War in Ukraine

Did you post that with a straight face. 🤣

2 more NATO countries sharing a birder now. Pootin remains master strategist.

How many more days of this 3 day war can we expect?

On the bright side, at least he's emptying out his prisons.
NATO has not shown that 30 members can keep up with Russia in weaponry production. Adding Finland won't change that dynamic.
 
You didn't answer the question. Show me where Ukraine, or even NATO for that matter, has been aggressive towards Russia or have launched a series of military campaigns against the Motherland prior to Feb 2022.
You ignore the provocation of moving the NATO "defensive" military alliance closer to Russia's border, stirring up trouble on Russia's border in 2008 in Georgia, a successful coup in Ukraine and then the subsequent 8 years after 2014 where the US/NATO armed and trained the Ukrainian/Kyiv Regime military.
 
You also failed to acknowledge the Russian population crisis as well. For each Russian male that dies in Ukraine that's less future Russians being born.



Russian fertility rates fall to record lows on the back of a deteriorating economy and sanctions pressure

The war will not help those numbers even though Putin is committing ethnic cleansing by sending more minorities than the privileged sons of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Ukraine's birth rates before the war were no better. And now with the mass exodus, it will be far worse.

"to the last drop of Ukrainian blood"
 
This has been rehashed to death in this thread. You know what it is, you choose to disagree. Putin has made his case as well and laid it out in clear detail. The West's response not only over the last year plus since the war began but since 2014 and even before has proven Russia's interpretation to be largely correct.
Putin's 2007 Munich speech

 
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Ukraine has a right to self determine, as you and others on your side like to preach, however you fall oddly silent on Crimea and other pro-Russian areas who had been trying for years to hold referendums to split from Ukraine. Do they not have a right to self determine?
Taiwan has the right to self-determination, but not Crimea.

Taiwan has the right to break away from China, but Crimea cannot breakaway from Ukraine.
 
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You ignore the provocation of moving the NATO "defensive" military alliance closer to Russia's border, stirring up trouble on Russia's border in 2008 in Georgia, a successful coup in Ukraine and then the subsequent 8 years after 2014 where the US/NATO armed and trained the Ukrainian/Kyiv Regime military.

Did NATO force the former Warsaw Pact countries into the alliance or did the former Soviet bloc bet that the Bear might do what it’s doing in Ukraine to them? I would call that sound decision making.
 
Was this after the Kuwaiti girl made up an elaborate story about Iraqis taking babies from incubators and throwing them on the floor?
It was about that time that April Glaspie told Saddam that the Kuwait issue the Iraqis had was not their concern.
 
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Taiwan has the right to self-determination, but not Crimea.

Taiwan has the right to break away from China, but Crimea cannot breakaway from Ukraine.

Who is advocating Taiwan’s independence? The status quo is working. Even the Taiwanese aren’t asking for that.
 


Not going to post the few seconds before this but its not pretty it shows rows of dead Wagner fighters.

Word is that Wagner lost about 94 men in one day recently. He was pizzed.

94 men in one day for Wagner is considered a "bad day". Ukraine typically loses that many before lunch.
 
Are you seriously saying Ukraine has lost 20 million people?
I've seen estimates that clearly say that.

Would it make you feel better if it was only 15 million? How about 10 million?

For Russia to equal or better that same rate of loss, the RF would need to lose about 40 million.

Instead, this past September, RF gained about 9 million...
 
I don't know why you all engage these two. They are liars. Not willing to debate in reality. It's a waste. They are a waste. Shameful humans. Not bc they disagree. They are waste bc they are massive liars
 
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Did NATO force the former Warsaw Pact countries into the alliance or did the former Soviet bloc bet that the Bear might do what it’s doing in Ukraine to them? I would call that sound decision making.
Not sure if they did or not. That isn't the point. The point is not whether the former Warsaw Pact nations WANTED to join NATO. The burden was on NATO (as a self-proclaimed "defensive" alliance) to have the awareness and sense to not invite these countries into NATO because they had known and were made aware that NATO moving east was a Russian security concern. Its just simple diplomatic common sense. America expects the world to respect our security concerns not just on this hemisphere, but in Israel, Taiwan, and any other place on this planet. But for Russia to expect to have a buffer between NATO and themselves is unreasonable and not to be respected. Same goes with China and their region of influence.
 
Who is advocating Taiwan’s independence? The status quo is working. Even the Taiwanese aren’t asking for that.
Asking for independence would be too much of an open move to make. So we hide behind weasel actions. The US on the one hand publicly says they support the One China policy, but them goes in and creates a hostile anti-mainland sentiment in Taiwan and sends arms and equipment to them.

It would be like China sending arms to Guam and Russia sending arms to Puerto Rico.
 
That one time...

Yeah, how did that regime change in Syria work out for the US? Now Syria is building peaceful relationships with Turkey and the Arab Gulf states.


Yes that time. The only time they engaged since around World War 1. An absolute throttling by a world class military against a group with terrible leadership and subpar equipment.
 


Not going to post the few seconds before this but its not pretty it shows rows of dead Wagner fighters.


Civil war in Russia might just be good for the world. Imagine the "non official" official Russian mercenary army fighting the quasi-military Russian armed forces. Other than lobbing shells and missiles in limited locations, you'd think the navy would be out of the game. The air force might have a role for as long as they can get munitions. The nukes are a wild card, but if anybody would nuke their own, it would be the Russians.
 
The Russian side running out of shells (at least there)? Huh.

There is a downside to a "7:1" exchange of artillery - especially when you are the one sending the 7 to 1 ratio at civilian targets ... or you just can't hit what you are shooting at.
 
Let me remind you who was president in 2018. Our military was strong again under Trump.
Ah I see. The career officers and senior NCO’s within the everyday ranks just completely went all “girly” due to a presidential election result. That sounds legit.

I’m not a fan of a lot of the senior brass and civilians in DoD today. But the rank and file service member is still doing their job I’d guess
 
Yeah, if we were going to assassinate Putin we wouldn't use firecrackers on toys

The more I see that video, the more it looks like someone lit a liquid on the dome about the time the drone passed by. Unless the drone was a flying Molotov cocktail, something looks way off. Notice the drone explosion appeared to be almost opposite the stairs, but the scorch marks are adjacent. Also the flag appeared to be engulfed, but was still flying after. Could be just poor video and my interpretation, but it looks very fishy. Being dark the camera would naturally enhance any flash and obscure the event. I could be convinced with reasonable argument and better angles and quality that I don't see what looks apparent to me.
 
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