Posted on 08/20/2023 5:44:38 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
Russia today is run by neo-soviet losers. They are desperate about having lost the cold war, and are now trying to resurrect the old Soviet-Union the best they can.
The price is high for the russian people though.
250.000 russian deaths, +4000 tanks eliminated, scores of downed helicopters and planes. Russia is depleting itself to a degree which is now becoming spectacular.
While the depleting of Russia’s army is in full swing, NATO is back in business with augmented budgets and in full expansion with newly joined Finland and Sweden.
Ukraine will also become a NATO member.
The process of containing and depleting Russia’s imperialistic dreams is succeeding in a near perfect way.
Target was the Kh-22/X-22missiles, bombers a bonus.
Russia invaded Ukraine 2022
“Russia invaded Georgia 2008
Russia invaded Czechoslovakia 1968
Russia invaded Hungry 1956
Russia invaded Poland 1939”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
In essence, Russia also ruled over Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, East-Germany... All part of the “Eastern Bloc” forced upon them by the Soviet-Union / Russia.
Yeah...and its not rocket science either. Amazing how dumb some people can be.You are comparing knowing french to knowing "rocket science".
Add to that you totally fail to explain your support for Putin's Invasion of Ukraine.
Discerning Conservatives are likely to take yor undefended Putin Stoogery as a JOKE from a weirdo.
Peak China
Paywall article.
“China’s 40-Year Boom Has Ended. What Comes Next?”
“For decades, China powered its economy by investing in factories, skyscrapers and roads. The model sparked an extraordinary period of growth that lifted China out of poverty and turned it into a global giant whose export prowess washed across the globe.
Now the model is broken.
What worked when China was playing catch-up makes less sense now that the country is drowning in debt and running out of things to build. Parts of China are saddled with under-used bridges and airports. Millions of apartments are unoccupied. Returns on investment have sharply declined.
Signs of trouble extend beyond China’s dismal economic data to distant provinces, including Yunnan in the southwest, which recently said it would spend millions of dollars to build a new Covid-19 quarantine facility, nearly the size of three football fields, despite China having ended its “zero-Covid” policy months ago, and long after the world moved on from the pandemic.”
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-economy-debt-slowdown-recession-622a3be4?mod=hp_lead_pos1
i’ve predicted a 10 year war.
paywall article
“Russia’s War in Ukraine Could Run for Years”
“Russia’s war on Ukraine is in danger of becoming a protracted struggle that lasts several more years. The reason isn’t just that the front-line combat is a slow-moving slog, but also that none of the main actors have political goals that are both clear and attainable.
Ukraine’s central war aim—restoring its territorial integrity—is the clearest, but appears a distant prospect given the limits of Western support. The U.S. and key European allies such as Germany want to prevent Russia from winning, but fear the costs and risks of helping Ukraine to full victory. Some Western officials are sketching out grand bargains to end the war, but they fit neither Kyiv’s nor Moscow’s goals.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declared aims are the most elastic, ranging from ambitious imperial schemes to more limited land grabs, and shifting with Russia’s military fortunes. His long-term objective of bringing Ukraine back under Moscow’s sway looks unrealistic now, but Ukrainians believe he would treat smaller gains as mere steppingstones, rendering treacherous any peace based on concessions.”
130 million empty apartments!
Those who think America’s best days are behind it are going to be disappointed.
The 21st century will be known as ‘Another American Century’.
“About one-fifth of apartments in urban China, or at least 130 million units, were estimated to be unoccupied in 2018, the latest data available, according to a study by China’s Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.”
Thank you for question. Indeed, both my wife and I are native-born American citizens. That we worked in other nations and learned other languages should not come as a surprise to one who calls himself "Berlin_Freeper" and yet whose About page states he is "Christian Conservative Patriotic American. / American citizen originally from New York City."
Wie gut beherrscht dein Deutsch? Quel est ton niveau de français ? ¿Qué competente es tu español? Yeah, and I studied a little Hebrew, koine and some Latin too. That's how I noticed some jackass purporting to be Catholic so blithely misspelled his FR moniker. He doesn't seem active now.
Your turn for a question: When did you obtain your Aufenthaltstitel?
Oh and I only worship one God in heaven, the God of the Bible, but you knew that and decided I 'deserved' an insult upon my faith for daring to disagree with you.Was I really supposed to care what a paranoid Q Follower thinks about what "I knew"?
Oh and I only worship one God in heaven, the God of the Bible, but you knew that and decided I 'deserved' an insult upon my faith for daring to disagree with you. Was I really supposed to care what a paranoid Q Follower thinks about what "I knew"? And tailor my posts accordingly??A search through this thread finds only one instance of the text, and with this response to you, it should be two. Both your words, verbatim.
You might be commenting on different thread simultaneoulsy and forgetting tho whom you comment.
Looks like 3 Storm Shadows just hit Russian positions in Mariupol a few minutes ago.
Of the 130 million vacant apartments maybe 2%? (a very low number) are actually livable. Most have no plumbing, no electricity, no working elevators, no garbage pick up; some have only the elevator shaft and no stairs.
Bonus: some have no way to accesses the interior of the building.
Apartments that can be lived in command a premium price. That is: those without rats and have regular garbage pick up. Be sure to include a hefty tip, aka bribe, for every one you use to rent the apartment, unless you have relatives that ‘know’ someone.
You can only live there for 7 years which is when the property reverts to the Party, same for private homes.
What sort of a Kauderwelsch is that supposed to be?! "Google Translate" could do better!
Regards,
Im reading reports that the war is impoverishing the Germans because so much of their industry is dependent on cheap natural gas from Russia. I’m reading reports that stilts berg and blinken are losing confidence that the ukes can win this war. That comes as I read reports that the ukes are throwing in their reserves into the fight., imho that’s a waste. It’s a sign the ukes have given up on a break through. It doesn’t look like the ukes can get better results by channeling more troops into presighted Russian kill zones.
I have seen infra red drone pics of mine fields at night. The mines are alll clearly marked by their heat signatures.:
The ukes could cluster bomb this mine fields and take out all the mines. That would clear a path away from the roads where the Russians have presighted their artillery.
The news that the ukes took out a Russian bomber and a couple of rus helicopters is promising.. imho the ukes should devote more storm shadows to taking out the rus air force .
If the rus air force were out of the picture — then the ukes could drive across the old dneiper lawmakers beds behind tus lines. They would be preceded by special forces helicoptered into the south bank of the dneiper.
“the ukes should devote more storm shadows to taking out the rus air force “
They’ve promised not to fire StormShadows into RuZZia proper.
Crimea is targetable.
A) Using the “reserves” - the 82nd Mechanized - to do what they were designed to do is not a waste.
B) Using the “reserves” is not a sign they have “given up” anything, but the opposite.
C) They took out the primary target on the airfield - the Kh-22 missiles, the 3 bombers destroyed or very badly damaged was a bonus.
D) Destroying a few bombers is no real benefit, as RU has hundreds of them and are easily replaced.
E) Storm Shadows are in very limited supply and have to be used sparingly on Command Centers and other high value targets of immediate benefit, like bridges and big ammo dumps.
F) UA special forces have already crossed the river and regular troops followed at the Cossack Camp. But, RU sent lots of reinforcements and forced the UA bridgehead further west. This is OK because that means the RU troops are not reinforcing in the Robotnye direction.
Ruzzia is demilitarizing itself. None too soon.
The Guardian (UK) reports:
“The Netherlands and Denmark have announced they will donate up to 61 F-16 fighter jets between them to Ukraine once pilot training has been satisfactorily completed, as Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited both countries after months of entreaties to bolster the Ukrainian air force.
Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, said her country would provide 19 jets – “hopefully” six around new year, eight more next year and the remaining five in 2025...
Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, did not put a number on the Dutch donation, but said the Netherlands had 42 in its air force.”
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