ha. Putins gone from threatening nuclear armageddon to sending home a ‘few dozen’ coffins
Kermit, war in Ukraine or no war in Ukraine, we are headed for troubled financial times,,,,and these financial storm clouds were forming long before Ukraine kicked off. Sooner or later borrowing and printing money faces the inevitable payback time, and its what's happening now. Putin is jut heaping more misery on the world.
Google says he's some kind of US alt right/white nationalist "character". https://www.youtube.com/user/ramzpaul/featured
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ray_Ramsey
Turns the stomach the way these types in Western countries are pro Russia + somewhat admirning of Putin.
They are always dribbling on about the unpatriotic "left" (pretty much everyone to the left of themselves) destroying the nation etc. but they are traitors and we are all absolutely done for if they ever get the kind of power they would like in key countries. This is why Putin loves them.
I really thought this war would throw most of them onto the political scrapheap, but I may have been too optimistic.😒
Nope. Save it until there are no longer Russians killing Ukrainians. Russian tourists in the EU hurling threats, abuse and rude gestures at Ukrainian refugees are not going to arrive home and exhort Vlad on Twitter to lighten up because they had a great holiday.
Nice.
Fair play for putting that list together.
Might have a look tomorrow lunchtime!
The war in Ukraine isn't to blame for the energy crisis.
It's overreliance on Russian gas when other alternatives were readily available. Europe caught with their pants down.
The one good thing that has happened is that a lot of these edgy, confrontationalist, "In the know", dribbling idiots have outed themselves this year and to much less support than they had in previous years also. A small win for sanity.
Russia is to 2022 what Lehman Brothers was to 2008
A scapegoat for the catastrophic mismanagment that proceeded it, in this instance, putting economies into hibernation for 2 years of Covid panic.
People with Ukraine flags on their Twitter accounts complaining about energy bills is more than rich. And if those people are complaining, mark my words, when the comfortable middle class in Europe (who get to virtue signal from the safest countries in the world) suffer consequences on their doorstep, to their income or energy supply or standard of living, you'll see how fickle those same people can be.
Get with the program jmreire...
Its much easier to blame the Ukranians and those pesky people flying Ukrainian flags on the energy crisis!
Lot of translated stuff on Twitter from Russian's giving reports. seems their aerial support is making things tough for the Ukrainian forces with large losses. Not over by a long shot but if and hopefully when Kherson is secured it's likely to be at huge cost of life.
Other rumours saying that the UKA generals didn't feel that they were ready to carry out this counteroffensive yet but Zelensky ordered it. Time will tell, the sooner this war is over the better for everyone ( except the Russians)
It does look like a good idea. A slow villige by village retake and not a shot in the dark rapids race.
Not much point in the Ukraine sending 100000 units into the south only for Russia to attack them from the north and cut them off from the rest of the Ukraine army. It is also of some note that the US think tank says Russia still has most of its navy and airforce intact and keeping them away from the war. The Ukraine needs to be patient. Grind Russia down.
The Russians are spoofing,
It is a worry, but I think if Ukraine are able to pull it off and clear the Russian forces from Kherson and over the banks of the Dnipro river, it will be a massive victory and tactical advantage for them, especially if it stops any future "referendums" their.
I just hope that they have good intelligence that its the right time as it will be a massive loss if they are defeated their by the Russians.
And in other news more flash harry carry on from Russia here of Donegal. Lets face it who else would send a sub to Ireland.
And not for the first time in the last week russians forces are fighting each other ,last week they sent senior FSB to calm a fight between other russian forces in Kherson,
It's best to ignore rumors.
As for Russian updates on Twitter, I'll let you decide, but the Russian telegram updates seem to suggest the opposite in relation to Russian airforce and artillery support, it's called for but doesn't arrive.
The media blackout on the Ukrainian side doesn't make it any easier and the press are not allowed follow to the frontline.
Don't think it is a bit rich. One can support Ukraine, still be angry about energy bills + also not agree with ending sanctions & begging Putin to lower costs of said energy bills. As for virtue signalling doubt that fellow (like myself) has a clue about them, other than the Ukraine flag emoji thingy, which to use another awful American phrase "triggered" him.
So that tweet was just a cheap, cynical gotcha. Pretty much worthless. But after I googled, what else do you expect from a pig but a grunt?
Anyway, I suppose we will see alright as regards fickleness, but I think European countries' relationship with Russia is toast. This is for the best now, given what happened in Feb. when Putin fully unmasked. The solutions to energy problems of the cosy & safe people in Europe you sneer at won't be coming courtesy of Putin's gasfields, so only way out of this is through (the other side), irrespective of whether public's support for Ukraine is maintained or not.
More Russians are coming
Repeating the same rubbish doesn’t make it more credible.
The West will not allow energy to be the cross Ukraine perishes on. WE will overcome. Compared to what the Ukrainians are putting up with it’s relatively minor. Watch this space - emergency measures incoming.
But, here’s your soap box, tell us why you’d rather live under Putin than a Western democracy? Maybe you can convince us…
Crimea is a good example of what I mean, I may be corrected but didn't Navalny also agree with the invasion of Crimea?
As for the German's, I'll leave them be until they figure out which side thy'd prefer to be on.
Navalny, Gorbachev, Solzhenitsyn many sane and respected Russians all believed in a greater European Russia with Belarus and Ukraine at its heart. But it belongs to a different time. We are gone beyond that now. A terrible beauty is born. Ukraine will never join in such a Union unless at some distant time they all join the EU. None of them would agree with the way Putin is brutally forcing such a union.
It's always been problematic I think. I did read the book Collapse: The fall of the Soviet Union a while ago and afair from that (my memory may be hazy) when the Soviet Union was dissolving there was wrangling between Yeltsin (as the Russian "nationalist" looking to carve his Russia out from the Soviet Union) and the local Ukrainian "nationalists"/communist bigwigs over the fate of Donbas, and especially of Crimea.
The Russian nationalists (i.e. Yeltsin and co) really did not like that if Soviet Union was now going to die, and exploding into what would become nation states, these "Russian" bits of Ukraine would end up existing in a different country, but perhaps they kind of bore it at the time because getting the Russian "nation" resurrected out of the Soviet collapse (and assuming power) was much more important (to likes of Yeltsin) than the very small details like this.
As per above poster, I don't believe people in question (like Yeltsin, or Gorbachev) would ever have held with launching Putin style wars of aggression to somehow "win" these parts of Ukraine for Russia by force.
I don't believe they would either, the problem is by publicly agreeing with the invasion (of Crimea) gives grist to mr. putrids mill.
Russian forces not getting their way in the fight for Soledar. Ukrainian counter battery fire being more effective and fresh, better trained, and more aggressive Ukrainian troops being rotated in.
Kherson update: Russians cut off from permanent supply thanks to the situation with the bridges. They are reporting losses, but Ukrainians sustaining worse. Russian aviation still a significant factor.
That's nonsense,
Ukrainans are taking heavy losses and Russian aviation is a significant factor ,
It's nothing but putinbots propaganda.
Complete waste of time
If there is truth to this, when are the NASAM's arriving?
There’s already 8 in country covering main cities, 25-30 ordered from manufacturer for next couple years paid upfront by Biden
anyways
Is Girkin a victim of Russian sarcasm?
See tweet below -
The statement of staying behind to die but destroying "500 enemy men and 50 tanks" is meant to be sarcastic jibe at the official Russian reports. Of course they're taking losses but we're well into the fog here with only Russian claims to go by.
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