Not yet but he may very need to careful going forward if he starts to alienate and remove people from office for stuff that wouldn't be even considered a criticism,
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Previous American administrations have been calling out nato partners for not contributing their fate share to nato defence spending, what Trump said was not new.
I do agree that nato should have armed Ukraine to teeth once russia invaded. Part of me suspects dragging this war out is actually an agreed upon strategy to collapse russia as a global threat.
For all the criticism Germany received, they certainly stepped up. Their slow/reluctance at the start certainly justified the criticism.
We're a long way from not allowing UK planes fly over German airspace to deliver arms to Ukraine prior to the war or the infamous helmets.
"At first, slowly, then suddenly"
Hard to see how they are a gift when they were stolen in the first place.
...and the polish territories in the east gifted to belarus and ukraine? were they a gift as well? my grandmother in-law who is still alive was born in the polish city of lwow which is today lviv. the city was ethnically cleansed of poles.
putin is full of ****
She led him into it. Sky News is a grotesquely destructive institution.
Assuming that was the reason... I don't know, seems overblown? Or maybe I'm missing something?
He's been very good at getting Ukraine's message across in interviews to the British public etc...
You don't want to be firing any and everyone who questions you either. I don't think he was wrong in what he said.
The situation is too sensitive for public criticism. She has an earphone (standard procedure) and the cnuts behind the glass partition are telling her what to say. Bastards. Sky News tries to destroy everything it comes in contact with. Would not be surprised of the commies have their fangs sunk into their brains.
they could just end it in a flash
Yeah, there are a few powers that could make that happen here - including Russia, still.
It's not 1942 and it's not over Political Correctness. It's over Mutually Assured Destruction.
Darth on point as usual
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Absolutely crazy stuff going on in Russia today
There's been quite a few times over the last 125 years or so you could have said that :)
They do seem to have a high baseline of 'crazy' when it comes to politics.
Further confirming, really, what Putin and his ilk believe: the USSR should not have been dissolved and those former "republics" should know their place and show defence to their colonial betters. And this, as if it needs reminding at all, why nearly every country in Eastern Europe have treated this war as an existential crisis, not a neighbourhood kerfuffle.
Sure does now.
"Those whom the gods would destroy.... " and all that.
Didn't Marx also predict they would collapse under the weight of their own contradictions?
Girkin to be held in prison until September 18th.
I'll say one thing for him, and all those like him like Surovikin, Prigozhin, etc who've been exiled/jailed/arrested. At least they're standing up for their convictions. They obviously have horribly wrong convictions, but they are still standing up for them.
The vast, vast majority of ordinary Russians still continue to sit at home sucking their thumbs. Nearly 18 months of war, no reaction, barely a whimper. It's quite pathetic really.
Yep, apathetic is the word. I'm surprised the Russian Mammys aren't up in arms. Notwithstanding that women can be cheerleaders at times for war, the hard reality of missing sons & neighbours missing sons, body bags coming back - must be wreaking a toll on them. Putin might yet well fear the Russian Mammys.
I thought Churchill, in yet another British messing with lines on maps episode, suggested the shift of borders West using match sticks to Stalin at Yalta.
Either way it's a strange subject to bring up by Putin.
I watched a interview with Putin today and he seemed to be hanging onto the table for dear life.
With some of these comments today and the exercises in the black sea i do wonder if he's completely losing his mind.
I think you're forgetting the rather important fact that Japan didn't have nukes to retaliate with.
He is a pathetic old rat ****, his actions and words suggest a man who has lost touch with reality, hopefully not long until he is liquidated, though I would like to see him caged and humiliated.
He’s itching to get Poland and NATO directly involved so he can unleash the bomb.
Only way this ends is if he dies of natural causes.
Bleak.
Why is this still only being discussed?
Vast swathes of the occupied south of Ukraine are almost entirely out of range for Ukraine. As of this moment, Russia has 10x the capability to bomb Odesa than Ukraine has to bomb airfields and ports in Crimea. Planes, drones, helicopters, missiles have continued to destroy Ukrainian infrastructure for months now. Ukraine can only respond with a fraction of what is thrown at it.
The ability to hit the Russian fleet at Sevastopol and the air bases in Crimea would hugely reduce the ability of the Russians to launch drones and missiles in the first place. The obvious solution is to remove the threat at source. The current threat occupies Ukrainian territory - it's fair game.
The whole thing is a joke. The west spent 6 months arguing amongst itself about sending Leopards to Ukraine. Now they are there, no one gives a ****. We're arguing a year about sending ATACMS. I think it will come, eventually. But unfortunately long after it should have. Just like with Leopard, the supposed fear of escalation with the Russians. It will prove to be inconsequential.
What's the delay?
Couldn't he just unleash 'the bomb' anyway.... same outcome.
Sending ATACMS is a just response to the Odessa grain facility attach.
Worry here is longer range gives more time to intercept US only has 4k, not making anymore replacing them with PRSM in 2025
Worries about weapon tech being lost and backward engineered to find countermeasures. This information being shared with China. We've already seen a storm shadow missile being captured nearly wholly intact.
Depletion of own stocks. Especially in light of other warzones potentially flaring up into armed conflict: Korea, Taiwan, Syria, Israel, Yemen, etc..
The denigration of potential weapon sales to other parties. There may be a concern that if weapon systems are talked up big and are not as impressive in practice, this might hurt sales and also induce doubts as to the effectiveness of your own militaries abilities.
Some in the Pentagon/government may be of the belief that the war is unwinnable and that sending them expensive weapons systems is engaging in a "sunken cost fallacy", when Americas most cost effective strategy would be crippling Russia militarily and economically through a prolonged attritional war using cheaper conventional weaponry
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Then it’s Russias fault for starting WW3 and then end of Putin, Russia and his daughters hiding in Europe.
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