So you're literally parroting Putin. Good to see you're admitting it.
He was parroting me it seems.
I don't read that paper.
Even better. 🤣
Putin saying it is like me going around to your house and setting up a couple of tents in your garden. When you ask me what the hell I'm doing I'll say "Well you're going to blow up my house if I don't do this". Would that be reasonable? Then when you say you won't blow up my house I tell you I also don't want you having dinner with a friend. You tell me it's not my business but I know, oh I know, that if you have dinner with that friend then the following day you'll team up to blow up my house. All perfectly reasonable right?
If the translations of Putin's comments while Macron stood by at the press conference are accurate, he's doubled down on demands. Not looking positive. Even denied any knowledge of Wagner mercenaries in Mali, waving them away as "commercial interests".
The guy has lost it. He's feeling father time on his shoulder and wants his Peter the Great moment. Still feel we're in the exact same position we were 2-3 weeks ago and the picture isn't pretty.
A stand-down from Russia doesn't look likely and we're still looking at the possibility of incursion.
Certainly sounds crazy until you find out that friend maintains a historical gripe with you, wants to vandalize your house, keeps parcel bombs ready with your address on it, creates new parcel bombs in a weird arms race, bribes your neighbours to scheme with them against you and your house, and has unilaterally withdrawn from community agreements between you that were designed to keep the peace.
🤣
Parcel bombs, vandalism and bribing the neighbours.
Like a conspiracy theorist's Sesame Street. Big Bird is actually a Russophobic American Eagle in CIA disguise plotting against the motherland.
Do we take this with a pinch of salt...
The Russians already said they never agreed to this
Calmer heads are going to have to prevail because if the US gets into a conventional ground war with Russia they are going to suffer a defeat like they could never imagine.
And thats not going to happen unless a NATO country is attacked and article 5 is broken,and Ukraine isnt a NATO country.
Sorry to dissapoint you,but i am sure you will find another way to show your hatred towards US.
Good luck
Maybe you should read the terms of that trade "deal" with the EU. It was a complete racket of mafia extortion proportions. He shopped around and got a much fairer deal from Moscow. When he went for that deal a coup was instigated and he was ousted.
Lol 😂😂😂😂
Have you seen the losses Russia suffered from Ukraine, Chechnya,and Afghanistan alone
Well no matter how thin you make the pancakes there's always two sides. Your view of the Warsaw Pact is a matter of opinion. One could just as easily argue that NATO was established as a military staging post for future offensive military action against the USSR / Russia.. Looking at it from an oversimplified angle is naive at best.
But it IS on topic and it IS relevant. Generally when hypocrisy is laid bare and the cognitive dissonance kicks in people like you don't like it and stamp your feet, start making accusations of dragging a discussion "off topic" and whining about "whataboutery". The US are the masters of coercion and bullying and here you are singing their praises. Is that not a complete double standard or is it "off topic" because you don't want to face up to the hypocrisy?
What a load of drivel.
I mentioned earlier that a force of 100,000 seemed far too small to invade Ukraine, let alone hold it. The Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar, agrees and has been quoted as saying the Russian forces cited "are not enough for a full-scale invasion."
The Ukrainians also contradicted a Reuters report that the Russians were stockpiling medical supplies and blood. They say that is not their information, and no one has shared any information with them. Reuters apparently based their story on 3 unidentified people who refused to say where the stockpiles were being made. This reminds me of the White House press secretary that claimed his statement that Russia was planning to use crisis actors was in itself the evidence that Russia was planning to use crisis actors.
The claim that Russia is going to launch an imminent invasion of Ukraine is looking more and more desperate.
Macron: I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.
Don't take my word for it, Eisenhower
In 2016, then-Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, when speaking about the results of a study – the Russia New Generation Warfare – he had initiated in 2015 to examine lessons learned from the fighting in eastern Ukraine, told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington that the Russians have superior artillery firepower, better combat vehicles, and have learned sophisticated use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for tactical effect. “Should US forces find themselves in a land war with Russia,” McMaster said, “they would be in for a rude, cold awakening.”
To put it into jargon that you will understand..."they would get their asses kicked".
I'll put more faith in the knowledge and expertise of a decorated US General and strategist than in the wafflings of a fantasist who thinks that playing C.O.D. makes him some sort of crack military tactician. Call up McMaster and tell him he's full of sh!t
Maybe you should read this:
How many troops did Russia use to invade Georgia?And eastern Ukraine?And Crimea?
Element of surprise,hybrid warfare and supporting seperatists is the clue.
Low knowledge shoeshine boy b*llsh*t
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/22/ukraine-european-union-trade-russia
"The Kremlin aide added that the political and social cost of EU integration could also be high, and allowed for the possibility of separatist movements springing up in the Russian-speaking east and south of Ukraine. He suggested that if Ukraine signed the agreement, Russia would consider the bilateral treaty that delineates the countries' borders to be void."
From the mouth of Glazyev (Russian Trade Minister at the time). Defend that, a neighbour threatening to tear up a treaty recognising borders and and promising dismemberment, all for signing a trade deal with Brussels.
Go on. Defend that comment from the Kremlin made when prior to the summit when the EU deal was to be signed.
Better deal my rear end. You're a myopic Putin lackey - embarrassing.
The US and Nato would anilate Russia in a conventional war ,
What we know now.
America has better aircraft ,tanks , drones , bombers , equipment
Russia would be anilated
If you think Russia can take on 30 nations and probably a few more that will join in thats neutral now,sweden and Finland,think again.
It will end up in a disaster for Russia
No one is interested in your edgy Putin hipster-boy take on world history. It's universally dumb.
You've just been pwned (as they say in your world) on the EU trade deal with Ukraine. Focus your attention on that, it's on-topic and shows your *drum roll* hYPocRisY and blows a hole in your NaRrAtIVE (do I get points for using shoeshine boy buzzwords?)
In Georgia, a country far, far, far smaller than Ukraine? About 80,000. They would need far, far, far more to subdue a country like Ukraine which is far bigger than Georgia.
Hybrid warfare might help them crush the Ukrainian military but it is not going to help them hold Ukrainian territory against an insurgency. Ask the US about its experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. At some point holding territory, especially cities, requires men with guns - and the supposed Russian invasion force doesn't have enough of them.
It is hard to keep up with the flip-flopping. On the one hand Russia is a pathetic force that will lose tens of thousands to the Ukrainians if they dare invade. And then on the other Russia has invented some higher level of warfare that means every Russian soldier is worth 10 Americans. Which is it?
Yurt! threadbanned
Take the Russian losses on Chechen wars only localised internal wars they lost between 80 -100,000 men ,
America fought in Afghanistan and Iraq everyday for 20 years and lost a fraction of a that number ,
Exactly - the Russian experience of occupation and insurgency is very grim and very recent. So why would they invade Ukraine again?
If you have enough missiles and and and airforce 5 times bigger than Ukraines,you dont need a large force.
Whoever owns the sky owns the battlefield.
They Been occupating parts of Ukraine for the past 8 years
The russian experience of occupation have been since 2008 in Georgia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_warfare
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