Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I see one of the biggest useful idiots took the result well anyway

The "I am scandalised by people waving Ukrainian flags in congress" angle is especially disingenuous and petty.

I strongly suspect that the majority of people using it would have no problems with congressmen waving Israeli flags.

So peace on Russias terms.

Nope, the world needs to see you can’t illegally invade a country and get to keep a portion of that country.

So the war goes on until Russia goes back home.

Just noticing lots of accounts crawling out of the woodwork the last days showing so much concern for US spending and convinced of the idea that Ukraine must make a deal and they can't get their territory back. Must mean we've done something right anyway. Really nice to see. 🙂

Its funny how much pro putin commentators come out with calls for peace and doom and gloom about Ukraine's chances of defending itself from putin's terrorists just when billions of dollars of new funding for the weapons they can use to help themselves becomes available. Hope the US arms industry uses this new money now to demonstrate how well their latest weapons can make bits of putin's mob of genocidal terrorists. Modern fighter jets, Apache attack helicopters, long range missiles, proper mine clearing equipment and decent numbers of tanks could make a big deference and I don't think Ukraine will be in any mood to make moskovytes welcome to stay in Ukraine when they get better supplies of the tools to deal with them.

You're ignoring the vast difference in population, wealth, resources and technology between the 'West' & Russia and that their financial resources have their limits too.

As long as Ukraine has the will to fight, it will receive backing and if it looks like faltering, it's quite likely neighbouring states will step in with manpower. It's in none of their interests to allow the current Russian state to expand it's ambitions of restoring empire. Russian leadership and the ordinary Russian citizens will suffer more & more until they realise that a change of mind is needed and they have a place in the world but not as they currently envisage.

Can you imagine how the average Russian feels? He / She cannot even protest..and their lives are getting harder and harder each day! Increasing taxation, high inflation, Ruble devalueing, increasing shortages of basic foodstuffs and the ever-present danger of being conscripted.

No doubt that it is but their interest payments now exceed their defence spending at around 2.5%, even with all the advantages that you have said. If they continue to add debt, there will come a time when it becomes a problem for them.

Anyway, not the thread to discuss this.

YAAAWWWWNNN. Been hearing this for decades. Guess what - the world's still stumbling along.

I'd be worried about RuZZias sanctions and debt, tovarisch. The US is supplying Intel and weapons to Ukraine, not 'intervening.' If it were intervening, I think this conflict would have ended about 2 years ago.

Seeing what's happened to 'the 2d most powerful army in the world' /sarcasm, I wouldn't be so sanguine about more invasions, as one of the worst invaders is kind of off the pitch for awhile.

For all the hatred of America. The world turns its eyes to America in crisis. I'm happy to see my tax $ make some of ye happy.

sorry, this was meant as a PM to the mod, somehow it ended up on the thread. Tried cleaning up the mess, unfortunately wasn't quick enough. Weird, I'm sure I used the 'send message' button, yet, it ended up here. fat-fingered.

I get the sentiment, but unless you have air superiority and at the same time drastically reduced the enemy’s air defences, sending in the A-10 will be tantamount to a death sentence for the pilots. Don’t get me wrong, the A-10 is still a fearsome weapons platform and is designed to take one hell of a beating, but most of her combat has taken place in uncontested airspace. Russia may not have air superiority over the front lines and combat area, but neither does Ukraine.

Focus should be on getting those 61 pledged F-16s operational first, followed then by finding out if the rumours about Ukrainian pilots being trained on the Mirage 2000 that were mentioned a few hundred pages back in this thread are indeed true. Personally, I hope they are, the Mirage 2000, even in its older versions, is still a fearsome beast, but I won’t be holding my breath on that.

David Sacks seems to be a different, less eminent, Russia-sympathetic American with a similar last name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Sacks#Russian_Invasion_of_Ukraine

I suppose there are a good few of these people on likes of Twitter/X.