Only 16% of Ukrainians would vote for Zelensky if they were allowed to.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes..... pic.twitter.com/UBFjRwPU5A— Richard (@ricwe123) November 30, 2024
Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Only 16% of Ukrainians would vote for Zelensky if they were allowed to.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes..... pic.twitter.com/UBFjRwPU5A— Richard (@ricwe123) November 30, 2024
Weren’t we told that ruzzia would stroll to Chasiv Yar after they captured Bakhmut?
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The same people said much the same thing in Feb 2022
"I’m sorry to read your comments. Take care."
Has he left this thread for what remains of the Neocon movement, or is he simply depressed over the return of The Trump?
Comments and thoughts please.
https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1863216340502192129
This North Korean ATGM was destroyed in an FPV drone strike in the Kharkiv region.
🇺🇦 🇰🇵 🇷🇺
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1863112482845344223
Has he left this thread for what remains of the Neocon movement, or is he simply depressed over the return of The Trump?
After 7,826 insane, arrogant, bandwidth wasting spam posts...
Sure is easier to navigate FR lately.
We apparently have defeated Speedy the #NeverTrump Zeeper.
“Syria is critical to Putin’s long term goals”
Among them, keeping down Turkey and Islamism as regional rivals.
Turkish control of oil and gas routes between the Mideast and Europe, would shift the balance of power between Turkey and Russia, long term. The same with the Black Sea hydrocarbon deposits in Crimean waters. Turkey’s economy is is under strain, but its large Military is untouched - tanned and rested.
They could take a page out of Putin’s “Little Green Men” playbook, to seize control of Strategic territory using surrogates, while Russia is weakened by Ukraine.
With a gusher of oil transit revenue, Turkey could raise quite a bit of Islamist fervor in Central Asia, and among muslims in Russia.
Estrogen primarily want Crimea.
she’s at it again.
Like a shark, I believe that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan smells blood in the water.
Russia's economy looking at a "hard landing" in 2025. Just the kind of situation Trump can use to drive a hard bargain. Add in Syria, maybe more unrest in Georgia. Basically, the worse things get for Putin, the stronger Trump's hand is.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 1, 2024
The Georgian opposition continues to contest the legitimacy of Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party’s electoral victory following Georgian Dream’s suspension of Georgia’s European Union (EU) membership accession talks. Georgian Dream announced on November 28 that it will suspend the country’s EU accession negotiations and will reject EU grants following a European Parliament resolution deeming the largely contested the October 26 Georgian parliamentary elections as “neither free nor fair.”[11] The Georgian constitution has an enshrined aspiration to join the EU, and Georgian Dream’s suspension of EU membership talks contradicts the constitution and the demonstrated will of most Georgians who have strived for EU accession for decades.[12] The Georgian opposition - comprised of opposition parties, Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, and Georgian civil society - immediately called for protests and continued to contest the legitimacy of the Georgian Dream party’s electoral victory and its actions. Zourabichvili stated on November 30 that she would remain the sole legal authority of the Georgian government until new elections are held and that the new Georgian Dream-dominated parliament has no right to elect a new president in December 2024, as they intend to do.[13] Georgian presidential elections are currently scheduled for December 14.[14] The Georgian opposition has been protesting Georgian Dream’s decision to suspend efforts for EU membership halt across Georgia since November 28, and Georgian riot police have violently suppressed peaceful protestors using, water cannons, beatings, and other violent tactics.[15] Various Georgian ambassadors have resigned in protest of Georgian Dream’s actions, including Georgian Ambassador to the US David Zalkaliani.[16] The US State Department announced on November 30 that it is suspending the US-Georgia Strategic Partnership in response to Georgian Dream’s “various anti-democratic actions”, while European officials have criticized Georgian Dream’s actions, voiced solidarity with the protesters, and suggested sanctioning Georgian authorities.[17] ISW previously assessed that a Georgian Dream parliamentary victory would likely derail Georgia’s EU and NATO accession aspirations and degrade Georgia’s relationships with its Western partners.[18]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-december-1-2024
How Biden Made a Mess of Ukraine
He treated the conflict as a crisis to be managed, not a war to be won.
By Phillips Payson O’Brien
Nearly three years in, the conflict is becoming ever more grotesque, and the number of war crimes keeps rising. The conflict has also become more global in nature, as Russia, by economic and military necessity, deepens its alliances with China, Iran, and North Korea. When Putin was gathering his invasion force in late 2021 and early 2022, the United States had good intelligence and tried to warn Ukraine about Russia’s plans. A far harder call was what would happen when an invasion began, and in that respect, the Biden administration didn’t understand what it was looking at. U.S. officials assumed that if Putin went ahead with his plans, Ukraine would stand no chance and the Russians would prevail in short order. Stung by the disastrous American withdrawal from Afghanistan just months earlier, Biden reacted to the new crisis with self-pity: According to the journalist Bob Woodward’s new book, War, the president complained, “Jesus Christ! Now I’ve got to deal with Russia swallowing Ukraine?”
When the U.S. eventually got over its reservations and provided the requested systems, albeit in limited numbers, Putin always backed down. The standard Russian strategy was to downplay the arrival of the new equipment and go out of its way to assure the Russian public that it would make no difference in the war. And in fact, those Western weapons had significantly less impact than they would have if the U.S. had transferred them earlier and in greater quantity.
An inability to learn became a major, repeated failure of the Biden administration’s overall strategy toward Ukraine. Extreme caution about provoking Putin was perhaps understandable in early 2022. American defense planners had for years played numerous wargames that resulted in nuclear weapons being used if some imagined Russian redline was crossed. Both Woodward and The New York Times have reported that, as Ukraine was taking back territory in the fall of 2022, the Biden administration believed—based on intelligence that likely will never become public—that there was a 50 percent chance that Putin would use nuclear bombs. Even so, the administration should have adjusted its thinking after Russia’s military weakness and its tendency to bluff on nuclear matters became clear.
The war has now gone on so long that Biden won’t figure in its ending. Ukrainians can still fight on with Europe’s help. Perhaps President-Elect Donald Trump will confound his allies and detractors alike by standing with Ukraine instead of indulging Putin. What’s clear is that Biden missed the moment. The administration has dithered, looking more and more powerless as Ukraine has suffered and as an emergent anti-Western alliance that includes Iran, North Korea, and China has come to Russia’s aid. Biden could have helped create a better, more secure world than the one that existed in February 2022. Instead, he’s ushered in a much more dangerous one.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/biden-ukraine-policy-failures/680834/
Turkey + Qatar paid the Islamists to hit not only the Syrian army etc but also the Kurds. It will be costly to fix this mess later.
As a result, 7 Russian soldiers were eliminated, 8 more were captured.
https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1863523708473593923
https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1863495371789386200
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