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Russia retreated from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Kherson. Its called winning people!
Next Russia captures a mid sized town a few miles across the border in just under a year with only 100k casualties, just ignore the flanks collapsing. Next up its trench warfare that never ends, unless Ukraine breaks them with the 1,085 Tanks, 4,185 AFVs, 2,000 HMMWVs and 870 Artillery that they've acquired recently
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@Injun-b2q This is some serious cope right here. If Russia isn't trying to capture Bakhmut then why are they frantically trying to capture Bakhmut? Human wave assaults for 10 months. Somewhere north of 5-1 casualties in favor of Ukraine. Or do you think defenders advantage no longer exists, for the first war ever? Russia was desperate to capture it before May 9 so they had some sort of W they could point to. Typically when you invade a country you don't want to engage in trench warfare that never ends.
Imagine if the US invaded Mexico then 40 miles in they were stopped and started digging trenches and resurrected the M26 Pershing and said; "everything is going according to plan you just dont understand tactics" please. what's happening right now is Russia's worst nightmare, do you think they want to dust off T54's and Scooby Doo vans?
A complete humiliation for the self proclaimed world #2 army. Even Russian state media is all doom and gloom lately and its their job to lie about the war.
How about when Russia retreated from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Kherson? Is that an example of Russia "Dominating the battlefield" Let me guess you think them retreating was a gesture of goodwill. How about losing Izium, the main supply hub in the area, by some accounts the Ukrainians captured more equipment then they started the war with. The fact that Russia STILL cant get air superiority despite having every advantage. But they are incapable of basic SEAD never mind large scale air operations.
And I dont know what your obsession with some Vietnamese guy in a hole is. I said i'm not American. Who's defending the Vietnam war? Or is this just more braindead whataboutism, which is what every Russian argument boils down to. And you realize its not 1969 anymore right? the US army has changed. Vietnam is a good example of how you can win every battle and still lose the war. Look up the Russo-Japanese war if you want to see some real humiliation, or the Russo-Polish war, or the First Chechen war, the point is there's no shortage of Russian military humiliations (Ukraine war included)
As for Afghanistan the war was over in a matter of weeks, there hadn't been an attack on coaltion forces in years. Taliban were all in their hidey holes in the other Stans. The US could have left any time after they got Bin Laden and declared victory. You also realize Russia got smoked so bad in Afghanistan it collapsed their whole damn empire right?
Lets compare casualties in Afghanistan just for fun.
USSR: About 15,000 KIA Soviets.
Civilians: About 2,000,000 All in 10 years.
US: 2,402 KIA
Civilians: About 46,319 civilians in 20 years, though an estimated at least 1,010-1,297 Afghan civilians were directly killed by U.S./NATO actions.
US may not be perfect but at least they try, Russia will engage in reprisal killings and directly target civillians.
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@Männtashsh-Pyrre-m9o There is nothing in Ukraine's declaration of sovereignty or constitution that has anything to do with Russia. Which part of the Belovezh Accords did Ukraine violate? as far as I can see it was Russia violating Ukraine's independence in 2014 that violated the treaty.
The end of the existence of the USSR, with the "setting up of lawfully constituted democratic… independent states… on the basis of mutual recognition of and respect for State sovereignty".
Establishing on the territory the "right to self-determination" along with "norms relating to human and people’s rights".
"Parties guarantee to their citizens, regardless of their nationality or other differences, equal rights and freedoms. Each of the Parties guarantees to the citizens of the other Parties, and also to stateless persons resident in their territory, regardless of national affiliation or other differences, civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights and freedoms in accordance with the universal recognized international norms relating to human rights"
"The Parties, desirous of facilitating the expression, preservation and development of the distinctive ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious characteristics of the national minorities resident in their territories and of the unique ethno-cultural regions that have come into being, will extend protection to them"
"Equitable cooperation"
"Territorial integrity" along with "freedom of movement of citizens"
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@alaska3300 Here’s a look at the size the top 10 country’s economy in 2023, according to IMF’s estimates. Because you seem to be confused.
Rank Country GDP (USD)
1 🇺🇸 U.S. $26,855B
2 🇨🇳 China $19,374B
3 🇯🇵 Japan $4,410B
4 🇩🇪 Germany $4,309B
5 🇮🇳 India $3,737B
6 🇬🇧 UK $3,159B
7 🇫🇷 France $2,923B
8 🇮🇹 Italy $2,170B
9 🇨🇦 Canada $2,090B
10 🇧🇷 Brazil $2,081B
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@valkiyri There were peace talks nobody denies that, there was never any peace agreement. Russia retreated from Kyiv because it became clear they had no hope of taking it. Here's what Arakhamia, who's the Ukrainian official you are refering to actually said.
“First of all, in order to agree to this point, you have to change the constitution. Our aspiration towards NATO is written in the constitution. Also, there is no trust in the Russians that they will do this. This would only be possible if there were security guarantees. We couldn’t sign something, go away, everybody there would breathe a sigh of relief, and then they would come more prepared, because in fact, when they invaded, they were unprepared for such resistance. We could only work on this when we were 100% sure that this [intrusion] would never happen again. However, there is no such belief."
Arakhamia also denied the fact that the Ukrainian delegation was ready to sign the document and Boris Johnson stopped them. According to his own words, the Western partners were informed about the negotiations and had seen the draft versions of the agreement, but they did not make decisions on behalf of Ukraine.
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@skp8748 "Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible." - 45th president of the United States of America, the stable genius himself.
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@Chipolinou Russia didn't lose any battles in Chechnya either? You really do like rewriting history. I know reading comprehension isn't your strong suit but try to read it before you spam the same brainless comment again.
So when On 6 March 1996, a group of Chechen fighters infiltrated Grozny and launched a three-day surprise raid on the city, taking most of it and capturing caches of weapons and ammunition. During the battle, much of the Russian troops were wiped out, with most of them surrendering or routing. After a couple columns of Russian reinforcements were destroyed on the roads leading to the city, Russian troops eventually gave up on trying to reach the trapped soldiers in the city. This wasn't a loss in your tiny brain for some reason?
Or when On April 16, a month after the initial conflict, Chechen fighters successfully carried out an ambush near Shatoy, wiping out an entire Russian armored column resulting in losses up to 220 soldiers killed in action. In another attack near Vedeno, at least 28 Russian soldiers were killed in action. This was a victory for the Russian army in your mind?
Or the Third Battle of Grozny where Russian troops in and around Grozny were overran in the key districts within hours in Operation Zero). The fighters then laid siege to the Russian posts and bases and the government compound in the city centre, while a number of Chechens deemed to be Russian collaborators were rounded up, detained and, in some cases, executed. At the same time, Russian troops in the cities of Argun and Gudermes were also surrounded in their garrisons. Several attempts by the armored columns to rescue the units trapped in Grozny were repelled with heavy Russian casualties (the 276th Motorized Regiment of 900 men suffered 50% casualties in a two-day attempt to reach the city centre). Russian military officials said that more than 200 soldiers had been killed and nearly 800 wounded in five days of fighting, and that an unknown number were missing; Chechens put the number of Russian dead at close to 1,000. Thousands of troops were either taken prisoner or surrounded and largely disarmed, their heavy weapons and ammunition commandeered by Chechen fighters. Another Russia victory if you have a tenuous grasp on reality.
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@zjpdarkblaze Ukraine is fighting for its survival, Russia is fighting to gain some more land. Russia can absorb more losses but with different motivations there is no guarantee that they will, Russia has already had one attempted coup so far this war. They could have absorbed far more losses in WW1 but instead the country fell apart. Meanwhile in WW2, a war where they were fighting for survival they were willing to take staggering losses. The Soviets were also dependent on western donations and they still won.
Russia has a long history of losing offensive wars they should win. The Russian-Japan war, Polish-Soviet war, Afghanistan, the first Chechen war. They could have taken far more losses in these wars if they were willing to, but they didn't.
Also stop pretending you know how many losses Ukraine has, neither of us know. The best we can tell is a guess based on equipment and infer casualties based on that, which photographic evidence indicates is around 3-1 in favor of Ukraine, and that was before Russia's recent ill advised offensive. There is no indication that any collapse is imminent for either side and it is likely this war will last for years or even decades longer.
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One of Biden's first acts as president was to try to get the coronavirus pandemic under control by passing the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.
The White House sent Americans in the low-to-medium income range a $1,400 payment to help fund basic necessities like rent and groceries. Biden also extended a $300 a week federal unemployment benefit for some 9.7 million people out of work at the time, temporarily expanded the child tax credit program, allotted $7.25 billion for small business loans and $128 billion in grants for state educational agencies.
Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law in November 2021 that will repair the nation's roads, bridges and railways, bring high-speed internet to rural communities and more.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes: $284 billion for transportation needs, which includes repairing bridges and roadways, public transit and airports, electric vehicles and low emission public transportation; $65 billion for broadband internet; $73 billion for power infrastructure; and $55 billion for clean drinking water.
The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 passed in August, which allocated roughly $53 billion in federal funding to manufacture semiconductor chips in the U.S. instead of relying on China to produce them.
According to the White House, the bill will "boost American semiconductor research, development, and production, ensuring U.S. leadership in the technology that forms the foundation of everything from automobiles to household appliances to defense systems."
Biden worked to pass the Build Back Better Act, a massive social spending bill to the tune of nearly $2 trillion. It included many promises Biden made on the 2020 campaign trail, such as major health care reform, universal pre-kindergarten and paid family leave, $550 billion dedicated to combatting climate change and more, paid for in part by increased taxes for corporations and the uber rich.
That original piece of legislature stalled, but after months of negotiations, resurfaced under a different name; the Inflation Reduction Act.
The package also includes:
$369 billion for a climate initiative to reduce greenhouse emissions and promote lean energy technologies.
$300 billion in new revenue through a corporate tax increase.
$80 billion for the Internal Revenue Service to hire new agents, modernize its technology, audit the wealthy and more.
A $2,000 annual cap for out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for those insured by Medicare.
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@michaelotieno6524 During the 1990 summit, Zoellick says President Gorbachev accepted the idea of German unification within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, based on the principle that every country should freely choose its own alliances.
Zoellick Robert
“I was in those meetings, and Gorbachev has also said there was no promise not to enlarge NATO,” Zoellick recalls. Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, later president of Georgia, concurred, he says. Nor does the treaty on Germany’s unification include a limit on NATO enlargement.
Zoellick vividly recalls the White House meeting he attended nearly three decades ago in which Bush asked Gorbachev if he agreed with the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe principle that nations are free to ally with others as they see fit. When Gorbachev said yes, he says, the Soviet leader’s “own colleagues at the table visibly separated themselves.”
Sensing the import of the possible breakthrough, he says a colleague at the meeting, Robert Blackwill, sent him a note checking what they had heard and asking if they should ask Bush to repeat the question. “Gorbachev agreed again,” Zoellick recalls, to the principle that Germany could choose to enter NATO.
“The reality was that, in 1989-90, most people, and certainly the Soviets, weren’t focusing on whether the Eastern European countries would become part of NATO,” Zoellick says. Knowing Soviet and Russian diplomacy, he believes Moscow would have demanded assurances in writing if it believed the U.S. had made such a promise. And even in 1996, when President Bill Clinton welcomed former Warsaw Pact nations to join NATO, he says that, “[o]ne of the German diplomats involved told me that as they discussed the enlargement with the Russians, no Russian raised the argument that there had been a promise not to enlarge.”
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@faouzielmir9894 I'm not defending the Iraq war, I'm not sure that anyone does, nor am I American. Mostly I was commenting on the braindead whataboutism from the previous poster. Which is what every Russian argument boils down to.
"well America did something bad so its ok if Russia commits Genocide in Ukraine." it's completely idiotic.
Afghanistan is back to literally the exact same state it was 20 years ago, and 40 years ago and 40 years from now. Sadly due to geography and history Afghanistan will always be a backwater run by warlords. The past 20 years were Afghanistan's big chance to change its fate, but nobody was interested in fighting for it.
Not sure if you remember 9/11 but what was the US supposed to do? Scold the Taliban and tell them not to let it happen again? They demanded Bin Laden be handed over and they refused, so they invaded. Not unreasonable imo. And how long should the US occupy them, if after 20 years the ANA cant fight for itself they never will be abe to. Should the US occupy them until the end of time?
Iraq got rid of a brutal dictator and one of the most hated men in history, both internationally and by his own people.The total number of deaths and disappearances Caused by Sadam is estimated to be between 250,000 to 290,000. (not including the Iraq Iran war) The estimated casuaties from Iraq are between 280,771-315,190 Iraqi civilians killed by direct violence since the U.S. invasion. A Vast majority of them were not directly caused by the US but the various militias. Again I'm not defending the Iraq war, I think it was a mistake and things should have been handled differently, but the 'US bad so Russia can do bad ' mentality is completely moronic.
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