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Why Ukraine’s counter-offensive is failing
Responsible Statecraft ^ | JULY 19, 2023 | Daniel L. Davis

Posted on 07/20/2023 3:09:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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To: Fai Mao

“As bad as he is, Lloyd Austin, may be the most competent person in the Joe Shitbag Biden administration.”

Someone here had said that Sam Brinton, the former (I guess) ‘non-binary’ Energy Department official who liked to steal suitcases filled with women’s clothing, was the most qualified.

The thing is, he probably was. I suspect he understood nuclear waste products as well as anyone alive and that actually does require some SERIOUS study in the field.


41 posted on 07/20/2023 4:04:18 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: srmanuel
Ukraine is being systematically destroyed...

That does seem to be the goal of the Russian government.

Apparently all those stories about protecting the Russian speaking Ukrainians, etc. were just propaganda.

Why is Russia so determined to destroy Ukraine?

42 posted on 07/20/2023 4:13:46 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Fai Mao
Supporting Ukraine is supporting international human trafficking

You missed the part about Russia being the cause of the human trafficking seen in Ukraine.

Right now more than 16,000 Ukrainian children have been taken to Russia from Ukraine. Their parents are working very hard to get them back.

Historically Russia was the destination of the largest number of victims of human trafficking in Ukraine. The victims are the Ukrainians, the perpetrators are Russian.

Take a look at this video where a young Ukrainian tells what happened to her.

43 posted on 07/20/2023 4:18:56 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing

If that were true Biden would support Russia.


44 posted on 07/20/2023 4:22:41 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: hardspunned

the gadsden purchase was in 1854 (i believe)...


45 posted on 07/20/2023 4:23:12 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: hinckley buzzard

“Now, we are like Stalin in 1941, after he purged all his good generals for being politically incorrect, and then Operation Barbarossa showed up on his doorstep”

And still no one put a bullet into his cerebellum...


46 posted on 07/20/2023 4:28:45 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: rellic
Sue for a shitty peace and then quietly kill all Russians in their land.

Vodka is killing the Russians anyway. So give them 20% of Ukraine.

We'll get Ukraine in NATO. The Poles will send in the peacekeepers to defend the Ukrainian border.

The U.S. and the E.U. needs to do a "Marshall Plan" for Ukraine.

47 posted on 07/20/2023 4:29:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: freeandfreezing
Why is Russia so determined to destroy Ukraine?

One has to destroy the ability of the other side to wage war, that's why.

48 posted on 07/20/2023 4:33:02 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Casey DeSantis? No thanks. I've already voted for too many Bushes.)
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To: SteveH

“not bought and paid for” I believe I wrote.


49 posted on 07/20/2023 4:35:11 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: ConservativeInPA

After twenty years in Iraq. This is nothing.


50 posted on 07/20/2023 4:47:00 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: mass55th

They have a long way to go to get to the 7 trillion we poured down the drain in Iraq.


51 posted on 07/20/2023 4:48:56 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: srmanuel

all for

the new marxist order

supremacy

diversity


52 posted on 07/20/2023 4:52:19 PM PDT by Firehath
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To: napscoordinator
After twenty years in Iraq. This is nothing.

Not yet. We’re just getting warmed up. We’ve depleted our artillery shells. Next we have deplete our cluster bombs. Eventually, these morons at the Pentagon will get us to a choice between stones and nukes. That takes a while.

53 posted on 07/20/2023 4:52:23 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I am getting concerned that our arsenal is being depleted. It’s going to take a lot to restock everything. If Russia would have mind their business none of this would be happening. Reagan is turning over in his grave.


54 posted on 07/20/2023 4:55:12 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: srmanuel

But wait we must save Ukraine.

There are millions of third world immigrants who are waiting for a home and will be moved there by Soros and his minions.

What was that…? Oh yeah??? I’m full of it am I?

Have you been watching the riots in France, London now the most diversely brown city in Europe, Immigrants in boatloads flooding to Italy….?

It’s all over NATO.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-britain-will-fully-islamic-soon-andrew-tate-shocks-fans-openly-calling-islamisation-britain

https://twitter.com/ChristineBMays2/status/1679055186700935170?s=20


55 posted on 07/20/2023 5:18:37 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: napscoordinator
Reagan is turning over in his grave.

You’re right. It seems that all the agreements, especially the verbal ones, with Russia/CCCP that kept the peace have been forgotten. We made it though the entire Cold War with very little loss of life. This is definitely the most dire things have become.

Biden won’t/can’t talk to Putin. That’s a huge mistake. Along those lines … I was watching an interview with RFK, Jr the other day. He talked about JFK’s communications with Russia. There was constant back channel stuff, but it seemed Jack got to know Nikita Khrushchev personally, but it was kept quiet to maintain Khrushchev’s appearance as a hardliner. According to RFK, Jr, both Jack and Nikita saw the horrors of war and neither ever wanted direct confrontation. Biden on the other hand is so demented that he thinks Beau died in Iraq. He’s one of those dangerous warriors in their mind only types, or whatever his most recent delusion is. As for Putin, i don’t know where he is coming from other than seeing NATO expansion to his border. If the same was happening to the U.S. in Cuba and our borders with Canada and Mexico we would probably feel and think similar to Putin.

Speaking of Cuba, what has Biden done about the CCP spy base there? We’re being led by a fool - yet another reason to have any military involvement anywhere if we can avoid it.

56 posted on 07/20/2023 5:20:25 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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To: Brian Griffin
Do we know when the Russian offensive will be?

Good point. There are like 2 divisions of PMCs resting and training in Belarus, so I'm thinking possibly a multi-pronged attack. Odessa must be looking tempting.

When - maybe never. Time is on their side if they choose to just dig in and keep what they have. Ukraine/NATO/US, obviously, can't do anything.

57 posted on 07/20/2023 5:44:38 PM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: davidb56

Russia does not get a vote on who does or does not join NATO. If they don’t like it then it sucks to be them.


58 posted on 07/20/2023 6:12:41 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: davidb56

There was a agreement in place and all they had to do is refuse to join NATO at a later date.

Because that worked out so well for them in 2014?

59 posted on 07/20/2023 6:16:43 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"-Voltaire)
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To: MeganC

“Eighteen months in to a ten day war and Ukraine is stalemating mighty Ruzzia.”

Twenty years into a six month war and the Taliban not only stalemated the US, but had final victory after a disastrous and shameful pullout. And Iraq and the general area is now a worse mess than when Saddam had it.

So what’s your point with Russia? If the Ukes can stalemate Russia for 20 years, then that’s a bragging point.


60 posted on 07/20/2023 6:18:09 PM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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