Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Seems like the book hit a nerve. I'm at the part now in the book where people are carrying around their eyeballs after the atomic blast in Japan. I haven't finished it yet.

I hope the war comes to an agreed ceasefire soon. NATO and others committed 380 billion in aide to Ukraine.

I doubt the war would have continued without NATO support.

Happy New Year all. Hopefully the world will get to 2026 without nuclear Armageddon

Where's the posts condemning the invasion as an unjustified and illegal act of aggression? Well?

And accepting as a fact that Russia has carried out war crimes in its conduct of the war, and condemned them eg Bucha.
No reservations, no both sides, no weasel words eg well if Russia have done so…
Actual condemnation of actual wrong doing by Russia.

Silence and false both sides equivocations = approval of and justification of Russia's invasion.

Your scenario of a dominant artillery force of putin's terrorists that saunters forward and demolishes villages and towns has been a feature of parts of the front lines in Ukraine but along the majority of the front there has been very little movement and figures I saw recently put the overall advance of putin's terrorists to that point of the year to be less than half a percent of the overall land area of Ukraine. The count of artillery units that the armed forces of Ukraine has eliminated since the start of the overall invasion now stands at 21,532 and I would argue that your statement that Ukrainian land offering nowhere to hide is a greater problem for putin's terrorists than it is for the Ukrainians defending their homeland.

Meanwhile artillery ammunition sent to Ukraine from Germany continues to rise with their Rheinmetall company having reached its target for increased 155mm shell production to 700,000 per year in 2024:

https://x.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1873730763738288501

You've previously blamed NATO for the invasion, you absolutely justified it. On top of that, I'm pretty sure you'll claim genocide is not occurring.

Ukraine never gave up nuclear weapons. Thats just disinformation.

The USSR had nuclear weapons stationed throughout its territory. After the breakup of the USSR, some of these weapons and their support units found themselves physically within the borders of Ukraine. At all times the weapons and their support units were loyal to their commanders in Moscow (i.e. Russia). At no time did Ukraine ever control the weapons, nor have access to their launch codes. At no time did Ukraine ever have a nuclear arsenal of its own. It had foreign controlled nuclear weapons deployed by a foreign state (Russia) within its own borders.

All that happened was the orderly return of Russian nuclear weapons from Ukraine to Russian territory. It's like saying Turkey gave up its nuclear weapons when the US withdrew US nuclear weapons from its territory after the Cuban missile crisis.

As for the Budapest agreements, the USA ripped them up when it used economic coercion against Belarus and overthrew the democratically elected Ukrainian government. Both of which were barred by the agreement, which the US was a signatory to.

A criminal investigation is underway into the newly formed 155th Anna de Kyiv Mechanized Brigade which was trained in France. Parts of this brigade were the ones who fled the fortifications as the Russians were approaching on the outside of Pokrovsk a few weeks ago.

Sounds like organized chaos with mass desertions and significant losses leading to the defense of the city being on the verge of collapse.

Ukr at that time did not REALLY know what Putin was like like we ALL know what he is like now IE a man NEVER TO BE TRUSTED EVER, EVER , EVER AGAIN. Giving up weapons was a good bargain , at the time, in exchange , for what the UKR thought was a cast iron guarantee re its sovereignty - in all its forms - being respected.

The turning point for me over the last few years with regards to international cooperation/ relations;sustained existance of peace and prosperity was over a 6 to eight year period when Russia began be stealth to cause ‘obvious disruptions ‘ to international order by invading Georgia ; 🍐Its involvement in Moldovia,; then moving on to Crimea and shortly followed by sending his little green men to Donetsk and Luhansk; then doing another ‘ SMALL LITTLE PIECE of an invasion of more of UKr - to last for 3.days max in 2022

All little bits of actions that were seen as TOO SMALL for the WEST to act And while all this was going on Putin knew that he was ‘ getting away with it by being invited to various countries, his presence was respected at various international conferences, hosted some international events eg. Olympics and to cap it all Angela Merkal was building gas pipelines from Russia to Germany - to boost his own , his friends and ( with what was left). His nations coffers

No, that is just disinformation.

The nuclear forces transferred from the USSR to Russia. They were never Ukrainian nuclear weapons. Their units were manned by Russian military, the authority and ability to use them was exclusively held by Russia and they followed the orders of the Russian state. At no time were they under the control of the Ukrainian state. They just happened to be deployed in a foreign country (Ukraine), much as Russian weapons are deployed in another foreign country (Belarus) today.

The whole "Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons" is just another story from the UCU. Ukraine never had an independent nuclear arsenal to give up.

Interestingly, some vatnik commentators I've observed, in their eagerness to absolve Ruzzia both past and present of any wrongdoing, are eager to emphasize the equality of the republics in the union state as a way of throwing blame on every other constituent nation in the USSR for the crimes of the Soviet Union: ' Khruschev was a Ukrainian' . Well, if they were all equal, then they were all equal in nuclear matters as well and Ukraine had a right to the nukes in its territory just as much as Ruzzia had a right to the ones on Ruzzian soil.