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Yagan, if you mean me when you say that the people of Afghanistan want another invasion? Because its not what I think or say, its what my Afghan friends are telling me. And as for your conviction that the Taliban are the same as Afghans, no they're not. Ordinary Afghans hate the Taliban, in the same way that Ukrainians hate Russians, because of their murderous and brutal behavior. When the US kicked the Taliban out, the Taliban left behind them a trail of burnt out 4 x 4s that has been attacked not by the US, but by Afghans seeking revenge for the suffering that the Taliban had inflicted on them during their reign of terror. How about the Toyota 4x4 pick ups, with a machine gun mounted on it, and the bolt cutters for any on the spot amputations during their routine patrols? The Sports fields converted into Sharia punishment sites? Flogging, stoning, amputations etc? If the US had never invaded, I'd say that by now, Afghans would have revolted against them, and kicked them out. No yagan, they are not all the same Afghans.

Basically saying Russia are holding back in Ukraine. That they have an army of 750,000 waiting to take on the poles and Lithuanians. This is the whole goodwill gesture hypothesis. I don’t believe a word of that utter horse manure. No army could be stupid enough to hold back and drag out a war this long as a good will gesture. Risking unrest among the army ( already happened) and unrest at home. Army’s are built on stoking fear in the enemy and projecting to the enemy that surrender is the better option. Russia are not projecting that. Not since about 2 weeks into this invasion. The only card they have is bollixing around with the nuclear plant. That is the only genuine fear the Russian army are manifesting among its enemies. And once they blow that they are finished.

He also leans heavily on the Cuba/Ukraine analogy a completely defunct desperation tankie position. What parts of Cuba did the US level to the ground. How many nuclear weapons did the US try to station in Ukraine? How many Cuban children did the US steal from Cuba? How many countries in Eastern Europe were forced to join NATO? How were they forced? Why do Russia and their western tankies outright lie about this issue ???Should sovereign countries be allowed to join whatever military alliances they choose. Why aren’t these countries choosing to join the CTSO??

Opposing reality is not "interesting", it's just boring.

Putin himself has stated the reasons for his invsaion, there is war because Ukrainians don't agree with him, nor want to be part of Russia, this fella gives Ukrainians no agency in the running of their own country.

War is politics by other means, if Putins political aim was to keep NATO away from his borders, he has already lost. The NATO-Russia border has doubled since Feb 2022.

This fella is talking through his imperialist arsehole.

I'd actually wonder if there is much or any DPR forces left

I lasted about a minute listening to McGregor until he said "In 2014 we installed a puppet regime and poured billions of dollars building up the Ukranian army for the sole purpose of attacking Russia" This guy and Tucker have been banging the Russian drum since the invasion, are they on the payroll or whats their motivation?

When you consider that Putins excuse for invading Donbas, Donetsk, Luhansk etc was the protection of ethnic Russian's, you have to see just how many he has killed....

Great point. Some people are just natural grifters. On some level they realise that the lane for expert opinion on the consensus view is entirely clogged. The likes of CNN and Sky News regularly have US and NATO generals or war studies academics from prestigious universities on to discuss the war. On the other hand nobody credible is willing to go on Russian propaganda outlets. That leaves a gap in the market for the likes of Ritter and McGregor to slither into. Same goes for the "journalists" that end up in places like the DPR producing English language Russian propaganda. Many of them have no background in journalism whatsoever. Their only marketable skills are that they are from Western countries and they have no morals. Graham Phillips and Patrick Lancaster are classic examples of this. Hilariously it seems that they despise each other...presumably because they're both competing for the same grift.

More despicable Russian behaviour:-

Is he immune to laws, anyone in wagner group that is identified, is guilty of war crimes and needs arresting, not the inconvenience of booking another hotel

But will these forces the moskovytes are building up need to be redeployed to try to stop a breakthrough by Ukraine at another part of the front line with reports of them advancing in a number of directions?

Truthfully I don't know. Seems if there positioning them there they must be using them in that sector of the front so they must be happy with the amount of forces they have else where.

Lack of air support was always a massive problem for Ukraine.

We’ll see if they can manage without it but it’s definitely not guaranteed it will succeed without.

We know the Americans doubted whether the offensive would be successful from the leaked pentagon documents.

What's interesting about it?