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Russia evacuates over 76,000 in Kursk region amid Ukraine incursion
Euronews ^ | August 10, 2024 | By Angela Skujins

Posted on 08/10/2024 9:14:58 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246

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To: SaxxonWoods

“Russia occupies 161,000 square kilometers of Ukraine. Russia is gaining land daily along a 600 mile front.”

They got to Berlin faster. But they had better tanks back then.


41 posted on 08/10/2024 4:06:59 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: adorno

The simple fact that Russia has not, with conventional weapons, already obliterated a 1000 man Ukie force that has crossed some km into Russia, tells me Russia has bigger problems than I thought.


42 posted on 08/10/2024 5:34:56 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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Russia has bigger problems than I thought.

The only thing Russia ever had that struck fear around the world, was their nuclear arsenal. Other than that, they've been a paper tiger for decades.
43 posted on 08/10/2024 5:54:38 PM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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“The only thing Russia ever had that struck fear around the world, was their nuclear arsenal. Other than that, they’ve been a paper tiger for decades.”

Then the whole justification for weakening Russia is nonsense. Supposedly if Russia won, they were going to attack west and why, next thing you know, they’ll be on the English Channel. You can’t have it both ways. Either they’re a menace to Europe, or they’re a paper tiger. Which is it?


44 posted on 08/11/2024 1:22:00 AM PDT by rxh4n1 ( )
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Then the whole justification for weakening Russia is nonsense.

You're not a thinker, are you?

Who the heck was trying to weaken Russia? What the west always wanted was a less aggressive or a non-aggressive Russia. Russia is the one that threatened its neighbors and not the other way around. Aggressors need to be dealt with, and NATO and the U.s. had to react to the aggression. Russia weakened itself on the world stage.

Supposedly if Russia won, they were going to attack west and why, next thing you know, they’ll be on the English Channel.

You're not a thinker, are you?

A bully that's not stopped will use that as a license for more wrongdoing. That's true with criminals and with nations. Russia would have used a victory in Ukraine to go after Putin's goal of reconstituting the Soviet Union. He has stated that goal, and he had started towards that goal with the taking of Georgia and Crimea, and now Ukraine. Putin met with resistance he didn't count on, and his dreams and YOURS are going up in flames. < You can’t have it both ways. Either they’re a menace to Europe, or they’re a paper tiger. Which is it?

It's not me having it in any direction. It's Putin trying to have it his way. Are you blind?

A bully who happens to also be a paper tiger can get away wit a lot, until he's confronted and stopped. Russia is not a world power militarily or economically. The only power they had is that of a nuclear arsenal, which they continue to use even today with their threats against Ukraine and NATO. When did NATO or the U.s. threaten to use nuclear weapons against anybody?

You don't have to be a world power to be a threat. Iran is a very weak country, yet, it's the biggest bully in the middle-east. N. Korea is not a world power, yet, it's always threatening its neighbors. Cuba is not a world power, yet, it was a threat to its neighbors. Being a bully doesn't mean that its a strong power. Russia is mostly a paper tiger, and it uses its nuclear arsenal as a threat to get its way in the world. Were it not for the nuclear weapons, Russia might be a better neighbor to its vicinity in Europe.

Having it both ways? Not even close,. Putin is the threat and removing him from power would be in the best interests of Russia and the world. Sorry to burst your Russia is great balloon.
45 posted on 08/11/2024 6:42:52 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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“Who the heck was trying to weaken Russia?”

Many posters here and Lindsay Graham and the rest have been loudly bragging about it. I’m not going to waste my time responding to the rest of your Ukraine nationalist garbage.


46 posted on 08/11/2024 2:19:51 PM PDT by rxh4n1 ( )
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Many posters here and Lindsay Graham and the rest have been loudly bragging about it.

When a country invades another with no real provocation, then, it's demanded that the invaded country be weakened in order to try to stop th invasion. Before the invasion and before any aggressive acts by Russia, who was calling for weakening Russia?

I’m not going to waste my time responding to the rest of your Ukraine nationalist garbage. Say what? You issue a response while claiming you're not going to respond. What kind of logic is that???

Ukraine nationalist garbage? Whee is the nationalist and what nation is he nationalist from? Ukraine is a country which I support against the invaders from Russia. So, are you a Russian nationalist, since you're favoring Russia with it's invasions? BTW, I've never been to Ukraine, and I've never been to Russia, and in fact, I've never been to Europe. I don't need to be from there nor have visited there, in order to know right from wrong. Russia is in the wrong, plain and simple.

Looks like the garbage is coming from YOU.
47 posted on 08/11/2024 4:41:25 PM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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