Spanish flu ended the 1st World War. Surely someone can infect Russia with some form of contagious knob-rot and be done with the cunz?
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because unkel sam disagrees with it
The plain truth has a lot of mileage against the lying Russians.
In a word.... outstanding.
Dying down of Israel-Palestine out of news cycle, 2 year anniversary, plus a slightly new tact from Ukraine of being more open about their issues.
Worth a bookmark
The two most devastating wars in terms of casualties for the United States have been world war 1 and 2 no matter how isolationist they were in those time periods (and they were much more isolationist than they are today) the war eventually came to them. And world war 3 will be no different. NATO gives them the opportunity of forward deployment in other countries territories and the opportunity to put the fire out before it gets out of control . And before they have to even start thinking about drafting people by their birth dates again. Pulling back from NATO makes zero sense for them. Only country it benefits is Russia.
WTF!!!
If the figure of 31,000 confirmed deaths is correct, hell, even if it's half the number, it really highlights the disparity of losses between Russia and Ukraine.
The death toll was officially 25k in November of last year, and estimated to be as high as 30k, from 2 separate Ukrainian sources, so likely the true count is closer to 40k by now.
Wagner alone confirmed they lost 22k dead, mostly in Bahkmut.
He's absolutely correct, but reasoning like that is for reasonable people, and that's not how you'd describe MAGA. That's a big chunk of the US electorate who sees Russia as a cultural ally. People like Steve Bannon make no secret of their involvement in attempting to undermine EU solidarity and don't look kindly upon NATO either. MAGA wants Europe divided. A collection of relatively weak countries which the US and Russia can then exert roughly equal spheres of influence over in the west and east of the continent.
I have heard it said that russia’s talk of nuclear weapons isn’t meant for leaders of countries but to get western media talking which will cause public sentiment to go against Ukraine as nuclear holocaust should be avoided at all cost.
This guy, Radek Sikorski, is magnificent. I’d never heard of him before. Here he is with a mic drop moment as to why the US should stick with NATO. Starting at 37:51.
Some extra context:
Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed in Russia's war in occupied territories, Zelensky said the exact amount is unknown, adding that it would be possible to find out once the territories were liberated...
The HRMMU stressed that the actual number of those killed and injured is likely to be significantly higher.
At least 10,582 civilians have been killed and nearly 20,000 have been injured since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) said on Feb. 24.
It's very clear that Ukraine have been hugely constrained especially by the US. The Putin & the West documentary seems to be right in that Ukraine were warned, by the US, not to attack the Kerch again. It's such an obvious target. This combined with having to put up with endless attacks but being told they can retaliate on Russian soil suggests that the US are actually afraid of Putin's threats. Why ?
The Polish foreign minister delivers a pretty good fact-check on Russia's UN speech.
sergei dogface lavrov denied refueling in Brazil
If only. 1420 have some balls to still be operating in Russia, as critical as they are of the war. They should definitely avoid drinking tea or touching doorknobs as much as possible.
A wised elderly man hits hard in Russia.
Imagine if this guy was President of Russia..
27 nations rowing together does by design means seismic geopolitical events can make us look slow to react. Look at COVID: the UK liked to bark about how slow the EU was getting vaccines and responses out in reaction to COVID, Britain leagues faster - and they were right - but once we finally got the massage then EU was flying. Ukraine is showing signs of the same; that chronic inability to jump on an issue, but once broad consensus happens can become a juggernaut quick enough.
Plus let's face it, no more than France in the 30s Europe is reluctant to get dragged into armed conflict. We wear the scars of war quite openly, especially someone like Germany or France who know what it is to be on both ends of Total War. Even if that mindset started to change on Germany it has taken a while and continues to dog our need to squash Putin's naked ambitions.
Yes, thank you. I wonder to myself did Putin's big show of nuclear warheads on flatbeds in late Feb 2022 give western countries any pause, or was that always going to be the policy anyway?
Lord Dannatt I think it was. Former head of the UK army. Good video.
The fact that we're still discussing anything ,Taurus, long range ATACMS, allowing Ukraine to hit Russian territory, seizing Russian assets immediately, ramping up artillery production. Ukraine is the shield between us and a world altering, potentially democracy destroying event. They need to win and to be seen to win wholly.
The west urgently needs to get serious about this war, it does seem like that's happening more now but all these things should have been a given 1.5 - 2 years ago. The drip drip, escalation management approach has been shown not to work. Time to try something else.
I heard some analyst on the news the other day say that before WW2, in the period of appeasement of Hitler in the mid 1930s, the UK was only spending around 3 or 4 percent of GDP on defence. That went up by several percent in 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland, but it then skyrocketed to around 40 percent in 1941 when the UK was fighting for its very future. The point he was making was that the savings you make through appeasement are more than offset by the cost you incur later when those you have appeased come after you . Not only paying money but also in blood.
Looks like the retreat from Adviika has brought Ukraine back into the news headlines, it all seemed to go quiet last year after Oct 7.
There seems to be an uptick in pledges of more equipment from European countries now that the U.S is stuck in election season which is good news imo.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak urged the West on Sunday to be “bolder” in seizing Russian assets and to send interest already accrued on frozen funds to Ukraine.
On the second anniversary of Moscow’s invasion, the UK leader said Western allies must go “further” with their sanctions to “shake” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s belief “that he can simply wait us out”.
Sunak wrote in an article in the Sunday Times:
We must be bolder in seizing the hundreds of billions of frozen Russian assets.
That starts with taking the billions in interest these assets are collecting and sending it to Ukraine instead.
And then, with the G7, we must find lawful ways to seize the assets themselves and get those funds to Ukraine too.
The prime minister’s comments follow G7 leaders pledging Saturday to explore “all possible avenues by which immobilised Russian sovereign assets could be made use of to support Ukraine”.
The grouping of advanced economies confirmed Russia’s already seized sovereign assets will remain frozen “until Russia pays for the damage it caused to Ukraine”.
Ukraine needs almost half a trillion dollars to cover the reconstruction costs of Russia’s invasion, the World Bank, European Union, United Nations and the Ukrainian government said in a joint report earlier this month.
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmygal has said that the confiscated Russian assets should foot most of the bill. Kyiv wants the West to unlock around $300 billion of frozen Russian assets to fund the rebuild of its cities, roads, bridges and energy facilities destroyed or damaged by Russia’s two-year assault. (The Guardian UK)
Interesting article about the rotation of Ukraines troops, while much of the army has been on the front line for the last 2 years with little rotation, turns out there are 10s of thousands of soldiers who have yet to see the front line!.
Looks like this is about to change with the new guy.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/28532
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