Poland saw the re-emergent Communist super State Vlad had planned long before others did.
No one listened as long as the cheap resources flowed.
It's not dwelling on the past , it's about knowing history, and NOT repeating it over and over. The definition of stupidity is repeating the same actions, and expecting different results.
They are not wrong. Interesting to see they've been advocating this for some time.
Assad is on an official state visit to the UAE.
UAE seems to be positioning itself as the Switzerland of the Middle East - engaging with those with money/power and happy to ignore where it comes from.
Each day I'm getting madder and madder at the Russians.
Feel better?
I don’t understand why you repeatedly try to downplay and excuse Russian fascist aggression
Please point out where I downplay Russian aggression. And not once have I excused it, or have come within an asses roar of excusing it. Nor would I. Never mind repeatedly. I have been very clear what I think of putin's and Russia's criminal and murderous actions and too many Russians seemingly supporting it and that he needs to be stopped. I have "repeatedly" wished him dead with a one way ticket to hell and cheered on his army's fúckups and losses. I have stated my opinion that the previously and clearly autocratic state run by crooked and murderous billionaire pirates has fully and publicly emerged as a facist state.
Apparently all that's not enough for you? Do I need to start shouting what about the children and chemical attacks and genocide and all that to satisfy you and allay your apparent suspicions? Maybe another bag of Tayto and a lotto ticket with "DEATH TO PUTIN!!" written on it? In crayon. Oh wait, is it because in that last post I happened to question your monumentally simplistic statement that putin is grade A batshít crazy because that makes you feel better? Maybe that's it. You seem to have missed the part where I said this rally is his clumsy Russian state propaganda attempt to head off the shítshow that's coming to the homefront, or already has. And it's clear he knows it.
For someone who calls out the fact that Russia twists the truth, ignores facts and sees "enemies to our cause" everywhere you seem altogether pretty adroit at it yourself Ted. And as mindlessly rambling and jingoistic in your attempt to play to the cheap seats. Well that is easier of course.
Possibly already posted this morning but
Regardless of how they feel about ol Vlad no Russian general is going to stand aside while NATO kills thousands of Russian soldiers.
Germany and the Netherlands are sending Patriot systems to Slovakia in response to a request from NATO. This comes on the back of Slovakia having offered their S-300 anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine.
IMHO it's too lazy and simplistic, even dangerous to label putin batshít crazy. Russian propaganda paints Zelenskyy as a drug addicted CIA backed facist and fool and see where that got them. As for religion, if we downed a short every time an American politician mentioned Gaaawd at a rally, we'd be comatose in five minutes. 😁 Never mind that US political rallies are total cringefests. Now Russian state propaganda is even more cringeworthy and daftly clumsy to our eyes, but it has clearly worked and worked for a very long time. And putin is using that well honed state machinery to preach to his subjects.
He knows he has to. Clearly, or at least to my eye, he's realised he needed to put on a public, more "homely" face, rather than the recent images of their czar in throne rooms at the end of very long tables, scowling. Either sanctions or news from the front is already coming home to roost, or he knows damn well it will so he's trying to head that off at the pass.
We can go back and forth about what the Average Russian(tm) really thinks and believes and what they support, but one of the few people that have an actual handle on that is putin. His very reign and indeed life depends on knowing and he has an enormous state apparatus to tell him.
What about da homeless….
More like 4000 civilians dead, with 12-13000 dead overall in that clusterfúck, very roughly split between both sides and like you said the result of fighting between the two groups with some old ethnic scores being settled thrown in. Add in open warfare at times with heavy weapons, minefields all over the place, even trench warfare, with kidnappings and "disappeared" and blocking of humanitarian aid. The Troubles in Northern Ireland turned up to eleven, on cocaine.
By 2016 nearly half a million Ukrainians had fled to somewhere else in Ukraine and nearly a million left Ukraine entirely. So if there's talk of "genocide", or ethnic cleansing of an area it's pretty clear the Ukrainians aren't very good at it, if it's nearly a million and a half of them that are doing the leaving. On the Russian side three quarters of million fled to Russia or Belarus, presumably seperatists, or more on the Russian side anyway given their chosen destinations*. Neither side's hands are bloodless in that shítshow, but it's abundantly clear that Russia's are the more bloody.
*though this was before this Russian invasion and given the often close familial relationships between Ukrainians and Russians, those people may have had no particular affiliations at all and simply wanted to get the hell out of Dodge and went to relatives or friends in Russia. Far less of a language and cultural barrier too. Long before all this crap the country most Ukrainians went to was Russia. Since this invasion those fleeing to Russia are the minority.
”what about our own” 😂😂😂
I say they were thinking Russia is more attacking in the east and became complacent.
They actually look possessed with madness.
A depressing report this morning about the barracks attack yesterday morning; 80+ confirmed dead and they’re still working through the rubble.
They'll back him. They need to blame someone, and it will be the West.
I have to say, I've been advocating for NATO not to get involved all along, but now, seeing what is unfolding, and especially now that NATO has had weeks to place their assets where they need them to be, ( just look at the US air and Naval assets alone in place in almost every country around Ukraine), that an air to ground sweep over one night consisting of SEAD followed by ground attack aircraft to deal with the artillery, would end Russias war in one foul swoop. Sure, Russia will strike back conventionally, but I don't believe that they will go Nuclear. Strong Relationships exist between generals in Russia and the US through back channels built up over years. If NATO has any guarantees from generals in Russia that they will not obey a nuclear order, then NATO must act now.
I wonder of a Europe-wide poll was conducted, how many of us would agree with a NATO sweep of Ukraine. Up to yesterday, I would have said no. Now, its a yes.
And finally, why the hell are trains still running from Russia to Kaliningrad through the Suwalki gap? That's just plain stupidity.
An excellent point on military hardware in general. One that a few of us forget.
If anyone has ever been to RIAT or Filton, you would of seen the incredible amount of support equipment needed for certain military hardware, from the simplest trainer jets to the smallest radar systems. Its not a case of RTFM and sure we're grand lads!
I think Less is probably more in Ukraine’s case. However, my main priority would be knocking out the artillery. It's russias only strength and a way must be found to strike them. Artillery shells are cheap and the Russians have millions of them..
True. Its ports are huge. Its rail network is extensive, which begs the question, are trains running from Russia, through Poland ( the Suwalki gap) into Kaliningrad?
It would be crucial to close the borders between Kaliningrad and its surrounding countries and **** down its rail network. There are currently huge amounts of personnel and equipment being own into what will be a back door to further escalation.
As an exercise, open Google earth and go to a street view or street pic around any of its air bases and ports. It's an eye opener. Very poor infrastructure outside the major centres, but huge port facilities with almost the entire Baltic Fleet tied up. ( a month ago).
True so I suppose some of the money could be used to help fund Ukraine's war effort in the meantime. But about time this has been brought up. It is Russia who is destroying the towns and cities of Ukraine so only right that Putin's enablers pay for it with their seized assets and money.
The numbers I've seen are from 40-49 dead but I haven't seen anything definitive anywhere.
I still can't understand why they were all packed in together at a known military barracks.
They lost a lot in that 1 attack if he is right on the amount who died.
Let's hope they were asleep when this happened and they didn't know a thing at all before it hit them.
Can also show that those whose assets are seized are gone forever, so lifting sanctions/seizures are not within any negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. i.e. Puta fucked the oligarchs!
I guess it could also be used to fund the war effort as easily as it could rebuilding after the war.
Thats all well and good, but Ukraine has to prevail as an independent entity first.
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