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@AtheistEve the problem is, Russia saw how the USA refused to allow any Soviet missiles in Cuba, and decided Russia had the same right to refuse Ukraine entry into NATO. It is the West that set all the precedents.
the problem is, Russia saw US and NATO military intervention in Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Libya, Syria and the list goes on, so Russia just copied the precedent already set.
When there was a "civil dispute" between Nazi Germany and its Jewish citizens, did anyone have the right to intervene militarily? yes, or no?
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in other words, NO extreme weather to report in Northern Europe, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Central America, South America, Antarctica, Oceania, Africa, Middle East, and all of Asia minus China.
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@lupus3824 you are very confused, so let me straighten you out.
No one is committing genocide in this conflict. The Azov Nazis were not trying to eliminate all the Donbass Russians, just compel them to rejoin Ukraine. The Russians are not committing genocide in Ukraine, otherwise you would see millions dead by now.
Now, tell me, which Russian individual ever accused Ukraine of committing genocide?
No one has ever said "Ukraine is basically all Russian". What has been said is that, historically, Ukraine is part of Russia. Remember, Britain fought the Crimean War against Russia, not Ukraine.
Only in very recent history has Ukraine been a separate country, and that due to the 15 republics as constituted by the Soviet Union, not for any cultural, historical or linguistic reason.
you have so much to learn on the topic.
in the end, Ukraine will have wished it went ahead and promised neutrality and let the Donbass Russians become part of Russia. You'll see.
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@hugoc2660 sorry, I answered the bit about the money, but not the soul.
Yes, Putin very much has my soul. Best world leader by far. Unlike someone like Biden, Putin's academic qualifications are outstanding, his analysis and insight truly impressive, and he stands up for Russians and ethnic Russians admirably. That's why he has so much support, at home and globally. BRICS, OPEC, Latin America, Africa, Asia, all very happy to work with Putin.
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@Lorne.Mccuaig And now all the important stuff you absolutely refuse to state.
Canada has lost FAR MORE of its forests to fires in the past, and globally, far less damage is done by forest fires today than a century ago.
China just smashed its warmest day on record is another way of saying China is nowhere near the hottest day it suffered before records began, and that the rest of Asia has NOT seen any records broken to date!
BTW, given that Climategate and "hide the decline" showed Mann, Jones and co rig the numbers to fit the narrative, why do you believe the data?
Antarctica has the lowest sea ice on record, is another way of saying the Arctic is doing just fine.
The Middle East is ALWAYS in exodus from the heat. I used to live in Oman. Nothing has changed there.
People like you believed the experts that said, 25 years ago, that by today Florida would be under water! Florida, Bahamas, Maldives, all doing just fine.
Quit the hysteria and look at it all globally, not what the media feed you to panic you.
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@hendrixinfinity3992 just to give you an idea of how the world works, the free market is the default position and starting point of all societies. The more a person advocates for government interference and government regulation, the more that person moves to the Left. In general.
In general, a Lefty believes in government intervening to attain ideological, egalitarian goals, and the ends justifies the means (hence Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao were all Lefties) and proponents of Laissez Faire, market economics are right of centre (Milton Friedman, Reagan, Thatcher etc)
The nine words a conservative dreads, "I'm from the government, I'm here to help you"
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@eugenecrabs8622 I am challenging your logic, your assumptions and your hypocrisy.
you really have failed, totally, to justify supporting Ukraine.
It is a total nonsense that Ukraine is some kind of democracy. It is not, and democratic institutions have been trampled on in a way that WW2 Britain would never have DREAMED of doing.
EVERY word you used to justify abandoning democracy in Ukraine would be used by Kim Jong Un for the dictatorship currently in North Korea, so either you need to re-think, or use different words.
The problem is, you can't. you foolishly bought into this nonsense about Ukraine being some kind of democracy, now you are stuck with it.
The sooner Ukraine is crushed the better. * years of shelling the Donbass deserves a Russian intervention and justice, finally, is being done.
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@a564-c3q Again, you are blabbering on about concepts of which you have no grasp. So, once again, let me correct you, and yes, I have a degree in Russian and Russian Studies and know the history well.
1. You have no idea if the descendants of the founders of Kievan Rus are today in Ukraine, or Russia, or both, or neither.
2. Russia, like China, like Ireland, has existed forever. It is stupid to say that any one place existed before another.
3. "The people of Ukraine are closest to the roots"
They are not.
The people of Ukraine happen to live on the same land as the heart of Kievan Rus. So what? So do all the African students that went to Ukraine to study medicine. Does the fact that African students happen to be on the same land as Kievan Rus mean those African students are "closest to the roots"?
You mistake geographical location for cultural lineage.
Basic mistake.
Are you 12 years old, by the way?
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@franckr6159 1) Europe and USA will not look like Oman because Europe and USA will still have plenty of rainfall! Though much of USA DID look like Oman (the dustbowl) in the 1930's when, we are told, there was no global warming!
2) 55 is unliveable? what do you think people do in Oman when it hits 50? They stop work, by law, and the Indians and Pakistanis start playing cricket!
3) your assumption of droughts is nonsense. increased CO2 is GREENING the planet. study some satellite photos. 4) yes, we can adapt, humans have always adapted and even your apocalyptic nonsense would be survivable. stop wetting the bed. 5) get a sense of perspective. some of us have been lectured to about the destruction of the globe due to the ozone layer, acid rain, rising oceans (the maldives are still there, as are the Bahamas, nothing has been washed away). it is all nonsense.
here is a test to see if you have a balanced view.
Name one, just one benefit of an increase in global temperatures.
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@franckr6159 no problem, if you promise to do the same. you write down all the disasters you predict, and let's see your grandkids have a jolly good laugh in 50 years. why not? by the way, some people are already having a jolly good laugh at the predictions from 50 years ago! "children will not experience snow again", "Florida will be under water", "polar bears will be extinct", "deserts will be growing" (they are not!)
If more severe droughts existed before GW, as they did, then you need to explain why droughts are caused by GW, and you can't, because your arguments defy logic and are based on hysteria and panic.
There is no evidence that the deaths you predict will actually happen. none. it is all speculation that we have heard for decades, and it is nonsense.
on the other hand, i tell you a fact, that more people die from cold in winter compared to heat in summer, and you just dismiss it as if lives mean nothing.
now then, let's see you answer this one.
what exactly is the relationship between human CO2 emissions and global warming?
if human CO2 emissions increase by 10%, by how much does the average temperature of the planet increase? we know that CO2 boosts crop yields, which is why we should want more CO2 in the atmosphere, but tell me exactly by how much global temperatures go up per one % increase in human CO2 emission.
because if you can't answer that, you can't be sure extra CO2 is a bad thing.
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@anthonychin1873 if the sanctions intended to cause massive inflation and an energy crisis in the West, plus rising profits for Russia's energy exports, then I guess they are working just fine! The ruble is strong because most of the world is happy to trade with Russia, and European gas companies have to pay in rubles, ha ha. Your nonsense about "oh, the ruble will collapse when the Russians can no longer manipulate the market" is pathetic whining and whistling in the wind. To any neutral observer one can see the sanctions have failed, the West is in panic over recession and a miserable winter, Russia is doing just fine, and it's German pensioners that will freeze to death on Christmas Day, not Russians. Have a very, merry Christmas and New Year, lol.
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@anthonychin1873 grasping at straws is when Habeck goes begging Qatar, Nigeria, USA and Canada for LNG contracts and comes back empty handed! you are right, inflation is not new. recession is not new. a cold winter is not new. But what is new is a cold winter that is accompanied by rampant inflation and recession due to the West's sanctions on a country that it is trying to cripple! This is unique! Ask yourself, when the sanctions were introduced, who among the Western leaders told us that a result of the sanctions would be a strong ruble, and weakened euro, that Russia's war effort would continue unabated, that Russia would not be isolated but keep trading with three quarters of the world profitably, and that inflation and recession would hit the West? Who announced all that in March? uhhh, no one, because they were too damn dumb to realize Russia is strong enough to survive sanctions, and the West is not strong enough to survive with no Russian energy. The sanctions are a miserable failure for the West. only a fool would be blind to that reality.
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@oisin3495 Aim 1 - recognition of Crimea as part of Russia, will be so when Ukraine surrenders, Aim 2 - Ukraine a neutral country written into its constitution, which Ukraine came close to accepting in Istanbul when it was obvious NATO never really wanted Ukraine as a member. Aim 3 - liberation of LPR and DPR. Luhansk, job done. Donetsk. in progress but Ukraine has shown it is unable to halt Russia's incremental advances there, and now the Chechens are back in action, we can expect Bakhmut to fall soon. Aim 4. Denazification of Ukraine, done, the Azov Nazis got killed crippled or captured in Mariupol, job done Aim 5 - demilitarization of Ukraine, Ukraine now down to teenage cannon fodder which is being thrown into the Russian meatgrinder and chewed up in their thousands every day. Unreported by the West, but the horrendous losses of men and equipment spells the end for Ukraine. As a bonus, Russia has demilitarized NATO! USA now down to PROCUREMENTS! (ordering the manufacture of weapons and ammo!), reached the bottom of the barrel! Putin may well declare war to get the 5 aims wrapped up before winter, but he may just wait patiently and smile as Europe shivers and freezes all winter. i think i would wait it out and watch the fun. and you?
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@michaelsterckx4120 and that may well be true for every purchase in the capitalist system, but the truth remains, as a patient, I have experienced both the NHS and the US system, in both systems I personally paid nothing, but received MUCH better and more timely attention with the US system.
So, from my perspective, the NHS is a failure, and given the amount that each man and woman pays for the NHS, on average, it looks like applying for a private plan would be much more sensitive.
As I say, when the NHS has enough funds to employ diversity and equity officers, you know the system isn't working.
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@climatedeniersbelonginasyl4191 no, WRONG, there is no such thing as "the climate scientists"...did Judith Curry, John Christy, Patrick Moore, Tony Hadler, Robert Lindsen, William Happer, Willie Soon, Ian Plimer mention ANYTHING about a climate emergency? uh, NO!
The REAL climate scientists say there is no climate emergency.
your behavior is laughable. i'll make sure i leave un extra big carbon footprint to make up for your pathetic contribution to "improving" the environment.
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@Asdfgghhhjj Putin has been in power for decades. There is no pattern of Putin invading European countries, and there won't be after Ukraine is dealt with. The common denominator in Russia's military interventions is that when ethnic Russians have their rights removed and are discriminated against, Putin will use force to restore their rights. Then peace is established. Chechnya - Russia restores rights for Russians and defeats nationalists. Ditto Abkhazia, ditto South Ossetia, ditto Transnistra. All those places now live in peace. Ukraine will end up the same, rights restored and peace established. I mean if Latvia wants to shell its Russian speakers and ban the Russian language like Ukraine did, then yeah, probably Putin will intervene in Latvia, but he would be right to do so, and you and I would support him, right? OR..you PREFER Azov Nazis have free reign to shell Donbass civilians for 8 years. Prefer that, do you?
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@DiogoJ1 Nonsense. First of all, you need to decide if Ukraine SHOULD be defended. Personally, a country that incorporates swastika tattooed Nazis into its ranks and shells the Donbass for 8 years deserves NO defending, in my view, but then again, I'm an anti Fascist! I mean if you want to defend such a monstrous Nazi russophobic regime, fine, but not me, and not the civilized world. Given the conflict is raging, Ukraine, with US support, needs to sue for peace and accept Russian terms. It's the only way to save lives. Russia's opponents has gone through this before, and Chechnya, Georgia and Transnistra all returned to peace, don't fret. Ukraine needs to treat any Russian speaking minorities fairly and all will be well. Russia has pretty much killed, crippled or captured the Nazis (despite people like you opposing this effort), so that objective is close to completion. Ever seen an Azov parade in Ukraine, have you?
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@socillizt4life read what I said carefully. you need some reading comprehension practice.
i make no comment on what the law says or does not say. i speak of what is just and what is true. so i don't care what the law says on an issue, only what is right.
i will repeat the truth. given that there is no political persecution of migrants in France, and given that there is no situation in France from which anyone needs to seek refuge, any illegal immigrant arriving in the UK from France is neither a refugee nor in need of any asylum. those are the facts, whatever the screwed up law says. deal with it.
if some catastrophe hit the UK I have no idea where UK citizens would be allowed to go. All I know is that if, after said catastrophe, thousands upon thousands of UK citizens traversed a dozen countries and all decided to enter Afghanistan illegally, Afghanistan would be totally justified in saying "NO!. You were perfectly safe when you were in Uzbekistan, so, no, you are not allowed in Afghanistan".
That would be the correct and just response.
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@stealthbum34 1) Brexiteers are, by and large, free marketeers that DON'T believe in trade barriers! What trade barriers have Brexiteers EVER insisted upon? 2) Leaving the EU means the UK has the freedom to negotiate whatever trade deals and tariffs it desires. Those tariffs may be higher, lower, or zero compared to what we had in the EU. The point is, UK has the FREEDOM to negotiate what we want, and not FORCED to follow the dictates of Brussels! I know "freedom" is a strange concept for the brainwashed Remoaner! 3) I didn't say the EU ignores trade deals. I said Remoaners ignore the benefits of trade deals with the rest of the planet and always focus on the frictionless trade of a tiny blob on the world map called "EU". it is narrow-minded. Little Europeaners. 4) Coal is indeed finite. So what? When we start to run short of coal the market price will drive it up beyond the price of renewable energy. so let's use coal til we get to that point. basic economics. 5) Left Wing thinking is not even thinking short term, mid term or long term! Your thinking is just idealism, fantasy and what you can virtue signal about. in the real world, coal is a solution that your useless windmills can't provide, yet. Get real and learn the basics.
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@stealthbum34 1) Only legal immigrants who go through the entire immigration process will pay the surcharge you mention. I know a few of them. This surcharge, by the way, goes nowhere NEAR covering the expenses of the extended family that inevitably follow. Go to your local A and E and make a note of the enormous immigrant presence
2) Illegal immigrants pay nothing, hands out, waiting for the taxpayer to cover all expenses. it's a disgrace and needs to be stopped. Parasites, the lot of them.
3) Some immigrants who stay end up paying contributions. The majority do not, and on balance, immigrants are net recipients, not contributors, by a long way.
3) The skilled workers Britain needs should be enticed here by the legal immigration process. But more importantly, converting the masses of unemployed and under employed already here into productive members of society should be the aim.
4) Funnily enough, countries that have no illegal immigration, Japan, Korea, etc, have no big problems with skilled labor. so, bang goes the theory that a modern economy needs immigrant labor. it is nonsense.
5) Yes, the rich dodge taxes, so, either fix the laws so that they can't dodge, or reduce taxes so they are not tempted to. Your argument that the "rich dodge paying taxes" is confirmation that taxes are too high.
6) My arguments are indeed old, because they have stood the test of time, and they still apply today.
Keep learning the reality of the world and you will eventually see that Socialism is a road to ruin, because it involves taking other people's money and spending it on a lot of stuff (NHS) that doesn't work.
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@stealthbum34 you are obviously not that good at reading comprehension. I have not denied that Conservative governments have made a mess of things, but I stated very clearly that there is no difference between the Blair New Labour gang and the new soppy Conservatives. Try to stop thinking in terms of party politics. It's meaningless. Think in terms of issues, like Brexit, Green energy, immigration, sanctions on Russia, because it's the issues of today that divide the country, and it is not on party lines. Believe me, your type have no clue how to build anything, be it out of ashes or whatever. All you can do is think of destructive ways to steal more money from the producers of the country, then scratch your heads when the NHS falls apart. Useless bunch of envious do-nothings that covet the hard earned money of the workers and want to spend it on pet projects destined to fail. Gullible losers.
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@stealthbum34 it's not right wing rhetoric. it's common sense.
Socialism has clearly failed. look at Cuba, Venezuela, USSR.
of course, I watched the video. Bunch of losers whining when they should be analyzing what exactly has gone wrong, but they are too busy wringing their hands in angst and demanding handouts that they haven't got time to figure out what went wrong.
UK has abandoned the basics of capitalism and embraced excessive government intervention. and yes, the Tories are as much to blame as Labour, though Blair in particular thought it was a really good idea to import masses of parasitic immigrants.
UK got exactly what it deserves, and that is why I am happy to avoid the place and spend time in places that are safer, freer, and have maintained a sense of national identity. Britain is a sad, lost cause.
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@stealthbum34 no, didn't come just to argue, more to show how the virtue signalling Left, like you, are really selfish and ignorant and back causes that ruin the peoples' lives. Just trying to make you see some sense.
For example, never again will you spout that nonsense about modern economies needing immigrant labour. I told you, Japan, Korea, China, no immigration, but safe, clean, expanding modern economies.
now you have learnt something you are a slightly better person. "Diversity is our strength" you say? Hard to explain the rise in crime in London, almost all of which is committed by immigrants, compared to super safe Japan, no immigrants, totally safe.
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@stealthbum34 xenophobic pensioner?
a polyglot who lives in Europe and is married to a Bahamian and works for a living is a xenophobic pensioner? again, your assumptions are so wayward you should be embarrassed.
the UK WAS capable of matching Japan's standards, social cohesion and safety, but too much immigration has ruined Britain. You are too young to realize, but places like Birmingham used to be pleasant enough, instead of the shitholes they are now.
It's not Conservatism that has ruined Britain, but the masses' fundamental lack of understanding about what makes a society work.
Give me Mexico, Japan, Russia over what most of Europe has become. Malmo is like Marrakesh, but worse. Waiting for a train in Luxemburg you would think you were in the Congo. Anti immigration is not xenophobic, and until you get the difference you will fail to understand the nuts and bolts of social collapse.
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@silvasdamata oh boy, then you need to do some more research on candidates and their exclusion from the list of candidates!
Yes or no question, did you hear, recently, about the state of Colorado removing Donald Trump's name from the state ballot?
Tell me who was the Labour party candidate in the recent Rochdale by election in the UK?
Tell me why, exactly, 2 Reform Party candidates were removed as candidates recently in the UK.
These things happen all the time.
Russians are not particularly inept at filing paperwork, but Russia is the rule, not the exception, when, for various reasons, candidates are removed from an electoral list.
That said, the polls in Russia, even polls recognized as legitimate by Western media, put Putin's approval rating at about 80%, and this was reflected in the actual vote.
what % do you think Putin would have received if both the candidates you mentioned had been running?
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@hendrixinfinity3992 ah, we start to get to the heart of your twisted logic.
So the white working class lads out rioting are NOT Far Right if they accept people's right to live non traditionally! Yet, without asking any of them if they are ok with non traditional life styles, they get labelled "Far Right" instead of just "right". I am sure you would agree, they have been mis-labelled.
And all Muslims believe in traditionalism, so, all Muslims who believe homosexuality is a sin are Far Right?
So, Stalin is Right? ALL those historians and academics and media and most of the world, they got all this wrong! Stalin was not a Socialist or a Communist, he was of the Right! Wow, that's amazing.
Stalin believed in a mixed market economy? Apart from the tale end of Lenin's NEP, which parts of the Soviet economy were based on private enterprise? cue crickets.
All those kulaks were massacred because they insisted on private enterprise, and Stalin did too! This is hilarious!
It's not that I think I'm smart. It's that I can see thru your bs from the start, and I note how you lecture, but never answer any of my basic questions.
The Pope would be Far Right, correct?
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@hendrixinfinity3992 nice side-step! the ever predictable "Overton Window" answer.
So, let me sum up.
You lied when you said all those who campaigned for civil liberties were on the Left.
100 years ago, those who campaigned for abolishing slavery were NOT on the Left People like Marx and Engels were on the Left, not Wilberforce.
UNLESS WE PLAY WITH THE OVERTON WINDOW (read "shifting the goalposts as we wish) We, the Left, can't justify whatever warped views we have.
What has truly shifted is how the far Left now consider anything NOT far Left to be somehow Far Right! Catholics, Muslims, anti immigrants, those who support a balanced budget, entrepreneurs, those who believe in traditional family values, all are Far Right, or right!
Conclusion = you have redefined things to an absurd point where the Far right are the vast majority of the world!
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@hendrixinfinity3992 "they don't warrant a response" = I give up, I've lost the argument.
As I pointed out, hierarchies exist in the animal world, hierarchies are a feature of biology, and to ascribe hierarchies to being a right wing construct is just infantile.
in essence, based on your nonsensical view of hierarchy, all governments are right wing, and all communities are right wing, because they all rely on a hierarchy. Yes, even your hippy commune will have someone handling the finances and pulling the strings.
I have no Left wing/Right wing axis! I believe it is all woolly nonsense and only specific beliefs can be talked of as being of benefit or not.
It's YOU that insists on the labels, not me! I have nothing to explain, and that is why I see nothing Left nor Right about rioters wanting to reclaim their country back to what it was when they liked it.
You are a naive Lefty that has never truly been challenged, and as I pointed out, to state Stalin was open to free market economics is simply hilarious. you love to lecture, but refuse to answer simple questions. the epitome of someone who understands very little.
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@hendrixinfinity3992 I'm pretty sure I have read a lot more than you, so no lectures needed. Got a BA in Spanish and Russian, MA in English and Spanish, speak 8 languages, retired teacher and lecturer, been to over 100 countries and worked for long periods in such disparate locations as Oman, USA, Bahamas, France and Colombia. No lectures needed from the likes of you.
I'm not disparaging reading at all. Your own reading comprehension of my words is poor. I pointed out that what YOU need is LESS reading COMPARED with thought, reflection, careful observation of the world, and listening to the opinions of people like me.
What makes you think I have never spoken to union leaders? you assume way too much. "fair pay and adequate time off" are subjective things. both, i would argue, have already been settled by market forces. left wing politics just aims to meddle with the market to benefit the few (union members) at the expense of the rest of society.
The only misinformation spread is by the Left. As I said, put down your lefty literature and just speak to some real people who have global experience of real problems, not ivory tower union leaders who care not a monkey's backside for society as a whole.
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@jamesmain_email6969 Western tanks will make no difference. Russia destroys them all. no air cover, no tanks.
Ukraine started this conflict with hundreds of tanks, and if you believe the Western media, captured loads of abandoned Russian tanks.
what happened to them all?
Throughout this conflict former Warsaw pact counties have been sending as many tanks as they can to Ukraine. what has happened to them all?
The West is in pure panic, because every time they send a "game changer", it makes no difference.
"more stingers, more javelins, more M777s, more himars, more Bradleys" and the chant goes on. but here we are, and the convicts and mercenaries are taking Soledar.
NATO's problem is that it is used to, and everything is predicated on, air superiority. in this conflict, it is the enemy that has air superiority, and NATO is stuck.
Believe me, the Western tanks will roll in, many will be destroyed before they get to the battlefield, and many will be destroyed on the battlefield.
there is also the chance Gerasimov will lead an invasion from Belarus that cuts off the supply route from Poland. Fingers crossed he does.
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