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How can War torn Ukrainians afford to heat their homes when Western Europe is struggling and Western European factories are actually closing for the winter due to high natural gas prices?

There clearly are so many shenanigans at work here that it is as if clowns/sociopaths run the world and the media is their court jester placating and dividing the masses so they don’t wake up and depose the corrupt powers that be.

PeopleUnited says

How can War torn Ukrainians afford to heat their homes when Western Europe is struggling and Western European factories are actually closing for the winter due to high natural gas prices?

There clearly are so many shenanigans at work here that it is as if clowns/sociopaths run the world and the media is their court jester placating and dividing the masses so they don’t wake up and depose the corrupt powers that be.

If it turns out that the media are the court jesters, I think they should be taken out first..

Russia lost.
It's the best money the USA ever spent.
Fuck the Russians good and prevent them from rebuilding their arsenal by sanctions forever.
We have been spending billions for decades preparing to fight a war with those primitive assholes; shoot the works now.
The dipshits in the Kremlin sent a small army to invade a pretty big country with an army of equal size.
Since Crimea, the West is training the Ukraine army, and they have superior missiles.

clambo says

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Russia lost.

When did our war with Russia end?

Can we fight the fascists in America now?

clambo says

Russia lost.

So did Ukraine. Almost half a million working age men, dead or disabled. A demographic disaster. And all for what?

clambo says

We have been spending billions for decades preparing to fight a war with those primitive assholes; shoot the works now.

Billions? Haha, Trillions.

The US has fucking crippled itself by restarting a conflict with Russia AFTER the Cold War ended, for no fucking reason.

The national debt is now 30 trillion dollars. You know what it was on December 26, 1991 - when the USSR collapsed? 3.6 trillion. It's TEN TIMES what it used to be. Brilliant stupid fucking assholes! A dollar is worth a dime.

Keep celebrating your stupid pyrrhic victory, stupid assholes! Congratulations at destroying the country for nothing. But after 30 FUCKING years, we fucked up Russia, a LITTLE, TINY bit. Congratulations. That was worth it!

The USA didn't start the invasion; Putin did.
The money we are sending to Ukraine is well spent.
Russia has been fucked up forever, Putin is just making it worse.
The national debt grew from lots of wasteful things, not just our NATO budget.
Trump to his credit said to NATO that they have to pull their own weight more; we've spent enough defending them.
Germany of course hated to hear that.
Now, NATO is growing, and Ruissia is in retreat. It looks as if Putin "misunderestimated" just a little bit.

Onvacation says

Can we fight the fascists in America now?

Sure. Stop talking and start fighting already.

DhammaStep says

And all for what?

For the same thing American Revolutionary War was fought - not being subjects of a colonial power.

RWSGFY says

subjects of a colonial power.

You think we're going to colonize the Ukraine?

My understanding is that we don't want to send any colonizers there. The deep state just wants to use Ukraine as a money laundry.

I have a gut feeling this war is at least partially motivated by a desire to neuter russia now while we have the opportunity, before they grow stronger and we need to deal with an emboldened russia + chyna teaming up on us. At least I hope its something worthwhile like that.

clambo says

The USA didn't start the invasion; Putin did.

Oh my god. The US overthrew Ukraine, this led to the civil war in Ukraine. The US armed "their side" and Russia armed "their side", and THAT'S how this started.

Stupid fucking Neocons started this conflict, QUIT DEFENDING THEM.

These stupid fucking assholes have kept us in 20 years of war with 7 nations, and for WHAT? Now they are dragging us into WWIII. Quit fucking defending these stupid, sociopathic, incompetents.

Old boomers can’t really grasp that this isn’t the country of their youth anymore, and our leaders don’t do things with the best interests of our country in mind.

Shaman says

Old boomers can’t really grasp that this isn’t the country of their youth anymore, and our leaders don’t do things with the best interests of our country in mind.

Neither can the young boomers.

RWSGFY says

not being subjects of a colonial power.

LOL! Ukraine is already a Globalist colonial vassal State as a playground for their corrupt criminal enterprises. It's just a question of whose colonial entity they are going to be.

When the Soviet Union fell, Sec. of State James Baker, along with President George H. W. Bush, PROMISED Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand
by allowing other nations to join. They broke that promise. NATO has since expanded to the extent that Russia is now pretty much encircled. Ukraine joining
NATO would pose an existential threat to their Black Sea Fleet, and would potentially lead to the annexation of Crimea. There is no way Putin is going to allow
that to happen.

In 2014, the USA/CIA orchestrated a Coup that overthrew the duly elected government of Ukraine, which just so happened to have been very friendly with Russia.
In typical fashion, they installed a pro-NATO/USA puppet, which Russia, rightfully so, viewed as a threat to their security.

In order to understand Russia's position, try to imagine China creating a military organization that includes the membership of Canada, Mexico, the bulk of Central
America and Cuba. Do you think we might feel threatened?

I recall the Cuban Missile Crisis. JFK almost took us to nuclear war over Russia merely putting nuclear missiles in Cuba. How many member nations of NATO are there
that have nuclear missiles aimed at Russia?

RayAmerica says

When the Soviet Union fell, Sec. of State James Baker, along with President George H. W. Bush, PROMISED Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand
by allowing other nations to join.

Did The West Promise Moscow That NATO Would Not Expand? Well, It's Complicated

Mikhail Gorbachev himself said the question of NATO's expansion didn't come up in discussions when he was Soviet leader.

https://www.rferl.org/a/nato-expansion-russia-mislead/31263602.html

Putin signed an agreement to not invade Ukraine and Ukraine gave up all of their nukes.

Putin wants a puppet government in all of the countries which surround Russia; he succeeded in several of them.

In his mad mind, he needs to have buffers between Russia and the West. Why he fears the West so much is a mystery.

I guess he thinks Poland wants revenge more than it does a better standard of living, so he fears it will attack Russia someday?

clambo says

In his mad mind, he needs to have buffers between Russia and the West. Why he fears the West so much is a mystery.

Well, maybe the fact that the West has been lying for 2 decades about why it engages in war. Maybe Russia thinks what I do, that the United States is run by a bunch of psychopaths, and stupid psychopaths at that.

RayAmerica says

When the Soviet Union fell, Sec. of State James Baker, along with President George H. W. Bush, PROMISED Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand
by allowing other nations to join.

“I was in those meetings, and Gorbachev has [also] said there was no promise not to enlarge NATO,” Zoellick recalls. Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, later president of Georgia, concurred, he says.

https://hls.harvard.edu/today/there-was-no-promise-not-to-enlarge-nato/

Slavic Studies Panel Addresses “Who Promised What to Whom on NATO Expansion?”

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early

RayAmerica says

If Russia wins

"If" - nice word.

As my late mother used to remind me, "If" in one hand and shit in the other, which one will you feel first ?

The EU outnumbers Russia 5 to 1. With the US added in, Russia is outnumbered 8 to 1

Historically speaking the weaker actor is rarely the aggressor.

I was giving one explanation for Putin's diastrous invasion.

People are all bothered by the USA finally getting something done about Russia; we have been paying to defend Europe from those bastards for decades, Putin finally invaded someone too close to Europe and they became alarmed enough to buy weapons for Ukraine.

In 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel was invaded by several of its neighbors. The West supplied weapons for Israel to fight back, which it did successfully.

The Arabs took umbrage and we had a Arab Oil Embargo, which may be before your memory. This essentially fucked up the world economy for at least a decade.

This is the same shit all over again, and the invaded country will prevail again because the West has the better weapons technology and training.

clambo says

The USA didn't start the invasion; Putin did.

we pushed Russia into it by putting puppet government in Ukraine and starting war against Russia there, its been going on for 8 years. watch that documentary: Ukraine on Fire. youll see.

RWSGFY says

DhammaStep says

And all for what?

For the same thing American Revolutionary War was fought - not being subjects of a colonial power.

Okay. Just to be clear though: the loss of life, especially to preventable wars, should always be mourned. Even if you percieve them justified.

richwicks says

Congratulations at destroying the country for nothing.

If they had just maintained status quo, we would probably be much better but they had to go and fuck it up.

I'm not buying the story that anyone pushed Putin into anything.
Putin's lackey in Ukraine was evidently unable to hold onto his position.
I wonder why?
But, even if NATO "provoked" Putin, why did he have to act? Russia was never in danger from the West.
The West was cooperating on many levels with Russia, enriching them buying their oil and gas.
The West was sending technology to Russia to improve its industry.
The West was accepting lots of asshole Russians into various countries to live.
I get the feeling that many here have limited or no experience dealing with assholes; you cannot really reach an agreement with them.
Sooner or later, they need their asses kicked, and Putin is having his ass kicked.

clambo says

I'm not buying the story that anyone pushed Putin into anything.
Putin's lackey in Ukraine was evidently unable to hold onto his position.
I wonder why?
But, even if NATO "provoked" Putin, why did he have to act? Russia was never in danger from the West.
The West was cooperating on many levels with Russia, enriching them buying their oil and gas.
The West was sending technology to Russia to improve its industry.
The West was accepting lots of asshole Russians into various countries to live.
I get the feeling that many here have limited or no experience dealing with assholes; you cannot really reach an agreement with them.
Sooner or later, they need their asses kicked, and Putin is having his ass kicked.

I forget who posted the link, but I disagree that Russia was never in danger from the west. After the USSR fell, there was a time when the US could have done the right thing and raised Russia from the dust like it did for Japan and Germany after WWII. This time, however, the US was to go in like a flock of vultures.

Nuland and her ilk are almost to a man and woman descendants of refugees from Russian pogroms against Jews back in the late 19th and early 20th century. They were poisoned by the hatred of their refugee ancestors and want nothing more than to see Russia completely destroyed. This is pathological hatred - they cannot be turned away, and they will not stop until they are dead. Even then, they have probably poisoned their children to continue their crusade.

Until we acknowledge the motivations of Nuland and her fellow neocons, we can never untangle the clusterfuck that is US strategic policy. They will only accept victory, and the real existential danger they pose is that they are willing to accept a pyrrhic one.

Let's not forget America's favorite Neo-Con warmonger criminal Senator John McCain (former candidate for President) going to Ukraine in 2014 and promising, to large crowds,
that "America has your back," implying heavily that the coming Coup had America's backing.

No doubt about it; the CIA had their typical operatives spread into all the key areas of Ukraine to make sure everything went according to plan. When you think about it,
as they have done in dozens of cases, the CIA are 'election deniers,' having overthrown duly elected governments, only to be replaced by their selected puppets ... the
controllable types of the Joe Biden ilk.

Russia has HUNDREDS of years of experience in fighting wars. They are professionals at it. From the very start, in spite of the lying western media, Russia purposely conducted a very limited military operation in Ukraine, effectively neutralizing the Ukraine-Nazi element, while gaining control of key tactical regions in the East and the coastal areas of the Black Sea. When the Ukraines foolishly attacked the bridge connecting Russia to Crimea, and, when their pipelines were attacked, Russia took the gloves off and, in spite of media propaganda, it's been all downhill for Ukraine ever since. Suddenly, the West, which clearly overplayed their hand, is now hinting at negotiations as a means to end the war, something that they prevented Ukraine from doing at the beginning of the conflict.

History proves that the Russians are PATIENT tacticians. When Napoleon's Grande Armee invaded Russia in 1812, they made great gains as far as territory was concerned. The Russians kept falling back, drawing Napoleon deeper and deeper into Russia, while extending his supply lines. The Russians then circled back and cut of those supply lines, waited for the brutal Russian winter to set in, and let nature take its course. Napoleon fled back to France, leaving behind his decimated Grande Armee, which was now starving, freezing, diseased and defeated. To a very large extent, the Russians repeated this patient, masterful tactic on the invading German Army in 1941, obtaining the very same results.

richwicks says

Oh my god. The US overthrew Ukraine, this led to the civil war in Ukraine. The US armed "their side" and Russia armed "their side", and THAT'S how this started.

Go back about 20 years ago and Medvedev statements to Bush Jr administration diplomats about Russian's claims to not only Ukraine but also Soviet ex republics like Latvia.

It was just a matter of time as Putin was building power within the borders of Russia for the Russian invasion to occur. The problem is that he caused other countries like Finland to fear they are next on the list.

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RayAmerica says

To a very large extent, the Russians repeated this patient, masterful tactic on the invading German Army in 1941, obtaining the very same results.

Ukraine is not fighting like Germany or Napoleon's France. Russia is the invader not Ukraine in this circumstance.

I think Ukraine is spread thin intentionally and we do not know how many foreign fighters are on Ukraine's side like Polish special forces and mercenaries.

I think Ukraine needs to attack Russia's infrastructure like electrical grid and energy supplies.
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RayAmerica says

Russia has HUNDREDS of years of experience in fighting wars

And losing some of them as well, just like we do.

19 Wars Russia Has Lost, from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2022/07/07/19-wars-russia-has-lost-from-ivan-the-terrible-to-vladimir-putin/2/

RayAmerica says

To a very large extent, the Russians repeated this patient, masterful tactic on the invading German Army in 1941, obtaining the very same results.

Nope. The winter did in Napolean, but not the Germans. What did in the Germans was that they invaded with 190 divisions, caught the Soviets unprepared, and pushed them back to Moscow and Stalingrad. But then the Russians stood ground, regrouped and counter attacked with 360 divisions, including 105,000 T-34 tanks, most of which were built in open air factories. Pushed the Germans all the way to Berlin over the next 3 years. No regard for casualties on the Soviet side - the Soviets lost 200,000 dead in the two-week battle for Berlin, but they still took the city.

So, I guess I'll never be able to figure out if Russia is winning or losing. Amiright?

HeadSet,

Prior to winter, the rain season turned the 'dirt roads' upon which the German army was advancing into mud. In effect, their advance came to a crawl. Then came winter.

The winter had a devastating effect on the German Army. They were ill-equipped, still clad in their summer clothing. Eventually, their machinery was unable to move due entirely to the unimaginable frigid temperatures. That wasn't the case for the Russians who were prepared to fight under these conditions. Russian planes still flew, and their tanks were able to move, while the Germans, for the most part, couldn't. Frostbite accounted for countless casualties for the Germans. Many German soldiers actually froze to death. In the midst of all of this, the Russians mounted a winter offensive which turned into a route for the retreating Germans.

Were the German's able to hang on and even eventually mount several offensive operations? Yes. But they never fully recovered from the devastating effects of that first winter in Russia.

GNL says

So, I guess I'll never be able to figure out if Russia is winning or losing. Amiright?

We'll see how things play out after Europe suffers through a harsh winter with limited fuel supplies.

It's 2022. Not the 1800's or 1940's. This isn't hard core Russians/Soviets from those times. They've been modernized mentally. Also cold weather is a nothing burger with modern gear. And their equipment is from that time and outdated. They cannot attack via sea without risking their entire navy. Both sides are drunks as well. It's December for fucks sake.

Russia is going to lose half its military hardware before this is all done. Maybe more even if they "win." Not that any of it was worth shit. Again, Russia has had plans for probably years for this and couldn't execute it. We will keep feeding weapons in and weaken Russia to nothing. They already look weak. And I don't care if Ukraine loses. The damage has been done to Russia showing the paper tiger it really is.

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think Ukraine is spread thin intentionally and we do not know how many foreign fighters are on Ukraine's side like Polish special forces and mercenaries.

Two detachments of Chechens with blood feud against Russians
Transcaucasian unit
Russian legion, made up from Russian POWs who want to fight against Russia
Bashkir/Tatar unit
International legion, made up by crazies from all over world, incl Japanese, S. Koreans, Americans, etc
Not that many Poles but tens of thousands of Ukrainians trained in Poland

Explosions at a pair of air bases deep inside Russia killed at least three people and wounded six others on Monday, Russian authorities said, while Ukrainian officials hinted at a capability to strike deeper within Russian territory.

The attacks serve Kyiv’s aims of disrupting Russia’s supply lines that bring military hardware and soldiers to the war in Ukraine. They also serve a psychological purpose, demonstrating Russia’s vulnerability to attack as the assault on Ukraine wears on.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/explosions-hit-russian-air-bases-as-more-missiles-strike-ukrainian-infrastructure-11670237453?mod=mktw&mod=article_inline&adobe_mc=MCMID%3D33643146269311232381034897595525346801%7CMCORGID%3DCB68E4BA55144CAA0A4C98A5%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1670243909

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/russian-air-bases-hit-as-ukraine-hints-at-more-offense-11670242077

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