Every day that this war goes on is another day that makes Soviet Russia weaker.
China is watching.
We want to stay what we are,â is what Ukraine is currently fighting for.
The right to keep ethnically cleansing Russian-speaking Ukrainians?
Heard there's a new movie coming out:
ZZelenskyy!! Financial Lootings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Ukraine
(\sarc ;>)
Wait a while, it'll get better!
I watched an economist make a presentation about Russia and how corruption permeated everything. The part of Finland that was taken over by Russia has a per-capita income of $7900 while in Finland next door it was $49,000. It starts at the top, with Putin reported to be the richest man in Europe. His head of the military lives in a twenty-five-million-dollar house outside Moscow. But the corruption goes all the way to the bottom with the man in charge of the tank storage area committing suicide when told to prep a bunch of tanks for delivery. Only one in ten would start. Most likely he’d sold the parts. At the bottom of the totem company commanders were selling the labor of their conscripts and paying them effectively nothing. Ukraine had relatively less corruption and Putin couldn’t enforce his will there.
Even before the war surveys of young Russians indicated an astounding percentage saw no future there and they wanted to immigrate. Here’s a link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9i47sgi-V4
The Russians drink more than one-fifth at every meal
Mostly, I'm sure, the ones the Russians retreated from in the north.
If you listen to Russian politicians and look at polls in Russia, the problem (that won’t go away anytime soon) is this:
Great Russian chauvinism. Like the U.S. in its earlier history had the doctrine of “Manifest Destiny,” which of course fueled the drive westward to the Pacific coast and a bit beyond. The average Russia appears to think similarly in regard to their nation.
Russia still has such an expansionistic doctrine guiding it (as it has had for the last 1000 years). In other words, Russia is somewhat like a shark that must keep moving to breathe, in that it thinks it must keep expanding to survive. Or, put another way, their only sure defense (in their minds is a continuous offense). Ask the Finns about this. Ask the Swedes. Ask any number of other nations which border Russia.
Craziness
If you watch imbedded reporters in the east with live action
Versus press parades with Uke forces in western Donbas or Uke territory away from fighting
Youâre watching two wars basically
Tactics behavior and reporting of results
Some of the eastern on site reporters are biased some not so much
The western reporters are a dog and pony show
Putin has the east as he said he wanted from jump street for reasons we can argue forever the justness of
He doesnât seem to want much more
The west globalist aim seems to be to proxy it as long as possible apparently
Ironically it could give Zelensky some rope to make a deal with Putin simply because he has to
Or destroy whatâs left of his army
If this ends quickly where does all that money go
?
Not much resistemce left in Donbas ...
Uke armies pretty much deployed and hurt....Ill supplied with some units refusing to fight without more heavy support
There was talk of summer offensive but too many troops have been deployed already
Only thing seems fairly certain to me is Donbas and Luhansk are in final stages of Russian takeover
$5 billion for every percent of Ukraine the Russians take!
Better give him 100 billion to his time!
Check your arithmetic!
40 billion for 20% of Ukraine. He will sell the rest for 160 billions.
Just don’t forget 10% for the Big Guy, otherwise no deal.
A year from now Zelenskyyyy will be living in Paris next door to Suha Arafat.
Four months at Blitzkrieg speed.
It amazes me how Bill Clinton is never blamed for being the one to take away Ukraine’s nukes.
The most corrupt country in Europe?
But now I do! That same inner darkness is here with us today with this generation, just as it always has been.
And weâre the same as those Germans and Russians were, too, and if we think the same things they did, then that same reality will soon be our reality, too, the same as night follows day.
And we did! Even us. Even here. Weâre the same, so letâs not go down that same road they did any further/farther than we have already.
And so now, when I read the posts and the sentiments to these âRussia invades Ukraineâ stories, I also have a better understanding of why we, the people, looked away to let Hitler and Stalin take what they wanted and also why we were okay with it when FDR turned away that boat load of Jews who were trying to escape their fate in Nazi Germany.
We wear history like fashionable clothing until it gets dirty. And then we change into some work clothes and run historyâs fashions through the washer and dryer, smooth out the wrinkles and hang them in our closet.
And then, on some busy morning one day in the future, while weâre stressed out and running late, we will mindlessly put them on again and itâs off into a new day, clean and fresh and looking good!
Does that 20% include Crimea?
So Russia is still losing?
Zelensky should just move straight to the MSNBC studios as this rate ...
20% for the big guy