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Problem is ... I'm right ... you could only bring yourself to saying they are clusterfucking without actually addressing these so called clusterfucks... What did Russia do to create unrest geopolitically that even comes close to the scale the US is/was operating after ww2 ?
It's almost as if the Ukrainians know they will lose places like Vuhledar, but they are making it as costly for the Russians as possible whilst preserving as much of their military as possible.
I wouldn't be surprised that this isn't the overall strategic plan for most of the Donbas. Make the Russians bleed for every inch they take, but don't lose too much doing so (don't repeat the heavy losses taken defending Bahkmut)
Invest in a history book, Russia caused (and participated directly and indirectly) immeasurable misery and countless wars in Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America since ww2
The problem with far leftists like yourself you get so blinkered in your hate of US you have developed a Russian sized blind spot for a country whose only major achievements in last century is managing to create death and misery both home and abroad on an industrial scale
I assume that in this case "my enemy's friend is my enemy" will come into play here and the Saudi's will drop the price?
Excellent summary of the position.
I doubt Saudis are very happy with Russia these days
Besides Russia ignoring OPEC+ agreements (entirely predictable!) they are also arming their enemies in Iran and Yemen with weapons and tech know how
Weapons that might one day be turned again on Saudi itself (tho both are a bit busy with Israel atm) again, with potential not to only damage their oil industry which is the one trick pony for current Saudi economy but makes a complete mockery of their Vision 2030 plan to make Saudi Arabia a tourist destination, who in their right mind want to vacation in that part of their world these days
Okay enlighten me … What did Russia do that had serious geopolitical consequences after WW2 affecting us here in the west on a scale the same or even worse than the US engaged in. specifics please
The floor is yours
Ooh btw did you find the credible source Germany delivers a third of Israel's Bombs, Different thread but thought to ask you here since you kinda ran away from the question.. Unless I missed your reply
I’ll give you three
Precipitating Cuban missile crisis which nearly led to thermonuclear war
Putting half of Europe behind an iron curtain which still to this day causes problems for Europe
Invading Afghanistan and giving rise to Al Qaida and Taliban
And that only gets us to late 80s, Russia is a cancer on the global stage (not content on making their own lot miserable and impoverished)
But you don’t have to believe me, just answer a simple question:
would you rather your children grow up in “the west” (which yes includes the US) or “Russian Mir”?
Because that question and the answer to this goes to the core of this war.
Another excellent economist podcast on the war, what Ukrainian politicians and civilians and soldiers feel behind the scenes, the heroic resistance but also the weariness and divisions in the society, and what an end to the war might realistically look like. Well worth an hour of time:
Ukraine took out another airbase last night:
Telegram: Contact @insiderUKR
Ukrainian drones targeted the Borisoglebsk military air base in Russia's Voronezh region last night, according to Russian Telegram channels. It is reported that the drones attacked warehouses that store KABs, parking lots of SU-35 and SU-34 aircraft, as well as places where aviation fuel is stored. : r/UkraineWarVideoReport (reddit.com)
Cuba was only a reaction because the US had nukes close to the Russian border … cuban missile crisis was just part of the cold war wheere the two superpowers were engaged in, had no real negative impact on us here in Europe (compared)
Iron curtain did not prevent us here in western Europe from prospering and does not even comes close to the wars the US had started costing Millions of lives. plus also part of the cold war (which the US was also involved in)
Afghanistan was a massacre … repeated by the US in 2001 (The result of that was only 360000 deaths direct and indirect. estimated) so the Russians "won" that one
Anything else ?
Past 20 years only
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human
So when are you buying those one way tickets to the paradise that is Russia?
Funny how for all the criticisms of US (and they’d deserve plenty) and other Western countries the broken records that are stuck regurgitating far left talking points of the 20th century don’t themselves move to the place that invented whataboutery
A case of if there is to be brutal urban fighting. Might as well have it in a few strategic places than lots of places.
Cuba, Germany (all of Eastern Europe too I suppose), Afghanistan
Are average people from those countries rather live in Russia or US today (and 10-20-30 years ago), where have people from those countries tended to emigrate to by risking shark infested waters, Berlin Wall and clinging of bottoms of airplanes?
Both are deeply messed up places, but one of these exponentially more f****d up
Which you should remember next time you start making arguments defending Russian Empire and/or regurgitating their talking points
But the US has topple democracies and installed puppet dictators for business reasons.
In these instances the only liberation going on was of assets.
Yes, it is possible for more than one country to be a cnut at the same time. Just because someone does it, doesn't make it okay for someone else to it either. It's not a fcking playground.
The Kremlin insists that every industry send soldiers to the war.
So 10 nuclear physicians will now go to the trenches in Ukraine.
Criminal industry too
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/02/russia-criminal-immunity-military-contract/
Something big in Russia went boom
Israel treats Palestinians as playthings, and USA funds the genocide.
Hammas treats Palestinians as playthings and Iran funds it, Russia is allied with Iran.
Jesus F. Christ.
Just because Israel is acting the cnut in another part of the world, does not make it okay for Russia to do it either.
It is possible to support Ukraine and still be opposed to Israeli aggression and land stealing.
And in Syria
Folks on Twitter are saying that another Wagner military column got hit in Mali.
The last time this happened Ukraine intelligence claimed to have played a part. It will be interesting to see if they do the same again.
Russia are having a bad day internationally.
Wagner have had a rough couple years....
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I predict a riot.. i predict a riot,
By having a country, believe it's immune to all norms of civilisation, enables it's citizens to commit war crimes and kill prisoners of war, stripped of their clothes, with their hands tied behind their back, filming it for sport.
It's the theme of Russians from when the war started. And it's why Ukraine fights Russia with all it has. And why civilised countries hate and will continue to hate the Russian Nazi state of Putin.
I'm not posting the link but posting a reply to the link.
That is not the point ..and you know it ..... Where in any of my posts am I defending Russia ?
And it is the US foreign policy we are talking about .. as in 10000 km from home ere they are messing things up.
Three Day War going that well
nonsense as far as Im concerned , Harris is a light weight and I dont buy the compromised argument
