This happened to my wife's family in WWII after they were sent to Gulags in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Her grandfather returned to Poland after 5 years but he never saw his sisters again. They had kids and were forced Russify them with Russian names etc. What they experienced and had to endure is beyond belief.
We have no idea how good we have it.
Fantastic then more sanctions won’t hurt
Prob hes talking about orban or other pro-russians in EU, pretty sure he won't find any other EU people who want sanctions removed
Discontent in Russia
"They", "people"? The sanctions have shrunk the russian economy in key sectors so if you know otherwise profer the evidence instead of talking of individuals. The economy is demonstrably in serious decline.
Russians using night fpv
Well, if you cant buy stuff for 1000 yoyos directly, you can bypass it, but will pay a lot more on top of that. Less income on gas and oil, add extra expenses on military and you have wayyyy less spare cash.
But yeah, sanctions do not work... LOL
No it's there in black and white....
Every couple of months someone posts an article like this, then some other article pops up claiming the opposite. If anything brings the Putin regime down it won't be sanctions (though they're better than nothing at all)
I've always said that sanctions are a waste of time, they bypassed them then and still bypass them today with people in the EU now saying sanctions shouldn't be renewed
It's in the article provided....
Different accounts same nonsense suprise
Economic sanctions aren't an overnight thing: what did you expect exactly. Lines on the street for bread overnight? The sanctions have had a demonstrable effect on the economy, the facts are out there in the many ways sanctions have squeezed the country. And like armies, can't be endured indefinitely.
Did you find that reference to backup your claim that Zelensky refused to listen to NATO and US commanders?
They have been saying that for years
good, keep turning the screws on these Russian criminals
opsec they are on social media every chance they get to tell us how well they are doing against the Russians,I did notice recently they made a social media post about opsec just as the fight adviika started to turn against the Ukrainians ,there is zero point calling for opsec when it's a Multi year war and it's utterly useless when you have multiple units on social media begging for basic equipment and clothing and giving actual updates, including telling the world they are suffering losses,
The Russians know where the Ukrainians are and the Ukrainians know exactly where the Russians are they , just neither side can push the other out
Been a few suggestions it could be Christmas If not the new year
Most likely thats what will happen but the extremist wing of the Republican party is an authoritarian leaning one so I won't be counting any chickens so to speak until the main Ukraine bill actually passes. But hopefully your right and it is able to pass soon.
No the rules in the US Seante are just crazy and there are a lot of things you need 60 votes for in order to pass and this bill was one of them. As for Bernie Sanders well yes I disagree with him on this vote but not going to lose all respect for him. He clearly didn't side with the Russian dictator he made it clear his vote was based on the Israeli-Hamas war not Ukraine.
I would imagine that Republican congressmen would not like to be blamed for large scale redundancies from the weapons and munitions manufacturing industries in their constituencies.
This is just the dance before the ride, us all.
On today's Russian furniture factory on fire watch..
We have one in Moscow.
Planning in Russia seems weird too. Supposedly an electronic component factory among residential flat complexes. And someone channel hoping in the dark in shot of the factory on fire.
He voted no because of funding to Israel. He is unlikely to ever vote yes because the aspects of the bill he disapproves of are the same ones that will see Republicans eventually pass it. The bill that was rejected is just a starting point.
We need to know what else was stapled to that bill cos I'd nearly guarantee that it was the Ukraine bill plus, I dunno, donate more money to the arts or something. Cue the horse-trading, the background items get guillotined and gutted, then the main Ukraine bill passes, the GOP senators suddenly pro-Democracy once more.
I see I thought it was a plain majority
I still lost all respect for him now for siding with Putler and republicans
That latter part is the big one, I think. Ukraine has massively tightened on information control and OPSEC in recent months, and indeed for much of this year. And to be honest, I'm okay with that. The events of the first year of the renewed war left us in the west a bit "spoiled" with regards to access to battlefield information, but that kind of insight also means that the opposing side has equal asset to that information. And while we like to point our fingers at the massive deficiencies evident in the Russian military, the poor attempts at false flags (Sims 3, anyone?) or similar issue, there is still a worrying number of people on the Russian side that know what they're doing and can exploit such information. After all, you need at least some competent officers to even keep the current sh!tshow running. So I'm all for restricting the flow of information.
A fair amount of handwringing over the aid package vote in the US. It’s theatrics. They will eventually pass it. The parts they tinker with will have nothing to do with Ukraine. Sanders will probably still vote no but there’s too much the Republicans want in the bill so it will eventually pass.
i think Ukraine are doing ok considering the limitations on them i also think while maybe time isnt quite on their side its even less so on putins side...also think theres more going on then what we hear or see on the news...
Doesn't seem to be having any major effect on the current situation,if anything Russia in increasing troops inside of Ukraine,if adviika falls in the next while it might might things even worse
On "they could have made advances without air support", I don't know, maybe, but was a big gamble involving a lot of lives, maybe future of their country. It is not how the US/NATO fights (if Ukraine is supposed to be fighting in a "US/NATO" way now, and you accuse it of not doing so). Some kind of air support is on call and lots of long range (cruise) missiles are available. I expect that will be true in any war that US/allies will fight, even if they don't gain full air superiority and aircraft they put up are at a much higher risk than in recent US wars (as they would be in Ukraine, even were the US/NATO itself fighting I think).
Yes, I understand both are losing a lot of men and equipment, with Russia coming off much worse afaik. What Russia are doing here does not seem sustainable for them, but of course Ukraine is a much smaller country and if its backers don't have the will or courage to provide right level of support and then keep it up long enough, it is in trouble. That is what Putin is hoping for. Ukraine might be able to "get by" without getting much more US support (i.e. Ukraine may be capable of holding more or less where it is or Russia may only be able to creep forward with these giant losses, as now) but it will finish possibility of Ukraine regaining lost territory IMO, and that is bad news.
On US/NATO I never agreed with you that they should intervene directly here unless it looked like Ukraine would be overrun after surviving the initial attack. That still seems unlikely to me now no matter what the US does. I agree a handful of F16s from Europeans are not enough. I think many more of those Putin "red lines" + "escalations" should have been breached decisively, and the ones that were finally crossed in the end like providing IFVs, tanks, aircraft, missiles etc. should have been ignored far earlier and in a bigger way. Even to extent of sending "advisers" if numbers of trained people in the background is a blocker for Ukraine getting provided weapons up and running quickly. Anyway, that is the past. What was done (or not done) back then is done.
No Bernie Sanders vote did not change the outcome one iota. The bill needed 60 votes to pass so it was the Republicans who all 50 of voted against the bill who were to blame.
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