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White House: This war could wrap up by tonight if Zelenskyy just tells his troops to lay down their arms

The whole conflict in Ukraine could be over before the sun goes down—all it would take is for President Zelenskyy to order a surrender and for Kyiv to cave to everything Moscow wants. That’s the line coming straight from Dmitry Peskov, the White House spokesperson.

Where do they get this stuff? One day it's a "special operation," the next day it's a full-blown war... what's next?

dustyowl29 said:Yeah, well, we've been hearing that exact same song and dance for sixty years now...

Honestly? We should just cut them off from Europe entirely for the long haul.

analogbear5 said:Where would NATO even find the time to react if they had to deal with every single dog barking in the neighborhood.

Look, we aren't talking about some random tough talk here. These are actual nuclear threats—"we're gonna do this," "we're gonna do that," "you guys are dead," blah blah blah. It's heavy stuff.

darkhawk30 said:Dmitry Medvedev recently dropped a bombshell, claiming that if Ukraine uses Western-made missiles to strike Russian soil, they’ll respond by targeting "decision-making centers." Given recent posts from NASA, you could easily interpret this as a chilling threat. "

It’s a terrifying prospect, honestly. But let’s be real—this instability threatens Russia just as much as the rest of the world.
I suspect other global superpowers aren't sitting around waiting for things to go sideways. They likely already have those coordinates on file, rather than waiting for missiles to start flying everywhere before they bother looking for those damn Russian targets.

Total idiots, honestly. Hard to believe anyone falls for this. What really bugs me, though, is how NATO and the USA just sit there and take these threats lying down.

wanderingridge30 said:It is truly quite striking to witness; seeing those Ukrainian extremists in uniform is exactly as certain individuals here have been describing.

Honestly, some people truly possess neither a shred of shame nor a conscience.

Keep telling yourselves that Putin isn't targeting civilians, and just keep insisting he’s only invading a sovereign nation because he "has" to denazify criminals like the ones you see in this video.

It is painfully clear that even the innocence of childhood has been compromised by those harboring such hateful, extremist ideologies.

🤮

Yeah, someone on this forum mentioned seeing people in uniforms, but I'm looking at this footage and I don't see a single person in uniform. This is a deliberate strike on civilians, plain and simple, and it should be treated as a war crime.

Maybe those pro-Russia trolls on here should actually watch the clip properly.

The people in the park got lucky. Given how "precise" these missiles supposedly are, it's a miracle they didn't land right in the middle of the park.

Timothy Williams5 said:The G7 nations are moving toward a cap on Russian gas imports—effectively setting a maximum price they're willing to pay to acquire it.

https://babel.ua/en/news/80664-g7-co...ey-will-buy-it

Does that include China too?

William Anderson5 said:Under international law, allowing another country to launch an unlawful attack from your own soil is considered participation in the aggression. So, Belarus has been an aggressor since day one of this conflict...

That’s what I was thinking too. Basically, any missiles Ukraine gets their hands on can be fired right toward Belarus without even needing to ask for permission.

Couldn't really get around to typing anything earlier, but honestly, scrolling through this many pages just feels like too much work.

So, if the US gets hit from Belarus, does that mean Belarus is officially part of the fight by default?
Just skimmed through some headlines, and from what I can gather, Kyiv is getting targeted by missiles launched out of Belarus.

rustywalker82 said:Wait, you mean he's only 20 stone (about 275 lbs)?
If those were his stats from when they last weighed him back in Afghanistan...

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/wor...alled-27326346

Lmao, give me a break. There's no way shrapnel misses a guy like him.

Megan Thomas5 said:Over these last four months, one thing has become crystal clear: we aren't going to see Russians anywhere for a long time. Whether it's the European Championships, the World Cup, or even just avoiding those Russian cheaters in online gaming, they’re basically being pushed to the fringes. It's a shame, really, because the Russian people have been so thoroughly brainwashed that they actually back all of this—kind of like how people were in the North America back in the 90s, except back then we didn't even have the internet to see what was happening.

Just more proof that communism is pure EVIL!

goldenowl73 said:First looks at those residential buildings that got hit in Kyiv this morning. Russia just won't stop with the terror tactics.

https://twitter.com/TpyxaNews/status...08xS7bCTg&s=09

Military targets. 🤦

Honestly, I wouldn't be shocked if that guy with the mustache orders some missiles to fly straight toward Poland or some other neighbor, just to kick up a massive amount of chaos and start making things messy.

analogbear5 said:Ukraine has been at war with Russia since 2014.

I’m mainly talking about this current invasion, not just the occupation of Crimea. And honestly, what’s even the difference between that and the US sending over all this high-tech gear? Isn't providing weapons basically stepping right into the fray? It feels like a joke—Russ say they're just making threats, and suddenly whoever sends a shipment is labeled as working for Satan or whatever. Yet, here we are, still pumping out weapon deliveries at full speed.

Donna Harris11 said:The West completely miscalculated things. For all their arrogance, their actual power is pretty limited, I guess.

How successful these sanctions really are? Just look at how they have to keep dreaming up endless new rounds of them while a recession is practically knocking on the door of the European Union.

The recession is everywhere. Honestly, anyone who thinks Russ is living some kind of normal life right now is just being a joke. They’re in way deeper shit than Europe is. They keep cooking up new plans because you can always squeeze a little harder, no matter how much pressure you've already applied. I mean, think about it—what would happen if the US just banned all Russian citizens from entering, not just Putin and those other oligarchs and diplomats?

analogbear5 said:Military aid was flowing to Ukraine. But a mutual defense treaty? Hard to see how that could've even happened, considering they were already at war with Russia. A deal like that basically means jumping straight into the conflict.

This was all before the invasion hit. Basically, the US was sounding the alarm saying an invasion was coming, while everyone else was just playing it cool, acting like the Russians were perfectly reasonable people who wouldn't dream of attacking anyone.

So, yeah, Ukraine kind of got screwed over here. I mean, if the US tells you some country is about to steamroll you, you listen.

But even if they had taken those warnings seriously, they might have actually been able to get their ducks in a row before Russia pulled the trigger.

electricsurfer47 said:Could you elaborate on that a bit?

Did you actually watch the video?

I really hope you gave it a look, because the guy breaks down exactly what Russia did to prop up their currency and how they kept everything from totally collapsing.

Basically, if some foreign investor decided to put money into Russia, they might make a profit, but getting those funds back out is another story entirely.
And then there’s the whole situation with foreign currency. There were all these restrictions put in place, and now I honestly don't know where the Oligarchs are stashing their dollars or euros if their overseas accounts are frozen. I wonder if an Oligarch can even flee Russia, grab a different citizenship just to live abroad, and eventually find a way to unfreeze their assets.

It's pretty likely they could, though I highly doubt other countries would hand out citizenship to people whose assets they've already frozen.

Morgan Wright5 said:I suppose most Russians don't actually support Putin. It seems a bit unlikely that the Russian people are so naive as to believe that a "special military operation" isn't, in reality, a full-scale war. Perhaps we shouldn't view Russia through a Western lens—it never really functioned that way to begin with. They’ve been conditioned to live under an autocracy, so I imagine they simply act accordingly.

Nah, I'm actually rooting for them. 🤣
The ones who actually get what's going on just stay quiet, plain and simple. And honestly? That’s why Europe is going to come down hard on them once kepec loses this war.

brightheron64 said:Largest semiconductor companies by market cap
https://companiesmarketcap.com/semic...by-market-cap/

The Japanese players aren't even close to the top tier, and the Chinese companies are even further behind than that...

Intel is basically a global heavyweight when it comes to semiconductors. Just because a company is headquartered in the US doesn't mean their stuff is actually being manufactured stateside—honestly, I don't think that matters much anyway.

That bit about Taiwan caught me off guard, though. I also saw somewhere that Japan and Taiwan are teaming up to try and fill the gap in the chip supply for the auto industry.

Melissa Rivera5 said:Saying "we're threatened by Poland" is basically how WW2 kicked off... 😁

Oh, totally. I mean, the UK and France officially declared war once they hit Poland, but before that, things were already being occupied left and right. Did anyone bother to tell them they should be worried about Czechoslovakia too? Please.

The Germans were riding high on that euphoria, thinking they could just do whatever they wanted because nobody was stepping in to stop them.

feralhawk45 said:Where does Russia actually stand on the electronics front? How are they handling chip procurement? And what about getting their hands on CNC machinery? Just how much of a lifeline is the Chinese really providing them right now?

From what I gather, the Japanese are the heavy hitters when it comes to chips, and Japan's been pretty loud and clear about those sanctions—not to mention they've already dealt with some threats.