Comments by "duncan smith" (@duncansmith7562) on "Sky News" channel.

  1. No, China isn't saying "don't force us to choose sides in this war", China is saying "we will choose Russia if at any point we feel it necessary". Big difference.
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  2. The longer this goes on, the more attractive that Istanbul proposal that got scuppered by Boris Johnson starts to look.
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  3. If Sunak gave Boris a vote of confidence just a few weeks ago, how the hell can he stand now as the great replacement/alternative? new leader gotta be a long term Boris foe, even if that means a backbencher, like David Davis.
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  4. sadly, 2 big things need to happen for France to solve this. 1. a lot more rioting, looting and wanton criminality needs to happen if traditional France is to wake up to its plight. 2. the faces of the rampaging mobs need to be shown and seen on camera so France can see and hear who is responsible. without those two, this will keep happening over and over again.
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  5. "trying to defend their land" it ceased to be "their land" when "they" attacked the civilians of Belgorod, honey.
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  6. Sky News confuses Berlin with Bavaria, Liz Truss confuses the Baltic with the Black Sea...Sergey Lavrov must look at the West's class of '22 and think, "my God, how the hell did this lot graduate from anywhere?"
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  7. "It's not all going Russia's way, because even though the Ukrainian army is getting crushed, Ukraine did manage to target civilians in a block of flats in Belgorod and managed to kill some of the civilians, so that is quite a triumph for both Ukraine and NATO"
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  8. Q: How did Crimea do without a Kerch Bridge for all those years? A: Absolutely fine
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  9. If this were in Ukraine in 2014, it would be called a people's revolution and something we must support
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  10. it's not the city or the rubble of the city that will send NATO into panic. it's the fact Zelensky was warned this would happen, but he threw thousands of cannon fodder to their deaths anyway, plus a bunch of demoralized convicts with shovels beat NATO trained and armed ukrainian battalions, again.
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  11. his paymasters prevent him from saying "the counter offensive has gone nowhere at horrendous cost in lives and weaponry to the beleaguered Ukrainians"
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  12. Russia won't be driven back to the Azov Sea, so dream on.
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  13. would be nice if they got a real military analyst to host this, someone who actually knew something about Russia and Ukraine, say, Brian Berletic.
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  14. the "expert" forgot to repeat that the Wagner convicts and mercenaries in Soledar are low on morale, poorly equipped, poorly led and that NATO's superior training and weapons of the Ukrainian forces will win the day.
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  15. if Ukraine had implemented the Minsk Accords, Russia would not be in Ukraine.
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  16. it;s the latter..they now have to start to tell the truth
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  17. McGregor would destroy Clarke, because Clarke just recites a script from his handlers.
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  18. I have no problem with wealthy individuals who feel guilty about this issue from donating all their wealth to poverty stricken areas like.....Bahamas?
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  19. translation - yep, I went against the advice of NATO and threw thousands of Ukrainian cannon fodder into my futile attempt to defend a city. in the end, despite NATO arms and training of my glorious battalions, a bunch of demoralized convicts armed with just shovels and really poorly led, won. but no panic, yet another wonder weapon is on the way, so our march to Crimea is guaranteed. Zaluzhny, currently in a coma in hospital, will comment later.
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  20. Ukraine had to switch to plan B, distract the world's focus from the failure of the counter offensive
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  21. calling Putin a nobody is like the captain of the Titanic ignoring the iceberg
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  22. "Russia's ILLEGAL invasion of Ukraine" Would love to know Bell's list of LEGAL invasions in world history, and how he would explain which laws make the ILLEGAL ones so ILLEGAL.
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  23.  @Paludion  because they can't announce any positive news from their disaster of an offensive
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  24. so the answer is we have no idea how to deal with inflation, but we are happy to print loads more money and throw it at inflation, thus making inflation worse.
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  25. so, Rupert is surprised air power has not played such an important role in this war? then Rupert is not much of an expert, is he? Both Russia and Ukraine had excellent air defence systems at the start of the conflict. explains everything. Ukraine's air defences have since been depleted, hence a lot of extra air cover from Russia over Avdiivka and over Bakhmut recently. Come on Rupert, learn the basics.
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  26. progress
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  27.  @davidboskett5581  Ukraine threw away its best bet for existence when it walked out of the negotiations in 2022.
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  28.  @GalAxy-u9s  yep, Minsk would have retained Donbass within the borders of Ukraine. The West thought Russia could be bullied into backing down over time. Ooops!
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  29. existential fight for Russia. Not for the West. Russia will win.
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  30.  @blacklion8208  not at all. MacGregor gets challenged by interviewers and will explain the reasoning behind his conclusions. Clarke has never been challenged by anyone to substantiate a single thing he blabbers, ever.
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  31.  @EYDuff  it's not progress when the result of probing is 30,000 dead and 20% of your weaponry up in smoke and still nowhere near the first line of defence.
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  32. clearly more diversity and equity officers are needed urgently for the NHS
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  33. too late! Russia has already forgotten about the West altogether, and good riddance.
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  34. because, as he fully explained, TO HIS KNOWLEDGE there were no plans to invade.
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  35. the Ukronazia counter offensive must be going terribly for Clarke to spend 3 minutes on talking about the ZNPP only.
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  36. brilliant as a liar and propagandist
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  37. "yep, stay with Ukraine, even if the UK becomes a nation of paupers, because as an MP I will never be poor or needy, but the masses can be plunged into poverty for all I care"
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  38. as always, no mention of the Ukrainian casualties in Bakhmut, his handler doesn't want the Russian kill rate of 8:1 against Ukrainian cannon fodder mentioned.
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  39.  @omarionbayley9721  Russia has reliable allies in this conflict. Ukraine doesn't.
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  40. if she applauded lockdowns, green energy, sanctions on Russia and unlimited aid to Ukraine, then she has what she deserves. harsh lesson on cause and effect for her.
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  41.  @Khryss-jr7ju  Russia broke nothing. we already have Poroshenko, Hollande and Merkel on record explaining that the priority of the Minsk Agreements was to buy time for Ukraine to gain strength. How many meetings did Holland and Merkel have to discuss ways of getting Minsk implemented?
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  42. Many thanks for the latest update from the Ukrainian Ministry of Propaganda.
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  43. and all this because the Ukronazis just could not allow Donbass to be autonomous. Compelling Russian speaking communities to ukrainianization was just too important.
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  44. Should Ukraine pay for every one of its war crimes too, or we give dear Ukraine a pass?
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  45. Brexit must also be to blame for the record number of flight cancelations and horrendous delays at Europe's two most over-stretched airports.......Frankfurt and Brussels! and the hundreds of miles of traffic jams today in France. All Brexit.
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  46. "can attacks like this be described as war crimes?" the very question I asked myself when NATO attacked infrastructure in Serbia and USA did the same in Iraq.
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  47. Russia already won...he has secured Crimea, he has his land corridor, and pretty wide it is too, and Donbass within his grasp. Game over. Russia wins, Ukraine/NATO loses and is humiliated.
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  48. As he stated at the end, no reason for Russia to cut off water supply to Crimea. Every reason for Ukraine to cut off water supply to Crimea. So, which side is more likely to attack the dam?
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  49.  @BenDover-1  exactly, while Ukrainian 16 yr olds are now being called up and are just weeks away from being sent into the Russian meatgrinder. Bet they wish they could go to Thailand.
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  50. a thousand people arrested is an enormous number? in a nation of 150 million? Talk sense man! per capita, more people got arrested last week in Leicester
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  51. So, Ukraine still winning, right? Ghost of Kiev was real, right?
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  52. Bearing in mind Biden said he was going to take down Nordstream back in Feb, the only question remaining is if USA used an ally to do it, or did it themselves
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  53.  @Tobez1  No one invaded Donbass in 2014. The DPR and LPR declared independence, at which point the Azov battalion thought it was a really good idea to shell the city of Donetsk into submission, but found the DPR and LPR forces, yes, with Russian support, were prepared to give the Azovs as much fire as the Azovs could launch against Donetsk. The actual fighting was started by the Ukrainians. Why would 2 newly declared independent republics need to fight anyone?
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  54. Hungary and Serbia figured out a long time ago that Russia will win, so best to keep on Russia's good side for the future.
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  55. Stuart Ramsey not trying too hard to hide his campaign for Lula in that vote. Bizarre assumption that the favela voters will go for Lula.
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  56. Notice how all the talk is about throwing money (hot off the printing presses) at the problem, and not addressing the causes
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  57. Zelensky absolutely delighted that more Ukrainian cannon fodder will get to end up biting the dust before total capitulation and surrender. Zelensky has improved his country so much since taking power under the promise of "peace in Donbass"
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  58. anyone who blames the war in Ukraine, as opposed to the sanctions on Russia, as an exacerbating factor on inflation, doesn't understand economics. or does, but has to follow their paymaster's instructions.
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  59. "we feel like it's coming together" right, so the teenagers and pensioners have all had their 2 weeks basic training, the 14 challenger tanks are in position, no air cover and no ammo, but hey, it's only Russia we have to defeat.
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  60. Love the pretence that Ukraine has massive forces and weaponry to follow up any breakthrough.
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  61. for lies and propaganda
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  62. "they've been thinking about it for a long time, we are sure about that" the ever confident mind-reader who knows every machination of Putin and his boys. not.
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  63. Once again, the totally predictable lie about the mythical Kherson counteroffensive. The map never changes, and Ukraine has TALKED about a Kherson counteroffensive now for 3 months. It's pathetic. But I guess it keeps the billions in aid rolling in.
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  64. the offensive is actually going quite well...the Russian one that is. In the Svatove, Lyman, Kupiansk areas, Russian gains are really stretching Ukraine's resources. strange that Bell refuses to mention the Russian offensive!
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  65. Ah, Justin Crump, he who predicted the massive Kherson offensive would see Kherson recaptured by Ukraine in September, back to lecture us on more things he will predict inaccurately
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  66. Russia holds all the cards. Ukraine begging for weapons to delay the moment the last Ukrainian soldier is gunned down, then Zelensky retires happy ever after to his mansion in Miami..the usual NATO playbook
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  67.  @gfzgf3  possibly the invasion force amassed by Ukraine, destination Donbass was a factor of slightly more importance than emulating Peter the Great.
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  68. "superior weapons and training"? NATO trained and equipped Ukrainian battalions just got routed by a bunch of convicts and drunken mercenaries in Soledar! Get real!
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  69.  @sasa1982uk  but let's consider what he has FAILED to say! Has he EVER speculated that the Russian tactical withdrawal resulted in massive losses for the Ukrainians? I have ONLY ever heard Clarke state that Russian losses are far higher than Ukrainian losses. Clarke NEVER explains why NATO is incapable of sending the ammo and weaponry needed by Ukraine. Things we never hear from Clarke, a list of reasons NATO can't send what Ukraine needs. Clarke has only ever focused on failings in Russian recruitment (which even Zaluzhny said was, in fact, completed successfully) while avoided commenting on who exactly Ukraine is recruiting these days. Clarke is pure propaganda. Focuses on Russia's failings and apparent Ukrainian successes, hence so many people who watch Sky have no clue of the reality on the ground. Came as a big shock when Sky viewers learned that the convicts and drunken mercenaries, poorly led, poorly equipped, poorly trained, defeated NATO trained and equipped and advised battalions in Soledar and Bakhmut.
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  70. The Butcher of Bakhmut planning his next step to get thousands more Ukrainian cannon fodder massacred
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  71. Notice how his entire focus is on speculating how many Russians have died in these battles, never what the cost is to Ukraine's cannon-fodder. His paymaster has prepared his script to biased perfection
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  72. Nice life. elenska spends 40,000 euros in Paris, and yet gets to criticize other rich people for not doing enough.
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  73. yep, and it could be that extra Russian forces are needed to restore order in France, where the mutiny there is making Prigozhin's 24 hours of mischief look like a tea party
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  74. yep, maybe Belarus will contribute all of 12 tanks to the Russian effort!
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  75. Surovikin is an air force guy. makes sense, if massive air power is about to be unleashed on Ukraine, that Surovikin focus on that, but as usual, Clarke just giving a load of guff in his wishful thinking way, "Oh Surovikin was demoted, tail wagging the dog" nonsense. he forgot to mention that Russia is running out of weapons and that Russian morale is low! am sure he'll remember his talking points next time.
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  76. never the quickest lad in the class, Clarke finally realizing the Russian attacks on Ukrainian power grid were all about depleting Ukrainian air defences, not primarily about knocking out the national power grid.
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  77. again, wrong, Russia does have time. Russia takes years over its military objectives....look at Chechnya and Syria. Russia may take 2 more years to liberate Donbass. NATO may take 2 more months to run out of ammo, which would make things easier.
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  78. I must say, all those people boarding the ferries looked absolutely horror-stricken, quaking in their boots.
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  79. 16th wave of strikes, that makes 13 since Ben Wallace said Russia was running out of missiles and wouldn't be able to do this again. 15 waves since UK said it would be sending sophisticated air defences to prevent such attacks.
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  80. "they maybe having some success".....Clarke's weasel way of saying "Russia is advancing"
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  81. @karmakazi apart from Bakhmut, there are quite a few other reasons NATO should be panicking. 1. the sanctions on Russia have failed. there is no evidence at all that the Russian economy is unduly suffering. Indeed, the IMF revised upwards its estimate of economic growth in Russia over the next year. 2. NATO never planned for a long term war of attrition. on the contrary, NATO over the last decade has reduced output of artillery and ammo. Russia, on the other hand, planned for all this. 3. Ukraine is bankrupting the NATO defence budgets. US produces about 250 Patriot missiles per annum! Ukraine used 30 of them just 3 nights ago, and STILL failed to hit the kinzhal that wiped out the Patriot battery! 4. Public opinion is turning against unlimited aid to Ukraine. Already, in Germany, more than 50% of the population are against sending more weapons to Ukraine. As the months roll by, more and more of the people will get fed up of Ukraine. NATO has failed and has good reason to panic that it is staring humiliation in the face. But then again, after Kabul in 2021, what's new?
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  82. not news. it's called summer.
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  83. yep, look how it went last time. while the bulk of Ukraine's troops were pinned down in and around Kiev, Russia snatched Kherson, Zaporizhe and chunks of Lugansk and Donetsk almost unopposed. try it a second time and their southern forces may well advance to the Dnipr. Game over.
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  84. I guess so, and she is no doubt a massive fan of the oh so legal mass bombing of Libya and Belgrade
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  85. Waiting for the Sky report on the many places where temperatures are normal or below normal. hmmmm. and something tells me, once the "scientists" have made all their adjustments to the data, Sardinia will indeed break the European record, by hook or by crook.
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  86. true, which speaks volumes for the banana republic so much of Europe has become. Trump has done nothing criminal.
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  87. absolute dreamer. the tanks won't even be able to stop a Russian advance, let alone lead an offensive to Melitopol. someone needs to remind this fool that Ukraine had plenty of tanks this time last year. they all got destroyed.
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  88. the option of withdrawing, apart from a small number of troops on foot, has gone. Zelensky has not opted to sacrifice his cannon fodder in Bakhmut. He left it too late, so now he has to pretend he chose that option. Churchill, he is not.
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  89. bla bla bla
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  90. nope. that was Jean E Carrol
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  91.  @blacklion8208  just as one example, McGregor will go into detail to explain the limitations NATO has on expanding ammo, shells, missile production. Clarke will NEVER analyze the details of military production. anything that might destroy his narrative, Clarke ignores, never tackles. he never has to!
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  92.  @MikeTHEBOSS  on the contrary, McGregor has explained NATO's limitations precisely and has got it spot on so far. Clarke, on the other hand, just lies.
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  93.  @steveosborne2297  McGregor needs no notes, but talks from the heart about his experiences in NATO and has insights Clarke only dreams of.
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  94. she should speak to some refugees from Donbass, then she would understand why this has happened. or, she could have just paid attention to things happening in Donbass since the 2014 coup.
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  95.  @billcarson818  so how do the poor Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants succeed and prosper?
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  96. if the war ended tomorrow and all sanctions remained in place, the economy would still be in a downward spiral. if the war kept going and sanctions against Russia were all removed, the economy would start to improve. The economy would really improve if sanctions were removed AND Russia agreed to restore trade with the West.
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  97. no one on the Russian side has ever mentioned an offensive. Only the babbling Ukronazi supporters go on about offensives
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  98. The himars that was sold to Russia by Ukraine, was that "making excellent use" of it? And the two that were already destroyed by Russia, was that an example of "making excellent use" of new weapons?
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  99. yeah, maybe soon he will admit the fall of Mariupol.
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  100. and we all know how charisma puts food on the table for a poor family
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  101. Ukraine's steady withdrawals and retreats means it is well on the way to liberating Crimea, right?
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  102. this is just hilarious. talking of a planned Ukraine offensive in Zaporozhe when, as we speak, it is Russia advancing in Zaporozhe, the Kremina offensive stalled months ago and it is Russia closing in on Siversk. So funny this old dolt assumes Ukraine still has experienced tank crews after so many of them died in their metal coffins over the last 11 months.
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  103.  @Robert-xy4xi  so true. NATO was so sure the sanctions would work and that Russia would not stay and fight. oh dear. NATO got it wrong. now what do we do?
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  104. right, so Russia suffered horrendous humiliation and defeats on the ground when it used flexible warfare to pull out of Kherson and Kharkov, but Zelensky pulling out of Bakhmut would be a tactical maneuver to save troops and weaponry for future battles. Got it.
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  105. Even propagandist Bell knows that repeating "shaping operations" now we are in week FIVE sounds bloody ridiculous.
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  106. but not drugged up so much he couldn't react with lightening precision to get out of the airbnb when the neighbor rang the doorbell
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  107. and now, the truth. after 6 days of this failed counter-offensive, Ukraine has sustained massive losses in both men and weaponry. Yes, Leopard 2's and Bradleys have been destroyed. No territory has been gained, and at no point along the front has Ukraine/NATO punched through this Russian forward position. The Russian defence lines have not seen any action, because the Russian forward forces have smashed the enemy. Just a question of how long it will take NATO to understand the futility of this attack.
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  108. "Moscow's indiscriminate use of violence"...oh, in the name of fair and balanced coverage, will the next report mention the deaths yesterday in Donetsk of those shelled by Ukraine's indiscriminate attack, or is the idea to stick with the propaganda approach and just report one side?
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  109. Farage is the one that understands the nation's problems best.
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  110. agreed, Ukronazi shelling of the Zaporozhe plant will continue, so that could be the next Ukrainian war crime.
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  111. remember the days when Clarke and Bell were banging on about low Russian morale, poor Russian equipment, bad Russian leadership? Since Soledar they gave up those talking points.
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  112. Given that the aim is to weaken Russia, according to Lloyd Austin, the Ukraine project is going well, because despite the kill rate of 7:1 in Russia's favor, Ukraine is still stupid enough to keep fighting until all Ukrainians are dead, and Russia is slightly weakened.
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  113. it meant we CHOOSE to control our own borders if we so wish, as opposed to having no control of our borders. We just need a government with the wisdom to decide HOW we control our borders. I would suggest goods arriving from the EU don't need to be checked. I would suggest immigrants arriving by dinghy do need to be checked. .
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  114. Odessa is dear to the hearts of ethnic Russians, was the scene of the Union House Massacre, is on a valuable coastal stretch, and would link nicely with Transnistria...my bet is Russia will insist on Odessa and Kharkov at least.
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  115. next time, mention the fact that Ukraine gained Kherson city, only to have to evacuate it and lose yet even more troops in the Russian artillery onslaught from the safety of the left bank. A Russian trap, beautifully executed.
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  116. so much for "living with covid" policy, back to futile rules and restrictions
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  117.  @jeckjeck3119  on the contrary. sacrificing tens of thousands of troops in a futile attempt to retain Bakhmut means defeat. Had Zelensky followed U.S. advice to do what Russia did in Kherson and Kharkov, a strategic withdrawal, the Ukronazis would be in a better position today.
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  118.  @TheTomexification  assuming the priority was to take the village over feeding as many Ukrainian teenage recruits into the Wagner meatgrinder as possible. in the end, three birds with one stone, Soledar taken, thousands of Ukronazis shredded, and the convicts doing much of the heavy work. Mission accomplished.
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  119. "looking at making advances" = failing to make advances. everything these days is Russia making advances and Ukraine failing to make advances
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  120. "the only big city the Russians have taken"...except Mariupol is much bigger, and Severodonetsk ain't tiny.
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  121.  @anjalicgirl  the Kerch Bridge has nothing to do with Ukraine. The Kerch Bridge was built after Crimea voted to, and indeed became, part of the Russian Federation. Only in your fantasy world does the Kerch Bridge have any connection with Ukraine. Time to wake up, honey.
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  122. "his family say they are in a living nightmare" his family are a living nightmare.
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  123. who would have ever thought that printing money in abundance, paying healthy people to stay home and not work, increasing debt and sanctioning Russia would lead to rampant inflation and real pay decreases?
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  124.  @thomasbaader6629  funny, then, how everything McGregor has said has come true!
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  125.  @henkhenk7467  one km a day + 1000 Ukrainian casualties a day...give the full picture:)
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  126. Get it right! ffs. Jay never said to anyone that he intended to walk to Los Cristianos.
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  127. The best thing Lithuania can do to minimize Russian aggression is to start treating its ethnic Russians with fairness and equality. Ditto Latvia.
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  128. even if the ukronazis did it? we give them a free pass, don't we?
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  129. especially to those Russian speaking Ukrainians defending their Donbass homeland
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  130. i agree. given the hilarious propaganda he spouts, it's fun to see him twist and turn and try to explain how Ukraine is winning every time.
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  131. they'll just get destroyed.. Russian air defences are excellent.
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  132. so calling up reservists is "desperation" (I guess USA and UK were both "desperate" when they did the same thing for Afghanistan and Iraq) but Ukraine's forbidding any male under 60 from leaving Ukraine and instituting full mobilization is...well...NOT desperate?
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  133. "they're not military targets to why does Russia keep doing it?" ask NATO, as NATO did the same in Serbia, and USA did the same in Iraq. Russia should be applauded for copying the "rules based international order" to perfection.
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  134. translation - The Wagners have won and the Ukronazis have been kicked out of Bakhmut. The ukronazis in Chasov Yar are now bricking it. There is no evidence of any counter offensive brewing, just incessant morale boosting talk of a counter offensive. the demoralized drunken convicts armed with just shovels have kicked out the NATO armed and trained Bandera battalions. end of report.
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  135. not yet. how many will get destroyed before they see action on the front lines?
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  136. "after repeated defeats elsewhere" when the kill rate is 8:1 in Russia's favor, every day is a victory for Russia.
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  137. remind me, sanctions against Russia were supposed to cripple the Russian economy and effect a change in leadership, or supposed to cripple the British economy and effect a change in leadership?
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  138. it's "expert" analysis like this twaddle that tells me Russia is winning.
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  139.  @richardbutler2749  a reflection of your warped mind
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  140.  @tomarmstrong1281  The UK alone has a prime minister that was never voted in as PM by the voters, and a Foreign Secretary who received zero votes to represent the UK citizens in the last election.
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  141. What, Russia is advancing during the great Ukrainian Spring counter offensive? Send more Javelins! (oh wait, that was last year's battle cry)
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  142. Ukraine never had any nuclear weapons. The USSR had all nuclear weapons.
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  143. if this is the result of climate change, i want more of it. keep spewing out more CO2 everyone, my January days here in Spain are feeling wonderful.
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  144. "back safely in Ukrainian hands" - oxymoron
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  145. Totally explains why Sweden and Germany said they could not announce findings "for security reasons" (an ally is responsible). Totally explains why Liz Truss was bundled out of power too.
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  146. "the leadership of the Western powers have remained united over this conflict" Scholz would disagree, having been bullied into escalating the death and destruction in Ukraine, and the people feel quite differently from the leaders. Ordinary people are more focused on poverty and inflation. Outside of the West, many are hoping Russia wins or they just don't care.
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  147. so Russia is still on the back foot, and Ukraine is winning, but now Russia is advancing across Zaporozhe, Vugledar and around Bakhmut. hmm
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  148. the call from the US, to withdraw and fight another day and to save lives and weaponry, came only 6 months too late. NATO living up to its Kabul 2021 reputation.
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  149. bullshit. "operational silence" means Ukraine is a spent force. weapons supply down to a trickle, the Kherson offensive petered out weeks ago, Ukraine has nothing more to throw at Russia in these parts. the referenda are going ahead without any disruptions. Russia has won.
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  150. looks like her body fat should give pretty good insulation from the cold. was that two or three sugars she heaped into her free cup of tea?
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  151. true to form, this fool Bell is ignorant of some salient points. Ukraine benefits enormously because now all the mines protecting Russia's east side of the Dnipro have washed away. A Russian advance across the Dnipro has been eliminated, so much needed ukronazi cannon fodder can be shipped off to the killing fields of Zaporozhe, hurray! Crimea's water supply is now in jeopardy the world is now focused on this rather than the disaster of Bakhmut and the pathetic counter offensive that can't even break through any Russian forward positions.
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  152. "clearly deliberately"....so, he has the evidence that there is absolutely no way that this was a missile fragment that was intercepted by Ukrainians, and/or he has the evidence the person responsible for firing this intended the target to be the shopping center, not the barracks next door? Also, was the Ukrainian shelling of the market in Donetsk recently also "clearly deliberate"...strange he is silent on that one! Remember, "Russia bad, Ukraine good" always, Infantile analysis
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  153. no excuse needed to exit the grain deal.
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  154. "Putin's illegal war in Ukraine". We have now had 2 PMs blame Putin for the economic disaster that is the UK, let's see if the third PM will blame Putin and meet the same ignominious end. At some point, someone has to realize blaming Putin won't work.
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  155. oh right, so if BBC and one woman from a village say it is a fully open and functioning mall, then it MUST be. I wonder what RT and one woman from a village in Crimea happen to say?
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  156.  @benanders4412  so true
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  157. Russia is playing its cards well .
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  158. and all this because Ben Wallace finally told the truth
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  159. Paris looks like, and is, as unsafe as Baghdad or Kinshasa. Anyone who goes there is asking for massive trouble.
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  160. on the contrary. we already had Brexit when none of this inflation was around. Look at the real causes. Lockdowns, sanctions on Russia and unlimited aid to Ukraine. Brexit obviously isn't the cause, otherwise how to explain the same rampant inflation all over the EU?
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  161.  @coldspirit9904  DPR, LPR and Crimea all chose to separate from Ukraine after the 2014 coup. Crimean parliament voted to be annexed by Russia (it's called democracy) while DPR and LPR voted for independence. So the destruction of Ukraine happened because the Ukronazis just couldn't accept the Russian speaking areas wanted out. Egged on by the West, the Ukronazis thought they could face down Russia. Bad move. Ukraine will be totally destroyed, and then the West will move on to the next victim country.
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  162. Expect India and Brazil to put some pressure on the deluded G7 to push Zelensky to the peace table! BRICS and OPEC are making it clear, they will support Russia and it is the G7 that needs to start putting pressure on Zelensky to start negotiating.
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  163. No mention of the thousands of cannon fodder being shoved into the Russian meatgrinder. With Clarke, it's all about territory. Lives matter not.
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  164. and some people believe Ghost of Kiev is real.
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  165.  @nicke0b  so how did Russia pick up the pace after autumn?
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  166. heavy toll? pray tell, oh ye of all the facts and figures, exactly how many orcs died due to the last winter? what number did your research team come up with?
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  167.  @ddoppster  really "dave"..feel free to correct my atrocious English mdr
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  168.  @David-ry9ly  it was Milley who made up the 3 day nonsense.
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  169. If Liz Truss weren't so absorbed with becoming PM, she might do her usual trick of begging the Ukrainians to help when the person concerned is in the DPR, not in Ukraine.
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  170. Surovikin delighted to see so much Ukrainian attention paid to the Belarus border while he gets his invasion force ready for Zaporozhe and Kharkov. Slava Rossiyi, fingers crossed Zelensky keeps sending cannon fodder into the Wagner meatgrinder.
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  171. talking about Zelensky?
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  172.  @jeffreybresnahan  great point. i often use Fallujah as an example of how no matter what your numbers are, nor your competency, capturing and occupying a town, house by house, is a damn dirty, complicated and time consuming project.
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  173. Russia also blew up its own pipeline, and attacked its own bridge in Crimea, and killed Miss Dugina, and....we get the picture, MSM
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  174.  @davidthompson9141  well said.
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  175. fiddling while Rome burns. Dec 21 to March 21 is winter, the difficulties have only just started. so futile. Russia will win and dictate terms. NATO powerless to turn the tide.
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  176. until all the boats are towed back to France, this won't stop.
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  177.  @richardbutler2749  yeah, who would support a guy who secured the nation's borders, expanded the economy, and sent no US forces into any new conflict? just so astounding!
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  178.  andrewgrey6226  I see, so the UN is the sole judge and jury of the legal status of an invasion? Have all UN members signed an agreement to abide by this legal standard? Yes? No? What is the legal definition of "authoritarian nation"? Does Ukraine match the definition of "authoritarian nation" for invading the DPR and LPR who don't "want to be a part of" Ukraine? Was the US invasion of Afghanistan a legal invasion?
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  179.  @wesleymbewe9339  exactly so....few people understand why the US/NATO shock and awe aerial bombardment DOESN'T in fact win a war.
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  180. "the only major city it's captured in Kherson"....uh, Kherson IS the only major city in Kherson!
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  181.  @trogdortpennypacker6160  so true. who knows, maybe Bojo never thought his promises of NATO ensuring victory would come back to bite him, personally. so far, given the media refuse to grill him on his infamous Kiev visit, Bojo is not in any trouble, but come the Russian victory, all the finger pointing will start, and Bojo will have some tough questions to answer.
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  182. so, the Jew has decided to lecture the Arabs on what the Arabs must do to help Ukrainian Muslims. No doubt Kadyrov would have a different message, one Muslim to another.
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  183.  @vannustube  ah, I see, so it is only a war crime if lots of water is in the dam! where is the line drawn? how much water must be in the dam for it to qualify as a war crime?
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  184. Hey, Air Marshall, any news on the Russian advances in Bakhmut? Any news on the massive buildup of Russian forces in Belarus? Any news on the kill rate? Still 5 Ukrainians massacred for every 1 Russian loss? Any possibility civilians are being moved out of Kherson to accommodate the 100,000 Russian troops setting up for the advance on Odessa? Any news on what percentage of Ukraine without power? Air Marshall.....which grandmother is more likely to freeze to death on Christmas Day? The one in Ukraine, the one in Frankfurt or the one in Moscow? Ghost of Kiev ready to win the day?
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  185. such a massive missile, such a big hit, that a few hours later both rail and road bridge are open again.
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  186. when it used to hit 50C in Oman and work places closed, the Indians used to go to he park to play cricket. UK, grow a pair.
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  187.  @jeffthompson8551  as an ignorant Russian bot, let me correct your English, "Jeff". "why do all Bots have the name of Smith or Jones?"......preceding "Jones" with the word "the" makes no sense.
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  188. what is a bit confusing is that it was Ukraine that was continuously shelling the Russian side of the dam, yet Ukraine pointing the finger of terrorism at Russia. So, what was the objective of the Ukrainian shelling of Nova Kakovka?
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  189.  @parnamsaini4751  really
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  190.  @sasa1982uk  ok, it may be hard to prove he lies. If we take a lie to be something one says which, at the moment one says it, one knows it to be untrue, maybe when he says "morale is very low among the Russian troops" he really thinks he is saying the truth, but then, only a fool would presume to know the spirit of a group of fighting men in Mariupol while broadcasting from London.
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  191. right now the only hope Ukraine has is to keep talking about a counter offensive to keep NATO engaged. the writing is on the wall for NATO's failed "weaken Russia by using Ukronazia in a proxy war" project, and deservedly so.
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  192. "The Belarussian people do not want to get involved in this war" Bell has worked hard scouring Belarus to conduct such a poll. what were the final numbers? gives us the precise percentages of the Belarussian voters' opinion, please!
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  193.  @mbusombuso9119  i think the rainy weather and muddy fields gave Ukraine the perfect excuse for delaying their offensive, and no doubt when it has all dried out we will be given another excuse for not going on the offensive, like Easter break.
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  194. Crimea is part of Russia, so no Ukrainian consent is needed
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  195. "Kherson is the one major city Putin has captured so far".....Mariupol is bigger and of much greater importance. that Russian capture slipped his memory, conveniently
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  196. so what?
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  197. gotta smile at the pampered old buffer in his country mansion telling us that people who have no electricity and water will have their will strengthened by all this. he would probably have the said the same thing about the Japanese the day after Hiroshima.
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  198. what happened to the massive arsenal of tanks Ukraine had at the start of the invasion? what will prevent what happened to the massive arsenal of tanks Ukraine had at the beginning of the invasion happening again? which bridges will be used across the Dnipr to get these tanks to the front line?
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  199. it's important for Jay's family to keep funding the search to continue ad infinitum, otherwise the Police might start searching in the right area.
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  200. "will ensure that Putin doesn't get a victory before the first snow begin to fall." but doesn't ensure that Putin won't get a victory one week AFTER the first snowfall?
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  201. what with? pensioners and teenagers fresh from their 2 weeks of training?
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  202. Victory to the Donbass
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  203. this is the crap that happens with socialized medicine. scrap it. privatize it.
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  204. after 17 months of this conflict, and bulls*****r Bell still can't pronounce Shoigu's name right. and still no word on why Zaluzhny disappeared! what useless reporting.
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  205. Clarke's ignorance of things Russian is just astounding. He knows nothing. He should have listened to Putin more carefully to truly understand what Russia's objectives are.
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  206. evidence?
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  207.  @spage80  what is a "Memorandum" as opposed to a treaty, or agreement, or accord? Also, look at point 6 of the Budapest memorandum. Which side broke Point 6 in December 2021?
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  208. Labour wanted longer lockdowns, which would have created more excess deaths and illnesses, not less
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  209.  @barrylane1055  the truth
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  210.  @stuartx7865  tell me, when idiots like Bell tell us that morale in the Russian army is low, what does he base that conclusion on?
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  211. plenty of help for Ukraine's military, nothing more for UK's sick and needy
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  212. Russia happy to prove Ben Wallace wrong and regularly remind Wallace that Russia is not running out of weapons
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  213.  @markushayes  and then there are some fools who don't realize how great Trump is as a leader.
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  214.  andrewgrey6226  sorry, one last question. was the Norman invasion of 1066 legal? If not, why not?
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  215. what about combat experience and working in coordination with other offensive forces, can all that be compressed into a few weeks of practice too?
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  216. what makes anyone think Western tanks will arrive? which bridges will these tanks take to cross the Dnipr? which of those bridges will Russia leave intact?
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  217. since when was the truth also "ugly"?
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  218. they are just liars. wise up.
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  219. yet more evidence that the elites in power have absolutely no clue what the masses feel is important. holding my breath for the referendum on drastically reducing immigration in Ireland
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  220. Bell, just like Hitler in his Berlin bunker, drawing massive arrows and talking big offences when there is nothing on the ground for Ukraine to attack with.
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  221. let's hope Zelinsky has a good lawyer
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  222.  @HamidKhalid369  not for Nahel. the bullet in his thorax dominated him. al ham du lilah
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  223.  @kevinmcfalls945  so what was the death toll on the Ukrainian side? Was Kherson a strategic fallback to prepared positions for the Russians?
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  224.  @amacke4736  on the contrary. many leaders on your ukronazi side have reverted to calling Russia a "superpower" again now that they have seen how it withstands sanctions, is popular and well supported worldwide, and has managed to demilitariza all of NATO.
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  225.  @dwightd.eisenhower2031  every Leopard 2 i see go up in flames helps me cope just wonderfully, Danke, Adolf.
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  226.  @kirkpatrick7475  Ukraine has never succeeded in any street by street battle! Again, here is the list! Popasnaya, Lyzychansk, Sieverodonetsk, Mariupol, Soledar, Bakhmut plus 101 villages and other settlements. Ukraine/NATO never wins, and that is what is causing panic among the NATO leaders.
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  227.  @kirkpatrick7475  Russia has failed in every area? Ukraine or Russia has half the country as refugees or displaced? Ukraine or Russia is bankrupt and dependent on the West to fund government? Ukraine or Russia has to beg every day for help just to survive? Ukraine or Russia has lost 20% of its territory to the other? Ukraine or Russia is having to recruit pensioners and teenagers? Ukraine or Russia has half its power grid destroyed every 3 weeks or so?Your definition of "winning" is very different from mine.
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  228. I Know! It's on a par with the "Ghost of Kiev" bullshit that the ...oh wait, that was Ukraine that made that up.
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  229. wild guess....yet another crazed Buddhist monk who yelled "Buddha Akhbar" as he opened fire.
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  230. it's a pathetic response to the latest batch of 20,000 Ukrainian cannon fodder dead and buried after experiencing the Russian meatgrinder. Get real.
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  231. yet again, we see the results of a useless government, and compliant "opposition", having printed loads of money to pay perfectly healthy people to stay at home and not work. Pay disputes will all be linked to the rampant inflation the government and "opposition" has wrought upon us.
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  232. that's just hilarious, the big yellow arrow pointing towards Tokmak. it's bull. the Ukronazis are stalled, they are nowhere near Tokmak and now we are in WEEK EIGHT, the clock is clicking to the end of the summer fighting season. Russia is winning.
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  233.  @dyggas  less missiles compared to whom, or when?
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  234.  @stevenmartin8828  we're not talking facts. we're talking impressions. there is no way to scientifically measure "reliability of allies". but my impression is that Iran and N Korea in particular are 100% behind Russia. Ukraine's allies SAY they are 100% behind Ukraine, but they are not. otherwise they would deliver 100% what Ukraine keeps begging for.
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  235. yeah, right, this MP is at home shivering in sweaters. pull the other one.
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  236. so Rupert believes the latest wild guess numbers from the US Security Council and totally dismisses the numbers revealed by the Discord document leak. I wonder why
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  237.  @lucyboyce7491  indeed there is. baffles me why anyone would doubt that Biden fulfilled his promise.
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  238. working on his next script of fantasy that explains how Ukraine is still winning
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  239. sanctions on Russia were SUCH a good idea, boosted energy costs so that people are freezing all winter, but not in Russia
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  240. so all the Russians in trenches are vulnerable, but Ukrainians in trenches are safe. the level of thinking of NATO revealed by this deluded "expert"
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  241. if Putin's aim is to confuse analysts in the West, Putin has succeeded magnificently. this guy confesses he is confused by the Belarus move.
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  242. The Minsk Accords were not implemented by Poroshenko, so there is your answer
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  243. there is only one policy that would work, and that is to make asylum claims obligatory from outside the UK, not from within the UK.
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  244. "Putin's regime will lose in the long run", right, like Cuba's, like Venezuela's, like Iran's, because those sanctions have a track record of working so well.
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  245.  @sammyleaves9777  where is Ukraine "coming back"? Eurovision Song Contest?
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  246. the biggest deterrent would be to make asylum claims obligatory from outside the UK
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  247. The ultimate desperate act of Zelensky as he sees the Bakhmut disaster followed up by the catastrophic failure of his pathetic counter offensive. Zelensky has reached a new low.
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  248. if Ukraine can't even beat Wales for a World Cup place, Ukraine sure as hell can't beat Russia in a land war. Good night. Volodymir....enjoy your mansion in Miami.
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  249. believing their own propaganda. we were expected to believe Russia was shelling its own forces at the nuclear power plant it occupied, now we are expected to believe the Russians destroyed their own pipeline which was delivering no gas. Next, we'll be told Ghost of Kiev was real, that the sanctions are working and that the vaccine stops the spread of the virus.
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  250. the Zelensky curse: all who back him eventually get booted. Draghi, Johnson, Truss, Marin, Rutte, soon Sanchez, Macron with no parliamentary majority, Scholz's coalition fragile, Biden with a year and a bit to survive. Putin, like Assad, will survive all those pious Western dopes calling for his ousting. and that includes this dunce Clarke. Once Russia has prevailed, fools like Clarke will be revealed as a total charlatan.
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  251.  @bottomhat2534  just like all the weaponry Ukraine had at the beginning of the conflict, Russia will find it and destroy it. get real.
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  252. all the leaders are united....keep impoverishing the citizens of the G7 by throwing tax payers' money at a futile attempt to beat Russia in a land war, until the last Ukrainian is dead and Putin dictates how the surrender looks. Got it. Any wonder why people now focus on whatever sanity pay come out of the BRICS group rather than G7?
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  253. Russia tried to take Kiev? Russia conspicuously AVOIDED trying to take Kiev! Russia bombarded and pinned down countless Ukrainian forces while Russian troops in the south seized Kherson and Zaporozhe unopposed! Learn the basics!
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  254. the very fact this discussion is happening shows just how much Russia is free compared to Scotland.
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  255.  @titteryenot4524  so no worries at all then about NATO supplies to Ukraine, even though Biden said "we have to send cluster bombs because our stocks of 155mm shells are so low"?
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  256. much more money should be sent to Ukraine. that will help our NHS recover
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  257. Gotta laugh at the MOD's term "illegal invasion of Ukraine", as if NATO's bombing of sovereign Serbia and Libya was all perfectly legal.
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  258. As Amnesty International pointed out, Ukronazis use human shields, so the missile attack on Avdiivka may well have been targetting troops and/or weaponry. Fair game.
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  259. just laughable. NATO is sending whatever it can lay its hands on in pure desperation. Sending tanks is an admission that NATO doesn't have the missiles and rockets to win the war of attrition and that himars failed. Now the idea is to turn this into a tank battle. Russia already destroyed Ukraine's massive tank fleet months ago. If 25% of these tanks actually make it to the front lines it will be a miracle.
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  260.  @wamingo  Russians feel that huge parts of Ukraine ARE Russia. NATO in Ukraine, to most Russians, means kissing bye bye, forever, to Crimea, Odessa, Kharkov, Donbass and other areas that Russians consider historically Russian. Bit like asking why the Americans felt nuclear weapons being shipped to Cuba by Kruschev threatened the existence of USA.
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  261.  @smitty347  when the Soviet Union collapsed, no one was in any position to contest where Russia starts or ends. Most Russians were ok with Ukraine as a sovereign state, as long as the ethnic Russians were treated fairly, which they were, up to the nationalist coup of 2014. After 2014 the ethnic Russians were treated as inferiors and discriminated against, so that is when Russians started to fight to have either autonomy or be independent. The West should have supported this.
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  262.  @Marvhead  if USA wants to continue to exist then it should withdraw from Syrian territory. If NATO wants to continue to exist then it should withdraw from Kosovar territory.
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  263.  @rogerpennel1798  the first batch of British soldiers arriving home in body bags will see Britain looking for PM number 4 for the year
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  264. Hirohito thought the Allies were bluffing too.
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  265.  @andrasnemeth8333  just curious....who would be videoing underwater in the middle of the night in the expectation that something might blow up on the dam wall?
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  266. As we speak, climate "scientists", with no agenda at all, are setting up their thermometers at Ajaccio airport, directly underneath where the planes take off, to make sure Sardinia does indeed record that highest ever temperature in Europe.
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  267.  @teleguy5699  i would never expect your child's mind to understand the difference between a declaration of war and a limited special military operation, so let's leave it there, junior.
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  268. interesting that Clarke confesses Ukraine had no sense of nationhood before the war. Clarke not bright enough to realize this lack of nationhood led to the derussification of the whole of Ukraine in a desperate bid to find an identity. Sadly, the only sense of nationhood Ukraine could fine was "we are not Russian, look, we erased all Russian culture and compelled everyone to speak Ukrainian"....the very heart of why war broke out. should have left the Russian speakers alone.
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  269. Social Darwinism. Not the brightest civilians that think it is a really good idea to mingle with NATO mercenaries in the pizzeria next to the Hotel NATO, just a few kilometers away from the front line.
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  270.  @davidk2906  maybe so, but present the world with all of your evidence that proves Trump is, and Biden isn't. cue crickets.
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  271. his English is certainly better than his Ukrainian
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  272.  @ByddinRhyddidCymru  so true. not much point in begging in Ukrainian to his own oligarchs.
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  273.  @zytoses9223  and English is what he uses 24/7 to keep begging to continue his futile war, so yes, it is understandable.
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  274. By the time Ukraine joins the EU, how many refugees will be living outside Ukraine? How many of Ukraine's young men will be dead and buried? Will the EU still exist?
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  275. and now the truth....after a full week of the counter offensive, thousands of Ukraine cannon fodder have died, Western wonder weaponry destroyed, but zero territorial gains made and the ukronazis are nowhere near reaching even the FIRST Russian defence line. absolute disaster for Ukraine/NATO. Roll on those images of Bradleys and Leopards getting destroyed. heartening.
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  276. if the Kerch Bridge is "vital" and of such strategic importance, how did Crimea survive for 4 years with no land bridge to Russia AND no Kerch Bridge?
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  277. It's dreadfully tough for Donbass its people and forces... keep strong I'm sure your day will come
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  278. sanctions on Russia is crucial, isolating Russia is crucial, stingers and javelins are crucial, himars is crucial, tanks are crucial, fighter jets are crucial, a limited number of NATO pilots is crucial, a limited number of NATO ground forces are crucial, supplying Ukraine with all our armed forces is crucial. at least Germany has woken up to how this tragedy unfolds.
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  279. Ditto, Slava Donbasu, Slava Rossiyi
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  280. Putin's only mistake was to have not invaded in 2014, at the start of the war, and to have believed the West wanted to abide by the Minsk Agreements.
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  281. 12 tanks are a "major boost to Ukraine's firepower"....the West has become so deluded, it is sad. just a question of when and how the West's leaders accept that Ukraine cannot win this conflict. It will be fun to watch the recriminations though.
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  282. I don't, unless those decent people voted for Zemmour and his anti immigrant stance. Those decent people voted for the policy of continued immigration that is now ruining their lives. Slow learners.
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  283. Great, Bradleys on the way for Russia to destroy, as demilitarization of NATO rolls on.
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  284. dream on. Staromayoeske is in the gray zone and until Ukraine reaches the first defence line they have no idea of the horrors awaiting them.
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  285.  @far_centrist  well said. too many Western sheep believe their own lies and propaganda. that's why the media in the West bans Putin's actual words from being aired.
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  286. further south, same day. in Tarifa, it was cool, temperatures similar to a normal January. Sky has to keep cherry picking to push its propaganda and lies.
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  287. "the Ukrainians may well be able to operate an amphibious landing across the Dnipro again" right, so there was a strong motive for the Ukrainians to flood the area. wash away the land mines and trenches, thus facilitating an amphibious landing. more evidence that Ukraine had every reason to blow the dam.
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  288. Russia is winning. grasp reality
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  289.  @kierano8390  NATO has no choice. NATO lost
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  290. all those armoured vehicles, manned by teenagers and pensioners on 2 weeks training, no air support, no ammo. this counter offensive is most welcome........to Russia
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  291. "they're arriving with minimal training"...some of these guys are not long out of contract after serving in bloody Syria! Safe to say, they've had training and then some!
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  292. so now we have two Green Parties. The fake Greens that see weakening Russia as the priority over environmental concerns, and the Real Greens who want to ruin everyone's life in a futile attempt to tackle climate change. Good to know.
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  293. Was George W Bush arrested for the unprovoked and illegal invasion of Iraq?
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  294. Then Ukraine will have peace terms imposed on it when Russia wins.
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  295. just as it was with the Nordstream terrorist attack, right?
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  296. mass immigration = much more demand on health services.
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  297. the only question remaining is that at what point Zelensky realizes the West cannot and will not supply enough help to prevent Russia winning.
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  298. the 15th massive missile strike. After the third massive missile strike, the expert Ben Wallace announced that Russia didn't have enough missiles to continue with such strikes. In October, Rishi Sunak said a super air defence system was on its way to Ukraine to prevent such strikes. When will the West wake up to the fact that their leaders are incompetent liars?
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  299. Peace is also possible when Russia wins and Ukraine is reduced to rubble and ashes
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  300. Sky News spins the reality that Biden will lose control of the House and maybe the Senate
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  301.  @AlphaMaverick1111  what happened to Nance? is he still alive? came home with shell-shock? he's no spring chicken.
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  302. pathetic propagandist. no evidence at all that Russia is targetting civilians or military installations. plenty of evidence that Ukraine's own air defence missiles are responsible.
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  303. only a total fool would assume Russia can be defeated in a protracted land war. NATO and Zelensky would be 2 of such prize fools. Both Ukraine and NATO are learning the hard way.
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  304.  @satisfied656  most people eat poop and fail to learn their lessons yet think they have.
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  305. it must have been an absolutely awful day for the Ukrainian counter offensive if the propagandist Sky News has to deflect to pay raises in the Russian army.
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  306.  @davmetz4451  exactly. the offensive is the meatgrinder that keeps eliminating more of the ukronazis than the Wagners are losing
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  307. wrong way round, sunshine. Ukraine gonna have to spread its forces VERY thin, to keep an eye on Belarus, to combat the Russian advance toward Kharkov, AND to try and fool everyone that they really do have enough forces to threaten Kherson. And keep in mind, 80% of Russia's forces are in Russia, not Ukraine. As Putin said, "we haven't really started anything, yet".
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  308. But Bakhmut is of no military significance, remember? so, so what?
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  309. what hate has he been spreading, and if something warrants hate, what's wrong with that?
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  310. yet more evidence Russia is running out of missiles and weaponry, just like every day for the last 12 months.
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  311. the kind of stupid game a dwarf comedian puppet president would play, while a thousand cannon fodder get chewed up in the Russian meatgrinder every day.
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  312. just like Che Guevara. and Zelensky will end up the same way
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  313. All this pain and suffering just because one short comedian waving his other hand madly wants to be the creator of Greater Nationalist Russophobic Ukraine, something more significant than Poroshenko. Why are puppet comedians allowed to decide wars where young men and civilians die and suffer?
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  314. So, who strings Zelensky up by a rope first, the drunken Wagner convicts or the 16 yr old Ukrainian cannon fodder recruits unwilling to take a compelled early dirt nap?
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  315. So if Crimea is dependent on power from the ZNPP, how did Crimea survive with no power from the ZNPP from 2014 to 2022? Bell is such a bad liar.
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  316. there is no counter offensive. just ceaseless talk of it, to keep NATO engaged. if a bunch of demoralized convicts with shovels can defeat NATO trained and armed fighters in Bakhmut, it means Ukraine is not capable of mounting an offensive.
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  317. funny how we haven't heard Ben Wallace pronounce that Russia is running out of missiles lately.
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  318. And now, the truth. Into WEEK FIVE of this great counter offensive, and it is a total failure. Not one single Ukrainian fighter is anywhere near the FIRST Russian defence line. Ukraine is getting absolutely massacred stuck in the security zone, Russian helicopters and planes picking off hundreds of cannon fodder and weaponry every day. About 8 villages and a pig farm have been captured by Ukraine, but most of the pigs said they were determined to stay part of Russia. Clarke no longer repeating "Russia is out of missiles"....interesting.
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  319.  @thrivingnow7395  try Lloyd Austin's own words, and the leaked Pentagon documents. RT not needed to see the truth here.
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  320.  @jeckjeck3119  disinformation = any opinion that clashes with your deluded assumptions, it would seem
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  321. The only reason the Makeevka attack is news is because it is such a rare Ukrainian success. Russia kills hundreds of Ukrainians in such missile strikes every other day, but of course, this news is best ignored by the West.
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  322.  @dirkvanrensburg7315  that's right! a mystery why Ukraine would have to mobilize any forces at all, because according to the Western media, Ukraine doesn't suffer any losses worth reporting, ever!
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  323.  @Katoshi_Takagumi  i have a feeling that between them, Russia, Iran and North Korea can, plus help from China maybe. Definitely NATO can't.
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  324. no comment from the great propagandist that the map now shows the entirety of Bakhmut under Russian control. the fool prefers to keep speculating on the future mythical Ukrainian counter offensive.
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  325. Import the 3rd world, import 3rd world attitudes. So much safer and more pleasant in Japan, Poland, Russia, Taiwan and other homegeneous societies where the culture respects law and order. The French rejected Zemmour as president, thus the French rejected an end to the immigration that is destroying them. Suicide voting.
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  326. fascinating how he speculates on Russia's corruption, but nothing to say on the most corrupt country in Europe, Ukraine
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  327.  @tamerlane7  agreed. Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan pushed Beijing closer to Russia, and BRICS generally is moving away from the dollar and a Western oriented focus.
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  328.  @Silent824  as per Ukrainian sources, when the Ukrainians need more weapons and hand around the begging bowl, they claim 1000 a day casualties, in a plea for more weapons
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  329.  @courtneyadkins1580  on the contrary, the shop assistants confirmed it was her, elenska, and the amount. truth hurts, eh? if she is begging taxpayers in the West for money, as she is, and Zelensky is unwilling to sell his extensive overseas properties to help his dying cannon fodder soldiers, as he is, then we can see what an absolute charlatan and fake family the Zelenslys are. time for another Vogue photo shoot before flying to the villa in Italy. Good riddance to them and that cesspit of corruption called Ukraine.
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  330. why? either 1) revenge for the Donetsk market being shelled by Ukrainian troops or 2) collateral damage, not EVERY missile will hit the engine repair plant across the street. Both 1) and 2) quite normal in war.
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  331. The whole premise of this counter offensive was that "superior" Western weapons and training would see the Russians retreat as they had done in Kkarkov and Kherson. Not surprisingly, NATO/Ukronazia never understood the reasons for Russian withdrawals in 2022, so now they are astounded that Russia is standing and fighting and defeating the counter offensive. NATO/Ukronazia, do your homework next time.
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  332.  @Themillenial555  Yep, Merkel admitted Minsk was a way to play for time and preparation. for war. She got her wish!
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  333. if absentee votes = sham election, then all Western countries hold sham elections.
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  334. incompetence of Russia that sees 85% of its troops not even IN Ukraine, a Russia that is achieving its objectives steadily and an operation that is successfully demilitarizing both Ukraine and NATO.
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  335. yeah, right, Ukraine had nothing to do with the Belgorod terrorist attack. all those American vehicles and weapons involved, the rebels bought those online.
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  336.  @vg9137  Snake Island? :)
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  337. TOTAL LIES FROM THE DODDERY OLD FOOL. If there were a Russian blockade on grain shipments, why are such shipments suddenly being allowed out of Ismael? Russian subs have controlled the Black Sea since Day 1, Snake Island is irrelevant. There was never a blockade. The mines along the Ukrainian coast are UKRAINIAN...laid there to prevent a Russian seaborne invasion. It's simple. When the Ukrainians demine their coast, the grain shipments can pass, no problem.
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  338. his intelligence reports were prepared by the same people who said the Taliban would need 90 days to take Kabul!
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  339. this fool knows no history. Look at how Russia fought in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria. Russia fights wars of attrition and takes years to wipe out its enemy, but prevails. Only a propagandist would pretend Russia counted on taking Kiev in a few days. Kiev was pinned down and thousands of Ukrainian troops fixed around the capital while Russia seized Kherson and Zaporozhe, to gain its land corridor, without opposition!
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  340. "Russia's illegal invasion" as opposed to USA's 100% legal invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Grenada, etc
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  341.  @buk3695  that would help
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  342. If there is no evidence, then why is it a "false claim". It's a claim, as legit as any claim made by the West.
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  343. yeah, sure
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  344. now we see the results of the lunacy of a policy of printing loads of money to pay perfectly healthy people to stay home and not work during covid. obviously, sanctioning Russia so that commodity prices shoot up was a brilliant idea to boost inflation. Hello Recession and Stagflation! Meanwhile, Russia coming out of all this looking relatively healthy. Bloody marvellous leadership in the West.
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  345. a building called the "Garrison Officers' Club" with a sculpture of a MIG jet outside MIGHT not need so much intelligence to conclude it's a legit military target.
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  346. yet trade from the UK to EU is up by over 50% this year, and it's the EU with the biggest trade deficit it ever faced. Sky News, as always, avoiding the stats that show Brexit is working overall.
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  347. how can an individual be arrested under a "dispersal order"? That surely applies to breaking up a group and those who refuse to break from the group? seems like if anyone deems another "unwelcome", then the police can arrest. surely all the Labour MPs are "unwelcome" in Parliament, so let's have them arrested.
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  348. maybe the UK cyber security efforts should have been on home soil, preventing Israeli malware picking up Liz Truss's text "done it" to Blinken one minute after Nordstream went kaboom.
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  349. Ukraine keeps asking for more weapons. Does NATO, therefore, not want to give more, or doesn't have any more to give. which one is it (either way Russia is winning, just curious which one it is).
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  350. So, Liz gives Kwasi's budget the thumbs up, endorses it 100%, then sacks him for what she endorsed! This is chaotic nonsense. Putin for PM
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  351. he has no clue. more patrols? patrols to do what? take migrants on board to taxi them to UK? patrols to let migrants know they can never be sent home once they hit the Kent coast?
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  352.  @public.public  where there is demand, there is supply. scrap the NHS and people will still need medical attention and the private providers will step in, - no more diversity officers and trans clinics at tax-payers expense
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  353. Putin for PM
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  354.  @madalinradion  in the 3 brigades, how many are teenagers, cripples and pensioners? what is the combined fighting experience of these 3 brigades compared to the Russians on 1) the forward positions 2) the FIRST defence line 3) the SECOND defence line? 4) the THIRD defence line?
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  355. oh, so now the mud has dried out, it makes it easier for the Ukrainians to attack Russian positions in Kherson. So there WAS a big benefit to Ukraine to destroy the Kakovka Dam after all!
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  356. listen , mate, Western weapons are drying up! Reduced to a trickle. Russia has managed to demilitarize BOTH Ukraine and NATO. Himars has dropped out of the news the last few days, apart from the one that corrupt Ukrainian officers sold to Russia. And all this with 80% of Russian troops still in Russia. Such a humiliation for NATO. But after the fiasco of Kabul, totally expected.
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  357.  @dpelpal  the last we heard of it!
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  358.  @dpelpal  Russia laughs at the fake "Kiev in 3 days speech". BTW, who gave that speech? Same person who gave a "Russia victory in Syria in 3 days" speech?
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  359. makes no sense. Russian morale is low, we are told, Russia is poorly led, Russia is always running out of weapons, Russia has poor equipment, Russia is on the back foot, Russia is crippled by sanctions and isolated. what does Ukraine and NATO have to fear? maybe NATO/Ukronazis should fear the media got it all wrong.
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  360. total lies. Russia ran out of cruise missiles last March.
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  361.  @neilsmith9398  not really. Russia will fight for the rights of ethnic Russians wherever they may be. Alaska is not top of the list
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  362.  @neilbadger4262  which approach is right in your mind? Kazakhstan.....equal rights to Kazakh and Russian speakers in all public spheres, or Ukraine....only Ukrainian permitted in education, government, or for public transactions?
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  363.  @jessefisher1809  really? when was the last peace deal that involved Putin?
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  364.  @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311  yep, i think so. top military brass are telling Western leaders that arms supplies are now limited and ineffectual. Russia is winning the war of attrition. the sanctions failed, isolating Russia failed, there is no evidence that Russia is running out of anything, 380,000 reservists poised on Ukraine's border, Western leaders now figuring out how to find an off ramp and minimize humiliation. Buenas noches Ukraine, time to move on to the next victim country.
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  365. "unwanted record"? every single climate change alarmist is rubbing their hands with glee
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  366. discipline like promoting electric tanks, sensitivity training for the troops, rainbow motifs for the MOD, while Russia actually trains servicemen to win wars. Give me a bloody break!
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  367.  @Jakedelus  or even maybe break
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  368.  @vikramkumarp  Ukraine just buying time to create broader...and increase NATO military manufacturing
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  369.  @kevinmeganck1302  in the sense that ethnic Russians are the bulk of the population in Donbass, yes, of course they were.
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  370. not much. so much flows in from Rostov on Don
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  371.  @finnodonnell4342  so unsafe that the Masca Visitor Center has been organizing hikes down to Masca Beach for years and have a remarkably impressive record on few hikers die on this hike!
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  372. makes no difference for the country. Tory, Labour, Lib Dems all indistinguishable with only slightly different shades of socialist policies their hallmarks.
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  373. hmmm. no mention of Russian advances around Bakhmut. Poor puppet is restricted to mention what his paymaster tells him to mention.
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  374. and now the truth: only a fool (Clarke) would believe any info from Ukraine's Ministry of Truth. The evidence on the ground indicates that Ukraine's air defences are pitiful and failing. More and more Russian planes are being brought into action on the Donbass front lines. Russia is getting to the point where it will be confident that its spring offensive will be led by massive air strikes. The media blabs on about power stations being destroyed, but the big targets are the air defence batteries, and Russia is winning.
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  375.  @atticusfredericks6210  what exactly makes Bell less of a Ukrainian apologist, propagandist and liar than makes Ritter more of a Russian apologist, propagandist and liar? give some examples of what both say that, in Bell's case, is an obvious truth and in Ritter's case is an obvious lie.
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  376.  @daviddoran8474  that's it? attack the messenger and ignore the message? enjoy your 12th birthday, whenever that might be, laddie.
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  377. oh boy, how desperate is the West getting, talking up the same nonsense from a year ago, "Russia is running out of weapons". and maybe a handful of suckers still believe this propaganda and nonsense?
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  378.  @Materia-Hunter  go ahead, correct my wayward thinking, preferably with some logic and substance
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  379. Thoroughly deserved. Eric Zemmour warned the French about this impending civil war and promised ending immigration and commencing repatriations. Zemmour got just 7% of the vote. The French voters sided with continued immigration. Enjoy every minute of it.
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  380.  @markushayes  Imagine spending your days refusing to see that Trump is the same as any other world leader.
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  381.  @_Lazare  the Bidens and Clintons are certainly rich and above the law. vote Trump.
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  382.  @christophercook723  and Obama was so dumb he didn't know how to pronounce the word "corps", but I don't recall the world having a meltdown over Obama's appalling lack of English knowledge.
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  383. "we want to see a conclusion to the war that is fair to the Ukrainian people" would that include the Ukrainian people of the Donbass who have chosen to separate from Kiev?
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  384. so demoralized convicts with shovels defeat NATO trained and armed Ukrainians in Bakhmut, Soledar etc, yet Ukraine is able to launch a counter offensive that will defeat Russia? the West has become deluded to the point of ridicule.
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  385. Over 70% of French voters want a referendum on immigration. Sky News refuses to report on that. Over 70% of France wants an end to immigration. Sky News refuses to report on that. No interest in what the French majority have to say.
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  386. Way out of her depth, as is the diverse and inclusive cabinet she picked. None of them have a clue how Britain got in this mess (think lockdowns, Green energy, sanctions on Russia, indefinite billions handed out to Ukraine, uncontrolled immigration) and thus they have no idea how to get us out of the mess.
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  387.  @orvalprosacco1951  Russian media organization offering 500,000 rubles for the first destroyed Leopard, and 1,000,000 rubles for the first captured Leopard. Russians have motivation too!
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  388. "what is Russia trying to achieve with this barrage of attacks?" Russia is trying to show that charlatans like "expert" Bell are total liars every time they say "Russia is running out of missiles".
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  389.  @martynanstis1620  how long? up for a bet?
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  390. Its Lugansk and Donetsk that are fighting for the rights of minorities EVERYWHERE. It's Lugansk and Donetsk that are fighting for ethnic Russians to be able to speak and use their native tongue in their own society. Russia, rightly, has come to support Lugansk and Donetsk. Ukraine is the aggressor, trying to stamp out the rights of minorities. Shame on Ukraine.
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  391. "Ukraine prepares for a potential counter offensive", yep, that's vague enough to mean Ukraine can't mount a counter offensive. conspicuous by its absence, mention that over 95% of Bakhmut now in Russian hands and that the Wagners, demoralized convicts and armed with just shovels, are defeating the NATO trained ukronazis.
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  392. Who cares? Without Russia, it's a fake Olympics anyway.
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  393. so Ukrainian troops have only praise for Zelensky but Russian troops have only scorn for Putin. fair and balanced reporting as ever. My God, RT is a lot more impartial than this propagandist drivel.
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  394. oh boy, what a horrendous stumbling bumbling non-answer to explain why the West is so incapable of effectively arming Ukraine. Too damn sacred to tell the truth and say the UK has bugger all to give that will actually help.
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  395. hilarious that he thinks only the Russians are using convicts as troops, and only Russia uses barrier troops. He probably never heard of Ruslan Onyshenko
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  396. really? after 8000 casualties in 2 weeks of "probing" operations, weaponry aplenty destroyed by Russia, this fool of a propagandist expects us to believe that the great counter offensive operation is still going to happen? Newsflash - Despite their best efforts, Ukraine/NATO can't even get through the security zone, where Russia has its forward troops. In 2 weeks, not one single Ukrainian has reached Russia's FIRST defensive line! Horrendous failure for Ukraine/NATO.
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  397. Penny Mordaunt's ace up her sleeve is no one knows who she is, thus she is relatively untainted by the Bojo fiasco years. With the Biden approach, say nothing and smile benignly, she will win because she is neither Snake Sunak nor Liz disTruss
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  398.  @davidnoelfranks1124  exactly so !!!
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  399. We're now into month three of this deluded fool talking about a Ukrainian advance on Kremina! At least he gave his other favorite mantra "The Russians are running out of weapons" a break, just for today. Just curious how he thinks any tanks entering from Poland will make it to the battlefield if the 300,000 Russian reservists enter western Ukraine from Belarus and seal off the border, or if the bridges over the Dniepr are destroyed.
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  400. bla bla bla, Russia destroyed its own pipelines, Russia destroyed the dam it controlled, now Russia is going to cause a nuclear horror show in the power plant it runs. at some point, propagandist Clarke is going to think "surely some sheep are going to realize I'm a charlatan and liar".
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  401. Best way to end the war would be for Ukraine to surrender
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  402. any coverage would show the horror of Ukraine's folly, so, no, not so amazing Western media not showing reality on the ground.
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  403.  CH0L3R1C  Ukraine had no means to do so? so why the constant barrage of Ukrainian himars aimed at the dam wall? what were the Ukrainians TRYING to achieve by their constant shelling? Go back to December 2022, when Ukraine said they would destroy that dam if they needed to!
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  404. lying propagandist. Clarke just can't being himself to say Russia is advancing everywhere, Ukronazis have lost thousands in the Bakhmut meatgrinder, there is nothing with which to launch a Ukronazi offensive, Clarke probably thinks the sanctions on Russia are working. thickhead.
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  405. more lies. by and large the local population has NOT been hostile at all to the Russian presence in Kherson. Tens of thousands have applied for Russian passports and the ruble (a strong, stable currency) has been in effect for 6 months (the hrivme has collapsed and no one will touch it). The Kherson offensive failed, Russia is under no threat in Kherson, This fool has been talking about Russian supply problems and a "noose tightening" for bloody months. totally deluded.
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  406. only the West ever talked about a 10 day operation. Russia has no timeline
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  407. the civil war between the multi-culturalists and the traditionalists will go on for quite a while, flaring up and dying down, but until immigration is stopped it won't go away.
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  408. in the name of fair and balanced reporting, when might we hear about Ukrainian war crimes? or are all the sheep in your audience supposed to assume that Russia has a monopoly on war crimes, it is 100% Russia and 0% Ukronazia?
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  409.  @zakjuly6721  she would do nothing. only Zemmour has promised to end immigration and start repatriation.
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  410. The ruble is doing well against the dollar, and prices now are coming down in Russia. The sanctions were supposed to cripple the Russian economy right? Am I the only one that sees Western governments got this 100% wrong?
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  411. no it wasn't. read what Putin actually says, instead of what your lying media wished he had said
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  412. the word "Islam" means "submission", so Khan, like all Muslims, is indeed controlled by the imams and Muslim authorities that watch over his every move.
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  413.  @teleguy5699  oh, they will mind, but it won't change the outcome of the war and it will just mean more Ukrainians lose their lives as a consequence. happy now?
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  414.  @ninzki143  i guess so, and the script is carefully slanted that way.
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  415.  @briantitchener4829  who knows what grades these Romanian pilots got at school?
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  416. oh, suddenly Ronnie Barker knows all the Kremlin plans for Moldova! He was present in Putin's meetings! what a charlatan and fake this blob is.
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  417.  @kierano8390  NATO is getting totally demilitarized. NATO can't spare any more weapons and the mighty US is reduced to sending cluster munitions! This represents a horrendous embarrassment and defeat for NATO. Russia is out-producing NATO in all materiel, and while NATO is trying to sort out long term contracts, Russian factories are churning out missiles and weaponry 24/7. Total disaster for NATO. Russians are not killing Russians. Russians are killing Ukronazi cannon fodder. Maybe with a few more courses on diversity, equity and inclusion NATO will perform better?
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  418. Just gotta roar with laughter at the incompetency of the West. Remember when we heard the "shock and awe sanctions" were going to reduce the ruble to rubble? Ruble stronger than ever and it's the euro that has crashed. Remember the idea was to starve Russia of the income needed to fund its invasion? Russia now earning more revenue from energy exports and exporting LESS quantity! Voila, the results of our leaders getting briefings from experts on climate change and equity and diversity, rather than economics.
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  419. nothing to do with Brexit. the majority of Brits are now net recipients, getting more hand-outs than they make contributions to the system. it's unsustainable. who the hell will invest in a place like that?
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  420. yet more begging from the billionaire puppet, desperate to prolong the war and get more Ukronazi cannon fodder massacred. well, the UK has no government debt at all, so why not compel the UK taxpayers to escalate the conference and entice Russia to start attacking UK assets around the globe?
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  421.  @cann0708  Aslin, Urey and Pinner might dispute the "for no losses" bit
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  422. Welcome to Western lies and propaganda
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  423. "blatant attacks on civilians" spot the "expert" that never read the Amnesty International report that proved Ukraine hides troops and weaponry in residential areas.
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  424. excellent point....we negotiated with the IRA, but with DPR we decide Aslin and Pinner can just die.
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  425.  @DiamondBack75  some of us have known Paris for 40 years. we see and feel the difference. Arriving at Gare du Nord feels like being dumped in Dakar, though a lot less friendly than Dakar.
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  426. Russia weaponized food? Who put sanctions on Russia prohibiting export of Russian and Belarussian grain and fertilizers before the grain shipping agreement? Yep, the West, indifferent to how many Africans might starve as a consequence.
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  427.  @christophercook723  Funny. Let me re-write your pidgin English message. "Is "nope", and with a lower case "n", a long form of "no"? Do try to write (not "Write") English and not phonetic noises. I follow the lead set by e. e. cummings. live with it. arabic has no need of capital letters, so why should English?
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  428. what persecution is happening in France that migrants need asylum from?
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  429.  @bone3594  US ain't got any more significant weapons to give. all used up. game over.
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  430. @Rich Sz exactly so. the notion of "supporting Ukraine" is really "using Ukraine to weaken Russia for as long as possible"
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  431.  @APW554  freedom to do what? destroy Ukraine in a futile effort to weaken Russia? Milley says 100,000 Ukrainian troops dead so far. How many cents a day did their lives cost?
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  432.  @burns281981  because the alternative is total destruction
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  433. this guy has just swallowed so much Ukrainian propaganda he might as well be reporting for Ukrainskaya Pravda. And now, the truth.....there is ZERO evidence that Ukraine has managed to shoot down any Kinzhals, and the reason we have heard so very little about himars lately is that the Russians have succeeded in jamming their communications systems and can shoot them down if and when they are launched. Storm Shadows have done next to nothing so far, and would be par for the course if Russia is able to shoot them down anyway.
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  434. one of the many nasty consequences of printing loads of money to pay perfectly healthy people to stay home, sit on their arses and do no work. government brought all this on themselves. oh, we have enough billions to give to the lost war in Ukraine, but nothing to keep commuters moving. Bullshit Bojo
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  435.  @RaRa-eu9mw  the list of Russia's objectives are much closer to being realized than Ukraine's list. check both list carefully.
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  436. Integration is of no importance whatsoever. The Amish never integrated into USA, nor did the Mennonites into Paraguay. Low numbers of immigration and immigrants that are respectful of host country laws and traditions are all that is needed.
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  437. "it's evident that some got through" is this fool for real? They ALL got through! A missile doesn't evaporate! if it is intercepted, it goes off target, but it still falls to earth, so each end every missile fired "gets through". this dunce is becoming more and more idiotic as his dream of ukronazi victory evaporates.
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  438. sanctions hurt Russia so badly that the IMF predicts growth in The Russian economy this year and recession in the UK
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  439.  @jeffthompson8551  why do all morons have the first name Jeff and all imbeciles have the last name Thompson?
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  440. Good to see the solidarity of the world's sanctioned nations uniting with such determination to kick the imperialist West in the teeth. Iran, N Korea, Venezuela, all doing whatever they can to help Russia. China will too, if push comes to shove. The West has truly isolated itself.
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  441. i mean, yeah, during the Blair years, when we were still in the EU, there was no immigration at all from Pakistan, India, Nigeria, etc. Must be a Brexit phenomenon.
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  442. Well done, Ukraine. Another failure of a military attack that pushes Russia to protect its ships and halt grain shipments. The way the puppet dwarf Zelensky ruins his country, and now the world, is just unbelievable.
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  443.  @hgv1947  that dam has been repeatedly hit for months on end.
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  444.  @karlvonbahnhof6594  not really. Hitler had no nukes
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  445.  @carsonboardman7073  then go ahead and volunteer and push Russia out of Ukraine
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  446.  @thanhloitran276  is the death of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians temporary?
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  447.  @thetruthhurts7675  so how did Crimea survive from 2014 to 2022 with no water or food?
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  448.  @q3eq3eq65  Crimea had autonomous statement within Ukraine and the Crimean Parliament was 100% legal. Learn some facts. Go to Wikipedia, read point 6 of the Budapest Memorandum, then get back to me and tell me which side disregarded point 6.
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  449. if Russia unleashed its nuclear arsenal on Ukraine, it could conquer Ukraine in 2 hours.
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  450.  @cristiangaban960  keep fantasizing. how is Bakhmut going for the ukronazis?
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  451.  @aormonde  like the sanctions on Russia, eh? crumbling every day!:)
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  452.  @fradiavolo9293  yep, General Milley and Sean Bell are now both on record as describing Russia both as a superpower, and as a poorly trained, poorly led losing force! In the minds of Western "experts", this all makes sense.
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  453.  @carsonboardman7073  How will Ukraine reaching the Sea of Azov give Ukraine any access to Crimea? Won't happen. the "splitting in half" idea is just a fantasy. after one week of thousands of dead cannon fodder and hundreds of vehicles destroyed, Ukraine hasn't even secured one pig farm. pathetic.
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  454.  @sasa1982uk  yep, we can agree on that, a longish, uncensored, free-wheeling exchange of views to see where they both stand. We might see Clarke temper his speculative statements somewhat
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  455. yet again, fools who build their houses too close to forests get caught out.
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  456. "Ukraine training 28,000 folks"! FOLKS? oh boy, see the lengths this propagandist has to go to avoid saying "teenagers and pensioners". I mean he doesn't want to lie and say "fighting age men" so he has to settle for "folks". unbelievable.
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  457. Russia never walked away from a grain deal. The grain deal expired and the West refused to connect Russia's agrobank to SWIFT. End of story.
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  458. 2014 to 2018 the ferry system worked more than adequately, just as supplies are flowing into Kherson despite the bridge damage over the Dnipro. Clarke needs to figure out just how the Russians can operate ferries so devastatingly efficiently
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  459. Gorbachov was a fool who had no clue how to handle the realities of the USSR's demise and disintegration. He's only popular in the West because played right into the West's hands.
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  460.  @Diggnuts  Report them for what crime exactly? Typical of the "run to daddy for help" weaklings. Can't debate the issues. only capable of looking up a "joined" date. Truly pathetic.
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  461. the bridge has been repaired, but will probably be destroyed soon
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  462. Ukraine started the war with its attacks on the Donbass Russians. Putin is fighting back. He is a hero.
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  463. he's a useless flop, in denial of the obvious, that the West is impotent.
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  464. so, she starts out with a lie, "apartment block targeted by the Russians". RT coverage simply cannot be worse than this.
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  465. so funny how this parrot of the Ukraine war effort now actually believes his own propaganda! He even assumes he knows why the UK defense minister has flown to DC, like he was briefed on the matter. total charlatan who wouldn't know objective reporting if it came up to him and slapped him in the face. Hey, Clarkey, Ghost of Kiev still real?
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  466. only when those schools and hospitals are housing Ukrainian soldiers and weaponry, as Amnesty International proved.
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  467. the reality is the government have no idea if they believe in green policies or not. spouting out eco friendly garbage at COP is their policy, while opening coal mines is also their policy. useless bunch of hypocrites.
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  468. just lobby your political representative to urge peace talks and to stop funding the war.
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  469. @rory kinahan BTW, why is the Budapest Memorandum called a "Memorandum", and not a "treaty" or an "agreement"?
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  470.  @eddie0lutetia  remember, in March 2022 Zelensky was all in favor of negotiations, hence the Istanbul talks. so don't pretend it's Zelensky who won't negotiate. try looking at who is pulling his strings.
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  471.  @User-jr7vf  sadly, Zeleinsky was told by his paymasters not to negotiate. his paymasters assured him that Russia would be defeated. His paymasters got it wrong. Russia is winning. now, Zelinsky is begging for help just to survive. he won't survive. NATO will ditch Ukraine and Zelinsky just as they dropped Ghazi and Afghanistan. the usual USA cut and run.
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  472. there we go again. disinformation. "the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine". the war is not causing any energy shortages or price rises. It's the sanctions against Russia that are responsible. Self-inflicted wounds.
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  473. yep, Shoigu is decorated, because unlike Grant Shapps and Ben Wallace, Shoigu has a bloody clue what he's doing.
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  474.  @TDM1165  ah, good old Marxist class warfare! but, of course. in the real world, it's clear Farage gets the big picture
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  475.  @PassiveAgressive319  no one asked for any comments on how dull and humourless your pathetic life is.
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  476.  @youuuuuuuuuuutube  according to....?
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  477. simple answer....knowing Ukraine would LOVE to destroy Potemkin's remains, just remove them and deny Ukraine the pleasure. Grasping at straws to suggest removing Potemkin = preparation for withdrawal. Civilian evacuations have now ended. More Russian troops pouring into Kherson, get ready for the big offensive on Odessa
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  478.  @bmwman1981  in Ukraine, traitor to Ukraine = Russian speaker who demands Russian be of equal standing with Ukrainian in his homeland
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  479.  @alexforrest2563  Is Kosovo sovereign Serbian territory? Is Scotland sovereign British territory?
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  480. Poor Zelensky still doesn't get it. NATO promised Ukraine that NATO would "support" Ukraine all the way to victory. But NATO made a promise it cannot fulfill. NATO underestimated Russia's capacity to survive sanctions and isolation and to fight a prolonged ground war. Result = Ukraine will be destroyed and NATO demilitarized and humiliated. All richly deserved.
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  481.  @jacqdanieles  Namur is in Belgium, as always
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  482. if he's that daft to blame social media, and that daft to have done nothing for years to end Muslim immigration, then it's good he's stepping down. he's part of the problem.
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  483. the usual deluded ramblings from this old fool. imagine getting excited about 3 helicopters on their way to Ukraine. hilarious to see how NATO has absolutely no answer to Russia's use of drones and missiles to destroy Ukraine. NATO as powerless as when they saw the Taliban stroll into Kabul and kick them out last year. Slava Rossiyi.
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  484. oh boy, 400 dead and a heap of armoury destroyed just in a "probing attack"? not a good day at the office for the ukronazis. "bring on the offensive, this is fun! we can hear the Russians saying.
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  485.  @blazzz13  not illegal to not be a saint though, or is it?
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  486.  @justsain3236  because jihad is allowed
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  487.  @ValAllOver  there is almost no creativity in Islam and not much of a work ethic or entrepreneurial spirit. that's why nearly everything was invented in China and Europe, the spirit of enquiry in Islam is close to zero.
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  488. @@Ketchuporkatsup wave hello or wave goodbye?
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  489.  @salemaw  if it's the fruits of colonialism, why no Asians involved? Asia was colonized, but no Asians riot.
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  490.  @salemaw  so, all those teenage Arabs rioting and looting, with their free education thanks to French taxpayers, and their free housing thanks to French taxpayers, and their free health care thanks to French taxpayers, and their welfare cash in their pockets thanks to French taxpayers, what horrific memories of colonialism do they have exactly?
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  491. more lies. As Stalin said "quantity is a quality in itself". and these reservists are experienced fighters from the Syrian and Chechnya campaigns, not much training needed, ready to go.
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  492. Ingram couldn't remember the lie he told last time. Today it is "Putin's 10 day special military operation" and last time it was "Putin's 3 day operation". Let's see what this charlatan of a propagandist spews out next time.
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  493.  @RaRa-eu9mw  talking about Wagner bases in Belarus is not talking about the counter offensive!
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  494.  @RaRa-eu9mw  we must be watching 2 different videos. The one I watched is 2 mins 20 long, starts with pay rise for Russian soldiers, ends with news about Wagner barracks in Belarus
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  495. amazing how the establishment do all in their power to hide a black on Indian race murder.
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  496.  @kirkpatrick7475  exactly. Russia doesn't announce what its war plans are, so no one knows what to expect. Only the West has announced that Russia is planning a major offensive. Russia has announced nothing. Ukraine should follow the same policy, but sadly, Ukraine has to do what it is told by NATO, who's aim is to weaken Russia to the death of the last Ukrainian.
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  497. "3 year visas, not thinking for a second they would need that amount of time" well, how dumb are the Ukrainians? just google how long Russia took to eliminate the enemy in Chechnya and again in Syria. 3 years is nothing to Russia when it is on one of its demilitarization campaigns.
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  498.  @seamus_rainheart  makes a change from the deluded imbeciles that parrot the lies and propaganda of Western media, right?
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  499. MARCH 26! "The Ukrainians are confident of retaking Kherson" AUGUST 6TH "The Ukrainians are confident of retaking Kherson". ME EVERY DAY "I'm really confident of winning the lottery".
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  500. nationalization won't mean regulation of cost to the public. it will just transfer the cost from your energy bill to prices of goods and services that will become hyper inflated.
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  501. clever move from Putin. From now on the world will see Ukraine is the party that rejected peace. China, India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia etc will draw closer to the Russian position. Zelensky, not for the first time, out of his depth on the global stage.
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  502. "normal people will never do that. they're just terrorists" "it's genocide of the nation" so, no one indicating it is Russia's fault. interesting.
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  503. just astounding that MSM have taken 3 years to see Biden's dementia when the honest masses spotted it from Day One. totally exemplifies why so many people despise and mistrust the partial dullards on channels like Sky
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  504. doesn't explain why Lvov was attacked before
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  505.  @sidpheasant7585  what stops Russia attacking Lvov every day?
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  506.  @sidpheasant7585  as expected, no answer to "what stops Russia attacking Lvov every day?". what is not rational is your desire to make a statement and then refuse to explain it!
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  507. accountable for what? Shell is no monopoly. it's just very well run.
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  508. Putin defends the rights of Russian speakers everywhere, rightfully so. He already guaranteed Transnistria's separation from the Russophobic bigots in Kishinyov, so job done. no need to bother with the cretins running the show in Moldova given that Transnistria is safe and independent.
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  509. Hunter Biden, "the most intelligent person I know" according to Joe Biden. Shows how few people sheltered Joe Biden has met.
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  510. There is NO evidence whatsoever that Ukraine air defenses are improving. On the contrary, every time Russia strikes the power grid Ukraine gets more extended periods with no power. Only a fool would believe Ukrainian sources about the rate of interception of these missiles.
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  511. the bridges over to Kherson have been destroyed months ago, and STILL Russia keeps supplies flowing and is now preparing to dig in for the winter, so we can quit blabbering about "well soon supplies will dwindle"
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  512. waiting for the bumbling idiot Clarke to assess the total catastrophe of a counter offensive to date. 7 abandoned villages and a pig farm re- captured, only 10,000 ukronazi cannon fodder dead, not one single ukronazi anywhere near the first line of Russian defences. at this rate, the ukronazis will reach the Sea of Azov in 16 years. problem is, there won't be any ukronazis of fighting age left.
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  513. good idea for NATO to guard against Biden doing what he did to Nordstream, destroying valuable infrastructure.
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  514. oh, right, so if a hospital has Ukraine military and weapons inside, then it MUST NOT be treated as a target, ever. we must always believe the Ukraine narrative. Ukraine good, Russia bad. always.
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  515.  @stevenmartin8828  of course, Russia destroyed its own Nordstream pipelines, shelled the power plant it occupies, destroyed the dam it controls, all of this makes perfect sense to Western sheep fed MSM propaganda.
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  516.  @davidnoelfranks1124  and little zele may well have his wish come true:)
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  517.  @dragani2330  gotta laugh at your assumption the West can keep up an indefinite flow of aid and weapons. like a magician pulling tanks and F16s out of a hat quicker than Russia can destroy them wake up. sanctions on Russia failed, isolating Russia failed. Russia is the master of long, steady wars of attrition. it's over. Ukraine is screwed.
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  518. Given Ukrainian shells have been killing people in the DPR repeatedly recently, any retaliation from Russia is fully justified. Those of us who want ample revenge for the last 8 years of butchery in the Donbass hope the next shopping mall is absolutely packed with Russophobic Ukrainians.
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  519. Bell is a useless analyst. Brian Berletic is so much better. No mention of Russian advances in Kupiansk and Svatove areas? No, of course not. keep the sheep ignorant.
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  520. The Panama Papers made it quite clear that Zelensky had extensive holdings in UK and Italy that were unaccounted for. Any chance the grifter fraudster dwarf puppet might actually sell off his own assets to help his own country at some stage?
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  521. nah, notice how the fool doesn't read the whole text. "severe consequences" are mentioned in the bit he skips. so, everything hangs on the word "severe". given that everyone was evacuated from this area months ago, can't really be described as "severe" consequences. But what the WW2 Dam Busters did, well, sounds like Clarke wants to charge the Dam Busters with being war criminals. interesting!
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  522.  @owenthomas5103  really? so the Germans knew the dam was going to be attacked well in advance?
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  523.  @MikeMr2  Enoch Powell, Dennis Skinner, Ian Paisley.....they all have more virtue and heartfelt commitment than the present rabble even though long deceased
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  524. as usual, throw cash at the problem and that will make it go away. but it won't. the more the government spends and borrows, the higher inflation soars.
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  525. Predictable. Given the enormous success of sanctions on Russia, the West immediately rushed to repeat the same brilliant idea, namely sanctions, on Iran. Driving more and more of the world to back Russia, embrace dedolarization and spit on the West.
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  526. And now, the truth. It is pure madness to engage Russia in a protracted land war. Russia will win. The counter offensive, after 18 days, has seen not one single Ukrainian fighter get anywhere near the FIRST line of Russian fortifications, where masses of Russians are twiddling their thumbs waiting for THEIR target practice. The forward positioned Russians have halted the Ukrainians in their tracks and inflicted MASSIVE casualties. It's over. Only those that care nothing for how many Ukrainian cannon fodder go to an early grave want this to continue.
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  527. talk about stupid questions, but then again, we are dealing with infantile minds at Sky. "Russia is attacking Lvov because Ukraine and Russia are at war and Russia has spotted some targets worth destroying in Lvov. Next question?"
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  528. so, your point is.........? Russia wants to destroy Ukraine's power supply but keep Zaporozhe online for its own needs. well, obviously. total waste of a report with no insights at all that explain anything new.
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  529. yeah? in what ways have relations with the Arab League improved since the start of the war? Saudi Arabia buying Russian oil a big help to Ukraine, is it? OPEC agreeing to Russia's suggestions of ignoring the price cap a good example, yeah?
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  530. "Ukraine desperate for modern machines".....really? but Russia is on the back foot! Russia is running out of missiles! Russia is poorly led and with low morale! Sanctions are crippling Russia and the people are about to oust Putin! Why would Ukraine be desperate for tanks when it is so close to winning?
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  531. the sanctioned nations (Iran, N Korea, Venezuela) all coming to Russia's aid and getting sweet revenge on the West. it's just beautiful to see.
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  532. a hundred meters a day = Russia progressing, Ukraine in retreat, and NOT Russia "digging in for the winter". Get your story straight, propaganda man.
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  533. Day 446 of this fool telling us that Russia is running out of missiles.
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  534. "greater regulation of landlords" = making the housing crisis even worse.
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  535. Saint Greta becomes relevant again. fingers crossed martyrdom crosses her mind.
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  536.  @RaRa-eu9mw  at the start of the invasion, the aim was to get the Ukrainians to the negotiating table. at the start of the invasion, there were single strikes on some nights, not intense waves of mass attacks using both drones and missiles. several weeks between waves? there was a wave 3 days ago, and today! that makes 2 days!
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  537.  @JoaoSoares-rs6ec  so explain, why support the Ukrainian mob in overthrowing a democratically elected president but not support a Brazilian mob convinced their guy was ousted by electoral fraud.
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  538.  @JoaoSoares-rs6ec  or even on a map
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  539.  @Subject82  the people of Ukraine did NOT vote to join the EU. Learn the basics. so, the difference is, when the people are mad, we should support the uprising? who has the "madometer" to determine if it passes the threshold of backing an uprising?
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  540. @serendipitous)) He promised nothing of the sort. But even if he did, would he be the first leader to make a promise to win an election and then not follow through? Zelensky promised to "bring peace to the Donbass". George Bush promised "no new taxes". Does Zelensky deserve ousting for breaking his promise?
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  541. "continue to see it through"..."continue to stand with Ukraine"...note the absence of "win" or "victory". he knows the game is up. Ukraine can't win.
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  542. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SotBuojZ39g
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  543.  @reecom9884  some people believe anything and most people are useless at interpreting some basic statements.
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  544.  @thegoat11111  quite the opposite. Zelensky had to ban opposition parties in parliament and establish state control of Ukrainian media, he is so scared of the truth getting to the people. Ukrainian troops get attacked with missiles while in barracks all the time, but the media refuses to cover such stories for fear of the truth demoralizing Ukrainian people.
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  545. best leader in the world, by far. Putin is demilitarizing the West, the Russian military is bigger and better than ever, the Russian economy moving along nicely.
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  546. everything he said was the truth. the stupidity is all from the West who have no clue what is happening there
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  547.  @toma9976  GDP is irrelevant. only fools look at GDP and think it has a bearing. the sanctioned nations are LOVING their revenge on the West! Yep, they will reliably do all they can to help Russia. Ukraine's "allies", however, are ready to jump ship, fed up of this losing effort.
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  548.  @noobian458  or using the biggest stockpile they have on hand. we wouldn't know. could well be Russia is holding back on a load of stuff for when NATO jumps in and chooses to have hundreds of body bags flown back to DC and London.
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  549.  @Abulb99  maybe because not so many attacks needed to keep Ukraine in the dark and miserable.
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  550.  @Dweller415  maybe so. what's your point?
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  551.  @YossiCohen10421  apparently Russia was importing washing machines from the UAE by the hundreds just to get those chips, until the UAE said that they were happy just to sell the chips if that was a better idea.
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  552.  @user-mf9wg6jq5f  deeper pockets don't make the drones Russia is using and deeper pockets can't stop the drones Russia is using. Deeper pockets can't protect Ukraine from ballistic missiles. Deeper pockets can't prevent N Korea working 24/7 to provide Russia with all it needs. Deeper pockets can't sway the 49% of Germans that now say they do NOT want tanks sent to Ukraine. Deeper pockets may, for the time being, keep Ukraine from collapsing. But the taxpayers of these deeper pockets have been told that Ukraine will win, will take back Crimea, and to suddenly be told "stop, the aim is no longer Crimea, the aim is now just to prevent a collapse of Ukraine", hmmm. not sure that will fly.
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  553.  @nicke0b  surprising that these spies never reported to Western media, back in March, that no way Russia gonna run out of missiles! or, if these spies did report that, funny the media decided that info was fake news.
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  554.  @yorkiemike  China has already got involved. China has told the West it will NOT isolate Russia, but on the contrary, it will increase trade and cooperation with Russia. It would certainly be tempting for China to trade missiles for Russian oil, especially if Nancy Pelosi decides to push China closer to Russia with another visit to Taiwan. we'll see.
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  555.  @stonem0013  that's right! because NATO, despite all its apparent wealth, has neglected to build up its armaments, and the manufacture of such armaments takes time, planning and a complete shift in spending priorities, which, no matter how deep your pockets, is an unsurmountable obstacle. The rich boys messed up!
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  556.  @lochnessmonster5149  The necessity to hit key targets in Ukraine has dropped exponentially each month.
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  557. NATO is operating as ineptly against Russia as it did against the Taliban. it is a disaster and everyone can see it.
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  558. oh, so suddenly, the professor is extolling the virtues of Russian forces, holding strong, competently using their technological equipment. my my my, whatever happened to his assertions about poor leadership, low morale and poorly supplied? clearly the old fool knows nothing. his paymaster wants him to keep spinning Ukraine's absolute failure of an offensive into something positive, but puppet Clarke is struggling to do so these days.
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  559.  @gintasvilkelis2544  No they are not. How many Russian speaking schools and classes are there in Lithuania for the Russian speaking population?
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  560.  @ВикторияКузьмина-м6з  There are rumors from very reliable sources that Zelensky could be overthrown by his own military because he keeps throwing them to slaughter and they know they can't win. They know they will all end up dead if this keeps going.
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  561. what a fool Clarke is. Mistakes are made in war, by both sides, but in general the war is on track for Russia, just as it was in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria. Russia takes years to accomplish its objectives, doesn't work on a Western timeline, and yes, Russia is much stronger than the West assumed.
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  562.  @BobHoopClassic  given the "10 day operation" is a line made up by Western media, no surprise it turned out to be nonsense. just like "Ghost of Kiev"
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  563.  @Silent_Steel  indeed there were bogus reports of such mobile cremation trucks. there were also reports of the Ghost of Kiev. Remember that one? Recently we had reports that Russian missiles, not Ukrainian missiles, hit Poland! Does Ukraine love being truthful especially if it makes them look weak? which country, Russia or Ukraine, has a monopoly on the truth in this war?
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  564. One down, four to go....bye bye Johnson. Biden, Macron, Draghi, Scholtz a LOT more unpopular in their countries than Putin is in Russia. Only a total fool, like Wallace, thinks the Western masses are fully on board with the futile throwing of billions of dollars/pounds we don't have, at a war effort destined to fail. If Johnson's successor "backs" Zelensky to the same degree, UK economy suffers even more and yet another leadership battle will ensue.
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  565. "Marseille has a different demographic" = Marseille is full of Africans and Arabs.
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  566. absolute fool to think NATO will have anything substantial to offer if and when Russia goes for the big offensive. NATO can't even provide an air defense system to protect the Ukraine power grid 2 months into Russia's infrastructure attacks.
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  567. mass immigration, inflation following lockdowns, green energy policy, unlimited aid to Ukraine, sanctions on Russia, soft on crime policies.
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  568. so, when the ex Warsaw Pact countries sent their tanks ages ago, those tanks were defensive tanks, but now we are sending offensive tanks?
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  569.  @manas2656  ohhh, I see, so old tanks = defensive weapon, but new tanks = offensive weapon! fascinating. at what age does a tank transition from offensive to defensive weapon?
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  570.  @manas2656  Will Ukraine still have an edge when Russia decides to take down the entire Ukrainian power grid and pour 380,000 troops over the border from Belarus and seal the NATO/Ukraine border, while destroying all bridges over the Dnipr?
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  571. translation...the government is having to buy its own debt because no one else will touch it, in an attempt to make it seem as if the market is running just fine, but investors know it isn't, so more doom and gloom ahead.
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  572. Funny how Western liars can't get their propaganda straight. Some say "10 day military operation" and others "3 day". Putin has no time line. anyone who paid attention to Chechnya or Syria would know that.
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  573. "they are losing so many men" how many, compared to Ukraine? crickets.
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  574. well, we tried an academically challenged woman as the ideal minority to lead the government. Next up, a brown skinned retard of Indian descent?
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  575. Russia has demilitarized NATO. NATO will be completely humiliated and exposed as useless in this conflict
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  576. Clarke is so full of bullshit. Russia has plenty of supply lines that come in from the east and south. Russia has not even been pushed out of Kharkov oblast, as it still occupies everything between the the Oskult River and Lugansk. Can't even pronounce "Lyman" properly! Come on, jackass, do your homework!
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  577. "when will it end?" tomorrow, if your dwarf puppet clown president surrenders.
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  578. Cannon fodder for the Chechens....a desperate, pure panic NATO measure to stall the inevitable Russian win, by allowing as many young men as possible get riddled with Russian bullets in the hope a Russian victory might come in November, rather than October. Cynical.
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  579. they clearly have no shame, and will walk away from this horror show and then create another proxy war somewhere just as soon as possible.
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  580. this fool epitomizes the idiots that don't understand this conflict. Ukraine never "took" Kherson or Kharkov last year. They were given it. When Russia decides territory is worth fighting over, it wins every time. until this dunce grasps the difference between withdrawal and defeat, he 'll keep thinking Ukraine has a chance.
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  581. it is both possible to be under investigation and to have evidence of who is guilty. those two are not mutually exclusive.
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  582.  @stivsterzigler2677  that's right, because the sanctions on Russia really destroyed Russia and boosted the West's economies, right? Let's just sanction China and watch the same thing happen again! Oh boy, the West is going to get so rich from all these sanctions we impose!
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  583. Clarke is wrong again. The Africans are FULLY aware that the problem with the grain exports lies with the West, in that the West is not holding up its end of the bargain (allowing free flow of Russian and Belarussian grain and fertilizers). The Africans know that a peace deal would solve the problem of the West's intransigence on the grain issue, so the Africans are indeed pushing for a peace plan.
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  584. which would be the winning playbook
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  585. so, at Stalingrad, Germans froze to death, but Russians didn't. 2022, Russians freeze to death, but Ukrainians don't. Makes, uh, perfect sense, I guess.
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  586. absolutely love hearing this imbecile babble his deluded, biased nonsense. got to chuckle at his assumption that the Wagner's priority was to take Bakhmut.I guess the concept of a war of attrition is beyond him. Week 4 of the great counter offensive, and still only 4 villages a pig farm recaptured, at the cost of 10,000 cannon fodder. things going really well for Ukronazia/NATO.
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  587.  @davidnoelfranks1124  absolutely, Merkel and Hollande are shameless charlatans. despicable.
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  588.  @Light_Is_Rotten  it's Zelensky the dictator, raiding churches and monasteries, banning opposition parties in parliament, forbidding Ukrainian men to leave the country. Russia, compared to Ukraine, is a haven of democracy.
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  589. sanctions on Russia and isolating Russia has worked so well that Russia can now afford to increase its spending on the military, dramatically, but the West can't. NATO sure know how to alter the balance of power against it
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  590. controversy at home = trip to Kiev to hide from the bad news plus a message to Zelensky that NATO is close to tapped out, and so Ukraine will just have to deal with Russia on its own now.
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  591. welcome to NATO!
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  592.  @not.likely  then correct it. what is inaccurate with the statement that NATO has no problem with escalating the conflict because no NATO lads get massacred, just Ukrainian cannon fodder?
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  593.  @not.likely  then correct it. what is demonstrably wrong and impossible about what I said.
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  594. wishful thinking. combat flying is a whole lot more than just flying. Russian pilots have years of experience, combat experience, are chomping at the bit to take on NATO in the air. Bring it on and get your body bags ready.
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  595.  @everready800  exactly. the idea that, somehow, Russia is going to be defeated in a ground war and then choose the option of admitting defeat over using a nuke or two to achieve victory via that route is bonkers. Russia has all the cards needed to play the winning hand.
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  596. no grain deal was cancelled by Russia last month. the grain deal expired. more lies from Sky.
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  597. inspecting imports from EU is as stupid as EU inspecting imports from UK. No checks and controls were needed pre Brexit, and none are needed now. bureaucracy gone mad.
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  598. bla bla bla. russian morale has been so low for a year, yet convicts armed with only shovels keep gaining ground in Bakhmut against NATO trained and armed ukronazis,
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  599.  @Tobez1  Russian soldiers have been attacking Belgorod from the beginning?
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  600.  @brothermitchlove1  exactly, amazing how the Zelensky bots are surprised Russia put up with ethnic Russians being shelled for 8 years and finally decide to dish it out to places like Kharkhov.
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  601. Given the vast majority know nothing about Mordaunt, she has an excellent chance of winning
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  602. yet again, Ukraine diverts the world's attention away from its failures on the battlefield. It had to orchestrate a pathetic invasion of Russian territory to deflect away from the disaster of Bakhmut, and now the breaching of the dam to deflect attention away from its totatlly failed spring/summer offensive.
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  603. it's the parasites ruining the economy.
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  604. "Jay asked what time the bus was coming" which bus, the one to Santiago or the one to the north? "he was going in the wrong direction" how would she know which direction he wanted to go in?
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  605. Yet it was Zelensky pleading with the West to finish this by winter! Zelensky knows General Winter will kill off Ukraine, not Russia.
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  606.  @fv5855  almost as humiliating as Biden going to the Saudis to beg, again, for oil! at least Putin has China on board
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  607.  @guillaumebarbier-pestourie18  and the reliable source for your 30,000 dead would be? Let me guess, UK MOD? Zelensky's Minsistry of Propaganda? Diary of Ghost of Kiev?
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  608.  @hgf334  "Ukraine morgues are overflowing with dead Russians" Time to throw 1000 dead Russians out of the morgue! 1000 dead Ukrainian troops in todays shelling north of Kherson...Russia achieving some BIG numbers today! Get those ladies and 16 year old conscripts into the front line to face the Chechens, NOW!
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  609. the knowledge that Russia will win.
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  610. just like USA's second invasion of Iraq
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  611. exactly.....if DPR, LPR and Russia kill all the Ukrainian troops in one mass battle in Severodonetsk, no more territory needs to be taken for complete victory. Slava Rossiyi..Z
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  612. On the contrary, honey, Putin's allies will be impressed that he dealt with the demented Prigozhin while continuing his most magnificent annihilation of Ukronazis in the so-called offensive. Putin comes out of it stronger.
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  613.  @walkonhotcoals1277  Lukashenko as a mediator was a great idea. it's called pragmatism....a concept alien to Western leaders at the moment who can only think of escalation until the last Ukrainian dies. If Russia is a joke, the joke is annihilating the great Ukronazia/NATO counter offensive after just 21 days! Keep laughing at that joke!
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  614.  @walkonhotcoals1277  If only Zelensky had the sense to call on Lukashenko, or ANY mediator, to intervene and save his country. Nah, better to fight on until the country is totally destroyed.
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  615.  @walkonhotcoals1277  better to be given the choice, but of course NATO is insisting that every Ukrainian be dead. Welcome to the dictatorship of the West. No peace negotiations, just death. Enjoy every minute of it.
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  616. no, we don't.
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  617. Russia's "eyes in the sky" spotted the hotel where NATO mercenaries were based, and bizarrely, the civilians thought it was a really good idea to enjoy the pizzeria next to the hotel with all the NATO mercenaries, hence all the English being spoken in the social media posts from people on the scene. Colin Freeman , @colinfreeman99 even says how lucky he was to escape the attack. I mean I guess Colin could be a tourist. possible. appalling stupidity to hang out in a war zone with a group of mercenaries. Kramatorsk civilians not the brightest!
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  618. By what percentage have arrivals in UK waters from France dropped since the Albania deal?
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  619.  @David-ry9ly  Russia, unlike Ukraine, has reliable allies that out produce NATO. Game over for NATO. Beaten by N korea and Iran!
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  620. the usual focus on the wrong thing. tow the boats back to France and there won't be any trafficking gangs.
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  621.  @TheValeyard92  could be
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  622. privatise the whole system
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  623.  @TheLowerIntestine  agreed. got a feeling Putin is very wary of a full scale invasion and prefers the long game of attrition. time will tell
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  624. "it was meant to be a lightning military operation" ONLY Western propagandists like this lying fool set a timeline. Russia never did. Try again, liar.
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  625. it is irresponsible NOT to call this an invasion by illegal criminal immigrants. Calling it in any other way is to be disingenuous and to hide from the truth. Uninvited hordes illegally entering = invasion. Braverman and all those in government should insist on use of the word "invasion", not shy from it.
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  626. clearly, she never read the Amnesty International report that stated quite plainly that Ukraine uses civilian buildings as bases for troops and weapons. only a biased fool would assume Russia blew up a church for the fun of blowing up a church. imbecilic analysis.
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  627. yep, the apartment block destroyed was done so by one of your own missiles, honey, so time to take your own defence minister, Reznikov, to court for war crimes.
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  628. Warmongers Biden and Zelensky have lost, peace hawk Trump will triumph.
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  629. day 11, no trace of Jay. Guardia Civil should have dealt with it as a crime, not a disappearance. internet sleuths 1, Experts 0
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  630. Day 494 of idiots like Ingram saying "Russia is running out of weapons" and WEEK FIVE of the great counter offensive that is still stuck in the security zone, miles away from Russian defence lines, with 8 villages and a pig farm the territory captured with only 10,000 cannon fodder lost. NATO's promise to supply whatever is needed to defeat Russia looks like an empty promise now, and Zelensky knows it.
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  631. a two week hiatus from firing missiles = Russia running out of missiles firing old missiles = Russia running out of missiles firing new missiles = Russia running out of missiles firing a variety of missiles = Russia running out of missiles repeating that Russia is running out of missiles in March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December and now January = Russia running out of missiles the only thing that doesn't = Russia running out of missiles is the bloody obvious reality that Russia keeps firing loads and loads of missiles.
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  632. "none of these targets help further Putin's military ambitions in the region" hello! troops and supplies moved across the country by an electrified train network that suddenly stops working DOESN'T help the Russians? And this fool is supposed to be an analyst? At least he is something anal!
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  633. possibly the worst informed "expert" out there. the Russians have been using air strikes for a long time, in Bakhmut and Avdiivka. it is clear that Russia has depleted Ukrainian air defences substantially. the offensive started 6 days ago. Sky News just reluctant to say that after 6 days, Ukraine/NATO have totally failed.
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  634. they are
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  635. Ukraine had fighter planes, weapons, missiles, ammo aplenty at the start of the war. Russia destroyed it all. Wallace seems to think supplying the same stuff again will bring a different result. it won't. it will all get destroyed. Russia is successfully demilitarizing NATO, and deservedly so.
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  636. 9 months of non-stop dismissal of the ineffective and inefficient Russian military. no mention of Ukrainian failings. Looks like Zelensky is writing the script for Sky News these days.
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  637. so, he wasn't JUST a taxi driver......Sky News adhering religiously to the "Ukraine good, Russia bad" script they have been charged to report.
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  638. Zelensky is the tyrant. Putin, not Zelensky, just held elections
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  639. more missile attacks? yet more evidence that Russia is running out of missiles. no casualties? yet more evidence that Russia is indiscriminately targeting civilians.
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  640. yeah, the same guy that said Russia was shelling the nuclear power plant that it was occupying, the same guy that said Russia blew up its own pipeline, the same guy that that says Bakhmut is of no strategic value (even though Zelensky says Bakhmut is of great strategic value). Clarke is a total liar, propagandist and charlatan.
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  641. absolutely fascinating how this charlatan and propagandist has painted the Wagner victory in Bakhmut as "not painting a pretty picture" for Russia. next we'll be told that a bankrupt Ukraine with 8 million refugees and cannon fodder dying in their thousands every day is also a terrible defeat for Russia.
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  642. "NATO is a defensive organization" which NATO member was being defended when NATO planes attacked Libya and Serbia? this guy is either ignorant or a pure propagandist. RT is less biased.
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  643. Pure lies. There is independent monitoring of the referenda. 1000 monitors. German observer, Stafan Schaller, said it looked transparent and fair. At least his lordship got one thing right. These referenda will be called "sham" by the West. In other words, the vast majority of the world will be fine with these votes, only the deluded Western bubble will be wringing its hands over this democratic in action.
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  644. Only 3% of Ukrainian grain exports ended up in Africa. Russia has offered to replace this 3% for free, so Ingram can quit wringing his hands in grief for the world's starving and go back to cheerleading for the Banderite Fascists he loves so much.
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  645.  @mikeycraig8970  will just get destroyed by Russia, like all the planes, weapons, ammo Ukraine had at the beginning of the conflict. Russia has eyes in the sky and they work just great.
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  646.  @henryahmad1  what? S400 and S500? what's your point?
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  647.  @dpelpal  ironic that Ukraine's best chance of a bomb landing on Russian soil comes from a Russian plane, not a Ukrainian one.
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  648.  @rogerjohnson2562  agreed. that is what Ukraine has been doing! Reservists with experience on the front line is good thinking.
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  649.  @andrewhenderson9616  a "far less affluent country"...what, even with all the billions of dollars and pounds and euros handed over to Ukraine, it is still not affluent? what the hell is it doing with all the money? oh, I remember, Zelensky has a villa in Tuscany and a mansion in Miami! well, some Ukrainians are still affluent!
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  650. it's a totally stupid idea and it just prolongs the conflict and maximizes more deaths. The reason Ukraine needs more tanks so desperately is because Russia already destroyed the masses of tanks Ukraine started out with. Everything we send over there just gets destroyed. it's pathetic to see the West help Russia accomplish demilitarization of NATO so easily.
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  651. yeah, gotta love that normalcy of an open border, rampant inflation, 30 trillion dollar debt, a president who can't articulate a sentence, who lies repeatedly and out of control crime. wonderful normalcy.
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  652. Brian Berletic is such a superior military analyst than this charlatan of a propagandist, Bell. Lie after lie after lie.
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  653. More and more people getting fed up of the billionaire listed in the Panama Papers traveling the world and lecturing everyone on what they must do to restore his dictatorship so that ethnic Russians, once again, can be compelled to be second class citizens in their homeland.
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  654. idiot reporter.....can't grasp the notion that EU membership is irrelevant to Putin, but Ukraine massacring ethnic Russians in Donbass for 8 years is a major provocation. profound ignorance. Slava Rossiyi Z
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  655. still blaming Putin when it is the sanctions that created the spike in energy costs. Bojo too dumb to realize that the global energy prices we all have to pay are determined by global supply and demand, not by extracting more petroleum from the North Sea which, in global terms, is a drop in the ocean.
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  656. unlike Trump, Biden actually committed a crime, well, 3 in fact. hold on to your seats as Trump gets acquitted on appeal, and Joe Biden gets charged and found guilty next year for corruption.
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  657.  @madness198648  totally agree. it just baffles me that our so-called leaders in the West are blind to this, or pretending to be blind to this.
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  658.  @madalinradion  3 brigades depleted, demoralized and desperate. hundreds of tanks, a few of which are in good repair, all held back because for the last 17 days any advance has been met by massacre and destruction from the Russians. wake up and grasp reality.
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  659. Putin is defending the rights of ethnic Russians in Ukraine and the West should back him, instead of fighting him.
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  660. a very confused man. he says the Russians have stepped back, then says they have stopped advancing and dug in. if this expert does not know the difference between those two, then how in God's name would he have any clue what either side is really doing?
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  661. so, the Ukronazis have thrown everything into gaining a few fields. meanwhile, the poorly led and demoralized convicts have taken 95% of Bakhmut, the Wagners go marching on.
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  662. it is what the country deserves. it applauded lockdowns and sanctions on Russia and more state handouts. Now it's time to pay
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  663.  @Mwwwwwwwwe  exactly. and that is why it will get totally destroyed and every Ukrainian man of fighting age will get killed. should have implemented the Minsk Agreements.
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  664.  @dpelpal  They did that before the Russians handed over Kharkov and Kherson in exchange for massacring thousands and thousands of cannon fodder advancing through open fields.
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  665.  @organicwest  only in your dream world is there any infighting to remove Putin. No Western leader has such good poll numbers as Putin, and who will replace him...a real hawk like Medvedev? am betting Ukrainian soldiers string up Zelensky in 2023.
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  666.  @bravo060777  Get used to Putin...he'll be the survivor of all this mess.
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  667.  @Hero4fun77  yep, the parasites of society do ok. it's the workers that get screwed
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  668.  @johncater7861  The Russian people want Russia to win, and rightfully so.
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  669.  @michaelweston1042  it's keeping NATO and its provocative expansion east that has caused all this conflict
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  670.  @bravo060777  hahaha, another fool who is hopeless at distinguishing a bot from a non bot, and a Russian from a Brit. Pathetic. what is it like to live in the dim world of "joined after the war started = bot"?
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  671.  @bravo060777  as I said, pathetically hopeless at recognizing the true from the false.
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  672. "why the border wasn't better defended" Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe. Some very slow thinkers are having a problem connecting these two.
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  673. Biden delighted that a court USA doesn't recognize has recognized that Putin committed a crime.
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  674. only a deluded fool would see Ukraine winning this conflict
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  675.  @45641560456405640563  so your argument is reduced "your comments are idiotic because your comments are idiotic". I'll take your use of "idiotic" as in the original Greek meaning of the word
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  676. As usual, Sky News and Bell miss the point. Ukraine is now seen by the rest of the world as the side that rejected a peace offer. This solidifies Russia's support from China, India etc. With the kill rate at 8:1 in favor of the Wagners in and around Bakhmut, no gain in territory is needed to demilitarize Ukraine while Zelensky keeps serving up his cannon fodder to be made into mince meat.
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  677. time for NATO to figure out how the hell the Taliban kicked their asses out of Kabul so easily
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  678.  @Hero4fun77  whataboutism = highlighting hypocrisy. works every time
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  679. would love to know the specific investments in the pension plan that lost 40% so quickly! Methinks the old codger sold his wife that cock and bull story when he had to pay off his lover.
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  680. Just laughable how there is no coverage on criminals like Onyshenko who were released to fight for Ukraine, but Clarke acts as if Russia has a monopoly on using criminals in war. childishly biased.
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  681. yep, bankrupt and begging, destroyed, a nation of refugees and dead men, Ukraine really showing Russia how to win this war.
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  682. speaks volumes that Russia can spend 24 hours under serious threat of a coup and yet the Ukronazia/NATO alliance makes zero gains during its great counter offensive.
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  683.  @77Zenin77  one can only imagine what the US war effort would be if news got out that military forces were 200 kms from DC in a coup attempt! Would make the pandemonium and panic of Kabul Airport seem like a tea party. Gotta respect that Russian determination, focus and dedication.
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  684.  Herk Poirot  AI certainly did. when AI stated, quite categorically, that the Ukronazis were using residential areas to house troops and conceal weaponry, that is using human shields. learn the basics.
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  685. don't be fooled by all this blabber about tanks. tanks are being sent in panic because NATO can't match Russia's use and production of artillery shells, and Russia is winning the war of attrition. so, in desperation, NATO hopes to turn the whole conflict into a tank battle. it won't work. NATO will see most of its tanks become metal coffins, and the next escalation will be fighter jets and then boots on the ground. But Russia will still win.
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  686. ahhhh, so reports of Ukrainians crossing the Dnipr into Russian held territory? so, there WAS a motive for Ukraine to destroy the dam!
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  687. Liar Clarke has been repeating Ukrainian propaganda about a counter offensive on Kherson for months, but the map never changes. He is so full of bs.
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  688. Zelensky has to fire anyone who talks some sense that might contradict Zelensky's own words. Zelensky is a real purge machine compared to Putin. And now Biden has given the green light to Russia to let fly its massive stocks of cluster munitions all over Ukrainian cannon fodder. Oh boy, the NATO/Ukronazi side are slow learners in this conflict.
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  689.  Norseman   Remember Biden begged the Saudis to increase oil production. MBS called Putin, and then agreed to decrease oil production. Everyone hates the West!
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  690.  @wamingo  Most Russians view Ukraine as culturally and socially part of Russia, and are willing to fight to the death to keep NATO out of Ukraine.
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  691.  @wamingo  40% of Ukraine is ethnic Russians. That 40% is worth fighting for, Russia would say. No one in NATO thinks it is worth fighting for...only pushing Ukrainians to fight to the last man is worth the effort for the West.
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  692. @Paul Denison that's right, bankrupt and begging Ukraine, with its 7 million refugees and power and water cut off whenever Russia so chooses, has clearly won:)....believing your own propaganda:)
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  693.  @neilbadger4262  Russia has no need to take back lands that are ethnically Russian. There is no need for that. Russia ONLY has need to liberate ethnic Russians who are denied their human rights, If Kaliningrad is presently populated by a majority who are ethnically German, and those ethnic Germans are denied the right to education in German and use of German in government circles, then yes, Russia should hand that land back to Germany. Putin has liberated the ethnic Russians of places that treated said Russian speakers as second class citizens. Do the ethnically Chinese of Mongolia form a majority in that region, do they speak Manadrin and are refused the right to use Mandarin in the public sphere and have no right to Mandarin in the education system? There are millions of ethnic Russians in Kazakstan. Those ethnic Russians have equal rights with Kazaks. Therefore, Putin has no desire whatsoever to "liberate" such ethnic Russians. They are liberated as they are, in a just and egalitarian Kazakstan. If only Ukraine had copied the Kazak model.
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  694.  @1domcouk  with a kill rate of 5:1 they are doing just fine
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  695.  @attsealevel  job done. The Ukrainians had to abandon the project and cover their tracks. no more dirty bomb ideas from the Ukrainians again.
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  696.  @attsealevel  what is absurd is how the masses in the West have no idea why Russia views this issue as a red line.
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  697.  @n1ghtlover899  and Ukraine is 12 feet deep into the Donbass war
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  698.  @geoffreycodnett6570  what happened to the Ukrainian flagship?
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  699.  @jessefisher1809  if Ukraine ends the war it has a great chance of surviving as a rump state
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  700.  @audronelukauskiene8494  is Mexico part of the "civilized world"?
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  701. "we'd see more evidence that some got through" not when Ukrainians are threatened with jail for posting videos of such attacks online this fool takes Ukraine's version as the truth. explains why he has got so much wrong to date.
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  702.  @MAXlMUS  Russia is indeed advancing in its relationships with China, as opposed to the West, which insists on doing all it can to alienate such places.
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  703. completely misses the point that without electricity, the electrified train system that is used to transport troops and munitions cannot work, and thus the Ukrainian war effort becomes severely hampered. but there we go, her paymaster insists she mentions only Putin's evil desire to hurt Ukrainian civilians, so she has to tow the line.
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  704.  @hithere3035  so the West is prepared to gamble on the views of two Russian officials in the Putin administration? Not much of a strategy to protect the citizens of the West, really.
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  705. This doddery old fool is just deluded. EVERY time he talks up the Kherson "offensive" and EVERY time the map is the same, and this bullshit has been going for THREE MONTHS! He might as well mention the Ghost of Kiev is back in action for the great counter offensive. Only a fool would think Ukraine could beat Russia, NATO aid or not, in a land war.
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  706. bla bla bla. always the assumption that Ukraine has the men and weapons to move forward anywhere. Those of us who support Russia can't wait for the Ukronazis to come out of the trenches and into the meatgrinder, but Zelensky prefers his cannon fodder to stay put and be blown apart by artillery fire. oh well.
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  707.  @andrasnemeth8333  and, obviously, the strategically placed Ukrainian cameras caught absolutely no suspicious activity of any Russians diving down to plant the explosives. no actual evidence caught on camera, just the explosion, right?
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  708.  @johnadam2885  spot on.
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  709.  @MightBeSmart  we know the game. the offensive has only "started" when Ukraine meets with some success. when there is no success, we just keep repeating, "oh, the offensive has not started yet". we see 3000 ukronazis dead. Leopard 2's destroyed. Russian jets massacring ukronazi cannon fodder. listen, Adolf, the offensive has started and it is a disaster for Ukraine. grasp reality.
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  710.  @thomasbaader6629  thanks for confirming that the West's priority was to stall, to gain time, and the whole facade of bringing lasting peace to Donbass was just a charade from Hollande and Merkel.
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  711.  @netiturtle  By the way, this OSCE outfit, are they the same ones subsequently kicked out of the Donbass for revealing Russian positions to the Ukraine military?
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  712. the people who trashed the economy are those who applauded lockdowns, those who backed Green energy, those who back sending indefinite billions to Ukraine, those who cheer on sanctions against Russia, those who care nothing about illegal immigration, plenty of blame to go around.
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  713. No it's not. Russia is destroying Ukraine and the West is only able to extend the agony and prolong the nightmare until Russia wins.
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  714.  @secretname4190  Izyum and Kherson were not "lost". there was no battle (there has only been one battle so far, Mariupol, won by Russia). Izyum and Kherson were evacuated and then abandoned. Izyum, because of lack of men (soon to be rectified by the 380,000 reservists joining the war). Kherson was too difficult to supply, and it is a lot easier to massacre Ukrainian cannon fodder from the left bank of the Dnipro, so demilitarization can proceed apace. Russia is using flexible strategies, as it did in Chechnya and Syria, and it will prevail, after some time, just as it did in Chechnya and Syria.
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  715.  @anthonymitchell8893  excellent point. the Germans hardly have an unblemished record for backing the forces of freedom and democracy in any major conflict.
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  716. and so the lies continue..."diverse organisations have better results" the propaganda and nonsense coming form the Woke Left knows no bounds.
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  717. "we have to see a Ukrainian counter offensive to push the Russians out" who is "we"? Western spectators too cowardly to get in the fight? or the mothers of the ukronazi cannon fodder getting slaughtered every day? who is "we"? exactly?
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  718. Did Sky News use all its "disinformation tools" when it reported on the Ghost of Kiev?
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  719. The fightback begins. UK Government won't do anything, so individuals and groups will.
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  720. notice how this puppet has to keep referring to the notes that he was told to memorize by his paymaster. Ukraine Ministry of Propaganda getting their money's worth from him.
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  721. the same benefit Ukraine would get from shelling the nuclear power plant it would get from destroying the Kakhovka Dam,,,but it does it anyway.
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  722. There is no crime here, and the only way Trump gets convicted is if both judge and jury decide against Trump because they don't like Trump. All the evidence pointed to no crime committed.
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  723. Russia is merely acting upon the wishes of Ukraine and the Greens. Zelensky and the Climate Change nutters want Germany to stop importing Russian gas. Russia is helping Ukraine and all Greens with that aim, so everyone is happy:)
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  724. Best leader in the world. Stands up for ethnic Russians wherever they may be. Will single-handedly bring the multi-polar world to reality
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  725.  @mariannabatz9733  fortunately, your opinion is based on lying Western media reports, the same ones that said 12 months ago that Russia was running out of weapons, thus your opinion is worthless.
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  726.  @burns281981  do dumb obese Americans honestly think that Russia is not the number one grain exporter in the world?
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  727. only one other brilliant and insightful world leader could command so many clapping seals, Greta Thunberg.
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  728. finally, the sheep of the West get to hear the truth, that power stations are indeed a military target, given that Ukrainian troops and munitions are moved around by electrified rail systems, and that NATO took out civilian infrastructure in Serbia with relish, that Africa supports Russia, because Africans know that Western sanctions on Russian grain and fertilizers are forcing Africans to starve, not fictitious Russian blockades in the Black Sea. Great job, ambassador. Now we understand why RT is banned from the West. The West is s**t scared the sheep will hear some truth.
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  729.  @jameswright...  The Allies had every right to enter Germany and fight in 1944, and Russia has every right to fight in Ukraine, just as NATO had every right to bomb Libya and Serbia. Stop being so blindly hypocritical and Russophobic.
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  730.  @jameswright...  The West is democratic? that must be why the West bans RT from being broadcast in the West, because the West so values free speech!?
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  731.  @jameswright...  if NATO has the right to bomb sovereign Libya, and the right to bomb sovereign Serbia, and the right to invade sovereign Afghanistan, then Russia has the right to invade Ukraine. Russia is just copying the West's playbook and copying the "rules based system", right?:)
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  732.  @jameswright...  Remember when the Cubans thought they can put weapons anywhere they like on their soil? Tell me, what was the West's response?:) Russia just copying the "rules based system" of the West.
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  733.  @jameswright...  so, this is very simple. If Cuba had no right to have nukes on its soil in 1963, as declared by USA, then Ukraine has no right to have nukes on its soil in 2022, as declared by Russia. get it?
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  734. It's Biden getting cold feet. His handlers told him the sanctions failed and Russia is not running out of men or weapons or ammo, but Ukraine and NATO are. Putin holds all the cards. No deal yet, let the West squirm a lot more before any talks.
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  735.  @Bandonian93  who is?
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  736. Zelensky delighted the UK has helped create 8 million refugees, helped bankrupt Ukraine and continues to train cannon fodder to be wiped out by the Wagners daily.
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  737. why is speed of delivery critical? Russia is on the back foot! Sanctions are working! Russia is running out of missiles! Russian morale is rock bottom! Why the hurry when Ukraine is clearly winning?
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  738. Finally, we get to see if NATO has balls and will retaliate for an attack on a member state. If it doesn't, bang goes faith in Article 5 and the dog just barks but won't bite.
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  739.  @seanchaney3086  they never ever detail any "crime" committed by Trump. They just shout "put him in jail" such is their frustration that a Populist can gain so much support.
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  740.  @russwhite8872  sure Benito, or is it Adolf?
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  741.  @DAL3520  oh yeah, Asia is so corrupt, for sure Trump would face a biased court there
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  742. Propagandist Bell is totally missing the point. Biden already admitted that cluster bombs are being sent because the US is so low on regular shells. No one is claiming cluster bombs will create any great advantage for Ukraine. They are being sent because Russia has succeeded in demilitarizing Ukraine AND NATO. This is a desperate panic measure, as Russia knows NATO resolve is waning, Ukraine morale is low, and the kill rate is very much in Russia's favor.
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  743. seems to be a typical human being then.
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  744.  @markushayes  Imagine spending your days moronically failing to see all that is Trump is in all other world leaders
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  745.  @christophercook723  can what?
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  746.  @christophercook723  If Trump had no idea what Brexit is, then the Left should be rejoicing that Trump becoming president is DEI at its best, where people at the top resemble more the ordinary masses than some kind of elite.
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  747.  @russwhite8872  Given Putin is the best leader in the world, that is quite a complement! If Trump could defend the American people the way Putin defends the Russians, that would be awesome.
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  748.  @Junior-ws1ur  especially because Russia never says such things. stop believing your own propaganda! Russia has no time plan. Russia took years to achieve its objectives in Chechnya and Syria, and will do the same in Ukraine. lol, still believe in Ghost of Kiev too?
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  749.  @michaeldunham3385  from now on the rest of the world sees Ukraine as the side that refused a peace offer. China and India etc will draw closer to Russia. Rightly so.
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  750.  @stevenmartin8828  8 million refugees, Ukraine or Russia? Bankrupt and begging Biden for bailouts, Ukraine or Russia? No reliable power grid, Ukraine or Russia? 100,000 dead soldiers, Ukraine or Russia? 300,000 trained reservists on the border poised for invasion, Ukraine or Russia?
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  751. the biggest incentive Russia has to roll into the Baltics and Poland at a later stage is knowing that NATO is totally demilitarized, which NATO is keen to do every day, stocks of weaponry dwindling down to the very basics. Russia sees NATO's weakness, and is licking its lips.
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  752. "quite the opposite is probably occurring", again, like this arrogant fool has any data on feelings for peace talks from any of the Ukrainian population. Maybe talk to those who were protesting in Odesa about the power outages?
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  753. totally out of date map. Wagners have taken control of all the Citadel, including the Domino sector. just a few blocks around the Mig Statue left in Ukronazi hands. Bakhmut is gone, the demoralized drunken convicts armed with just shovels have won. Doesn't say much for the NATO trained and armed Ukronazi battalions, does it?
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  754. thoroughly deserved by all those who applauded lockdowns, green energy, printing money, sanctions on Russia and unlimited aid to Ukraine. time to pay the bill.
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  755. Ukrainian military attacked a kindergarten in Horlivka - 247 News Bulletin Does he also think the Ukrainians are rather "blasé" the way they attacked a kindergarten in Gorlovka 2 days ago?
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  756. USA invaded and waged war on Afghanistan because Afghanistan was the base in which Al Qaeda terrorists were trained. Similarly, Russia and her allies would have every right to launch attacks on the UK, and many in the world sincerely hope they do. UK going down the tubes, and this shows why.
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  757.  @boink800  seems like the Russians don't need to shoot them down! The Russians have jammed himars communication systems. that's why we never hear of any successful himars attacks these days.
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  758. or maybe "the West is so full of s**t"
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  759.  @franckcolomb5579  UK airports had and have horrendous delays. but logic dictates that Brexit cannot necessarily be the cause when WORSE mayhem happens simultaneously in EU.
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  760.  @franckcolomb5579  so France's 100 million visitors per annum, along with Spain's similar total, explains why Frankfurt Airport and Brussels Airport are the two airports in Europe with most delays, cancelations and customer mayhem? Your logic defies belief!
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  761. except that the UN would never reach an agreement to implement such a pipe dream. Russia, China, India and half the world would side with Russia
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  762. well, it's good that at least Putin is reminding the world that we might end up in a nuclear war, because none of our useless leaders in the West bothers to do so.
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  763. all his bla bls bla about acting on intelligence now explains EXACTLY why NATO fled in total disorder and panic from Kabul when the Taliban strolled into town. He should also give this lecture to the USA after an innocent family were massacred last year in Kabul What a load of waffle to say "The Russians might have been right, the Russians might have been wrong".
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  764. it's not Russia's presence in Transnistria that is causing any uncertainty. it's NATO using Ukraine as a proxy war against Russia that is causing all the uncertainty.
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  765.  @mattmccaughen8082  this war won't be over soon, but it will be over when the Russians declare victory. Russia has artillery aplenty. It's NATO that has reduced supplying Ukraine to a trickle, because NATO simply has no more to give. Russia has destroyed both Ukraine and NATO supplies.
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  766.  @slickrick6678  perhaps, but there is no evidence whatsoever that Jay was suffering from anything that morning! left the airbnb, spoke to Ofelia, walked rapidly up the road, chatted light heartedly to Jay, never asked Lucy for any help, everything appeared 100% normal, so quite where this conspiracy theory about "acting abnormal" comes from, I don't know!
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  767. there is no Ukrainian offensive or advance. the map hasn't changed for a month. Surovikin is set on winning by attrition and there is no timeline. just as long as the West keeps sending weapons that Russia destroys, and the kill rate is 5:1 against Ukraine, Russia will win.
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  768. and now the truth....Ukraine has nothing that can consistently shoot down the Iranian drones. That's why Odessa is in pure panic as the Iranian suicide drones have free reign over the skies there.
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  769. yep, Clarke has got everything right so far. The Ukrainians are inches away from reclaiming Crimea, their power supply works perfectly, plenty of young men volunteering for the meatgrinder every day, and those 8 million refugees are flooding back into Ukraine again.
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  770.  @rinkydinkfretboard8737  let's bet the future of the planet on your sincere doubts.
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  771.  @logirex  any nation that possesses nuclear weapons is threatening the world 365 days a year.
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  772. oh, now we hear that "Russia is a superpower". what happened to Russian troops are poorly led, poorly supplied, demoralized, fighting with convicts and shovels, losing? suddenly the sheep are being prepped for Ukraine/NATO's inevitable defeat at the hands of a "superpower".
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  773. I'm 100% sure that EU Sanctions Package number 15 will absolutely wreck the Russian economy, at some point.
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  774.  @irishguy200007  sure. just as long as they have been trained to use the reverse gear they have a chance to survive
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  775.  @oknevals  totally agree. I fail to see the logic that says "all Ukraine's tanks have been destroyed, but it is safe to assume all the experienced tank crews survived and are just fine"
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  776.  @oknevals  exactly so. getting off the first fire and that fire being accurate will win the tank battle. period. combat reflexes and anticipation don't come with a few weeks of training.
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  777.  @verdebusterAP  depends on the crew
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  778.  @bestrealone2024  not the wise ones!
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  779.  @jjmbeausoleil  or your mum trying to figure out who your dad is after tequila night at the Rusty Anchor
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  780. @DeepestTempest so destroying the Kerch Bridge has devastated the water supply coming into Crimea? Really? Of course it hasn't. The Kerch Bridge is NOT the determining factor in Crimea surviving or failing. Far from it.
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  781. and now the truth...Week 4 of the counter offensive and it is an absolute catastrophe. 6 abandoned villages and a pig farm captured at the cost of 10,000 cannon fodder. Ukronazis now licking their wounds wondering WTF they do next. Bakhmut is not threatened at all. There is no lack of morale in the Russian forces...after Bakhmut and killing off the counter offensive, they are deservedly feeling great.
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  782. So, rapidly approaching WEEK 12 of the "Spring" offensive. using all their reserves (don't worry, those 16 yr old conscripts will have completed basic training in 2 weeks and be eager to die for Zelensky and get minced in the Russian meatgrinder) a couple of villages have been captured! Not one single Ukrainian has made it to the FIRST line of Russian defence, but this is progress! with "news" coverage like this we can see why RT had to be banned from the West.
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  783. waiting for the day when half the England football team are told to stay on the bench because, as blacks, they have the wrong skin colour and it is important that the national team reflects how the nation looks as a whole.
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  784. Zelensky just keeps serving up more and more cannon fodder into the Russian meatgrinder. Between them, Zelensky and Putin, the arduous process of demilitarization (killing, crippling or capturing every fighting age man) is happening. Zelensky has no clue how to reverse this.
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  785.  @AstraI  any jets sent by the West will go the same way as those Ukraine had at the start. scrap metal.
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  786. well, well well, our propagandist from the Ministry of Truth is able to specify 30,000 Russian dead, but skips mentioning a specific number for Ukraine in the Battle of Bakhmut. Luckily the leaked dox tell us the kill rate is 7:1 in Russia's favor. Just gutting for NATO that the pride of it's trained, advised and armed Ukronazi boys are getting hammered by demoralized drunken convicts with spades.
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  787. Compared to Brian Berletic, Sean Bell is a useless charlatan of a non expert and is ignorant of the reality happening in Ukraine
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  788.  @chorleyjeff  who cares about convicts?
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  789. Sunak is absolutely clueless and should be congratulated for only one thing, that he destroyed the Conservative party that decided to cease being Conservative. Roll on Farage
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  790. "bomb after bomb"....remember that genius, Ben Wallace, saying back in October "the Russians are running out of weapons"? the West needs some leaders, not ignorant propagandists leading us to WW3
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  791. who cares where the bombs were made? That's like wringing your hands about where the rifle was made that the serial killer used in his rampage.
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  792. look how nervous he gets when trying to explain why no one can know the casualty figures on the Ukrainian side. He knows the info in the Discord dox leak is correct, 7:1 kill rate in Russia's favor. so, do the math, Russia with 3 times Ukraine's population, and a kill rate of 7:1 in Russia's favor, just a matter of time before Ukraine runs out of cannon fodder, because the likes of Zelenskt ain't going anywhere near the front lines to fight.
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  793. a government raising taxes on a company like Shell just pushes Shell to provide fuel to other countries.
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  794. forest management has been abandoned by super Green zealot authorities because it is seen as "interfering with nature", hence the horrendous problems we have nowadays.
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  795. no air cover, not enough ammo, teenagers and pensioners ready to bite the dust, Russia rubbing its hands with glee. Bring it on, Ukronazis.
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  796.  @Chevy-jordan  it's deluded thinking like this that has got NATO/Ukraine in such a pickle. no doubt the sanctions are working really well, in your mind, and Ghost of Kiev is about to save the day!
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  797. More lies from Sky News. There is NO Russian blockade of Ukrainian shipments. Ukraine REFUSES to demine its ports. Besides, if the grain is coming from occupied territory, that is now considered Russian terrirory..so Russian grain is being shipped abroad in Russian vessels from Russia. What's your point? That Ukraine no longer has any demined ports and has lost a lot of territory? Obviously!
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  798. Brian Berletic is a real military analyst, not this charlatan propagandist Bell. If Belarus joins the conflict, it will be because the West pushed Belarus into it, not because Russia dragged Belarus into it.
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  799. would any actual evidence be needed to issue these warrants? for example, should Zelensky just be arrested on suspicion of terrorism?
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  800.  @saamz32  yes, welcome to the astoundingly hypocritical world of the West in 2023
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  801. supplying tanks to increase the death toll is not "helping". it is pure evil.
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  802. and now, the real news. Bakhmut has fallen. NATO trained and armed battalions were poured into Bakhmut to stop the Wagner demoralized convicts with shovels, but NATO/Ukraine lost, again, as they did in Soledar and Mariupol. no wonder weapon seems able to stop the relentless grinding progress of the poorly led and poorly supplied Russians. NATO has a massive problem on its hands.
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  803. "unprecedented in Europe" this dope hasn't heard of how Islam dealt with a teacher in Paris. the Russians thought this was something Europe will tolerate.
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  804. truly bizarre behavior! Russia destroys its own Nordstream pipelines, then shells its own nuclear power plant that it is occupying, and now it has destroyed the side of the dam that it controls!? Makes sense then that Russia killed Darina Dugina and sent drones to attack the Kremlin.
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  805. Macron calling the accused police officer's actions as "inexcusable" gave a green light to the mob to start all this. Then again, the French voters rejected Zemmour at the polls, the only candidate who preached an immediate end to immigration, so France is reaping what it sowed in many respects.
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  806. With a kill rate of 8:1 in Russia's favor in Bakhmut, the demilitarization of Ukraine is rolling on nicely. Who cares about gaining territory when Ukraine keeps serving up cannon fodder for the Wagner meatgrinder so willingly?
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  807. Sri Lanka unable to buy basic supplies because the West's ridiculous and heartless sanctions on Russia have succeeded in raising the costs of such supplies. No wonder Asia now hates NATO and the West and no wonder Asia supports BRICS and removal of Western hegemony. What Biden calls' "Putin's Price Hike" has hit Sri Lanka, except Sri lanka blames Biden, not Putin, rightfully so.
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  808. this is why Russia will win. convicts, mercenaries and patriotic men will always beat under-performing minorities dressed up in a uniform for reasons of political correctness.
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  809. sending tanks is only happening because the West is very very low on artillery and ammo. Russia is winning the war of attrition, so in desperation, the West hopes tanks will change the course of the war. they won't. they will just get destroyed. NATO has bitten off more than it can chew.
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  810. this Bell guy is such a dunce. if he can't figure out why Kiev is being targeted, why the hell is he on this channel?
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  811. so, no evidence that Russia is responsible.
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  812. looks like Ben Wallace's postcard caused the Russian attack on the Khmelnitsky airfield! what a fool Wallace is, to post details that alerted the Russians.
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  813. Biggest threat to the West is the idiocy of its leaders who can't even apply sanctions without crippling their citizens with the boomerang effect.
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  814. it does nothing to tackle the main issues: immigration, government debt, inflation, wasting money on Ukraine. ruinous.
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  815. fascinating how this lying propagandist spins the truth. The NATO/Ukronazia counter offensive is now deep into Week 4 and absolutely no significant gains have been made at all, at the expense of 10,000 more cannon fodder slaughtered. Not one single Ukronazi fighter is anywhere near out of the security zone and up to Russia's FIRST defence line! It is a total failure, hence Jake Sullivan rushing to Copenhagen to see what kind of peace talks can happen in July.
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  816. so if Tate uses hate speech when he says women bear some responsibility when they get raped, why aren't all Muslims kicked off social media, given they believe the same thing? or is it expressing the opinion that is the crime, not thinking it?
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  817. the usual lies and propaganda about Russian losses. Russia is advancing using convicts armed with just spades, remember?
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  818.  @wejmluva  Is Kosovo part of Serbia?
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  819. it's time for the Brexiteers to found their own bank and for millions to fire Coutts et al for having values that don't align with Brexit.
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  820. The Kursk incursion is just another failure like the 2023 summer offensive. it will just speed up the Ukrainian pensioners and teenagers massacred by Russia. Slowly, in Ukraine, the penny is dropping that Zelensky ain't no Churchill and that any faith that NATO could out produce and outsmart Russia was horribly misplaced, thanks Boris Johnson.
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  821. 40 billion = how much sanctions on Russia have cost the country plus the unlimited aid we throw at Ukraine plus the subsidies for Green energy. Pretty easy gap to plug, if there were a chancellor and PM with any guts.
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  822. why?
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  823. Farage was right. NATO meddling in Ukraine crossed Putin's red line, and now it's time to pay the price. This is the mess that the West has put us in by arrogantly ignoring Putin's warnings.
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  824.  @HamptonGuitars  name me the politician or leader who does admit to a mistake and who explains why they made the mistake.
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  825.  @HamptonGuitars  on the contrary, both Trump and Putin are both leaders with great insight into how the world works, as opposed to the useless shower the West now has, idealists who have no concept that in the real world, their preferences have to be reduced to what they can live with in the give and take of realpolitik. the fantasy world right now is thinking NATO/Ukronazia can possibly defeat Russia in a ground war. absolute nuts.
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  826. strange how the impartial Sky News reports on every single Russian ammo dump being hit, but never anything on the masses of successful strikes from Russia on Ukrainian depots. still waiting for Sky investigative reporters to tell us what happened to Zaluzhny and Budanov.
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  827.  @thetruthhurts7675  keep in mind, we haven't seen any sanctions of note from Russia yet! When or if Russia decides to turn the screw on exports of uranium et al, the West will really start squirming, but let's see how the West deals with winter first.
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  828. just hilarious that these "experts" assume Russian attacks must be linked to Eurovision and Zelensky on tour. reveals the level of thinking in the West.
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  829. yeah, bit too early to judge the Spring counter offensive. so, when would be the right time to judge it? Winter?
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  830.  CH0L3R1C  obviously Russia's work? really? so if there was obviously an advantage to Russia to flood the Dnipro, why blow the dam up instead of opening the floodgates?
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  831.  CH0L3R1C  was blowing up Nordstream also obviously Russia's work?
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  832. yes, your lordship, the West could destroy Russia's Black Sea Fleet, and Russia can nuke the West to death.....so what's your point?
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