Russia - threadbanned users in OP

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?

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 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.

That's exactly what Switzeralnd did to the EU after 7 years of negotiating terms for a treaty, they said f*ck that and abandoned the deal, and switched to trying to just buy favour and quasi EU membership with tiny little bags of money.

Australia gave an alimighty FY to China and it's worked out just fine. They have stopped the Chinese from buying the country out from under them, are getting very serious about defence spending - nuclear powered submarines no less. Just in the last week China sidlined it's obnoxious wolf warrior diplomat who they had had previously unleashed like a tiny little attack dog.

Scholz - it's almost as if Меркель (Merkel) were still in power.

The EU isn't arguing, various countries may be arguing but the EU doesn't really have a mandate to direct control over sovereign countries defence forces, that's more what NATO can do.

Now we can circle back if/when the EU creates an EU army. Until then try to focus your anger on individual countries or more specifically at those countries leaders, or just focus it on scholz!

He previously claimed that NASMs anti aircraft missles were blowing up buildings all over Kiev ,

According to unnamed sources

Only thing I don't get is then why not do that. Have a million extra in your army and in the summer time unleash them on the Russians. Have them highly trained by then and just push the Russians completely out of Ukraine. I don't know why you wouldn't do this.

All this, will they, won't they, supply tanks etc is just encouraging the Russians who will seize on any chink in the alliance.

Brussels as another poster has already tried to explain to you does not have its own army. The EU as I said already is not a single country but an economic cooperative body promoting trade and peace in between its member states. There is no single EU army. In my opinion putin would like to see more countries involved directly with his invasion of Ukraine as it would help him with the narrative his propaganda has tried to promote that he is leading the russian people in a glorious defense of their nation against the entire western world which is trying to destroy it. The war with Ukraine is very likely a tool he is using to stay in power and every day his forces are being suppressed by a smaller nation like Ukraine makes him look weak which is more dangerous for him in my opinion than another army fighting against his troops on the battlefield. (edit)Even now after less than one year of embarrassment for the russian military there is already more talk of russia disintegrating:

There are currently no EU or NATO troops in russian territory or any signs there is any intention by any member of the EU to invade russia yet russia has taken drastic actions against the EU due to its support for Ukraine. I'm not convinced the russian nuclear weapon stockpile is fully usable due to its age but even a small portion of it could have a disastrous effect on wherever such weapons were used so I can understand some nations being slow to reach decisions on what to do about russia's aggression and genocidal tendencies. Mock the EU strategy if you like but to use your own metaphor I can see the sense in giving Ukraine a very big stick so it can beat the living **** out of the russians who have invaded their land and teach them that it would be a very bad idea to try it again.

Yesterday's news .

We're already on to the Germans refusing to allow any transfers of tanks until the Americans pony up Abrams tanks first

Imagine if we did see an EU army formed you can guarantee Germany would be given a Veto to block any kind of deployments

It was from this source.

I think this guy is reputable.

Must be. If you could even have say 200k of them sitting trained with just even their infantry weapons on the border with Belarus then you can more or less guaranteed no further Russian invasion from there.