable would be how the sanctions effect participating countries and/or their companies. It will certainly shape our future relationship.
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  753. @Zagdankrzysztof7162 She is in Kyiv, Ukraine. Why are you an advocate for false information? Does it give you a kick to be a trouble maker? Because if you are doing this on purpose, in spite, then that means you have an ulterior motive?
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  754. Load of tripe.
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  755. 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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  756. All those foreign workers offered Citizenship bought in to (in this case) man the bread production lines, will likely be offered to join the army on the front line very soon.
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  757. I read there has been a swing towards Trump in the polls. How can that be seeing how much Trump‘s performances have deteriated of late? Could it be the cash hand out by Elon Musk?
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  758. No, Putin ignired Zelenskyy’s agreement because he said woukd not recognise Ukraine as a country and refused to recognise Zelenskyy as a legit president. Putin lied abiut the reasons to enter Ukraine. In truth he wanted the land - all of it. Putin’s troups have bombed the Russians he said they were there to rescue. Flattened their homes. There are many Russians living in Ukraine, and they do not want to be ruled by Russia.
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  759. Faiez-rt 1 gm Minsk agreement. “To withdraw all foreign mercenaries from the conflict zone”. Putin had placed insurgents into the .Donbas region. He formed the Wagner Group in 2014 and The Russics mercenary groups specifically to operate in the Donbass, Ukraine. They worked no stop to keep the conflict alive. Since Zelenskky’s election the area has become much calmed. This is the real reason Putin invaded in 2022. Because his Disruption plan for Ukraine’s government revolt was failing. He had to invent reasons to justify this invasion as land grab to enforce Soviet style power and his name in the history books was and is his real ambition. They are murdering civilians of Ukraine, how can you dare imply they are rescuing or freeing anyone? Even their own have little choice!
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  760. That is bullshit. Instead of listening to loose words, see what they DO. NATO was a neighbour to Russia since the day it was formed. 1950s. See the Norwegen/Russian boarder. Putin KNOWS Russia was in no danger of attack from Nato. Putin invaded for his own expansion reasons. Putin felt Europe and NATO would not interfere as with 2o14 when he annexed The Crimea. The question of joining NATO did not become vital for Sweden, Finland and Ukraine until Putin showed his true aggressive hand with this invasion and all the inhuman war crimes he is willing to allow inflichted on his (as he maintains) Russian “Cousins”.
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  761. 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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  762. Oh, shock, horror. This is absolutely nothing compared with the rapes murders and tortures the. Russian troops inflichted on Ukraine civilians. So Russia is allowed to send tanks towards Kyiv, but Ukrainians shoukd just to stay in the cellars?
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  763. 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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  764. 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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  765. Since 2004.
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  766. @scotttracy9333 yes, The prisons emptied onto the battlefield but still not zero unemployed as the reverse is happening with the maimed and disabled. The hospitals filling. Probably why Putin is sending experienced fighters back to the frontline, despite injury.
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  767. @sifergy8412, only the lowly paid. The Russian urban elite have long left. Too busy partying in Sri Lanka and other far away places. They don‘t care.
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  768. In this case The aggressor in the wrong, Hitler with grandiose ambitions is Putin.
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  769. Not in his time. In about 30 years time the full extent to his CAR logging right, goldmine interests and else where in Africa etc
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  770. Says Putin.
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  771. @ashutoshk7, agree Putin is some crazy guy. He just goes not care about his citizens, even his best friends die playing with grenades whilst high in the sky mid-flight. Others fall from high rise windows or they drink dodgy tea. A real phenomenon how those close to Putin seem to die in such accidents precisely at the time in which he has no further use for them. At least it means they will not cost him any pension money for their service.
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  772. JK-of6bq. Because they care, that is why! Who is the one that paid out tax cuts to the super rich last time around? Biden invested money into new manufacturing jobs connected to new industry - not bribery favours to the old no future processes. You do know the real reason Trump (his only thought though policy) was so keen on putting tariffs on all imports? It is because the tarrifs that all Americans pay goes straight into the states coffers. Thousands of dollars paid by you, the consumers paid straight into where he has easy access to. He can con you that „China pays= Because It does not show in your pay packet like income tax. It is a tax paid direct by the importer at point of import and cannot be avoided (like Trump is so good at avoiding paying the taxes that pay the wages for his security and admin staff ). Cannot be avoided by use of any creative profit snd loss accountancy. So who does pay? It is passed on to you the consumers, for your food, your manufacturers for materials to build your cars etc. So again you the consumers are giving Trump millions to spend on bribes for the super rich. Do you really think Musk was helping Trump because they are best buddies?
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  773. Putin‘s Russia is encouraging wars in Africa so his private Wagner troops can exchange „services“ for minerals, mine extractions and other business ownerships. Putin is getting rich from this. Too rich for him to fully decommission the wagners. . „We have done nothing“. Speak for KGB llying!
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  774. 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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  775. @imperatorvespasian3125 Either you have no comprehension of what is happening or have no idea what Nazi means. Or you are a Russian keyboard warrior. There are more Neo-Nazis in Russia than any other European country: Look up what happened at the Russian Dagestan airport. Zelenskyy is Jewish! Putin is a professional KGB trained liar. Remember, January 2o22 “I have no plans to invade Ukraine” ?
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  776. An animated speaker!
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  777. @Jesse-v7h feelingly hopeful I read that as Trump is addressing Putin and trying to win him over to agreeing to the talks. But in my more realistic moments I remember the photo op farcical signing for peace in the middle east that included two or three Non warring countries. The ones who’s Land was being fought over were not invited to the peace signing. So the whole PR thing was a farce. So realistic me says Trump is after something from Putin. He cares not a jot for Ukraine or Europe. Even the language he uses is borrowed from Putin. The ‚taking‘ of Greenland because I want it. Putin wants Ukraine. Putin all along said he does not want to talk with Zelenskyy. He believes the lakiey he tried to replace him with in February 2022 should be the man doing his bidding in Kyiv. Putin once asked about joining NATO and when told countries were not invited, but applied Putin replied he did not want the humiliation of standing in line with all the unimportant countries. He has since also made it clear that he is only interested in talking with the big players. This is the attitude Trump has adopted too. Ukraine, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Europe. None of us count.
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  778. @seriousholger2485 do you mean buying Trump (the campaign contributions) cost less than buying Twitter.? The nearest a foreign born can get to being President himself.
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  779. @FlockOfBIRDS Why do you keep repeating yourself: the next what?
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  780. Our king is above politics and I do not expect it would be cancelled. In the interest of world politics conferences etc our late queen had to entertain any number of dubious characters over her long reign. Xi Jinping, Vladimer Putin, Bashar al-Assad, Nicolae Ceausescu. It is diplomacy not an indication of alliance.
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  781. @Wimblefish yes, we all suspect he is in Putin‘s pocket, but officially he has not declared so. This will be an official visit. By keeping it at this level we have the opportunity to show him what connections he would be missing, if he does pull a fast one and puts Ukraine under the bus.
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  782. A main consideration for JD Vance could be that Trump looks as if he is heading for a heart attack. His main motivation would be Flying on the population of Tump will get them in and then he is ‚next in line‘.
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  783. The hit I saw it was hit before the sticky ups bit had been fully raised. So not yet in operation position.
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  784. Well you would say that with your sign in. Putin is doing his best to wipe the whole nation and its people off the face of the earth. And these pathetic appeasers are backing you all the way. Too stupid to see Moldova is next. Putin wrote about his global ambitions in his earlier essays. Putin‘s role in Africa and out east is to undermine the USA and western democratic influence world wide. He keeps in power through petetual wars. Putin can keep his people subdubed and willing if conned into thinking they are under threat. They must pay for his war machines in place of the amenities, dam repairs, plane maintenance etc. he makes himself appear to be ‚The Savior‘ in times of adversity, when in fact the war, the adversity is of his own making! If Ukraine is a no importance. A nonentity as you suggest, Why is Putin so keen to steel the land and its people? Does Russia not have enough land already? Or is it the peoole? The sole Soviet tank that took part in the victory parade 2022 was designed and built in Ukrsine. Planes etc Ukrsinian built.
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  785. Yes, his own a he is putting up the costs to all metal used in the USA.
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  786. @georgekustner3440 Lol. Can Putin expect China (BRICS) to save his currency too at the expense of the Yuan? Xi’s Russian oil just got cheaper. .
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  787. @ashroskell just for clarity I was joking too. Thought lol gave it away. But I guess it is difficult in plain text only. No wink or nudge of the arm.
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  788. The nukes we have are tied to NATO. I read it as for us to use nukes it would mean a NATO action, so agreed by all? And would need a declaration of war?
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  789. Yes, and for that reason you need to train for how to get out. In this training it was towed out by anither challenger.
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  790. I have been told that the area around Kusk was Ukrainian in the not too distant past.
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  791. Jake, Trump got this idea of aid for minerals from Putin. That is what Putin has been doing in Several African couturiers for decades. Not to right wrongs, but selling his army to whoever offers the most. Putin‘s private army The Wagner Warriors the prime example. It is how they are financed and bring booty back to Putin.
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  792. @Andrew there are many in the Kremlin that Guide Putin. The opposition with alternative ideas has been persecuted and squashed for years now. That is the Problem when you have a long term all controlling ‚strongman‘ dictator. The follow on is usually very weak and ineffective.
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  793. 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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  794. @marinaletina3685 don‘t know that prices in the USA are any different than elsewhere since COVID, but I do know re the respect eliment that you are not correct. The world is baffled that Ameruca is even considering giving Trump a second go at this. Contra to what Trump thinks/says the USA does not determine who does or does not go to war. The USA did not make Hitler turn against the Jews and Putin runs under his own agenda too. Putin was busy sending his insurgents into the Donbass, Ukrsine during Trumps first Presidency. Kim Jung Un busy firing off his rockets. Both dictators Trump praised. Trump also mentioned ‚Mein Kampf‘ being a book he enjoyed reading. Which is surprising on more than one level.
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  795. @alexeishayya He knows more about it than you. He has seen the captured soldiers. Putin has so far avoided recruiting from the likes of Moscow and St Petersburg. He takes from the deliberately held poor areas both of rural Russia and the more eastern areas of the Russian Federation. Also recruits from prisons. Many young men from Moscow and St Petersburg that can afford it have long since left Russia for more peaceful lands!
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  796. Reminds me of that Russian diplomat plane that landed in Florida. And taxied alongside Trump’s plane parked there. Did we hear further news on what that was about?
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  797. He did NOT. Putin invaded. What was he supposed to do? Roll over and let Putin tickle his belly? The Ukrainian people wanted to not give in. They kniw what live is like under Russian rule, as does Poland, as does Lithuania, as does ….. ALL ex-Soviet countries. That is why all but three voted for autonomy, for independence, after the dissolving of the Soviet Union.
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  798. @americasfavoritebrazilian2399 Is that what you think, or are you an orc? This is very much to do with the USA too. You have no idea of Putin’s long term plans have you? Read Aleksandr Dugin’s book Foundations of Geopolitics, and all will be clear. It is not all about just physical fighting, but a lot of upheaval will be coming your way if he is not stopped. Good Luck.!
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  799. Well done Jake. Level headed analysis.
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  800. Kings Are meant to be humble. They serve their people and are supposed to take their responsibilities seriously. They are not free loading socialites or new-rich boasters.
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  801. 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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  802. When? Who has cleared the using of seized assets? And how?
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  803. @living-wellon-less5669 Ours are not screw-in but bayonet light bulbs, so give them a bit of slack please.
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  804. @user-bh1wf5hz2n You are most certainly right in all you say, but you are not sitting alongside this Russia / Ukraine war. And if Putin’s essays are to be believed, it is not just Ukraine he wants to bring back under his control. It is unwise to let him get that far. Let alone the influence of his attacks on democracies world wide. To nip this in the bud here and now in Ukraine is the wisest and most effecient way to avert this. How we do this I do not know. Ukraine is not in NATO, but all of Europe, in NATO or not are straining and helping the best they can under the pressure of this war. If we DARE not engage NATO due to risk of neuclear war (where does that leave an attack on Poland for example?) or because New York is not at Risk then we need to work, like now. as individual countries. But we are being prevented from using our own weapons. Are they NATO weapons or ours? Yes, I do know that most NATO members weapons are PURCHASED from the USA Armament Industry and supplied under NATO consent conditions. But does that mean to be able to use our weapons for our own non NATO purposes (bearing in mind article 5 has only once been activated ) we need to produce our own weapons and keep separate NATO and non-NATO stock? . So open up new factories outside of the USA?
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  805. 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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  806. @frank5d289 Do you mean the pro-Russia BRICs?
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  807. @frank5d28 Do you mean the Pro Russian/Chinese BRICs?
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  808. Do you mean the BRICs?
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  809. 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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  810. @ralphgreenjr Of course not. And you saying that is enough to wind up the trigger happy. I only heard Trump supporters calling to „hang Mike Pence“ Trump,himself of a protester „I‘d like to punch him in the face‘. Yes, canvassing and electioneering has become unnecessarily very violent in recent years.
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  811. @itsgoodforyou4235 So what do you propose? You think it is good to let all dictators of the world see you only have to thunder into a smaller neighbour and no-one would do anything against it. Do you realise how much this will effect the USA worldwide. Your trade routes Tiwan
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  812. @DavidDudley yes, because Putin recently backed out of his agreement for Russian protection for their ethnic enclave in Azerbaijan territory. Probably because Putin needs recruits from Azerbaijan for his meat grinder tactic attacks on Ukraine.
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  813. @user-bi7tl3gp8f Comes from USA tax payers and gets invested into the US armament industry. Only problem is how fast the ammunition’ etc that Ukraine needs yesterday can be produced. There is a backlog. Even the tanks that EU countries donate to Ukraine bring the USA money. Poland alone has placed a total order of 366 Abrams M1A1 tanks . They treat it the same as elsewhere, including the USA. It is effectively updating the old ones they have donated. Are the US ones donated or sold? I do not know, but same applies in that it saves in storage cost of the older ones out of commission.
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  814. They did intend to remain neutral - until Russia invaded. First 2014 then 2022. Georgia too. Russia cannot be trusted NOT to invade, even with a treaty. Putin’s invasion into Ukraine has prompted Neutral Finland and Sweden to request NATO membership. Unfortunately ALL counties previously connected with Putin’s Russia know not to trust him.
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  815. The main objection that goes above both heads is: is it morally correct to make profit out of the tragically of another? Should charities only help against the floods or Fires in disaster areas if they can hold them to ransom on aid? You coukd go completely dark and say Ukraine was deliberately leftbto dry because then they would be on their knees to accept anything from Trump. Not saying this was realy deliberate - but surevas he’ll this is Trump‘s ‚deal making‘ brain focus!
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  816. 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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  817. @joelcutting3954 No, it was rantings by Farage. Boris before politics, when he was a journalist reporting from Brussels caused a lot of the distrust (with inventive for drama purposes reports ie straight bananas!) Conservatives under Cameron were in charge. They were not in touch with concerns of the general public and Cameron offered a referendum, convinced it would end nagging and once and for all show that the people were in favour of staying in the EU. But it backfired. The influence of the lies told over the years and given the vote too many people ticked to leave. A referendum is supposed to be taken as recommendation only. Not as direction from the public, but the government, and the Labour Party opposition too, did not want to go against majority rule, so put leaving into action. Cameron resigned, leave clearly was not HIS wish and buffoon Biris took over. And we are where we are now. Too much water under the bridge, we are out, and that is that.
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  818. I do not think Trump cares if they get accepted. They helped him, maybe with backing money. His way of repayment. He can cry, ‚they’ did let me have my picks at a later date.
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  819. If you consider on earth there is a finite number of resources. Space travel needs special materials. I object to one person such as Musk using up a serious amount of rare materials just to support his own ego. This planet belongs Tomas all. It should not be that someone with a bunch of dollars can use up all of what we all need.
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  820. The nine months deliberate delay by the republicans for the aid to Ukraine WAS vital to making sure Ukraines progress was halted. Thousands died unnecessarily. Thevaidvwas promised plans made. Thevsd did notbarrive. The timing re weather conditions, personal in situ, other logistic etc all out of sinc. As the means to complete the mission were missing. If you are general with combate experience can you tell me with none that you plan and can then execute those plans without the means to do so? For nine months! Different seasons different ground conditions. Even the Russian with hundreds more tanks cannot make progress in deep mud. After Autumn foliage cover is gone.
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  821. @Anonymos321 please explain.
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  822. ‚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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  823. Hahahaha.
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  824. It is not just in Russia that they become suspicious of people that smile in public. I heard that in some cultures they consider adults smiling in the open to be idiots. Apparently serious people do not smile!
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  825. That vat issue is something either Trump does not understand, or pretends not to. It is a sales tax on inland and imported goods. same as Sales tax in US Shops. Same as he pretends to his own citizens that import tariffs are paid by foreign governments. They are not. The, the US citizens are paying via there own US importers.
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  826. No we will not forget the torture murder and rape of the Ukrainian civilians at the hand of Russias Wagner and regular army in this Putin‘s ego Land Grab. Also the thousands of abducted children. Putin the Terrible will enter the history books as the dictator that ruined Russia with barbaric 18th century barbaric warfare in the 21st Century.
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  827. @et2709, So what is the point clever clogs? Dictator takes any amount of a neighbouring country he feels fit to do so? All his ”reasons” to invade have been lies. If you go back to the first day of the invasion, each one has changed day by day as the previous has been exposed as not true. NATO? There was no intension to invade or harm Russia. They were free to live happy lives. Russia has had a boarder with NATO co-founder Norway since the start of that alliance. Putin knows Norway was no threat to the equilibrium. If fear of NATO was a real reason then it backfired. Putin’s irrational actions (remember to go by what he does - not what he says/lies) have caused several neighbouring countries that have more experience of his follies than you into now wanting to join NATO. Including proudly remaking neutral Sweden and Finland. Putin wants to glean back as much pre Soviet land as he dares go for. That is the main and only real reason for this invasion. Everything else is just fabrication to dupe foreign countries of his true intentions. He admired Stalin and wants to be also be huge Name for the history books. Books he is incidentally rewriting as we speak! But that is another story.
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  828. Not “remaking”. Word intended was “remaining neutral”
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  829. @Watersbill89 and that is where Trump’s tariff money will go. Everyone must surely realise by now that the suppling country is not the one that pays the tariffs? Import taxes and duty is paid by the importers, be it metal for your car industry, or seasonal food stuffs at point of docking. The goods are not released from customs untill the fees are paid - straight into the treasury. And this extra cist has to be met by the consumer. Maybe Trump thinks because it is not a tax to be entered on a tax return or to show on a sales docket peoole do not know they are paying more tax? Every consumer, rich or poor. He can give more tax relief to the wealthy.
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  830. @stevenvan5104 I hope I am wrong, but so many people making the same over the top remark about the same, just one, trader makes me feel this is a bit fishy!
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  831. The lure to be a millionaire is a path to irresponsible risk and possible poverty.
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  832. Why not true? Do your children not learn about taxation? Basics on Import/Export. Corporation tax, car tax, income tax, VAT (sales tax). And on imports Duty and import tax(tariffs) You do not tax your exports! Or is it because we are an island that the difference between overseas and inland is Cristal clear? It would be much harder to explain how an import tax can possibly be paid by an exporting Company, when it is outside your jurisdiction! You cannot! You can only tax what comes under your own Jurisdiction.
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  833. Lease Loans. It was all going to the USA armoire industry anyway, so why are you crying? Even the equipment that European donated is to be replaced with new orders. Like the old tanks Poland sent to Ukraine and then immediately In .June ordered 116 brand new Abrams from the US. That alone will save a good few jobs. The trouble with your politicians, they say whatever - just to get elected. Truth flies out the window.
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  834. Putin does not get to see that. And it will not be broadcast in Russia. Only positive reporting lands on Putin’s desk.
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  835. @KenZaracki whoever they have, they voted for and can vote out again if they wish. No business of yours how Canadians care to live. Same applies for your country too. Assuming Trump does not copy Putin and change the constitution to lengthen his stay (also for family members to continue the dynasty?). You also have what you voted for. Each to their own.
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  836. There were three of them taking part in that ambush. Earlier on one guy standing behind Vance asked why he was not wearing a suit. Sounding very confrontational he continued: „Is that not disrepectful? You are invited to the Whitehouse, yet do not even wear a suit.? “ Zelenskyy started to reply, but was ignored. And overspeaking him continues.“…do you even OWN a suit?“ So rude and this pattern of bombardment the other two: Trump,and Vance continued with. Could even have been rehearsed. It was definately a staged attack. As Trump said: „I think it a good thing the people hear.this, otherwise I would not have let it last this long“ Says to me he had deliberately PLANNED to humiliate Zelenskyy. Why? Jealous of the praise this wartime leader is getting? Ended up in my opinion showing himself up. Was this spectacle broadcast to amuse Putin? Or to entertain his MAGA supporters?
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  837. You are happy watching destruction and so are applauding this? Putin invaded. It can all stop if he calls his troupes back to their own country. Russia is big enough, they have lots of poor and needy back home to take care of - leave the people of Ukraine alone. That is all that is needed to stop this destruction. Why are you celebrating the murder of a people trying to protect their own land? You are nothing but malicious balls of hate. Putin will be proud of you.
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  838. That old chestnut. This has nothing to do with NATO. Russia already had a boarder with NATO. Along the Russian Norway boarder and Russia knows they were no threat. You really have not grasped that Putin is a proffi liar? Read Aleksandr Dugin’s “foundations of Geopolitics” , these are his true motivations. To reclaim soviet power. Bribing, insurgents, was not working, so he has decided to come in with the big guns, for his name to enter the history books. The neighbouring countries know this well. Hence rather than decrease NATO is espanding, Sweden and Finland will join after years of being neutral. They no longer want to trust in the promises of despot Putin. This is his achievement. And Ukraine which had no intention of joining, will do so too eventually. So no, NATO never was Putin’s real reason for invading, but if it had been it has all gone terribly in the wrong direction for him,
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  839. 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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  840. Maybe the navy has run out of ships, so the sailors have morphed into landlubbers.
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  841. Maybe they are not training trench warfare, but an alternative way.
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  842. Agree Trump,wants grovelling. He the worldstsge „it makes good TV“ to be convince ONLY he can donthid. Me, me. Want noble peace prize ,
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  843. It was not Russia, but the Soviet Union during WW2
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  844. If Kim Jung Un has made a similar agreement with Putin as the one he has for his workforce supplied to Chins, his soldiers will not be paid direct. The agreed money will be sent to NK and they will be paid only on their return.
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  845. 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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  846. Is that what “The Brave” would have done! Lol
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  847. No but from North Korea they are.
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  848. His ego is too big.
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  849. Tanks etc are surely not particularly a defensive vehicle. More advance.
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  850. I think the reason Trump is so angry is because he realises this will not work. He is not such a wonder boy that he imagined. He is blaming the victim, but even if Putins ego war was inevitable (which it was NOT) Did Putin HAVE to steal children, bomb churches, order rapes, torture, mass murder of civilians and POWs and flattern everything they claimed they were rescuing? If they were superior it should have been easy and no need for slaughter technics . Trump said Ukraine had to cower away because Russia has the bigger army. So why did Russia not win? They do not even have the areas they claimed they now own! But now want Trump to fix it so that it is handed over to them- without fighting. Just one of the cities alone has 600,000 residents. Unconquered, but according to Putin, it is his.
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  851. Russians: Get out of Ukraine.
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  852. Because testing is needed. It was the last two, not four!
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  853. 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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  854. @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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  855. It is because Trump is obsessed with Putin. Putin has has his private army pimped to weak dictator led countries there. They fight dirty there in exchange for timber and valuable mineral rights. Russia also has troops, like we see they were in Syria. They are not there to right wrongs, they are there as mercenaries to gsin assets only. This is how Trump decided the USA should not be there to protect the lamb from the wolf, but if they are drawn into this ‚spat‘ then it must be making money for then. Exploitation of a desparate situation. Morals out the window.
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  856. @jackiehecker4863 exactly. The Russian diplomat plane sitting alongside Trump‘s plane recently at the US airport recently. .? Putin mentions forcing Russian women to reject the no child living, and Trump mentions we need more babies! They are mirroring each other all the time.
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  857. Fox News fabrication?
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  858. 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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  859. @.hottake8940. Haha freedom of speech! We have freedom of speech here and can openly criticise our leaders. Trump is punishing states that did not vote for him. He is full of vendetta and demands loyalty from those he ‚gifts‘ jobs to. Musk is the one dissolving checks and balances because his Company is under investigation, so he dissolved that department. Every government needs transparency, and if you are afraid of investigation, what does that mean. Musk has briefed Vance on Europe „freedom of speech“ because we have laws about spreading lies (libel) and hate speech, especially when it leads to deaths. His knee jerk Tweets for click value have been criticised, so HE thinks his speech is being banned. Vance is too lazy to do his own research. He is just a mouthpiece for Musk‘s lies and misinformation. One could even imagine this is to appease Putin! Those two have chosen their bed mates!
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  860. @kxxx6548 Lol. What do you think Putin is doing today with his private Wagner tools operating in Africa, they are offering terrorists training and “protection” squads of dictatorial leaders. Inciting mayhem and slaughter for continued employment in exchange for riches from minerals, wood etc, This is today not centuries ago.
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  861. Why is my reply to this always being deleted?
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  862. And the Russian missile that curved into Poland’s territory? Although that probably came via Belarus. There have been drones that turned up in Moldova when Russia was attacking Ukraines Corn storage units near the Donau and in December 2023 in Romania a crater from a Russian drone was found. These were put down to errors on the side of .Russia. A calming effort on part of the politicians,
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  863. @lindenwatson846 don‘t Talk rot. Ukraine is at war. Martial Law requires all political parties work together and no elections. There were no elections in the Uk during WW2. How do you have fair voting when polling stations are underfire? Thousands of citizens are misplaced or overseas. Thousands more under occupation. More have been abducted, children stollen and moved to Siberia etc. Ukraine‘s opposition leaders also say there should be no elections until this war is over. Zelenskyy Does not want to hold onto power. He said they will hold elections within 90 days of war end.. Unlike Putin who is keeping the country at war to keep his people under control. He changed the law tomalley himself extra terms in office. He is now there until death!
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  864. @DistortedEmpath. They have forced companies such as Gasprom to take out loans they cannot repay! Just to keep the government and weapons production running. The books are cooked.
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  865. @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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  866. @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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  867. 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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  868. So he can ‚put in’ play with your second son ‚hit her‘ Hitler. A fair and even match.
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  869. There was a tank hiding in tha5 bush - but I guess you are seeing what you want despite live footage. Russian agriculture is not taking a hit, they are illegally on Ukrainian soil,. The Russian trenches need to be fired at to eliminate booby traps and to make sure their is no counter fire obviously. @user-bs7gv3im2i It would be more surprising if the the true situation in .Ukraine were in Russian Newsreels. Vorboten! They are not exactly known for their transparency! Lol
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  870. @belljoe. Trump? Is the USA ready for 500,000 Ukrainian refugees? That is what Trump’s plan for Ukraine‘s capitulation to Putin will bring. Then those from Moldova. Or maybe it is just those coming via Mexico that he does not like?
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  871. 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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  872. @kareingebrigtsen5435 I think he means the alliance. NATO did not exist. Was formed after and as a consequence of WW2
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  873. @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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  874. There is not one terrorist, there was a gang of them, shooting and filming. They are proud of this and put the footage on X (previous Twitter). At the gated enclosure they hid, then followed a car in. They then dragged the car occupants out of the car and shot them. This was later as they visited the houses one by one.
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  875. The only talks going well with Putin are of Trump trying to get deals on Lithium and titanium from Russia. Trump does not care about deaths of civilians. Most likely he will blame the victims fir being there. For being on that bus and for walking on the journey to church on Whit Sunday. It is the victims fault if they get in the way of his ‘deal’.
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  876. The same now. Of course they no longer have those ex-Soviet countries you listed, but not all became independant from Russia in 1991. They are heavily recruiting from the further away from Moscow Russian held land of other diverse ethnicity and poverty areas. Hence the first wave were stealing toilet bowls and kitchen appliances from the homes they had captured. I believe this is less prominent now, but they are still careful to not enlist too many from the more affluent areas of Western Russia. Moscow and St Petersburg.
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  877. @kindcanadian5825 Do you have a link to that information. Maybe they are taking in more people from other countries? . But reports I read back in 2002 were saying they were offering incentives to women to have more babies. Like in many Western countries their young were becoming reluctant to start families. So has that plan been over performing? The lack of babies could explain better why they have sent coach loads of children stollen from their occupied regions of Ukraine to Russia and Belarus. The teaching them Russian, a Putin revived version of Russian history and that Ukraine no longer exists.
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  878. @AeSyrNation Yes, migrants have to sign an alligence to Russia to stay there. Same as the Ukrainians in the areas they still occupy since this invasion who have been told only if they apply for Russian passport will they qualify for humanitarian help, water, medications etc, all the things that local councils usually administer. The newest though is that refugees/migrants fleeing to Russia have been told the men must join the military or the family will be deported.
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  879. Funny that he is highlighting Italy as a political success story! Check them out.
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  880. @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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  881. Ostrich, Head in Sand!
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  882. Unable to edit: intended: “attacked later…”
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  883. Inciting genocide and hate speech is punishable in Europe. We are civilised. I do not know about a ban on Carlson travels here, not heard anything on that. Either way I am sure he is not bothered. Was he not recently in Hungry? Considering we have many exiled Russians living in Europe I can not see a problem with him coming, If he wants to preach and lecture us that Putin is a pussycat and is only defending his people, then good luck with that. Too many countries here have lived under the oppression of that previous regime. They are free now and want to stay that way. Putin lies, does not hold Romany agreements, even bilaterale signed ones. Tucker is seen as an ideal popaganda platform for Putin, nothing more. Tucker has no chance in uncovering any truths. But it will be interesting to hear just how far from reality Putin will push it.
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  884. Note: “…. Since WE started.”
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  885. 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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  886. TheKChek1nesss Yes he did. His plan to gain the territory does not stop with Ukraine! Sent insurgents in to create situations. Then 2014 set up the Wagner group in Ukraine spefically for this reason. He financed other private armies too Rusichs etc. the initial skermishes had calmed under Zelenskyy. Fearful of loosing momentum 2022 he decided it needed escallation to a direct attack. Receipy by Aleksandr Dugin1997 and his own essay 2021.
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  887. Let me see, another censured entry. Russian fear for truth?
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  888. @user-mm1nw4ym6q no one has forgotten about the girls, but this is not about that. It is about how disinformation caused the riots. Why? r. Because the riots were directed against Muslims and against mosques. Facts are the attacker was NOT Muslim and was not a boat trafficked migrant.
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  889. They can have him.
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  890. @NK-ne9uf that statement is insane. Like blaming the security service that shot the terrorist gun-man. Putin is the biggest „Politucal“ aggressor. Ukraine where he invaded and his representatives this week said, after capitulation they will see to it that they find an excuse to replace the Kyiv goverment and get rid of the culture and existence of Ukrainians oncevsnd for all. But also the many other ex-soviet countries where they have interfered with their politics. Novichok poisoning , opposition falling out of Windows, or imprisoned for made up charges. .
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  891. The very evening of the call Putin sent a larger number of drones/missiles towards Ukrsine than before.
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  892. So please explain how was Hitler was able to spread such lies and entice such haltered against the Jews? It was hate speech, which is acted against n the U.K. and in Germany. Free speech against those in authority is fully aloud. We can criticise our government and during such times as Hitler was encouraging hate against the gypsies, communists and the Jews we would be able to hold rallies and protests, we would be lobbying our mps against such unjust treatment, because hate speech is against our values and we are free to make our opinions known.
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  893. So please explain how was Hitler was able to spread such lies and entice such hatred against the Jews? It was hate speech, which is acted against in the U.K. and in Germany. Free speech against those in authority is fully allowed. We can criticise our government and during such times as Hitler was encouraging hate against the gypsies, communists and the Jews we would be able to hold rallies and protests, we would be lobbying our mps against such unjust treatment, because hate speech is against our values and we are free to make our opinions known. We have freedom from hate speech an freedom to express out beliefs. Peace be with you.
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  894. LOL, that is some reach! We do not have missiles to spare on such nonsense.
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  895. Show to Israel? Or show too much?
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  896. Over forty missiles. Overwhelmed?
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  897. Is the media.
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  898. @davereynolds3403 By what they say and allow to be broadcast by their TV discussion groups versus what they actually do. Which military bosses they dismiss. Who they arrange ‚accidents‘ for. So many times they have accused Ukraine of plotting atrocities that they themselves would/will do. Like 2023 destroying the Kakhovka dam (seized by and totally under Russian control. Since proven that only the retreating Russians could have set the explosives up) they cut off remnants of their own troops back then. The attack system of sending inferior troops first to be slaughtered at so the trained troops could discover the enemy positions. Used most offen by the ‚Wagner Warriors‘ The oppressive times in the past, which they try to emulate. Essays Putin wrote prior to 2022. Russia has said many times they want ALL of Ukraine, plus Moldova etc.
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  899. The real reason Trump loves that word Tariffs is because they are paid straight into the treasury before the goods can be released from Customs. No waiting for the annual Company accounts, no waiting untill the finished product is sold in retail. Even if the imported products remain unsold. The import tax has been paid and is instantly available for Trump to use. And yes, of course it is the US citizen that pays via the increase in costs to the importers.
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  900. Then it could be some non-NATO member. Austria or Ireland? Do they have an army? Both should be good at boarder control.
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  901. Yes, The Russian Wagner Warriers are brutal. They make sure there will always be fighting there So they can gather ownership of more mines to bring riches to Putin.
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  902. Lovely guest. Nice to know the whole country is not crazy. I am of faith too and cannot believe how twisted those Maga supporters are when they try to relate biblical text to the selfserving egocentric liar Donald Trump.
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  903. And NATO was not the reason either. Norway a founding member of NATO boarders on Russia all along and Putin kneW Russia was safe and not at risk of attack . Also putin knows Russia has more Neonazis than Ukraine. Football rioters and what about the recent attack at the Russia airport - out looking to kill Israeli fleeing from HAMAS?
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  904. @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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  905. Using Executive orders. Trump is by-passing them.
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  906. It means he is a people pleaser and knows what You want to hear. Full of lies. The fact that he praises “strong” dictators should be a warning sign. They hold little respect for what people want (despite him knowing what it takes to be elected) Now his praising the Hungarian Orban, shows his affection for Putin, against the wishes of his citizens Orban this week appraised Putin against EU policies. You have no interest in world politic? Agree Trump does not want you to have, but you need to. Putin’s aim is to destabilise the West, especially the USA. PUTIN’s Wagner mercenaries trained HAMAS. Trump thinks he has influence with Putin, but he has been conned. Putin’s KGB style policies have been working in Afrika, they are influencing the Far East and unbeknown to Trump his falsifying crowd pleasing rhetoric are exactly the destabilisation of the USA Staus quo Putin is aiming for to weaken the USA’s international standing.
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  907. 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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  908. Who said the Ukrainian counter offensive was cancelled? The RUSSIAN Ambassador to the USA said it. As for blanket bombing cities to smithereens, this has always been Russias tactics in war. No distinction between civilians and military targets. The same way they bombed in Syria. They do not need lessons in committing atrocities. Rape, beheading, torture, abduction all practiced by Putin’s Wagner group and practiced by them in Africa too.
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  909. It‘s war and the country is as one.
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  910. They were used by Russia right from the start. Not banned by Russia apparently. Ukraine got them later Supplied by the USA so assumably not banned by them either. Disgusting all around.
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  911. I think he knows that. British, “uninhabited” was just a fake “slip of tongue” joke.
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  912. 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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  913. Send Trump plans of what a Palestainian house should look like, so he knows how to build them ethnically correct. And add a thank you Trump for building us our new Palestinian State. I am sure we will be much happier and thankful living in peace alongside our Israeli neighbours.
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  914. Russia has admitted to wanting Odessa too. That would basically cut Ukraine off completely from the Black Sea. If Putin keeps to that (doubtful that they would leave Kyiv to a NATO aligned Ukraine) the remainder would be landlocked.
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  915. Do you really think they are sending their murderous Wagner Troops to Afrika to help the people? They are for sale to the highest bidder. They do not care who’s homes they destroy, how many of your sisters or mothers get raped. They are paid by shares in your county’s assets. Trusting in the Wagner Group your leaders have sold your souls.
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  916. Maybe former president is the correct term, but I prefer Ex-President.
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  917. If you do not know what the alternative was for Ukraine then you have managed to ignore so much of what has been going on. Ask any Balkan state if they want to return to the clutches of Putin.‘s Russia!
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  918. @johnkrieg9368 the ‚real world‘ has passed you by if you think Putin has plans to allow Ukraine to ‚live in peace‘, despite whatever he signs. Been there before. He is too crafty for you. For over ten years he had been sending insurgents across into Ukrainian soil to create conditions in which he could invade. This despite signing ‚protections Ukrsine boarders‘ agreements. Why would another signing make Putin behave any different this time around. He wants that land, those minerals (Letting China extract as we speak) and wants the people to boost his economy and army numbers.
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  919. @ Durnyful the Istanbul papers were no more a gaurantee of Putin keeping to his word than he did any previous agreement. Then the atrocities of Bucha came to light as the Russian withdrew. That was the crunch line. Putin’s insurgents had been creating havoc in those Eastern oblasts for ten years. It was clear he could not be trusted to keep out.
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  920. Pure fabrication.
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  921. What is that supposed to mean please?
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  922. Yes, Turkey even stopped the mine clearers we donated from entering the black see from the south. No military ships.
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  923. @grewdpastor i am English and also speak German. Lived and worked there for 11 years. That expression is just brief and we know exactly what is meant in the whole. Not the long winded explanation you elaborated on. Sorry but we tend to talk in abbreviated text.„ A stitch in time.. „ instead of the whole thing. (Rest is: saves nine). We know too well the difference between Hitler’s mob and the present-day Germans. And the much used expression „or we would all be speaking German now“ does only mean what you wrote, that we would be living under the oppression of Hitler‘s third (or maybe four, fifth by now) Reich. It is so understood.
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  924. Can they fly them in? Turkey controls the sea entrance to the Black Sea and will not allow military ships in that were not previously registered there as their home ports. This applies to Russian ships (North Atlantic and pacific ships / submarines) too. Mine sweepers are part of a clean-up operation, so guess they consider them harmless after the event.
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  925. @Cotac So you support murderous Putin’s aggression on foreign soil? Putin first invaded and annexed two areas illegally in 2014. They also placed insurgents and Wagner troops into the Donbas area ongoing since that year. In 1994 Ukraine had passed its nuclear weapons over to Russia under an agreement signed by Ukraine, .Russia, the USA and U.K. of protection against invasion of aggression from outside their boarders. Previous administrations had also handed tanks over to Russia. Whatever help Ukraine has had since then addresses this imbalance. This was however not NATO.
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  926. 29 Children! It is a deal Putin started. Because of the decline in birth numbers Putin gives cash bonuses to people having more and adopting children. So now his wife has seen the bonus given to men sent to the front. Do you remember the video where the parents refused to believe the captured young boy phoning home was really their son? It is because they had already eyes on the money given to those who lost their son‘s fighting for the fatherland. (And in need of proof) I often think about what happens when that child returns home, if he was in that prisoner exchange! In this case, the money for those deceased on the front line will nit gi far with all those children. I also wonder how many of them are the stollen Ukrainian children. Most likely they will end up back in the orphanages.
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  927. Not true, Russia has already made moves on Moldova and Georgia. They have already announced that these and many other places belong to Russia. Putin has verbally warned Germany and told the U.k, that they can easily blow that “little insignificant Island” out of the Atlantic. Read Putin’s 2021 essays and Dugin’s earlier “Foundations of Geopolitics”. These are longterm tactics, and it is not just the European “western” countries that Putin wants to destabilise. Read the book. It is a whole world order. Once on a roll, they will take advantage of any weakness situation.
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  928. @simonschneider5913 Kinda difficult to be unbiased when you see the truth with your own eyes. How would you be reporting if embedded with the troops that liberated the KZs in 1945? “The skeleton like inmates did not suffer obesity and the strongest were not incinerated”? Now do the same for The POWs that Putin’s trooos executed and boasted about it with videos on social,media. Have you ghave something unbiased to write about that? Telling facts is all that can be done.
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  929. @simonschneider5913 Yes, we can listen to both sides. We can hear the Russian troops and their wives complaining on social media. But all that comes out of the Kremlin is lies. I do not know how much info you have received about their cinanicans in other sovereign countries, but it is always denied with a smirk, because they want you to know they have the stretch and did the poisoning, but at the same time pretend you must be mad to suggest such a thing. Putin, ex-KGB is a professional liar. Too many times cried wolf. Eg, Anothher director of the Energie company “fell out of a top floor window”. His body discovered by a member of the security service out walking his dog. Really??
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  930. That guy is a numpty for sure.
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  931. @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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  932. Despite Wagner fighters being pulled into the Russian military forces, they are still operating as Wagner mercenaries in Africa.
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  933. At The moment it is about robbing world resources fir iwn use. Big money getting bigger their only aim. Not ‚for us‘. ! Lol
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  934. If you rob your neighbour of his business you mean. How many construction small businesses went broke when Trump refused to pay his creditors by declaring ‚bankruptcy‘‘? Big bully wins. Is this why they adore Putin?
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  935. The USA and Russia work together on the space station I thought?
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  936. ath-nd6pj 0 seconds ago Those released Russian dissidents are just saying what Putin wants to hear. Why? Like with the Skripals and others before, Putin sends his assassins to murder his opposition overseas. . They were useful to getting his loyal people exchanged, but he has proved many times, that his assassins can reach them anywhere and they know that. Another reason: if/when Putin‘s time is up they will be wanting to go back to take up their roles in the Russian government, so need to be seen as to standing up,for the ‚ordinary’ Russians. i doubt even they believe support for Ukraine will stop. Show them Images of what Bucha looked like after the ordinary Russian army left! They would not have seen any of that while locked up,in prision. If they are genuine and not just planted spies that is.
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  937. @ irishchancer2687 What do you mean all around the world? All different countries, all different governments, so all different reasons. As for the migrants into Europe situstion. Putin sees pushing migrants onto western countries as a way to over load their societies. His Wagner troops in Sudan and elsewhere in Africa committing ethnic cleansing is causing waves of refugees. Not only bringing them to the Finish or Polish boarders by plane, they are also trafficked by boat to thevtest of Eurooe, the U.K. and Ireland.
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  938. @kubie6798 Lol. AFRIKANS are of Dutch origin. ! Further South. They were there before the French I believe and possibly more integrated.
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  939. Crypto currency is also robbing electricity.
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  940. Yet we have ‚the‘ bomb, so should be concerned about shelters.. ?
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  941. @PKr25 he has been put in charge of reducing ‚waste‘. So your roads and other infrastructure will take even longer to repair. .
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  942. Regarding the Russian convoy retreating from Syria. I do hope Turkey and Georgia allow the convey to pass through, but with a police escort to make sure they go through and do not dilly/dally. I guess they are not the best informed about the conditions back home. Some individuals may though and possibly will avoid crossing over into Russia. I do however worry about extra seasoned soldiers on the Ukrainian frontline in a months time. All that equipment probably arrived in Syria by ship though, even transport planes. If they can get the fuel situation solved, that could be the intended route
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  943. @MatthewChampiones True, but everyone here has access to the internet, just a question of will. :)
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  944. He was at the Labour Party conference.
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  945. Both my messages on here have been ‚disappeared‘ ! They were both much in agreement to what was already said. So no idea why.
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  946. @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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  947.  @JakeBroe  I am wondering what rewarding position Trump will give her should he win the White House? To think that rhetoric and being paid for it! In other countries she would be arrested for hate crimes.
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  948. You are applauding human destruction! Why are you celebrating a murderous bully state rolling over to take land from their neighbours. Is Russia not big enough already? Maybe your neighbour fancies owning your house. Are you going to say, yes please - just move in. You can rape my daughter, steal my washing machine and I will happily drink your poisoned tea or climb to the 14th floor and jum from the window - same as your best friends and previous advisors.
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  949. It is not the USA That has refused. The Ukrainians and all other ex-Soviet nations know what Putin means by ceasefire. Putin wants to hold onto all the stollen „territory they are now occupying and to be able to negotiate for the rest.“ The actual most recent words of the Kremlin. All along Putin has followed the words of Dugin and his own essay of 2021 on reclaiming all the previous Soviet countries for Russia. Belarus has succumb. Georgia and Moldova currently under military threat from Putin. Ukraine wants to keep free and whole. They want Russian forces to exit their land. They know no agreement will be upheld by Russia. Putin does not just want the four areas he supposedly annexed in 2022, he wants to separate Kyiv from access to the Black Sea. If he cannot gain Odessa by military means, then by ceasefire and ‚negotiation‘. And in a few years later the attacks will start again. He will send more insurgents into what remains of Ukraine to ‚‘legitimise‘ said attack. It worked in the Crimea and the Donbas regions, so will work in Putin’s advantage again!
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  950. What are you talking about? Disputes with farmers or any other such issues are just part and parcel of everyday politics. French farmers put sheep on the streets in previous disputes. We have riots and protests all the time. All legal. Disputes get discussed and resolved. What goes on in Ukraine is very much the concern of Europe. The USA did not ban the notion of a ceasefire: not under their jurisdiction. Europe knows too well what Putin means by that suggestion. It is your prerogative to dismiss any evidence others have proven, just does not make you right.
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  951. @user-pi4ih8rl2x yes Boris was first on the scene after the invasion and Ukraines initial pushback but that is not exactly what he said. He said Zelenskyy should respond to Putin’s proposals in any way he felt was what Ukraine wanted, but not feel pressurised into making a deal if he did not believe in it. He said the U.K. would back his decision either way. The delegation came back from Russia to discover the catastrophes inflicted by the marauding invaders in Bucha. That would have been the biggest influence on the Ukrainian resolve.
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  952. Three Of them were.
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  953. @harbers. Also the Houthis continue attacking oil tanker ships. They do not seem to worry which flag they sail under. Insuring a tanker near the Red Sea is getting more and more difficult.
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  954. @troysweeney8432 Saudi and Iran have enough oil.
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  955. @troysweeney8432 they have switched to selling cheeper crude to India. India is now doing the refining.
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  956. He like tarrifs because it is money that goes straight into government pocket, for him to spend as he wishes. If he realy believes it is not the American citizens that pay it I do nit kniw. But even if, he does not care. As Long as it is money coming into HIS power of distribution.
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  957. goldbrick2563 True, the USA is the largest member of NATO. Also has the biggest say. But this is not one way. The USA has partner NATO countries troops alongside whenever deployed. Also the first and so far ONLY time article 5 was called on was by the USA re 9/11. The USA also the largest armament industry selling most of the military hardware sold to the other NATO members.
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  958. @yellowtunes2756 you should know that. There are hundreds of Ukrainians the Russians chased out of Crimea. Including those with Tartar ethnicity! Same trick Putin is trying to pull off now throughout the rest of Ukraine. As for the trenches. What about you? Putin is desperate for more more troops on the ground. He is offering huge sums of bribery money. Your wife will be able to buy herself a car.
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  959. *indeed..
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  960. Trump will not pass the torch for the sake of the party and/or the country. He is in it for himself and will try to get family members ready for the take over. No more voting he said!
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  961. I took Putins supposed Biden then Harris endorsement as a bluff. Crafty to hide the real support to the guy that spoke with him 7 times on the phone after leaving office. Whichever way he does it Putin is arrogant and considers Trump as putty in his hands. This photo show of Melania only a threat to Trump as to what he COULD do to him if he does not stick to (Putn‘s) script.
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  962. .we will son find out.
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  963. He has been brainwashed by Musk.
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  964. 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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  965. @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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  966. Did I hear the presenter at that debate call him ‚Presidnt Trump‘ when trying to cut him short on one of his interrupting rants? I was thinking my ears were deceiving me. Did anyone else hear that, or had I misheard?
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  967. @dalecrocker3213 The Donbas and .Crimea are part of Ukraine. After the invasion and Putin’s demands Zelenskyy announced in March: OK we will not join NATO and will give the eastern oblasts the vote on if they want independence from Ukraine. Putin ignored it. Did not even reply because that was NOT what he wanted to hear. Then the atrocities of Bucha were discovered and the mould set.
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  968. Trump‘s son visited Orban last year. I think Tucker Carsten May have visited him too, could be wrong on that, but Trump junior definitely did. There is something going on for sure. Putin, Xi, Trump, Orban did the rounds.
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  969. Short sighted. You will certainly feel the difference. Putin’s attack on Ukraine has imperialistic motivation. His next staged election will see him as a sole dictator, not a party member. He has other countries in mind to dominate over. It is hard to explain to a people involved purely with their nearest domestic issues, that think bring a Republican means they are not free because of the country’s democratic rights. This could be why you do not see that Putin is out to destroy democratically run countries. Dictatorships and the right of a more powerful Nazi like country to simply take over another with force is wrong, follow on with NK and .China. India too are becoming less interested in human rights and supporting his bully system. Putin getting away with this is encouraging to them. If you read Dugin’s book “Foundations of Geopolitics” you could see Putin’s motivation and true aims. Disruption in Europe, unrest in the USA, All to Putin’s advantage. They want a weak West and the USA will not be immune to the world wide advantage taking of this. As late as 1943 doubters in the USA were against taking part in WW2. Do you think in hindsight the world alongside a Hitler run Europe would be as free as it is now? Would not effect USA? Putin is now that Hitler
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  970. Snake
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  971. Maybe they should have to take an exam with questions on the constitution and on US world policies. Except Trump would most likely pay Someone to sit the exam for him. During his last stint in the job he deliberately put unqualified people into positions presumable so he could do what he wanted unchallenged.
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  972. Gorse is prickly, it really hurts!
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  973. In a just resolution that would be right. However Russia would consider the retribution money a reason they have a say in their land. No one wants to be on puppet strings pulled by Putin.
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  974. Trump believes in himself. Hevwill take no notice of what the old admin team tells his team he is accustom of being the boss and any other views he takes as a personel critisism. So he shuts his eears.
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  975. Three times he was told by authoritative people, even televised, that those figures are incorrect also the loans/ gifted incorrect. , but again even as a summary just 30 mins later he repeated the 3x reputed lie.
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  976. 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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  977. JSox3.0C-r2r Sending „thoughts and prayers.“ Sorry, a bit sick, but could not resist. I do genuinely sympathise though. Vance taking over possibly even worse! Hopefully they do not manage to do a Putin and change the constitution to stay in power, (which Trump hinted at.) Regards x.
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  978. Russia has got to them. Hungry and Slovakia are having a go at dividing Europe. Putin/Wagner group are also influential in pushing refugees Europe‘s way.
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  979. People, especially the Young May have not watched it on TV. They use media, streaming etc. at a later dare. Then they hear all the post debate Hu-Ha over their media and possibly read the papers. So only the reaction of others.
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  980. So Trump wants other NATO members to up thieir spending to 5%, but wants to reduce the USA spending to 1.6%. Half of the current 3.2%. ?
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  981. @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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  982. @simon5887 exactly what they are doing. Putin’s Wagner in exchange for mineral mines and ownership of resources pilfering. They do not want peace in Africa. They do not care which groups kill which as long as Putin is getting rich on his bounties.
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  983. Putin does want Odessa. The plan is to cut Ukraine off of all ports to the Black Sea. That way Ukraine’s economics will become more dependant on goodwill from Russia for bulk export by sea. They wil then ultimately have control over Ukraine.
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  984. No
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  985. 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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  986. Africa will regret the smooth talk from Russia. Bearing gifts of destruction. So all those fleeing the violence they provoke for Putin’s gain will flee to Russia for protection? If they can send insurgent to provoke and encourage war in a country they feel is family, what will they do to countries they care nothing for?. Just want your youth to die on their front lines. In your countries they will pick a side, the highest bidder, to support in murdering others.. their principles are simply murder for cash, or minerals. The more your people argue amounts yourselves, the richer the rewards for Russia. They promote conflict not peace.
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  987. @juchou2983 Russia has had a boarder with NATO since it’s foundation 1949. Norway is a founding member of the post WW2 alliance. They knew it was no threat. This “because of NATO” was and is a lie. Putin has continuously changed the reason he gives for this land grab. He has progressively moved Russia away from the reforms of perestroika and killed off Glasnost to regain imperialist power over the countries of the disbanded Soviet Union. If you want to give your country to the largest neighbouring you have, then go ahead. Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia are independent sovereign countries that do not want to be ruled by Russia.
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  988. I can’t imaging tubby Donald skiing.
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  989. But it is not. Putin still has one more lesson to learn
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  990. @americasfavoritebrazilian2399 That is not the point. In February 2022 Putin already had a replacement for Zelenskyy to hand. If Russia is allowed to win, he will take the whole of Ukraine and Moldova, then other ex-Soviet countries too. He is Empire building. It is such a shame that too many people do not see the true motivation of this despot. He has broken every treaty he signed. He is a KBG trained liar and swindler. Democracy worldwide is under threat.
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  991. @ZoltGz So Copy & Paste Warier, what is your point? Earning potatoes? Are you saying your USA WWII heroes should have let Hitler have his run? I thought Americans were friends of Jews. These events are not of no significance to the USA. like this one: Putin is busy trying to create chaos in various locations worldwide. Peace does him no good as he can only influence where countries that are on the brink or corrupt. So he will destroy democracies for better access through bribery or threat. Chaos and instability in associated countries are easier for Russians to control as they do not offer sweet alternatives to his Rukeyser of suppression. The USA, contra to what your isolationists think, do need a more stable world for free trade and general well being. World problems ARE your problems, however much you think you are OK on your own. No country is.
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  992. I thought you meant the Ukrainians as in the heading comment. (forgot FSB is the new Russian KGB - never was much good with initial-speak) You mean the young the Russians conscripts being return to Russia? They will no doubt be questioned on all sorts. Locations etc. Wonder if they will be allowed home if they say they were well treated in captivity? But surely they will not be punished considering they had been abandoned by their seniors.
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  993. They are not necessarily passports. More likely ID cards. Although in most countries where you need to carry an ID Card it usually has a photo. Date and place of birth.
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  994. 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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  995. @Jenifer_G Putin and Trump speak on the phone all the time. If it is National negotiations you mean as President? What are you saying the USA and Russia should negotiate? They are not at war with each other. Trade deals? Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine. If you mean Trump should host negotiations regarding Putin’s invasion and slaughter of Ukrainians, then considering the whole thing is about Ukrainian‘s very existence he would be the main person taking part. Would you expect your neighbour to arrive at your door to negotiate with a burglar trespassing in your house. while together they banish you, the nit wit actual home owner?
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  996. Stop or increase what?
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  997. So what Solovyev said. „Not yet take Berlin, as such“ mean Russia DID interfere in the politics of ex-DDR (Eastern Germany). This Berlin was Putin‘s KGB training ground. Working with the Stazzi. This year the pro Russian element has stepped up to challenge the more western leaning government. Nice for him to confirm Russia has something to do with this. As with Orban.
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  998. Open your eyes. It is easy to see why.
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  999. 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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  1000. 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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  1001. Suddenly we get adverts upfront!
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  1002. @nlorand9033, You write such rot. Trying to round a square?
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  1003. @nlorand9033, Utter rubbish. Do you actually have the guts to admit you made that up? What are you doing to your friends, to your country men by taking them as such idiots to actually believing such bullshit.
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  1004. But it is true. He did not advertise the fact in his rushed campaign, but Farage is on record being in favour of private health care. He was pandering to the Trump campaign and alongside Lis Truss holding speeches in the USA at the time this snap election was announced. The financial hold of their pharmaceuticals, not allowing the U.K. to hold stocks of our own vaccines? His stance on net zero ruled by his shares in a Danish offset emissions company. You hear from him whatever spin he wants you to hear. He did not run on the remiss to represent constituents in Parliament but as a disrupter (of other peoples work) What will he do for Clacton I wonder? What surgery hours will he hold? Traveling by train from Kent/London. More than what he did when paid to represent the U.K. in Brussels? We will discover this on the street of Clacton in the next five years
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  1005. Merry Christmas all.
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  1006. @Luhning1 his name is Daniel Freund. I would not usually comment on an obvious typo, but Feind (Enemy) is practically the opposite in meaning to Freund (Friend)
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  1007. @derwolfpack3599. Trump got voted in because the US voted on ethics, of bad ass, instead of with its head and morals. Bad mouthing others under the illusion that bad gutter language means ‚honesty‘ . It does not. Acting like a jerk means you are expressing your true feelings. It does not. Look at Musk: he is so void of any connect with ‚The Average man’ he is incapable of any empathy or rational humane decisions. He uses loud absurd gestures and violent actions, such as the chain saw nonsense because he is eager to gain „street cred“ . Just reflects how he sees the wider working classes. He thinks them dumb. Common decency, respect for others and the wish to live in an non-aggressive society is the sign of a nations greatness, not what. Musk and Trump have in mind.
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  1008. Why does this have to have anything to do with the West? The stories about how these recruits are being used is reaching their home countries:, ‘meat grinder’ . Sent to the front with days of training only, with no rations or protection and left there by the Russian commanders to their own devices. Putin himself has bought representatives from these countries together with his BRICS meetings. No doubt they have been exchanging notes on how their people are being used in this war. There are videos showing isolated units of Asians addressing their authorities to get them out of there.
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  1009. Would that be: bol***ks? Just guessing.
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  1010. The attackers escaped after 20minutes. If the police or security arrived after 10 minutes why did they let them drive off in the very car they arrived in? The video showed the white car in the middle of the road, right outside the main entrance, That is even worse than the previous version that it took 90 minutes for them to arrive. Because if the escape was 10 minutes after the police arrived, what were they doing? Having a nice chat? Then let them go, only to chase them hours later all the way to the Belarus boarder? Sorry that does not add up.
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  1011. Why is Tyrus lying.? Is it a Requisit for Trump supporters? Harris came to the debate with notes, so she had correct data should the most relevant questions be asked. Called integrity. Trump had no notes because he uses swagger and feels he can make stuff up as he goes along. He is accustomed by sense of entitlement to never having his wanky ideas questioned. Yesmen get to stay, all others are dismissed.
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  1012. Yes Putin in sheeps clothing. Wait until he takes Moldova, Hungry and Georgua, his true colours will then shiw.
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  1013. 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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  1014. News came through after the deadline for this report. Check in again tomorrow.
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  1015. @sandersson2813. Because it was first suggested by Trump. Maybe U.K. and France coukd act as peace keepersvwhile the USA mines for minerals. Starmer responded and said the U.K. and France could supply 20,000. So the numbhead did mean us. Then the excuse „other untrained soldiers“. We obviously mean professional soldiers. We are NOT Russia, we do not send kids to feed the meat grinder!
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  1016. Don‘t think they built them. Just oligarch‘s Stollen Money bought them.
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  1017. @user-uq9pg4 Those Russian trawlermen missing out on smuggled whisky.
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  1018. Nicht so.
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  1019. A great diplomatic ability to cover up lies you mean. Comes from years of experience. Playing dumb to knowing the real workings of Russian foreign involvement.
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  1020. So now it is happening.
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  1021. @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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  1022. How to suppress their ‘friendly’ partners no doubt, but the wars Russians “won” were as part of the Soviet army. Which is why Putin are desperate to get all those countries back under their influence and control. Alone (despite all the land they have and copious resources) they are useless.
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  1023. Hi Jake, Ian Duncan Smith wrote an article in The Daily Telegraph dated June the 18th. A long time conservative MP that did retain his seat in our elections. It is about the threats to the democratic free world coming from „the new axis of totalitarian states“ Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. Would make a good guest maybe?
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  1024. @daleviker5884 Putin is the one lusting fir war. It keeps him in power and his citizens in line under treat of imprisonment, or a fall from high windows. Putin bombs churches, schools, hospitals. He has abducted thousands of children, told them Ukraine does not exist and that they are now Russian, Ukrainian chikdren in the occupied areas and being taught how to fight - for Russia. Putin has back tracked on all of the past 8 official documented agreements he signed. Unless there is a genuine guarantor this planned Peace agreement is worthless. He will be back in ten, fifteen years to complete his genocide and continue with his plan to capture all the now independent but previous soviet countries. We want peace. Zelenskyy serves his people who want peace. Putin is the aggressor, he could make peace tomorrow by taking his invasion forces back home. Putin wants to eradicate Ukraine and their culture. As when he banished the Crimea Tartar from Crimea when he stole the land from Ukraine 2014. With or without signature, Putin will be back, 5,10, 15 years after signing he will continue continue his quest to capture all since Independent ex-soviet countries. Unless Ukraine gets a real guarantor protection.
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  1025. Freund not Freud Jake. I have never seen it as a surname before, but Freund is German for friend.
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  1026. Both are German and not members of the two main parties. . Daniel Freund is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens party and has concentrated on anti curruption. Moritz Körner, 34 is a member of the Free Democratic Party.
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  1027. @Carstenmanz… It was Putin’s insurgents Ukraine was fighting against. Putin’s private army Wagner was formed in the Donbas region in 2014 alongside his other insurgents, he had paid and supplied with weapons to stir up trouble to regain control over the Ukraine parliament. Putin wanted the whole of Ukraine held on puppet strings like Belarus.
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  1028. @HerissonTV so you prefer lies to the truth. Look at history. Listen to people that live under occupation. I do not know where you get your “information“ from, but rest assured there are plenty of people that do know the truth from living under Soviet rule.
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  1029. @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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  1030. The
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  1031. Donbast is under Russian control. Patrik Lancaster is a showman as true to the truth as Tucker Carlston.
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  1032.  @BeatMedicare  of course not. I was simply replying because OP’s criticism of the current legislation set up in the USA was countered with “ bad things in the past”. No one was referring to good or bad. The logic behind such a set up was questioned.  My reply was to get it back on track. That the current legal system in .Germany is based on the 1949 set up. No connection to the “bad things of the past”. Which was not part of the discussion anyway. I have every reason to not forget the attempt at termination of the Jews. Not that they were the only victims in that Hitler led onslaught, same as with Putin today. Many countries Hitler invaded also gave up their Jews to Hitler’s SS too. Either in the hope it would save their own skins, earn them extra rations etc or because of a shared hatred. Belief in Hitler propaganda. We will never know.
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  1033.  @BeatMedicare  is the USA still occupying those countries? Are they now “U.S American”. Stealing their children and indoctrinating them against their homeland? Who asked them to get involved? Why?  Yes, the USA has been involved in many wars. There are many countries also suffering from a sort of gang warfare type military takeover killing indiscriminately that are desperately asking for outside (USA) help. Opposing extremists then declaring the USA started it! You can’t win. In or out, but you have to use your head. Dismiss what a dictator or these fanatics are saying, and see what they do to not be duped. Putin has told so many lies. Feb 22 He marched in with columns of tanks towards Kiev (day after denying any invasion plans) and with a .Zelenskyy replacement ready. You still believe he will be pacified with just holding on to what he has claimed to have annexed? Even those areas were NOT annexed, because the rightful nation owning the Donbas Obass etc was not involved in any discussion. You can not just produce a piece of paper and say now the USA has annexed part of.Canada! .
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  1034.  @BeatMedicare  so why has my reply been deleted? I spent an age typing it out. What are you afraid of? A 70 year old that has been watching these events very carefully? The USA does not occupy any of those countries, in the most invited in to help. Many more are beging for assistance, while the terrorist or extremist then say the USA started it. Show me the piece of paper where your president made claims to have annexed part of Canada. This is what Putin did for those three obasses. Ignore what dictators say. Watch what they do. Sending a column of tanks and a replacement for their elected president towards Kiev Feb 22 a day after “no invasion planned” is not an attempt to just take those three eastern regions! And nothing to do with NAZIS, “Wagner Warriors” And who was Hitler’s favourite composer? May it was that name that got me deleted, - but you using it O K. Do you have special powers?
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  1035.  @BeatMedicare  yep, my second reply deleted as well. Seems like that guy has a hold over this site too., lol What are you afraid of? Common sense is the new enemy?
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  1036.  @BeatMedicare  three times I have tried to reply. Seems like you are hiding behind that dreaded wall! The USA does nit occupy or claim thise countries for its own!
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  1037.  @BeatMedicare  as far as I know the USA has not taken over foreign countries and stollen their citizens. Forced conversion into USA citizenship. I think you do not know enough about the ideology of Hitler and are acting blind to Putin’s self confessed true intentions for Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia etc. If you believe the USA, which in most instances had been invited into these countries at war with themselves, acts the same way as Hitler’s nazi party and the Kremlin supported Putin, then you have held a very sheltered life!
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  1038. His business accrumen? He is a multiple bankruptee.
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  1039. What that Russian is proprosing is the same as Stalin did with Hitlar re Poland. Stalin joined with Hitler and arranged the sharing up of Poland. That meddling to break up NATO happened with Russian meddling to break up the EU. Back then Trump copied Putin and shared the Russian beliefs. ForbPutin it was politics for Trump it was ecconomics. He resented the combined buying power of a commercial union of Europe and supported brexit, as did Putin.
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  1040. @mirekslechta7161 Are you OK? Did you fall on your head?
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  1041. The longer it lasts the more people are dying unnecessarily. The result is inevitable. Ukraine must win because otherwise the nation will not survive. Putin will crush everything there. Such a shame that the fear of Trump based on his very real preference for Putin is putting the support in limbo. His team, today his son, is making Zelenskyy Into the boggey man. And the president is scared of backing Zelenskyy to the hilt will make his party unpopular so near to the elections and mean a Trump win. Bad news fir Ukraine. Getting so fir and unable to continue due to lack of ammo. To have strategies proven to work, but unable to implement because the unnecessarily lengthening of this battle must be so frustrating. Watch positions lost, that were bravely won a week before, and men exhausted. We know they can do it. Proven many times over. Just give them what they need. Is it too difficult to explain to the US electriate that this WAR is 100% in the interest of the USA to be completed in the here and now. Missing this opertunity will make it more costly (in lives and finances) later on. With Trump‘s team not recognising that the money is NOT being handed over to Ukraine. At least 80% is being spent in the USA, promoting your armament industry and updating your own military. Because you are selling old in part obsolete weapons which finances modernisation of your own. Sometimes we have to wonder if prolonging the war is even so to extend profits, but that is crazy. Allowing, by standing by as the Ukrainians get slaughtered is in no westerners interest, however much it increases the need for ammo.
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  1042. @estebanperez2557 just because you have not had the experience of suffering his poisonous toungue does not mean others are liars. He IS dangerous.
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  1043. Yes, 10 but they said only six fully trained pilots, so far.
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  1044. Not being from Ukraine I cannot tell why you hate Zelenskyy so much. However it is clear that it is the Ukrainian people that did not want to let Putin take over the country. And we know that the successful resistance to the initial Feb 2022 invasion was mainly managed almost without any help from outside Ukraine. Would you prefer the replacement Putin had prepared, Yanukovych? To continue resistance you were in need of help from outside. Many volunteers travelled to Ukraine. But it is difficult to demand or receive the correct help without a head or direction. Someone has to see to it that weapons do not land with the wrong people. That corruption does not syphon off all the donated funds. Zelenskyy stepped up and took the role. He was voted in by the citizens before this aggression, so in completely different circumstances, but quickly adjusted to the situation. Do you have another President in mind? At times of war it is not practical to hold fair elections. We did not have elections throughout WW2. The whole government needs to work together as one. Not fight each other. Putin is wrong about Zekenskyy’s legit status as President. It IS martial law. Putin is only trying to find an alternative way to get Yanukovych back in place after HIS cue attempt Feb. 2022 did not work out. If things are that bad (the reason you hate Zelenskyy?). He can always be asked resign and announce a successor, chosen under vote of all the present government elected representatives. Not a general election. That is not possible with so many displaced or under occupation. Just bare in mind anyone in that position is under threat of assassination by Putin’s mob.
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  1045. Now the second post by me that has disappeared. The first was finished and I trued to go back to add the address which was missing. The second replacement vanish before I could even press “go” So I am now of Energie. My iPad is so glitchy. Or is this an electronic interference?
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  1046. Jake, you are so Right that is odd. Early on in this war there was a Russian sub or ship commander that was murdered, shot, while on leave and out jogging. And recently The crew of Rissia’s remaining aircraft carrier were ordered to join the Front line troops, despite being sailors - not army trained! Could this be an officer that put in a complaint on behalf of his men?
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  1047. @Kath-nd6pj 0 seconds ago @Quetzalcoatl but even after Pearl harbour and after the USA had entered the war, a majority in the USA were against their participation. It is natural “not my war”. “Why should I die?” “Nothing to do to me”. But the war WAS necessary. No longer is one nation an island. As late as 1943 the British sent a regular battery of AA to do a tour of The USA. Parades, demonstrations etc. they were entertained by Hollywood . Met film stars that supported the war. Took part in the Boston Bond Parade. It is natural to have objectors to weapons and killing. Many brave UK objectors took up roles as stretcher bearers behind the front. But this situation today does not seem to have anyone willing to understand, to explain the importance, or whip up realisation concerning the urgency that is needed here.
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  1048. @Tonik-13 Putin sent his tanks out from Belarus. They headed for Kyiv Feb 2022. They took the airport and murdered citizens in .Bucha. Putin had a replacement for Zelenskyy ready. That is how we know his intentions. (Also read Aleksandra Dugin’s 1997 book “foundations of geopolitics” and Putin’s essay 2021. The expansion of Russia described.) The Feb 2022 run on .Kyiv, the airport and the decommissioned Kyiv power station occupation were all repelled by the Ukrainians, before any weapons were supplied from outside of Ukraine. Maybe you have forgotten, it was a long time ago.
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  1049. @africanprinces10 Ukraine does not want to ‘go anywhere’. They are not the aggressors. Putin invaded. Ukraine only wants the Russians to get out of their country. They have no interest in Moscow,
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  1050. @WHYNKO he did pay for a narrative. He wanted Tucker .Carlson so that his propaganda gets a wider inside the USA audience. That 30min “history lesson” was a sample of the re-write of history that Putin has been working on to convince himself and the world that he has every right to desecrate a neighbouring country under the guise of “protecting” its people.
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  1051. @user-gy3hf9st9d Putin is a professional KGB trained liar. You do not get the truth out of him. He only paints the picture he wants you to see. It is not usual to for anyone on his team to doubt him or even tell him things he does not want to hear (Same as with Hitler). Interviews and meetings with Western representatives cannot be held on an equal basis, hence his mocking manner, same as he was doing with Tucker Carlson.
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  1052. @conradaxe3895 Putin said he had no plans to invade Ukraine right upto the day before his huge column of tanks headed off for Kyiv. Immediately they occupied the airport, Putin had a replacement for Zelenskyy already prepared. Only Ukraine pushed them back. They pushed them out of the airport and Bucha (near Kyiv) right at the start and before any help from the west arrived, So, yes, Putin does not publicly mention Kyiv, but guaranteed he does have aims to own the whole of Ukraine. If not for now, then in the next annexation attempt. He has written about his visions for the future of Russia as an Empire.
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  1053. Yes, very idiotic. Especially as half the people on the list Russia supplied had already been exchanged on previous occasions! And the plane was leaving the airport, not arriving.
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  1054. Was it two or three missiles? Both versions have been proofed, ie announced by the Russian authorities.
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  1055. Trump still cannot get his name right. Probably not intensionally, but could be a hearing problem. It is not. ….insky but …..ensky.
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  1056. @duncanbrown4184 ‚endorsed‘ with masses amounts of $$$$• Trump is for sale.
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  1057. That fits!
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  1058.  @OptiNihle  I agree, I was reacting to shadowboi3684 and stand by the desensitising comment. Compassion is the looser for some with such remarks. He said the WW2 films make this look like a walk in the park. Even if it were just one person, it is still real life. Abductions, torture, rape, mass destruction. This IS real.
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  1059. Wow, are you Russian? Fascists are the ones Europe are veering against. There has been an upsurge, ie Hungry, but they are not forbidden to speak. Better their hate is heard as a forewarning!
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  1060. Are you sure all those criticising the USA are Europeans and not Russians or their Lackies wanting discord in the ranks I get to read mostly MAGA nutters claiming only the USA is supporting Ukraine and those reporting only the military aid figures, Which is clear because within the set up of NATO Buying in USA made ammo and equipment was recommended. Of course also true that Europe had become complacent and thought little on the possibility of war. However I contra these ill informed MEGA louts with the fact that Europeans and elsewhere we ARE contributing heavenly in non military aid, and will do for the long hall. Frustrating that what all sides of the Atlantic are doing is so long drawn out, this is killing more men than Ukraine has to spare and is so avoidable, yes because of self serving politicians (esp the candidate canvassing on NOT being a politician) but the over cautious tacticians too,
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  1061. 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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  1062. No, he was always was an arms flaying stop, start speaker.
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  1063. @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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  1064. @Interglacial Hitler’s thoughts entirely.
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  1065. Scotland ?
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  1066. @kelsocampbell1301 even because you are a big and powerful country you do not have the right to bully, but have the obligation to protect the small and weak. Especially the environment to keep the world Un polluted and safe. Big comes with more responsibility than smaller countries. If you want the properties of the Danish Greenland then you can negotiate a deal to purchase them, just like any other decent government. Robbing a neighbour is on par with Putin’s Russia. And by copying Putin, your leader is damaging the alliance that has held peace for the past 70 years. Putin will be jumping for joy in witnessing conflict within NATO, same as he is currently doing in trying to turn European countries against each other. He will not succeed. However with your and Trump’s rhetoric on this matter. He suddenly has an ally in his evil deeds. I do not kniw if it is deliberate but this incoming president does seem to be more keyed into Putin’s ideology than into being protective of western values.
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  1067. As far as I can tell 2% was a suggestion or even recommendation, but not a law. And many countries in Europe spend more than that anyway. Plus the money the USA spends on developing weapons it gains revenue from by selling to other NATO members. Poland’s recent order was particularity huge. Plus the benefits of collaboration in weapon design. I think the USA currently spends 3.4 GDP on NATO. IF Trump is serious about 5% that would be a huge rise for the USA as well as the rest of NATO. Of the 31 NATO members only 8 pay in less than 2% of their GDP.M
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  1068. I must have this all wrong. So our ships are not negating the seas? Were we not recently fighting against the pirates attacks on shipping in or south of the sues channel? Did I imagine the involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq where the announcement of US withdrawal went out to the world before our also present military had notification? There were other countries involved, including Denmark. I find that 92% hard to believe if these were NATO engagements. I do appreciate an until now sober USA partnership in all this. Our militaries can and do gain much from each other. But it is not true that the USA only gives and the rest only takes. The USA is the bigger power, it also atm gains the most from the armourment industry. But also from world wide commerce, selling US built domestic planes and other produce world wide. There are US bases all around the world, not for charity, but because they are useful and mainly they are part of the enforced diplomacy necessary in keeping good or at least cordial relationships with countries of diverse ideologies. World peace is important for somewhere as large as the USA with fingers in many pies Where us smaller countries can help we do. The US has been helpful with our struggle with Russia. The ISW updates and so many voluntary organisations. No reason to repeat here the many reasons why the outcome of this war in Ukraine is essential to the USA along with all western democracies and also in ensuring the US Dollar remains the international trading currency. I just hope a confrontational Trump does not weaken long nurtured western alliances and play straight into Putin’s hand. Putin has pushed his trolls, lies and misinformation to crumble the glue holding us together. The last thing we need is a fight between NATO members.
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  1069. @DavidGetling, are you seriously suggesting Ukraine should hit civilian targets? Are you working for Putin? He is just itching to get Zelenskky for war crimes, even if only to justify his own. Ukraine is doing just fine hitting weapons depots, goods -train sidings used fir weapons and troop transport, military vehicles, runways and such.
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  1070. Simple. Trump considers those that died in war as losers. His thinking does not go beyond that. He does not even feel he need honour the laws of the land, let alone do something brave that may cost you your life, but will save the battle or save hundreds of others lives. And he did say veterans that died in war were suckers and losers. He said it in Paris. It was raining and he wanted to sit it out watching am TV, rather than the early start for the prearranged „exhausting“ road trip to Normandy to attend another dreary day around a (well cared for) USA WW2 military graveyard. His entourage tried to soften the message by saying the drive would be a security risk. Although they seemed happy with the arrangements before theatric, and of the day before. There was a hint that the trip too short for him to use his presidential plane, or it was not available at thatvtime. Whatever the cover up was. Those words were unlikely to have come from another source. „Suckers“ is very much an American word. not used in Europe or elsewhere. Also later when wanting to diss one of your politicians that has been a submarine commander or such, and had been captured (forget the name). Trump openly in front of the press said he like „winners, not losers“. So that very much fits into his mindset on those that serve the country.
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  1071. @SuperGamer3000 more than half of that was taken in 2014.; this two year invasion has gained only about 10% for Russian losses of around 310,000 troops. Ukraians are fighting for their very existence. Putin has changed history books, stollen Ukrainian children from the areas they occupy and has made it clear they consider Ukraine as a nation does not exist. Any agreement Putin makes he will NOT hold to, same as he has done with Chechnya. And other previous “agreements” Putin has previously signed.
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  1072. Putin finds new objections along the way. That „legitimate“ leader of Ukraine was Putin’s excuse for not listening to Zelenskyy‘s accommodating response to Putin‘s demands back in March 2022. why? Because Feb 2022 Putin wanted to put his own person in power. Also the reasons for the invasion were fake, so Zelenskyy addressing them one by one, would expose to the rest of the world that he had other, more sinister reasons for invading. So now that Zelenskyy is stuck in a position where elections are not through safety issues not a viable option, Putin goes back to the ‚not legitimate’ nonsense. Putin is the one hanging onto power. Beyond the max three terms according to Russian rules, which Putin changed in order to keep his seat.
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  1073. @gagecee5129 You are missing the point he made. Countering the claim Zelenskyy is asking women to fight. His words meant Putin is so desperate for (non elite citizen) meat-grinder candidates that they refused a pregnant woman’s request to nit join the front line. Yes Russia has always had women in their military. Ukrainian women are already on the front line by the way, they are volunteering in drone work, ambulances and as sharp shooters, because their partners have been killed by the .Russians and others reasons. Ukrainians fight for their existence. You can afford to refuse to fight because no one is invading your home. If someone turned up on your doorstep to murder your family, you would not resist?
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  1074. @fredo1070 Even if someone in the USA is saying that it falls into insignificance when those that know how Putin works from experience know that treaties mean nothing to Putin. He has broken the past three major ones he signed. He wants control over Ukraine. The minerals of the Donbas and Crimea. All of the blackness ports (Odessa under attack atm) to prevent Ukraine having control of their own exports. But also to join up with and take Moldova. If you think he would NOT be doing this had a deal been made. Think again. You have not been listening to what is coming out of the Kremlin. They want the whole of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. You also need to ask yourself who and WHY someone in the USA is encouraging complacency on this Servier attack on Democracy for the world audience.
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  1075. @fredo1070 And in March 2022 Zelenskyy made an announcement, that OK, he would give the people of those areas the vote if they want to become independant and he would agree not to join NATO. But Puton ignored him. Did not even reply. Why? Two reasons. A) at the time Putin would not acknowledge that Zelenskyy was the worthy leader of Ukraine (although voted for under free elections) and so like with Navalny, would not even say his name! B) this did not fit into his plans for Ukraine. NATO never really was the issue for Putin. The border with NATO founding member Norway, he knew was no danger for Russia. He did not want freedom for those eastern areas, he wanted Russian dominance over them, and later Odessa and Kyiv too.
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  1076. Russian soldiers are in Moldova and in parts of Africa too.
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  1077. As for Putins interference. Haus ambition of creating chaos in Western countries goes back further. His mercenaries in Africa, especially Syria have intensified terror on these countries directly causing mass refugee exodus towards Europe to damaged their economies. Fleeing by boats with traffickers but also arannged planes loads and forced them to enter Poland and other ex-soviet states. To cause chaos along dude steel mineralscfrmmthevAfricsn ciuntries they worked in.
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  1078. What % of gdp does the USA spend on NATO?
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  1079. Some one needs to ask Trump considering the damage the Luftwaffe did to London, Coventry and many more towns etc. flattened houses. Should Britton have NOT fought back, should we have let Hitler take our land and conquer all of Europe? This is what Putin has in mind to emulate.
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  1080. Trump will tell Putin and claim it as his own.
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  1081. 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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  1082. @ILoveBluePeople Yes they made that claim. They said Ukraine shot down their own soldiers. It makes me doubt what they said about that Donetsk marketplace slaughter on Sunday too now.. Russia usually accuses the other side of doing what they would do. They have before set up a situation to blame others for. And have no qualms in murdering the innocent. Those in the marketplace were Ukrainians under occupation. Since observing the downing of Prigozhin's plane on behalf of Putin. Anything seems possible. Since the Dow they
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  1083. No, American Graceland.
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  1084. @ForrestDweller Denmark is in NATO. By default Greenland is already in NATO.
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  1085. @santamanone Are you sure? I saw the heading “net immigration 2.8m” I did not check the breakdown, but “net” means immigration minus emigration. Another heading said 8m emigration, do not know if refering to the same year, but guess they do not alter much. If the same year that would be 10,8m immigrants.
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  1086. @Paketspaketami yes, they pay but it is (usually) a two way thing. In some places it brings extra trouble for the “host” country, as in increase of hostility from neighbours, extra policing, noise, environmental problems or the land is needed for other reasons. But in most it is amiable especially when off base integration is possible. Roads serviced, shopping Etc.
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  1087. @DanReda the USA has a bigger population and ecconomy. It currently pays 3.4 of GPD. 8 Out of 31 other members currently pay less than 2%, GPD, but the others pay more, with Poland the highest at 4.12% GPD. This is nit money paid TO NATO. This is money spent on weapons/armament. I guess if they have a cheeper supply they pay less. However military production is notoriously expensive, forever updating specs. Etc. so own production can often be more expensive than buying in (from the USA)
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  1088. Elon Musk does not wear a suit.
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  1089. @s14ndy Parts of Ukraine are under occuoation. If the Russians went home then there would be no further bombings. Simple. The Wagner mercenary group was 2014 set up, financed and weaponised by Putin to cause these problems in the Donbass regions as insurgents. He’s had plans to take all of Ukraine since 2021 and so caused this riff to fake a ‘rescue’. Causing this war.
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  1090. @iskaykabeya609 Obvious why to anyone human. Ukrainians would rather just get on with their real jobs, like jewellery makers, flower sellers, accountants, architects etc than be forced to shoot down missiles in protection of their homes. When did you loose your heart?
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  1091. @thecooljohn100 Norway is a founding member. (1949). I think you mean Sweden and Finland joining. Norway has a relatively short Land boarder with Russia in the far north , but now Russia’s land boarder with NATO is much longer since Finland joined. Sweden has a maritime only boarder with Russia.
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  1092. @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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  1093. @riconotzel4331 warum? Weil leben in der DDR so viel Spaß war? Putin trained in Berlin in the KGB. Partners in crime with DDR‘s Stasi.
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  1094. Putin thinks he can handle Trump. Putin allowed the photos of Mrs Trump’s modelling years be shown on Russian TV with the presenter smirking! It was a warning and threat to Trump on what he can do re Trump himself. Although During this last campaigning Trump’s sense of decorum. Has dropped, so he may well take pride in any dirt they have on him.
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  1095. @luke_fabis I agree with your assessment, but it was previous Presidents in Ukraine that bended to favours to Russia. They handed tanks over to Russia on request leaving them void of any real armament to resist with. (Soviet) Nuclear and planes already claimed back by Russia. Ukraine was a major producer of such things. (This know-how coming to good use now.) First thing Russia did in this 2022 invasion was destroy Ukraines last huge plane, the largest container plane built. All those years of bribery/collaboration with Russia. The real reason why Putin raised rehtoric and insurgency into Ukraine, to oust the present free elected government. He had a replacement for Zelenskyy ready at the time his tanjs rolled down towards Kyiv.
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  1096.  @tomislavukraden4151  under oppression from a Putin led state is no peace. More like slavery.
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  1097. Said 61 of 70 shahid type drones and one missile downed. How is that 100%?
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  1098. Sounded like he said president Crouton. In the first pre meeting ramble Lol .
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  1099. Twelve?
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  1100. Paul, yes, that was Putin’s aim. If he forces a “peace” with stealing only the five sections he already mentioned including .Crimea, then in a few years later he will come back for more, Moldova too. He wants Ukraine to be gone. Ideally he wants Poland too and would likely carve up the western parts of Ukraine between Poland and Belarus. (But surely he must see with Poland being a member of NATO that unlikely, unless ,,, well maybe Trump can help? ) He has already re-written the .Russian school history books and has told the children they stole that Ukraine, their place of birth, does not exist.
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  1101. @user-cx4oh7sy1f You know as well as any that is not true. One of Putin’s fake excuses.. his essays of 2o21 tell the true story on Russian expansion, There is and always were more Nazis under Russian control than in .Ukraine. His private army, The Wagner Group! Fake football supporters. The mob at Dagestan airport last year hoping to ambush and hench fleeing Israelis!
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  1102. He was there in Feb 2023 to assure Zelenskyy that the UK support would continue if the government changed.
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  1103. 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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  1104. 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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  1105. @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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  1106. 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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  1107. @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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  1108. Ukraine is not targeting either nuclear power station. R u nuts?
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  1109. 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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  1110. @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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  1111. @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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  1112. They have mounted guns, but they are higher up and anti aircraft or ship to ship. Drones come in below their firing range once they are close alongside.
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  1113. They are not playing cards.
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  1114. 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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  1115. You are kidding me!! You jest, but that so is not on. Despite what Putin said, part of old Wagner group DID return to Africa. You must surely know that Putin’s Wagner took part in HAMAS training. And anyway Zelensky is Jewish!
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  1116. @TheMonkeyondrugs Total lies.
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  1117. @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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  1118. @LynRegan. He struggles with Slavic sounding place names, as do many, but his English is clear to me (from England).
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  1119. 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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  1120. Why?
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  1121. 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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  1122. @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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  1123. Trumps grandparents were immigrants. Guess it is different rules for some.
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  1124. Trump keeps repeating what Putin says. Putin already said the US, Russia and China should meet
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  1125. Seeing those jerky clips of Vladimir Solovyov, his jacket, I could not stop hearing the ‘Thunderbirds are Go’ theme tune alongside!
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  1126. See, you are not being censored because you are following the dictators false rehtoric.
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  1127. @donkey3187 trump did not ‘provide’ peace. There just happened to not be these particular wars. You realy think Putin would not have put his long prepared plans into action? He has been preparing for this since 2014! Previous attacks on Georgia and his Chechen war totally unaffected by what the USA thinks. Putin believes all those areas are his playground. Trump caused the difficulties in the US withdraw from Iraq because inadvertently heads up the enemy by announcing a deadline. Left the allies in the lurch here too by not acknowledging all the consequences. Trump helped exasperate the problems in the Middle East by moving the Israeli embassy contra to world intelligence. He got ‘peace’ by creating a publicity stunt signing by countries of that area yet Not involved directly by the actual conflict. Like Putin’s take over of parts of Ukraine without Ukrsine’s say. This agreement of peace with public signing did not include the country involved: Palestine. Trump has run his career by having his say never questioned, Maybe he realy believes things happen because he says so?
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  1128. @soiamheredealwithit How amazing. Different countries, different points of view. The only reason the Russian inclusive ethnic zones are not discussing what to do is because Putin rides rough-shod over every other persons opinion. You have to do what you are told. That is why more countries do not want to be part of Putin’s extended Ego imperialism.
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  1129. In 2015, Johnson blamed abortions and the "breakup [of] the nuclear family" for school shootings, saying, "when you tell a generation of people that life has no value, no meaning, that it's expendable, then you do wind up with school shooters.“ Seems he since has no conscience about unnecessarily loosing hundreds of Ukrainians‘ lives. No value? No meaning? Through his lying encouraging „winding up“ Putin‘s murderous mob.
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  1130. @tonynew3047 almost everything he has said recently is a direct copy of Putin’s words and actions. I am not convinced Trump does realise he is being played! Putin: “I can take Ukraine, Moldova, Estonia etc if I want,”. I am not convinced the sale of Alaska was legit.” Trump: “I can take Canada if I want.” I am not convinced Denmark is the legit owners of Greenland”. A wanna be carbon copy of the guy he admires most. putin.
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  1131. 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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  1132. Putin is the one invading Ukraine. Ukraine has no sights on owning any part of Russia. You are being hoodwinked if you believe such rot. Putin is responsible for any non-progress in his own country. His invasion plans cannot deflect from any short comings he has for his own people. He is yearning for the power of the old Soviet Union imperialistic aims. Ukrainians only want their freedom. And rid of the Russian military off their land.
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  1133. Surely the fall-out of any nuclear bomb would contaminate Russia too? Causing Self inflicted pain.
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  1134. What does that mean please?
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  1135. One question, why are you and other media calling him ‚The President,“ or ‚President Trump“? Does he get that title for life? I guess the title „former President“. I’d more of a mouthful, but why not just Donsld Trump? Same as other candidates names.
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  1136. @Tdr-jv2nc what % of Muslims are „radical“ do you think? What % of Christians are Nazis? Migrants come in all types. Legals that come for work, or for education , same as our people that travel overseas (I lived studied and worked in Germany for 11 years). Robinson is currently in Spain! Those escaping from warring Countries, do not have the choice. They cannot flee with legal papers. And they have more to fear from these radicals they are fleeing from.
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  1137. @conanthelibrarian8870 Yes, we should not have to be putting up with this in our news. This is taking away from the sadness about the three girls. But this is a different story. This reporting is about the riots. They have NOTHING to do with the attack on the children attending dance. The story is that social media made fake announcements and used the poor girls murders as a way of firing up racial tensions, by attaching it to the most sensitive of issues for us, the illegal boat people. Nothing to do with the thousands of multicultural residence living peacefully in this country. The 17 year old attacker did not come off a boat. He was not an illegal immigrant. And a huge % of those rioters are not interested in that cause either. Setting fire to a library? They are just stupid fired up youths in the mood for a punch-up. August riot season. And hot blooded idiots. Any reason, any cause.
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  1138. At The BRICS Meeting Putin showed a paper note. Ever hopeful.
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  1139. @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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  1140. 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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  1141. @Rosegarden793. Considering how much you lot are so easy-money orientated it is little wonder why so many fools of your nation fell for Putin‘s cash for treason trap!
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  1142. It is an important tool of those ruling by power to get the people behind them by making much of an outside enemy. What Putin knew as facts is always going to be different to what he projects or manipulates to Keep his own objectives and gun support.
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  1143. The majority of the USA money stays in the USA. Bolstering your defence industry. Jobs gained. Taxes paid.
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  1144. @williamyoung9401 yes, and Russia defeated Napoleon mainly by retreating into Russian interior So what Ukraine is doing now in their East. The French were not equipped for such a long march. Logistics. The bad roads hindered supplies and the harsh winter froze them. 300,000 French troops died. 200,000 Russians. The battle of Borodino alone 70,000 totalled casualties in just one day! And we are aware that resistance to Hitler involved the Soviet Union, not Russia alone.
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  1145. It is the numbers of them. It takes expensive weapons to shoot down inexpensive drones, and Russia sends in hundreds daily to keep the defence lines busy.
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  1146. Trump would accompany the trucks, if he were you. He is a PR and self love addicted. Anything for a photo oppertunity and take credit for things others have done. (The donations). Strength in being humble - not his thing.
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  1147. 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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  1148. Navalny was pro-Russian. No way was he a CIA agent.
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  1149. Except we are more than just our biological parts.
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  1150. @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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  1151. 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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  1152. 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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  1153. You are wrong because Putin is lying. You have all been duoed by him. Those in Poland, .Estonia, Serbia, Moldova, Georgia, etc all know the real face of Putin.
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  1154. @Mark1024MAK yes, the reason he is obliged to act as Putin‘s puppet is because Putin supported him through his fake re-election. The same reason Trump needs to be beware of ever accepting anything from Putin.
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  1155. Does Ukraine issue war bonds?
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  1156. @societyisscaredofmasculine854 No way on this Planet are they reflecting my very English values! Mosley inspired numpties.
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  1157. The Russian people would be well served by the exit of Putin from their lives. But elections are upcoming in 2024. Putin had already rigged it in the Kremlin that his presidency could be extended beyond the original legal terms, so no doubt, just like the staged illegal annexed land “elections” these will be fudged to his advantage yet again. Welcome to the Eastern idea of dictatorship rule by default.
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  1158. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YMLA-AwD7WA
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  1159. Is that how things go with TV reliant on advertising? Everything just a short term drama show - like this is not real life.
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  1160. Lol. Delusional.
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  1161. Not enough food for the NK troops? Possibly they havevseennwhatbthevRussiansvare given., or the officer in charge has syphoned off their food and is selling it on the black market?
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  1162. Ukraine has already had thousands of children abducted to Russia.
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  1163. If Trump wins I truly hope all our companies pull out of the USA. So much innovation derives from overseas allies, yet Trump wants to put up walls of isolation. He does not want co-operation so we should leave.
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  1164. @brainman6182 in defence of democracy? I think they did need it.
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  1165. @raidermaxx2324. If you are from the USA then you mean: selling to them, on tab. like the weapons you are selling to Israel.
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  1166. I read a comment on another Post: „9/11 was caused by the USA“ according to Trump’s reckoning.
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  1167. Putin is trying to replace the use of the US dollar for international trade with his new BRICS systems.
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  1168. 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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  1169. 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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  1170. @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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  1171. I also found it odd that someone so critical of Trump in the past should want to join him, but then looking at Trump, It is possible Vance recons he will not be around much longer, then the top job is his. If so it would be a very speedy rise. He does not looks very experienced politician to me. Definately no statesman!
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  1172. And Trump, no fan of electric vehicles , has offered Musk a job in the White House. Finance? All very odd. But Musk sees potential in being so close to the top. He too admires dictators. I assume as he was born in SA he cannot go for the job himself?
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  1173. It is because the USA is already a Russian world order country. Trump, Musk, Carlson all use Putin speak. Putin has his private armies in places like Mali, Central Afrika etc . They pip their soldiers in exchange for timber and minerals extraction. This is how Trump got the idea that instead of supporting Ukraine, leading to Europe, leading to the wider world from being stollen by Putin‘s imperialistic intentions he could turn his contributions into mercenary. The USA has sold its soul. Now an mercenary nation
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  1174. 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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  1175. @abbeystump No, but Putin’s private armies formed in 2014. The Wagner Group, The Rusichs, etc., alongside his insurgents into the Donbass region of Ukraine. Putin has been planning for this full invasion a long time now.
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  1176. @goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Two pronged approach. I agree. <3
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  1177. ago @YouTuberr285 nothing to do with Trump. You cannot stop something that was not there. He has though caused wars. Moving the Embassy and approving the Israeli occupation of the Palistine West Bank emboldened Netanyahu. Trump is a pupet to Putin, so would not object to Russia taking control of Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Hungry, Poland etc. He does not want a strong EU. (Was he promised a Moscow and Red Sea Trump Tower?) Trump wanted a weaker Europe commercial buying pact. He is keen to support US pharmaceuticals in keeping their inflated prices. Trump‘s publicity stunt with the empty peace-signing, did not include both parties that were at war. Palestine, the country under siege! His bold announcement of the troops withdraw from the Near East gave away to the enemy the crucial ultimate time scale, giving no options on protection for those leaving and causing chaos. Plus leaving the supporting allies dry. The reasson he is so bad at international co operation is that he refuses to listen to experts advice. He is clumsy in approach, which may seem cute to you, but in dealing with different cultures worldwide it is pants.
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  1178. @smartman123 So TV is your education? He says a lot about ending wars. But he agitates a lot. His dealings with Orban, Trump junior was sent there. His pandering to Putin and praise for Kim Jung Un. In the same way Putin‘s aggression persuaded Finland and Sweden to join NATO. TRUMP‘s nativity in his friendship with dictators is emboldening BRICS. Which, if you are in doubt, is anti USA.
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  1179. @residentgrey wrong. That is what Putin and Dugin want you to believe. The rejection of a Moscow bias president is exactly what is now in progress in Moldova and Gerorgis. And seeing how they treat their “brothers“ can you blame them? The only influence the West Is having is simply by living their normal lives openly alongside. They want that too. This is also the reason KGB trained Putin is creating the migrant problem (fighting in Sudan) and sending agitators into European countries to promote unrest. Even India has learnt of Putin‘s betrayal. They buy their cheep oil, but have demanded the release of their citizens that were sent to Russia for cleaning jobs and to attend university, but were forced by Russia to join their military. Not sure if Kim Jung Un is worried about his people sent to die, but time will tell.
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  1180. @Trahzy the situation right now with Russia encouraging China there could be a trouble with Taiwan brewing.
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  1181. It will depend on Musk what he does next. Trump does not want the job. His ego may, but basically he just wanted to be able to wipe away all the embezzlement and accountancy crime charges. It is a shame that all the fake bankrupsy victims will never be compensated for the livelyhoods and businesses he ruined by avoiding paying his depts. yet he is a Millionär? Funny that. I suspect trump will want to present Ukrsine to his pal in Russsia. Elon will aid by taking starlink back from Government control. Together they will stitch Europe up. „So long and thanks formally the fish“
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  1182. @marisabenson1222 that would be supposing he WANTED to know the truth!
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  1183. 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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  1184. 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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  1185. @dpelpal, Do you think putting off inflation adjustments are due to coming elections? Putin will probably fudge things that he renews his presidency in March , if still around. That or claim a country at war does not hold elections. By then the ‘Special operations’ farce will hold no water. This is all so very very sad. One egoistic man, but the Kremlin is of the same cloth, they goad him on too.
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  1186. Junior doctor pay currently £29,000.
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  1187. Yes, Putin: KGB trained. Congratulations! You produced a monster. A bane to the civilised world.
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  1188. Before this invasion, Putin had already made moves on places like Georgia, Moldova etc. so agree Putin does not just have his sights on Ukraine
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  1189. 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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  1190. @ayautuber, if Trumpmis worried about trade deficits then hecshoukd work on selling more to foreign countries. Make stuff foreigners want to by? In fact the deficits are nitvehat you have been told. Canada buys more from thevUSA than vice versa, if you take out the energy You need to run your industry. Also fir thevUK it is the other way around if you count in intellectual products. Nit sure abiut elsewhere, but you are buying in what you need, so why go to war about it? What Trumpmis realy about is getting a high revenue into the treasury at point of docking that he can spend. He is lying that the other country pays. You US consumers are oaying so he can give tax cuts to the rich. He had no thoughts beyond that. To pay back the likes of Musk who helped him when he was desparate to avoid jail.
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  1191. @ayayoutuber If Trump wants to improve on trade he should sell his ciuntries products abroad. Mske things foreigners WANT to buy? Plus those figures are not true. Canada buys more from the USA than vice versa. If you take away the power they supply that the USA needs for manufacturing you are in the black. Same with the U.K. if you include the intelligence products we buy more from the USA. DON‘t know about other places, but you buy what you need. That is world trade. But the whole thing is a farce any way. Trumpmwants tarrifs because it gives him huge sums of money into the treasury at point of docking. He is lying abiut who pays the tariffs. Anyone that deals in import/export can tell you that tariffs are imposed by the IMPORTING country on the importing companies. In turn it is you, the US consumer that pays money Trump can then freely use in tax relief to his rich buddies. Such as Musk. To pay back for supporting his election that keeps him out of prison.
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  1192. Russia also signed that 1994 agreement.
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  1193. @xxxx-fl5be Seems you have misunderstood what „don‘t dare“ means. She is not saying she is too afraid to compare, she is saying it shows no compassion and is cruel to weigh up one person‘s suffering against another. We are not holding a competition on awfulness here! By saying that OP is belittling another persons pain. And the numbers do not count. Yes thousands more people have died and been tortured in Russias war, but each one is equally tragic in both conflicts. This is not a competition on gruelsam atrocities.
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  1194. Now he has BRICS, and Kim Jung Un, Xi Jinping, Orban, Ali Khamenei and Trump has his back, he no longer needs them.
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  1195. Clever eagles to stay away. I assume the bombed out tree lines gave them no where to nest.
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  1196. It’s quite easy with Trump, Last time around he was intent on rubbing Obama’s achievements out. Re Medicare etc. now he wants to show his “bigness” by undoing what Biden did. The most visual is the support offered to Zelenskyy, who he hates. Historyt: Re demanding but no facts found in Ukrsine on slandering Biden’s family. Trump is an admirer of Putin and this time around he is enacting things Putin trues and did. . Putin, I can take Ukraine and was the sale of Akaska legitimate? Trump, we can take Canada and is Denmark’s ownership of Greenland legitimate?
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  1197. Trump can‘t even be bothered to say Zelenskyy’s name right.
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  1198. @alucardelrojo8675 yes he is. Look up martial law for yourself. Stop being lazy and listening to Carlson‘s tripe for likes. Musk trying to prove he is ‚street‘ and Trump being a complete thicky. I am fed up trying to explain to nations that have never had bombs going off over their heads and their citizens displaced or under occupation. Putin can have elections because his civilians are not being shot at. And it matters not to him that thousands of Russias youth have fled the land because he makes up the poling polling results anyway. Over 80%! Lol The U.K. had Martial Law throughout WW2 too.
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  1199. @dan1991woopwoop tell me when the USA used a nerve agent to poison a USA citizen on foreign soil? Less than 20 miles from here the two assassins Putin sent made a hash of disposing the container they used causing a horrendous death by Novichok nerve agent of a local woman. This was not under war conditions. He has used such poisons in Spain in Germany. No apology, no remorse for the danger exposed to an innocent community. Refused to send them for trial. He mockingly claimed the two were tourists on a daytrip to visit our beautiful city.
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  1200. I remember reading that many votes for first time voters were disgarded because the teenagers were not signing their names well enough. Ie it was not the same as on record. The heading read somthing like : youth unable to write. Votes discounted as theirvsignatures cannit be read.
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  1201. He has sent his dumb son there, so will know soon enough.
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  1202. Yes, Putin has not yet transferred them to help on the Eastern flank because Russia wants Odessa. With Odessa they can join up with Transnistria and block Ukraine completely from the Black Sea. No more ports for exporting. Then the rest of Moldova will be taken. Russia wants it all. All of Ukraine, all of Moldova.
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  1203. Always had great respect for my Norwegian contemporaries. I had no awareness they could also produced such a numbskull!
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  1204. Which country in Africa are you from? Putin has been active in many African countries including with his Wagner Warriors. Or are you referring to his employing criminal hoax phone calling? Money. Laundering? It would be helpful if you could tell some of what Putin is up to in your country. Would be a good way to explain to other Western countries can look out for the warning signs.
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  1205. Apparently popular U.K. TV Programs in Eastern Europe are: Top Gear, Doctor Who, Sherlock and Peaky Blinders. Most popular in Serbia is said to be: Only Fools and Horses. I guess it depends on if they watch the programs with the sound dubbed, or with subtitles.
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  1206. And that is a lie. Check your sources. This is all being monitored.
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  1207. @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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  1208. „We are expected to believe“. Belarus. Says it all.
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  1209. He speak with forked tongue!
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  1210. @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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  1211. Says who?
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  1212. Who is ‚they‘ please?
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  1213. 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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  1214. @gvs5318 what has that to do with trade? Another subject we could discuss if you wish. Shared intelligence. Shared missions. Convenient base Locations. Nato conforming arms purchasing. The USA Armament industry & workforce.
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  1215. No. He was offered a lift out in 2022 and refused it.
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  1216. During that broadcast it was Musk that introduced Each subject into the agenda. Bringing content and structure to an otherwise ramble. Trump does not usually do policies. Yet the remarkable thing was so much of what Musk Said Trump would not usually agree with. Again Trump is following the money! Like he was with the coal producers back in the day. Musk knows what HE wants in exchange. He said „working together“ and suggested a role for himself.
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  1217. @hanielgaribay7623 then how about YOU get your facts right. Feb 2022 Putin invaded, tanks headed towards Kyiv and troops directed to take the airport with a replacement for Zekenskyy ready to arrive by plane. Only they were pushed back from both. March 2022, Zekenskyy made a speech addressing Putin‘s conditions. Said Ok agree to not join NATO and will allow the Eastern states to a free vote on if they wish for independence from Ukrsine. Silence from Putin. He refused to reply to Zelenskyy. It took months before Putin even said Zelenskyy‘s name in public as he refused to acknowledge him. Reason: those were not the real reasons. As for the Nazi slur, Russia has a far more active neo-Nazi sub culture than any other European country. (check out the locking-up of Russian known Nazi groups in preparation for the 2018 football world cup in Russia) This always was a Land an people grab. In the meantime after pushing the Russians back from around Kyiv the Bucha atrocities were discovered; that was the main decider that Putin must not be allowed to get his way.
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  1218. @daz3434 No, you can‘t, but trained observers can tell by many clues. Stature, approach tactics, eagerness etc.
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  1219. @daz3434 i can not decider the images ship radar operators get to see, but they can tell type of vessel, speed and even if merchant, friendly or foe. Combined with ‚other‘ on ground intelligence.
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  1220. Exiled.
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  1221. @평양시2then the quicker they find out the truth the better. Thousands of returning POWs should make a start. Russias‘ young and intellectuals have flown the country. They already know. So a conclusion to the fighting will bring all that truth telling back home. A dictatorship works for fast decisive decision making. But excluding any critic or even discussion regarding those decisions has to lead to distrust of a leaders motivation, even if it is (through fear) unspoken. In Putin’s Russia ‚walls have ears‘ he is forcing back to the days of Stalin.
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  1222. NATO does not put nuclear weapons into their countries. The idea is to join NATO as protection so individual countries do NOT get their own nuclear weapons. The idea is to prevent worldwide nuclear mayhem. This guy is crazy! Ukraine gave their Soviet age nuclear weapons up to Russia 1991 under a signed agreement for protection against invasion. Signed by Ukrsine, Russia, the USA and the Uk. Russia already had a border with NATO Norway. Norway does NOT hold nuclear weapons. Claiming fear of NATO was just and fake excuse for the Land Grab invasion. 22 Feb 2022 and Russia was under no danger of being attacked by .NATO and Putin knows this.
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  1223.  @silverleaf80  I know. In 2014 Putin financed, weaponised and formed his private army The .Wagner Warriors in Donbas along side his insurgents for the very purpose to infiltrate and agitate trouble for the Ukraine administration. He had long term plans for a Ukraine take over. Frustrated at the slow process Putin picked February the 22nd to step up to the invasion with tanks heading for Kyiv and a replacement for Zelenskyy ready prepared.
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  1224. @ulfosterberg9116 Lol. Good one.
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  1225. @miriamweller812. He is exactly ‚like that‘. He was for ever complaining ‚last time‘ that officials were saying he cannot do this or that. It is illegal. He kept sacking advisers because they kept reminding of the rules. And this Is exactly what Project 25 is about. the plans is to remove the independence of such checks in place. To give more control to one man, the president. To let himself use the military to get things enforced which the public could want to protest about. Strip them of their rights. Take away the civil servants that work on the administration, so that only what the President wants gets done., whether it has deprimental impact on peoples rights, their property, the environment, drinking water quality. He can override all those things if the ‚deep state‘ ie those upholding your constitution have been sacked! „He would not do that“. Maybe, but this makes sure no one could stop him if he wanted to. And the guy behind all this has made it clear this is HIS agenda. Trump is so very power obsessed, he would most certainly not turn down this offered him on a plate! Do not forget his hero of the moment is Putin. He has often remarked that (being a dictator) he can just get stuff done. He admires that. You want people that disagre with him, not just sacked, but ‚delt with’? With full control over the police, the judiciary, the military he can do whatever he wants. And as a citizen that feels mistreated, you have no regress.
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  1226. @cupra2Jock Are you saying the Republicans intend to remove the independence of the the FBI, of the judiciary. They plan to use the military against the public to quash the right to protest? The military is supposed to protect the land of the free, not be a tool of a military state!
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  1227. He is attacking fellow republicans and they choose him as their candidate? They are passing over to him their campaign money? If he cannot even unite his own party (sacked all the experienced ones, replaced with own styled muppets) , then how do they expect him to unite the country? This guy is anti American. Is anyone going to tell him that once in office you are president for ALL the USA, not just those that bow before you? Egocentric git.
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  1228. @Aeternous but this time he has already said he will change the laws. He already has the judges of his choice in the relevant positions.
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  1229.  @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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  1230. Do you think Trump made this ‚deal‘ as impossible as he could, so it would fail. Trump then victoriously could carry on with his partnership with Putin. Putin‘s Military is in such a dia situation Putin would gladly give Trump ALL of Ukraine‘s minerals plus’s a Trump Tower Hotel in Odessia.
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  1231. Oops. Listening later I see this is how your thread is going too. I thought that right at the start. Trump’s son in Hungry. Putin never being criticised. Vance praise for the German neo-Nazi party. So much more pointing this way. .
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  1232. @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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  1233. @rustyyb8450. Boastful amongst buddies. Like saying he could shoot someone on the streets of NY and get away with it. Women do anything you wish if you have power. Those sorts of boasts? We will never know what he said to Putin when in Moscow, because he took the precaution to leave out the official note taker which is usual for such meeting, primarily for protection of a president in case of later “he said, I said” opposing national recall disputes. A call on a cellphone. Again no record. Why would you believe anything Trump boasts about? A perpetual liar, or ‘elaboration on the truth’ from his account of his university records to his rallies today, always peppered with even obvious lies. According to Trump he has single handedly done so many “unbelievable” things! Sorry the only word you have here is “Trump said… “ and Trump has called Wolf too many times.
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  1234. No, he is well oiled in the parallel speak of Putin‘s KGB trained diversion world. Been around for many tears. So knows the ropes that keep him alive!
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  1235. @adamgates1142. You think? He already said he will hold elections within 90 days of the end of war. With an active war on your land Parliament is at Martial Law. Means the Parliament work as ONE unit together. You cannot hold elections when thousands of your people are displaced and unable to vote. When polling station are at risk from bombing. Look: in Khakiv Russians are actively picking off civilians while they wait at bus stops.. What do you think they would do with a queue at a polling station? We in the U.K. did not hold election during WW2., but after. I do not know about the USA, maybe their overseas military could vote via the system, but for those being bombed and with its population scattered it is no picnic! Besides Zelenskyy said he intends to hold elections within 90 days after war ends. Hopefully by then, those entitled to vote will be settled and more easily located.
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  1236. @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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  1237. @JoyVinansky i think you meant to write „you‘re“ And that is wrong anyway. Putin is the lier „motivated and happy troops!“. Lol, he is sending pensioners to the front line! And his men are complaining about the water logged trenches, no supplies etc.
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  1238. @aubreyhuff46 yes, they are both Western countries, but if He continues in the same mode: taking lessons from Putin, he will make up some misdemeanour to give him a reason. Russia attacks “their own” too! Moldova, Chechnan, .Georgia. insurgents, cyber attacks, then invasion.
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  1239. And now he is bewitched into trying to oust our newly elected government in the U.K. His father was being interviewed recently and told the experienced reporter that she was not even qualified to hold conversation with him because she was asked a question relating to some weird statement he had sidelined to. Said he was on a higher intellectual level!
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  1240. Ukraine is not fighting against Russia. Russia has invaded and Ukraine wants them out. They are fighting on Ukrainian land.
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  1241. @MsDc52 maybe I am a bit thick, but could you please explsin to me what he meant? Why would non-voters, Christian or not, never have to vote again? Is it because he is old and does not care what happens to the USA after he is gone? Is is only paramount to him, no one following on? It is your right and advisable, but no-one HAS to vote. Is it because he plans to change laws, like he announced earlier on. Trump told the crowd to “get out and vote, just this time”, adding that “you won’t have to do it any more. Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians. There, I found it for you! Translation please:
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  1242. @lukehelleksen68 it is a plan being prepared for Trump if/when he gets into the Presidency, which is why it IS worth analysing. For example Trump has said he wants to disband various checks in place that last time told him he could not do stuff he wanted to do because in US law they would be unethical or illegal. He wants to disband or at least weaken the FBI and much more of what he wants is being worked into this Project 2025. Vance is to be the one responsible for implementing it for Trump.
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  1243. Too nearby. Mainly westerly winds. The fallout would effect Russia too.
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  1244. When you said mock him, that reminded me of the air balloon baby Trump that took to the air in and around crowds back in the day. Seems an age ago now.
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  1245. @josefhanmedov1688 that is what Trump’s guru Putin has told you. Truth is Ukraine is OLDER than Russia. Russia needs the Ukrainians to add to their army to take Moldova, Estonia, Hungry and Slovakia etc. Putin is exercising Dugin’s tactics to reform a new Soviet sized empire. They need the Ukrainians because of the oil, gas, minerals but also because they were the engineers that designed and built their Soviet era tanks etc. Putin commits cyber attackers on western infrastructure and pays bloggers and internet trolls to spread hate and misinformation to divide nations. All written up in .Dugin’s 1997 book: The foundations of Geopolitics.
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  1246. @AndrewJYing. All duly paid-up for. You have no right to other countries sovereign land. Each with its own parliment. Not Russian and not US American. Only the embassy grounds, same as any other country. Plus you have hundreds of bases and commercial companies in many countries overseas. Same as other countries. . You had the Nazi engineers from defeated Germany post war and with the many immigrants making the USA what it is today, you could argue the opposite. That the world owns the USA.
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  1247. @r-leanmygirl maybe not, but he praised Putin for writing the three regions of Ukraine over into Russian ownership. So maybe he realy does think that was legit and he can do that too? Seems we have bullies Russia and the 2o25-29 Version of unlawful USA to battle in the coming years. Some place has to remain sane!
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  1248. @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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  1249. Russia attacked Ukraine. Ukraine has been forced to defend itself. Ukraine has no intention to take Russia. Never did. They only want the Russian military to get out of their land and stop sending missiles to bomb their cities and civilians. To do this they are attempting to push them back to their own country and trying to knock out the military sites from which they are sending the missiles, their bomb and military equipment depots etc. Ukraine really does not want to take over Russia. Let the Russian themselves sort their own country out. Ukraine is perfectly content to take care of their own country. Russia only knows how to destroy things.
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  1250. What are rainecaos please?
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  1251. @innapropriatehandle agree Dugin’s plan was breaking up the EU (which Trump fully supported), discord amongst the Alliance and race conflicts in the USA (which happened last time Trump was in power).
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  1252. Also European industry sites are more susceptible than the Americas or Oceana to attack from Russia. Purely due to location.
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  1253. I agree too. You describe well how Putin has made good use of how his autocrat propaganda can warp and spread freely under democratic conditions, turning it against itself. A master at creating and ruling under Chaos misinformation. In Russia any truth will be knocked down and punished. His control is by lies.
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  1254. I think Russian command (whoever that is) view on using the motor cycles is that to pick them off individually will cost Ukraine more ammunition, more individual manpower. This whole attack in the north seems to be to draw troops away from the east where they want to make more progress. Russian commanders do not seem to make ANY decisions to protect their soldiers and their effectiveness. Relying only on destruction by bombing. Or the opposite. The rhetoric about the south easten obasts is to delfect away from wantingbto come down from the north (including from Belarus). To take Kyiv simultaneously with replacing Zelenskky (assassination)-
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  1255. Many of these soldiers would have been those released from prison. One mother of a young Russian man who joined from prison wrote that her son had been sent back to the front with shrapnel from his first encounter not removed after hospital. It seems for Putin thise from the prisons were sentbto die on the frontbto save money on homeing the ever increasing number being arested and imprisoned. Another incentive to NOT criticise Putin.
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  1256. Obama said that because Putin and Trump said they want to weaken the EU. Trump because of their combined buying power (he saw that as commercial competition ) and Putin because he had plans to take back the Balkans etc.
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  1257. Sounded like a German accent to me. Intonation. Hazard a guess he had a German English teacher. Very clear and well spoken.
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  1258. @verapetrova tell that to Putin. Ukraine would do fine without Russian interference. Ukrainians designed the Soviet tanks,. Since 1991 Russia, Poland, Ukrsine etc voted for independence. According to Putin‘s 2013 Essays he wants tomatier control of all those ex-Soviet states. The insurgents followed by Wagner set up 2014 in Donbass to create mayhem, all part of the plan. Read Dugin‘s 1997 The Foundations of Geopolitics to read Putin and the Kremiln‘s blue print on how to achieve riots and unrest in the USA. Disruption and break down of Europe‘s unity. To ultimately undermine Democracies world wide to weaken any opposition to their ideology.
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  1259. That is for Germany to decide not you ignoramus. You forget East Germany is where Putin trained in KGB technics, they know what it is like to be under Russian rule!
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  1260. Shareing one spoon. One of them is sniffing with a cold. They are sharing more than just the rice!
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  1261. @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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  1262. God does not tolerate invaders, murderers and child abductors. Tell Putin to get OFF there neighbours land. The war woukd end immediately. Ukraine is not coveting Russian land. Putin is the invader and land and people thief.
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  1263. @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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  1264. Why now?
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  1265. @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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  1266. @peterwulff469 and the fresh air a highrise window free-fall.
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  1267. The old adage says: One lie leads to another. In the end a compulsive liar always talks themselves into knots. Every child knows that.
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  1268. What? He gets elected to the top job, and STILL calling out as being ‚The Victim‘
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  1269. Why are my comments being banned? Is this place under Russian police state control?
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  1270. @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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  1271. 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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  1272. 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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  1273. @errolkim1334 The Austrian painter elegy fits like a glove to Putin the delusional invader.
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  1274. Being enlisted into the Wehrmacht in 1944 does not make you a Nazi. They were the regular conscripted army of Germany and Hitler had his own forces. The SS (schutzstaffer) were direct under Hitler’s Nazi party. Of course with propaganda and coercion many normal citizens would have been Nazi sympathisers, men of a conscriotion age had to join up and in the army had to do the bidding of Hitler‘s government. So he may or not have been a NAZI. But it is not a forgone conclusion.
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  1275. @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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  1276. Quiet comical because in English slang the word trump means make a fart. (Probably the sound). Said to be a lighthearted word derived from the act of breaking wind. Something our more crude comedians picked up on in the very early years, when he first hit the headlines canvassing to become President back in the 2016s
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  1277. @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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  1278. Bad enough they are in the UN and are blocking the support of Ukraine against genocide from Putin.
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  1279. What tax dollar? The USA made a savings on sending old outdated military hardware, saving costs of storage and spending instead on newer modern machines for your own army. The sums given to Ukraine are on loan and spent buying ammunition fron the USA. So supporting you armament Industrie. You have not lost out on anything. Only the repayments May take a few years. However, allowing Russia to take over Ukraine you can say good-bye to those funds. Ukraine would be no more, and Russia would not be refunding you a single cent. As it is just the money that bothers you! You care not for a whole nation being destroyed, they have already stollen children and at reeducation centres taught them that Ukraine does not exist. You and all these people on this site disgust me. So joyful at the demise of a nation.
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  1280. @beansproutssss How is allowing one bully country steal another ever going to be OK? Putin is the aggressor. He is almost finished. To Hold a cease fire now is only allowing him time to re-deploy new troops from North Korea, to re-Equipe his army and prolong this war. To halt the delivery of the already allocated arms to Ukraine will only do what holding up the bill for six months did previously. It slowed Ukraine‘s progress in getting the invaders Out. So increased the numbers dying unnecessarily. So both of Trump‘s plans , 1) a quick (with no real commitment) cease fire plan and 2) the Hold up of the delivery (where they have already been allocated - so will stop planned defence action) of promised arms. Both will lead to both more deaths - not less and to lengthening - not shortening the war. If Putin wanted the killing to stop he could do so tomorrow. By taking his army out of Ukraine. But he does not. He wants the whole of Ukraine and to rub out the identity of all Ukrainans. Like he banished the Crimea Tartars from Crimea. But he woukd gladly acept any help he can get from Trump in achieving this goal. Starting by his pretending to agree to a cease fire. Even faking an agreement to peace. As several Countries that have previously dealt with him have been trying to explain. Putin signs many papers. Every time he has NOT kept his word. That is why Zelenskyy is saying. He will gladly agree to peace, they WANT peace, but to ensure that Putin does not double back to attacking again in ten, fifteen, years he needs an agreement that offers protection for a fair peace.
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  1281. @spencerwilson4221 Putin always wears a suit and tie. Can you imagine that nut-head asking the Arab leader why he was not wearing a suit, Or Kim Jung-Un? Or Modi of India? That was just part of Trumps revenge on Zelenskyy plan. And Vance mentioning Zelenskyy‘s visit to the factiry making the bombs to be shipped to Ukraine on invitation ofbthe governed, becausevhe happened to be a Democrate! They have WON this time around, but still cannot abandon their childish and revengeful point scoring. Trump says Zelenskyy. Should put aside all the abductions tortures of his citizens. murdering pows etc, yet he continues to harbour hate and forever repeating his gripes (mostly unfounded) from years ago.
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  1282. @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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  1283. @rodneyfungus8249 Common sense is the counter point. The evidence is out there, just open your eyes. The money is going into replenishing and updating U.S amo stocks. The older near to depleted amo is going to Ukraine rather than being scrapped. US manufacturers are getting jobs secured with the U.s orders as well as the extra orders from the EU and ithe4 NATO Countries that are replacing the stuff they gave gratis to Ukraine. Check out te order from Poland alone. US jobs and US taxes paid. Plus it is (as yet) not US personnel, that are dying in hundreds. Countering the threat of an empowered Russian expanded state is to the benefit of the USA along with the rest of the free world. So win, win.
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  1284. Apparently an insider said Zelenskyy was pressurised to sign a capitulation to Russia paper based on the Ankara 2022 draft presented by Putin before being asked to sign the revised Minerals deal. Of course he coukd not do that. Zelenskyy was there to discuss andvsign the minerals deal. That is why Trump and Vance were riled.
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  1285. @martavdz4972 maybe there is external interference. There are delays, stops and start for me. An electrical storm?
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  1286. @turtle-frogs The word Neanderthal comes to mind.
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  1287. I do hope it does not catch on. Send the $17 or whatever to a genuine aid supplier instead. For my eyes it contains the word “mug” and no one wants to be a mug. It is hard enough not to see the word “Maggot” in the ‘mag a’ version. All those proudly wearing ‘his’ hat as with so many maggots in your USA apple! Please do not devalue such a noble cause for Ukraine with a dumbo hat!
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  1288. These past two years have taught us that Putin invariably accuses others of what he would do. „Central African Republic Mine Displays Stakes for Wagner Group’s Future.“ Prigozin was murdered. Assets now in Putin‘s hands. „ Wagner troops have supported African governments in combat operations against rebel groups, and vice versa. Approximately one thousand Wagner troops entered CAR in 2018 to defend the government of President Faustin-Archange Touadéra against rebel attacks on the capital, Bangui. In return, Wagner subsidiaries received unrestricted logging rights and control of the lucrative Ndassima gold mine. Similarly, Wagner Group forces deployed to Mozambique in 2019 to help fight the self-proclaimed Islamic State in the northern Cabo Delgado province. However, the group failed“
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  1289. Wait? These are the coldest months of the year. Someone has tomput a firework into this decision making. There is NO time to wait Mr Johnson!
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  1290. Add does not “skip”. Makes you wonder about this “fast internet” product!
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  1291. @den-it3uj Firstly there are many nationalities living in free Ukraine, as in all countries. Many Russians in fact live and worked there. Many chose to fight for Ukraine’s freedom, and many more from overseas have travelled there to help. Russia recruites mainly from the poorer not pure Russian ethnic areas of Russia. Putin has enticed people from further into Asia and from Africa and has just recently declared all foreigners living in .Russian territories must sign an elegance to Russia, that means that if of recruitment age they can be called up for the front line. Lovely!
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  1292. @den-it3uj Do you have links to this video showing the Ukrainian Army, or is this another falsified video? Russia has a deal with 35,000 African students “attending its universities”. Uuum.
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  1293. A purring kitty cat
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  1294. Who is ‚we‘. First I heard about sanctioning him. Who said that? Tucker Carlson? Sounds more like Trump tactic to me. Good for him getting the interview. Putin’s performance spin will be interesting as our own correspondents on the ground there have been refused such access. Putin is keen to show China his softer ‚worldly image‘. One for the OSCARs no doubt.
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  1295. 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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  1296. @JonLettsGuitars making enemies of your allies is not saving the west. There is no reason why he cannot negotiate to extend the bases the USA Already has in Greenland and for the purchase of their minerals. He does not have to cease their land. Canada is a western sovereign ciuntry. There is no ‘saving’ of the west by bullying Canada. But it well please Putin to see internal fighting within NATO. Just what he wants. So no, it will not SAVE the west. It will serve the Russian/Chinese alliance. Then He can name the Gulf of Mexico which ever way he wants for the USA maps. Each country in the world uses their own language to name seas, straits etc, Could mean being out of sinc with other English speaking countries, but it is up to the USA what they want to call it.
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  1297. @alexanderlazarev3570 Yes, but not the titanic passage in the world’s history books he had hoped for.
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  1298. @attilamarics3374 Yes they can survive, even if the dosage is enough. If they get to hospital quickly enough and the correct treatment. Putin sent two assassins to Salisbury to poison two Russians there. Both survived after being spotted violently sick collapsed on a park bench, they were rushed to hospital and put on life support with special intense treatment. Unfortunately a local person died from handling the disgarded container of the poison used, and a few more were sick, including a policeman unable to return to duty just for being near to where the poison had been placed. This is local to me and the evil of Putin since then engraved on my mind.
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  1299. The next four years are nothing in comparison with this pivotal situation as to what happens in Ukraine NOW.
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  1300. 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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  1301. Re: the intro. Who owns the voice after Trump saying „fascinating“ ? And can someone translate the French for me please.
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  1302. Trump loves tariffs because it guarantees huge sums of money direct into the treasury at point of docking. Tarifs are paid before the goods can be released from customs, by the US importer. Trump has the money to give tax relief to his rich buddies. He does not care that it is the US end- consumers that ultimately pays. But also Duty / tariff is paid wether the items gett sold or not. A huge extra expense for manufacturers wholesalers etc.
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  1303. 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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  1304. But I have heard his supporters saying he is doing this because he loves America. (Meaning the USA - even they can see he dies nit ‚love‘ the continent!) They said he is a millionaire, he does not need this. As if he was running for President out of charity! But they believe this! In reality he Is running to keep out if jail. To excuse himself of his embezzlements, tax avoidances, the insurrection! And because of his narcissist ego. And his supporter in the ‚Question Time‘ audience said, but all presidents are egoistic; they need to be for that job. Probably thinks they need to be habitual liars too!
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  1305. @annoloki The invasion of Ukraine was not a response to an attack by Ukraine. The convoy of tanks towards Kyiv and rushed take over of the airport was no way related to a bit of trouble down in the South East. He had a replacement for Zelenskyy set up ready! The trouble in the Donbass he was well informed about as it was his own insurgents, sent in to create a Situation giving credence to his invasion. The Wagner Group and another Rusics, were formed in the Donbass in 2014 financed, weaponised by Putin specifically for this purpose. And in this interview he has confirmed his aim, (also written in his 2021 Essay) taking Ukraine back into the fold.
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  1306. 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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  1307. Ukraine is older than Russia. Putin’s interest in Russian ‘history ‘ has mainly been a rewrite to his own fabrication.
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  1308. Not just Ukraine Russia too opted for independence 1991 under Gorbachev, then Yeltsin. They found it a struggle with oiligards taking over the once state industries and dealing with unemployment, Then Putin took over and started building up his imperialistic ambitions attempting to knobble the newly independents with bribes, governmental interference, deploying insurgents to create situations worthy of military intervening. All very KGB Czechoslovakia , .Georgia, Chechnya , Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine etc.
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  1309. Maybe they should buy (exchange the ruble for) zloty or (probably banned) the hryvnia, then when these elite flee overseas and exchange again for dollars they will get a more favourable exchange rate. Just joking folks!
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  1310. Why is the UN not butting in? Maybe they are there, but I have not seen much Red Cross activity either. Coukd it be they are amongst the foreign medics helping out, but fear showing the red cross sign Acts as a Magnet for Russian bombings?
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  1311. @zezenkop412 Economy ‚growth‘ depends on the starting point. Germany had the healthiest economy in Europe. Three recent main factors have bought slowdowns for all European Countries, which show as down-turns, more so for the largest economy, Germany. Hungry refused with certain sanctions ‚because of their need of Russian oil‘. Then boasted a better economy than Other EU countries. But Hungry is drawing subsidies from the EU. To make that boast - they should be a high contributor (Like Germany) not a net receipient as a ‚developing‘ member. Back to Russia. They have stollen Ukrainian grain. Have dumped crude oil into Asian countries at knock down prises. Are selling off gemstones etc. Have taken back steel works etc from oligarchs. Economy is on the rise from increase in armament production, ships, etc but how long can that last? It is not going into infrastructure. Years of high military spending have left poor areas even more impoverished.
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  1312.  @dimas3829  I do not know what imao means. But those building projects you mentioned are not improving lives for the rural poorer eastern 3/4 of Russia territory. All money in Russia self goes to three big cities in Western Europen part of Russia. The soldiers from the ethnic Easten areas. Hence stealing phones, toilets and kitchen appliences. The money they are spending in occupied Ukraine is to rebuild what they destroyed, so no improvement, just replacing. Look at the beautiful theater they ruined.   The reason? They want to replace the Ukrainian families they deported into Russian, with Russians.  There are real estate adverts everywhere. „Move to Mariupol, buy now later these will be more expensive!“. So homes stollen from Ukrainians. , now being sold to Russian families. Making money off the back of those banished too! Same as the Ukrainian corn they stole and sent ‚from Russia’ to Asia. After Ukrainian oil, gas and minerals from Donbas and the Crimea.   We DO know the real reason for the invasion and land grab.
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  1313. 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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  1314. That is a lie and you know it! If you truly were following what was happening in Russia it would not be difficult to see for yourself. But then Putin has imprisoned or poisoned all opposition. His greatest political rival has just been moved to jail in Siberia. If still alive, after the “elections” in March he may well be moved back to Moscow jail where his wife and lawyer will be able to visit him.
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  1315. 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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  1316. 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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  1317. Good things come in small packages.
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  1318. Accounting for National average life expectancy. Putins 71 would be 77 in the USA and 81 in the UK.
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  1319. Europe did not make such a demand on Ukraine giving assets to them because they belong to Ukraine. After the war, just like hapoened with Germany after WW2, they get help and investment to re-build. The minerals Ukraine has, they will mine and sell at their own pace. We should not debate to steal them! Rob Ukrsine of all they have now, then how do we expect them to ever get rich enough to repay us for our loyalty good will and help. Called diplomacy, not robbery!
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  1320. @allisvibration Quite the opposite. Ukrainians do not want to be under Russian rule. They chose democracy and freedom, Putin wants to go into history books as. The dictator that rebuilt soviet power. Like the puppet state Belarus. He places insurgents into Moldova, like he did in 2014 into Ukraine to try to provoke rebellion. He formed the WAgner group and other mercenary group in 2014 for this purpose in the Donbas. The children Russia has stollen are being “retrained” and the Russian history books rewritten to obliterate Ukrainian history. If you read Dugin’s 1997 book “Foundations of Geopolitics”. You will see Putin has followed this as if a manual. It mentions plans for the Far East too, so stay vigilant! Last and are trying to destroy the rest.
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  1321. @SchmuelGoldstein As @jp76489 pointed out, they are no where near to the Northern Atlantic. Either Land locked or nearer to the Pacific. They are more likely (location) to want to join China. After so many years under Russian control though they may be too impoverished to go for independence. Their economy crushed by Moscow.
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  1322. @khalfara Of course he knows what the NATO initials stand for. He was asking the guy that was insisting Asian states of the Russian federation did not want to join NATO. His point being that the A stands for Atlantic, and they are in the East, nearer to the Pacific. So nowhere near the Atlantic!
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  1323. @MnemonicCarrier Who do you consider Finkand has to pay a 2% to? NATO does not charge a fee. The 2% being spoken about recently is a RECOMENDATION of a minimum 2% of GDP to be spent on their defence budget. Finland has built up quite a large military defence over the years considering they relied on themselves for defence. I would imagine it is already over 2% of their GDP. So not chsnge thete.
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  1324. @jb764 because Putin wants to control those countries, like Belarus. Rebuild his Empire. He cannot do it so easily if they join NATO. He also holds power using fear tactics. He does not want the influence of free democracies along the boarders giving his people ideas. Putin knows NATO had no plans to attack Russia. Had a boarder with NATO founding member Norway since the beginning. He is anti democracy, and his getting friendly with China, North Korea for support, not just with weapons. Using insurgents (and Wagner formed 2014 in Donbas) to create situations to excuse an invasion and land grab is a typical technic for Putin. Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
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  1325. @danielhutchinson6604 Why are you saying someone ‚bought‘ Finland? Who and to what purpose? Russia has been sending refugees through to Finland via Belarus, but how do you ‚buy‘ a country?
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  1326. @gukschi Zelenskyy made a public announcement March 2022 addressing Putin‘s demands. He said, OK to giving the Eastern areas of Ukrsine the vote on if they want independence from Ukraine and that he would agree to not join NATO. Putin ignored him. Did not even reply. Because 1) at the time he would not even say the name Zelenskyy claiming he refused to recognise him as the leader of Ukraine (Putin had a replacement for Zelenskyy to hand when the tanks rolled towards Kyiv Feb.22) And 2) because it did not fit Putin‘s real plan. He wanted to take the land and takeaway the control over Ukraine.
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  1327. @Bird_McBride wrong.
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  1328. @Sjanzo but this opportunist has (love of ) Putin living in his head and is known to be willing to cheat to aspire to winning. Trump does not see the leadership values of Zelenskyy because he got to them through hard work. Trump admires ‚strongman‘ Putin. Knows he is cheating and that is OK or ‚smart‘. He praised Putin when sept.2022 he suddenly announced the 4 regions of Ukraine as from now on ever being part of Russia. He admires back alley deceit, manipulation, bribery: Anyways possible frankly.
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  1329. @snowsnow4231 huge, yet impotent.
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  1330. Concerning the numbers of population available for Russia to send to war. Reduce by the thousands that left Russia to avoid the war. Then you need to add all those Putin is pulling in from association countries. From Asia and from Africa, plus the Ukrainians Russia has abducted.
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  1331. @ConstructiveMinds100 you are so wrong. Putin is the one aspiring to become the Tsar over all neighbouring countries, to dialog the US$ from currency of international transactions and destroy western democratic society. Zelenskyy is trying to save his people from genocide. He praises his fighters, he praises others for their help and calls himself just another serving Ukrainian. By the way he does NOT run away with thousands of dollars after each visit to the USA (as Trump claims). The majority of the money allocated goes to the USA armament industry. It is paying your workers and taxes. But then Trump knows this, so do you, Trump is just aiming at ridicule and division, using Putin’s tactics of lying and cheating. The rest a loan helping to pay for repair to infrastructure after constant civilian bombing, soldiers pay etc. all costs of a country at war.
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  1332. @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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  1333. @SaintKimbo he means democracy. You don’t know what you’ve got until its gone! Putin‘s hackers and electronic warfare gangs have been super active these past few years. Getting wired up for the big dictatorship take over. Will be too late by the time it takes to realise this is an unsafe shift in society.
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  1334. Ukraines citizens are the soldiers fighting for the right to run their own country themselves. Not by puppets to Putin like Belarus.
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  1335. 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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  1336. Not missing. Only half of the allocated amount has so far been delivered. The rest is yet to be shipped to Ukraine.
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  1337. 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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  1338. @alrent2992 Wrong
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  1339. Most are used to it.
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  1340. 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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  1341. It is Putin’s war.
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  1342. When Lex Friedman said Trump and Musk were against corruption, it is because OF disinformation in the USA. Haters have forever claimed Ukraine is corrupt, even though it is well known Zelenskyy has been coming down hard on curuption from day one. As Zelenskyy said it is a condition on joining the EU too. Trump and Musk are not big on anti corruption. Re the money for votes and Trump taking money collected for the campaign and from his charity for his own use etc. That meant they liked to attack Zelenskyy by claiming HE was corrupt. Same as when both Trump and Musk made narky comments that he was good at begging for money.
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  1343. @JamalBeyAtlante neighbouring governments do trust Orban. He is not transparent in honesty. His own people do not trust how he arranged his last election even. Since the invasion of Ukraine many times over he has worked AGAINST all Europe initiatives to protect Ukraine from Putin‘s brutal invasion. He says he wants to be in the EU, but does not back them. So assume he only wants their subsidies. In it for the money. Many in Europe struggle to pay for looking after Ukraine’s refugees, we are all having to budget to meet these extra costs that we feel necessary to protect our democracies, but Orban objects. He seems to be getting backhanders from Putin. So is playing both free EU and Putin. Possibly working as a go between Trump and Putin. He has the present term for EU presidency and made „private“ trips to countries with vestige interest in this war, but did so WITHOUT mandate from the EU. He discussed with NO Eu officials prior on what policies or even what type of talks he should conduct with them No Transparency. No wondered they are suspicious of his motives!
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  1344. Vance said 20,000 troops because that was the number recommendation for British and French troops. He did mean us!
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  1345. Please, Who speaks after Trump in this intro? Says „fascinating“
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  1346. @reijoheikkila45785, Wronge. Which new cities woukd that be? They have not moved!
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  1347. @andrakis80 cheep oil or/and gas for Hungry? He is sort of blackmailing the EU to release funds they had withheld for unrelated reasons. Milking both sides. The sort of action that always backfires. Accept too much from Putin and he becomes Putin‘s bidder, so untrustworthy for his own people.
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  1348. @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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  1349. Putin’s lecture was not real history. So much was false what he said. And the fact that Carlson believes Putin does not want to expand into other countrues is weird. He sat next to him when he said Belarus, Ukraine belongs to Russia. Previous Soeakers have told us they want to rebuild the Soviet situation. That is their purpose for puting insurgents into Moldova. And Putin has put pressure on Hungry and threatened Estonia. In his interest in ‘history’. Putin also mentioned that he considered the sale of Alaska to the USA was illegal. Carlson did not do enough research before going to Moscow. He is obsessed in attacking what he knows about, that is easy. . Blind with not enough knowledge to assess that the alternative is worse. Anyone critisiing Putin lands up in jail or poisoned.
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  1350. Trump ordered that assassination because Bi Laden was caught on Obama‘s watch. Trump at the time was obsessed with ‚out doing‘ Obama. His immediate action was to undo any and everything Obama put in place.
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  1351. They are neutral, ie NOT in NATO. As an independent sovereign country they can deport anyone they want, who they consider dangerous to the safety of their country. Repeat, they are NOT in NATO and take responsibility for their own protection. Maybe they do nor like spies?
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  1352. 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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  1353. Lol
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  1354. The trouble is Trump ADMIRES Putin. He believes Carlson, that he is a good guy. This is your president flirtingnwith annexations, given Putin credence in what he did. And Kellog said using the frozen money is an option on the table. But it has been for a long time and until now Teump has not bitten. He may be considering if his versessen money was taken, and be totally against that happening to his idol? Trump is not reliable in any way at alll.
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  1355. @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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  1356. @Leader977 Yet they did, several times. And your analogy is wrong. The missle and air defence are not racing against each other linearly. They are following a terectrary in opposite directions. Like with clay pigeon shooting, you calculate where the object will be whatever speed it is traveling. Even a stationary object hits an object traveling at speed.
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  1357. That is seafarers rules. SOS is responded to by whoever is nearest. Happened during wartime too.
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  1358. Write
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  1359. She means they are heating the greenhouses duringbwinter so Mosciw and St. Petersburg can get their cucumbers and tomatoes, while they are without heating for their homes.
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  1360. 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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  1361. @joshuapaul2022 You have that arse about face. But as this is your copy & paste party piece I suspect you already know that.
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  1362. Which country is the poorest? Mali? Somalia? Why are they fighting NATO.?
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  1363. So Orban has inside Kremlin knowledge? Putin‘s next Lukashenko. Did Putin promise Hungry a slither of Ukrainian land?
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  1364. @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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  1365. @YouilAushana oh come on! Are you claiming them author of project 2025 is trying to frame Trump, the guy they are hoping will implement it. .
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  1366. Do we have Russian infiltrators here? My post keep being deleted when I confront obvious Russian false-speak.
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  1367. When still part of NHFTA and the Paris Climate Agreement etc?
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  1368. Jake I have been trying to understand the pols and so many say Trump will win. Comments say “Trump for a strong America and for peace” Do they really think all wars around the world are dependant of who is the president of the USA? Do they think a ISA that lets Putin dinwhatever he wants will be “Great and Strong” ? Was thinking they are showing great forecasts for Trump so that if he looses his claims of “stollen” will be believed. Or is it too make sure more people go out to vote to prevent the forecasts coming true?
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  1369. The USSR is disbanded. Russia and Ukraine voted for independence 1991. Ukraine does nit want to live under Russian rule. Putin wants to re-introduce Imperialism. Are India and Pakistan not cousins? Who would you like in control if you two United?
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  1370. @ThePawel36 for peace of mind it is not necessary to be greedy in any way. In my family the most successful sisters we have has made her own business without stampling on another. No back stabbing. No dubios sneaky tactics and respect of the customers. If your progress means you have to do dirty on another, then no amount of monetary gains will save your soul. Love and peace.
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  1371. @saliseduardo4357 which Countries did you visit? My daughter is returning later this. Year. Doctors Without Boarders.
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  1372. 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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  1373. So Dom was correct, just over 60miles. Approx 62 and a half miles.
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  1374.  @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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  1375. And Putin is a land stealing villain. He has also stollen Ukrainian children. And places the poor from India and from Africa countries on the front line with minimum training to die riding motorbikes into HIS war. While His relatives and the families of the rich Russian oligarchs are relaxing and sunning themselves in the Carebean. And partying in .Sri Lanka!
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  1376. Jake, re the smiling in public. I once read of a pamphlet issued by Russian advisers given to Russians planning to visit the U.K. (May have been a sports event- I forget the occasion now). In the interest of good relations. It told them to not be mislead by seeing women on the streets smiling, they are not prostitutes wanting contact with you. In many places they consider people smiling for ‚no Reason‘ to be a sign that they are idiots. Serious people do not smile in public! When on my travels I smile as much as possible. Helps especially when their is a language. Barrier. I have no qualms with people I do not know thinking I am an idiot. Much better than they think me a miserable grump! Different culture, that is all.
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  1377. Trump wanted an excuse not to invite Zelenskyy to his cosy meetings with Putin in dividing up Ukrsine. To end Ukrsine and the war. It was a three pronged ambush. The guy crutisising his clothing, Vance andvTrump.
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  1378. Jake, it is Odessa that Trump wants a foot into. A good position on the Black Sea. Possibly still hankers after that Moscow Trump tower too.
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  1379. @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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  1380. @robderich8533 yes, thanks for the reminder. Hitler had that problem, printing money that became worthless overnight. Hence all the Museum looting, personal gold items, galleries paintings etc all taking for the cause or the Fuehrer.
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  1381. What are his policies?
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  1382. 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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  1383. Another source says they are investigating Hiw they can adjust to effectively interrupt the electronics in flight.
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  1384. @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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  1385. They contain most of Ukraines minerals. Mines, oil and gas along with Crimea. The real reason why Putin wants them.
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  1386. 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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  1387. 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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  1388. ‚Bizzar time, yes riling one one set of persons up against another for own sense of schadenfreude and clicks! What ever happened to Love thy neighbour. Compassion, charity, imagining yourself in another’s shoes, etc. or even sticking to the truth, if you are a reporter. There is a world of difference between reporting news and writing an opinion piece? And a news outlet should have both, including in-depth analysis if they have an expert to hand. The main difference between wild media with every Man for himself and traditional responsible reporting is that the wild type is only interested in Self promoting. More scandal more pay, so they just wind everyone up! And hopefully fall flat on their faces as a result. Love and Peace.
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  1389. Omg. I really do not want to hear HIS lament day in day out. Please spare us that!
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  1390. @waterandafter a conman’s way to run business. If you go bankrupt, they should use your assets to pay your debts. . Trump lied about the value of his assets, or shifted them to a family member. That is fraud and not owning up to responsibilities. And to declare bankrupt, so you do not pay your creditors and ‚make a loss‘ so not to pay tax is not an ideal candidate for a president. A president that is proud to not pay taxes is saying he wants all the Whitehouse staff and all the government staff and advisers working for him, should do so without pay.
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  1391. Did I hear that Sweden said they would send troops? Or did I imagine that?
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  1392. Get more mine eradicators in there would probably be a good first move.
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  1393. ?
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  1394. So stupid to bury dangerous stuff orcanything at all under the sand. Sand moves. The sea is not confined to the surface only. The waves are continuously moving and reshsoingbthe beach. But nit just the Russians. I have seen idiots bury their cigarette buts in the beach sand. Stupid, they all end up washed out to sea.
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  1395. What is the new each?
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  1396. @JohnSmith-fr7js So you are routing for the rapists, torturers, murderers acting on behalf of a wannabe new Tsar?
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  1397. Sorry here is Anna
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  1398. @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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  1399. @tgriffin3059 “Majority are happy”? at a 50% turn out a fraction over half voting for him? That is just over one quarter of the citizens vote for Trump. And are you saying all 25.5 % are still happy after hearing his continuous lies and his confrontational aggression. And allowing Musk to take control of everything back home! They must be estatic!
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  1400. @ikaustralia I think he was comparing Ukraine with Ireland, not Russsia. As for better under Putin. It was only a matter of time. Things would have improved without Putin too. Upto then Russia was in a transitional period of adjustment. Interaction with the West started before Putin. Unfortunately this war will change all that. However China and Iran will probably fill the gaps left after the retreat of western industries and products. China will make a good technology partner for Russia.
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  1401. @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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  1402. Yet maybe they are just better at reading maps!
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  1403. We all Know all this, but is it making any difference? What is wrong with his followers? Did the Republicans really only keep him on because he was bringing in the cash? They thought they could control him like the first time around. But Trump has ousted the sensible professionals working with the White House. Those controls have gone! He is not giving up easy retirement living for the people of the USA he is fighting to avoid jail. He knows what he did, but feels entitled.
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  1404. That is another very dangerous aspect to Putins invasion of Ukraine. Giving every unstable dictatorship on earth the understanding that had Ukraine kept its nuclear weapons, like France has, Putin would not have invaded. Raped pillaged, torchered, murdered and abducted children etc.
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  1405. 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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  1406. @betterthanmost9549. What? Saving lives of thousands was something to vote AGAINST?
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  1407. Agree good to hear what the dictator says. He will not divulge to Carlson what his true or ultimate objectives are, but it will be interesting to hear his latest version and the spin. We hear so little from reliable Russian sources due to their fear of the consequences. And hundreds outside journalist residing in Moscow have been refused an interview with him. Why do you consider the centuries of experience gathered by world governments should have no value compared with that of a novice? All opinions need to be heard, but evidence and experience never ignored.
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  1408. 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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  1409. @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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  1410. @NJ-wb1cz Putin is not winning either. They had not expected resistance and are on a dia situation. Checkout what is actually happening! This is why Putin needs Trump!
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  1411. Don’t worry. All the equipement the Europeans are donating to Ukraine are being replace with orders for new. Your armory industry will do OK out of this. As you are counting the value of money over lives. And help is not just money or weapons,. Other countries are supporting the Ukrsinians in many other ways you cannot add up in $$$$$.
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  1412. 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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  1413. @jamesandrew1750 Geopolitics. You should read Dugin’s book Foundations of Geoplotics to see exactly what Putin is up to. Also essays written by Putin himself 2021. Gaining Ukrsine, Moldova, .Georgia, Estonia etc to regain the strength of Stalin’s Soviet times. Oppression to keep in power. Then see what he is doing in .Africa, influence over the easten and sub-continent. This is why .China still supports Russia. They want to replace the US and western style free world with dictatorship rule. Russia and China are thick into cyber attacks to the same goal. Undermining the .western institutions. And Russia gaining power by first taking over Ukraine etc is an important step towards this.
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  1414. @Waverox it is not the fault of other countries that in the USA your system supports the pharmaceutical industry above The General health of your citizens. In fact a healthy work force is a Benefit to the countries ecconomy, not a drain. You are also locking up too many citizens for cheap institutionalised labour, whereas Reforming them to be a better contribution to your society woukd bring. Mire gain. But each ciuntry has to make its own decisions. Just why critique another one when they are doing something right!
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  1415. @bpd8426 I think this debacle with promising, then allowing such a hoohar in delivery has been a lesson for all USA partners. Being dangled on a thread. Most likely there will be more Investment in own weapons development in future. It is scary that the greatest free nation born out of the old world can get into such a muddle. Trump a hustler and opponent to honesty, paying taxes and democratic freedom should have the whole nation over his knees.
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  1416. @VINLAND good Point and well said. Unlike my rambling garble. Your English language skills better than this native speaker! Lol
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  1417. Putin is the criminal here. Take your troops out of Ukraine. Simple.
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  1418. 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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  1419. 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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  1420. @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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  1421. So why did Trump stop the bill for financing action at the boarder? Because he wanted the situation to get worse, so he could campaign on it. He is more about himself getting back into power and without the qualified advisers that stopped him last time from doing stupid stuff (like using nuclear missiles to change the direction of a massive storm). Only loyal yesmen, with no ideaofvhiw to handle international politics. He wants ultimate power. You, the public do not count.
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  1422. @moralesxavier777 he wants Trump to stop Ukraine from trying to defend itself. This war is costing him dear. The reasons he gave for invasion were fake! Putin wants the Soviet empire back. He has written about it himself and the Kremlin has also announced which countries they think are theirs. He thought he could just march in and take it. He had a replacement for Zelenskyy in reserve back in February 2022. The people of Ukraine want to remain free. Putin is irradicating their culture and telling the children he stole that their home country does not exist.
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  1423. @RapIsLife2000 yes he can. Putin is the invader. He only has to recall his troops out! He set himself (formed Wagner) up for this invassion back in 2014. The thing about NATO is a lie. He knows NATO is a defence organisation and Russia was in no danger of invassion from Nato. Russia has shared a boarder in peace with founding member Norway since it was formed in 1949. Putin wants Stalin sized fame as the tsar that got back the Soviet sized empire. It is the whole country that he wants. He says he wants to negotiate because his plan is not is working. He is speculating on what Trump can do for him. His proposal will be doctored so it is impossible for Ukraine to acept. If this realy was about NATO, he had no reason to rewrite the school history books. Destroy Ukrainian culture, artworks etc. No reason to steal the Ukrainian children and force them to sing the Russian anthem every morning and tell them there is no such place as Ukraine. He wants to Rob Ukraine, Molgova, Georgia and more Baltic countries of their independence and put Russian puppets in charge like with Belarus. If Trump can arrange his theft of Ukraine by halting this unexpected Ukrainian resistance then he is a fan. Even if the deal means only part of Ukraine for a truce, because he will not stop. He will be back for the rest as soon as he can.
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  1424. 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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  1425. @AllanPeda, Kim Jung Un, Putin’s newest pal?
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  1426. 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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  1427. @carlsmith8176 No they bloody wouldn’t. Sorry about language. This time next month you have a bully and Demi God to money over environment and civilian well-being in charge. No way would balanced citizens vote for him to be their headmaster and moral advisor. I am not a Canadian, but am absolutely sure a Trump boss is NOT what they want. Better off? Do you mean maybe an extra 10 US$ in the pocket per annum? A price well paid for keeping him OUT. Peace of mind is much more valuable than that.
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  1428. @northfirefarms4856 So are you saying you recommend going to war for your Trump? Are you volunteering? Pretty sure you would get a bloodied nose, “however long it takes”. Who is Putin and who the innocent .Ukrainians, Georgians, Moldovans etc in this scenario? Dictators loose eventually.
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  1429. @horaceharris1855. Why not compare? What Trump is proposing is an attempt at a land grab, he is using Putin’s tactics. “We must take their kind because it IS ours” (same continent). “We need it for our security” He used the same words. Putin did not expect a 3 - 5 year war either. Putin wrote three Ukrainan states over to Russian ground and conducted a fake referendum. Trump’s response: “Putin is smart” The fact that Russia did not occupy even half of said Ukrainian states, and held none of the larger cities within and that they had chased OUT the locals before they held their staged referendum were omitted by Putin and his version he had relayed to Trump.
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  1430. Only today Russia showed us what they do with associates that go out of favour. Falling out of windows. Trump wants to set the Military on his opponents!
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  1431. Jet skis are so noisy, and not really that fast. No surprise they were discovered!
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  1432. It is a shame Carlson did not look into verifying what Putin claimed. “ Vladimir Putin wanted Russia to join Nato but did not want his country to have to go through the usual application process and stand in line “with a lot of countries that don’t matter”, according to a former secretary general of the transatlantic alliance.”
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  1433.  @drmantistoboggan2870  no but apart from his prior research should have told him the facts because Putin has been pushing this false narrative for along time.   He could have checked after. Most journalist should. In this interview he is just repeating what Putin said at face value and presenting it as the truth. I suspect it just fits into Carlson’s agenda and may even have been the narrative he was baiting for to bring back to the USA.
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  1434. I heard Storm shadow is a French-British weapon. So it is Francès permission we are waiting for.
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  1435. They are not banned. During war you have martial ,law. Means party politics takes a back seat. All parties work together to defeat the enemy. After the war there will be free elections. Zelenskyy will stand down. Unlike your Putin who changed the law to allow himself extra terms in power and poisons or locks up ALL opposition.
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  1436. He has not banned the church. Ukrainians are a religious folk. He outed the Russia agent priests that held allegiance to Moscow and were betraying members of the congregation. There are still plenty of Orthodox churches in Ukraine.
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  1437. Show respect. That the guest is more important than the interviewer with no swollen ego.
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  1438. Russia is a needy bully, that is the fact you were looking for Krysk…
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  1439. THEIR job is not to bring down democracy. De Joy‘s job as head of the postal service was NOT to destroy those sorting machines. Trump had his hand in that too. He wants to win by hook or by crook. It just so happens that by crook is against American values. He is not interested in winning fairly.
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  1440. Now Trump knows why he has no interest in going to church! He only repeats that „God protected me „ speach to convince the unbelievers that he is the second coming. coming! He realy does think he is God! Sorry, but none of you minions count. , even if in his cult.
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  1441. I imagine the advantage a Ukrainian had in being able to speak Russian, is the same as an Indian or Nigerian has being able to speak English, they can converse reasonably with the many other people from other countries that use Russian as a second language.
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  1442.  @vidong1704  yes, I am aware of that. My mother-in-law was A German in Sudetenland. At home she spoke German, Chec with her playmates, French and English at home too because her mother was a teacher, but lessons in school were in Russian - I am aware of Russian being the common language for all that incorporated the Soviet Union. But a language does not equate nationality. She was thrown out of then . Czechoslovakia because she was German. Most people of all nationalities that lived in Ukraine spoke Russian. Many had Russian relations (with which it is now hard to communicate) But of even those that consider themselves Russian immigrants to Ukraine, many do not want to live under Putin. given the choice they would choose to live in Ukraine under Zekenskyy.
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  1443. @tinedel because we are humans? Also there are plenty of fine people in Russia and fine Russians living in exile that could then return to reverse the “reforms” Putin worked on since day one of his coming to power. Reset to 1991.
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  1444. Dies he not have to get voted in to be in charge of health.?
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  1445. Robert Steele just declaring himself as a Wally.
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  1446. 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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  1447. 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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  1448. 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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  1449. @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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  1450. 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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  1451. 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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  1452. Andry is no lion. He is a wanna be toothless Russian bear.
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  1453. @sebastianforbes1 So why were conscripts with upto10 days abandoned by their commanders left alone to guard the boarder?
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  1454. Putin is responsible. Take his troops home and the war will end. Only he will not. He has to bring success or his re election next year will fail. Also a win is the only way way he can brush off all the war crimes he has committed. You backing the aggressor says a lot about you. Maybe your country should be invaded by your neighbours and Russia will liberate you? Nice and cosy living under Russian oppression, you will see.
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  1455. @stephenadenu These are only half truths.(ie not shot, but imprisoned if treason) The citizens of Ukraine do not want capitulation to .Russia, There are temporary rules under martial law. This is war conditions, the same applied when we had to fight against the Nazis in WW2. To be under Russian control Ukraine would cease to exist. Putin himself said so. With all the abductions, accidental “poisonings” and “falling out of windows”. Do you really think Ukrainians would welcome such “Freedoms” living under the oppressions of Russian rule? Putin’s opposition is either dead, behind bars or in exile. He is gearing up for another 90% election!
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  1456. No, it is not political but Geography. The British Isles include the two largest: Ireland and Great Britain and all their associated smaller islands. Southern most: The Isles of Scilly. Northern most: The Shetland Isles. Great Britain is the largest (Great) Island. It includes all countries on that Island (Scotland, Wales, England) and their associated smaller off coast islands, but not the Isle of Man. The U.K. is a political union. Includes Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England and all the associated smaller Isles. Excluding The Isle of Man and the Channel Isles which are self governing British Crown Dependancies with their own Parlaments, governments and laws.
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  1457. Jake any money for NK ‚mercenaries‘ will not go to the men. They are slaves. Like the NKs working in Chinese factories, the money goes to Kim Jung Un. A small amount may go to the family left back in NKorea, but after deductions for ‚board and lodging‘ within the factory complex.
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  1458. Bullshit
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  1459. Where is „here“?
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  1460. Kwatch!
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  1461. @Skinok. Putin placed the mercenary insurgents into the Donbas region to create unrest. The Wagner Group nd others ie The Russics were created, financed and weaoponized especially for this mission. Putin had the plan to
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  1462. @Skinok, Putin placed mercenary insurgents into that region precisely to create unrest there. He formed, financed and weaponised the Wagner Group and other mercenaries ie The Russics back then in and continuously since 2o14 . Putin’s plan always was to take over these areas, he was just probing for a good enough reason. Then Feb 2022, he coukd wait no longer. The aggressions were failing and he was eager to see results in time for his entry in the history books. Jealose of the notoriety of Stalin Putin does not honour friendships. After your loyalty has surved its purpose there is an open window waiting or the same fate as his childhood pal Prigozine.
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  1463. difficult to get any real information from Russia. Putin imprisons or poisons anyone that speaks the truth. They have to be careful.
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  1464. One Russian combat soldier reported they are told to shoot injured colleges during an operation so they do not become a burden.
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  1465. Russia tried to take some of those smaller island in that sea last year sometime. Probably to give them more rights to the sea area. . Atm it is a certain distance from a country’s shore.
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  1466. Ever thought it may just be that the Ukrainians just want to be free of this Russian aggression? Go home Russian troops and see how sweet peaceful life can be!
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  1467. @matsfrommusic that is easy. Putin’s plan is lain out in Aleksandr Dugin’s 1997 book “foundations of Geopolitics”, Read it. It outlines create chaos disruption within the USA too. The plan includes weakening Eurooe co-ordination. Mentions Australia too and the Near East and Far East.
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  1468. 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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  1469. Liberation? So The Russians have gone back to Moscow?
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  1470. Previous prisoner transports had far more accompanying guards according to one released prior.
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  1471. @yahaaghtv Are you calling Putin infantile? Putin started this. He ordered the invasion.
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  1472. @aukebij3193 I think one major reason why the UK is in a bad place to help Ukraine is because we moved our shell production to Hungry of all places! . Orban is not Ukraine friendly., and they have other orders for shells to fulfill, so put us on the back list! Instead of us being hampered by restraint laid out by Biden, is it possible we could temporarily take the U.K. OUT of NATO,? so we can allow our long range weapons to be used and send troops for on Ukrainian soil only? Russia has NK troops on their soil, so. thus woukd NOT be an escalation.
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  1473. Does that include advertisements that I do not have? Those times do not correspond to the ones on my podcast.
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  1474. @MorningNapalm, We also do not know what deals Putin made with Iran in exchange for receiving Iranian drones and any other weapons we know nothing about. What are they being paid for with? Services of Russian hackers - cyber warware; nuclear Know-how; rocket Know-how, like the deal he cut with Kim Jung-Um in exchange for ammunition/weapons.
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  1475. @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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  1476. Trudeau is not giving much. They were doing that anyway. The boarder checks, troops etc Every one knows, so he did nit loose face re the Canadians.
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  1477. @AndrewPriester. Melania gave the proof herself, in her speach. Later she did not make many more speaches.
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  1478. @brandtbollers3183 Maybe you should look up what ‘Fascist’ means! Ignoramus. The perfect reception ground for Putin’s KGB smoke screens.
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  1479. @brandtbollers3183 Were you there?
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  1480. 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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  1481. 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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  1482. @gamingforever9121 but they are NOT winning. Their losses are greater, they fall into that trap every time. The map is not the full story. What have they ‚won’. Rubble. What have they lost? Every thing else. If you cannot tell the difference that is on you. Maybe ask one of your real expert generals if Russia is wining. . See what he would repy. (Not one peddling Russian propaganda)
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  1483. @u2beuser714 Putin lied to the world. Up to the day before the invasion he claimed to have no plans to invade Ukraine. Putin was prepared. Ukraine was not. Huge numbers of civilians also were sheltering in the steelworks underground network surrounded by Wagner and other Russian troops. A siege. They were starved out. In this case the war has been going on for 30 Months. Both sides know the score by now. That is the difference.
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  1484. @josephesposito70 ‚The Deal‘ is to extort minerals from Ukraine. He is also pursuing a deal to gain minerals from Putin. Does he seriously think having a group of US miners on the ground in Ukraine would cease the Russian invasion? Putin does not hold to signed agreements. Plenty of neigbouring countries can confirm this.
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  1485. Yes, could not even be bothered to read the presidential reports . The most dangerous president ever!
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  1486. Crown Prince, where do you live? Would you care for Russia to come to your land and flattern your palace, steal your countries children, your countries assets? Or do you not care for your people either? Do you have your opposition leaders and your allies murdered when you find them tiresome. Good luck with your friendship with Putin.
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  1487. Too much nonsense. Get a life!
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  1488. They probably have had them under surveillance fir some time. If they ARE Russians, they have greatly altered their strategy.
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  1489. Yes he does to an extent. . Putin‘s warring interference i thevSudan and Africa is the source of many of these refugees fleeing these wars. Next culprit thevtrafficers in it for the money only. These people are being used as pawns by Putin. The disturbance to Westen democracies a bonus to his cause.
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  1490. @terri 6854 Putin has caused electronic interfierence eorkd eife in his aim to weaken democracies. Interferieren with hospital computers, held banks to ransom. Putin has murdered/poisoned opposition on foreign soil. And younare unaware ofbsllmthe institutes his people have interfierred with plus media in your country too.
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  1491. It is not what he says, but what. He does. Trump thinks his words mean something, but Putin just plays him and with flattery Trump is played by Putin. Putins biggest talent is using other peoples weaknesses, and Trump has many.
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  1492. Brilliant interview.
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  1493. Not necessarily a sign of ongoing support. Wallace could still be griping about the draft age now if only as a precursor for an excuse to end the support.
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  1494. carminedecicco1753 Trump came into power with the economy on the up under Obama’s leadership. Obama put the ecconomy on the road of recovery. Trump left with the coffers bare with his tax cuts for the rich and his spending spree. He added fuel to the fire creating unrest within the USA with race tension and riots.
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  1495. @chuckkottke i think China is just watching on the sidelines. Maybe doing a bit to keep Russia onside. They have calculated that should Russia loose, they will need a lot of help to rebuild. The price-tag could be Turning Land in the east over to China in exchange for help with a rebuild of Russias infrastructure. .
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  1496. Why do you need straws to drink with at all? Are you five years old and can you not handle a cup or glass? Travelling why not straight out of the bottle?
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  1497. Farage has also recently called out for more white babies to be born in the UK,
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  1498. Folks. Stop there. The EU are not and have not ever considered sanctioning Tucker Carlson because of an interview with Putin. I personally suspect intrigue and interest in the results of the interview will be the main reaction. So who made that claim? If Carlson hisself, then he is trying out the tried and tested Trump tactics! If other journalists, then they are not journalists but sensationalists only.
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  1499. @jimmyj5557 to have a single currency you would have to have a combined economy policy. I think all three countries would prefer to keep their own. The EU is a union of much smaller countries of shared interests. . In total it covers only 1.7 msqm. Compared with 3.8 msqm of the USA. At 3.93 msqm The whole of Europe is more the size of just the USA , 40% of that is Russia. So Mexico, USA and Canada would be enormous. Certainly a challenge to put all of that under one hat.
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  1500. @notcrazy6288 Yes and cultural differences too. The USA compares first with monetary values. Elsewhere, even Wikipedia or lexicons, they compare first with population numbers, terrain, climate etc. lol
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  1501. I believe the seeds of corruption are planted by Putin himself. He allows/encourages those that climb the ladder a dip into state funds, unofficially. KGB tactics. He can then turn on them, appears he is ‚making a clean sweep of corruption“ when ever he feels threatened by the success or popularity of a potential rival. Same as 2014 him forming the Wagner Group to do his bidding, keeping the image of the official fine Russian Army free of all the murderous underhand actions in the Dondass and in Africa.
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  1502. No one wins in wars. Facts remain Russia invaded, .Ukraine is defending.
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  1503. @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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  1504. I do not think there are tanks on those boats - yet.
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  1505. @gray100 Ukraine. Those weapons that are overdue.
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  1506. @gray100 Ukraine, with weapons that are overdue.
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  1507. @benanders4412 Are you saying because Ukraine is the underdog we should not help them? Russia will just continue, Moldova, Latvia etc. Putin has already made deals with Hungary. If we do not help Ukraine there will be more trouble for the USA and NATO. In Africa and out .East too. BRICS.
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  1508. Same error laden cut and paste every day. So tedious.
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  1509. He probably recorded it sitting in a bunker. Should have used green screen.
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  1510. Says a Russian ran away to hide in Sri Lanka.
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  1511. 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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  1512. “I will do whatever I am told” just reflects how he has been conditioned since birth. Putin must be envious of such compliant citizens, completely owned by “the fuhrer”. They are not allowed personal ,preferences. This is how they got to Russia in the first place.
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  1513. But time is costing lives. It seems we need to be told. How can you say he should only say amusing things, are we that fickle we cannot face reality? This guy is desperately trying to fix people dying. The air he breaths while while working in cramped overworked conditions smells of stale blood. This is his work place day in day out. It may be good that Ukraine wants to protect its young. 24 rather than 18 as age of conscription, but we are not babies there is nothing wrong in critising a grown man choosing to shut down a crucial decision making to go on a break knowing it means hundreds extra deaths and an extra incentive to Putin to up his game.
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  1514. @alalmquist9423 really? Interesting. Not shown here in the U.K. YouTube version.
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  1515. @alalmquist9423 Elon Musk is just an opportunist. He is supporting Trump for a place on Trump‘s Whitehouse team. He may not be able to read people, but is also no fool. He sees the crowds Trump generates and thinks he is backing the horse that will get him power in the Whitehouse. The year 25 program suits him as well as Trump. I also think Trump is using Musk. It is NOT a match made in heaven, because Trump will drop Musk if he feels (the inevitable) that he (Trump) is being sidelined. But Trump is desperate right now. His pandering to Kennedy bought him most likely the conversion of Kennedy‘s voters. He says anything for it to work and will drop them when the usefulness is over. Like last time around. There is no trust. They deserve each other.
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  1516. Nui York
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  1517. @amschelco.1434, Could explain why Putin’s troops on the front line recently received a delivery of fresh shells - carcass only, they were missing the explosive content.
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  1518. 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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  1519. Yes, investigate why a cargo plane heading East away from the airport and away from the boarder would of have had prisoners on it. Were they going to Siberia? Safe passage should be announced and made for a plane (usually Aeroflot) arriving, (this was a cargo plane departing). And investigation into where the bodies of the prisoners are. (Only one was visible in the initial video taken locally).
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  1520. @josh3066 Misspelt: he is fourteen. Sorry folks. Just a joke. Couldn‘t help,it!
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  1521. That clip said the Blueberry thing was something about a divorce settlement or rather non-settled non-agreement. !
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  1522. @DhaliaKaimkhani don‘t fall for it. Too many scammers on here!
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  1523. Tip. You need to look carefully into the stability of other countries first before you move. Inflation is a world wide issue.
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  1524. The Russians still had the dam, they blew it up. They butchered the people of Buchs too. The Russians are the invaders. Everything that has been done on either side has happened because of the invasion, the Russians only have to leave and the hostility will end. They will leave behind thousands of mines they have polluted the Ukrainian soil with. They forced the people in the places they control to dig trenches for them. These are the people they claim to have “rescued”. By making them homeless, raping and torcher. Some “Rescue”!
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  1525. @mysticone17986 You are in denial. The .Wagner group were financed and weaponised by Putin. Formed in 2o14 to be active in the Donbas region along with other insurgents. Putin at the time could not send in his army, so this was a workaround. Look up the history, formation of the Wargner group. There were other private Russian armies too, the .Russics etc. Blame for this war? Putin. The insurgents idea was flagging and he wanted his fame for the history books, so sent in the army to take it in one swoop. That is the reality. All for the ego of that monster.
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  1526. @jantzfitzgerald6115 Seems I can write whatever I want thus nazi site just deletes it! That is master country Russian censorship? Thiught you were free! Lol
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  1527. @mseeross he is not telling lex, or anyone they are outrageous. Lex is not in attendance. . He is expressing his own reaction. How he rates it. If I find your comment impertinent, then can write that. It would be my interpretation of what you said. We can all have differing points of view. This is not Russia ,
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  1528. Maybe because the money Congress is allowing Ukraine to spend on US weapons is helping your economy?
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  1529. @Vladviking. So do you have a secret formula on how to win a war without money? Ukraine is nit asking you to give your life in this fight against Putin’s ego centred tyranny.
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  1530. 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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  1531. @SteerCarmer he did not even write that book. Country to country diplomacy is not ‚a deal‘ there is a lot more to it than just commence. Ask embassy staff. Unless you are a dictatorship and work by thinking everything, everyone is for sale!
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  1532. @edentahilla9295 Hawkish? He is a liability. Cheatng and lying. After three authoritaive people tell him he has his figures wrong and give him the correct ones, he again repeats the false made up ones , because it makes his case sound more effective. You don’t make good deals based on lies. You make enemies. That is bad for business longterm.
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  1533. Puppet.
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  1534. @brandonhemphill5638 i do not see the native Scots Pine with its longer needles and irregular branching in the planted conifer woodlands near me in the south. The mass plantings are the regular conifers like you see in Europe. The brachen too. We have individuals in Parks and along the coast. Tough enough to withstand strong winds and imo they have a more intetesting, less unifirm look. The Chimes, Bournemouth have a good few together.
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  1535. Russian drones have landed in Romania and passed through Polish air space.
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  1536. @WarriorOfScience. I admire your language skills. What do you think of the translations? Does it do credit to the d actual meaning. One person commented that when the English version said ‘slight of the wrist’ it actually means the opposite. (Means dismissed the importance of ). I Think he meant they got a ticking off.
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  1537. @terryross2388. Several and daily. Just follow the news. Kryvyi Rih, Karkiv, Odessa yesterday.
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  1538. @kvintersvinterz Thank goodness for airraid alarms. Shelters and the metro.
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  1539. 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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  1540. @jarob9091 no, but your truckers and farmers were destroying Ukrainian export grain, denying them much needed revenue and holding up vehicals and supplies they needed in their fight against Putin’s henchmen. Every country has its idiots. August is the month for riots here and in most of Europe. We just can’t take the heat! In the 60s it was mods and rockers bashing each other up under Clacton Pier. Lol. But thank you for your majority. all the hoasting and being a top supporter in their hour of need. Together the good will prevail. Get Putin Out of Ukraine!
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  1541. 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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  1542. @mikeincalifornia no t.hanks. We do not need a Trump liar. There are a lot of qualities that make a good leader, and someone that for example pretends to his people that he is making China pay tarrifs when in fact it is them that have to pay the. Import tax. You need to find out what he intends to spend it on. Payouts for rich buddies like Musk? p
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  1543. @nibbling64. No Putin will not. They have taken a battering and the NK troops are no real aid to him. Only if Trump’s hate for US military advisers, US allies and NATO is greater than his love for Putin and Kim Jung Un then he has a chance. Putin May ask him to lift the sanctions. What do you think? Trump would betray US interests to that extent?
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  1544. @Jose-hs4vk you have been peddled nonsense. Russia has shared a boarder with NATO since its foundation 1949 with founding member Norway. Putin, along with all previous Presidents of Russia knew and knows there was no threat. Only since Putin has taken over has he been busy reversing Russia’s glasnost and perestroika progress. Curbing freedoms and building up his military strength to give himself the tsar like powers he needs. Putin has invented this NATO threat to subdue his people and exaggerate an outside enemy danger so they accept the hardships of a war economy and back him regardless. Shame the opposite happened. His fear mongering has bound two neighbouring Scandinavian countries into joining NATO. Both were proudly neutral before Putin started showing his ruthless hand.
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  1545. Hahaaa
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  1546. Puppet Traitor Vladimir Rogov has to furnish messages tsar Putin wants to hear back to Moscow.
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  1547. @stuartwray6175 Maybe that just means he is more familiar with the true historic details. Ie knows what he is talking about?
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  1548. 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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  1549. @Cwg. Fair enough. The bonus of living in a democracy. You are not being jailed for having an opposing point of view. And yes, we all appreciate all honest news from as many sources as possible.
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  1550. @cndrih Why are you so happy about a bully invading another sovereign country? Maybe it is OK for India to just drive troops into Pakistan and declare that land is now theirs? Should Pakistan say, yes, oK thank you very much, our land in now yours? Just take it, our power stations, our grain, our children, our homes, our washing machines, our flushing toilets? Do you not think it would be better for Putin to spend this war money making life better for HIS soldiers, so they do not have to steal Ukrainian kitchen appliances and plumbing, while he lives in a palace and his favourites (like Prigozhin) hide gold bars in their homes. Until Putin arranged a plane accident to end the friendship. These accidents, with highrise windows and poisoned tea happen a lot with Putin’s friends he no longer needs, or that know too much.
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  1551. There is bound to be no more than regonal differences. Unless Kim Jung Un insisted on making changes. They mentioned long ago that they were going to recruit South Koreans to advise on food etc and as translators. I think the translators are used for the Ukrainian investigator to communicate with the Korean POSs. Also on the Korean language leaflets they dropped and was there not a video in Korean? Or did I imagine that?
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  1552. @johnkingmk. Bit of an overstretch. We all have never met!
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  1553. Kokot Zelensky, They are murders. Putin will poison or fabricate a deadly “accident” even for old friends, should their purpose be over with. And he cares little for his own population either. The reason his troops are not rotated is to postpone the bodybags and front line accounts from reaching the wider public. They are dying from exhaustion. Not until after the March 2024 elections will more home truths leek out.
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  1554. The nearest I have heard to this would be a few weeks to a month ago. They were debating the U.K. helping with training for Ukrainian army new recruits, just the early training. The theory was it would better suit the training to be completed in Ukraine on their terrain. So, yes, our intructers would be going to Ukraine instead of, (as has happened until now,) bringing the Ukrainian recruits over here. There was no talk of our troups fighting in Ukraine.
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  1555. Jake are you anywhere near the hurricane?. I read it is increasing upwards from 180 mph. Cat 5. Very scary.
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  1556. He is not the one with imperial ambitions. Just trying to save his own people from Putin‘s insanity. Putin already chased the Crimean Tartars out of Crimea. Somewhere his aggression has to be pushed back. The Ukrainans are resisting the same fate. They are risking everything to stop Putin’s plan to throw democracies under the bus. Putin had plans to take Ukraine in 2o22 and on to Moldova from there. Poland, Finland, Estonia etc, they all know that this is not just a one off for Putin. He is influencing India, N.Korea, China, Sudan, central äafrica and links with South America towards dictatorships and promoting anti USA and anti western Aggression. Putin is responsible for directing refugees towards western coutures. They buy western luxury cars etc yet at the same time attack and are working towards destroying our systems and freedom. Madness.
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  1557. Why?
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  1558. @blacksnowflake5370 check the many videos. They have the newest FSB models.
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  1559. @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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  1560. 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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  1561. @claudius4964 So what are you saying? Don‘t you think it time Putin stopped invading a neighbouring Independent country? It is very simple - no invasion no deaths! The ball very much is in HIS hands. He started this for own egoistic reasons, and he can end it tomorrow for the sake of humanity if he were man enough! Ukraine is fighting to survive. Are you the type to abandon your wife and family if your home was invaded by mauranding hooligans?
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  1562. Because Putin lies. “pease” means he will come back and start again.
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  1563. I do not get the logic of your „expert“ . Because the smaller country does not have the people, the weapons (handed over to Russia: all part of Putin’s longterm plan) they do not deserve USA support? If they look like they are being murdered by Russia you must look the other way? Putting all in? It is their people, not Your GIs that are dying!!! The USA did not want to enter WW2. Yes, the U.K. had to BEG you to. So had we NOT begged like Zelenskyy, Would you now be happy with a Nazi run Europe? Would you still have Macdonnalds and coka cola worldwide sales?
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  1564. @davemacdonald5261 That is not true. Putin does want the whole of Ukraine. Feb. 2022 his tanks were directed towards Kyiv. Putin had a replacement for Zelenskyy already prepared. OK, they did not expect a resistance considering the ease in which the 2014 annexations took place, and so they may seem to have lessened the demands, but that is only for show. If they demand Crimea and the three newly annex regions (not just the Donbas) this year, then they will be back for the rest by using the same tactics of sending in insurgents, then attack, Russia’s military commander admitted only last week. “Kyiv is Russian. Odessa is Russian.” THEY WANT THE LOT!! Putin himself wrote his vision in 2021. Following Dugin’s 1997 book Foundations of Geopolitics. You cannot listen to the words spoken by Putin or the kremlin. He is not an honest speaker. (KGB manipulator) who has already re-written history books and changed the constitution to extend his time in power. You have to know what lies behind his words. See what he does not what he says. Georgia, Chechnya, etc. we here KNOW the workings of Putin. All opposition behind bars! I do not know how you explain to folks accustomed to freedom of speech and transparency all around them, of how this works in Russia. The same people that believe their election was stollen! The more you come along with the actual truth, the more they are convinced their ill informed convictions are true.
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  1565. @@jaimegrant784 Such a perverse comment. Putin is newly making noise about “war crimes” because of the many proven war crimes registered against him and his troops. This one attack, which as you say could have been the Russians shooting down of the 17 Ukrsinian missiles. Ukraine hit and destroyed an Electronics factory making components for the Russian military in Bryansk. Putin in anger at the destruction of their ship some days ago sent overnight 122 missiles to Ukrainian cities killing 39 civilians. His targets were civilian. Whether shrapnel fell on the buildings or not Putin AIMS at civilian buildings.
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  1566.  @zacthegamer6145  Not everything not every person. Maybe you feel threatened? Most just want peace and to have a happy environment in which to bring up their children. Teach them about diverse cultures, about music and dance. Dictators make wars, because by inventing an “enemy” they can convince their people that some outside force is the reason their lives are shit. That way they can keep most of the revenue earned by the workforce for themselves and for those they need to bribe to stay in power. The citizens then fight because they think some imaginary enemy is envious of their homes. The officials support the dictator because that gives them a position of privilege. And later they find out they dare not refuse support because those that do after becoming aware that dictatorships are shit suddenly are falling out of windows. Ie Putin murders them.
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  1567. .. @zacthegamer6145  I am very familiar with nature thank you very much. I probably know more plants than you, about outcompeting for space about seasons and companion planting. Some plants do not tolerate each other, some work together like fungi and tree roots, like mosses and clover. Some are parasites that are tolerated, like mistletoe. I know about the food chain and survival of the fittest, but we are not animals, we are humans.   We are programmed to work in communities for the good of the group: to survive long winters or other extremities. We need to create a safe environment to bring up our young, Even some animals do that. Work in groups with ‘Aunties’ looking after the Creche.  Yes for the survival of the species. I do not know what you mean by my agenda, maybe you have one. Mine are only observations, as are yours presumably. However the one person looking out just for themselves is not helpful for the good of any nation. A dictator is generally week inside, a continual need to exert his power in fear of appearing weak and being ousted for it. Putin changed the law to allow himself to be “re-elected” beyond the number of terms previously allowed. He has no wish to relinquish absolute power.
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  1568. Yes, who else? Who invaded across from their own boarder?  @hellothere4045 
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  1569. It is not so much as his refusal to say Ukraine must win. More that he (rightfully) feels unable to say the thruth. That he WANTS Russia to win. . And With knowledge of the 2025 program? He protests way too much.
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  1570. 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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  1571. you mean most populous? Sounds like a recommendation for the plague!
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  1572. 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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  1573. @danp2965 kettle - black.
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  1574. Why would China want to get involved? And what has Australia to do with Austrian politics?
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  1575. @Freeaviator so NOT a lie. She is trying to describe something you can not understand because you have never expierenced anything like it. Nearest is „Walls have ears“ which was a Soviet DDR fear. Used. By the Nazzis when they pitted chikdren even to „inform“ on their own parents. After years of oppression where you dare not share your thiughts: it would get you arested. You and your family „-disappeared“. Next step,is you subconsciously stop thinking for yourself. It is a self protection instinct.
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  1576. Ah, a sweet little Trumpette.
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  1577. @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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  1578. Trump was trying to mock The äfrench president. The French speak (as do the Italien) using hands, so Trump mocked him with hand waving in an off hand way. And how do you expect a country having to rebuild After being smashed to smithereens. If they do it will take centuries! But the gain for ALL allies is PEACE.
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  1579. @stuartjarman4930 We have not been shown any Russia training videos. So do not know if they practiced driving into a mudbank to gain experience. We have only seen them approaching the front line and getting roasted because the (self loading) ammo and soldiers are together, with consequential flying turrets.
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  1580. Russia still has their annual conscription. The mothers are promised their sons will undergo training, but will not be sent to the front line. Early 2023 many were protesting that they had lost contact with their sons. I feel Putin may have changed tactics since then. Forcing migrants to join the army if they want to stay in Russia instead. 200 recruited from Nepal etc. the main recruitment is from the impoverished eastern parts of Russia. Putin is carful not to annoy the elite in Petersburg and Moscow when submitting call up papers on ethnic Russians.
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  1581. 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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  1582. 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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  1583. Ben Hodges it was not just the Roosevelt and Churchill’s resolve to go at Hilter. At the time they had the same problem of getting the opposition and American people on board. As well as to prep the USarmy on what to expect a battery of British army gunners went on a round USA tour doing demonstrations, drills and parades from West Point down to Las Vagus. In 1943.
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  1584. Thank you. Very upright and brave of you. Today I heard of Republicans that openly declared support of Harris getting death threats. Normal honest truth loving farmers are getting so much abuse.
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  1585. @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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  1586. @minimal8187 rubbish. Putin did not keep to any agreement. He interfered in Ukraine politics since day one. His insurgents and Private armies and bought politicians. This invasion is because he became impatience on any progress his agents were making. Getting older and desperate to be seen as a Stalin sized statesman. The bribes were getting refused and the uprisings he has invested so much to since 2014 waining as the people were more interested in peace and a forwards facing life. And they are right. A liberator does not torture, rape, abduct citizens. Ukrainians want to be free of Putin’s Russian shackles. This whole process grew from kernel in Putin‘s KGB brain.
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  1587. 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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  1588. A favour to Trump
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  1589. @nateo4826 not true. Trump git annoyed because Zelenskyy bought photographic evidence of Putin‘s war crimes. It did not fit Trumps agenda . Trump and his team, including his son have visited Hungry, a friend of Putin. Vance visited the German party with links to Russia. They have never visited Ukrsine. Vance implied Zelenskyy just puts on ‚shows‘ for visiting delegates, suggesting he is faking it! How else is Zelenskyy supposed to try and explain what is really happening if they do not visit considering they are getting information ONLY via the Putin filter. It was Vances agitation, like Jake explained that set it all off. Like it was planned.
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  1590. Modi of India does not wear a (western) suit. None of the Arab leaders do. Would they dare challenge this? No of course not, so why Zekenskyy if it were not staged to humiliate him? It was planned, it was done deliberately.
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  1591. Rubbish. He was offered a flight out, but refused and said his duty was to stay with the peopke that elected him.
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  1592. 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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  1593. @beckyconstantinides2546 recently reported that particle of specific toxin were detected in the Finish atmosphere. They said recent forest fires in the abandoned Chernobyl power plant April 1986 disaster area had released toxins into the atmosphere. And mathematicians tell us nuclear power is the future!
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  1594. They were Russian weapons. Someone commented, the newest issue. I would not know one weapon from another, so anyone is welcome to confirm/challenge this.
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  1595. Of course not.
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  1596. Pensioner here. I sold some clothing on eBay and donated. Not much, but mum taught me watch the pennies and the £££s look after themselves. It all adds up.
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  1597. Trump also turned fox down. He objected to the two presenters they offered. He suggested two others he would be happy with. Not sure what happened after that.
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  1598. @joshuapaul2022 And you win the top Copy & Paste diploma. Repeating your lies on so many venues. Includes well known quotes from a sacked disgruntled politician, Putin is the aggressor. He is the Hitler here. Abductions, murders, torture. His lies about “peace” mean total absorption of Ukraine. It does not stop there. He has already made moves on Georgia and Moldova. If you think a Recreated Soviet Union in alliance with China, North Korea, India etc is of no concern of the USA then you are daydreaming and a huge awakening is in store for your offspring.
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  1599. Wrong on all counts. Ignoramus!
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  1600. Jake the EU did consider building a combined army at one stage many years ago. But there were many reasons it did not come to be. I think the main one was regarding who or which country should have the final say in any combat situation. A rotary? By vote? But Europe together would be different. It could include any or all European countries; those in and those not in the European Union.
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  1601. I am assuming the shells of WW2 were very different to the ones today. Less complicated? Inhaber nomidea, but as the weapons have changed it could be. In the U.K. women like my mother were working shifts in a bomb factory, on top of her regular cafe and b&b. Job. Everyone had to muck in. It was war.
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  1602. 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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  1603. @briancarno8837 it was a trap. Wait up a few days.
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  1604. @jonathon5411 What it cost to put together and what it is worth as in functioning are two different valuations.
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  1605. Loosely Zeitenwende means changed times or age of re-direction. Lit. ‚Turn‘ of ˋtimes‘
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  1606. @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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  1607. RE TRUMPS SPEECH: Not only fewer goods coming from Russia, the USA.cannot put tariffs on goods headed for other countries. Plus Russia, China etc DO NOT pay the tariffs levied by the receiving country, the USA. Trump‘s citizens do. Tariffs on imports go into the USA treasury at point of entry and are paid by the US importer before the goods can be released from customs. So Trump,will,get more state money to spend on tax relief or whatever, but at the cost of US public, rich or poor.
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  1608. Rubbish show.
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  1609. @Gastronaught and who, on which platform told you they were evil etc? Firstly they were not in power when all this happened. In opposition it was labour mps that insisted on an enquiry. They have only been in No10 since the summer. There is no money to even do what the Tories promised. They cannot borrow more as the previous COVID related borrowing was too near the limit and since then world-wide costs of borrowing has increased. Look at Germany, look at France. All in the same boat. And then we (all western countries) have the Russians working hard at spreading misinformation intent on a breakdown of all modern democracies. Elon Musk is just one of their useful conduits because he gleefully ‘retweets’ any bit of juicy text. There are many that are attracted to and spread the most negative or outlandish because today it is likes and clicks that make you the man (or woman) of the moment.
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  1610. @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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  1611. 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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  1612. I am wondering if they are military crest badges framed on the back wall or town or county emblems.
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  1613. Different starting out point.
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  1614. 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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  1615. @tube2012ful Peace for Palestine yes, but Putin has assisted Iran to indoctrinate (Wagner) and arm HAMAS, which is not in Palestine’s interest. HAMAS did not invest in infrastructure to help the Palestinian citizens, but in hate and weapons. None of this will enhance the Palestinians lives. I wish the Palestinians peace and happiness, HAMAS only want destruction and power.
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  1616. @AndrewMcColl No one does. Trump’s fanatics antiabortion campaign was based 100% on scaremongering disinformation. And women are now dying because of it.
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  1617. @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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  1618. @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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  1619. Third time my post has been deleted. Nothing controversial.
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  1620. Lol. Reversed thinking!
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  1621. @JamesBond. Rubbish. What about Georgia? The same situation. Is the pressure coming to them from Russia because of their choice of Preisdsent also diwn to your Victoria Nuland? No. See what Putin is doing to other places. Moldova etc. all the same tactics as the attitude he has with Ukrsine. He wants to reverse their decision on wanting the freedom of independence. Russia also wanted this independence back in 1991. Only since Putin came into power, (and now has changed the constitution so his reign can be extended) are they trying to reverse that progress. He wants domination au par with a military state dictatorship. And how dies this effect the USA? The stink he is stirring up with .China and North Korea is being extended. He is making anti USA. Moves as we speak. Invading Ukraine only one part of it. Your “expert” is only counting tanks and seeing the battle field element. Putin’s infkuence politicsl goes a lot further than that. Stop being blind to that. Trump giving five extra regions of Ukraine to .Russia would only reinforce his position both politically and militarily. He has stollen Ukrainian grain, their mineral mines, oil and gas. After a Russian success he will have ALL their land, their hi-tech capabilities and other technologies previously suppling Russian development. To use against the West.
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  1622. 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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  1623. Warum sagen Sie Washington? Österreich kann expel Diplomaten wenn sie so wollen. Was hat daß mit Washington zu tun? Trump wird viel slimmer als Biden; außer Sie wollen daß Putin Ukraine, Moldova, Estonia ind weiter herein marschiert?
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  1624. 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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  1625. @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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  1626. 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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  1627. 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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  1628. I think we just wish to get the factual truth from our news outlets, not fantasy sensationalisms to make extra „likes“ and bucks. Every thing is for sale with these guys, especially morals. Investigative journalism does exist here. It is just the majority want an easy time and catchy headlines. In depth reading - too much bother. Carlson and Morgan do not have to prove any thing they say is based on facts, (they are NOT bonafide journalists) so they can enjoy painting the Cuckooland you pundits want to see. Hard done by moaners.
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  1629. @xsimon11 yes, they are hooked on entertainment. Probably missed out on a childhood of beach „Punch & Judy“ shows. So invented an adult version. To make up for that childhood void! Lol
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  1630. Yes, and all Ukraine want is to live in their own country - with the Russian invaders OUT! Not much to ask is it?
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  1631. Because a 1994 agreement of protection from Russia should they be attacked meant thy handed their nuclear weapons and heavy armour nennt over o Russia. Ukraine was not equipped for a large scale war. Russia, just like Hitler, had been building up its armament. Zelenskyy’s Ukraine just like France and the British were unprepared for a war.
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  1632. @Chad…. Point is Robotyne is in Ukraine. The Russian military have no right to be there, let alone flatten the place. They want to conquer and destroy. Why on earth are you celebrating the ruthlessness of this evil regime? Where do you live? You would welcome them to steal and destroy all that you own? Woukd you not take as much help as you coukd to defend your family home?
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  1633. His speech.” People are dying” yes, they were on your watch too: during COVID.
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  1634. 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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  1635. What would you do to save your people? Hide in a cuobiard and smoke weed? Their very existence as a nation, their culture too is being stollen. The Russian occupiers are emptying the museums, .same as their foot soldiers are ransacking and robbing Ukrainan homes for kitchen appliences, even toilets. Russian troops have even returned to the homes of the Russians they evacuated earlier to steal from them. The Ukrsinians in occupied areas are tortured and raped, their water and electricity suppy is cut if they refuse to take Russian citizenship. The abducted children are taught that Ukraine (their homeland) does not exist.
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  1636. @perkunast9680 this is the current thinking. When any western country sells on outdated used weapons they must decide carefully who they sell to. With NATO partners, they have the more modern versions and the fear is in a combat situation these being captured and the “technology” stollen by adversaries. The very newest revolutionary version will most likely not be sold at all outside of the USA. To have weapons within NATO comes with trust and most likely with the condition that the “brains” of the weapon is to be destroyed if abandonment in the field is necessary.
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  1637. Yes, and we have plenty of mud on our Island! This footage is of a training exercise. Drove straight into a mud bank, now get out!. And the other challenger had no problems towing it out. They need to train for all possibilities.
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  1638. I remember that first speech he did in March 2022 addressing Putin. He addressed ALL the issues Putin pretended to have as a ‚reason‘ for the invasion. He offered to agree to not join NATO and to offer the regions Putin claimed to care about the free vote on independence from Ukraine. But like Zelenskky just said. He got no reply. No reaction. Why? The reasons were fake. Putin had not been honest in giving the reasons. Putin did not even acknowledge Zelenskyy back then because Putin had a replacement for Zelenskyy, his own man, when the tanks rolled in Feb. 2022.
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  1639. It is in the USA.. payments to the armament Industrie, jobs etc. No one has stollen anything.
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  1640. Do you have nothing positive at all to say about a country and civilisation trying to save themselves from absolute destruction? You Putin enablers.
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  1641. 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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  1642. Shame he did not push on the question Lavrov skilfully avoided re what happens to the links and asset holding Wagner had secured in Africa. Since their formation in 2014 Putin had always denied his connection to his Wagner private army. Apparently it was against Russian law to have mercenaries attached to the state. They served Putin well and by separating the atrocities they were committing to gain their objectives could not be blamed on the Russian’s official army. Also their subterfuge operations in the Donbas regions of Ukraine. After Prigozhin’s death he admitted to the millions the Wagner organisation had cost the Russian purse. The many Prigozhin procured agreements and assets in Central Africa Republic and elsewhere on that continent will presumably revert to the Russian government, or Putin, or another of the Russian oligarchs?
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  1643.  @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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  1644. Kwatsch
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  1645. Don’t you think that is in their interests? They want you to have no ways to reach the truth.
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  1646. @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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  1647. He was talking about the Kyiv resolve.
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  1648. If you are making money out of doing nothing then you screwing someone else over. Yes the poor are those that suffer. If you want money get an honest job and do some good in this world. Conning people to part with their dosh is not an honest living. It is theft.
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  1649. So why was the plane flying East, away from Belgorod.?
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  1650. @beeman1246 you could actually have something there. Here in the Uk we have libel laws and spreading hate speech or enticement to violence can bring court cases. However in Russia The regime actually PAYS thousands of hackers and individuals to deliberately spread misinformation in a bid to create Chaos and regime collapse in other countries. Where as any criticism of the powers that be leads to imprisonment, or poisoning or a fall from a high window. Or most recently if you need hospital care, which costs too much, you are sent on crutches to the front line.
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  1651. @3-Kashmir, Yes, the nukes were built by Ukrainians in Ukraine during Soviet Times. But the promise of protection in exchange was signed. This 1994 Belgrade agreement and you mentioned (I did not know of this) a Russian & Ukraine treaty of friendship due to expire 2019, neither stopped Putin’s 2014 invasion of Crimea and insurgents placement in the Donbas region also 2014. That and the build up of Russian troops along the boarders, the joint exercises with the troops of Belarus, even though Ukraine officials still did not believe Russia really would invade, promoted the US and Ukrainian joint exercises on Ukrainian soil. There was the promise to protect, but the exercise in Ukraine was over by the time the Russian tanks rolled in .Feb. 2022.
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  1652. @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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  1653. 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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  1654. Then go home and protect against a despot taking you sons and fathers into war. Russians need protection against Putin’s egocentric ambitions.
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  1655. You think you are going to get the truth from Putin? This is just a another platform for Putin’s propaganda. But, yes it will be refreshing to get to hear the latest spin Putin has explaining away his desire for a new Soviet style empire.
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  1656. 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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  1657. @hackgolfer6752 first and so far only time Article 5 was activated was by the USA after 9/11. Also, contribution to NATO does not come in form of cash spent on military. Apart from soft power, proving facilities etc. there is the question of the equipment sales. The 2% GDP is not a fee of membership. It only a suggestion as to how much most nations should be able to afford related to their GDP. No money is paid to ‚NATO‘. It is spent by each member country. But where does it go? The majority of orders for new and upgraded equipment are received by the USA. It finances the innovation of your USA armament industry. The relevance and size of your military is down to the size, advancement and profit making of your armament industry, each new development, greater the collection of absolute. Hence your far bigger budget in that area, in most things military. Starting with the German engineers taken to the USA after WW2, your armament industry and NASA achievements have benefitted by an input of USA cash and old world engineering.
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  1658. I have offen wondered. Why Trump and his followers do not seem to understand that tarriffs on incoming goods make imported goods more expensive. And that the consumers (Americans) pay more for these goods.. the only effect on the exporter (China in this case) is it makes their goods more expensive for the buyers in America. Includes your manufactures needing Chinese steel. So they may find other sources or reduce hiw much they buy from ächina. But it is American citizens that pays the fees into the US treasury NOT the Chinese.
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  1659. That is because they worship dollar signs. And are addicted to power.
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  1660. Re protection. I read that trump,has withdrawn protection for Bolton. I am not a fan, but he has had genuine death threats from Iran, and served the USA over many years. He does deserve some protection. But he wrote lots about Trump‘s failings during his past Presidential ‚reign‘ somthis is probably Trump‘s pay-back. In my book that is misuse of power. And if that is not part of the oath a president has tonswear by, then it should be. That post is a privsledge and honour and restraint from personal vendettas should be upheld. After all he is President over all citizens, not just those that paid to be in the room!
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  1661. 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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  1662. Trevor, after Russian had banished the Crimean Tartar from their homeland, imported tones of Russians with the promise of building and dockhand jobs and displaced Ukrainians by confiscating their homes. Same as his “elections” in the newly occupied claimed Ukrainian land.
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  1663. Musk is attacking a leaderbthatbwas electedbwithn72%. Musk is demanding they hold elections when their constitution states: nomelections during Martial Law. They are demanding Zelenskyy signs a deal/treaty from first draft, when Ukrsine is a democracy and Zelenskyy said he must discuss with his Parlament. Musk is anti democracy
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  1664. Yes, trumpty dumpty built a wall, then fell off it!
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  1665. @BingoPaletot Putin‘s decision to invade has nothing to do with antagonisation from the USA! Trump or Biden. Read his book 2021. Putin wants Russia to take over Ukraine and Moldova. Ukraine will be no more. Trump was putty in Putin‘s hands. He knew to flatter him. Putin would prefer Trump to be the next president because he knows Trump would insist Ukraine should give up their land to him. Trump is a traitor to the USA by telling Johnson to not let the Ukraine arms deal and boarder control money go through. Trump wants months of inaction to take place so the immigrant problem get worse and worse, simply for OWN gain. He WANTS a disaster to help his campagne rhetoric, so he can claim only he can fix things. Meanwhile allowing thousands more brave Ukrsinians to die than need be. That is the measure of the man. Death and ruin of others - for own gain - not the country - but his own gain.
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  1666. @USMC-Goforth the USA verses the rest of NATO plays perfectly into Putin’s play book. We have enough on our hands already. Well done Trump, doing Putin’s work for him. Thus is where he got his idea of grabbing land for minerals. (Forgot ahem: ‘security’) from. Straight out of Putin’s playbook!! He did say he admired .Hitler. And it was clear he wanted a legacy. Maybe even promised Trump junior a continuation of power, but had no idea Trump was intending to do a Nazi land-grab deal.
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  1667. @davidlinden2370. Yes, it would be a bloody battle indeed if the other half of NATO had to take on the USA. With Putin rubbing his hands with glee! NATO was formed to protect sovereignty, not cease countries at will! Maybe this was Trumps plan all along. He had not planned to loose the 2020 elections. He did say he wanted to leave NATO. Said he did not believe in it. We were told to not listen to what he says, but see what he does. What the heck for a nutter have you voted into power. Yes, the USA is debatably the most influential country world wide, but only accepted so because it once stood for uprightness, fairness and in general ‘the good guys’. This changes everything. Trump is aliening to the dark-side. And don’t tell me it is his way of doing a deal. To treat others like the enemy and threaten is no bases of making a secure deal. The USA has bases in .Greenland. They can easily negotiate to extend them. If they want their minerals they can offer to purchase them. The USA does not have to take their land away. Same with Canada. What the heck is he saying? That they cannot make deals with Canada? Cannot respect their sovereignty? If the USA wants to sell more to Canada, then they need to make better stuff that Canada wants. Or to buy less from Canada and make their own. You do not need to swallow another country. They have different laws, different ideologies. It wiould never work. Each side would have things to gripe about for centuries to come.
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  1668. @davidlinden2370 Denmark (also in NATO) has more to say re Greenland. Self governing, but their territory. You say France and Britain, but after Denmark the Scadinavians are more closely related to Greenland alongside Canada. So we would not be alone. Musk has already attacked us, seems the new admin is gearing up for strife rather than co operation with partners. How are you going to swing this. “Only his way of making a deal”. Trump has learnt after his last term. He was greatly annoyed that his wacko plans were stifled by sensible staff of the White House. This time he intends to push his anti west pro dictatorship ideology through. His way of feeling ‘big’ is to fabricate an attmophire where it is him against the world. It boosts his ego. And the aggression state is purely of his own making. He did so during his last term (against deep state - to which as president he actually belongs!) and during rallies, where he insulted anything that moved, yet was pretend painfully grieved and any slack coming his way. As President he still held ongoing rally style staged performances throughout. He was so intoxicated by the agression he coukd whip up. Sitting in the White House getting on with the job - just too lame.
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  1669. 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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  1670. @alekseym9815 because voting was a scam. The invaders were a foreign force. Ukrainians had fled their homes, others unable to leave abducted, killed or taken by force to live far away in eastern Russia. Putin had imported Russians from Russia to live and occupy Ukrainian homes. How can you hold a vote, fair elections when the real residents have been banished? Even before this, in March 2022, Zelensky had replied to the original (Feb. 2022) demands by Putin that Oßk he will agree to not joining NATO. OK he will give those eastern eaters the vote on ifvthey want independence. But Putin IGNORED Zelenskyy. Why? Because those were NOT Putin’s true ambitions. He was NOT „rescuing“ fellow Russians from the unrest HE himself provoked by sending his insurgents there and financing/forming The Wagner Group there in 2014. you do not rescue people by bombing and destroying their homes, businesses and violating their family members! The excuse he gave was „will not recognise Zelenskyy as the legitimate leader“. Why? He had his own replacement for Zelenskyy prepared as his tanks rolled towards Kyiv that February. Putin felt, he a foreign neighbouring leader, had the right to dictate to another country and take over control.
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  1671. 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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  1672. You democratically elect your government every four years. Take that away and you are a dictatorship. Constitutional Republic by Democratic means. Don‘t get hung up on the party names. Founded in 1828 and 1854 they have swapped around on ideology since then a few times anyway.
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  1673. He did not. He only advised Zelenskyy to not to feel forced into making a rash decision, to take as much time as needed to decide in the interests of the Ukrainian citizens and the UK would stand by what ever decision he made.
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  1674. Ben, in the UK we usually use Land mass measurements as multiples of the size of Wales. And in this case it stacks up. Just checked. Crimea 26,000sq.Km. Wales 20,761sq.Km.. so larger than Wales does it! For objects such as skyscrapers and container ships etc we use numbers of Double Decker busses volume sizes!
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  1675. 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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  1676. @tristankerr3655 that is so not true. Putin has always wanted to get Ukraine under his belt. He sent insurgents in to create a stink. In 2o14 he formed, Financed and weaponised His special private army The Wagner Group specifically in Donbass, Ukraine to agitate and bring heavy fighting into play there. Russia speakers live in many countries, especially ones that were once part of the Soviet Union. They speak their own languages too, but Russian was learnt for between countries communication. Much like Spanish is used in south America. English used between different areas of India and very common in Eurooean countries. Does not make them English! Even Russian born living in that part of Ukrsine are fighting against the Russian invaders. Living under their occupation is horrendous. One said „ what have I been liberated from? Liberated from my home, my business, now in ruins. From my loved ones killed“. This is what Russian ‚liberation‘ means“
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  1677. 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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  1678.  @JakeBroe  wow. Thanks fir the explanation. Sounds more like a cult than anything built on the love of Christ.
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  1679. 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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  1680. Because we do not yet have confirmation on what happened. These were presumably Ukrainian stall holders in this occupied Russian controlled area. Truth will out via satellite images and flightpath trajectory etc But only those that consider Prigozhin‘s demise was accidental will take Russian official news media at face value. There are no free journalists there to report on what happened.
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  1681. 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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  1682. We do. Ukrainians and Ukraine’s neighbours. And you should too. Dictatorships world wide are laying down the foundations for a new world order. And isolation buffered by oceans will not exclude any country.
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  1683. And?
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  1684. Trump has now sent the missiles Biden had allocated for shipment to Ukraine to the Near East instead. That man is deplorable!
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  1685. Copy & paste. A daily occurrence.
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  1686. That expansion re NATO Gorbochov confirmed was to do with Rast Germany. The. West were already in NATO, somit was about Eadtern Germsny with the wall down.
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