See below. One can surmise from this that the now deleted thread was at least substantially the same as that quoted.
Doesn't necessarily mean its correct either of course.
The EU was established initially to promote free trade in Europe and reduce the chances of war breaking out between the independent countries of the EU. It is not one country and even though it might be nicer to see russia's vicious invasion of its neighbour defeated more quickly it is not the case that "its feck all use". The EU and its member states have already provided billions of euro worth of aid to Ukraine, have welcomed in over a million and a half of its citizens trying to avoid being killed by a russian armed force intent on genocide in their country and led the way in sanctions to help weaken the russian economy.The horde as you describe the russian forces are now made up of the remains of their professional army stripped of most of its heavy weapons and experienced troops and now propped up with released prisoners and conscripts so the threat to the EU from invasion is a lot less than it might have appeared before putin made the mistake of escalating russian activity in Ukraine last year. It is great that the US has provided the support that it has but the support from some EU countries is an even greater proportion of their GDP and in my opinion it is only because the USA economy is so strong that the EU countries assistance seems small in comparison.
Edit: To clarify what I have said I am just making the point that it is not like the EU is doing nothing about the situation in Ukraine. I do think more needs to be done to teach the russians a lesson and to reduce the chance of them invading one of their neighbouring countries again.
For what its worth I looked at the https://twitter.com/oleksiiburov73 account straight after it was posted and I saw comments such as those referenced. He appears to have deleted the thread.
I don't think he's a dick, rather he's a glass half empty kind of person.
Mistakes have certainly been made at Soledar. War Translated posted a video the other day showing troops on the front line at Bakhmut hinting at the underperformance of their general(s).
Julian gets a bad rap for telling it like it is, in a very blunt manner.
The Hybrid war being fought in Ukraine today is completely new [its not all WW1 and 2] to most seasoned and experienced armies. What Ukraine is doing in relation to Soledar is correct. Strategy and techniques always need to be modified or changed in the face of Russian maniacal use of cannon fodder. We cannot expect the Ukraine to commit countless numbers of its own forces knowing Russia will send in more zombies time and time again. what Ukraine's army are doing now is working with new ideas and plans with evident help from experts. we need to hold fast and not be too unduly worried if they pull back every now and again... thats the correct thing to do. once a plan is put in place to deal with Russian zombies then we will see a different result. as for Belarus and lucky Luca... I am out of ideas about what's going on there.
So "plenty of videos" turned out to be a tweet from some random pro-Palestinian/anti-US account of some screenshots from another random account, and a no-context video with no discernable audio.
Funny, if you go to the account she screenshotted, https://twitter.com/alexeyburov73 it doesn't exist!
There is an @oleksiiburov73 (https://twitter.com/oleksiiburov73) with the same name, and the Ukrainian and UK flags, but he didn't post anything like that.
Can you see how that might be problematic for your claim?
If those worms did not hand Kherson city over to the Russians at the beginning the war things would be very different now.
See loads of the Pro Kremlin bloggers have risen from the dead today - subtext messaging that the poor Ukrainians are bet etc and may as well roll over. The west should cut it's losses and just restore their trade etc.
One swallow never made a summer.
The rada passed some updated laws on mobilisation at the end of last year.
It's not who can inflict the most pain but who can endure the most who wins.
To take a quote from Irish history.
It's not really Brussels though, the EU can't force countries to send weapons to Ukraine though.
And people still call that a win and the way they are talking it's like the imminent collapse of the Ukrainian Frontline. It's like deja Vu with Severodonesk over again.
Must be like 1k dead Russians per km taken at this stage in that front.
But let's all forget about the Kherson and Kharkiv counteroffensive.
It won't necessarily go to WW3, there are scenarios where NATO or NATO countries should get involved.
Annexation of Belarus, Russia resuming a blockade of grain, Russia heading to Moldova, unlikely as is, etc.
If Western Europe had taken this crisis seriously from Day 1 things would be very different now.
Its already an unfair war for Ukraine. Unfortunately Russia holds more cards.
It's grim but NATO countries cannot directly join the conflict. Cannot have US or UK or whatever soldiers shooting at Russians, that's "go straight to WW3 and nuclear".
They certainly need more help and keep asking for more equipment and getting it in drabs and fits from Europe.
Lot of fear in Europe that Russia could be too badly beaten. That's not just out of residual Socialist solidarity from the likes of Scholz etc, but a fear that things won't quickly return to normal.
If the war ended tomorrow it won't be "back to normal" for many years.
Western European political leaders need to accept that glaring reality quickly.
In an interesting development Ukraine requested the no new sanctions to be applied to Belarus,
It's a surprising move but clever at the same time, essentially saying to Belarus were not attacking you despite missiles and aircraft launching attacks from inside Belarus,.
Link them up please.
...if not from gout.
If Belarus launches an invasion it changes the demographic
We already have additional attacking forces wagner group, drones, soon missiles from Iran, artillery from NK resupplied by China I guess.
Not to mention the sheer inhumane brutality and mass destruction of of cities and towns this not a rules based war it a genocidal annihilation of a sovereign state.
It is shameful to see them bickering over who sends what first. Churchill must be turning purple in his grave with embarrassment.
Have you got a link to any of those videos Timmy? I can't find anything on Youtube/Google.
Germany and Hungary have shown themselves to be firmly in the pockets of the Kremlin,
But there's not a lot they could do to actually stop anyone sending tanks , especially if they think they can demand others send theirs first,
Ukraine is fighting for their survival and the idea that Germany are seeing this as some kind of game is displicable ,
The next Rammstein conference should be very interesting next week
Yeah sure , wouldn't be the first time a claim made by some sources
Saw that. One post says these are Russians being killed. Propagandists painted yellow armbands over white. Ukrainians wear blue/green armbands in this fight. The old guy certainly looks like a mobilized Russian.
I’ve seen that posted here before, possibly by you. Although never with any evidence.
I for one don't think a "ZULU" type attack against modern weapons is sustainable. And I don't think the Ukrainian losses are as bad as Russias. The invader, ESPECIALLY with Russian "tactics" always lose considerably more men (killed, MIA, wounded). As Ukraine has no choice they will fight it out to the last mobik.
I agree, the West is too slow in providing what is needed and how much. But, imo, Russia is so far from victory (being able to KEEP what they've invaded) it cannot be imagined actually happening.
If only someone told Putin that before he started the war.
Plenty of videos recently of Ukrainians getting subpoenas from the military handed out in cities and towns, not clear if its an ongoing thing or a new wave of mobilisation has begun,
Boots on the ground unfortunately is WW3, it's not an option.
You guys are clueless. International relations don’t work by telling your neighbours to FU.
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