Posted on 01/02/2024 8:41:26 AM PST by Mariner
Ukraine entered 2023 filled with hope. Its forces had just secured enormous battlefield and strategic victories, first at Kherson and then Kharkiv, recapturing much lost territory from the Russian invaders, and Western capitals seemed increasingly confident that victory could be at hand.
By the end of January, European and American leaders were no longer talking about whether to send Western main battle tanks, but how many and when. Britain led the charge, confirming that the formidable Challenger II would be sent to Ukraine, and putting intense diplomatic pressure on Washington and Berlin to follow London’s lead. Both duly buckled. With tanks secured, hopes were high for the coming counter-offensive.
The mood in 2024 is very different. The counter-offensive failed to deliver a decisive blow to Putin’s forces in the south. Russia’s economy has withstood Western sanctions, rapidly militarising to provide an ongoing stream of munitions to the front. Ukraine, meanwhile, is undergoing one of the largest aerial bombardments since the war began, and its united front is beginning to fray as conscription takes its toll.
Only a few short months ago, the stoic Ukrainian defenders were heralded by the West as defenders of the liberal values and freedoms we enjoy. Today, Western governments are now beginning to signal a lack of patience, and with it a lack of military and economic support to Kyiv.
To turn our backs now on the Ukrainian people, so swiftly after months of brutal fighting, is morally bankrupt and strategically negligent.
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No one owes you help for your effort. No one will help you but God.
First error: trusting and becoming dependent on the US.
Depend on God alone. If He will not help, uou ought not be going against his will.
How many countries have we betrayed and walked away from?
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When one tries to be the world’s policeman (while at the same time espousing “freedom”), it’s inevitable that something will have to give. Either one will back off the imperialism/militarism or embrace the the very tactics and philosophy that one claims to abhor.
It may well become another betrayal to add to carve on our our wall of shame.
Betrayal? What did they ever do for the West?
>> What did they ever do for the West?
Well, in the eyes of the Uniparty, they got Biden paid off and Trump impeached and Obama re-elected to his third term.
Normal Ukes wanted peace. They voted Z because he promised peace and compromise with the Russians. Z and his western installed co criminal oligarchs sold out the Ukrainian people for the siren song of the lying DC globohomo/neocon alliance. They promised the gold mine but the Uke
people only got the shaft.
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Amen to that. This has to be repeated constantly.
“The Ukrainians were used like prostitutes by the Neoconservatives to beat up Russia for them.”
For this to be true then your dastardly ‘Neocons’ had to set a trap for Putin & Ruzzia. And then your Ultimate Supreme Soviet Leader Putin had to be stupid enough to fall for the trap and then spend two years watching the “best army in the world” get bloodied by an army that’s led by a ‘globohomo’ Jewish comedian. That’s a hell of a lot of failures on the part of your hero in the Kremlin!”
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And do not forget that Putin WANTED the globohomonazisoros cabal to win when he tried to influence the elections Biden and Hillarys way.
Now he claims he is fighting globohomonazisoros according to him and his supporters. Either he is the most stupid leader or he wanted globlhomonazisoros to win to give him a pretext to invade.
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Name another country that puts the welfare of citizens of a Foreign country over the welfare of their own citizens?
Just one.
Using Terrorists in the Middle East and Nazis in Ukraine as proxy fighters.
Shame on the GOP.
Lindsey “Al Qaeda’ Graham should be his name.
Nikki “Jihadist” Haley should her name.
And the list goes on members of Congress railing on about Syria’s regime or Putin in Russia are Jihadist-Nazi helpers too.
They did not learn the lessons of South Vietnam or Afghanistan.
The counter offensive failed because it was advertised world wide for months ahead and even the stupid Russians could prepare for it with that sort of notice.
“They did not learn the lessons of South Vietnam or Afghanistan.”
The MIC learned they can get rich from wars with poorly determined goals.
Mr. Zelenskyy started to believe his own propaganda. Russians would cave when confronted and go into retreat. For a while it seemed true. Russia made some bone headed mistakes. They looked like they didn’t have what it took to win. They forgot Russians can learn from mistakes. Mr, Zelenskyy started to think he was a general and didn’t follow NATOs advise. His much vaunted Spring-Summer-Fall offensive gave Russians a chance to dig in hard, sow millions of mines and raise a whole new army. Victory has many friends—defeat is a lonely wallflower. Now all see the war as folly and the mantra “We must stop Putin here or he will be in Paris by next year,” just doesn’t wash. Why would Putin want Paris?
It’s dangerous to be an enemy of the US, but fatal to be a friend.
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Substitute senile Joe, anything he touches turns to poop…..Covid vax hoax, shutdowns, Afghanistan debacle,….his corruption caught up with an even more corrupted politician- St Zelensky…..in the end, evil destroying evil…the US DIES when that idiot seizes (steals) $300 billion in Russian assets…the SPIKE in the US’s coffin.
Unconditional Surrender for the Ukies is the only thing to reign in Biden, and NATO.
Putin get a News Year’s present from the West: Europe.
“Europe”
They can take care of themselves.
Not our problem.
“They can take care of themselves.
Not our problem.”
The same crowd is telling us how big and bad the EU is and then turning around and saying that if we don’t help Ukraine Putin will be in Paris next. Which is it? They should make up their minds.
“Europe” They can take care of themselves. Not our problem.
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That’s like saying California’s problems are not the problem for the rest of the nation - it makes no sense and is idiotic. But then the not-our-problem meme is common to Putin and Russia lovers comments.
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