War in Ukraine

[IluvdoubleD's]

It's not my ****ing kid, I can promise you that.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Russ claims only 498 war dead and around 1500 wounded. Even Baghdad Bob would say WTF to those low ball numbers

Live updates: UN votes to demand that Russia stop war

And Czar Putin laughs.

 

[lawgator1]

We did what was needed but we've just run Russia into China's arms. Ideally the Russians would wake up and reject the isolationism road Putin has paved for them. I don't have faith they do this though.

Assuming Putin is gone sooner than later, by the hand of those around him or by God, one wonders how quickly Russia would desperately want to join the West's economy.

 

[85SugarVol]

You can't help but wonder if the resolve is getting the attention of Xi. China isn't Russia but being a global pariah for exports and business could collapse any economy. I also wonder how solvent China's economy really is and if it could even withstand the same sort of beating Russia is taking. Xi could just come out and say, we're taking Taiwan, sanction us and we'll melt the island. Then what does the west do?

Well I’m sure the Western Powers will be gung ho to dismantle this Death Star they’ve constructed once the Russia Situation has resolved.

As for the China Situation - it is in the Japanese that we must place our hope.

 

[825VOL]

We did what was needed but we've just run Russia into China's arms. Ideally the Russians would wake up and reject the isolationism road Putin has paved for them. I don't have faith they do this though.

Putin willingly embraced China. he withdrew his troops from the eastern area of Russia and sent them to Belarus and the Ukrainian border. He would never have left his eastern flank open had he not received Chinese guarantees before doing this.

At this point I think Putin is on plan B in regard to Ukraine. The initial plan was to quickly decapitate that Ukranian government so he could install a puppet. That did not work. Now I think the plan is to lay seize to the large cities to force a capitulation. Then I think he will expand the new "eastern Republics" he created all the way to the Dneiper river. This would allow him his buffer zone form the west and "unite" Russian people.

 

[Orangeburst]

I knew they had an agreement with the CCP as they had to
What a quandary now

 

[KB5252]

Assuming Putin is gone sooner than later, by the hand of those around him or by God, one wonders how quickly Russia would desperately want to join the West's economy.

That would be part of the decision, and one of the reasons I don't think it likely. If Putin did step down or is removed I expect Russia would likely lose more territory to break aways over the next 10 to 20 years. Some would look west, others I think would look to China.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

'Full-scale Genocide' Unfolds in Mariupol where mayor says '15 hours of shelling' has left 'hundreds dead': Putin steps up attacks on cities as Terrifying Video captures Ukrainian cheating death when missile slams into tower block

Russia has today stepped up its attacks on Ukraine's major cities as officials in Mariupol said a 'full-scale genocide' was underway as Putin's men unleashed a 15-hour artillery barrage while Kharkiv also came under heavy bombardment in a dark sign of what could be to come in the capital Kyiv.

'We are near to a humanitarian catastrophe,' he said. 'Russian forces are several kilometers away on all sides,' he added. 'The Ukrainian army is brave and they will continue to defend the city, but Russia does not fight with their army, they just destroy districts... We are in a terrible situation.'

Sergyi Badylevych, 41, hugs his wife Natalia, 42, and child in an underground metro station used as bomb shelter in Kyiv

Photos - Video
Ukraine war: Russian renews offensive 'on all fronts' | Daily Mail Online

 

[dovervolz]

Yeah, I’m looking for something reliable for light work, preferably used at a reasonable price. Kubota? Thoughts? I’ve only gotten as far as the idea of what I need, not the research yet, so I’m open to ideas from someone that knows more than I do.

I've had both. Had better luck with the kubota

 

[NCFisher]

Donald Trump fired John Bolton for being too much of a war hawk?

That doesn't make much sense when you consider that John Bolton's hawkish foreign policy views were well known at the time Donald Trump hired him as National Security Advisor. John Bolton was a frequent contributor to Fox News throughout Barack Obama's two term presidency. Bolton never kept these hawkish foreign policy views a secret, and we all know that Donald Trump was an avid viewer of Fox News back then, through his constant re-tweets of Fox News personalities.

What did Donald Trump think he was getting when he hired John Bolton in the first place?

He clearly didn't hire him to start wars, did he? And you purposely parsed the statement which read: Until Trump fired his ass for being too much of a hawk who was usurping authority and undermining him, why did you do that?

What did he think he was getting? Presumably a guy who understood his oath when taking the position that he served the president.

 

[landscapingvol]

'Full-scale Genocide' Unfolds in Mariupol where mayor says '15 hours of shelling' has left 'hundreds dead': Putin steps up attacks on cities as Terrifying Video captures Ukrainian cheating death when missile slams into tower block

Russia has today stepped up its attacks on Ukraine's major cities as officials in Mariupol said a 'full-scale genocide' was underway as Putin's men unleashed a 15-hour artillery barrage while Kharkiv also came under heavy bombardment in a dark sign of what could be to come in the capital Kyiv.

'We are near to a humanitarian catastrophe,' he said. 'Russian forces are several kilometers away on all sides,' he added. 'The Ukrainian army is brave and they will continue to defend the city, but Russia does not fight with their army, they just destroy districts... We are in a terrible situation.'

Sergyi Badylevych, 41, hugs his wife Natalia, 42, and child in an underground metro station used as bomb shelter in Kyiv

Photos - Video
Ukraine war: Russian renews offensive 'on all fronts' | Daily Mail Online

We will never know the true death toll but it will be high even with sophisticated weapons systems. The US has its flaws but we wouldn't shell a civilian area intentionally in the modern era of warfare. One could argue we go too far in the other extreme and put more US troops at risk in certain situations

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Moscow admits nearly 500 of its troops have been killed and 1,600 more injured since invading Ukraine as pictures show charred remains of Russian convoy blown to pieces by Ukrainian resistance near Kyiv

Huge convoys of Russian armour have rumbled into several Ukrainian cities, only to be met with fierce resistance as well-armed troops used a mixture of their own and NATO-supplied anti-tank weapons to wreak havoc on the invaders

Charred remains of Putin's tanks lie smouldering in the street as Russian death toll climbs | Daily Mail Online

 

[BowlBrother85]

He clearly didn't hire him to start wars, did he? And you purposely parsed the statement which read: Until Trump fired his ass for being too much of a hawk who was usurping authority and undermining him, why did you do that?

What did he think he was getting? Presumably a guy who understood his oath when taking the position that he served the president.

"He clearly didn't hire him to start wars, did he?"

Seriously?

Donald Trump should have known that John Bolton pushing for war during his term was a strong possibility, based on Bolton's unapologetic defense of the Iraq War, while he was a frequent contributor to Fox News.

 

[85SugarVol]

Donald Trump fired John Bolton for being too much of a war hawk?

That doesn't make much sense when you consider that John Bolton's hawkish foreign policy views were well known at the time Donald Trump hired him as National Security Advisor. John Bolton was a frequent contributor to Fox News throughout Barack Obama's two term presidency. Bolton never kept these hawkish foreign policy views a secret, and we all know that Donald Trump was an avid viewer of Fox News back then, through his constant re-tweets of Fox News personalities.

What did Donald Trump think he was getting when he hired John Bolton in the first place?

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Russia's foreign minister warns: 'A third world war will be NUCLEAR and destructive'

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that a third world war 'will be nuclear and destructive' as the fallout of his nation's invasion of neighbour Ukraine intensifies.

In a thinly veiled threat for NATO not to get involved in Ukraine, Lavrov said that any future world war would be fought with nuclear weapons - a statement that comes just days after President Vladimir Putin warned that any country sending troops to Ukraine would be met with severe consequences.

Russia's foreign minister warns: 'A third world war will be NUCLEAR and destructive' | Daily Mail Online

 

[IluvdoubleD's]

NBC News blog.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

"bUt iTz w3aK sANCtionZ" - @Rasputin_Vol

Day 3 of no Moscow Stock Exchange - Hey, maybe if they pretend nothing is happening it will all just go away.

A stock market isn't an economy. We've seen the Venezuelan and Zimbabwean markets sour during times of duress. Hell, for that matter, there is really no explanation for our stock market to have been as high as it was since 2008.

They need to shutdown Nordstream 1 and stop all energy sales from Russia. No more hedging of bets.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Imagine Russia's economy if we kicked ALL Russian banks out of SWIFT and not give them a 72 hour headstart before deploying that sanction

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Donald Trump fired John Bolton for being too much of a war hawk?

That doesn't make much sense when you consider that John Bolton's hawkish foreign policy views were well known at the time Donald Trump hired him as National Security Advisor. John Bolton was a frequent contributor to Fox News throughout Barack Obama's two term presidency. Bolton never kept these hawkish foreign policy views a secret, and we all know that Donald Trump was an avid viewer of Fox News back then, through his constant re-tweets of Fox News personalities.

What did Donald Trump think he was getting when he hired John Bolton in the first place?

If we can criticize fairly anything that Donald Trump messed up on during his presidency, it would clearly be his inability to surround himself with good people. His hiring/selection process was terrible. Bolton, Kudlow, Kushner, Barr, etc. He didn't do himself any favors.

 

[MontyPython]

How NATO Pilots Could Help Defend Ukraine

A French rafale fighter jet is takes off for a daily NATO border watch mission sortie over Poland at the Mont-de-Marsan airbase, southwestern France, on March 1, 2022.

This past week, it’s rumored that a pilot known as the “Ghost of Kyiv” defeated six Russian aircraft before being shot down and killed. If true, this makes him the first fighter ace of the 21st-century. His efforts, and those of pilots like him, have thus far unexpectedly denied Russia air superiority over Ukraine’s skies. If Ukraine is to prevail in this war, this air battle cannot be lost. Ukraine’s air forces are outmanned (they have far fewer pilots than Russia) and outclassed (their MiG-29s are a generation behind Russian fighter aircraft). This has led President Zelensky to call for a NATO-enforced no-fly zone over Ukraine, a request which will likely go unfulfilled as it could pit NATO and Russian aircraft against one another. However, there is a way to give Zelensky the air power he needs without pitting NATO aircraft against Russian ones—and it’s something the U.S. has done in the past.

In the early days of the Second World War, before the U.S. had committed to fight in Europe and the Pacific, the Lend Lease Act allowed us to arm our allies, such as the British and the Chinese while not becoming an active party to the war. American military pilots and ground crews were granted leaves of absence from their units to serve in squadrons like the Flying Tigers in China and in the “Eagle Squadrons” of the Royal Air Force. Indeed, some of America’s greatest fighter aces from the Second World War, pilots like Marine Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, scored their first kills flying aircraft that didn’t have U.S. markings. The efforts of these hundred-plus volunteer pilots helped hold back the tide of Axis aggression in theaters of war as far flung as the Japanese invasion of China and the Battle of Britain during the earliest, most fraught days of that war.

 

[Dirty Vol]

I know this isn't specific to Ukraine and the Russia attack but I found this entertaining as to military spending throughout modern times.

China is the biggest problem in the future.

 

[Burhead]

Just saw a video of an abandoned T-72A the Russians are really digging everything out of storage for this.

 

[n_huffhines]

China is the biggest problem in the future.

We're our biggest problem.

 

[IluvdoubleD's]

‘It’s a complete black box’: Russian oligarchs pour money into U.S. real estate market

 

[Septic]

A stock market isn't an economy. We've seen the Venezuelan and Zimbabwean markets sour during times of duress. Hell, for that matter, there is really no explanation for our stock market to have been as high as it was since 2008.

They need to shutdown Nordstream 1 and stop all energy sales from Russia. No more hedging of bets.

If we can bring Russia to its knees with the sweeping and deviating sanction without causing further cost increases to consumers , why wouldn't we? So that you could then turn around and screech more about Biden causing this mess?

Anyway, I'm just teasing you - it's not really a debate. We both know that the sanctions have been and will continue to be devastating to Russias economy.

Pointing out the stock exchange is closed is just a manifestation of a symptom of the much larger disease. Ignoring this isn't going to make it go away.