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Yeah, considering that in capturing cities like Sevrodonesk, the Russians basically reduced it to rubble. Scorched Earth is they typical pattern of Russian forces. You do make a good point about possible third-party attacks. Would hurt Ukraine more if someone outside their control did the deed, but you are wise to keep that scenario in mind. I wish more people considered third party attacks being responsible for the Nordstream pipe explosion.
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Iran is doubtful. Especially as they have some hostile neighbors of their own (Azerbaijan in particular). China is more likely to use the opportunity to retake "Outer Manchuria" (aka the Amur Oblast which was once part of Imperial China).
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@WingkKong Funny, because America never colonized Central or South America the way the Spanish did. Every opportunity to do so and yet the US declined. Learn your history before you shoot off your mouth in ignorance. Interestingly, Korea has managed to survive being caught between both Japan and China. That kind of disproves your contention.
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@neutralevil1917 The Crimea Reservoirs were down to 3-5% capacity when Russia invaded. The fact that securing the Dam was the FIRST objective of the invasion proves you wrong.
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@TheSkyGuy77 Then explain why Putin never invaded Ukraine during Trump's presidency. Explain why he chose to steal Crimea when Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. Biden is no hardliner, having dragged his feet since day one of the invasion.
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So you are saying that the Russian Army is so blind as to not see Ukrainian Frogmen place demolition charges on the Dam? And that they were powerless to stop it? That level of damage can ONLY be done by demolition charges, not missile strikes.
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"When your argument is weak, abuse the plaintiff" -Marcus Tullius Cicero Thank you for proving you can't refute his points but instead attack the messenger. Your desperation is showing.
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@FlorinSutu You consider the disastrous charge of the light brigade to be a "minor" participation? I think you need to recheck your sources.
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@FlorinSutu Almost 100,000 men and 20,000 dead British is not an insignificant loss. And those numbers being 1/3 and 1/5th of the French forces committed doesn't change that fact either. Seems to me that YOU need to put things into perspective.
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The Fall of Kabul was basically the Fall of Saigon 2.0. And the ARVN fell for the very same reasons you outlined for Afghanistan.
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Isn't it amazing how rapidly the Ukrainians have become a professional Western military? And the best part is, they are using the best aspects of both their former Soviet doctrine and NATO tactics into a highly effective hybrid.
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@ALMAZ157 Cope harder Private Conscriptovich.
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@CCP-bot.num8235 You haven't been paying attention to Putin's speeches.
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@CCP-bot.num8235 And sometimes they do. Putin believed his own lies. He has also said that the collapse of the USSR was the greats geo-political disaster in history. We may not be in the 1940s, but the fundamentals of that era still holds true. Your refusal to realize that is to prove George Santayana correct: that those who refuse to learn their history are doomed to repeat it.
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Cheap oil at a steep discount, which means India and the Saudis are ripping off Putin. That is still a net win.
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@bdcochran01 Yes, the problem with Russia has always been a LEADERSHIP issue. The Russian people have always been hearty and resolute, abused by their piss poor leaders.
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@lkklMakOffKa Which doesn't discount the possibility of it being a false flag by the GRU or FSB.
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Same with China, I fear.
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@Langermar The Indians investigated those claims about Ukraine shelling the Donbas and found them to NOT be credible. What they did note was that civilian casualties increased by 400% AFTER Russia invaded, and that number never went down. If anything, RUSSSIA has been bombing civilians in the Donbas
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@mcrand7887 India investigated those claims and found ZERO evidence to support them. When you can't convince either them or the Chinese, you have lost the plot.
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@dwaynekeenum1916 You don't know that. You are just wildly speculating base not on facts but emotion. Do keep in mind that Washington was one of the richest land owners today. If anything, Washington would be rejecting the treatment of Trump as being no different than the Star Chamber Admiralty Courts. 6th amendment due process and 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment were to address the very same treatment that Trump is now facing being done by the crown then.
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@senatorjosephmccarthy2720 Nice hyperbolic over the top hysteria. Russia has already bit off more than it can chew with Ukraine. THEN Russia has to go through Poland, Germany, France, and the UK. And in doing so, Article V gets triggered bringing the US in at that point. So tell me again how Russia is directly threatening the US?
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@GuyShōtō Wow, complete historical revisionism as well as goal post moving. I guess you don't seem to realize that the conflict with the Barbary Coast corsairs was a direct result of kidnapping and piracy committed against AMERICAN flagged ships and AMERICAN CITIZENS. Part of the reason why the US went to War with the UK in 1812 was for the very same reasons. Those conflicts DIRECTLY involved us. Now where we stayed out was that we did not directly support Napoleon's European conquest despite sympathy for him.
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To paraphrase Winston Chruchill, "capitalism is the worst form of economics.... except for everything else that has been tried from time to time"
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@wellplayed6061 Not really. Putin is behaving NOT as a rational actor but as a typical authoritarian despot with delusions of Tsardom. He fancies himself Peter the Great despite the fact that the world is vastly different.
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@Iv4Bez Not really. WW2 made it quite clear that when you do business with people who engage in war, you are financing the War machine. The West's support for Ukraine mirrors the US support for the UK. Or the American support for the Chinese against the Japanese in the Pacific. There is historic precedent that justifies it.
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@Iv4Bez Why should the West be assisting Russia? Putin made it clear years ago he is absolutely against everything the West represents. The opportunity for reproachment ended when Putin replaced Yeltsin. That being said, Bush Jr. helped to slam that door shut when he rejected Putin's offer of assistance with Islamic Terrorism.
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@KolyaUrtz Cope hard private conscriptovich. To the OP's point, Ukraine giving it up would be the same as Czechoslovakia giving up the Sudetenland at Munich.
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@KolyaUrtz That isn't an argument, it is a logical fallacy, namely appeal to novelty. Or have you forgotten that in 1918 Kursk, Belgorod, AND Rostov-on-Don were all part of the Ukrainian Republic?
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Yeah, he is completely off the mark today.
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@TheSkyGuy77 Oh, the Bourbons were great. The French Republic, especially under DeGaulle's leadership leaves much to be desired.
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@MN-vz8qm DeGaulle was replacing one tyrant (Petain) with another. Not much different than replacing king Louie with Robespierre.
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@DaDa-ui3sw Ifr you are going to ritique my spelling, then you don't actually have much of an arugment. As for French history, well, the French love to rewrite their own history much like the Bolsheviks. "Year One" is emblematic of that.
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@DaDa-ui3sw No, you are being patronizing and condescending like a typical French snob. For someone who thinks France has great historians, you are particularly ignorant of your own history. And people call Americans dense.
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The problem is that to enforce a "no-fly zone", requires NATO aircraft to fire on Russian aircraft, an act of war.
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@timtrewyn2042 Ah, but in NONE of those cases are they wearing the uniform or flying the colors of the United States or NATO. THAT is the major difference. No, the foreign volunteers in Ukraine are more akin to the French Foreign Legion.
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With time yes. But in the near term the Crimea is screwed.
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@shueyk2320 Put down the Vodka Private Conscriptovich, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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@jacquesdemolay4516 Blaming Poland for ww2 is victim shaming. But then that is typical of Kremlin shills.
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@tekinfomedi Nice revisionism. German-Polish relations from 1934-1939 is a joke. The Poles knew they were walking a tightrope between two behemoths that were out to obliterate them. If you think Józef Beck was liked by either the Germans or the Soviets, you have been drinking some really powerful vodka.
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@tekinfomedi The two tyrants of Eastern Europe were more alike than they were different. Strongman totalitarians usually get along and even cooperate on a regular basis. "National Socialism" and "Democratic Socialism" are simply two sides of the same coin, and their representatives are also mirror reflections of each other. As for the dissolving of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Alliance, only Der Furher was for that. Most of his field marshals and civilian government were against abolishing it because it was too lucrative to simply trash on a whim. The Soviets were fueling their war machine against England and they were exchanging military technology.
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@bigmoe9856 It was unlikely they would attack into Kherson anyhow, so that argument is moot.
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I disagree about cutting the canal being a war crime. Nothing obligated them to provide water for farms in 2014 when Russia stole Crimea.
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Begging for help? What rock have you been hiding under? Put down the Vodka comrade.
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@dal6984 Copium. Pure copium on your part. Of course Ukraine needs weapons. They cannot rely on Warsaw equipment forever. And if they want to retake Crimea, they will need the heavy armor and vehicles to do it. You are just making excuses like a typical hyper partisan, and the hard facts bedamned. You will make a mountain out of a molehill to deflect from the details that shatter your narrative.
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@WangAiHua All things being equal, you would be correct. Except, all things are NOT equal. Russia has shown time and again that between equipment and training they are not the same as Ukrainian forces.
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@start3215 Yeah, on paper that might be true, but theory is not always reality. Case in point is the sinking of the Moskva. On Paper there is no reasonable possibility of her being sunk by just two Neptune missiles. And yet sunk she was. Same with the Russian Air Force. It should be the second strongest in the world and yet their birds keep crashing due to poor maintenance.
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@start3215 Wow, pot meet kettle. Rather than debate merits, you just engage in logical fallacies such as non-sequiturs. That proved you know you have lost the plot. PS, your copium over the loss of the Muscovite Flagship shows that you can't accept the fact that the Russian Navy is so incompetent that they can't be bothered to do proper maintenance, much less effective damage control. There is ZERO excuse for that ship now imitating a submarine.
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@start3215 Hyperbolae doesn't make your argument, it is yet another logical fallacy, this time appeal to emotion. When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
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@start3215 Clearly I am living rent-free in your head because you have provided not a single counterargument of substance, only engaging in ad hominin personal attacks and logical fallacies. You have lost the plot and you know you can't argue the merits.
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