Exactly, it isnt massive.
I had a twitter discussion with a Russia supporter and after back and forth taking apart their narratives with facts, they pulled the "Russiaphobe" gambit. I pointed out I also criticise America for their screwups and my own country's screwups with it, does that make me an "Americaphobe" and "Hibernophobe"? They had no answer to that. It just didn't compute. I've experienced this with Russians I've known too. They're remarkably and scarily un self critical and any faults they find with Russia are either because of "outside influences" or "troublemakers" within Russia.
I wouldnt be surprised if that number was alot higher,since they have used the convicts in first line in human wave attacks while barrier troops behind them shoots anyone retreating.
He sounds like someone that fits Putins narrative for sure
Genuine LOL moment. What has this got to do with Russia?
“It seems as though Mr. Prigozhin is willing to just throw Russian bodies into the meat grinder in Bakhmut,” Kirby said. “In fact, about 1,000 Wagner fighters have been killed in the fighting in just recent weeks, and we believe that 90 percent of those 1,000 fighters were, in fact, convicts.”
Might not be easy to get more convicts to join.
Yes Jerry, I remember that milestone. But like I mentioned, if Russia wins the UK EU and the US can forget about any payment. There was in more recent time's something about the Falklands war debt too. In Ukraine's favor, assuming that they will win, from what we are told, its a very wealthy Country with mineral, oil and gas deposits, not to mention their grain ( presently being stolen by the Russians ) Slave Ukraine.
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What the Ukrainians are up against, people who want to annihilate them.
Not finished reading the thread, but someone saying a defending nation is ‘bad’ doesn’t deserve the ability to post shîte on the thread - I’m hoping they’ll have lost posting privileges by the time I get to the end of the thread.
It's not a world war but hundreds of thousands fighting daily isn't massive, ukraine has single handedly stopped the second biggest military in the world for over 320+ days ..
Silly games people come to play in here
Always this national obsession with invading Europe whilst playing the victim
We dont know the civilian casualties yet,because Russia still occupies areas like Mariupol,and the city was completely leveled more or less.
And same goes with other occupied areas,and many places mass graves are still turning up
We wont know before the places are liberated from the russians or the war ends
Whataboutism again.
Normally a debate doesn’t label the people participating with such terms.
Good deal from the UK, It's going to be good watching Russia pay for all of this over the years, including the reconstruction.
Russia the big strong men army has to resort to this cowardly tactic.
Prigozhin's Wagner/bot financing is an intriguing topic.
There are apparently 50,000 Wagner mercs in Ukraine, there are some in the CAR syphoning as much gold as they can get. The gold is said to amount to $1b in revenue, so how much are these mercs being paid? They are getting $24k PA the wage bill for those in Ukraine alone would be $1.2b PA. He also runs the biggest bot farms.
No wonder he wants the mines in Bakhmut/Soledar. The catering business in Russia must pay well.
If one country attacks another, war is inevitable. Moaning about it and spouting pointless tripe like 'war is bad' is as pointless as pointing out the sky is blue when there are no clouds.
Ukraine did not want this war and neither did anyone else except it's instigators. Victim blaming?
I'm catching up and I was a bit slow to realise it was a bot, which I usually try not to respond to as it's pointless and just ends up with pages of useless attempts to reason with an ant.
WTF is your angle? Countries actually bordering/nearer Russia/Belarus have given more in terms of their capacity to give, than Germany - Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Poland, they are not moving more carefully and they are being infinitely more generous compared to their resources.. The UK and Canada are knocking it out of the park. The UK has given the second most $value military aid to Ukraine after the US.
I think the €18 billion from the EU recently is 35 years to pay at no interest.
No cost, they just give it all back at the end /s
Timberrrr has claimed that Ukrainians have been training on Challenger 2s in one of the baltic states for a while.
As a percentage of GDP, Germany's aid is pitiful.
Portugal has given more to Ukraine as a % of GDP - 0.15% vs 0.14%
Wars are bad it does not mean all parties to it are in the wrong.
What part of Ukraine is entitled to defend itself do you not understand?
To claim that Ukraine is as bad as Russia in such circumstances is completely without merit or foundation. You cannot rationally support this position except with conspiracy theory rantings and meaningless slogans.
Your positon is therefore morally and intellectually bankrupt. What part of that do you not understand?
So I guess this weekend's distraction attempt is "it's not really a major conflict". I don't think it's going to work.
Can the other 92% be named. It might sway my position when I am buying something .
What part of every war is bad you cant understand?
That will be interesting, there's a major Ukrainian assault coming as well.
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