Sorry my memory is a bit hazy but when exactly did you start posting in this thread? Last week? Or several months ago?
All I can observe is that the rhetoric you use and turn of phrase is very alike others who post here in similar vein? Kinda odd.
"A book [formerly] endorsed by Putin himself". That is surprising if true (?!) but you could read it for tips on how to run an effective camp/secret police/torture industrial complex.
That’s why they want it removed, so that the lucky people who are selected for an indeterminate stay at these holiday camps don’t know what to expect.
If there are attacks near Stupochky it means the ring around Bakhmut is closing. M03 is already in artillery range, H32 almost is now after Klischiivka being captured. Reports of assaults on Ivanisky too on H32, would leave only 1 "safe" road out of Bakhmut, a backroad to Chasiv Yar
It's one of the defining anti Communist books of the last century.
That headline is amusing in light of just reading this:
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, claimed that "Russia will struggle, and there should be no illusions".
Source: Medvedev on Telegram
Quote: "The Ramstein meeting and allocation of heavy armament to Kyiv leave no doubt that our enemies will be trying to exhaust us for an indefinite amount of time, or better yet, to destroy us.
They do have enough armament. If needed, they will start producing new weapons. So there should be no illusions.
He then goes on with your typically insane Orc chain of reasoning to conclude they will prevail. They have this collective cognitative dissonance that prevents them from realising that this time it's different; that the world reached a moment where one too many straws was foisted on the camels back of tollerance and pacifist/diplomatic responses to Orc shit and that the west has had enough and isn't going to back down - as it always has done - and let them win this one.
One of the few good things at the moment is that we don't have a Kissinger or his ilk in a senior position in the EU or US at the moment, urging 'diplomacy'.
Weak for 10 years, maybe. According to a retired RAF intelligence officer recently interviewed. russia has exported wagner group to destabilise Africa and other places, which in turn keeps the flow of refugees going into Europe as well as taking over natural resources in those nations. They have cyber capabilities and are a threat to undersea cables.
There are two saving graces at the moment, russia is corrupt and stupid. However, install a competent but ultra nationalist leader and russia will be a different threat altogether.
Something interesting is going on in Ukraine in the background to all this that I don't think many are aware of, as it doesn't get much coverage, for obvious reasons, and that is that Ukraine is taking this opportunity and is cleaning house. By that I mean it's tackling the corruption that it's been famous for and plagued with.
Zelensky hasn't just been waging a war against the Horde, he's simultaneously been waging a far less obvious one on corruption. The latest action on this front has been a Deputy Minister for Infrastructure being exposed and who will be dealt with:
"Today, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dismissed the deputy minister, who was exposed by the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine [NABU] employees. Law enforcement officers have every opportunity to conduct an investigation and send this proceeding to court.And I want this to be our signal to everyone whose actions or behaviour violate the principle of justice. Of course, now the main focus is on defence, foreign policy, and war. But this does not mean that I do not see and hear what is being said in society at different levels – both in the central and in the regional ones."
A few months back they found and outed several officers in the Odessa customs office for corruption and are prosecuting, and I have seen many other instances of corruption being uncovered and actually dealt with.
Aside from the obvious war aspects, the Ukraine that went into this conflict, won't be quite the same one that emerges, in terms of corruption and the attitude of inevitability/acceptance to it.
Besides this, there is a very significant internal war going on against traitors, saboteurs, collaborators and outright Russian agents. I think they are up to around a thousand of these being nabbed so far.
So Zelensky and his team are essentially fighting 3 wars simultaneously. Amazing.
It took that moron more 10 months to reach a conclusion I formed a long time ago. I loath him.
All I can say to you 20wheel is that if you are so worried about the consequences of Poland and Ukraine actions in defending against Russian aggression, and the effect this will have on Ireland, is that you start building your very own bomb shelter in the back garden, or under the house. A good modern one, able to withstand a nuclear attack, and with enough provisions to last 6 mths. Then you can relax, save in the knowledge that you will be OK ( for 6 mths anyway)
Nope, Nuclear is not the only threat they pose to the world. The west / US/ to name just two possible targets, are all interconnected by undersea cables, which are very vulnerable to attack and destruction, and that's even before we get into internet sabotage, hacking. Interfering in elections , infiltrating Government's. Nope, the list of what Putin can do in terms of destruction world wide is very long. And it can be the most insidious kind, without a shot being fired. Is the German Leopard tanks one example of Russian interference.?
He's already doing most of those things, so what's the threat now? That he will do them...better?
Could we send our pc9s .
Asking for a friend.
Who's not on benefits 😉
The threat of Russia is 2-fold I feel.
The first is any sense of victory in their attempt to grab land. If they are allowed to succeed, even to a limited degree, it will simply embolden them. The human cost will not mean anything to them, and will try again for any target they feel they can gain for the price of human-wave attacks and a chunk of their Cold War arsenal. And maybe, just maybe they overrun a whole nation. Maybe Ukraine, maybe Georgia, or maybe something more "Western"? Whatever takes their fancy. This threat must be neutralised.
The second threat, which I feel we should be planning for now, is the functional collapse of the Russian Federation. They've pulled the plug on a demgraphic grenade which is still ticking away, and still gripped to their chest. That was on top of a birth-rate dip that echoes from their losses in WWII. They may have already reached a tipping point of unsustainable population loss made irreparably worse by sending so many young men to their death while causing the rest to flee. Their ability to sustain their country will decay, and the likelyhood of factional fighting and civil war seems almost inevitable. All it will take is one of the regional Republics to break away to cause a domino effect. If Russia's military are not seen to be able to quell one rebellion, all bets are off.
Thereafter, things might get a little worse. If Russia fragments into different opposing Republics, all of whom are sitting on Soviet arms, you get a Balkan-style conflict, but by a factor of 10 compared to what happened to Yugoslavia. The world will need to do it's best to somehow to contain all of that and hopefully steer them away from becoming something worse that what we aleardy have to deal with.
I do however I hope that a Russian defeat in Ukraine might give the more democratic elements in Russian politics a chance to actually get into power, and offer a more stable / sane Russia to deal with in future.
Russia is screwed either way. Analysts and strategists think that even if the federation survives as a unitary state, it will come out of the war hugely weakened and diminished on the global stage, perhaps no longer even eligible to be a member of the G8 or G20. They also think it could take around 30 years minimum to recover from the damage Putin has done to the nation.
It'd be an excellent solution to global warning... silver lining.
If you think Putin is mad enough to start firing nukes when not an inch of actual Russia is under threat you are delusional. Why would someone with huge power and a billionaire lifestyle end it ? Makes no sense. If you think he's dying and will take the world with him... well, he's going to try that regardless if so inclined.
I doubt Putin and his family would appreciate living in a bunker for the rest of their lives,if they dont die from radiation sickness,cancer or Third and fourth degree beta burns
Well maybe you should stop "pointing out the results of a nuclear exchange". We know what that result is.
What we also know is that Putin has no intention of doing that. But he likes it very much when we're discussing it, because it brings up fears and those fears will result in decreasing support for Ukraine. So please stop doing what Putin likes.
Thats exactly what Putin is aiming for,the fear factor of nuclear weapons,he using it as blackmail
But its just a bluff,because thats basically all Russia have left,and he knows the consequence of using it the same way as we do.
This if we go down you go down too mentality is unfortunately brewed in the Russian minds trough propaganda since the soviet union
Putin still hasn't emerged yet. Maybe he is dead, in this round of medical intervention .
But why would TaketheDosh and their fellow travellers do that? That's not the task they've set themselves or the role they've been given.
To the theme of Coke's Christmas advert...
F16's are coming
Tis the season
Watch out
Look around
Something's coming
Coming to town (Coming to your town)
Dooh dooh dooh...
Always F16s (Coming to your town)
https://twitter.com/AvHistoryOgre/status/1617195570476498948?s=20&t=GCfS3YDIj6D7_a6OTs9ecg
Life is overrated anyway!
Are you looking Germany this is how it's done, count your tanks and send them,
Estonia counted their 155 artillery and sent it all ,
Sure who needs a standing army anyways?
F16s are coming because Dutch foreign minister said he has an "open mind" about sending them but in parliament the Dutch PM shot this down fairly quickly afterwards?
Isn't the real story rather than the miracle weapon copium?
The US have been in talks with South American countries about swapping Soviet-era weapons and vehicles for American made, if they give them to Ukraine
F16s would be great if they gave them the full compliment of air 2 ground munitions that the aircraft is capable of using,
The issue will be how many can be supplied and how many pilots can be trained to a high standard in air combat and air 2 ground munitions,yes they have pilots but they are flying using Soviet era tactics and weapons,
Don't need a big army when your a member of nato just ask the Germans,and considering Ukraine didn't have an army worth writing about 9 years ago
"A nuclear reactor gives the weapon essentially unlimited range"
Where is the unlimited H20 that the steam used to propel the weapon comes from?
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