And British foreign policy has been based on resentment that a united Europe is now a much better force than the ashes of British imperialism, leading to idiotic decisions like the Iraq war and Brexit.
Basically these old imperialist countries need to get over themselves.
Yeah might have been a nice idea if Russia wasn't Russia but more like say, Denmark.
All French foreign policy since WW2 is based on resentment that the anglocentric world is far more powerful than the francophone world. This is why they will always cozy up to the Russians.
Just wait until he finds out that there's 106'000 dead.... there will be no stopping him !!!
Interesting video on the logic of Macron’s foreign policy vis a vis Russia up to now. Basically he wanted a third bloc of Europe/Russia between the US and China with France very much in the centre of it. Can understand the logic and attractiveness of having Russia as a buffer between China and Europe but that policy is utterly discredited now.
https://youtu.be/iW2Z-DCXSBw
And there are still people insisting that Russia can overcome that by simply lobbing increasingly under-equipped conscripts at the situation.
Note : the time people point to where that was successful, Russians had the motivation of fighting to be continue to exist, whereas the current conflict is a foreign adventure for one short man in the Kremlin.
Ironically, this would be the "weak and decadent" west that can manufacture better weapons than Russia and can produce better-trained and better-equipped soldiers than Russia, soldiers who use better tactics than Russians and show more battlefield initiative than Russians. Yeah pull the other one Vlad, it's got bells on it.
Russia is the drunk at the end of the bar talking big about being able to beat anyone up but out in the car park just swings, misses and falls on his arse, so goes and slaps the other guy's bird around instead 'cos he's, you know, well 'ard.
Here's the translation for ya .
Give us your ammo dumps and we will let you live ,
till it's HiMars time at least
It's Looks likely the casualties from the several HiMars strikes this week could put the number of killed at over a thousand not including injuries,and it's still only Tuesday 😂.
Nightly occurance in parts of Ukraine
Rats starting to jump the ship?
Horrific use of incendiary weapon.
Russia now admitting that 89 soldiers were killed in the attack on the army barracks / school building. Still a huge underestimate obviously, there is no way they are telling the truth about what really happened.
Well done 🤣🤣🤣
I couldn't function in close proximity to his red haired colleague...
43,000 war crimes commited by Sep. and he's upset at a legitimate strike on a military target? They are like spoilt, stupid children.
They really can't see any wrong in what they're doing, they feel they can walk all over any of the previous Ussr states. And when said country puts up a fight they can't understand why their soldiers might get killed in battle, their superiority complex is off the charts.
Never understand why people want to downplay everything the Ukrainans do ,they liberate a town , someone comes along with their information according to the Russians the Ukrainans didn't liberate a town , Ukraine kills hundreds of Russians , people come along according to the Russians only this many were killed,so therefore what the Russians say is factual and the Ukrainans are making it up .
Utter nonsense
I wonder if this is the single biggest loss so far in this war? It seems the bigger the loss the harder it is for them to cover it.
People did say, the fact they admitted 63 died, just means it's a multiple of that.
Few more of those kinda strikes will do wonders for crushing Russian morale, put pressure on Putin and boost Ukraine morale!
There's been a few tweets showing Russian trench positions recorded from drones where you can see several dead outside each position, essentially what's happening is the Ukrainians are killing them in the trenches at night,the following day more Russians are dispatched to the trenches where they drag out the bodies of the previous occupants ,and take over the trench,the Ukrainan drones come every night,and more Russians die in place only to be dragged out and left to rot .
russian politician upset.
Came across this on YouTube, bonkers close range fighting in trenches. Is such trench warfare widespread now? I'd say life expectancy of any lads in the front trenches can be measured in hours.
https://youtu.be/dSrNQ00luZo
Locals in the region reckon it was even higher. People who live near the site of the attack were saying on Sunday on Telegram channels that it looked like there were many hundreds dead, maybe 500-600 or something.
250-300 certainly sounds more realistic, if the estimates of troops billeted there were correct and given the obvious destruction of the building.
When Putin goes, as he will at some stage either from natural or unnatural causes, there will be a lot if changes. North Korea is what you might call a special case, unlike any other., so I would not not be expecting too much change there. Assad, on the other hand, is still dependent Putin. So anything that affects Putin, will to a greater or lesser extent affect Assad. And of course, there are other Country's too where Putins fingerprints can be found ( especially the Wagner group of thugs) and his departure will cause more than a few ripples in the wider world. So we will have to wait and see what a Putin free world will be like.
HIMARS are busy this year
Makiivka update
For something like 3 whole days
Weather in Ukraine is poised to get very cold in the north east from Saturday on.
Time was not up......
Not much left to discuss on this I think other than, as said before (many months ago now), am less critical of and cynical about likes of Macron than you are.
Yes, I am sure there's some "heavier" Western equipment available, which Ukraine does not have yet, that could & perhaps should be given to Ukraine by the Europeans right now (assuming training, supply of ammo and parts etc are there)...but IMO appears it will not happen until there is a US call made on doing it.
Looks (to me) like there is still fear there of either Putin going off the deep end and escalating somehow, or of causing very rapid collapse of Russian military in Ukraine followed up by a (possible) fragmentation of Russia.
Do not agree at all on making such nuclear threats (particularly of "first strike" on Russia in response to a conventional attack, as you seem to suggest there). Let us leave that to Putin + his warmonger minions and the horrible creatures spouting nonsense on Russian state tv rather than start "wrestling with pigs".
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