Ah, where to begin?
“That would be nice if it was true, unfortunately it is not. The problem is that games are being played. Just one example... instead of getting less than $50 a barrel for their crude they have actually been getting over $80 a barrel using under the table dealing. The same is true of all of their exports. Why? Because countries representing 90% of the world’s population are ignoring all of the sanctions, and even our own European ‘allies’ have been cheating left and right.”
For your reading pleasure:
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/russian-oil-discount-asia-buyers
“And their trading partners have also completely ignored restrictions on their technology exports to Russia. The fact that you believe the propaganda shows only that you are gullible and prone to believing whatever you are told by your greatest war time leader, Joe Biden and his administration.”
Now you are being childish, which is to be expected form a juvenile. There are technology products that are forbidden to Russia because of the sanctions, and no other suppliers for those very same products exist.
Moreover, you resort to the same old foibles so common to leftist losers, which you are aping: Assuming facts not in evidence. If you brought your argument to a competent court of law your case would be tossed out with prejudice, because your argument lacks any supportable evidence. You’re all smoke, Sparky.
“So you have believed from the very beginning that waiting out Russia, one of the most self-sufficient counties in the world with a long history of overcoming long sieges was how Ukraine would ‘win’?”
Good grief, kid; you can’t even posit a coherent simile: Russia is not under siege; it is the attacker, the besieger. But Russia, as an attacker, has historically been less than stalwart.
“You must be a brilliant military strategist to have come up with that strategy!”
Not at all. A few millenia of history support it.
“And you sound like you escaped from a skilled care facility which is about the only place one hears the derogatory term ‘Sparky’ from the residents.”
You must indeed be new to these threads, because the story of Sparky was posted a long time ago; and many of your compadres are familiar with it.
“But we have both been posting here for around 20 years. I have been retired for much of that time. Fortunately, my mental capacity seems to be holding up.”
Then act like it.
I get a page not found error message when I click on the link. It is similar to the common sense not found errors I get from you whenever you make another attempt to back pedal on the nonsense that you have been spouting. Good grief did you go to college with Bullwinkle Moose? I would love to keep trading insults with you, but life moves on and there will be plenty of time for I told you so’s later. So, you have a good one.
I thought you and your pals might be interested in the following quote.
“The West is desperate to avoid having any meaningful discussion or review of the Battle of Bakhmut because it was such a massive loss. Think about it — a small “private” paramilitary force backed by former Chef with no military experience, forced Ukraine’s NATO-trained and supplied Army to retreat.”
“This is a very important point. Conventional military doctrine stipulates that an army attacking an entrenched force will need at least three times more soldiers than the defending force.. Looks like Russia is very unconventional. The Wagner Group’s 32,000 fighters defeated a Ukrainian force that employed over 120,000 troops, inflicting 70% casualties on the Ukrainians. Russia is writing new chapters for military academies and war colleges on how to attack and defeat a numerically superior force entrenched in fortifications. Russia was not fighting Afghan shepherds or Iraqi tribesmen armed with AK-47s. It faced off with a NATO proxy force, equipped with modern weaponry, and beat it. There is not enough lipstick in the world to paint this pig and make it look pretty.”