Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3luaf5jzlns2c

A Russian lady says that food prices keep growing in Russia because all the money goes to war. Her solution - remove President Zelenskyy.

They really are a broken and deluded nation!

The scary (?) thing is that almost the exact same thing is going on in the USofA right now too. Everything's the fault of Joe Biden. Kinda weird to see these two superpowers of the late 1900s simultaneously descend into collective dementia … and yet there are still some Europeans who think we should follow their lead.

Increasing number of articles coming from the media on how morale is collapsing in Ukraine due to corruption and increasing authoritarianism of the government. High inflation and increasing poverty rates and troops are exhausted after some being on the battlefield for 3 and a half years without a break.

Martial law was passed for the 16th time a couple of days ago by the parliament.

https://archive.is/3QCQ7#selection-1835.522-1835.535

Increasing number of articles…

1 is a number…

There is loads, just one yesterday as well.

https://archive.ph/S2zoX

People been on the streets in Kiev and elsewhere complaining about the lack of information about missing loved ones, i can't remember where it was but a couple of months ago but some charity organization, i think it was the Red cross or something had 400,0000 individual reports from people who had not heard from loved ones after they entered the armed forces. Just vanished, but they are trying to get information from the Russians on POW numbers.

LOL. You need new batteries in your Sarc Sensor.

If I had a rouble for every faux concern post…

The bot factory AI is writing a couple of really concerning articles as we speak. But the amount of own research it has to do is slowing it down.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg6v0pk964o

Even Merz says Europe was free loading. Trump was 100% right and only his crazy antics were enough to finally get Europe's finger out. It's disgraceful expecting a country across the Atlantic to pay for our defence with Russia. It's equally disgraceful we freeload our defence off to our European allies.

It's done now and Europe are on the way back. Better late then never.

Trading blows tonight

https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1946325857334632614?t=KIuMusvASYUaI0iXvB1psQ&s=19

Lets be clear many us administrations had this complaint, nothing new with trump.bots just that Russia is a threat now, so Europe has to pick up the slack.

And also it wasn't a bad strategy, like we want a more peaceful world with less conflict, there was nothing wrong with the in goal of disarming and creating economic dependence. But Russia had to ruin all the progress because they still live in the previous century. So now we will have conflict and innocent people dying on masse.

It's not just Trump's "crazy antics" (that is selling it short, it's no joke). The urgency is more down to Russia and Putin IMO.

Trump was only partly right. Situation where European allies would be militarily dependent & reliant suited the US during the Cold war, and to an extent afterwards, at least until Obama and idea of a pivot to Asia. There was always a tension there, and (somewhat) conflicting desires for the US.

Anyway, Trump is just making the change harder as countries now also to have one eye open for a US back-stab at some point. The US is waging economic war on all of us right now (tariffs and threats of them). The EU/member states probably can't even respond to that in the way they should, (IMO) because of worries about how it is also connected to Ukraine, e.g. ability to buy US weapons they need either for Ukraine or possibly to defend themselves in future etc. and fears Trump will leverage that dependency against them.

Would be a far better & easier situation if Europe had a US govt. that was not spreading disinformation about the invasion [of Ukraine], cosying up to Putin, waging trade wars and diplomatic attacks on all its "allies" and meddling in their domestic politics, and was instead fully supporting Ukraine.

Would be good if they could also 100 % depend on the US to help if attacked by Russia (not a given under Trump, and some likely successors I expect)!

Imagine thinking 5 extra patriot batteries are pointless, that's baffling to me to dismiss it so easy. It's 5 extra radars and 5 extra control stations (the most expensive parts). Missiles are important, but Ukraine, due to it's sheer size needs coverage. Yes missiles are in demand, but a patriot system in Kyiv with a dozen missiles won't protect Odessa. But an additional system in Odessa with 6 missiles can. I'm not sure where you're getting the €429 million for a patriot battery, it's closer to €2 billion each.

Germany will also be producing Gen 2 missiles in late 2026.

The more I think about Krasnovs 50 days ultimatum to Putin the more laughable it is how he is the master of misconception.

He has fooled billions of people with the most nonsensical hollow threats.

Straight out of the Russian playbook.