https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/interactive/2022/ukraine-road-to-war/ Biden was the only one in the world who was calling out Russia and warning ukraine. All of Europe thought biddn was fear lingering and zelensky himself thought biden was being crazy. The CIA and pentagon were BEGGING zelensky to mobilize and prepare for war. He refused It blows my mind away how the truth gets altered and people forget the facts. It makes you wonder how many of the stories we hear from previous wars are truthful or not from previous centuries. I'm sorry this may hurt some of you but zelensky failed his nation by not listening to biden pre invasion. Biden has been right since day 1 regarding Russia. Blows my mind how everyone forgets the truth and this whole new narrative gets spun up.
Are you still under the impression that Russia is prospering while the rest of Europe is falling apart? Europe is still growing; meanwhile, Russia has wiped out years of economic growth in less than a year. Yes, the banking sanctions have worked incredibly well. Oil and natural gas prices are both well below what they were before the invasion started. Europe has adapted pretty well by rerouting supplies and reducing use, while Russia is now having to import weaponry from North Korea and Iran because their normal supply chains are cut off due to ... banking sanctions.
I dunno, Ukraine seemed pretty prepared, and stopped Russia in its tracks in a matter of days. Biden gave Russia the green light to invade, and then dithered for a year on providing the weapons Ukraine needed, while countless Ukrainians died.
Yikes.... Sorry about your tribe, but Biden has pretty much handled this to perfection. Its hard to ask for a better outcome.
"Biden gave Russia the green light to invade" lol. How can anyone take your garbage seriously. You're such a tool. It's just funny hearing right wingers talk about Ukraine when their cult leader tried extortion and corrupting zelensky. Republicans are not serious folks anymore in governoring. If you read the former ambassador book about her time in Ukraine she talks specifically about how trump ruined zelensky view of america. These morons have done more damage to America than we can ever think of.
Absolutely. And the US has endless access to intelligence data that Ukraine could never dream of - even more so now with all the Russian defectors that keep escaping to the west. Ukraine doesn't even have it's own satellites - it has been partnering with the west from the start. And the US understands the weaponry we are supplying and how to ideally use it far better than Ukraine. I didn't say the US is dictating to Ukraine how to conduct the war - I said they have been providing tactical and strategic advice. Both sides have a wealth of knowledge and resources they bring to the table.
You do understand that we're not invading a country this time, nor installing a "functional democracy", right? And also, that we're not doing any fighting? So yes, it's different. Umm, we have a very simple mission objective: help a friendly sovereign country expel a foreign invader. Nothing more, nothing less. The war ends when Russia withdraws. And yet, you keep comparing this to Afghanistan and Iraq, neither of which were proxy wars. They were actual wars on foreign soil by US forces. You simply have no idea about anything that you're talking about. If you want to make a dumb comparision, at least make it make sense like Vietnam or Korea. Or if you can't grasp the proxy concept, you could always look at other wars like the first Gulf War where we went in, did what needed to be done, and left.
LOL. Well at least we know where @Space Ghost gets his info from. Elon Musk is now his to-go guy for war propaganda in addition to all the other BS he feeds him. Just when you think he can't get even stupider...
No, Russia is not doing well. LNG demand is not as high as projected. Warmer weather (thank you climate change?) and demand cuts have helped balance the LNG demand. Russia has a significant problem on the horizon with their LNG supply going forward. However energy demand is still a global issue for the remainder of the decade and BRICS will happily buy up cheap O&G from Russia. Sanctions worked against the oligarchs. Anti US countries like North Korea and Iran are the only ones who are willing to openly help the Russians. Sanctions have nothing to do with it unless the consideration the US will sanction any country that helps Russia. Cutting Russia off from the US banking system is largely irrelevant, especially considering Russia had already dumped most of its UST's in '18. India will happily continue to launder Russian oil and pay Russia in rubles or gold. I dont disagree Russia is in trouble long term. They already had serious issues before Ukraine and with the world trying to get off coal, oil and natural gas, it left them with a bleak future. I am not convinced Putin is going to get replaced anytime soon and all he has to do is maintain a decent enough economy to keep the natives from getting restless. I know you're a die hard Keynesian/MMT enthusiast and believe this is the natural order of which things must be run, but in my opinion, this is exactly what Putin is trying to short. Engage the west in yet another endless costly war.
Yeah because the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents were manufacturing their own weapons and equipment. Thanks for making the Afghanistan campaign even a bigger embarrassment with your logic. Think about it. The full force of the United States Army could not defeat the Taliban. But by your genius logic, you actually believe sending in a handful of tanks and weapons will change Putin's mind? I only wish I could be 100% right like you.
Why wouldn't they ? They have right wing tools like musk and others to amplify their propaganda. Do you blame them? 90% of the right wingers on this board would believe every word they're told by them. You literally have no idea what the hell you're talking about like most pro putin bootlickers. Pakistan and the ISI have been harboring the taliban since 2002. This has been confirmed by tons of CIA reports and Intel assessments from Pakistan ambassadors. The USA defeated al qaeda within 2 weeks of the initial invasion. We defeated Iraq within three weeks. There's a difference between nation building and going to war and if you don't know the difference you're a moron. Pakistani army was supply taliban with weapons for years and years. If you can't tell the difference between Afghanistan and Ukraine then youre a lost cause.
Not only the US can't defeat the Taliban which only had sticks and straws, but the Soviets also can't either. They both ended up leaving. That's two superpowers leaving after realizing they can't forever fight a highly motivated clan. So then why do you think the full weak-ass, corrupted, and unmotivated force of Putin's Russian military can indefinitely war with the highly motivated Ukrainian with much more advanced weaponry than sticks and straws (relatively speaking)?
Once again this comparison to Afghanistan regarding what the US is doing in Ukraine is completely off base. The US isn’t occupying Ukraine trying to impose a new political aystem on them. The Ukrainians are fighting off an invasion of a foreign power in their own soil. In that they are similar to the Taliban / Mujahadeen with the Russians as the 1980’s Soviets or 2000’s US. The nature of the battle and battlefield is completely different. This isn’t an insurgent asymmetric warfare but mechanized large scale conflict. Also Ukraine doesn’t need to win by overthrowing Putin and marching on to Moscow. They just need to get Russia out of their own territory. No matter what Putin says this isn’t the Great Patriotic War of pushing the Nazis from Stalingrad and then out of mother Russia. It’s already showing in the low morale and problems with recruitment they are having.
Pro-Russian Empire Telegram channels are butthurt by the destruction of drone factories in Iran. Apparently the Russian Federation is just about out of Shaheeds and was in the process of negotiating the purchase of the next round of terror weapons. I'm sure Israel totally "forgot" about Hezbollah. Clearly not a totally empty threat at all. Translate: Israel should remember that Iran's allies include the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah, which also consider Israel an enemy, and such fighters do not throw their hands into the wind for nothing
