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*Since* he cut aid - that is exactly my point. This is all reactions rather than preempting.
I am a realist. My 'negative' comments have been far closer to the money than the fantasy land than many of the 'positive' posters here have been living in.
There are people on this thread that have dismissed quotes from Zelensky when he says the outlook is dire without US support. The same people post nonsense about exchange rates, interest rates and GDP as if those were the key factors in the outcome of the war.
But go ahead, continue to bury your head in the sand.
There were some posts on this thread saying Russians should revolt against their dictator due to the impact he has on their life and that if it would happen in the west, people would act, thanks to the freedom of speech.
Look at US now. Their president has destroyed relationships with allied countries and is openly helping their most historical enemy. And what are Americans doing? Nothing. They are just watching it like cows watching a train full of cattle going to the slaughterhouse, passing by.
I think China can’t believe their luck. They just need to watch from the sideline and in 4 years, US could be isolated, Europe trying to transition their army away from US tech and Russia trying to build up their army again and then go for Taiwan. we could be in a period that will be in history books and students thinking: how could this happened?
what part of the Russian federation are these actors from?
who/ what up is Maxar. ? Was it ‘strongly advised ‘to do so?
I distinctly mentioned Ukraine's issue with putin's terrorists as a struggle and then you accuse me of burying my head in the sand for some reason I don't understand. You seem to have an issue with reading comprehension. You also did not answer my question. You can focus on being negative about Ukraine if you like but your consistent comments from that perspective make me doubt you are being objective in the information you are trying to promote.
Sound bytes. I don't see world leaders discussing it, or even the media going in strong on the possibility
It seems like France is alone in taking action. rather than talking about possible actions - sometime. People are dying right now and Ukraine has been made more vulnerable by the actions of the so called ‘ leader of the free world’
it’s easy to easy to post that. But you can’t just kick countries out because the country leader is a dud. There’s a reason the only place this is being mentioned is on internet forums.
Maxar has only suspended the free intel the US was paying for. They will continue to provide images to Ukraine on a commercial basis.
Ukraine still owns a Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite they bought from Finnish company ICEYE and the Germans are still giving them use of an ICEYE satellite they own, plus they also have use of the rest of the ICEYE constellation of Satellites on a commercial basis. The French are providing satellite intel from their fleet of satellites.
If that happens I would say the Taiwanese wouldn't even put up a fight. They'll know that no one is coming to help them.
I think it would be better to revisit basic EU operational criteria than have to go to the lengths of ejecting states because of transient bad eggs getting elected. Orban isn't looking very transient. The EU needs to restructure and eliminate vetos, which are a terrible idea - or at least introduce some mechanism whereby states that depart from EU basic tenets can be 'suspended' and divested of any ability to have input or effect regarding the EU until such time as they return to compliance.
As for the discussion only taking place on internet forums - you need to do more research.
And so on.
Let's be fair, 3 years into the largest ground war in Europe, a belligerent Russia talking about reclaiming ex-Soviet states, and every European army is idle, waiting for someone else to go first.
Macron should give the order for the French army to move into Ukraine, and I would expect the Germans and Poles to follow suit.
Putin does not want peace
He just ruled out a ceasefire
That throws a spanner into the narratives friends of Russia spin here for months
And presents the “master negotiator” with a problem
I'd like to believe a fairy-tale story of mighty European armies suddenly able to march into Ukraine and turn the conflict around in Ukraine's favour overnight but it has evolved into a war of attrition and the EU simply has to continue to supply Ukraine with what it needs while they bleed putin's terrorist state dry.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/03/russia-ukraine-war-status/681963/?utm_source=apple_news
Unfortunately, the effective lethal range of financial support over the next, oh, six months is limited.
Euros don't destroy tanks, they don't kill infantry, and they don't provide intelligence. Getting overrun with a full bank account is still getting overrun.
People are fixated on dollar spend, and hardware numbers. The former allows for the latter, after a particular amount of time, true. But I'd lay money that the single most important factor to Ukraine still being a going concern right now isn't the amount of F-16s its received or even the amount of tanks or artillery rounds. It's the data that the absolutely massive US ISR inventory and manpower assets can assess and provide as intel. Now that that is stopped, there is almost nothing in the European inventory which can replace it, or which can be purchased to replace it for quite a few years.
I wasn't too worried when the US said it was stopping arms shipments. I became extremely worried a few days later when the US said it was stopping supporting activities including intel sharing.
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Or he'd ask the rape victim ''Do you want help? What is it worth to you?''
looks like the tik tok boys have struck again in Kursk…
They sent 100 orcs through a gas pipeline and the AFU knew is was coming so dealt with them accordingly…
Would it be a popular opinion among US military personnel that their commander in chief is a Russian agent.
Separately, would this cause any concerns?
I don't think so.
In any case, I've not heard any water-cooler discussions on the matter. He's still the duly appointed lawful authority, the only discussions have been on the practical effects on us of the instructions through the chain of command. Whether we agree with his policy decisions or not is not for us to worry about, and the US military has historically been near-militantly apolitical.
Was in no way suggesting that financial aid on its own would stop putin's terrorists attacking Ukraine. The financial aid from the EU has helped Ukraine build up its own arms industry and arms production in Ukraine friendly countries has also been increased. It is not just USA produced weapons that are helping Ukraine defend itself. I agree that limits on intelligence sharing with Ukraine from the USA is a serious disadvantage and it is terrible that Ukrainian lives are now being lost because of Trump and his pro putin government in the USA. Hopefully increased defense and security spending in the EU will help fill in for what the Ukrainians are loosing after being betrayed by the USA in this way.
https://global.espreso.tv/news-france-launches-new-cso-3-reconnaissance-satellite-enhancing-intelligence-sharing-with-ukraine
It'll be interesting to see what Trump does with the military bases in Germany.
Amazing how one term of a president can undo all the work and effort of his former incumbents.
Off topic and possibly unfair question Manic but if Trump ordered the US military to annex Canadian territory; could you see that causing any issues on the ground where you are invading an allies sovereign territory at the behest of your Commander in Chief? Is there anything he could instruct the military to do, where you could foresee any issues?
2025
The year Nazis willingly walk themselves into gas chambers for dear leader
Thank **** they are so ****ing stupid
It's shocking how believable this now is.
There's talk he's going to move them to Hungary. I'm sure Poland will bring up the "Fort Trump" thing again as well, and the current administration does seem still reasonably well disposed to the Baltic states. Might be a bit too far forward from my perspective, but it's still a good trigger.
As to Canada (Or Greenland, or Panama), I'm going to assume that such an idea will receive a considerable amount of pushback at higher levels before it filters down to us poor sods.
There's talk he's going to move them to Hungary.
Well knock me down with a feather MM. Hungary of all places… Then again Trump Talk is apparently cheap, chaotic and subject to the vagaries of the weather.
And I sincerely hope for folks in the US military that any move involving Canada, Greenland or Panama is met with extreme pushback. Now colour me daft, but the fact we're even talking about such truly insane things, that weren't on the radar two months ago is in of itself moving into how the fúck did we end up in this timeline category.
I've spent a lot of time in Germany over the past 2 years and have consequently talked to a lot of US soldiers. I'd say more than half of them were Trump supporters. The ones that were intelligent were Biden/Harris supporters. The Trump supporters… let's just say they weren't the brightest bunch. No amount of constructive evidence/debate would swing their support. They'd parrot the same Trump crap, "fake news", "Bengazi", "hunter".
So I wouldn't be so sure there would be as much push back as you think
Hmmm I wonder what Russian citizen Edward Snowden thinks of all this? Sold his country out to the Russians and Chinese before under the guise of patriotism he must be so proud the the gov is following suit
Speaking of gas chambers - I read that some of the Orc's finest forces, as well as Kadyrovites, tried to sneak up on Ukrainian forces through a gas pipeline at Sudzha in the Kursk region. Some sadly didn't get far due to breathing equipment issues and those that did, suffered 80% casualties. Ukrainians had thought they might try that and detected them.
Good luck getting permission to fly military flights over the EU to land in Hungary after shafting the NATO partners.
Maybe Putin will give them a few bases. Or Lukaschenko failing that.
