Comments by "" (@Josh93B93) on "DW News" channel.

  1. Meanwhile last time he was in office Brazil had the fastest growing economy in all of Latam
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  2. "an escalation too far" was 7 years of continued attacks against the donbas and cutting off water to Crimea in breach of article 33 of the Geneva Convention.
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  3. Depends on how you look at it, this is a war of attrition that affects the entire nation, most of the nation is dealing with fuel shortages and no electricity, how many millions of Ukrianians will freeze to death before the population forces the government to make peace or overthrow the government to make peace themselves? America was better equipped for jungle fighting than the Viet Minh, and they never lost a single battle, yet they still lost the war
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  4. ​ @Thatonepersonyouheard Russian battalions get rotations, so there hasnt been the moral drain like the Ukrainians are experiencing, you had the kids of oligarchs go live abroad to escape the draft but inside the armed forces desertion hasnt been a problem
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  5. How many in ISIS said the same?
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  6. There arent any Ukrainian forces in Crimea, it's not occupied.
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  7. The funny thing with your comment is the trench gun was proved mostly useless in the great war, and there are no actual kills attributed to it from the conflict, so maybe not the best analogy to use, likewise there needs to be more nuance in "who's the aggressor" in the lead up to the first world war, Both France and Russia as well as Germany and Austia-Hungary were taking aggressive actions against each other, securing military alliances at the sake of their neighbors, believing that these would act as a safeguard to prevent war, where in the end it dragged the world into war because of contractual obligations to both the entente and the central alliance, war was inevitable not because of any one side being good or bad, but because the decisions that brought the world to conflict were being advised by those who stood to profit the most from the bloodletting, weather it be Renault or Krupp in the past or Rostek and General Dynamics today, there is no such thing as ethical consumption or expansion under capitalism, conflict between the west and russia has been inevitable since 1991 with the fall of the soviet union and the rise of a capitalist russia.
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  8. ​ @heavierthanlight7173 between Russia and Ukraine one of the nations has a president ruling long past the end of his legal term while having a perpetual ban on opposition political parties, the other nation is Russia.
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  9. ​ @MarincaGheorghe Ukraine will have all the security it could need as a Russian oblast.
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  10.  @PlaYer-sn5or  meanwhile around 70 more fall down on Ukraine, Every. Single. Day..
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  11. I can only wonder how baba is accomplishing that task with no heat or electricity
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  12. Meanwhile a gopnik is livestreaming his gas heater to all of Ukraine while they freeze to death, I'm sorry you were saying something about morale? Compare the home fronts and reassess your position.
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  13. So in that sense when Ukraine deliberately deprived 7 million of its citizens drinking water, would that not also be an act of terrorism? Or do they have plot armor?
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  14. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 keep telling yourself that
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  15.  @TheRollingCabbage  yeah the thousands of artillery shells dropped on Lugansk and Donetsk for 8 long years were filled with glitter and notes of love & affection, sure..
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  16. Ukraine is neither free or democratic, the announcer only mentioned another 3 billion of debt that coupled with the close to 60 billion dollars of aid to Ukraine, the debt of which will take the next century with an utterly destroyed infrastructure to pay of to the IMF, think austerity in Greece has been bad? Regardless of whether Kiev or Moscow win, the Ukrainian people lose.
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  17. Slava Donbasu!! 🖤💙❤
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  18. Not to mention that Chasiv Yar in Lugansk is under siege by russian forces, it's the last Ukraine stronghold in the region and they arent expected to last to the new year, and over the last month Ukraine has lost half of the ground they captured in Kursk.
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  19.  @randydominguez666  not to mention that the original post is talking about already knowing whats coming because of rocket strikes when the sat images are picturing bomberos getting ready for flight missions, which are far more acurate than than rocket and cruise missiles due to proximity to target
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  20.  @kingsleykester8167  being pro-reality and pro-Putin are not the same, you've clearly never worked any kind of logistics job to understand this problem, 4 different types of tanks that do not share interchangeable parts, that use different ammo, that require different training is not a recipe for success.
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  21. The US overthrew Ukraines democracy in 2014, so yeah that seems fair.
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  22. @@wiegraf9006 viven that in world history that until very recently all of Ukraine was a part of russia and the majority of the population comes from russian ancestry, and given the context of western economic subversion during the maidan, that's not hard to imagine
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  23.  @milansavic2803  or two years in gulag breaking big rocks into little rocks..
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  24. Poroshenko in 2014, "ohh dont mind me Russia, I'm just persecuting the russian speaking Ukrainians, not the russian speaking Russians, and these? Dont worry about these, they're my appeasing howitzers that will make everyone love stephan bandera, no threat at all"
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  25.  @danielbailey5849  what advanced tanks are you referring to? So far Russia has only deployed T-64MS's and T-72M's, when Ukraine exhaust its supply of AT weapons, then you'll start seeing T-90's
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  26.  @sebasstein7014  because wouldnt it make more tactical sense for russia to first use relatively cheap missile and drone strikes to exhaust Ukraines air defence grid before putting bombers over the skies, Russia didnt send in bombers first because at the start of hostilities Ukraine could do alot more about it than they can now. Wasting your best equipment at the start of a war of attrition is a recipe for disaster, ask Germany for comment.
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  27.  @irvhh143  once ukraine has bled itself dry, this is a war of attrition and quite frankly Russia can wait longer, its citizens arent freezing this winter
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  28.  @dontmindme5189  meanwhile Zelenskyy banned all opposition parties and has solidified all political power behind his regime, very democratic indeed. 🤣🤣🤣
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  29. Just like whatever the west says, General Dynamics and Raytheons stock prices are sure to surge.
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  30.  @lyn.267  the first bombing in the conflict were carried out by the Ukrainians against the populaces of Donetsk and Lugansk, russian bombings in Ukraine did not happen for another 7 and a half years.
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  31. "Democracy" 😂😂😂😂😂 that's adorable
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  32.  @j2ax136  shhhhh, your bursting they're echo chamber
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  33. Really? They're better prepared? One side has nigh unlimited gas and fuel reserves due to the western world banning its purchase, the other side has over half of its population living with no heat or electricity while agricultural output ground to a halt because of the conflict, so as far as I can see Ukraine's advantageous position is akin to Germany's in 1918, but good luck with that though.
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  34. Meanwhile theres a mad lad in Novosibirsk that's livestreaming a gas heater going 24/7
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  35.  @skycloud4802  Ukraine was just as much of an aggressor, all they had to do was abide by the minsk agreement and stop the war in Donbas, the terms were simple, and agreed to by all parties, Ukraine violated this agreement and forced russian intervention in order to prevent another NATO sponsored genocide.
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  36. All it did was stretch Ukraines lines even thinner and shorting Ukraine 17,000 men it couldnt afford to lose, Russia has already recaptured half of the territory taken by the Ukrainians in Kursk.
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  37. Ukraine had 7 years to adhere to a ceasefire agreement,instead they continued their offensives in the east, they were never interested in peace, just domination.
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  38. The better question to ask is which population is better prepared for winter and which one will sue its government for peace, let me put it this way, one nation will be able to keep the lights and heat on through the winter, the other nation is Ukraine.
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  39.  @kingsleykester8167  Why did you think that? It was never stated as a war aim to take Kiev, let alone in two days, western pundits predicted that, the same pundits who sailed russia would be out of ammo "any day now" last fall, your analyst suck, shame on you for being blind to it, Russia could afford to lose Kherson and Kharkiv alot more than Ukraine could afford to lose Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Slovyansk, Mariupol, and now Soledar, and at the casualty rate Russia still holds a serious advantage over ukraine, it can replace the troops it's losing in these battles, Ukraine is struggling in that regard.
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  40. "Freedom" yeah free to sspend the next century enslaved to IMF debt and crippling austerity, regardless ofwhether the west or Russia wins the conflict, they Ukrainian people still lose both their freedom and independence.
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  41. polish noises intensify
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  42.  @Roccinante  whats that make you then bud?
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  43.  @michaelkopischke2255  any given day ther are 4-7 nuclear armed russian subs sitting of the east coast of the US waiting for those B52's to fly, the destruction will escalate, and it would be mutual.
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  44. The headline reports breakthrough, while reality dictates that the closest ukrainian infantry is still in Kryvyi Ri, 187km from Kherson. The Breakthrough to recapture Kherson has amounted in one russian artillery battery being counter shelled and two bridges being destroyed.
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  45.  @ThanhTran-se1hz  they failed to attain any of they're objectives in the conflict and pulled out, if they hadnt, Hanoi still would have won, call it a sellout, call it what you will, China was the next to go to war with Vietnam, they lost as well.
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  46.  @savejeff15  while the operational cost are much higher, they are likewise much more accurate than ground based missile launches, and they're still firing dozens of those into ukraine every day, which would be hard to do if they ran out, so clearly they havent.
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  47. Had the US not funded an armed coup d'etat in Kiev none of this would have happen, hypocrites playing tit for tat I swear...
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  48. Should they be proud of burning civilians alive in Odessa too? Or hiding tanks and AA batteries behind apartment blocks and inside shopping centers? I wouldnt be...
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  49.  user-mk7xq4oc5s  Yeah sure, that's clearly not a threat to Russia's national security, just as rebuilding russian military bases and missile silos in Cuba wouldnt be a threat to America's security at all...oh, wait a minute, russia is responding exactly how the US would have if the USSR hadnt backed down and removed its strategic forces from the island, it's almost as of there historical precedent for what's happened, who knew? 🤣
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  50.  @lawrencekling8598  given the status quo probably Medvedev
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  51. In Chechnya the russians played nice until some chechen terrorist stuck inside russia proper, then Grozny happened, do go on and ignore that lesson Ukraine, LMAO
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  52.  @zhufortheimpaler4041  then maybe Ukraine shouldnt have invaded donbas in 2014.
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  53. If Ukraine joins NATO then Russia should rebuild its military installations in Cuba as a tit for tat provocation, meanwhile China should fund a regime change operation in Mexico City to install a new government establishing a military alliance with the peoples republic and start building military bases from Baja to the Gulf of Mexico, that would equal the status quo at least, the americans would protest but China would be able to use the same excuse that the US did 2014 in Ukraine.
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  54.  @user-zp1kt9ur7g  no that's ukraine, and they need to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and stop depending on handouts.
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  55. Aye yeah and sukhoi's stock has gone up just like GE and General Dynamics, its a war for profit on both sides.
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  56. No that's the opposition that declared themselves the winner. Maduro was declared the victor by the electoral counsil and the judiciary. The polls on expected results were including the opposition in exile, who didnt actually vote, thus they got less votes, because the majority of voters in Venezuela voted for the Bolivarian revolution
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  57.  @seidenstickerj  Im not forgetting a single thing, never said it was a the best choice, if your misinterpreting my comment as pro russian, then that's on you, I'm very aware of the problems in russia today, would be nothing but tickled to see putin put to the wall, the counter battery fire in the fall of 2014 was by the DPR-LPR militias using soviet surplus artillery, and even as you stated, this was return fire, meaning they were already attacked by Ukrainian artillery, so I cant say as I see what point your trying to make there. As to Ukraine being European, it is in the same sense that Russia is European Ukrainians didnt come from europe, they came from keivian Rus, the people living in ukraine before them were khazars and turkmen tribes, as to the European identity, until the past few decades this was not the case, and as witnessed by the popular support for separation in eastern Ukraine, the populations opinion is still very clearly divided, this change to a hard right european pivot was force by an armed coup financed by the united states to pull Ukraine from Russia's sphere of influence, even though they were offering a more favorable trade relationship with ukraine with lower interest rates on loans. Again I feel the need to reiterate I am not pro Russian in my stance on the conflict, but the western narrative is far too erroneous for me to swallow as it only cares to follow one side of the conflict, Russia is acting as the opportunistic imperialist power, using the pretext of "protecting ethnic russians" to create as wide of a buffer from NATO as possible while they can, in the meantime they get to fuel a war industry that Putin and his kabal of oligarchs personally profit from, as this war is every bit at profitable to Uralvagonzavod and Sukhoi as it is to General Dynamics and Raytheon, all of them have contracts rolling in, personally I'd support a resolution that would find peaceful settlement that has all russian forces withdrawn and full autonomy granted to the donbas while remaining a part of Ukraine, with a demilitarized zone of 10km width separating the the donbas and to have it patrolled by UN peacekeepers, DNR-LNR militias do not exit the territory, and Ukrainian authorities have no jurisdiction in the autonomous zone, if the Mexican government and the EZLN have been able to find a way to co-exist for 26 years, it can work for the donbas, as to russia annexing crimea, the Crimean people wanted to be annexed by Russia alot more than the Hawaiians wanted to be annexed by the US, if you want me to change my point there and agree that russia should leave crimea, ok, just as soon as the US gives Guantanamo back to Cuba and the UK gives the 6 counties back to Ireland. Until then, as far as I'm concerned the west is no better than russia, they just had a head start and russia wants to catch up.
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  58. A banner without people fighting for its meaning is just a piece of cloth, but if all the opposition continues to flee in to exile in miami, doesnt that sum up the opposition? Let me ask Guaido for comment lmao😂😂😂
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  59. How dangerous are they? Depende on how many millions of dollars the IS gives to them in order to overthrow the government like they did with svaboda and right sektor in Ukraine.
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  60. Yep just keep pouring gas on that fire, worked out great in Kosovo
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  61. For a capitalist, war is the most profitable buisness to get involved in, ask General Dynamics and Raytheon.
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  62. But RuZZhia has no more AMMO? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  63.  @ffffuchs  looking at troop numbers though Russia can bear more casualties than ukraine though, at the current attrition rate Ukraine will run out of soldiers years before Russia has to worry about troop levels.
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  64. ​ @babblo1389  Tiocfaidh ár lá
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  65.  @ct6502c  they're trading the same towns back and forth again and again, western weapon stocks continue to be depleted on reserve line cannon fodder while russia has yet to use a single T90M in Ukraine, Ukraine is advancing slowly, its losing the war of attrition.
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  66. Ahh, so just a rinse and repeat like the reporting on Mariupol, Siviersk etc, just keep pretending all is well for as long as you can. The Russians are taking Soledar
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  67. ​ @Dani-mw2ws no it was Pokrovsk and Chasiv Yar.
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  68.  @herptek  you should get a job as a salesman for General Dynamics with that attitude, or do you already work for their marketing department? I mean if your going to shill hard for the arms contractors let them pay you for it, is that not the capitalist way?
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  69. @Iflyfree always russia didnt fund an illegal coup in Kiev in 2014, the US did.
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  70. Those the same analyst that were saying Russia would be out of ammo by last fall?
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  71. And when germany says no they start shelling nuclear power plants again.
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  72. When this war is concluded Ukraine is either going to cede immediate defeat to Russia or perpetual defeat to the IMF, hundreds of billions of dollars have been given to Ukraine, that debt will follow Ukraine for decades.
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  73. ​ @manny2themaxxx333 i think you mean Victoria Nuland.
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  74. All staged and funded by the US state department I'm sure, western media will lead those watching to believe that this is a grassroots movement that wasnt engineered in any way, same as Ukraine.
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  75. The title should be "EU discuses becoming a combatant in the conflict and starting WW3"
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  76. Can you prove it though? The opposition has yet to provide empirical evidence that fraud took place, and without evidence the claim isnt going to be taken seriosly.
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  77.  @PlaYer-sn5or  I mean, why are you surprised? Americans got Europeans to kill each other for them in serbia and Bosnia, they got vietnamese people to kill each other so they could profit from the bloodshed for a decade, same as they've done , they're still doing it with venezuelans and nicuraguan too, it's kind of America's modus operandi at this point.
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  78.  @Thetequilashooter1  yes, they did, an international coalition was sent dummy, and was still there until june of last year, look up Operation Resolute Support.
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  79.  @CCC2020  the war never would have happened with Yanukovich, and the trade deal he had for putin was alot better for the Ukrainian people than the the austerity measures that would have come from EU loans, then he was ousted in a western funded coup,who's new regime instigated civil war that's torn the nation apart, all the while western arms giant are getting billions of dollars for the blood and suffering of the Ukrainian people then they have the fall to pretend to be apathetic to the plight that they themselves engineered. Ukraine needs a same leader, the only way I see that coming about is through proletarian revolution in both Ukraine and Russia simultaneously.
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  80.  @harrybruijs2614  a capitalist world where the profits are justification enough, dont forget the west made Russia into what it is today. Lenin was fuggin right.
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  81. Nah, Germany wants to keep its tanks in Poland, for reasons and stuff unrelated to the last time they wanted to keep they're tanks in Poland, supposedly...
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  82.  @bartandaelus359  Poland has 569 MBT's, 283 of those are the PT-91, which is an upgrade package to the T72, they have more than 100 older T72, some leapords, and some older M1A1 Abrams tanks, these western tanks the poles have had years in peacetime conditions to train crews how to operate, a luxury Ukraine doesnt share.
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  83.  @danielvilliers612  Not really, if they destroyed 53 before being taken out, it still wouldnt be good, but it would be equitable
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  84.  @maxisussex  ohh, taiwan has less international recognition as a country than Donetsk, it's a part of China.
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  85. Slava Miru!! Slava Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika!!!
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  86. 😂😂😂😂😂 what a fuggin clown LMAO!!!
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  87.  @billyjohn9192  Because clearly "democracy" only matters so long as the "free choice" meets western expectations, namely complete fuggin submission.
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  88.  @encrenoir6097  9 years ago, so 2013, prior to the western backed armed coup that overthrew the democratically elected government, Donbas, and all of Ukraine for that matter, was at peace. Just like Yugoslavia before NATO spurred its break up as well. You know your lot has a track record right?
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  89. It's a war of attrition.
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  90. It's not so much "russian corruption" as it is oligarchs on both sides taking advantage of a capitalists system, as it's a cancer everywhere it spreads that breeds corruption, poverty, and conflict.
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  91. Seems like a polish move for the ukrainians given how much restraint russia has shown this far, its like shooting out "please, we want to be like Grozby too!!"
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  92. Mmm,well one side's population will have electricity and heat through the winter, the other side is Ukraine, batteries working for drones or not isnt going to prevent millions of Ukrainians freezing to death this winter, so yeah I have to say Russia has the winter advantage strategically if not tactically on the ground, Ukraine going to war against they're primary provider of gas and electricity was about as bright of a move as serbia going to war against its arms and munitions provider in 1914.
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  93. ​ @paulzx5034  Isupport Donbas, and lend critical support to russia for intervening, I lost freinds in massacre at the Odessa Trade Union Building in 2014, While I dont like him, and would choose Lenin over Putin any day, Lenin is not here anymore, so critical support while hoping that the conflict spurs proletarian revolution in Russia.
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  94.  @darkdan3379  of course, hes a capitalist, he's going to do what brings him more money, more war means more contracts to sukhoi, rostek, and Uralvagonzavod etc, for which they give him generous "donations", this is the same happenstance with the relation between western wars giants like General Dynamics and Raytheon and they're relationships with senators and congressmen
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  95.  @mike.e358  imagine being No.1 on the totem pole and losing to some illiterate afghan goat farmers.
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  96.  @philiphall4805  quite familiar with Ukrainian history, going back to when the native khazars were still living there before they were conquered by the kievian rus, the original people that that land belonged to were wiped from the earth by imperialists, so excuse me if I dont shed a tear for their descends who are now experiencing the same, I guess karma skips a few generations sometimes.
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  97.  @shadowbanned636  yet they have posted none of this footage from the ground, just a wide angle shot of a suburbios outside the city taken from a rooftop and some drone footage, so your claim cannot be substantiated.
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  98.  @shadowbanned636  ok so now you want to backtrack on the BS you put down earlier while making the same claim, theres about as much veracity to that as there is to the other narrative of it being a shootout between russian forces and 4 groups of saboteurs, there is no evidence of any "breakthrough" taking place. The claims of a breakthrough are being made by Kiev, with nothing coming from kherson to corroborate this claim.
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  99.  @shadowbanned636  Ahh, so we've gone from route and breakthrough to "something significant" because you really have no idea do you? For all you know it could be four saboteurs and little babuska running around the city taking potshots at russian soldiers and civilians.
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  100.  @shadowbanned636  hows that "breakthrough" goin buddy? Kherson fall to you glorious heroes? Got the ruskies on the run? What's that?? They're holding they're positions? Havent moved in a week? Damn it's almost as if I called it fuggin days ago.
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  101. Nice, a whole new logistics nightmare and 14 months of re training for these new vehicles to be combat effective.
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  102.  @nhatvu8800  But the west was happy to support the civilians of Donbas getting bombed, killed, raped, looted and only instigated further bloodshed. For 7 years. Not forcing to end support to Ukraine unless Zelensky lifted the ban on opposition parties, ended military offensives in the donbas, removed the dam blocking fresh water to Crimea (a violation of article 33 of the Geneva convention, see collective punishment) and ultimately adhering to the peace agreement signed between Ukraine, the DNR, LNR, Russia, France, and Germany, that was evil, but it generated billions in profits for General Dynamics and Raytheon, paid for with US tax dollars and Ukrainian blood. This is a war between two capitalist giants that are using Ukraine and the Donbas republics as proxies, western arms manufactures are profiting hand over fist from the arms transfers to Ukraine. As is Rostek and Izhvesk via its defence contracts with Russia. Putin is no saint, nor is Zelensky, or Biden, they are cut from the same cloth, and are weaponizing the proletariat against each other to serve their own ends, the civilian populaces of Ukraine, Russia, and the west, have nothing to gain from this conflict, point your finger at who is profiting from the bloodshed
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  103. ​ @polyglotinc how did that work out for the US? Ohh yeah, 58,000 dead and they lost anyways.
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  104.  @jeremygibbs7342 No, this was 7 years prior to Russia's intervention of Ukraine, poor attempt, try harder, its open sourced information available to the public.
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  105.  @TheStormtrooper00  exactly, like right sektor and Stephan Bandera.
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  106.  @TheisKrarupHansen  Ok, that's the military, and still very speculative, close to 70% of Ukraine's general population have no heat whatsoever this winter, This is a problem that Russia does not share the morale of the civilians populace is every bit as important as the morale of the troops in the field, so aye russia still has the advantage in a winter war.
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  107. From the Zapatista Autonomous Zone in Chiapas, Mexico, I'm not, they wanted this war. Slava Donbasu.
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  108.  @Daniel-jg8ff  you know who else was supported massively by NATO with logistics, intelligence, training and equipment? The Afghan National Army.
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  109.  @sushi_wolf  it's on the US and its puppet regime in Kiev more than it's on Russia.
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  110. Soledar is in Russian hands now.
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  111. You could have easily asked the same question of Kiev when they were targeting the civilian populace of Donetsks and Lugansk with Heavy artillery and cutting off water access to 7 million citizen even though that last one was a clear beach of the Geneva Convention, so, no, or this is just more western hypocracy regarding the conflict..
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  112.  @scienceisreligion5618  G7 already recognizes the Peoples Republic of China as a sovereign nation.
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  113. ​​ @luckylindy1776 Yet hasnt the west been saying these governments are in decline and would fall "any day now" for over 60 years? It's time to change the record.
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  114. Putin will be able to keep rotating new divisions into Ukraine long after The UAF have run out of draft age men, when it comes to troops in the field Ukraine has the advantage, but overall troop strength and reserves favor Russia by a factor of 10/1, rushing a strategy leads to great losses over a short period of time, Putin sees this as a waste, that's just how wars of attrition work.
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  115. "The need for solidarity in all democracies" Zelensky banning all opposition parties in Ukraine that have sought peaceful resolution of the conflict is neither a beacon of solidarity or democracy, these are tenants of an authoritarian regime.
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  116. Every dollar sent to prop up that tin pot dictatorship is a dollar better spent on america's 50 million citizens living in abject poverty. Ukraine is getting steamrolled either way.
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  117.  @erika-bp7xj  não isso foi por causa do trabalho do proletariado, lula só fez menos para oprimir e explorar os trabalhadores do que bolsonaro
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  118. @AJ which lost any importance after the 2014 coup overthrew the Ukrainian government that upheld the memandoram with Russia. (Context is importiant)
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  119.  @mirekslechta7161  Imagine if Russia rebuilt its installations in Cuba and constructed a naval base in Caracas? Clearly it's not a threat to America's security LMAO
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  120. Hmmm, so more escalation based on speculation and hyperbole, that's the american way I suppose,Ukraine isnt defending europe, they're dragging it into a war they ought not have anything to do with that was instigated by american strategist trying to increase western influence at the sake of Russia's, conflict had been raging for 7 years in Ukraine before russia intervened, so as far as I'm concerned Russia isnt the danger, they're just the opportunistic reactionary that wants to take advantage of a situation the west brought about
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  121. The people of Donbas will never submit to Kievs authority, with or without Russian support, and the international community will not support Ukraine genociding millions of russian speaking Ukrainians. слава донбассу 🖤💙❤
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  122.  @joshhencik1849  apparently they learned how to play capitalist proxy wars as well as the west, russias economy might be hurting but the oligarchs invested in sukhoi and Uralvagonzavod are making as good of profit margins as Raytheon and General Dynamics every new offensive that Ukraine throws just sells more arms contracts, clearly 1991 was a mistake, no russia is no better than the west., quick learners though.
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  123.  @TheRuthlessEAZY  the same problem that Cuba allying itself with the Warsaw Pact posed for the US, clearly.
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  124.  @lawrencekling8598  hopefully not, best case for Russia is proletarian revolution, same goes for Ukraine
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  125.  @TheRuthlessEAZY  why should Russia care about finnland joining NATO, they already lost the last two wars they fought against Russia, nor do they have the strength to threaten Murmansk, Ukraine joining nato is a strategic threat to russia as Sevastopol is Russia only port that isnt frozen year round
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  126.  @TheRuthlessEAZY and the other point your attempting to make isnt clear to me, I never said Russia was the US, the context both nations used is the same, so I was comparing apples to apples.
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  127.  @zhufortheimpaler4041  yes somehow up to 70 more fall on Ukraine every. single.. day...
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  128.  @vanessali1365  No, he's playing against uncle sam, zelensky is just another pawn on the board
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  129. Meanwhile Ukraine keep getting a free pass to use the grain corridor to attack russian ships, the grain deal is a one-sided farce being forced by NATO via Turkey.
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  130. Bandera would be proud of you, the Nuremberg tribunal committee, not so much.
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  131. ​ @SUBASHKUMAR-wz8zx the same UN body the doesnt recognize the US's illegal embargo of Cuba that continues irregardless?
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  132. ​ @TalibanAtrocities  yeah western funded coups and neofacsist gangs being incorporated into the armed forces tend to change peoples opinions.
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  133.  @ct6502c  Nope, and if I had to pick a slav name Dmitry would probably be my prefered choive, has more of a cheeki breeki ring to it 👌
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  134. I always said it's a war of attrition and the math doesnt care about politics, Ukraine was never going to win, they dont nor ever had the manpower, Russia does, case closed.
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  135. Theres no profit for Russia in destroying Ukraine as even a defeated Ukraine would have to be rebuilt by Russia, catchy headline though.
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  136. No worse than the coup junta or sham election that brought Poroshenko and Zelensky to power
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  137. ​ @ollifrank6255 claims are nothing more than claims without evidence, as correlation is not causation, accusations without evidence are considered baseless in any court.Without it dont expect much support over the next 6 years.
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  138. After reading the first 20 odd comments in this thread I've come to realize the west lives in Orwell's 1984, any questioning of the narrative or dissenting view can only come from "bots" or "orks" or which ever derogatory and dehumanizing term is popular, that independent though and analysis not accepted, that information must come purely from the interested party, regardless of how factual it might be, I'm no fan of Putin but christ almighty this thread is sickening to read while half of you shun the supposed values you espouse. This war is about profit, on both sides of the battle line, regardless of if the industry making the profit is General Dynamics or Uralvagonzavod, money machine still goes brrrrp with every new contract. The regime in Kiev is no more free or democratic than the regime in Kiev in 2013, new oligarchs with new patrons sure, the corruption is very much the same, I'm sure it wont even take a day for one of you clowns to call me out as an ork or botski or wtf ever you all come up with to dehumanize me, go ahead, my point still stands, your just reinforcing it.
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  139.  @nsevv  and those unarmed civilians the ukrainians barricaded into a the trade union building and burned alive in Odessa? It was on film, they murdered innocent men and women, they shot civilians as they tried to jump from the windows of the building, they werent separatist or terrorist, they were members of the Borotba party and journalist, and bystanders fleeing the neonazi football hooligans and the pro-coup police supporting them, they had the legal right to protest, and they were murdered for it, I'm not painting russia as the good guys, but dont pretend the the regime in Kiev is made up of saints that can do no wrong, dont hide their crimes just to justify a false narrative, they intentionally murdered civilians and never saw justice for doing so, these actions spurred the separatist movement much more than russia ever could, with that being said, there were thousands of dual citizens living in eastern Ukraine who were at risk of suffering the same fate as those in the Odessa massacre, russia had every bit as much of an obligation to protect its citizens as the americans had to protect its citizen in Grenada, and when it invaded panama to defend its interest in the region, and do remember, context is not justification, it just gives understanding to the reasoning and motives for the conflict, what russia did is by no means without precedent.
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  140.  @victory-ukraine  Remember Odessa. NYET PASARANSKIM FASCISTHAM
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  141.  @anthonyhulse1248  Ukrainian Rocket artillery that was operating in unison with Ukrainian army acting under the orders of then "President" Poroshenko, next your going to tell me that he was a russian plant..
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  142.  @seidenstickerj  It wasnt a western financed coup? Okay, so when Victoria Nuland gives $5 billion to far right extremist groups in your nation to oust the elected government, that hold new elections while alienating a third of the nation's population. This is a coup, it did stick, clearly. If you want to be blind to it, that's on you, not me. I already saw my friends in Odessa burned alive because they didnt support the coup, I lost friends at Debaltslavo because they refused to be subjugated by a series of puppet regimes, and after the massacres committed against protests of the coup in 2014, FULL FUGGIN AUTONOMY FOR DONBAS, nothing less would be acceptable.
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  143. ​ @goeast12  Aye and where are the Europeans going to go as hundreds of millions of people freeze this winter? Ask the US for help? they couldnt even keep the heat and lights on in Texas last winter LMAO
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  144. They're probably lead to an increase in S-500 production, and the proliferation continues.
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  145. ​ @mindaza0 Well, the US could end the sanctions, that would allow the economy to recover and curtail the migration crisis in the US to a marginal degree, given that sanctions have failed to topple or change the direction of the Venezuelan government or stopped the majority of the populace from supporting it, that would be the humane option to help the Venezuelan people.
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  146. ​ @IrrationalCharm because there wasnt a third of the population that was american that actively supported the US and they didnt share a land border with the US, ukraine screwed the pooch in both departments.
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  147.  @liammorris1018  yes just now it continues for the sake of profit, so, your point?
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  148.  @MerryXmasMfkrs  still has more international recognition as a sovereign state than Taiwan
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  149.  @zallyzally2698  Aye ukraine isnt fighting Wagner alone. how many troops are ther in the russian army that are available to reinforce the operation? It vastly outnumbers the soldiers in Ukraine's standing army, who are occupied at several fronts, not solely Bakhmut, the numbers dont lie, do the math, it doesnt add up to Ukraines favor, every operation is sapping Ukraine of men that cannot be replaced while russia burns through second line equipment and conscripts that can be replaced.
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  150.  @zallyzally2698  ohh, one last thing, "you will rush to the media and started commenting". Do tell, is that not what the comment section is for?
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  151.  @Interactive-gp8xf  yes de should be much more proud of the prospering democracies you turned them into, ohh wait, you didnt, you just destroyed the nations respective infrastructures and killed millions, Lybia didnt have open air slave markets with Gaddafi in power...
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  152. Of course the US will deny it, jet they have been encouraging Ukrainian aggression since 2014, all that this will accomplish is give russia the excuse to act more aggressively in the conflict
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  153. Western regime change operations arent going to work in China, China is not Ukraine.
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  154. Am at the point where I have to decide between covering my transportation cost or having enough food to eat more than once every 2 days, This is a war for profit, between Russian capitalists and Ukrainian capitalists, the Ukrainian people lose regardless of whether Zelensky or Putin win. I had to watch my friends get burned alive in 2014 by very real fascists affiliated with the Ukrainian ultranationalist group right sektor, who were also complicit in the 2014 coup. For these reasons, I cannot in good conscience support Ukraine.
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  155. Wow, most of the people in this thread are as blind by nationalistic hubris as the Putin crowd
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  156. Just as TU-95's are spotted over Montreal, New York, Berlin, London while Typhoon and oscar submarines are parked off the east coast of Washington and Norfolk, starting the great conflagration that will bring an end to the world as we know it, start stockpiling cans of Dinki Di dog food and rattle cans of silver spray paint.
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  157. in the last 7 years all the US and NATO had to do to ensure peace and prevent the outbreak of war was to threaten Ukraine into adhering to the Minsk agreement and ending its offensives in donbass, they didnt do that, they encouraged more bloodshed.
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  158. The Ukrainian government hasnt been interested in peace since the illegal coup in Kiev back in 2014, so no shocker there.
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  159. Yeah, and Ukraine cutting of the supply of drinking water to the Crimean populace was also in violation of article 3 of the Geneva Convention, as such an internationally recognized crime committed by Ukraine against both Russia and its own citizens that live on the peninsula. That needs to be addressed as well, Ukraine needs to recognize Donetsk and Lugansk as autonomous republics to the same degree that Mexico recognizes the EZLN in Chiapas. And either Ukraine has to agree to not be joining NATO or Russia should be given a free hand to rebuild its military installations in Cuba.
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  160.  @Morwenna1220  "Not joining the triple alliance? Why? Austria-Hungary needs safety guarantees and the only reliable safety guarantees Arch Duke Ferdinand can get come from Kaiser Wilhelm." Why you ask? Because we have played this game before. The only thing that Ukraine joining NATO guarantees is the inevitability of conflict with its neighbor, You have had many opportunities to learn this over the past century.
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  161.  @MrBell-iq3sm  even if Ukraine managed to win the conflict, they're going to spend the next century enduring crippling austerity while trying to pay of debts to the EU, NATO, and let's not forget Uncle Sam, politically their reputation will be that of a western puppet regime, Russia will likely collapse into revolution as the Communist regain control from a clearly failed capitalist experiment that's only created corruption and conflict since 1991.
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  162.  @winstonchurchill8300  Do you like to cause famines in Bengal?
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  163. Damn, maybe we get lucky and it sparks the second bolshevik revolution, the capitalism idea has clearly failed in Russia, and Ukraine for that matter.
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  164. America's been pleased ever since the facsist you funded started burning civilians alive in Odessa, ever since the stock prices hor General Dynamics and Raytheon have surged, as all the money "given to Ukraine" is pumped into the US war machine that the US taxpayers have to cover in the short term and Ukraine will be an american puppet state for the next century with recession worse than that of Greece.
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  165. Im tired of everyone stealing land, the russians and ukrainians should all leave and the lands be given back to the poles and khazars that originally lived there.
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  166.  @xcrockery8080  Donetsk and Lugansk have more recognition as independent nations than Taiwan. They were attacked when Poroshenko started the "Anti-terrorist campaign" in 2014 after an armed coup overthrew the elected government of Victor Yanukovich, this coup was funded directly by Victoria nuland to the sum of 5 billion dollars. If I gave 5 billion dollars to patriot prayer and aryan nation to overthrow the US government, I'm complicit in a coup. That's how it works, and it goes both ways. It was a fuggin coup.
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  167.  @infidelheretic923  Ukraine wont win, all that's to be decided is if they lose to Rusiia or IMF debt payoffs, think austerity in Greece is bad, ohh boy just wait LMAO
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  168. Meanwhile in Ukraine you'll get shot or burned alive for calling a coup a coup, as was witnessed in Odessa.
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  169.  @Ryanowning  i believe your refering to the term conflict, nominally war is proceeded by a formal declaration of hostilities, thus is why FDR said the attack on pearl harbor was so infamous, as it was a surprise with no declaration of hostilities given.
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  170.  @richardcg5  what would you assume the tankie position to be?
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  171.  @SL-sd3sg  they're as involved with Ukraine as Russia was involved with Cuba before the US threatened nuclear armageddon
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  172. Well Coups and armed incursions have all failed, so the options are demand polling data and make a legal dispute or cope for the next 6 years.
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  173.  @dice3809  yes it was, for fuggin years they stopped the donbas from retaliating against Ukrianian strikes, the citizens of had armed themselves in response to aggression from kiev following the coup that they did not support, russian interest in intervening was grindingly slow, when the militias formed in Donetsk and Lugansk they werent being armed by russians, they had 40-70 year old arms leftover from soviet stockpiles and police stations, they were driving T-34/85's off of WW2 memorials and into battle against modern Ukrainian armor. These militia's did not start receiving more modern russian arms until after they had already routed the Ukrainian offensive at Debaltslavo, so please do no spoonfeed me bullshite, and have lovely day.
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  174.  @michaelmeuser9019  some things clearly never change, and now the 14th waffen grenadier division is getting new panzers to fight the ruskies once more..
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  175.  @michaelmeuser9019  if I could watch every survivor of Auschwitz that were liberated by red army soldiers spit in your face, I mean really? Were apologising for the facsist just to further demonize russia? Patton was a glory hound without much practical or tactical sense and his men paid for it in blood, he wasnt right, and that's why he was removed.. .
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  176.  @braidend4379  Fully automated gay space luxury communism?
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  177. and those pilots are supposed to take the threat of a comedian turned tinpot dictator seriously? really? thats cute.
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  178.  @UserUser-ww2nj  Aye, Putin didnt start the war, as I recall the first military offensive was ordered by Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk, by all accounts they started the armed conflict.
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  179.  @UserUser-ww2nj  so how would you describe the five billion dollars that victoria nuland made available to the far right paramilitary organizations that carried out the coup in 2014, funds that were used to secure equipment and weapons, and recruitment into their ranks while said groups promised that upon seizing power they would agree to the trade deal with the EU even though it was no where near as favorable to ukraine than was the deal being offered to Ukraine by Russia? Financial intervention is still intervention, the same can be said with military equipment and weapons, to the same degree that Americans downplay the eastern front in the second world war by saying that the only reason the USSR defeated the fascist was because of western aid, even though no american or british forces actually fought on the eastern front, that the west still considers a crucial intervention, the case is the same now, the west bears a great deal of responsibility for the current conflict in Ukraine, as I'd does in Lybia, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Nicuragua, Colombia, Venezuela, as it had neared responsibility for dozens of bloody conflicts going back to the war in Korea.
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  180. I feel sorry for the Ukrainian civilians in the east who are being murdered for supporting russian intervention.
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  181.  @Crashed131963  yes, but it was the Party's decision to pull out, Russia is in now way the democratic state it once was under socialism, as the casualties flow in the sell more arms contracts fo Uralvagonzavod and sukhoi, to which Putin and his labal of yes oligarchs personally profit from, they dont care if a million conscripts die, they'll just get richer from it, as is clearly the capitalist way that has been so well exemplified.
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  182. 9 as reported by who? So probably just 2
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  183. Most of the residents of Kherson supported russian intervention, Azov would butcher them then blame the Russians, I hope they have and continue to be evacuated before the Ukrainians arrive.
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  184. So far they have prioritized minimizing civilian casualties over taking ground and beating the Ukrainian Army, so...not saying it's a moral option, but the steamroller is an option..
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  185.  @paivyt.  Malasia is still pissed that Ukrainian ATC in Kiev intentionally misdirected the aircraft to fly over a warzone
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  186.  @paivyt.  Why, the west has been doing it since the conflict broke out 8 years ago, I'm not shifting blame, just stating some facts, sorry but not really sorry if they dont fit with your rusophobic narrative.
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  187. And when will we get a tribunal for the Odessa massacre?, or any investigation into the Ukrainian armed forces from using civilian centers to hide military vehicles and weapons? Or is there an award in Ukraine for burning civilians alive and endangering countless more to protect military equipment while being able to blame russia for any collateral damage, given Ukraine's modis operandi I'm assuming the awards are iron crosses?
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  188. ​ @HuskyOwner-bl1jf Rus and Ukraine arent even the same, modern ukrainians and russia resettled the region "ukraine" didnt exist until it was a russian oblast with the term referencing the region not being used until created by zaporisian cossacks in the 1650's
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  189. ​ @Arch497  theyve already lost, even with improved material support they no longer have the manpower to hold Russia back, because of this Russia has been advancing on all fronts for two months, there just arent enough men left to plug the gaps, so they have to keep shortening they're lines by ceding ground to the Russians who are only getting stronger as more of its allies directly join the conflict.
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