Comments by "duncan smith" (@duncansmith7562) on "Ukraine has seized back 6,000 sq km from Russian occupied forces, says Zelenskyy" video.

Putin still holds all the trump cards and given that Kharkov was never on his objectives list, Putin is still on course to achieve his aims. Many hawkish leaders in Russia are calling for full mobilization and a declaration of war, let's hope that happens so this can be wrapped up sooner rather than later.
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The Russian withdrawal began on Sept 2. this is no heroic victory because there was no battle, even though thousands of Ukrainian cannon fodder got massacred, as in Kherson, Battle of the Bulge, futile last throw of the dice
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@anthonychin1873 I repeat it so the likes of you can get a perspective that the media you swallow, hook line and sinker, can be countered, for once, with the truth of a situation
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@antirashists am sure you will be smiling and laughing all through your freezing winter with inflation, recession, unemployment and pensioners freezing to death....tell me again, the sanctions were supposed to achieve what exactly? ha ha
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@antirashists you are missing the point. the high inflation in Russia is now GOING DOWN, the economy is recovering. the high inflation in the West is GOING UP! Do you get the point? Russia heading in the right direction, the West heading in the wrong direction. The sanctions are working? the aim of the sanctions was to cripple the Russian economy so that Russia could not afford to wage war? You see Russia continuing to wage war, or you see Russia putting an end to all this? I mean maybe you are blind and think the sanctions have really effected a change of attitude in Moscow. if anything, the hawks in Moscow want MORE war, a declaration of war, double the soldiers and unleash the massive stockpiles of weapons Russia has built up. Too much time swallowing Western propaganda has blinded you to the reality. Russia is winning, convincingly. Ukraine is bankrupt, supported only by US aid.....you think US aid will continue forever?. already weapons are being supplied in only a trickle and has to be ordered! NATO is tapped out!
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@anthonychin1873 I'm in touch with a good many Russians and Ukrainians, and I think my grasp of reality in Russia is pretty damn accurate, but hey, if you want to believe the side that said Ghost of Kiev was real, go ahead.
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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 what makes you think Russia can't get spare parts from any third country? Just like Europe is now buying Russian oil via India. Sanctions don't work...just ask Venezuela, Iran and Cuba
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@antirashists the problem is, Wolfgang, that you can't distinguish between propaganda and the truth, hence your confusion and hence the absurd support you give the Azov Nazis in their efforts to commit genocide in Donbass
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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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@anthonychin1873 if "no spare parts" is the crowning achievement of all the Western sanctions, I think we can say the sanctions have failed! What makes you think China doesn't supply Russia with all the spare parts it needs? You see. Western arrogance assumed Russia would be isolated. On the contrary, Russia has plenty of trading partners that will break the sanctions with joy. BIG miscalculation, and now the West is looking isolated as fewer and fewer countries want any sanctions on Russia.
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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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@paulgibbon5991 and yet Paul, the eternal coward, will never put his money where his mouth is and wager that Duncan Smith is a bot. you up for it? $1000 bet that I am no bot? or, are you 100% coward? Like the Azov Nazis you so love
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