Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I'll leave it at that and return us to our regular Slavia Ukraine programming...

Ha…that comment almost makes it seem like supporting a nation that’s under attack from an aggressive neighbour hell bent on destroying it; is somehow a bad thing, and worth ridicule?

I might invite the Russian-supporting posters here (and you know who are are) to take a long hard think as to why the vast bulk of us here wish well for Ukraine and wish defeat upon the Russians. While they’re at it, they might want to reflect on why they hold up the likes of the Russians with such high esteem given everything we now know about them, and how dead-set the nations they used to occupy are at preventing them from coming back.

Probably posted something, and forgot account was banned off the thread. Did not see it but I'll engage my psychic powers now and and predict it was an article or tweet involving one or more of following topics:

• Ukrainian corruption/anti-democratic tendencies/"fascism"
• That Zelensky Character isn't All He's Cracked up to be you know!
• A unnamed but authoritative source pinning Nordstream 2 sabotage on Ukraine.
• Economic sanctions on Russia, and how the "West" is dumb and only hurting itself.
• The MultiPolar World, bow before the might of the BRICs (esp. the R perhaps).

Thes are obviously based on official stats , possibly massaged?

Arent his youngest kids in Switzerland?

Even before this war, Russia faced a deomgraphic time-bomb that had been ticking for decades.

Russia lost an increadble amount of of young people during WWII, and that loss has triggered generational dips in the population every couple of decades since then. To reverse this, the Russians really needed some new blood to come in and for the birthrates to pick up. But unfortunaty for Russia, the place never seemed that attractive to immigration, and given how high the abortion rate has apparently been, there has been very little desire to raise kids in that country.

By the end of this conflict, Russia might also be looking at the loss of a couple million young men to death, crippling injury or flight from Russia. Russia could not afford an actual war with Ukriane demographically speaking. They were already in a hopeless position, and Putin has now almost ensured demographic collapse. Even if Putin's mad plan to force Russian women to have a litter of children is enacted, I sense that it is already too late.

Russia really needed to get her act together post Cold-War. She really needed to embrace democracy, warm up to the West properly and then make the place more attractive to immegration from around the world. Maybe then, Russia could have saved herself.

But as the Knight from Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade might say: They have chosen....poorly.

I find that if you start a post, then decide to delete it, the window will not close, you have to type something, and the minimum is 2 characters, but they can be any characters, so people just type ' or .. some even get artistic \-=/ ~/`etc.

That's the supply line to China fcuked.

Great news lol.

But that would have meant the select few giving up their wealth and position.

Himar O Clock

Its crazy how many videos there has been of these TOR systems being attacked by himars or drones and being destroyed

What actually are they designed to defend against because i have never even seen one fire at the oncoming threat, they just get destroyed

Are they just trophy pieces

I think you might have misunderstood the article, 90% of the aid hasn't gone to Ukraine instead it's staying in America and what's happening is US stocks are being replenished, if 500 million aid is promised to Ukraine they received about 90 million in actual aid if even that

She's married to Ukraine's spy chief, anyone who moves in those circles is unlikely to be a naive lamb. In no way justifies any poisoning attempt (am glad to hear she's apparently recovering well), just saying that by moving in those circles you're going to be exposed to risks.

It depends.

If the US sends e.g. Bradleys to Ukraine, the US then spends money to replace those stocks with newer equipment (that would be spent at some point in the future). That money predominantly stays within the US since it's an arms producer (since it domestically produces most of it's own arms/parts, most of the money recirculates back into the economy)

Ukraine receives the Bradleys (which it desperately needs)

Or

The US just sends a dollar value equivalent of Bradleys to Ukraine without replacing them. Which is also fine because at some point the US would just be decommissioning most/all of the 1000's of Bradleys it has sitting in warehouses

It's a mutually beneficial situation for both. Unfortunately GOP loons have hijacked it and have been partially successful in twisting the truth to project that the US is simply dumping suitcases of US taxpayers money in Ukraine.