You just linked a fringe blogger who is anti-West/Ukraine and indirectly reproducing Kremlin koolaid.
"Anyone with eyes and brain can see Putin is not the ‘threat’ he’s sketched out to be, and that he’s in fact merely reacting to NATO’s own encroaching threat on his border."
It's Clare Daly/Mick Wallace style nonsense and it's embarrassing that some individuals at still posting this stuff
In terms of an outcome for the conflict, reread what I previously wrote.
The assumption is baseless unless external powers agree to freeze the conflict, one side or the other will collapse. The Korean situation only became possible because the major powers had enough and the US had the muscle to keep an army in place on the peninsula. North and South Vietnam, did not work there, once the US withdrew support, the South fell. Once the US withdrew from Afghanistan, the Taliban quickly seized power in a very successful operation.
Right now, it does not look good for the Ukrainian army, a key issue, they are running out of men and cannot sustain offense. See New Raft of Articles Tighten the Screws on Zelensky, Plead for Course Correction.
Zelensky has almost no options left other than to hang on and try not to lose any more major territories while hoping that perhaps he can bleed Russia enough to at least justify a ceasefire and freezing of the current lines. more
Hamas is not extremist, AlQaida, Taliban, various Jihad groups are not extremist for ruSSia, but LGBTQ is.
The only thing “red” about the 21st century neo Nazi Russian regime are
you will be given an answer in a sec and it will entail 'reds under the bed and it will be doing of Zelensky regime. But you asked for it, so be ready! 😀
Wow the Putin regime defenders are all out in force and offended today
Malaise?
Mikey D regime, which of course is influenced by that evil Zelensky regime 😀
The term comes from the post world war II era, it is apt in this thread, McCarthyism for the internet era with its updated taxonomy.
It's easy say all that from the safety of the Varadkar Regime (or is it the Mikey D regime?)
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apart from yourself, I have not seen anyone using "reds under the bed". That is a very strange sentence you keep shouting. Reminds me of something... EPA, EPA, EPA
No. I explained the context of the term to you and if you look at the original post I also used "Zelensky government". The war it is not going well for either side, the economic and political situation is changing outside the "theater of operations". I have spoken to Ukranians in Ireland, they are mixed opinions, many are not happy that Zelensky has led them to this juncture, they support him because the present alternative (being conquered by Russia) is worse. I get the impression from them that even a victory for Ukraine, will end his political career.
Zelensky was democratically elected in normal elections, bizarre use of the word "regime" there. Likewise some strange tangents.
It's widely assumed that if neither side's will/ability to fight doesn't completely collapse then the war will come to a negotiated end or (semi) frozen stalemate (like N/S Korea)
They have been using the 500lb glide bombs for a while now along with other cluster munitions,the biggest issue now is the lack of aircraft to deliver said bombs on to Ukrainian positions , they do still have their long range bombers which they haven't really deployed other than to launch missiles from the Russian side of the black sea
That time in band camp the Brits and the Americans in 1940s became authoritarian because they were attacked by totalitarian fascist axis
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Your attempt at discrediting the democratically elected and wildly popular government of Ukraine, a government that has stood up to a neo fascist oligarchical criminal dictatorship of 24 years by a single ex KGB head of mafia who waltzed into the job without a vote is hilarious
No sorry, I just don't get it. I understand what you say but I don't believe that absolves them. You seem bent on making excuses for Russian citizens, nothing to do with us etc. And that ultimately does not wash. At the end of the day, Russian society is supporting Putin's Russia. And the regime can only continue with the acquiescence of citizens. You can argue that's enforced but it is still acquiescence and responsibility goes hand in hand with this. No state, not Russia nor North Korea is governable if the populace is largely against it. It's impossible.
Did you live in some form of anarchy? Presumably you expect your government follows some rules, social customs and behaviours i.e. a régime. If you want to use the term as exclusively meaning authoritarian government, well, Ukraine is in a state of war right now, as a consequence Zelenskys government has become authoritarian and people in Ukraine must live under the new rules imposed by Zelenskys regime.
Are you not able to confront your fears that the good guys don't always win wars? Is that why you refuse to consider the possibility, however abhorrent to you, that the war situation has developed not necessarily to Ukraine's advantage. Even with your bias in favour of Ukrainian victory, are you not capable of holding a second opinion that the outcome of the war may be different than you expect and should it come about what the consequences may be?
Are you so paranoid you are reduced to shouting "reds under the bed", You write off the worst scenario as Russian propaganda, why then put faith in other propaganda about the next wunderwaffen to deliver victory? These don't deliver victory, the other side has them as well.
Furze, you just don't get it do you? before Feb 22nd, and Putin's invasion, over 3 million Russians lived abroad, one of the highest expat populations in the world, since Feb 22, it's estimated that a further 2 million have left. They left because they were in a situation where change is impossible. It cannot even be spoken about. The nearest Government control of their population's that matches Putin's would be Kim Jung Un in North Korea. Do you seriously think that all North Koreans are responsible for what Kim (or his sister) does? Or do you believe that in NK there will be a revolt started by a nr of citizens???
yeah, they just can't help themselves. 😁 Propaganda TV works well. Note how they set the order in their scenarios list. Ukraine first to fall. As always.
“Zelensky Regime” 😏
I'd say your scenario #2 is most likely and after that #1.
Your third option would require a helluva lot of wheels to turn and change direction.
Yes, yes, yes. But it is no defence!!! If our government ordered us tomorrow to hunt down and kill all 'insert whatever ethnic minority you want' in our state and we went ahead and did this and/or supported others in the dirty work, we would all be responsible for this. You can't simply absolve a population by saying that "Ordinary Russians have absolutely neither responsibility nor control over what Putin does. None whatsoever." It's understandable but it doesn't wash. I don't understand why you continuously defend this mindset - Russians know their history too and what happened a little over a century ago.
Wars do not continue in stalemate forever. It is time to consider the outcome of different scenarios. Most people on this thread have speculated on their preferred outcome of a Putin regime collapse, are very reluctant for obvious reasons to consider a Ukrainian collapse. That nettle must be grasped.
Scenario 1: Zelensky regime collapses.
Scenario 2: Putin regime collapses.
Scenario 3: China and United States come to an agreement on Middle East and new world order.
The possibility of collapse in Zelenskys government is not zero. Knowing that wars are too expensive to continue indefinitely, and must come to an end with either a victory for one party or a compromise among both. How could it happen? and what would be the fallout?
Yes, we have, and you still have not changed your views. Given the explanation in my post as to why ordinary Russian just can't force change, you are still not convinced and still repeating your mantra of All Russians are bad. Ordinary Russians have absolutely neither responsibility nor control over what Putin does. None whatsoever. I've lived in many Countries, and spent 4 years living and working in Russia, but in all my travels, I've never been stopped by the police as much as I was in Russia. Putin's police are simply cash collectors, covered with thin veneer of law. I pretty sure that you have never been to Russia, Furze99? Because for sure, had you ever been there, your opinion would not be that All Russians are complicit in Putin's war. last week, a Muscovite, Mark Inkeles went to a shooting range and shot himself. Two weeks earlier he had received his summons for military service, but faced with no choices, rather than go fighting (and most likely dying) for Putin, he killed himself. That's Putin's Mafia Country at work.
And this is why Russians laugh at Europeans
Despite the constant insults and threats to wipe us out in a nuclear Armageddon for standing up and calling out their bullshit
There always be a small minority that self hate themselves so much they would stand up and defend modern day neo Nazis because when you go out far enough on far left you endup in the far right
Have some self respect and say no to fascism
But hey look at the bright side at least you can freely express your opinion in a public forum and have a discussion (unless Ukraine loses and Putin moves onto the next country on his path to Berlin)
As I noted, we covered it all before. Your explanation deals with why Russian citizens act as they do... but it doesn't absolve them from responsibility for the actions of their state. The defence that I'm only doing as I was ordered only holds up so far. Those who cheerlead and those who stand by are complicit and may take the consequences. If they want change, they can force change - it's happened before.
Very well put.
What's convenient are people pontificating from behind a laptop screen in 1st world Ireland on what other ordinary people in an autocratic state should do. That's convenient for sure. And labelling them all as Nazis, wishing them all dead as fodder for Putin's meat grinder, salivating over images of their brutal slaughter on the front lines just, well that's as close to xenophobia as you'll get without wearing an I Vote Xenophobia badge. It's as though for some absolutely inexplicable reason people in Ireland in 2023 are afraid of being outed as a Red Under The Bed and feel the need to overcompensate in professing their support for Ukraine.
But hey, I'll stick ZZ in place of SS because I'm a hero.
Why do these Russians even want to visited decadent Europe? Ain’t Russia the best country in whole world where average wage didn’t fall from 1500$ a month to $600 in last 9 years
Rather telling that they can't use the word "Ukraine" there. It would be an admission that they're attacking another nation, while they cling onto the fiction that they're liberating an area that should actually be Russia anyway.
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