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***And, you want a bigger war, on another theory - that war will then give your greater position***

Garbage. The reason why he wants permission to attack targets in Russia (with western supplied weapons) is because the cowardly Russians launch missiles from Russia which flatten civilian targets in Ukraine and kill civilians there, knowing full well that the Ukrainians are not allowed to hit back at those firing at them.

***Why would a sovereign nation need permission to do anything to defend the country? Because country’s leadership are puppets to others that control the country***

Because the USA and other NATO members made it a condition when they supplied missiles/artillery to Ukraine that they could not be used to attack targets inside Russia. If the Ukrainians ignored that and did it then they would not receive any more munitions.

***“I love my country,” he said in a phone interview earlier this month. “I donate to the Ukrainian army. But unfortunately, I am not very prepared to fight on the front lines because I don’t have the experience and I am probably not morally prepared to kill somebody, even if it’s someone Russian.”***

So he's either a conscientious objector or just a coward. And what are we supposed to conclude from this? There are people like that in every country in the world, it proves nothing.

***Zelensky is officially a dictator as his term expired last week. He canceled the elections and now rules without being elected.***

How can you have a nationwide election when you are in a war for national survival against an invader who is occupying your territory and millions of your people are refugees spread across Europe or are internally displaced?

Stop parroting Kremlin propaganda and think.

Putin invaded Ukraine.

Putin occupies Ukrainian territory.

Putin’s politicians have threatened follow-on invasions of:
Moldova
Finland
Lithuania
Estonia
Latvia
Poland
Romania

Putin’s propagandists have threatened to nuke Britain numerous times (due to its material support for Ukraine and the Baltic states).

Yet you accuse NATO of being warmongers? For arming Ukraine to continue its restrained defence against Russia’s invasion? Why don’t you wake up and smell what you’re shovelling!

***Estonia needs to wise up. They were better off under the USSR, and Putin means well, so, if Ukraine fails, Estonia needs to give up too and fly the Russian flag***

Please go to Estonia, tell them that and then count the seconds until you get a broken nose! LOL

***Heck, all of Europe would be better off under Russian rule, and NATO needs to be disbanded***

This is the sort of thing a traitor would say. You don't deserve to live in a free country.

***Russia is the only Western power where the ruling elites are not led around on a leash by sodomites and it is an obstacle to the globalists.***

You are obsessed by homosexuality. It is truly pathetic. Putin's shirtless homoerotic macho posing doesn't make you a tiny bit concerned about Russian sexual behaviour?

***Russia wanted certain assurances concerning a country, which is, after all, right on its border, and the war could have been avoided but that was nixed by Zelensky's Deep***

Nonsense. The Ukrainians gave up all their nuclear weapons, ICBMs, SRBMs, strategic bombers etc just to keep the Russians happy. To say they were a threat to Russia is laughable.

***When the USSR attempted to station missiles on Cuba in 1962, we saw how the USA reacted***

Irrelevant. The two situations have nothing to do with each other.

***Is it your contention that Russia doesn’t have toilets, washing machines or tumble dryers?***

No. I was stating an observed fact. The men Putin was conscripting and sending to the Ukrainian front in the first year of the war were generally from the poorest and most miserable central/eastern provinces of Russia.

***Are they also spending what the one lone Poland is spending? Not at all. They are looking for free stuff without contributing anything.***

All the eastern European NATO members (excluding Hungary) are upping their defence spending. Sweden abolished military conscription in 2010 but has reintroduced it. Latvia abolished it in 2007, but reintroduced it on 1/1/2024 explicitly due to the Russian threat.

The German government has stated that it will double military spending and has begun building new munitions factories. French production of 155mm shells was 60,000 per year in 2022, now due to increase three-fold to 180,000.

Routine British production of 155mm shells (during peacetime) was 96,000 a year. An eight-fold increase in production of 155mm shells was ordered. Therefore, the UK will produce 768,000 155mm shells per year.

***Russia is a country which is attempting to resurrect its Christian heritage but is confronted all across its western perimeter by the armed forces of godless, secular humanist, western armies whose aim is to turn Russia into a Slavic version of Canada; a tame, woke, homosexual marriage-embracing, resource-rich, liberal sewer.***

Oh dear. You've really drunk the Kremlin's Kool Aid! Another American did that and went over there to help and look what just happened to him:

An American who won fame and infamy after joining the Russian armed forces and fighting in Ukraine has been found dead in Russian-controlled territory.

"American Z-blogger Russell Bentley (call sign Texas), who was kidnapped in the "DPR" and had been fighting in the ranks of pro-Russian militants since 2014, was raped and then killed by his fellow soldiers. The American's death was reported by his Russian wife.

Bentley was kidnapped 10 days ago by "unknown people in military uniforms" who mistook him for a NATO spy. After that, communication with him was lost. Some Russian war correspondents suggested that after the rape, one of the officers said that it was no longer possible to let the American go, so they decided to kill him."

The Russians are not defending traditional Russian values and Orthodox Christianity by attacking and subjugating Ukraine. They are just cynical lying hypocrites using that narrative as cover for their greed and sadism.

***Hey Zeeper, that was Germany after WW2.***

No. That was in 2022-2024. The standard of living in Russia outside of Moscow and Saint Petersburg is terrible for most people. Of course, Vlad and his ultra-rich Oligarch pals don’t care.

***Why worry about Russia conquering the EU, now, when the EU doesn't think there is any problem? If they did, they would have massively built their militaries. They didn't.***

You only need to see Poland's recent spending spree on military equipment to know they actually take the threat from Russia very seriously:

Poland Becomes a Defense Colossus - Poland has launched a huge and historic expansion of its military.

Also, I wonder why Sweden and Finland joined NATO in such a hurry if Russia is no threat.

But, of course, you'll ignore all that.

***He wanted NATO off his back and the usual old “..used to be OURS..” - territory dispute.. that’s all.***

Putin knows NATO is a DEFENSIVE military alliance and poses no threat of taking any offensive action against Russia. The real reason he wants to maintain a strong hold on Ukraine is because if they move westward and start to have a more western European style democracy, an improved economy and a much better standard of living, then his people will look at that and think “we want some of that too”. (Notice how keen Russian troops were to steal toilets, washing machines and tumble-dryers etc when they rolled into Ukrainian civilian areas?)

***I would rather that happen and deal with it down the line but for now spend our money here and now in America.***

Prevention is always cheaper and better than the cure. It’s your kind of thinking which allowed Nazi Germany to arm itself to the teeth and cause a war which killed over 65 million people.

***Cut and paste the the words which Sputnik fabricated.***

The Kremlin produces the propaganda and Sputnik, RT et al. publish it.

Josef Stalin would have called you a “useful idiot” for propagating Kremlin propaganda in the West and thus aiding Russia’s policy of aggression against Ukraine.

I wonder what it is that Sweden and Finland don’t know, but you do know, with regard to Russia’s end goal? With the USA out of the picture, do you honestly think Russia just stops at Ukraine, and you’re willing to take Putin’s word at face value? Were you born yesterday?

***Sorry, no one pays me to post here, and couldn’t pay enough, ever, to post PROPAGANDA defending Biden and Ukraine,***

Paranoid nonsense. I’ve been a member here for 22 years. I am a British patriot and a friend of the USA. I have worked and lived alongside Americans for years.

Trying to inject some sanity into these nutty upside-down threads about Ukraine might be a futile task, but as Mahatma Gandhi once said: “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”

***particularly given Ukraine’s non-stop TERRORISM during this war.***

Putin is a murdering gangster. Have you forgotten about Bucha, Irpin and Mariupol? Forgotten about Politkovskaya, Litvinenko and Nemtsov? Already forgotten about Navalny?

To claim that Ukraine is more brutal than Russia is laughable. If they had invaded Britain we would show this Russian vermin no mercy.

***PLENTY of proof, but if people are paid to discount it, then they WILL discount it.***

Russian propaganda is not proof.

Being involved in an atrocity like that would not benefit Ukraine at all, but if their involvement came out then it would strengthen the Russian people’s support for Putin’s aggressive actions against Ukraine. Involvement in such a bloody attack on a civilian target would also damage Ukraine’s relationship with its Western backers. Clearly, that is why Sputnik fabricated this story.

Why have you posted this garbage?

Sputnik is a well known Kremlin propaganda outfit funded by the Russian state media, their relationship with the truth is similar to Bill Clinton’s relationship with monogamy.

A Republican attacking a Democrat POTUS with their lies (over the latter’s support for Ukraine) in 2024 is like a Democrat attacking President Reagan in 1984 (for supporting Afghanistan) by citing an article published in Pravda or TASS (Soviet State propaganda outfits).

Ronald Reagan must be spinning in his grave knowing that Republicans are propagating/believing Russian state propaganda over their own President while an ally of the USA is engaged in a struggle for survival after being treacherously invaded by Russia.

***US Aid to Ukraine Amounts to $900 Per American Household, Economist Says***

And the USA’s national debt currently stands at $106,060 for each American citizen and has been going up every year for decades.

But don’t worry you’ll never have to actually repay it because you have the International Reserve Currency. Lucky you!

However, if China displaces you as the premier economic/military superpower the Renminbi will become the IRC, then you will have a problem.

Solution: don’t become all isolationist again, as saving money in the short-term will cost you a lot more money in the long-term.

The US government asked the Ukraine to stop attacking Russia’s oil production infrastructure in a shocking case of hypocritical double standards. (It did this because it doesn’t want the international oil price and hence the gasoline/diesel prices in the US to rise in an election year.) The US also forbids Ukraine from attacking Russian military/dual-use targets in Russia (with Western provided weapons) at a time when Russia is destroying civilian targets and causing major loss-of-life all over Ukraine with impunity.

Fossil fuel production is a strategic military asset and it’s Russia’s largest and most profitable industry that brings in most of their foreign income, which ultimately pays for their war machine. Therefore, it is a legitimate target for Ukraine to hit. Expecting Ukraine to fight with one hand tied behind its back when you have neglected to resupply them with much needed ammunition for 7 months is ridiculous.