War in Ukraine

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Tears of Little Girls who may never see their brave daddy again: Ukrainian man bids farewell to his children, aged six and two, before he leaves to join volunteers fighting Putin's advancing army

A father holds his six-year-old daughter Dasha close, his face contorted with emotion.

Roman Overchenko, 32, a sales manager from Poltava in central Ukraine, was saying a final farewell to his family early yesterday morning before leaving to join volunteers fighting Vladimir Putin’s advancing army.

Draping her arms around his head, Dasha pulls her daddy close and refuses to let him go, the embrace so drawn out and gut-wrenchingly poignant that it stops passers-by in their tracks along Lviv’s central spine, Svobody Avenue.

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Roman Overchenko, 32, a sales manager from Poltava in central Ukraine, was saying a final farewell to his family early yesterday morning before leaving to join volunteers fighting Vladimir Putin’s advancing army

Next he faces two-year-old Margo, wrapped against the sub-zero temperatures in her dotted woolen hat and silver coat.

His wife, Evheniya, 30, who couldn’t bear to watch, bows her head a few feet away, pinching the bridge of her nose as if to stem the flow of tears.

Tears of little girls who may never see their brave daddy again | Daily Mail Online
 
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IluvdoubleD's said:
There is so much misinformation I am forced to intervene. You are being attacked from within vols. Twitter and Facebook were blocked because they were Putin funded companies that were being investigated for Russian ties. When he was cut off from Americans, he cut off the Russians too. The b2 bombers earlier were simply making a round of nato skies and not stealthy about it at all. Tonight he plans to blow the nuke plant, and he is hoping the westerly winds will deter a counter attack. Hoping we will not enter a radioactive area. He is perfectly fine with sending his own people into a radioactive area tho. Pass the info if you can.
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You should really talk to your doctor about the benefits of Prozac
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Here we go... the attacks on Americans has begun. We've gone from making the unvaccinated the enemy to now targeting Russians or pro-Russians.
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So you think a teacher trying to persuade students to their political opinions for 10 minutes in a middle school Spanish class is appropriate?

That's the opposite of what I thought you supported.
 
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Gandalf said:
'They're all saying oh he's a nuclear power, it's like they're afraid of him,' Trump said in a recording of the phone conversation with Daly. 'You know, he was a friend of mine, I got along great with him. I say, Vladimir, if you do it, we're hitting Moscow. We're going to hit Moscow. And he sort of believed me like 5%, 10% - that's all you need.'

Exactly - like I said, Putin would not have gone into Ukraine with Trump still Pres not because Trump is a great wartime leader but because he is unpredictable. Putin thinks sure he is probably blowing smoke but MAYBE, maybe not. Trump is known to be equally vengeful as Putin himself.
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Trump is saying he would threaten to nuke Moscow for Russia invading Ukraine. That's absurd. Trump is carnival barking from his ez go.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
At some point, it will come to be realized that this conflict has nothing to do with the Ukrainian people. The Biden family activities in that country should tell you this. It is not only for staging future activities for Russia, but also propping up a corrupt state where drug running, weapons shipping to the Middle East, energy siphoning and other financial crimes.
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Then shouldn't we be invading Mexico?
 
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Gandalf said:
'They're all saying oh he's a nuclear power, it's like they're afraid of him,' Trump said in a recording of the phone conversation with Daly. 'You know, he was a friend of mine, I got along great with him. I say, Vladimir, if you do it, we're hitting Moscow. We're going to hit Moscow. And he sort of believed me like 5%, 10% - that's all you need.'

Exactly - like I said, Putin would not have gone into Ukraine with Trump still Pres not because Trump is a great wartime leader but because he is unpredictable. Putin thinks sure he is probably blowing smoke but MAYBE, maybe not. Trump is known to be equally vengeful as Putin himself.
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Great argument against Trump.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
The mainstream media in the US and UK and these social media useful idiots are going all out right now with the propaganda machine. I thought the BS was at level 10 during COVID, but the last week has been just unreal. I even got caught up in it early on.
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News is easier to take on the VN news channel. If something is important, somebody will link it - otherwise we just make fun of the media.
 
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Japan and our occupation buffered against Russian expansion into the Pacific. Had we allowed the Russians to take Japan they wouldn’t have hesitated moving east. Thank goodness for MacArthur.
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Japan would have surrendered before The Soviets likely invaded. I guess I am aware that The Soviets had those ambitions, but I guess I don't believe that it would have ended up with Japan under Soviet control after their surrender. That could have still been negotiated in the same way the German partition was worked out.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Japan would have surrendered before The Soviets likely invaded. I guess I am aware that The Soviets had those ambitions, but I guess I don't believe that it would have ended up with Japan under Soviet control after their surrender. That could have still been negotiated in the same way the German partition was worked out.
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Personally I see Japan as a strong partner. I wouldn't want to revise that.
 
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'I say Vladimir, if you do it we're hitting Moscow': Trump claims he told Putin and Xi he'd NUKE them and slams Biden for being 'afraid' of Russian leader in conversation with golf legend John Daly - before hitting his Palm Beach course

Donald Trump on Friday told pro-golfer John Daly that he got along 'great' with Vladimir Putin and Russia didn't invade Ukraine under his watch because he threatened to bomb Moscow.

'They're all saying oh he's a nuclear power, it's like they're afraid of him,' Trump said in a recording of the phone conversation with Daly. 'You know, he was a friend of mine, I got along great with him. I say, Vladimir, if you do it, we're hitting Moscow. We're going to hit Moscow. And he sort of believed me like 5%, 10% - that's all you need.'

'He never did it during my time John, you know. They were all talking about it, ''Why didn't he do this during the last four years?'' Because he knew he couldn't.'

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The former president claimed that Chinese President Xi Jinping didn't mess with him, either.

'Xi didn't bother me either. I told him the same thing, that that'll be next. You know that's going to be next. Taiwan will be next,' he predicted.

Trump hits Palm Beach course and is recorded telling John Daly that Putin was a 'friend' | Daily Mail Online
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I like Trump and his s^^t talking ability, but I think this is at best an exaggeration, and at worst total BS. I think that Trump not agitating things in Ukraine and Trump not being a big fan of NATO probably played more in Putin's decision making. And now as I think about it, who knows if Trump may not have relayed to Putin the very thing that broke today or yesterday from John Bolton where he said that Trump planned on leaving NATO in his second term? I wonder if Putin had known that or was told that if that may have eased some of the tension about Ukraine during the Trump presidency?
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Japan would have surrendered before The Soviets likely invaded. I guess I am aware that The Soviets had those ambitions, but I guess I don't believe that it would have ended up with Japan under Soviet control after their surrender. That could have still been negotiated in the same way the German partition was worked out.
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The German partition was worked out by FDR and Stalin at Yalta and I’m sure had FDR lived he would have yielded to Stalin at Potsdam and handed over Japan. Truman probably would have also except he was afraid of MacArthur.
 
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