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EU nations unwilling to comply with their own sanctions?

There are many trade flows from the #EU to #Russia via Central Asia: mostly dual-use goods that are not subject to export controls, such as cars and spare parts.

Not only Germany, but also Poland, Czechia and the Baltics are apparently not against such trade.



#UkraineIsFucked

Acknowledging that any breakthrough on the eastern bank is unrealistic for now, especially with the lack of heavy weaponry, many soldiers and officers view the operation as more of Ukraine’s effort to reassure some progress to Western allies.

Observing the political theater from a distance and death in proximity, the soldiers say they are hurt that their lives are put in jeopardy for what they say they perceive as a “political decision” to have a symbolic success on the battlefield.

“People are killed to hold on to the ruins,” said 47-year-old Senior Sergeant Petro, who leads a radio intelligence platoon of roughly 20 men with the 38th Separate Marine Brigade.

After the highly-anticipated summer 2023 counteroffensive failed to achieve its goals, Ukrainian and Western politicians used this little bridgehead to peddle hope to their allies in a static war.

It coincides with the new military aid pledges to Ukraine over August-October 2023 hitting their lowest since the start of the full-scale invasion, with an 87% drop year-to-year, according to the Kiel Institute, which tracks Ukraine aid.

socal2 says

Ukraine, despite what you think - is now one of the most experienced and most heavily armed militaries in Europe

Acknowledging that any breakthrough on the eastern bank is unrealistic for now, especially with the lack of heavy weaponry, many soldiers and officers view the operation as more of Ukraine’s effort to reassure some progress to Western allies.

Observing the political theater from a distance and death in proximity, the soldiers say they are hurt that their lives are put in jeopardy for what they say they perceive as a “political decision” to have a symbolic success on the battlefield.

“People are killed to hold on to the ruins,” said 47-year-old Senior Sergeant Petro, who leads a radio intelligence platoon of roughly 20 men with the 38th Separate Marine Brigade.

After the highly-anticipated summer 2023 counteroffensive failed to achieve its goals, Ukrainian and Western politicians used this little bridgehead to peddle hope to their allies in a static war.

It coincides with the new military aid pledges to Ukraine over August-October 2023 hitting their lowest since the start of the full-scale invasion, with an 87% drop year-to-year, according to the Kiel Institute, which tracks Ukraine aid.

#UkraineIsFucked

WashPo has started the Ukey white washing of their coverage:



#UkraineIsFucked

WookieMan says

There will be no winner in this.

Actually, Russia has already won. Ukraine wanted to surrender immediately but Biden would not let them.

Add to that the US military industrial complex and 10% for the big guy and it seems the only losers here are Ukraine, us taxpayers and the dead soldiers on both sides (sounds like more Ukraine dead than Russian but it is unfortunate anyone had to die over these lies and threats of NATO expansion).

Ukraine ‘Scales Back’ Military Operations, Blames Lack of Foreign Aid
(Quick! We need to send at least another $100 Billion. How much are we spending on our own border security?)



Ukraine has blamed a “shortfall in foreign assistance” as it suffers a shortage of munitions, forcing it to make operations “smaller” in its Western-backed war against the Russian occupation.

General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi cited shell starvation “across the entire front line” — what he called a “very big problem” – and what Reuters paraphrased as “the drop in foreign military aid” as being major factors in the reduced combat readiness of Ukrainian troops. Speaking to the wire service in interview, the Ukrainian military leader said the volumes of artillery “are not sufficient for us today, given our needs”, so ammunition was having to be redistributed.

He said: “We’re replanning tasks that we had set for ourselves and making them smaller because we need to provide for them… In some areas, we moved (to defence), and in some we continue our offensive actions – by manoeuvre, fire and by moving forward. And we are preparing our reserves for our further large-scale actions.” Further, the general said after nearly two years of attrition warfare, his men are “not so fresh, not so rested”.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/12/20/ukraine-scales-back-military-operations-blames-lack-of-foreign-aid/

socal2 says

Ukraine, despite what you think - is now one of the most experienced and most heavily armed militaries in Europe

#UkraineIsFucked

LOL! Experienced, yes, if they are alive. Heavily armed? Maybe, if they buy their own supplies from the black market.

It is interesting that the agitprop repeating stations don't seem to mind becoming a laughing stock. What does that mean, exactly?

SORCHA 12/19: "Biden Crime Family Murders 383,000 Ukrainians For Imaginary “Good-Paying American Jobs”"

https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=233818

I guess the agitprop repeating stations are on the theme that instead of money being laundered back through Ukraine to the criminal political families and politicians, the money is financing jobs and American industry. I guess the agitprop repeating stations have a boundless appetite for the utter contempt heaped on them.

Hammering out terms of the Ukrainian partition? Will Odessa wind up like Berlin after WWII, a split concession? Are the neocon foreign agents being told to stand down by the Rothschild Messiahs, intent on saving their own skins? Stay tuned to Channel Argentina Escape Pod. Will the Kmaf Nazis wind up with their Frankenstein created German Nazis, shivering in the Andean Alps? How many account holders can be harvested from South America?
Good thing all those backup servers are on Rothschild Island in Antarctica.

https://t.me/WW3INFO/30527

Black Flag for Ukraine, but not the demons or perpetrators. Is Moloch glutted with death and rotting corpses yet?

What do they mean by black flag? No quarter?

It’s a pirate thing so how does this apply to the disputed area in Eastern Europe?

PeopleUnited says

It’s a pirate thing so how does this apply to the disputed area in Eastern Europe?

It means no holds barred, and let the Ukrainians continue to spill blood for the proxy war without reservation. Those responsible remain at arms length.

Black flag for thee, but not for me, kind of like the boosters with no skin in the game.

Yo @socal2

This a friend of yours?

PumpingRedheads says

Yo socal2

This a friend of yours?

Who would have thought back then that Russia would occupy less Ukrainian land today then they did nearly 2 years ago in March 2022?

Is that "winning" in Russia?

And I will keep asking the glib Putin fanboys at Patnet, how many Russians have died at this point? Is there ANY level of Russian casualties that will make the ROI on Putin's massive embarrassment of a war not worth the cost? Has it been worth gaining 2 new NATO members on Russia's border, losing Wagner and losing Russia's most prized Naval assets?

Is it worth having most of Western Europe to finally wake up and massively increase their military budgets?
https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2023/world-military-expenditure-reaches-new-record-high-european-spending-surges#:~:text=Cold%20war%20levels%20of%20military,cent%20higher%20than%20in%202013

Is it worth Ukraine joining the EU?
https://apnews.com/article/european-union-ukraine-membership-questions-45b7f723761f5e5fa7a49d7302033469

socal2 says

And I will keep asking the glib Putin fanboys at Patnet, how many Russians have died at this point?

Who cares? Ukraine is still fucked.

socal2 says

Is that "winning" in Russia?

Not about Russia 'winning'. It is about Ukraine losing.

socal2 says

Is it worth having most of Western Europe to finally wake up and massively increase their military budgets?

Hahaha. Sure they have.

Not.

Their 'increases' are not a 'massive increase'.

They don't talk about per GDP spending in that article except for Japan.

socal2 says

Is it worth Ukraine joining the EU?

Then the EU is fucked too.

Oh wait! On Planet Reality, Ukraine will join the EU when Tukey does....which is never.

https://youtu.be/60oXMB8yO9o?si=XX8OtCKDfM4N92bV

I don't think the Poles want Western Ukraine. Between the massacres of Poles in Volyhnia, to the redrawing of Ukraine's borders after WW2, there aren't many Poles left. Lvov was once half Polish.

The ideal split would be Galicia-Volyhnia to Poland, Novorussia to Russia, and Rump Ukraine as NETURAL BY CONSTITUTION, prohibited from joining NATO, EU, or any CIS-type Russian creation. Only bilateral trade and economic treaties. Having Russia, the EU, and the US guaranteeing the rump Ukraine's independence.

The US needs to think beyond the Cold War, and re-evaluate the relationship with Russia and the EU. What we need is an ANZACUK alliance that's strong, with minimal trade barriers and preferential treatment among members, one of whom must be Singapore if not Malaysia, Thailand as well. Also think about India vs. China.

Our first step really needs to be a free trade, military alliance, and wide integration (including us adopting Metric system) with Australia, NZ, Canada, and the UK and territories.

Also, WTF with the Pacific. There should be massive bases on Midway, Canton, and Johnston Island. Are we idiots?

The answer to China is 3 dozen new SSKs purpose built for blowing merchant ships out of the water and idealized for the shallow water of the South China Sea.

It's retarded to be worried about stagnating Russia, which poses no military (they should have overrun Ukraine in a month max by sheer volume) or economic threat the to the US. The threat is CHYna, and more especially the Chinese subversion of the economy and politics that makes us do retarded things from making us utterly dependent on Chinese from everything from screws to wafers/boards to pencils to underpants, funding woke movies and media, and encouraging massive trade deficits that lead to massive revenue deficits.

Imagine if in 1940, we had General Marshal calling up OKH Franz Halder assuring him that he'd give him advance notice if Roosevelt decided to be more aggressive with fending off U-Boots from our Sea Economic Zone.

That's literally what happened with General Milley the Woke Tranny and China. That's how bad the CCP subversion is. General Milley's reward

Which reminds me, the USCG has been almost totally denuded of ASW weaponry and training.

LOL! The losers don't determine the content of the negotiation. That time has passed.

https://t.me/WeTheMedia/95628

Since every major Western so called 'think tank' is a whorish appendage of Rand, SRI, CFR, Trilateral Commission, Tavistock, RIIA, Club of Rome etc., this sounds more like propaganda scare tactics from a spent failure than a pending doom. File it under "Trump is Hitler, literally".

https://t.me/gatewaypunditofficial/40884

Ceffer says

LOL! The losers don't determine the content of the negotiation. That time has passed.

https://t.me/WeTheMedia/95628

Did anyone tell @socal2 this?

Taking the Ukraine propaganda sucklers to the woodshed. Fantasy football? Try Fantasy Ukraine.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/discussing-ukraine-nima/

https://youtu.be/8weXwAoCId0

A year old, but turned out a lot was proven true on the propaganda front.

https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/the-united-states-could-not-win-andhtml

Pretty standard Goebbels type Satanic Inversion. It describes Ukrainian troops pretty well.
"One of the more inexplicable narratives included in this disinformation package has been the allegation that Russian troops are poorly trained conscripts who are thrown into the meat grinder with antique weapons, little ammo, and so little food they are literally starving."

Onward and upward to the partition.

https://t.me/gatewaypunditofficial/40922

UkraineIsFucked says

https://youtu.be/60oXMB8yO9o?si=XX8OtCKDfM4N92bV

Who cares as usual? I don’t. Russia will get what it wants but still be a loser for what they are doing. Ukraine is a loser for being corrupt as fuck. The discussion of a winner or loser is retardation. Both are losers by default.

And please don’t post anything about this retard that has literally been wrong for about 2 years now. The guy knows nothing. You can make other arguments about the war but dude does not help your stance. He’s an idiot looking to get paid media gigs because of his former status. He doesn’t know dick and has been probably wrong 100% so far. He’s a clown. Fauci like.

In order for Ukraine to 'win,' Russia will have to do a complete retreat and abandonment of all the territory that it has conquered. And, abandon (according to Ukraine) Crimea. That is not going to happen. Anyone thinking that it will is living in a dream world.

RayAmerica says

In order for Ukraine to 'win,' Russia will have to do a complete retreat and abandonment of all the territory that it has conquered. And, abandon (according to Ukraine) Crimea. That is not going to happen. Anyone thinking that it will is living in a dream world.

100% agree. BUT the optics matter. Russia looks like the loser. There was a way around it all but Russians and Putin is a fucking moron. The Ukraine invasion has been an utter failure.

Ukrainians will take cash for anything. Russia had the cash to buy the land from Ukraine. I don't get what control over the Black Sea gets them when they have to get through Turkey, have no navy, to get to the Med, through the French and other EU Navies to even get into the Atlantic. Going south through the Suez they already do with their oil and gas. No one is stopping that.

There was a diplomatic solution and Putin is a dip shit. He'll win what he want, but he's losing more in the long term. It was a piss poor move.

Are we STILL arguing about Ukraine and Russia and who will win?
Isn’t it fucking obvious by now that Ukraine can’t win?

Never get into a land war in Asia.

I do think there was a peaceful resolution but Biden/NATO New world order globalists would not allow Ukraine to negotiate with Putin. So it is ridiculous to say Putin could have just bought land from Ukraine. It is not Ukraine’s to sell. Ukraine is Biden/NATO/NWO’s puppet, so there will not be peace in Ukraine until Biden says the War is over. This is 1000% Biden’s war, and the blood of every life lost is on his hands. There would be no war in Ukraine had there been a second Trump term.

PeopleUnited says

There would be no war in Ukraine had there been a second Trump term.

Or if the Hunter investigation requested by Trump had gone through.

PeopleUnited says

It is not Ukraine’s to sell. Ukraine is Biden/NATO/NWO’s puppet, so there will not be peace in Ukraine until Biden says the War is over. This is 1000% Biden’s war, and the blood of every life lost is on his hands. There would be no war in Ukraine had there been a second Trump term.

Russia never made an offer.... that's my point. Biden did. Ukraine took it.

Russia said muah fuck it and invaded in one of the dumbest ways possible. This could have been done for $100B USD. No human life lost. Now Russia's navy crippled if even existent in the Black Sea. Even if the West funded everything to help Ukraine, no one is no longer afraid of the Russian mouse. We're nearing 2 years now of "winning" as Charlie Sheen would say....

They don't look weak, they are weak. They have less resources than the US. Most of their land is completely useless. They need the west to extract their resources in the ground. They're fucking morons. I go to national conferences with my wife with thousands of engineers. I've NEVER seen or met a Russian engineer. I have Aussie, German, Irish, Dutch and Italian friends that I've met at these places. Never a Russian. Again. They're idiots.

WookieMan says

Russia never made an offer

BS. That’s what The Maintsream media dipshits and liars tell you.

Even after rolling tanks across the border negotiations were ongoing. Biden refused to let his puppet Zelensky negotiate a peaceful resolution.

WookieMan says

Who cares as usual? I don’t

Gee who cares? What the title of this thread? What is the topic?

If you don't care, then why are you posting here at all. Especially with comments that basically state "who cares about the topic of this thread?"