Posted on 12/29/2022 3:55:18 AM PST by caww
Attacks come just hours after the Kremlin rejected Zelensky's peace proposals . .....Air raid sirens rang out across Ukraine this morning as Russia unleashed around 120 missiles in a savage barrage which targeted the capital Kyiv and several other major cities.
'A massive air raid. More than 100 missiles in several waves,' presidential office adviser Oleksiy Arestovych wrote on Facebook, while another adviser Mykhailo Podolyak claimed more than 120 missiles had been fired at Ukraine.
Mayors of the capital Kyiv, Ukraine's second city Kharkiv and the western city of Lviv all reported that Russian missiles had caused a series of explosions, while blasts were also heard in Zhytomyr, Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk, according to local media reports.
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Sir those cities were not even remotely destroyed. You display a very poor grasp on reality.
You ask who did it then?
It did not happen. You are seriously delusional or at least misinformed.
“All we did was give Russia more inconvenience while affecting the timetable.”
Yep, we were on a slow track to getting it anyway, due to our behavior elsewhere, and our huge debt. Hard to blame Putin for that, as China was going to do it regardless. By my guess, we pushed up the timetable by 10 to 20 years, and for what? Putin and Russia are doing JUST FINE without being connected to SWIFT (since, if that wasn’t the case, we’d be hearing about it, for sure).
“I’m quite happy for there to be a multipolar world”
Me too, because it means when our masters in Davos start demanding we eat bugs, there will be another, huge, option to choose from - You might say “A Shining City on a Hill” (or most of the world, in this case)
“The only problem is, it’s being pitched entirely by Russia as a project to benefit Russia and Russia happily admits that its glorious cultural revolution involves domination”
I can’t say that Putin talks about ‘world domination’, nor does he have the power to do so. I suspect that he just wants to be able to sell his resources without Greta having veto power him. Now China is a different animal, completely - they are certainly showing signs of wanting that. Too bad we made enemies of Russia, and forced them into China’s camp. Not very smart, in my book (and I heard that Putin was SHOCKED that we did something that dumb).
“What’s the sales pitch for countries in eastern Europe? “You, too, can be like Czechoslovakia 1968!””
Silly, different country, that was the Soviet Union.
“What bit of Europeanisation / Americanisation did Putin really find so offensive that he rejected every single overture by Europe to join in the post-Cold War Europroject”
Ask Hungary what they think of this crap, where BILLIONS of dollars are being withheld because they won’t open their borders to 3rd World Migrants, and where the West says that they have a dysfunctional legal system because they prevent grooming of children. ANY rational leader would agree that these ‘values’ have NO PLACE in any society. However, some of what you list also are PERFECTLY VALID reasons for NOT wanting to join that bunch. I remember you Brits calling it the Common Market, sounded like such a good idea, no borders for trade and travel and a single currency. How quaint now...as “Common Market” now means forced Drag Queen shows and migration to the point of population replacement. I can’t help but wonder how many people 40 or 50 years ago would have supported the “Common Market” if they knew what it REALLY meant. Putin does know, but Hungary found out the hard way.
“Was it the concept of free and fair elections?”
LOL (I’m American)
“Or is it really all about Putin and company being so utterly backward (or corrupt and cynical) that they really have convinced themselves that the Eastern Bloc never had it better than at the height of the Soviet empire?”
The thing is, I don’t see Putin talking about a return to Communism. In fact, although I doubt I can find it, I had read that Putin REQUIRED High School kids to read “One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”, a book that will forever rid a person of the lure of Communism. If the West had done the same, we wouldn’t be facing having to eat bugs.
Yes - it’s all true. And also, all that aid money has been well spent.
First you argue that we didn’t do it and then you claim that it wasn’t done at all. That is some bald-faced lying. A normal person would die of shame from doing that.
You know, I worry about you. If you keep stuffing things inside, it’s bad for your health. Go ahead, say what you really think. LOL
But painful though it is, you were correct.
“I sais “the west” which would include most of europe as well as the us.”
Just out of curiosity, what do you think America has in common with Europe?
Keep playing.
We didn’t destroy Berlin the Russians did. With artillery and street by street fighting.
Further, the cities of Baghdad and Mosul were NEVER destroyed.
The fact that you keep giving bizarre evasive answers indicate you are a game player and not an honest person.
I only state the historical facts and point out your unreliability for the benefit of others.
Here are American bombers over Germany in WW II performing saturation bombing with chocolates for the German kinder.
Lying aZZ.
You really hate America.
You think defeating the Islamic State which was committing genocide in Mosul was a bad thing?
We saturation bombed German cities. Berlin in particular was destroyed in the final battle with Russian troops.
What’s your point dude, think defeating Hitler was a bad thing?
Oh but destroying Ukraine is a good thing.
Just shows who’s side you’re on.
I’m on the American side. And Ukrainian side.
Luckily Russia is inept.
“ You really hate America.
You think defeating the Islamic State which was committing genocide in Mosul was a bad thing?”
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What gave rise to the Islamic State was the UNNECESSARY AMERICAN INVASION OF IRAQ (with Saddam the mortal enemy of Iran) and the UNNECESSARY AMERICAN INTERVENTION IN SYRIA. You can disagree with that all you want but THOSE ARE FACTS!
Yes because Saddam was such a sweetheart.
Thank you that I am
Interesting guess we shouldn’t have funded and supplied allies in ww2 before we declared war
What I am pointing out is that idiotic hypocrite neocons who want prosecute Russia for war crimes live in glass houses. Do you know any like that? Hint, it might be you....
The America hating Chomskyite rhetoric from the Putin puffers seemingly has no bottom. These are people who are utterly defeated and morally bankrupt. Sad.
Here are American bombers over Germany in WW II performing saturation bombing with chocolates for the German kinder.
I’m glad to see you’re a historian. Since you’re on the topic of WW2 do you have pics handy of the 20,000 people shot in the head for political gain by the Kremlin at Katyn? I’m sure there is a parallel in American history you can draw to that bit industrial scale mass murder? The fact is Russia displayed Nazi traits in WW2 just as they do now in their genocidal mania in Ukraine. We’ve seen this movie before from Russia. The Kremin’s fellow travelers in the west enjoyed Russia’s sprees as much then as they do now.
Just wondering why you are so concerned if people think Russia committed war crimes? Kind of like you don’t (or do) know which side you’re on.
Seems to be a lot of energy invested in arguing we’re as bad as Russia, or that Russia is a lot better than us.
Besides being very untrue, that’s very odd.
Shut up - Canuck idiot.
You forgot the part where Russia has complete air superiority, is taking down the entire energy grid and smashing the capitol city.
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