Macron skips a couple of shaves and wears a hoodie of a French military unit he has nothing to do with to try and get the Zelensky look, commentator on Sky News there just called him a poundshop Zelensky, slightly pathetic:
see.news/photos-of-macron-trying-to-mirror-zelenskyys-look/
I'd say that these foreign mercenary's fighting with the Ukrainians have contributed massively to the sudden increase of the Nr of Russian senior army officers deaths... worth expending 30 cruise missiles on, which shows just how desperate they are getting.
Just seen that. Cringy as ****. And I thought Macron had been the best performing Western Leader in all of this up until this point.
This is clearly a PR stunt ahead of elections. Transparent.
President Zelensky said that Russia suffered more losses during the war in Ukraine than during the 2 wars in Chechnya
You keep linking to this map. It includes the links to the actual sources so why not just link to the sources otherwise anyone following your link has to search through the newsfeed and try to figure out what is the correct link.
Also, give it a rest with the header font, it's grating
I think it's worth remembering what happened when Russia invaded Georgia. George W. Bush sent American troops to the capital of Georgia and Russian troops started to retreat. The US said they would not act to protect Georgia directly but if they were attacked or threatened they would respond. They also sent a flotilla of ships carrying aid, protected by the navy.
That is pathetic and staged alright- desperate scramble to look “war time” presidential that Zelenskyy has carried out so well. Completely at odds with anything I’ve seen from macron to date- generally woke and “I know best” style that grates on me.
Cheney leaked that cruise missiles were locked and loaded…. and putin retreated…..
It should be pointed out W sanctioned that as he was afraid they would head south into Florida
It was well co-ordinated, Condoleeza Rice publicly leaked that Lavrov demanded, during a private phone call, the removal of the democratic government as a condition for peace, but that she insisted this was not negotiable. The Georgian government were still there after the Russians left.
Putin may not be a communist but he leads like one, treats his people like he is one, uses a lot of their language and so on.
To the Russian on the ground, it's a familiar story.
Or they wil act quietly or in a way that means they won't lose face. I agree moral scrubals won't be involved eitherway.
I'd say there's two chances of that happening, and they know it too.
Being on the left and not being right can have very different meanings
I was prompted to read more on what you said, you may not be far wrong @Danzy
Instead, Orwell believed that Soviet Communism shared the same defects as Nazi Germany. Both were totalitarian states where the desire for total power and control crowded out any room for truth, individuality or freedom. Orwell did not think Soviet Communism was truly socialist, but rather that it only had a socialist façade.
Some anger tonight in Ukraine that a Russian broadcaster is being labelled a hero after one stunt, when she has been pedalling Russian rubbish for years.
Wow, that's intense. It must take some guts to drive around in that with tanks on every third or fourth street. There's a mad mix of sounds in there, the vehicle sounds almost like a Dublin Bus with an autocannon fitted on it.
China is no longer the low cost production Country it once was ( but by world standards, they are still cheaper than most Country's ) a rising class of people with a liking for the good life and all the trimmings, means that production costs are rising sharply...China has lost quite a lot of foreign business to Africa and India,,,the new "Low Production Cost's" Countrys, and this trend has been happening for several years now, and predates the Chinese Covid lockdown, which brought the world to a shuddering stop....then to make matters worse, you had the massive container ship getting stuck in the Suez canal. So drawing the ire of the civilized world on them if they chose to support Putin, will only accelerate the drive away from Chinese goods.
The fact that the lady printed No War in English was and is highly suspicious.
Her stunt should be treated with scepticism.
Obviously the usuals on twitter have jumped all over it in their normal rush and will delete their tweets tomorrow.
Yes, I can definitely see that in my industry. Around 2004-6 'Chinese' still meant cheap and low quality, but there were a few breakout brands that were starting to offer excellent quality at a much cheaper price than US or EU brands. Probably based in large part on theft of intellectual property. Now many of these same brands sell the same quality but just slightly undercutting western brands. It seems to be causing the tide to turn, if their prices are not that much better than western brands, more people are likely to go with the brands with that have a better presence in the west.
Where is the anger tonight in Ukraine about her?. What she did is more than "one stunt". She has probably and bravely signed her own death warrant..😢
As I understand it, U.S. special forces had been in Ukraine prior to the Russian invasion providing weapons training. The Americans had what turned out to be solid intelligence on the Russian plan to invade.
If the Russians backed off in 2008, it makes me wonder what would have happened if Biden had moved to put a visible US military presence in Ukraine (at Zelenskyy's invitation) in the weeks leading up to Russia's invasion time. Would Russia have backed down? Maybe they'd have negotiated terms without bullets being fired.
I've stopped looking at much of the reported footage as I find it takes a heavy toll on me personally. I can't imagine what effect it has on the people living it day in day out.
A Russian commander of the twelfth engineering brigade aka Red-Knowledge Brigade (tactical joint of the Russian Ground Forces), Colonel Sergei Ivanovich Porokhnya was eliminated today.
they should nail that ribbon of Saint George to his forehead.
https://real-vin.com/v-ukraine-unichtozhen-komandir-brigady-vs-rf-sergej-porohnja/amp
That may be because they didn't have the Wiley Coyote on the team back then.
Also the ACME equipment was 20-25 years less out of date and the soldiers may have received proper training.
I'm glad I got my playstation 5 console..at Christmas. No chips coming out of China now .or consoles .
In war, not everything is as it seems.
All the same I wish we could somehow hide them from the rest of the world and just suffer them internally without the added mortification of having to export them abroad.
They arent men they are subhuman scum that prey on these poor people.
Nobody abroad is really thinking about Daly and Wallace. I can say with some confidence that they are not the only cranks in the European Parliament, so it's not too shocking, if annoying. I wouldn't even think about them myself, only they keep getting brought up here.
During the Cuban missile crisis, the Americans acted so spooked till the point that Kennedy's advisors were actually considering and suggesting a nuclear strike on the soviet union just for having the audacity to move their nukes into the western hemisphere, the soviets almost shat in their pants once they found out what the American response was about to be. Granted they ended up doing a trade turkey for cuba, however and most importantly the whole crisis came to a conclusion rather quickly.
70 years later, Putin is blackmailing us with his nukes yet we keep forgetting that NATO is also a nuclear deterrent superpower.
I am not an expert in these matters, however i can already feel that Putin, while losing the battle in Ukraine, is winning in blackmailing the west and prolonging the crisis to his advantage.
He should've been dealt with swiftly and more decisively.
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