Indeed. We could discuss about it in the "Cold War against China?" thread. The amount of propaganda against the US and against Japan in all Chinese media is just ridiculously OTT, and the fact that they haven't been at war and now spoiling for a fight in a while is just setting up a time-ticking bomb.
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Indeed. We could discuss about it in the "Cold War against China?" thread. The amount of propaganda against the US and against Japan in all Chinese media is just ridiculously OTT, and the fact that they haven't been at war and now spoiling for a fight in a while is just setting up a time-ticking bomb.
You are right! That council meeting on Feb 21th was shocking for me. If my boss talked to me like that, in private not in public, I'd resign that same day, no matter how much money I was making. It is astounding that these people sit there and allow to be humiliated like this.
Why?
Thank you for the clarifications!
"When German weapons are sold, there is what is known as an end-use clause. This is where the buyer needs Germany's Federal Government's approval before handing over the weapons at a later date."
So its basically Germany's decision and they've decided not to because of the same reason nobody else has sent modern MBT's, whatever that is.
He's famous for making gaffes. People forget sometimes that some of them are pretty terrible, and tend to just remember the funny ones.
According to Business Insider the tanks were in a terrible state and the number they are sending now is 10 instead of 40. Although even the 10 they are sending may take some time to be repaired. Don't think it has anything to do with Germany.
https://www.businessinsider.de/poli...ckzieher-bei-leopard-2-panzer-fuer-ukraine-d/
Thanks for that!
I've seen Eastern Promises twice so I'm pretty much an expert on the Vor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Yudin
In early 2022, Yudin warned of a lack of political awareness amongst the Russian population about the Russo-Ukrainian crisis. On 22 February 2022, Yudin predicted that Putin was "about to start the most senseless war in history". After participating in protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, he was beaten unconscious by police and needed treatment at the Sklifosovsky Institute in central Moscow.
More for the geopolitics thread maybe, but yes, I read a newspapers article about this some time in 2021. Russia basically constantly moves its border forward. It's very gradual, tiny steps at a time, but it's clearly happening.
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It has English subtitles and sets out to explains why - amongst the elite of powerful people in Russia - Putin is now seen as their biggest problem.
At the beginning you have that main Russian propaganda show saying they’re coming for the territory they lost when the USSR collapsed, that they’re coming for half of Poland and all the Baltic states.
They claim North Korea is “sovereign” because they have nuclear weapons and Poland isn’t, so this seems to be what Putin meant by “sovereignty” in his speech the other day.
As if Poland couldn’t make a nuke if they needed to.
They claim North Korea is “sovereign” because they have nuclear weapons and Poland isn’t, so this seems to be what Putin meant by “sovereignty” in his speech the other day.
As if Poland couldn’t make a nuke if they needed to.
Well, we've been hearing that for months. Not that I don't believe it, but it hasn't quite translated yet to many Ukrainian ground victories.
Taking into account the huge superiority of the rushist regime in terms of weapons and troops, they have had very little gains thus far. Once the lend-lease starts coming into play properly, things will get much worse for them.
We should not forget that at the start of this war Ukraine was about 1-to-10 in heavy weapons, artillery and air force. I don't know how much this has changed so far, but it is amazing that they survived at all. The Russians are carpet bombing them and they cannot answer because they don't have an air force, and they don't have long range rockets to destroy the Russian artillery.
I am worried that the West is not doing enough to help them, and the Ukrainians might be suffering heavy losses. I do not understand why the West says that Ukrainians cannot hit any targets inside Russia, while their own cities have been bombarded mercilessly for 100+ days. On 7th Dec 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and 132 days later the Americans did a suicide mission to attack Tokyo, just to show the Japanese that they own country is not safe. England also attacked German cities. I don't understand why Ukraine does not have the right to attack Russian cities, while Ukrainian cities are being decimated. I think that the major problem here is that all the Western leaders are very weak (including Biden).
@frostbite I fully agree with you there. Who the feck are they to tell Ukraine what to do and not what to do?
It makes no sense to anyone that the West can dare telling Ukraine to limit the war within its own borders and to not fire back at Russian-based targets. The war will not end by some politician drawing a line on a map because a limited war doesn't do any good. In itself, it's immoral for anyone to send soldiers to war unless total victory is sought. Sometimes you have to play dirty than your enemy in order to win a war; that is what Western governments often forget nowadays.
It makes no sense to anyone that the West can dare telling Ukraine to limit the war within its own borders and to not fire back at Russian-based targets. The war will not end by some politician drawing a line on a map because a limited war doesn't do any good. In itself, it's immoral for anyone to send soldiers to war unless total victory is sought. Sometimes you have to play dirty than your enemy in order to win a war; that is what Western governments often forget nowadays.
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It's the concern of Nuclear escalation.
Nuclear escalation against a non-nuclear country, really? There is a reason why no country has used the atomic bomb in any conflict at all since 1945.
Over these months Russia has gone from pushing on 4 or 5 different fronts to just one.
Sounds like Severodonetsk is under Russian control which creates a frontline made of the river across the East now the bridges are all blown. Wonder if Russia will stop there and declare ‘success’
Poland is all in now preparing, or at least deterring, a future war with Russia.
Wonder if Poland will introduce something like the 2nd ammendment
Putin has never experienced Polish power.
I think it's better to keep your militia, uh... well-regulated.
The way this is going, can Russia even afford to invade anyone else? I think Poland can relax a bit.
Maybe not immediately but these preparations will take a long time anyway. Settings things in motion right now is the correct call.
Surely not until they finish with Ukraine. But if NATO isn't going to prevent that defeat through attrition, they are going to have to fight themselves.
I don't think it is - or not yet at least. And unless Russia can take both it and Lysychansk (the town across the river) they won't be able to claim they've taken the Luhansk region, far less the whole Donbas.
Seems very unlikely at this point, but it seems wise to look at long term possibilities. If Russia somehow does continue steady encroachment westward, if republicans take control in US and spend 8 years finishing what Trump started breaking down NATO, if Russian funds and propaganda continues making ground in the EU, putting more hard right parties into power, etc, etc...
Wow. That’s a $4.5 billion purchase just for the tanks.
I feel like Putin lives off such a web of lies and disinformation, he can just say that was the goal of Lysuchansk proves too hard to take. From reports they’re already shelling it now and no doubt he’ll happily send another 30k Russians to their deaths if he can say ‘I won’.