Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I'm afraid you've now put yourself in a situation where I'm asking you to further elaborate on my use of the term "hilarious".

It's sad that you have misrepresented me.

You got me bud, I'm a bleedin native Slav speaker. How did ya bleedin guess? Ya most be a feckin genius. Respect bud!

You could be right. Russia is in dire straits from a demographic perspective but so too is Ukraine. I don't see Russia falling apart in the next ten years.

A ten year war would likely be devastating for Ukraine and might sufficiently destabilise Russia too as per rand corporation so that it could be split into smaller States. I just think the huge loss of human life is insane when we should be working together on global challenges such as food, poverty, energy and environment. How many people should die and what would it achieve?

One cognac distillery; check, one warehouse containig domestic white goods; check, 245,000 children of various sexes and ages; check...

Or better still, Grumpy go and live in Russia, just show them your posts in boards, and they'll let you straight in. But be warned, the real Russia is very far from the imaginary Russia you have in your mind, and continuously defend while talking negatively about Ukraine and the west. Give it a month or two (or sooner Comrade), and you might be damn glad to return to the capitalist west.

Yeah they are there protecting the region. They want its resources. It is patently clear they are not there to protect the people of the region - they have murdered them, destroyed their homes in indiscriminate attacks, conscripted them as cannon fodder to be sent to their deaths. In numbers which dwarf in orders of magnitude the deaths in 8 years of conflict prior to that.

I don't think the people of Donbas can take much more of Russian protection, do you?

Russia said they wouldn't give back Kherson either... didn't they officially 'annex' it in a sham vote?

I was reading a Twitter thread yesterday where a Ukrainian girl spoke about life in Russian occupied Donbas for the last eight years. You can pretty much guess what life is like there - the Russians imported their own citizens and famed "values" to the region i.e. like something out of the Third World but with added authoritarianism and repression.

Apparently you are not permitted to tell people they are a re-reg. I got a mod warning for doing so, even though the person admitted in the next post they were a re-reg. Interestingly enough I was also told that re-regging is not forbidden.

At least 1 person killed, several more wounded as result of Russian shelling in Kherson

I missed the fact that you referred to the Greyzone. That is simply irrefutable proof that you are a gullible fool.

They have consistently been proven to be liars, to quote them shows you are either highly susceptible to lies or are yourself a liar.

Yes, this point is lost on a lot of the "peace" guys. It's like trying a negotiate a deal with the head of a criminal or terrorist gang and hoping he might stick to his word. The 'let's have peace' fans are talking as if Russia is a perfectly normal country with a normal leader.