What exactly are you attempting to do, because you’re not doing it correctly.
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I don't think he cares about loss of life. The humiliations of endless military hardware getting destroyed and publicized on TV and social media, are going to bother him imo since he is very big on the propaganda of perception.
So, you believe that BBC is as impartial as the state run TV in Russia. Realy???
I highly doubt they have 1M soldiers. Maybe if they had a draft they can have they many ready to go. But if they had that many men they wouldn't need to ask Belarus to send their men in, and many of the men in Ukraine right now are from as far as Siberia
China will be doing vulture capitalism on Putin after this. So many of the projects that Russia has ongoing will need financing if they are to go forward. The Yamal gas project for example. So little to gain from this Ukrainian Project and so much to lose overall.
Putin might as well get used to being called Pukim very soon.
Not only that, but even if they did raise 1m conscripts, they’ve proven that they lack the ability to supply them.
Yes he clearly does when he says this.
It is beyond delusional to compare the 2. Trump's populism has done some damage.
Putin is looking more like General Melchett every day.
Here's an interesting article written by Mikhail Khodarenok, retired Russian Colonel and RT military commentator:
Russian original: Predictions of bloodthirsty political scientists (about enthusiastic hawks and hasty cuckoos)
English translation: https://russiandefpolicy.com/2022/02/07/mass-fire-strike-on-ukraine/
TL;DR Conclusion: Like @shamans Russian military enthusiasts thought it would be a cakewalk. Literal subheading of this guy's opinion: "Not a cakewalk."
Russian original: Predictions of bloodthirsty political scientists (about enthusiastic hawks and hasty cuckoos)
English translation: https://russiandefpolicy.com/2022/02/07/mass-fire-strike-on-ukraine/
TL;DR Conclusion: Like @shamans Russian military enthusiasts thought it would be a cakewalk. Literal subheading of this guy's opinion: "Not a cakewalk."
Could you imagine what a cluster feck the international response would have been if Trump were in charge? He would probably have invaded Taiwan by mistake.
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It's the first step in forcing the world buy oil in yuan, making us all use WeChat Pay.Bolton's assertion that Putin was waiting for Trump's second term withdrawal of the US from NATO is giving everyone ex post facto cover from the possibility that Putin really didn't invade Ukraine because he viewed Trump as likely to respond in near kind. Trump is/was a kind of US leader that has rarely been seen: a full on American nationalist. Also:
- egomaniacal
- liable to take everything politically as personal
- monomythical
- dangerously impulsive
In other words, someone Putin could understand and relate to. Trump would have seen doing Ukraine like Putin has 'on his watch' as a declaration that he, Trump, and America are now marginal and weak as piss. Trump taking the US out of NATO sounds credible because of Trump's verbal diarrhea. But it would have had absolute zero support amongst Republicans and been no more than a mad bluster to make the Germans cough up. Which Putin has just got them to do.
Except he told Mark Esper that he'd do it after he won reelection. Trump sewed discord amongst NATO and between the US and EU. He was constantly antagonizing the countries the US needs most as partners on the world stage. Trump could withdraw the US from NATO without any congressional oversight so there's nothing the GOP could do to stop him. Trump changed his platform to minimize Ukraine and only did anything to benefit Ukraine because overwhelming support in Congress left him no choice. He still tried to delay aid to Ukraine in his attempts to extort Zelensky into helping his campaign.
In the end it wouldn’t have mattered. A US less NATO would curb stomp Russia
Trump wouldn't give a shit. He said Russia was in its right taking Crimea. He repeatedly prevented arming Ukraine. And he might have pulled the US out of NATO, which would have incentivized Germany, Italy, and France to arm themselves accordingly.
But Trump's methods could also have worked in another way, bringing Russia closer to a Western block that had become less democratic and a bit friendlier to Putin's authoritarianism.
So now because Trump told someone he'd do something he'd do it? Everything to him was a bizarre portal to negotiations more on his terms. He was also 'very clear", for example, that he wanted to pull US troops from South Korea. Stuff and nonsense to (successfully) get SK to pay more for hosting 28,000 troops.
Edit: Not, by the way, backing his methods or goals. But anyone who claims they absolutely know what Trump's reaction would be to the Ukraine conflict is talking shite.
He tried to do it in his first term but was told he couldn't because it would hurt his support. His "negotiations" are the result of him being too stupid to grasp the concept of mutual benefit. He constantly talked about Germany needing to "pay more" to NATO as if the Germans owed the US money, which is complete nonsense. Many things he tried to do were slow-rolled or blocked by his own administration, like his attempts to move troops out of Germany.
Also, he demanded a 500% increase in funding from South Korea and got 8%. Great negotiator.
This fecking idiot was President of the United States for four years and got over 70m votes for reelection. Jesus.
Is that right? Its not like the Paris Accord. The levels of commitment to NATO is vastly different.
He withdrew from several treaties with Russia, including the Open Skies Treaty and Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile Treaty. It takes a 2/3 majority to ratify a treaty (hence the US not ratifying the UN Law of the Seas), but it apparently only takes the president to withdraw from one.
There should be congressional approval for withdrawal, imo.
13.9%. But no, he isn't a great negotiator. Nor is he too stupid to grasp the concept of mutual benefit. He just doesn't believe in it. Every man and his dog knew the Germans didn't meet the 2% NATO target, whether Trump garbles the notion as "paying more" to the US or not. They will now. Trump wasn't a multilateralist or ally-cultivator. But we know he believed the US was number one and enjoyed death-consequential stunts like detonating the largest ordinance in the US arsenal when Xi was round for tea. Hence, you have little idea how he would have handled the current war in Europe. Certainly talk of Armageddon would have had more basis in reality.
He has the best foreign policy.
Sounds like something a child would say & it’s lapped up willingly by his worthless supporters.
This thread about Russian logistics is interesting and heartening.
If Russia can conquer Ukraine, I still consider Russia as a loser from this war. The reasons are due to their economic situations and a lot of boycotts.
3,000 US Military Vets Willing To Fight With Ukraine Against Russia
It’s interesting right now, since I think the real war will be coming as soon as possible.
As I asked in my original post, what should we be doing if not sanctions? Nothing?
What a cnut. People like him deserve to be locked up in a mental institution, gagged when not fed, put into a straightjacket, and fed with porridge for the rest of his pathetic existence.
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The logic of the targets of sanctions is always the same. Please stop doing the sanctions that aren't working. Of course, if they didn't work you wouldn't hear anything out of them.
Edit: and this is how sanctions don't just hurt "ordinary people".
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Some might remember Davide Martello from the protests in Istanbul, Turkey about 8 years ago in Ghezi Park
I had the pleasure of filming him in Washington, DC and getting him to set up in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
I had the pleasure of filming him in Washington, DC and getting him to set up in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
This is not an insignificant number. You can virtually count the same number of US airforce losses in nearly 30 years of combat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...tates_military_aircraft_since_the_Vietnam_War
It is seemingly like the greatest trick Putin has every played is making the west thing he had a capable and competent military behind him.
Just a reminder that it is the Ukraine, not the US, not Germany, not England, not anybody who seemingly is a world power, but the motherfecking Ukraine that is making his army look average. It would take the US armed forces less than a week to overpower Russia.
Also from Putin’s comments it appears the sanctions are starting to hurt he and his friends massively.
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It’s also incredibly distinct and rare.
Praying the Caf starts sanctions. Meanwhile, I will bite my tongue knowing the apologist’s life gets worse by the day.