And for the rest of us, it's just makes us nauseous hearing it for the umpteenth time.
Your opinion of me is of precisely zero importance to me. And I've no interest in indulging the whataboutery in your post.
And there you have it... Redmond and the romanticism of WW1.
More and more there's more gradual discontent being expressed by Russian people publicly to Western audiences. A year ago this wasn't allowed in Putin's russia.
Seriously conflicted here, I really enjoyed that insult…. but it was made by putin
Ireland should have as little to do with Nato as possible.
We need to work with countries based on solidarity, internationalism, opposition to capitalist games of control and conquest.
Oh hell, here we go again with more scutter from a (supposed) newbie.
It would be extremely naive for any country to not have some form of implicit threat to fall back on.
These were the same warnings that went around prior to the military operation which has proven russian military impotence on a world stage.
That russia would expand their army in any meaningful way to threaten NATO while their economy is broken, and all their equipment is chewed up in Ukraine is a ludicrous suggestion.
This has been the USA's cheapest path to elimination of another superpower.
The only thing preventing further russian collapse are the lunatic members of the GOP who are trying to withhold funding.
you guys arguing with a bot. bot farms are the only weapon ruSSians have left as they might have shortages of tanks, planes, ammunition but ruSSia for sure have no shortage of idiots.
Hi Paul. The keffiyeh looked fairly daft on you, btw.
it's a plausible solution, and used in many places round the world. Expensive though.
in other news Tucker Carlson considers doing the Putin concentration camp diet to immerse himself in the total "War" experience..
And its still not allowed, especially now, because Putin is increasingly coming under internal pressure, so he will crack down hard on everyone perceived as being less than 100% supportive. I'd say that he will soon be seeing the meatgrinder himself firsthand, once that video starts circulating..
Ukraine is making no progress, is it time to accept defeat
Hard to imagine Russia accepting defeat.
Ukraine still hold Kyiv, Russia still hasn't taken it in their 3 day war. In your eyes that's a Russian victory? You mentioned defeat, it means one needs to be victorious. Very hard to see Russia victorious when in about 16 months they have gained little if any gains.
Unless you count little towns and settlements and not cities.
Didn't watch it because frankly can't be arsed to waste 2 hours of my life on it. But did Putin actually say anything alarming or unexpected in that interview?
Nope. It went something like this:
On another note, Zaluzhniy seems absolutely delighted with being relieved of his role; earlier in the day he had, not one, but two hugs for Zelensky on being awarded the Hero of Ukraine. Budanov in comparison seemed positively glum.
Sums the interview, sorry audience, well up.
And in case you need a link about just one lie Putin said
Twitter is utterly awful, my feed is full of people praising Putin for telling the "truth " while everyone should have spotted the Hitler praise and reflected.
Ya really like even for a Russian to praise/agree with Hitler in any way takes mind boggling gymnastics.🙄🙄🤦🤦
The farce of this scenario is that these people nodding agreement with Putin would probably laugh and be appalled if Richi Sunak started agitating to retake the parts of France once controlled by England back in the days of Jeanne D'Arc - yet Putin's grasping justification that Ukraine was always Russian, going back to the same approximate period, is somehow okay and passes the smell test?
I think as always there's a stench of (unintentional) racism in the Putin apologists: let's face it, there's a not inconsiderable number of people for whom anything east of the Danube might as well be labelled "terra incognita / here be dragons ... and probably Russia?" for all the knowledge and understanding that exists about that part of the world's history. Whole empires rose and fell across centuries yet it never gets taught in schools. The education system focuses on Western Europe to the exclusion of anything east of Germany.
Maybe it's a lingering byproduct of the USSR painting all that part of the map in red, and it's a dismissal that Ukraine doesn't really exist as anything sovereign or autonomous. If you're old enough to remember the USSR rendering it all one amorphous blob of Russia, then yeah, it'd be hard to shake that sense these places like Ukraine don't "exist".
One simple question
If you changed he word Ukraine to ireland would you want to accept defeat?
"The farce of this scenario is that these people nodding agreement with Putin would probably laugh and be appalled if Richi Sunak started agitating to retake the parts of France once controlled by England back in the days of Jean D'Arc - yet Putin's grasping justification that Ukraine was always Russian, going back to the same approximate period, is somehow okay and passes the smell test?"
Along the same lines as this I've had several conversations with Americans who were praising Putin, when I asked them what their response would be if Putin decided he wanted Alaska back they never seem to be able to formulate a reply other than "Alaska is part of America"
Today's update on losses in putin's forces in Ukraine looks like progress to me:
My opinion on accepting defeat is not going to be important to the Ukrainian people defending their homes but I'd guess Ukraine will continue fighting until the last of putin's troops that invaded their country are dead, surrendered or have found a way to run back to their own homes without getting shot by their own troops.
I (well...half!) listened to the historical lecture (30 min or so), folllowed by old complaints about the USA and NATO slighting Russia post Cold War that came after that for about 10 min. That was enough for me. Maybe when I have time I will listen to more. Probably not though.
I did notice he said a lot of stuff about Poland in the warped history lecture, almost more than about Ukraine itself. That was only thing that surprised me a bit.
He was really (IMO) painting it as this malign influence meddling away at Russia's borders, and somehow partly responsible for the war in Ukraine. A ragbag of made up or possibly cherrypicked (I don't know all of the history he was talking about enough) grievances with Poland he's perhaps been pondering and stewing in his own juices about.
I found that part quite chilling in context of what the man has done over the last 2 years anyway.
It seems to me that the only way to defeat Russia is by internal (economic) collapse. Either that or get some serious ammo. into Ukraine.
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