Posted on 09/12/2022 12:01:01 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
I can’t believe it’s happening! But it is. Russia is pushed back even further. You’ll hear an interception from the Kharkiv region to find more insight about how they retreat.
Also some exciting news from Moscow - some deputies are openly against Putin! Hopefully, there will be even more good news in the near future :)
I don’t think the story about conscripts is accurate. There were some confused conscripts at places, but 95%+ of Russian soldiers are on contract.
They do conscript people from occupied territories now, but that came later. They entered this war with the expectation that their contract soldiers will do the job (in 3 days).
I don’t believe Kim has any Nork soldiers to spare. It’s the same kind of temporary encouragement false statement that Russia made about Syrian or Ethiopian soldiers coming to fight for them. Neither of these turned out to be real.
They’re getting ammo and weapons from North Korea and Iran, but that only shows how weak they are.
Thanks for providing that.
That request for Putin to step down, was pretty reasoned from
a Western perspective.
It didn’t imply that new better leaders would take it to
the Ukraine. Instead it touched on the fact that Russia is
again threatening other nations, even with nukes.
At least some leaders in Russia aren’t buying the Peter the
Great Concept.
They give Putin credit for some reforms in his first two
terms, but touch on the fact that since then things have
gone downhill.
It wasn’t a particularly mean request. It just touched
on the need for change. Sounds like it would be good
change also, and I’d like to think Russia would pull
back from China, and seek better relations with the
West.
That does not mean it has to be a part of NATO.
Australia and Japan are not members, but they are still
considered to be aligned with NATO.
Russia could be also.
I’ve got no beef with Russia or the Russian people,
and I’d like to see Russia closer to us rather than
China. If cooler heads prevailed, I think it could
happen.
We’ll see...
They have no cover where they are now and the Russian air force is just across a nearby border....Russian Su-25 crashes during taken off during Russo-Ukrainian war
“In fact there will be, around the end of the week. The hohos who have gone into this adventure around Kharkiv will all be dead. This is an obvious Russian trap”
Cant wait to make you eat this yet another stupid putard prediction on Saturday.
There are no more moderates in the Kremlin - replacing Pootie likely means the same of worse.
I do not get why anyone is rooting for either side, Both Russia and Ukraine are horribly corrupt, and neither can be trusted nor supported.
Taking sides in this is like rooting for one of two neighbors who both hate you and would watch your house burn for fun, Ukraine just wants our money, and Russia is just being Russia.
The fall of Putin could shake up a lot of things worldwide.
Reopening the gas pipeline could lead to an overthrow of the EU’s greenies.
In the Middle East Syria would have it’s props knocked out.
Cuba and Venezuela would have to get tighter with China.
OR an even more hardliner could arise and:
Place a more aggressive stranglehold on the EU
Provide more support to Syria
Algin more closely to both Cube and Venezuela as well as with China to put more pressure on the US
No one has any clue how things may turn out.
Which country doesn’t want American money?
Ukraine produces stuff America consumes, and vice versa. It was corrupt but then so is Saudi Arabia and America is happy with that. Unlike Saudis and Russians though, Ukraine doesn’t attack American interests outside its borders.
So I guess the question is "Why are they doing this?", did they finally just get fed up and decide they were no longer going to keep up the charade that Russia was winning or has there been a power shift in the Kremlin, where some group has pushed Putin aside and is now telling the media to openly undermine him.
You're almost half right. Neither Putin nor Xi is a globalist but Xi's ambitions align with the globalists at the moment so they are both swimming in the same direction at the moment but it won't stay that way.
Hopefully the globalists, the Mullahs, and the CCP will be routed in the months ahead or the world is in serious trouble. Big Tech, like google, twatter, FB, and TikTok are a bigger threat than most people can imagine.
I’m not believing much of anything on news reporting on this. Ukraine is unbelievably corrupt and Russia is trying to become the old Soviet Union... The US should be staying out of this altogether.
A cornered rat with nukes is not a good thing.
Yes, it might do just that.
The world is changing and it’s not going to be a safer place.
Russia coming around would certainly be a step in the right
direction.
If only Trump hadn’t been blocked from meeting Putin and
establishing a working relationship. The Communists made
sure that was nixed. Hopefully he’ll get a second chance.
Biden will meanwhile screw things up as much as possible.
Ya like Bioweapons. Really sick how some Freepers here love Ukraine just so they can hate the other bad country.
Ukraine is literally the deep state’s foil to keep the masses distracted and do other bad things. Amazing some people are lining up like lemmings to support the country. Both are bad and we should be rooting for both to lose AND we should be sending NO MONEY to them.
As for alignment with the US and Europe, that is likely to be the price for a peace deal with all the sweet trimmings that Russia needs: the dropping of sanctions; the release of the hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian public and private assets that were seized and are now under the control of the US and NATO; and the reopening to Russia of Western commercial and credit markets.
In any event, Russia's fundamental national interest aligns more with the West than with China, which has territorial claims on Russian territory and views Russia not so much as an ally but as a partner of convenience against the US and the West.
That was a great read! And thank you for the links.
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