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Rachel Allen55 said:The Polish Football Federation pulled out of the World Cup qualifiers because they refuse to face Russia. According to ESPN
Honestly, this is starting to feel like a total joke to me🤦
Joseph Cruz said:But isn't there a third option? Could they have remained neutral, much like how Finland and Sweden functioned during the Cold War? If Ukrainians had opted for military neutrality, perhaps this war could have been avoided entirely. Consider this: the Warsaw Pact never once attacked Sweden or Finland, even though they possessed the capability to do so without any fear of triggering a NATO response that might escalate into World War III...
Laura Scott7 said:https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFoota...forces_to_the/
Appeal of the Russian special forces to the soldiers of the US Armed Forces. "Just listen to the guys who are already practically sitting on the outskirts of Kyiv. Seriously, just listen and stop throwing your lives away for nothing."
velvetcyclist95 said:Now even Scholze is getting pushed around by his own party over the SWIFT situation.
Michael Davis10 said:I guess Russians and some Ukrainian National Guard guys are guarding Chernobyl together now... maybe.😵
Michael Davis10 said:It’s pointless if the Americans don't want it, since how would they pay for all that massive amounts of oil they import?
I guess Biden is just scared gas prices will skyrocket.
neonheron9 said:https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/...1fSGvTKkJLWceg
The Canadians are on board too... Russians are getting booted from SWIFT
gentleharbor3 said:Really interesting lecture by American neorealist John Mearsheimer[/I]
who visited the University of Chicago back in 2015, about a year and a half after Maidan.
He lays out a very clear, well-argued case
on why the West is actually responsible for what’s happening in Ukraine and explains exactly how everyone played their part.
It’s an easy watch. He breaks down all the necessary elements
needed to grasp the broader context
of the conflict and the competing interests in that part of Europe. If you know English, give it a look...
Richard Cooper3 said:Word is a bunch of criminals grabbed weapons too, since you just had to show an ID to get one. And then when those same "civilians" end up getting shot, well, they'll just blame it on evil Russians again.
Nicholas Watson said:Wait, "Nazi Russian forces"? Why not just call them communist forces then?
Their whole end goal is bringing back the USSR, not building some Third Reich nightmare.
Olivia Stewart2 said:It appears that Putin's strategy is to utilize war to force Ukraine into some sort of new agreement, perhaps something akin to Minsk III, which would be significantly more favorable to Russia—essentially a "Finlandization" of Ukraine. However, for that to work, he needs a living Zelenskyy; an agreement can only be signed with a democratically elected representative of the Ukrainian people, not with some installed puppet. His plan likely involves encircling Kyiv and other major cities to then organize negotiations. At that point, everyone starts playing their strongest cards. Entering these cities will, by all accounts, trigger intense guerrilla warfare and result in heavy casualties on both sides, though one has to ask who actually benefits from that. Politically, it hurts Putin, as the Russian people may eventually turn against him once they see the mounting number of Russian soldiers returning home in body bags from an unjust war. Zelenskyy emerges as a Ukrainian hero and secures his place in history, yet simultaneously, it remains a Pyrrhic victory, leaving behind nothing but leveled cities and a massive toll of civilian lives.....
swiftjackal11 said:NATO isn't jumping into a fight. They can only send weapons.
Chris Chase5 said:Can you drop a link to that? I want to see this latest version of Hitler for myself. This absolute piece of trash would probably drop a nuke on Europe just to wreck them, even if it means destroying himself... or maybe he'd aim for America instead...
Kyle Nelson2 said:I wonder if they'll end up on the list for "denazification" too?
Rebecca Lewis7 said:It is because those neo-Nazi Azov battalions don't even number 20,000; they are the only ones actually providing resistance, plus all the chaos.
The Americans are absolutely fed up with the corruption... the empty promises... and the daily looting by both politicians and officials... not to mention the Nazi slogans, the censorship... throwing representatives into the trash along with the garbage, the threats from extremists, and the bans on Canadian... Romanian... schools...
Much like how Americans, after years of indulging in capitalism, finally realized that statistics are a lie; they have smartphones and designer underwear in their stores now, but they can't afford food or utility bills, so they are completely done with the promises and fairy tales.
Would any of you actually fight tomorrow for Biden and Pelosi and foreign corporations and big media conglomerates? Does milk and honey flow through your streets, or is an American wallet actually in an American pocket? Because mine certainly isn't.
Who owns the food industry, the breweries, the banks...? Who owns the telecommunications... who owns the massive conglomerates? It is all identical in Ukraine; oligarchs and foreign corporations own everything, and Ukrainians have no intention of dying for their interests.
But then again, what does a guy from the rural Midwest care when there is plenty of whiskey at the end of the day?
They'll be fine.
Please, tone down the alcohol consumption a bit.🤣
Besides, the Russian leader won't send Russians to die when his Kadyrovites... Cossacks... are begging him on their knees to let them off the leash.
A column of 70,000 Chechens was mobilized in 24 hours and they are currently heading to Donetsk; in 24 hours they will be in Kyiv—it’s just like how tourists in BMWs and Mercedes drive to Kyiv. If the conflict ends before they arrive, they'll just cry millions of tears because they failed to become men, so we might need to build a dam to prevent the flooding.
I suggest that the feminists, the activists, the LGBT associations, and the trans rights fighters... the democracy activists... should all pick up weapons now and go face the music. If they lack the courage, they could at least adopt the Ukrainian refugees they spent years encouraging to mess with Russia and promising they would defend them; oh wait, those were just false... empty promises, promises made to fools. The main thing was that they collected the paychecks and bonuses from UK, US, and EU funds, while the moronic-idiotic-naive-gullible... well, whoever, take the money and run.,
Let the Ukrainians fend for themselves now, after we spent years egging them on to lash out at Russia and bomb them daily for eight years, while arming, training, and coordinating them... it all seems quite revolting to me... 🤮🤮 truly disgusting... it makes me sick.
Where are the British now, stuck in a hole along with those "extremely special" individuals?
That is exactly how we will be defended tomorrow too, and then some Americans will whine about why we don't have weapons... or why we don't have aircraft... we don't need any of that; our "allies" will defend us just like they did in the 90s—they will defend us with sanctions on weaponry, just like they are doing to the Ukrainians now, with Sweden sending helmets. I might actually lose my lunch in those helmets.
Adam Harris said:It’s official now: Russia is launching its assault with only a third of the forces they originally staged around Ukraine.
Richard Wilson4 said:Dictators don't give a damn about what the public thinks.
The real headache for him is those oligarchs.
But honestly, the European Union crowd isn't exactly itching to drop any heavy-duty sanctions...
dustymarlin10 said:Obviously.
The hypocrisy is actually painful.
We should probably mention that these same Americans are importing 600k barrels of oil from Russia every single day.
They stirred up those naive Ukrainians against the Russians, and once the bear actually woke up, they just left them to fend for themselves.
It's the same Americans who are still out there fighting wars all over the world that shouldn't even involve them.
Edit: Just stumbled upon a brilliant thought.
"The Russian vaccine cured COVID."
☕
urbanotter said:Honestly, what's the real difference between a Russian dictatorship and our own version of democracy, where you can't even open your mouth without facing consequences?
Putko might have cleaned things up a bit, but he never even bothered telling the secretary to handle the termination notices or resignations.