Posted on 01/17/2023 10:01:42 AM PST by JonPreston
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian army to increase the number of service members to 1.5 million from 2023 to 2026, according to a briefing of Russia's defense ministry.
Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu last mentioned the goal of expanding the army from 1 million to 1.5 million, including 695,000 contracted soldiers, during a Dec. 21 meeting with Putin and his defense chiefs.
According to the Russian defense ministry's Telegram channel, there are plans to create additional divisions, corps and military districts, as well as strengthen existing ones.
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You initially accused me of making it up.
You are the quintessence of US arrogance and why the world calls us the empire of lies.
Merriam Webster is not acceptable enough for you because you cannot back down on your statement made in ignorance.
And this is why we will be fortunate to survive after we assist the Banderites in attacking Crimea..
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/01/19/us-may-help-ukraine-launch-an-offensive-on-crimea/
Always deflecting. But who are you, anyway? You trust our state run media? Looks like that makes you an outlier or a supporter of the deep state.
The United States ranks last among 46 countries when it comes to public trust in the media, according to a report published Tuesday.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/reuters-report-us-lowest-levels-trust-media-forty-six-countries
Its mostly undiciplined Russian convicts fighting for Russias illegal invasion of Ukraine. Russias army seems to be depleted already, they lost so many men on the killing fields of Ukraine. Consequently they are now forces to do yet another draft.
For what: defending Russia? No.
For land-grabbing and steal other nations natural resources? Yes.
I support Trump for one main reason.
He is an anti-communist He was one of Americas Presidents to be the toughest on Russia. Trump was the one opening the way for massive high-tech weapon shipments to Ukraine. Obama had refused to do that, but Trump wasn’t scared about the Kremlin and he did it. Trump also put in place a whole load of sanctions and other initiatives against Russia.
On Trumps order, hundreds of Russian Wagner soldiers were decimated by US artillery in Syria. Wow!
I support Trump but for a whole lot of different reasons than the somewhat Uke-obsessive ones you stated.
I’m am American, so I’m more concerned about our own borders, for example.
What does it say about NATOs military capability if they are losing to Russian criminals?
That we're wasting our money, like we do on almost everything tied to our government.
100%
“You initially accused me of making it up.”
Certainly, as much as every leftie is making up words when they use “homophobic” and “transphobic”. These are fake nonsense words.
“you cannot back down on your statement made in ignorance”
It’s not made in ignorance. The suffix “phobia”, when used in English, denotes a psychological condition, yet neither “homophobia”, “transphobia”, or “russophobia” is actually a psychological condition. These are just words made up to deceive, by purloining the terminology of science to push a political propaganda talking point.
“You trust our state run media?”
I don’t trust any media completely. I read everything critically.
“I’m am American, so I’m more concerned about our own borders, for example.”
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Thats what’s so great about Trump.
He was such a nationalist and patriot when he was President that he wanted ALL borders respected. Americas borders AND our allies’ borders. BOTH!
Trump despise ILLEGAL invaders - whether they come from Mexico or Russia. He hates the concept of INVASION wherever it happens.
Thats why he strengthened NATO like no one has never done before. Thanks to Trump the EU NATO countries started to pay way more for NATOS budget.
Flush, Trump kept America out of wars, unlike the current occupant, a man, incidentally, whose foreign policy you embrace. Go away. Find a new FReeper Skin to slip into. It's called Re-Animation.
Stop trying to speak for Trump. LOL He doesn’t wax on about Ukraine like that. Ew.
Trump is an America-Firster. He’s not all obsessed with Ukraine like some people on this site are.
And what is it with the Uke Squad and ALLCAPS and exclamation points? It adds a screechy element to posts.
“Flush, Trump kept America out of wars, unlike the current occupant, a man, incidentally, whose foreign policy you embrace. Go away. Find a new FReeper Skin to slip into. It’s called Re-Animation.”
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You don’t understand what an anti-communist truly is do you?
Anyway...
Trump sent troops to Syria, was bombing all over the place there.
He bombed the islamists in Afghanistan with bombs and drones non-stop. I approved that. He sent attacking drones into IRAN to kill generals there, etc.
So to sum it all up, Trump was indeed a war president. He never backed down from threats and red lines. That’s the sole reason why Russia didn’t dare to attack mainland Ukraine while Trump was president. Moscow was scared.
Trump was DEFEATING ISIS - not ‘bombing Syria’
Do you see the difference?
Back to Ukraine. It's going very badly. The fragging is about to start. Stick that in your Globalist pipe and smoke it.
Trump was DEFEATING ISIS - not ‘bombing Syria’
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Indeed and as I said I approve that, totally.
But imagine if Russia sent troops to America to denazify and “DEFEAT” some nazi organizations that officially exists here in the USA? I don’t think you and I would approve. Right?
Nevertheless maybe I’m unfair and I’m a hypocrite, because I do indeed support every move against Islamic terrorism the United States has ever done - no matter what.
Secondly:
America is now “DEFEATING” the WAGNER terrorist organization and other commie invaders by continuing Trumps policy of sending high-tech weapons to Ukraine. Democrats and Republicans concur for once on one thing : We can’t let the Neo-Soviets take over the world bit by bit. Ukraine is just a small first step for Russia. We have to stop its thirst to invade others.
“No wars under Trump. Period.”
“Stick that in your Globalist pipe and smoke it.”
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Then, why on earth are you supporting the GLOBALIST commie conspiracy against Americas interests from the islamo-commie axis instead?
The globalist islamo-commie axis : Russia - China - North Korea - Venezuela - Cuba - Iran - Chechnya .
You like YOUR globalists but not completing globalists, huh... Right ?
For my part I’m against all excessive globalism.
Since I want America to still be able to export its goods, I accept a certain level of globalism. Sufficiently enough so we can sell our products to other countries.
We must sell our oil and become the worlds number one net exporter of that energy.
Look, Flush, stop pestering me. I have absolutely nothing at all to say to you, and never will. Do you understand?
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