Following assurances given over future posting Gatling threadban lifted
Changed the link title??? I don't get you....I copied the address of the page I was looking at and posted it exactly as it was, but there are several articles on the same page, if you scroll down. Take your pick. Sure it's in Russian, it was written by a Russian for Russians, I never claimed otherwise. Up to you if you want to dismiss it as Russian Propaganda or not.
Is it really a multipolar world today though???
Yes, its actually frightening to think that some one with a mindset like that could be shaping Russia's view of the world, and its place in it. Thats why I think that he could be one of the main influencers behind Putin, even in pre invasion days, and the present rewriting of Russian history, and presenting in a completely different light. Even Stalin is getting a make over.
As Breezy has already pointed out, I typed "Balkans" in stead of "Baltics". My mistake, but it was Russian and Ukraine I was talking about. You mean the Dayton Agreement in 1995?
Who knows ,is this crowd worse than Stalin?
Stalin had the excuse of attempting to establish Socialism in a sea of antagonidtic and incompatible capitalist world powers.
He also had to deal with the likes of one Adolf Hitler
This crowd has no such excuse and yet freely invades and pillages its neighbours whilst threatening the world with nuclear armageddon and (as far as I know) has nothing positive to contribute to the fight against man made global warming.
Maybe a new Stalin in the Kremlin would be an improvement?
Who would he be like? Hitler or one of those mad fellas? Worse than Hitler. You wouldn't find Hitler playing jungle music at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Maybe Donald Trump if he learned to play the trombone.He could have Van the Man as his minister of Health.
I prefer playing me flute.
Maybe someday we could get this thread title changed to Ukraine?
Sick of looking at Russia as the thread title everyday, while Ukraine fight for their lives and right to exist.
Russia doesn’t deserve it.
Agree 100%
Ukraines fight for freedom or something like that
Would be perfect.
Russia deserves Zero attention.
Plus the actual war is being fought in Ukraine and not Russia.
Yes, that's true, and Russia lost around 27 million during the war, roughly 20 million civilians and 7 million military. But Stalin killed at least another 20 million outside of the war figure, and that's a conservative figure. The real figure is thought to be much higher. So no, Putin hasn't and reached those figures, but for sure he's working hard at it. And who know's what his final figure will be??
This is what Russia is doing.
This is Roman, he is 8.
He was injured in the Russian missile attack on Vinnytsia in July 2022. 45 % of the body surface is burned. Now he returned to Ukraine after treatment in Germany. His recovery will continue at the UNBROKEN KIDS Children's Rehabilitation Center (Lviv)
https://x.com/mariana_betsa/status/1703814557947342988?s=46&t=164doiZBMwnNrFfsvLsvPA
There's more ways of winning a war than on the battlefield, and Russia is expert at taking control of country's from within. Master class standard as a matter of fact.
This guy posts some good videos.
It's worth subscribe to.
I'm sure whoever it was got labelled a pro Russian propagandist.
Yes of course the blame ultimately lies with Russia but as you say that's no consolation to the families who lost their loved ones. Just another example of the tragedy of war
He's not right. We've seen what Russians do when they "Liberate" a place....Boucha for example. And there are other places too, with until Zelensky clears them out of Melitopol and other places. There will be some horrors uncovered then. Ukrainians have to fight, and I'll wait until Zelensky says stop.
But what about Tony Blair!!!!!!
And some other samples...Visegrád 24 on X: "Russian war propaganda targeting the youth is going into overdrive. “We will win,” - the young Putin-patriots sing https://t.co/Ptg3nQI6j8" / X (twitter.com)
You'll wait? Are you fighting?
No, not involved in this war, watching from the sidelines, same as you and other posters, and same as you and the others , voicing my opinion. Back a few months ago, thought that I might get to Ukraine, but it didn't happen (not yet anyway) but I'm very familiar with wars in general, and Russian wars in particular ...spent time in Syria , 2,5 years in fact. I know what its like when Putin bomb's a city. I've very nice piece of shrapnel ( amongst other " things" ) as a souvenir from Aleppo.
Can we stop this nonsense? Or, if we're renaming the thread as someone suggested because they're offended by reading the word Russia (spare me) then just call it something along the lines of the Right On Echo Chamber War Thread.
There's some very good conversation on here at times, from people who seem to have a broader range of experience and insight. No reasonable person would read their posts and think "here's a pro-Russian", but some posters are determined to look for a reason to pile on at the drop of a hat. Post a link that doesn't accord with the right-on viewpoint/ post a thought that doesn't accord with the right-on viewpoint - ridiculed and dismissed with sarcasm and dog whistle hysteria. Disagree all you like, but try to provide a bit of substance for the sake of the discussion.
As much as the anti-everything trolls ruin this thread with their anti-Ukraine baiting crap (and thankfully get themselves thread-banned eventually), the posters who police every alternative view/ opinion for compliance with the accepted truth are as bad for derailing every interesting discussion. Go off and start a new One Viewpoint Only Accepted thread if that's what you want. None of you are fighting this war. I doubt many of you have even taken in any Ukrainians. You've no more right to an opinion than anyone else so stop playing the fantasist.
Aaaaah.
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jmreire: Set ye down this. And say besides that in Aleppo once ……
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I can never resist a bit of Shakespeare😊, even the tiniest bit!
Another Russian jet crashed, oh dear.
Yes Russia is really weaponising migrants to break cohesion in the West. The Syrian migrant crisis came after Russian got involved there in 2015. In 2021 lukashenko imported migrants and forced them to the polish border at gun point. And now Russian meddling in North Africa will force a new wave of migrants to European shores. They will literally point guns at Africans and say go to Europe or die. It’s basically war. Russia is using these unfortunate people to invade Europe. It’s gas when you listen to the likes of Nigel farage not once has he made the connection between Putin and migrant crises. Funny that!
The forecast for the next 2 weeks remains good, so it's unlikely there will be an early rasputista this autumn.
This is only relevant if the Russians are close to collapse I think. And that's something we can only guess about.
The co-ordination needed to try and ride two horses at the same time.
“To the extent the West is reliable, Russia is equally reliable. For the last 50 years, we have been waiting at the doorstep of the EU and, at this moment in time, I trust Russia just as much as I trust the West.”
Maybe it was a little tongue in cheek but that's the phrase the wrote the headline above all else he said.
Yes but if fired from a howitzer it should be possible to open the main shell when it is nearer to the ground giving a more concentrated spread.
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