LOL! Ask me in a week.
In the meantime, keep sucking that hopium
so, asking you after a week in which Ukraine not only consolidated control of Lyman but pushed Putin's army further.
are you still supporting Putin's invasion of Ukraine?
Posted on 10/01/2022 1:40:18 PM PDT by Antioch
LOL! Ask me in a week.
In the meantime, keep sucking that hopium
so, asking you after a week in which Ukraine not only consolidated control of Lyman but pushed Putin's army further.
are you still supporting Putin's invasion of Ukraine?
Robert DeWrong “If Putin really was desiring to reconstitute the USSR, then why is Georgia still an independent country? Why didn’t he annex them when he rolled in and stopped the fighting going on there in 2008?”
Why??
For two simple reasons
1. Georgia or rather Sakartveko as it calls itself, is not East Slavic but a millenium or two older than the emergence of the Slavs. No easily Russification as with east Slavic or Finno Ugric or Turkic peoples. Georgia had it’s own alphabet in the 300s AD and too strong a sense of self to be integrated. Ask the Sassanids or Timur e Lang or even the Greeks about Colchis.
2. Because taking a whole country takes time and resources that Russia didn’t have and was not willing to invest in 2008 with coffers low AND point #1
And Drew’s humiliation is just beginning. Igor Strelkov, terrorist, FSB agent, and former Defense Minister of the Donbas, says if Ukraine collapses the current front line—which it is likely to do— Russia is at risk of collapsing to the February 24th lines.
Robert DeWrong “The Nazis, and yes they really are Nazis, were attacking Russian speaking Ukrainians, who have lived there for generations”
They weren’t Nazis as these were Eastern Slavs.
Furthermore your story is as overblown as “police target only black people “. Were there some cases? Yes. But was it systematic? Nope.
Zelensky is a Russian speaking Ukrainian.
Your repetition of Putin’s propaganda is a repetition of a lie
Robert DeWrong “why didn’t Putin make the move to invade Ukraine years ago? Why did he wait 8 years?”
Because Putin was building up his reserves of materiel and money. He didn’t build it well enough due to the endemic corruption.
Furthermore your characterisation of the Minsk agreements is alien.
The signatures of the leaders of the so-called Luhansk and Donetsk Peoples’ Republics were added after they had already been signed by Ukraine, Russia, and the OSCE. They were not among the original signatories, and indeed Ukraine would not have signed had their signatures been part of the deal. There is nothing in the content or format of the Agreement that legitimizes these entities and they should not be treated as negotiating partners in any sense. Russia alone controls the forces occupying parts of eastern Ukraine.
The deals required a ceasefire, withdrawal of foreign military forces, disbanding of illegal armed groups, and returning control of the Ukrainian side of the international border with Russia to Ukraine, all of this under OSCE supervision.
Russia did none of this.
It had regular military officers as well as intelligence operatives and unmarked “little green men” woven into the military forces in Eastern Ukraine. The LPR and DPR forces are by any definition “illegal armed groups,” that were not disbanded. The ceasefire had barely been respected by the Russian side for more than a few days at a time.
Russia blocked the implementation of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine
The SMM of which Russia was a member acknowledged that 80% of such violations and restrictions come from the Russian-controlled side of the border, and those that occur on the Ukrainian side are largely for safety reasons (e.g., avoiding mined approaches to bridges.)
The Minsk Agreements do not require Ukraine to grant autonomy to Donbas, or to become a federalized state. Ukraine passed legislation granting special status to the regions.
So stop repeating Putin’s propaganda
“Zaporizhzhia city, its Ukrainian and Russian residents”
Correct.
They do not want to be under Muscowy
“How do you not understand Russia hasn’t used it’s most formidible weaponary in Ukraine to date?”
Russia has used up every modern weapon it had.
That’s why it is now relying on old school 30 year old artillery and drones from Iran
Putin ain’t comparable in any way to a saint. Neither can Zelensky for that matter.
But Putin is the one who started this war killing thousands of Orthodox Christians with his troops
“Both NATO and the Warsaw Pact were subdivisions of the United Nations”
Err.. next you’ll be saying your county officials are subdivisions of the un
GPH “And Drew’s humiliation is just beginning. Igor Strelkov, terrorist, FSB agent, and former Defense Minister of the Donbas, says if Ukraine collapses the current front line—which it is likely to do— Russia is at risk of collapsing to the February 24th lines.”
I wonder what the Kremlin line will be then?
I’m guessing Drew, Kazan, kiry, Nosewanking etc will all start saying that that was the original plan.
They’ll say Putin was playing 3P chess and planned to just take the DPR and LPR.
Then later they’ll change their tune again...
One week later...
Russian soldiers left for dead after heavy defeat in Lyman ‘cauldron’
An estimated 1,500 Russian troops die in battle after Ukraine recaptures city that has been left in ruins by months of vicious fighting
By
Sergio Olmos
IN LYMAN
6 October 2022 • 7:16pm
It's now the 10th Drew -- what say you?
Ukraine is as much a legitimate country as Putin’s Russia
Drew68 on 10th October “And, next week, so will Lymon.”
Drewboy, it’s now 29th October and not only has Russia NOT taken Lymon, it’s been pushed further.
Stoo your nonsensical support for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
Weeks later and not only is Lyman still with Ukraine, but they are moving further east
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