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Russia's Grand Strategy and Ukraine - Is Putin's war already a strategic failure?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94bqk8cB9iQ ^ | 2/19/2023 | Perun

Posted on 02/19/2023 10:21:07 AM PST by Chode

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To: xkaydet65
Congress cutoff funding to Azov battalion in 2018 because they had neo-Nazi ties. There are more than 150 monuments and/or streets in Ukraine named after Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera. Bandera is literally worshiped in Ukraine.

Ukraine is what doesn't resemble a free country. Zelensky has imprisoned opposition leaders, shutdown opposition parties, banned opposition media outlets and shutdown churches.

Everything you and your ilk claim is true about Russia is really true of Ukraine.

41 posted on 02/19/2023 4:22:58 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Secret Agent Man

Amen


42 posted on 02/19/2023 4:27:31 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Kazan

you dint watch the video, did you...

it makes no predictions.


43 posted on 02/19/2023 4:28:35 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: PGR88

100% and $10 says half dint watch the video...


44 posted on 02/19/2023 4:30:40 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

There is nothing to predict. Ukraine has absolutely no chance of taking back any territory its lost. No one with half a brain believes otherwise.


45 posted on 02/19/2023 4:33:57 PM PST by Kazan
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To: ifinnegan

i doubt even old Nevil would buy that one


46 posted on 02/19/2023 4:35:29 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: xkaydet65
Putin has NO desire to takeover over Poland.

You're an idiot, spewing outlandish narratives.

We're the ones that did everything we could to make the war in Ukraine happen.

We meddled in Ukraine, fomented a revolution, installed a government illegally and setoff a civil war. We trained and funded neo-Nazis and Ukrainian nationalists and encouraged them to slaughter the ethnic Russian population.

We armed Ukraine, trained their soldiers, ran biolabs with deadly pathogens in them there and teased NATO membership for Ukraine. If Russia or China were doing that in Mexico, we'd invade and remove the threat.

Everything you posted here is a lie.

47 posted on 02/19/2023 4:37:48 PM PST by Kazan
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To: McGruff

that’s the whole point, he DOESN’T say so!

he pretty much never takes a position, just gives options

he gives you numbers and lets you decide...

but you do have to watch it first


48 posted on 02/19/2023 4:38:54 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Kazan

he doesn’t talk about reclaiming land

he asks the listener to make up their own minds

that’s the reason i post from him as he doesn’t come from one side or the other, even if the titles are sometimes provocative


49 posted on 02/19/2023 4:42:07 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Kazan

I thought you and Speedy were equally yuh insane but wow you’ve gone way way beyond.


50 posted on 02/19/2023 5:01:47 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: buwaya

We will run out before Russia and that really is the only thing that matters.


51 posted on 02/19/2023 5:08:27 PM PST by Owen
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To: Owen

The US will “run out” in something over a century, and definitely longer given that reserves are constantly expanding. And of course in not too long tech and economic change will make our argument moot. Let’s give this dispute a window of argumentation, say 20 years.


52 posted on 02/19/2023 5:24:57 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Kazan

Then why has Ukraine already taken back territory its lost?


53 posted on 02/19/2023 5:26:20 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Kazan

Hmm. His propagandists on Russian TV have said otherwise quite often.


54 posted on 02/19/2023 5:27:11 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Kazan

“We’re the ones that did everything we could to make the war in Ukraine happen.”

Yes, by approving Nordstream II and withdrawing from Afghanistan, and looking weak and useless.


55 posted on 02/19/2023 5:28:50 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Chode

Russia has destroyed any chance of Western, or probably if they have any sense, neutral, investment in Russia for the next generation.

Yes, Russia can try to “partner” with China. That’s exactly the trap China would like.


56 posted on 02/19/2023 7:52:34 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: buwaya

Even if we see real shortages, that guarantees a pro-petro President & Congress being elected in 2024.

Problem solved in short order.


57 posted on 02/19/2023 7:58:41 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Chode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dArKxgBRqMk

Feb 19, 2023

- As Russia’s special military operation reaches the one year mark, we wonder what is happening now and what will happen next;

- Equally important is what started this conflict;

- NATO has repeatedly attacked and destroyed allies of Russia around the globe throughout the 21st century;

- NATO has also constantly encroached eastward toward Russia’s borders;

- The Western media admits that the US has repeatedly overthrown nations along Russia’s borders and installed client regimes in their place;

- The Western media also admits that these nations pose a threat to Russia including Georgia which in 2008 actually attacked Russian forces;

- Ukraine from 2014 onward was a repeat of US meddling in Georgia that left Russia with only one choice, not if conflict would come but when it would be fought? At a time convenient for NATO or for Russia?

- The US is pursuing a similar campaign of encroachment, encirclement, and proxy war with China giving Beijing every reason to support Russia in its current operations in Ukraine;

58 posted on 02/19/2023 9:16:54 PM PST by Kazan
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To: buwaya
Wrong we went out of our way to make this war happen by 1)fomenting a coup in Ukraine and by installing a new government illegal that was hostile to both Russia and ethnic Russians in Ukraine 2) Arming Ukraine, training troops there, running biolabs with deadly pathogens in them there and by teasing NATO membership for Ukraine.

There is no chance in hell we'd tolerate China or Russia doing in Mexico what we did in Ukraine.

And, the Russians consistently sought peace -- with the Minsk Accords; by seeking to negotiate to avoid war in December of 2021 and by negotiating an end to it in March. At every turn, WE pushed for war.

We wanted this proxy war because the powers that be that they could win and then rape Russia of money and resources like we've done in Ukraine.

59 posted on 02/19/2023 9:24:43 PM PST by Kazan
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To: buwaya
The only territory Ukraine took back were places Russians did want to defend and pulled out of and killed thousands of Ukrainians on the way out.

The Ukrainian military hasn't won a single battle against the Russian military nor is it possible that could.

60 posted on 02/19/2023 9:26:57 PM PST by Kazan
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