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"no one knows the death toll, but it is high"
let that sink in. the media have pushed this nonsense for so long, even the dumbest sheep are beginning to see through the charade.
tanks are needed immediately, even though Russia is on the back foot, sanctions are working, Russia is isolated, Russia is poorly led, with poor equipment, low on morale, out of missiles, yet its convicts routed NATO trained battalions in Soledar. hmmm
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@randallturner9094 it is because Putin listened to all the American rationalizations for invading several countries that Putin decided he would copy the "rules based order" of the West and do the same. Why complain at someone copying YOUR system?
what was USA's tired excuse for invading Iraq? weapons of mass destruction? At least Hitler really did have German speaking people in Czechoslovakia he could pretend to protect. USA had to make up stories about non existent weapons!
yep, i believe there is a chance Putin will invade Latvia, because those Einsteins in Riga thought it was a brilliant idea to do what the Romanians, Georgians, Chechens and Ukrainians did, namely derussify the country and discriminate against ethnic Russians.
so, let's get this done, let the missiles fly and see where the chips lie when London, New York, Berlin, LA are all turned to glass. why not?
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@tomspencer1364 in 1938 and 1939 Hitler used multiple excuses and reasons for his invasions, from Lebensraum to destiny of the master race.
Putin has been 100% consistent and right. Putin will intervene wherever he can restore the rights of abused ethnic Russians and wherever Russia's security is threatened. and Putin has a backbone and won't back down.
No one in Putin's circle wants to seize Ukraine. An incessant gue'rilla war with Ukrainians that hate Russians on NATO's border is not what Russia wants. Re read Putin's 5 objectives.
Spreading misery and terror is the speciality of NATO....Afghanistan, Iraq (twice), Syria, Libya, Serbia, it never ends, and now the rest of the world is fed up of Western terror, lies, hypocrisy and bullying, the Global South is happy to work with and trade with Putin.
Game set and match Russia.
Now, to the lying butchers of the West, Go ***k yourselves, we've had enough of your murderous ways.
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@johnroche7541 so give me the numbers.
you assume Russia has had significant losses. Give me your numbers.
How many Russians dead so far? and what source do you use for your numbers?
No one weeps for all the convicts dead, nor the mercenaries. DPR, LPR, Chechens have done most of the front line heavy lifting.
You might be very disappointed when you learn actual Russian losses, that matter, are very low.
and now NATO/Ukraine has 380,000 Russian reservists poised on the border, many with combat experience in Syria, morale high, the convicts routed the NATO trained and armed Ukrainians in Soledar, but yet, let me guess, you are sure Ukraine will win, right?
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@randallturner9094 you used the phrase "at the behest of", which means "asked, ordered, requested to do". check it in a dictionary.
looks like I do indeed understand English. Randall, take a quick look in the mirror....and now you see the one who ain't too sure what "at the behest" means!
So, Randall, both France and UK, 2 NATO countries, bombed Libya. In my book, that is NATO bombing a sovereign country, unprovoked, wouldn't you agree? Maybe, Randall, all of Africa, and Latin America, and the Middle East and most of Asia sees NATO and USA as hypocrites, invading , bombing, attacking, then whining about Russia being the one breaking the "rules based order"?
now do you see why Russia is not isolated but gaining support as quickly as the West loses support?
Let's try the question again, dictionary in hand this time, Randall.
What right did Italy have to request/ask for/order any clearing of air space over sovereign Libya?
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@margraveofgadsden8997 is that rambling twaddle your answer?
Let's try again, and this time, try to answer the question.
If you are right, that Ukraine having nukes does nothing to threaten Russia's security, then conversely, Cuba and Mexico having nukes would do nothing to threaten US security, agreed?
So, in that case, Biden would be absolutely fine with Cuba and Mexico hosting nukes all aimed at US cities, right? or.....do you think Biden might object in the strongest possible terms, a la Putin?
try and answer the question this time, nice though the lecture on ancient Muscovy and Prigozhin the fascist was.
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@alanbellas513 as expected, you are totally incapable of explaining what exactly Russia has done that goes against the West's much vaunted "international rules based order".
what you succeeded in doing was equating NATO's actions in Kosovo with Russia's actions in Ukraine. BOTH were totally unauthorized by a UNSC resolution, BOTH were done to support a separatist cause, BOTH brushed aside the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a UN member, BOTH saw the destruction of civilian infrastructure with collateral damage aplenty, BOTH resulted in troops on the ground, a de facto occupation/annexation.
The very fact you fail to delineate any key differences and the very fact that you bluster by saying "Oh, Serbia, that was such a long time ago" means you have no case, and the world sees that NATO is a stinking hypocrite and its rules and words are garbage. QED old boy, now you understand why the likes of me see no difference in Putin's actions and NATO's actions.
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@tomspencer1364 on the contrary, those with no brain are those who can't see how Putin has galvanized a global movement against the West's incessant bullying, lecturing and hectoring.
With victory, as happened in Chechnya, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Syria and now Ukraine, Putin will see his popularity increase and his stature, globally, enhanced. Only the brain-dead are blind to that.
It will be fun to see all the recriminations in the West once Putin declares victory.
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@alanbellas513 as I said, you are not bright enough to see that an "ex" anything means that existence hasn't, somehow, just vanished.
You need help. You make basic mistakes. You should be appreciative that you are being corrected.
So, to recap, the EU still exists, even though the UK is an ex member of the EU.
In the case of the USSR, both Russia and Ukraine became ex members of the USSR, so any Soviet property that ended up within Ukraine was not property of Ukraine at all. It was to be decided, by consultation, what to do with said property. There was nothing for Ukraine to "give up". End of discussion.
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@randallturner9094 how can Russia be hypocritical for NOT blocking a resolution for military intervention? Russia believes in military intervention as a general rule. As you do. You obviously didn't notice, it's the pro Ukronazis, like you, that are the hypocrites, wringing their hands at Russia's military intervention, whining about "sovereign Ukraine", "territorial integrity", "unprovoked aggression", "rules based order" yet, clapping and cheering when USA and NATO ignore sovereignty, territorial integrity, unprovoked aggression and a rules based order with regularity and with aplomb.
100% hypocrisy on your side, and the world sees it and is disgusted.
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@alanbellas513 Yes, I will keep proofreading your English, and keep correcting your appalling reading comprehension skills. When you step into the ring with me, dear Alan, be prepared for an absolute hammering.
The truth is that Putin is, indeed, copying what USA did in Kosovo. USA chose to support separatists, intervene militarily and thence occupy Kosovo. Russia is doing the same in Donbass.
No, I am not denying that the first Chechnya War was about Chechnya attempting to gain its independence. I never denied such. What I denied was your absurd claim that Chechnya WANTED independence. Completely different. A minority that CLAIMED to represent the Chechen people decided to launch a jihad, in effect, to break away from Russia, but I asked you to cite evidence that this warmongering, breakaway, radical group represented the majority. You have failed, yet again, to prove your point.
Regarding Ukraine, some Ukrainians wanted to move the country towards the EU, some towards Russia. Regardless, in democracies, a pro Russian president would be removed at the ballot box, not by a Nazi inspired coup.
Will correct all your English errors in the next post, so you can avoid getting hammered every time you enter the ring with me.
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@alanbellas513 you are starting to get it!
YES! Putin felt it was totally within the "international rules based order" to bomb a separatist insurrection in Chechnya, because Putin had seen the West do exactly the same on numerous occasions! And Putin was right.
Again, your reading comprehension skills are lacking. Did you complete high school?
I never said that Putin would never have invaded Ukraine if it were not for Kosovo. What I said was that Putin could see from the NATO intervention in Kosovo that doing the same in Donbass would be just the same, thus only a stinking hypocrite could ever complain that Russia was acting outside the "international rules based order". And, again, Putin was right. Only stinking hypocrites wring their hands and cry "Kosovo was such a virtuous intervention, but Donbass is so awful". And you, sir, would be one of those stinking hypocrites.
Wringing your hands over Yemen, are you? Of course not. unless the conflict includes Russia, you couldn't give a monkey's backside who gets massacared.
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@alanbellas513 once again, you are struggling with reading comprehension and logic. I will try to explain, yet again.
YES, I am saying that Putin is following the international rules based order of the West. What NATO did in Kosovo, Russia is doing in Donbass.
However, that does NOT imply that otherwise Putin would not be doing what he is doing! You are confusing justification for what Putin is doing with the cause of Putin's actions. Putin is not invading Ukraine BECAUSE of Kosovo. He is invading Ukraine because it is the right thing to do! His justification for claiming he is following the all-important "rules based order" is to point to Kosovo. And Putin is right! Anyone who whines about "rules based order" only has to look at Kosovo and see, in fact, Putin is doing what NATO did.
So, if you want to whine about Putin, whine about USA and NATO in equal measure, but you are a stinking hypocrite, so you refuse to do that. This is the morally bankrupt position such Russophobia and bias lands you in, you goon!
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@alanbellas513 do some more research, dear Alan. ALL the Black Sea coastal oblasts are majority Russian speaking! Odessa, Mykolaev, Kherson, Zaporozhe, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkov and Dnipro, all of it Russian speaking majority.
Putin never tried to "take" Kiev. Why would he?
Do some research on what a "fixing operation" is. Keep enemy troops pinned down in one area while your main body of troops seize territory in another area (in this case, the land bridge from Kherson to Rostov). Alan, you MUST do some research and learn more! You have been content to just regurgitate mainstream Western media. Do you EVER try to get the other perspective?
Just to repeat, Putin has been in power for decades and has NEVER seized territory other than Russian speaking areas that were embroiled in wars against nationalist governments discriminating against ethnic Russians. NEVER! (Unlike USA and NATO, who attack whomever they want for whatever reason).
The record is there for all to see.
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@alanbellas513 so, time to correct one of your many lies.
according to Wikipedia, here are the Ukrainian oblasts with a majority of Russophones:
Crimea, 97%
Dnipro, 72%
Donetsk, 93%
Lugansk, 89%
Zaporozhe, 81%
Odesa, 85%
Kharkov, 74%
Mykolaev, 66%
As I TRUTHFULLY said before YOU LIED in your counter, Putin has never invaded and occupied and annexed ANY territory that was not majority Russophone.
so, in future, stfu about your lying nonsense about "oh, Putin, such a threat to his neighbors and to the west"
Learn some basic truths before entering the ring, cretin.
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@alanbellas513 no one is saying "where Russian is spoken, that's Russia". Hence there is no need for Russia to intervene in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Khirghizia, Tazjikistan, Azarbaijan, Armenia, Belarus and the Baltics. Those countries afford equal rights, though Latvia recently has been going down the Zelensky path of discrimination against Russian speakers.
The point is, where there are Russian speakers and ethnic Russians WHO ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BASED ON THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE, that is where you can expect Putin to intervene, AND ONLY THERE!
If you weren't such a brainwashed, rabid russophobe you would support him and wake up to reality.
But then again, maybe you believe in rabid discrimination
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@marilenaganea6578 Ukraine is way beyond the point where it can be saved. 8 million refugees, more than that internally displaced, bankrupt, begging, no reliable power grid, now no air defences, Russia has survived the sanctions formidably and has support from all over the globe, not just China, India, Brazil, OPEC and Africa, it's over. You will know that Zelensky is serious about committing himself to a Ukrainian victory when he has sold his villa in Italy and his mansion in Miami, but he won't. Nothing to stop you sending every last penny you have to Zelensky, but please, don't be a sucker, this one is over.
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@scurra1163 cheerleading the Azov nazis is as low as it gets, no lectures needed from someone cheering on the Azov Nazi battalion. Big fan of Bandera yourself are you?
Ukraine is receiving totally insufficient aid, you dope, hence it does nothing but beg, beg, beg. winners don't beg. Zhaluzny says he needs 300 tanks. no one in NATO got that in storage and ready to go, do they?
Only a few people in the Kremlin know how many men Russia is losing, and one of them is not you, so stop pretending your crystal ball works.
news for you. most of the planet doesn't care what happens in Ukraine, but they do care that Russian energy is still exported, they do care Russian grain is exported, they do care to work and trade with Russia. ONLY the deluded Western bubble talks of Russia as a pariah. Get out of the bubble and see the reality, just once!
Russia is winning and everyone knows it. those in denial, like you, make up dumb stuff about sinking economy and heavy losses, ignoring the fact that Ukraine is bankrupt and begging.
Take a dose of reality and regain your senses.
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@edwardgiovannelli5191 Nah, you failed.
Nazi Germany was committing genocide on the Jewish people, not on a neighboring state. I mean if Nazi Germany was trying to eliminate every French person, they did a really rotten job!
so, back to the drawing board with that dumb analogy!
But it is curious that Ukraine is the only country to accept, willingly, happily and joyously, a Nazi battalion into its national defence force. at least the Russians pushed the Nazis into a private group and didn't welcome them as part of Russia's national force.
By the way, which other country in the world do you think would recognize, as a national hero, a Nazi collaborator who led a pogrom that killed 4000 Jews? Agree with me, that only Ukraine would stoop so low?
Projection, indeed. Go get another swastika tattoo, Adolf.
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@ryaku5 Supplying Ukraine won't stop Putin. NATO has done nothing but supply Ukraine from day one, and Putin has continued killing the Ukronazi scum by the hundreds every day. How is NATO gonna supply Ukraine with more men once Putin has killed all the fighting age Ukrainian men?
1) why does Russia need more civilians? it already has 3 times as many civilians as Ukraine.
2) reclaim oil and gas fields? Ukraine has no oil/gas fields of note, nor does Chechnya, nor Transnistria, nor Abkhazia, nor South Ossetia. All the places Putin has intervened in have no gas/oil fields! All the places Putin has NOT attacked - Azerbaijan, Kazakstan, Turkmenistan, DO have plenty of oil and gas....but Putin has NOT attacked any of them! So, bang goes that theory, Einstein.
3) Putin doesn't want to "bring back" the USSR because, as Putin has pointed out, it was the USSR that created a lot of these problems, like awarding Crimea to Ukraine when most people in Crimea didn't want that. Putin is no supporter of the USSR.
4) Putin may well want Ukraine as a neutral country as a buffer zone against NATO, and this is a reasonable request. Bet the West wished they had sat down with Putin to discuss this in December when, as per point 6 of the Budapest Memorandum, Putin had requested consultations.
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@ryaku5 again, you need to step back from the nonsense and propaganda you swallow hook line and sinker.
consider the facts.
most of the Russian population, as revealed in opinion polls, approve of Putin.
Ukraine is NOT getting ENOUGH reliable and powerful weapons. If they were, they wouldn't be panic begging for more!
Russia not only has excellent quality weapons, in some areas it has superior weapons, like hypersonic weapons that the West hasn't even put into operation. Again, don't believe the nonsense you hear about Russian inferior weapons.
Iran and N Korea are happy to sell their weapons at a great price, so Russia is more than happy to buy. Iranian drones have wreaked havoc on Ukraine. This is an achievement for Russia, not a weakness.
Again, if we are to believe the lies from your side, Russia is weak, Russia is poor, Russian morale is low, Russia is poorly led, Russia is poorly equipped, yet a bunch of convicts and mercenaries just routed Ukraine's NATO trained and armed battalions in Soledar, Opidnoye and Klyshcheevka. Go figure!
No doubt you also believe the sanctions are working and Russia is isolated!
so naive, you poor sweet child
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@glenn Dale 1) The facts on a map show Russian incremental advances, if territory gain is of any great significance. 2) so far, Ukraine is the prison, with no fighting age males allowed to leave, has been a jail for men since day one. Russia, so far, has mobilized reservists with military experience, no one more, and Russia allowed the cowards in fear of conscription to flee (unlike Ukraine). 3) Ukraine is so corrupt that even in the middle of a war, Zelensky has to fire half his top ministers. just another day in Kiev.
Have you been to Ukraine, glenn?
tell me of your personal experiences there, please.
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@timeames2509 yep. the Novaya Rossiya territories are certainly in a gray area it seems. I mean if Putin nuked London in protest that NATO was helping an attack on "Russia" it would be a shock, but indeed, what is the definition of "Russia" in Putin's mind?
If it includes Crimea, then I have a feeling we will find out soon, and Poland may get a conventional missile or two if Crimea is hit.
A popular outcry in non Crimean Russia, somewhere like Belgorod, if it were hit big time, would probably mean a conventional missile attack on somewhere that no one cares about, like Estonia, just to see if NATO does anything but whine.
Personally, if I were Putin, I would wait for Finland to join NATO and drop one on Helsinki as a welcome gift.
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@cog600 Soledar was important not because of its size but because of the humiliation of the NATO loss. low morale among Russian troops we were told, poorly led, we were told, poorly equipped, we were told, up against NATO trained and equipped heroes fighting for their homeland, we were told, and the convicts and drunken mercenaries WON! oh boy, almost as humiliating as seeing the Taliban kick NATO out of Kabul last year, funny, but humiliating.
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@cog600 oh well, if all the evidence is backed up by photos on the internet, then it must be true! oh man, you are such a sucker.
who did the verifying and why do you trust this verifier?
again, you refuse to answer the question. if Russia is too weak to be a threat, why are NATO talking about stopping Russia in Ukraine to prevent Russia from attacking other countries?
you know, since March we have heard "Russia is running out of weapons". at what point do you stop believing this wishful thinking?
and again, you refuse to answer...if NATO has such an abundance of weapons, why does NATO refuse to send all that Ukraine is asking for?
Russia is fighting this war to protect the rights and freedoms of the ethnic Russians in Ukraine. Russia did the same in Chechnya, and won. Russia did the same in Abkhazia, and won. Russia did the same in South Ossetia, and won. Russia did the same in Transnistria, and won. Russia took years to defeat the jihadists in Syria, and won. And Russia will do so in Ukraine. Once NATO is demilitarized, Latvia will be up next, and NATO will be too cowardly to do anything.
Kabul in 2021 told you how pathetic NATO is. But like Napoleon and Hitler, you think you know best. deluded imbecile.
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@cog600 your "answer" is not an answer. you basically say there is a sliding scale. the longer the war goes on, the less of a threat Russia is to the rest of Europe,
But as usual, the facts on the ground don't match your nonsense theory. If you were right, there would be fewer and fewer concerns for Europe's safety as time elapsed. However, that is not true, As time moves on, we hear more and more panicked shouts for Russia to be stopped because "who knows which country is the next victim?"
There is not one single world leader that has said "you know, the longer this war continues, the safer and safer Europe becomes". Not one.
Russia is going from strength to strength. Ruble strong, IMF forecast economic growth, revenues from energy exports rising, and when NATO is totally demoralized and demilitarized, Russia will be able to occupy the ethnic Russian portion of Latvia with not even a whimper from the gutless West. After Kabul, the whole world knows NATO is a paper tiger.
and pathetic suckers like you keep believing the nonsense of the Western press. sad.
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@timeames2509 the silence from Biden, Sullivan and others over the Nordstream allegations is turning the world against USA even more. No Russian denial of anything has the BRICS nations upset at all.
No Western fighter jets are lined up to go anywhere. Zelensky is begging, but so far got nothing. So far both Germany and USA have said "no", UK has said training pilots only, no jets, so, you tell me, where are these jets coming from?
Russia has air superiority over Ukraine, bus as I explained, Russia knows air superiority does nothing to demilitarize a country. USA had 20 years of air superiority over the Taliban, and lost Afghanistan to the Taliban!
Demilitarization is killing all the fighting age men. Planes can't do that. Chechens, convicts and mercenaries can.
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@timeames2509 assuming the Nordstream sabotage was done by US, what would be Biden's objective? to force his German ally to buy more expensive US energy? Nice ally!
If Putin wanted to erase Ukrainian existence, why wait decades? besides, there is no evidence Putin would want such a thing.
Putin, like me, believes Ukraine is an artificial country. like Belgium, doesn't have any roots as an independent or separate entity. But I don't believe either Ukraine or Belgium should be erased from the map. And I don't believe Putin thinks that. The last thing Putin wants is eternal guerriila war in Western Ukraine where he knows people hate Russia! makes no sense!
Putin liberated the ethnic Russians of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, but never seized all of Georgia. He did the same with Transnistria, never tried to seize Moldova. makes no sense.
Putin would attack Poland if Poland decided to enter the Ukraine conflict. Hopefully Poland has enough sense to stay out of it.
Many of us suspect NATO would apply article 5 by talking about how to respond to a Russian incursion, but would not actually fight. Putin probably wouldn't risk an attack to see, but he might.
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