The extraordinary thing is that they mostly want whatever Putin wants. If he had announced at the start of the year that he wanted Russia to join NATO and the European Union, they would have gone along with this too. It's a nation of serfs incapable of thinking for themselves.
Who's bad mouthing the US. You are imagining stuff that's not there Walter.
Given they talk about sanctions all the time, claiming they're doing nothing, that's a sure sign they're hurting them and they well know it.
He knows more than most of the other posters on here, when it comes to the subject of Afghanistan and other warzones
It's fine being an autocrat when the economy performs well enough to line the pockets of the chekisty regime but when you can't import important technology to sustain the alleged, but non-existent, catch up to the West, when you burn through all of your foreign currency reserves fighting a war you can't ever win, when you force anyone with talent to leave, when you embarrass the military and intelligence services competence then eventually your hair brained schemes will anger those who can actually enact change in Russia.
Putin's popularity amongst the public is pretty meaningless as they won't be deciding who the next Russian autocrat is. The duma is nothing short of a charade. The public don't get a say. The Eurasian North Korea.
Grand. I'm sure he can speak for himself or do you hold his hand everywhere you go?
Of course they are hurting them but not to the extent we need or require. People are dying now, children are being kidnapped and god knows what being done to them, they've a nuclear power plant as a military base for crying out loud.
We need the west and NATO to do more now. Give Ukraine the weapons and assistance they need no questions asked.
So can PUTIN!
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On August 27, military exercises of reservists and conscripts will be held in the Republic of Belarus - Reuters, citing the Ministry of Defense
there is a lot of nonsense bandied around about the war, but now it looks like Belarus ground forces are about to join the Axis effort
Slowly slowly catchy monkey. Russia has gone back at least a decade economically, but they're like a huge dinosaur, it takes time before it realises it's dead. Outside the major cities things certainly got better since the madness of the 1990's but not to the degree of parity with Western Europe. They'll notice the effects much more slowly. Plus because it is so huge and survived during the 20th century as it's own mostly cut off internal economy it'll weather the sanctions better at least initially. Though back in the USSR they had a far larger population and a load of vassal states within that bloc and fewer expectations and an internal command economy. Their brain drain continues apace, their birth rate has fallen off a cliff, even with the cash prizes for having kids.
The West/NATO/US can only do so much before things could get way worse in a direct conflict and it actually suits same to slowly drain Russian resouces and will for not that much investment.
It was announced at least 2 years before they actually left that they were planning on leaving, and this was all started during Trumps presidency ( elections looming would have a lot to do with it, I think...the "Bring the US Troops home " platform) And Biden was left holding the can of worms that the actual dynamics of the leaving would bring. And at the time, they had guarantees from the Taliban etc. about peace and security. But no one foresaw the utter collapse of the Afghan govt and defense, and from the security viewpoint the amount of weaponry the Taliban inherited was a colossal mistake. But what could have been done to ease the eventual day of departure? Say they announced 2/3 mths in advance the actual departure date, what would have happened? When the Russians left, the Afghan response was Good Riddance, and don't even think about coming back. With the American departure, most of Afghanistan wanted to leave with them. Sure it was a disaster ( and still unfolding, with Talib hunting down any Afghans who worked with the "foreigners") the sight of poor Afghans falling out of the wheel wells of the departing planes will never be forgotten.
That's what generations of Communism does to a population. You do what you are told Comrade. Follow the leader.
I see Gods representative on earth is still stanning for the Russians. Apparently Crap Rasputin junior was an "innocent girl."
Nice to see that the Catholic church is still a den of villiiany and scum.
"The madness of war," he said. "I think of that poor girl blown up by a bomb under her car seat in Moscow. The innocent pay for war, the innocent! Let us think about this reality and say to each other: war is madness."
https://news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-ambassador-outraged-pope-laments-152546614.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFWsDPoL90ehBEgyDopeEydPERlOnlStF325SQc0J207OPe11lC7h_e5rEPNohNwrvudpjZNq719lQYFt63tzUYP2QYpMgcH0fNynONQsdvklIJou8a9Xl1uC9sl8fmUKJGssvrt21Jq8U93jWR9b8czAmSxGnVhAj-q2slJrYbs
Haven't agreed with everything you've said on this topic so far but you're bang on the money here, this is ridiculous that he's managed to comment on someone who has called for the extermination of the Ukrainian people as an "innocent". The man needs to step down at this rate, he's been saying some crazy things the last while
It's the criminal enterprise known as the RCC, who market in misery. No surprise Pope Frank spewed some waffle, heck, in Ireland they perform Muss for people that murder their families and then kill themselves. Sins galore, no bother, a few quid to be made hosting a Muss.
So the real question is what kind of leverage does Putin have over the pope, this is not the first time he stepped way out of line.
Yes i believe Putin has videos of the pope with hookers peeing on him.
Am i doing this right?
Zaporizhahia now officially offline for Ukraine.
And the world watches on 😥
Not good
Someone was claiming a 2 million strong army few pages back according Wikipedia
Railway damaged as result of explosion near Kursk
the partisans are becoming a movement in Russia
Most likely yes it probably alot worse than reported
Think you need to see who have given what in the bigger picture
Basically more canonfodder to look good on paper,and a full mobilization wont be of any use for Putin anyway,he was warned about that months ago.
And, erm...where's he going to get them from?
How the fuk did he get air time? Every now and then someone slips through and speaks a little truth. Tough listening for the Putin/Soviet uber alles fan boys on here.
It would not at all suprise me to find Russia wants control of those power stations so they can steal the electricity and cable it to the east. They are nicking absolutely everything. Tony Soprano would not stoop that low.
He's going to arm the Ukrainian children they kidnapped and conscript them in to the Russian army .
Wouldn't be surprised if that actually came to fruition
Ohhh!
Ukraine are in the middle of their offensive , they're doing it on their terms ,they got the Russians to send extra troops west of the Dnieper ,and they are stuck there now .. once the Russians offensive capabilities around kerson are spent the Ukrainians can leave them there to stew... Massive head on assaults , and sieges of cities would do to the Ukrainian army what they've successfully done to Russian forces ,wear them out ..
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