Zeepers are in bed with Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell, Romney, Warnock, Blumenthal, Booker, et al.
Yet, they claim to be Conservatives.
Go figure.
Posted on 04/12/2024 8:36:37 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
As Ukrainian officials plead for more Western arms and a U.S. aid package remains stalled in Congress, Russia is advancing on the battlefield in eastern Ukraine, seizing new territory and intensifying attacks to capture the town of Chasiv Yar and others in the Donetsk region.
Away from the front line, Ukraine’s dwindling air defense capabilities are showing vulnerabilities, as more Russian missiles and drones are able to hit targets such as critical infrastructure facilities.
Outside Kyiv — considered Ukraine’s best-protected city — the largest power plant serving the capital was destroyed Thursday, stoking concerns that Ukraine might be running out of surface-to-air missiles to counter the Russian airstrikes.
“We need air defense systems and other defense assistance, not just turning a blind eye and having lengthy discussions,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
For months, Ukrainian military personnel have described the battlefield situation as dire due to a shortage of weapons and soldiers amid a renewed Russian offensive. They have reported increased Russian bombardment using guided air bombs, dropped from their planes onto Ukrainian military positions.
With resources running low, this assault in eastern Ukraine could threaten larger towns and cities such as Kostiantynivka, just west of Chasiv Yar — potentially advancing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goal of seizing the entire Donetsk region, which he has already declared, illegally, to be annexed by Russia.
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Shouldn’t haven’t listened to the corrupt Traitor Joe Biden
Not making anything up lots of talk on RT and Russia polititians about Poland and baltics, threatening talk
You know, but that’s okay expect no less
Never heard how Pooh river in kazan is going
These countries do everything they can to poke the bear. When they do, we and NATO blame Russia when it responds.
We and NATO, overwhelmingly, have been far more aggressive to Russia than vice versa.
It doesn’t matter if we are all that it matters nominally.
NATO or not, the free world expects us to be their ultimate defender.
If we’re not all that-Putin had even less reason to fear NATO.
Leaving NATO provocation as a reasonable cause as totally clueless.
If the bear does not want to be poked then he should stay in his den and not attack his neighbors. Your attitude seems to be that Russia can do whatever it wants and no one should respond to it. This, after all, would be “poking the bear.”™
Your logic is something else, Russia invaded and its polands fault, sounds familiar
>>>Propaganda-spamming, finger-wagging and blatant hypocrisy.
Must be a Mumsie thread, even though she seems to have hijacked from another poster.<<<
High jacking threads and drive by spamming?
Sounds like the actions of a thug.
Zeepers are in bed with Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell, Romney, Warnock, Blumenthal, Booker, et al.
Yet, they claim to be Conservatives.
Go figure.
“Hell with America!
Wrong. Your words and opinions.
“arrogant, snooty, holier-than-thou attitude is unsuitable”
This is absolutely correct. This behavior is inappropriate for you as well as anyone.
“I have no respect for anyone who’s attempting to destroy America whether it be purposeful or through sheer stupidity.”
Total agreement.
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Feng Yujun, one of China’s leading Russianists and a professor at Peking University: Russia is sure to lose in Ukraine – The Economist
Four reasons why the Russian Federation will lose to Ukraine, according to Feng Yujun, a professor at Peking University.
🔹 The first is the level of resistance and national unity shown by Ukrainians, which has until now been extraordinary.
🔹 The second is international support for Ukraine, which, though recently falling short of the country’s expectations, remains broad.
🔹 The third factor is the nature of modern warfare, a contest that turns on a combination of industrial might and command, control, communications and intelligence systems. One reason Russia has struggled in this war is that it is yet to recover from the dramatic deindustrialisation it suffered after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
🔹 The final factor is information. When it comes to decision-making, Vladimir Putin is trapped in an information cocoon, thanks to his having been in power so long. The Russian president and his national-security team lack access to accurate intelligence. The system they operate lacks an efficient mechanism for correcting errors. Their Ukrainian counterparts are more flexible and effective.
His conclusion:
🔸 Russia will be forced to withdraw from all occupied Ukrainian territories, including Crimea.
🔸 Russia’s nuclear capability is no guarantee of success. Feng Yujun gives the example of the United States, which left Vietnam, Korea, and Afghanistan with no less nuclear potential than the Russian Federation has today.
🔸 Kyiv has proven that Moscow is not invincible, so a ceasefire under the “Korean” scenario is ruled out.
🔸 The war is a turning-point for Russia. It has consigned Putin’s regime to broad international isolation. He has also had to deal with difficult domestic political undercurrents, from the rebellion by the mercenaries of the Wagner Group and other pockets of the military — for instance in Belgorod — to ethnic tensions in several Russian regions and the recent terrorist attack in Moscow. These show that political risk in Russia is very high. Mr Putin may recently have been re-elected, but he faces all kinds of possible black-swan events.
🔸 After the war, Ukraine will have the chance join both the EU and NATO, while Russia will lose its former Soviet republics because they see Putin’s aggression there as a threat to their sovereignty and territorial integrity.
According to Feng Yujun, the war, meanwhile, has made Europe wake up to the enormous threat that Russia’s military aggression poses to the continent’s security and the international order, bringing post-cold-war EU-Russia detente to an end. Many European countries have given up their illusions about Mr Putin’s Russia.
Source: The Economist - link in the comment under the post
“We need to step up and provide Ukraine with the necessary BBs or the Lenin Plazas will spread”
We? Count me out
“ We and NATO, overwhelmingly, have been far more aggressive to Russia than vice versa.”
You and others continually make this claim which I find laughable
Before Putin invaded Ukraine, Europe and the rest of the west was trading and investing in Russia. Europe was basically demilitarizing based on their less than agreed to military spending, something Trump repeatedly pointed out , and was becoming more and more dependent on Russian energy, even US was importing energy from Russia.
Western components were found throughout Russian military arms as well
I understand that Putin lamented the loss of power and prestige after fall of Soviet Union, and didn’t like NATO expansion, but there is historical reasons why these countries chose this path over joining Russia federation sphere of influence.
Even your comment of “decades of peace “ with Finland glosses over the historical context of that “peace”(winter war anyone?)
The idea that prior to rev 2022 NATO was planning any kind of military action against Russia, even with assertion of Ukraine into NATO is ludicrous.
The unimaginable, before Russia invaded, joining of NATO by Sweden and Finland, changed when Russia proved its aggressive nature, not the other way around
Seriously, I have asked several times, has the Pooh river in kazan been fixed. I know Russia has been having several infrastructure “problems” lately. Hope there are resources available to fix that issue.
You have no awareness about geopolitics, do you?
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“You have no awareness about geopolitics, do you?”
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Clearly, more than you, Neocon. I see in post 99 you immediately notified Mom so she can award you with a UKRAINE PROJECT gold star sticker. Mom may even give you a head pat and a “good boy!”.
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