Posted on 11/28/2022 10:27:03 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
membership in NATO is voluntary
so all you’re seeing is countries wanting to get NATO’s protection from Russia
with good reason
60 year old tanks huh?
Funny Ukraine using 1960s HAWK missiles, WWII/Korean War/Vietnam level 105 artillery and 1950’s tanks refurbished, etc.
Hypocrite.
Wonder what it’s like to call oneself a ‘Christian’ and be backing, supporting, and sympathizing with a Nazi infested Kyiv Ukrainian Regime........
and how many of those countries did the US try to annex?
uh, none ...
that’s the difference, dumbass
Russia, Ukraine war: Maternity and children’s hospital bombed: Mariupol ‘besieged’ by Russian invaders
Nearly 3,000 newborn babies in Mariupol are in dire need of medicine and food after Russian forces blocked evacuations, Ukrainian officials say
https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukraine-russia-war-mariupol-400000-trapped-3000-newborn-babies
Resident of Canuckistan, home of “I am proud of my Nazi grandpa’ Nazi Freeland and her war bond drive to save a Nazi infested Ukraine, you might want to do some research.....’dumbass.’
So they are alive and were not bombed.
What fortuitous timing...
UMCRevMom may need to be told by you.
(That one was recycled from Libya and Iraq.)
Perhaps you have not been paying attention since 2014? Willing ignorance is much worse than ignorance.
“Russia, Ukraine war: Maternity and children’s hospital bombed: Mariupol ‘besieged’ by Russian invaders”
We can do this all day long, fake Christian.
I know exactly who is your Kryptonite though....
https://www.youtube.com/@EvaKBartlett/videos
https://nitter.net/EvaKBartlett/with_replies
@Canuck Neoconservative:
There were recent voter referendums in the 4 Republics, now a part of Russia, whereas Kosovo had a mere parliamentarian hand vote, not voter referendums, yet the west somehow said it was all good for Kosovo.
So the west will also then have to recognize those 4 as being a part of Russia, right?
“So the west will also then have to recognize those 4 as being a part of Russia, right?”
No, and they haven’t. Yet.
Map makers will though after this war/conflict concludes.
That said, don’t think Russia gives one shat whether the West ever recognizes such given the Duma has made those 4 Donbass regions permanent parts of the Russian Federation....forever.
Infighting among Russia’s military leadership is fueling setbacks on the battlefield, as leaders continue to criticize how President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine is being handled, experts say.
In recent weeks, Putin’s longtime allies including Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, and Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Russian mercenary outfit, the Wagner Group, dubbed “Putin’s Chef,” have publicly criticized Russia’s defense ministry and its head, Sergei Shoigu.
Mercenaries from Prigozhin’s Wagner Group are reportedly supporting Russian troops in efforts to capture Bakhmut, a strategic town in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine.
Jaroslava Barbieri, doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham noted that Prigozhin likely has “ulterior motives” in pouring troops into the region.
“He sees it as an opportunity to undermine Shoigu further and show the Kremlin the combat value of the Wagner Group while regular Russian military units continue to lose ground in other combat zones,” Barbieri said.
She added that Shoigu recently fired a deputy defense minister who had reportedly facilitated lucrative contracts for the Wagner Group. “So this is in part a personal vendetta, too,” she said.
Prigozhin and Kadyrov have vilified Shoigu for a series of disastrous defeats that have left Russian forces in retreat, Barbieri added, referring to counteroffensives by Ukraine that have seen troops recapture swathes of territory in the south and northeast.
The continued attacks in Bakhmut also come amid gains by Ukraine in the Kherson region.
Prigozhin is sponsoring the formation of a volunteer battalion recruited by Russian war criminal Igor Girkin, a former Federal Security Service (FSB) officer.
The military group could “pose a threat to Putin’s rule.”
“Prigozhin continues to accrue power and is setting up a military structure parallel to the Russian Armed Forces, which may come to pose a threat to Putin’s rule—at least within the information space.”
Prigozhin is effectively building a “constituency” of supporters and his own fighting force that are not under the direct control of the Russian military or the Ministry of Defense.
The assessment notes that Prigozhin holds a uniquely advantageous position within the Russian state structure and information space that allows him to expand his constituency in the country more readily than the higher military command.
Prigozhin can freely promote himself and his forces while criticizing Kremlin officials or the Russian Armed Force without fear of push back.
When it comes to American politics it is best for Canadians to STFU.
What we need is an Alberta referendum on joining the US.
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The Russian propaganda is strong among some.
1. Russia invaded Ukraine.
2. Russia has bombed civilian areas, constantly.
3. Denying this shows either 1) lack of intelligence or 2) useful idiots for Putin.
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