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The Ukrainian leaders want to expel these Russians from eastern Ukraine
A tank has little hope against a well trained anti tank crew.
2. I am not aware of Ukraine shelling the crap out of ethnic Russian territories for years. I have not seen proofs of that.
I've seen articles that say the "only" bridge to Crimea was destroyed, but there are at least three ways in. Does Ukraine control the other two?
The media is stupid, or
Eric Holder says
Happy 200 lost T-72B3’s day!
Goes to show that the future is not going to be tanks and fighter bombers.
Imagine a swarm of these
A tank has little hope against a well trained anti tank crew. An autonomous four legged drone designed and programmed to hunt and kill specific target types would give tanks even less hope.
A tank has little hope against a well trained anti tank crew. An autonomous four legged drone designed and programmed to hunt and kill specific target types would give tanks even less hope.
Did America cause Europe’s energy war?
Biden doesn't just want to weaken Russia ...
A recession next year is now considered almost certain; industrial production is down 9% on last year; inflation has soared to double digits for the first time since the Second World War. Given Germany’s deep-seated inflation-phobia, all this is problematic enough. But even more traumatic for the country is the fact that Germany is now running a negative trade balance — the first time this has happened in more than 30 years. This is a very tough pill to swallow for a country where export-led growth is more than just an economic model — it’s part of its national identity.
But those days are over. The German economic machine has broken down. First it was battered by the global lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, which disrupted global supply chains, forcing German industries to pay more for increasingly scarce components that they once bought from China. The pandemic also lowered growth in key Asian export markets — first and foremost China. ...
Is Germany just a collateral victim of the United States’ proxy war against Russia? Or could Germany have been a target of economic warfare itself?
This latter question is impossible to ignore following the recent attack on the part-German-owned Nord Stream gas pipelines connecting Russia to Germany. Even though Western governments and commentators have been quick to point the finger at Russia, Jeffrey Sachs, the US economist and Columbia professor, recently voiced an opinion shared by many: that the act of sabotage on the pipeline is more likely to have been “a US action” — one directed first and foremost at Germany. A similar claim was also made by Douglas Macgregor, a retired US Army colonel and former advisor to US Defense Secretary in the Trump administration. And then there’s the now-infamous tweet (subsequently deleted) by Radek Sikorski — Poland’s former foreign minister and current chairman of the European Parliament’s EU-US delegation — who published an image of the Nord Stream leak along with the words “Thank you, USA”.
It’s not hard to see why so many people are inclined to view this as a US action rather than a Russian one. While it’s unclear how Russia would benefit from losing the leverage the pipeline offered it over Germany and other European states, the US, on the other hand, has a lot to gain from putting Nord Stream out of action — possibly forever, according to German sources. (Russia disputes the damage and claims the pipeline could be repaired and reopened soon, but that Western authorities won’t allow Russia to inspect the pipelines.)
It’s no secret that the US has always been opposed to Nord Stream, and in particular to Nord Stream 2, a new pipeline parallel to Nord Stream 1 (in operation since 2011) that was completed in 2021 and was expected to enter into service in 2022, doubling the annual supply of Russian gas to Germany. It’s easy to see why the US establishment wasn’t happy about this development: more gas would have meant stronger Russian-German relations, which would have likely led to an expansion of trade, increased cultural exchanges, and ultimately to a new security architecture that would have made Nato’s security umbrella increasingly redundant and weakened US hegemony over the European continent. ...
It appears, then, this cannot be written off as a conspiracy theory. In fact, one of America’s best-known geostrategists, George Friedman, former chairman of the private intelligence firm Stratfor, wrote in his 2010 bestselling book The Next Decade: “Russia does not threaten America’s global position, but the mere possibility that it might collaborate with Europe and particularly Germany opens up the most significant threat in the decade, a long-term threat that needs to be nipped in the bud”. ...
At the same time, Germany, as it strives to replace Russian gas, has turned to the United States, which now provides (at “astronomical prices”, according to the German economy minister) 45% of European LNG imports — up from 28% in 2021. So overall, it’s hard to deny that the US is clearly benefiting from the European energy crisis in general, and from the recent pipeline attack in particular. No doubt that’s why US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the Nord Stream attack offers a “tremendous opportunity” to end Europe’s dependency on Russian energy — a strange choice of language for what effectively amounts to a terrorist attack on a strategic infrastructure of a Nato ally. He also confirmed that the action would directly benefit the US: “We’re now the leading supplier of LNG to Europe,” Blinken added.
It should also be noted that the attack came at a time when the German government was coming under growing pressure to end the sanctions. Just a week before, large demonstrations had taken place in Germany calling for the commissioning of Nord Stream 2 to resolve the energy crisis.
Now, all this may very well be a case of unintended benefit for America. However, the mounting evidence forces us to ask an uncomfortable question: could the US strategy in Ukraine be aimed not only at weakening Russia, but Germany as well? It’s a terrifying prospect, but one that German elites can’t afford to discount.
Trump Warns We're Risking World War III: 'Stupid People' Don't Have a Clue
Former President Donald Trump has become increasingly worried about the war between Russia and Ukraine fearing that it can all too easily spin out of control and pull the rest of the world into a terrible world war.
At a Saturday rally in Minden, Nevada, Trump spoke about Russia’sunprovokedUS-provoked attack on Ukraine and noted that he fears a worse conflagration if Ukraine does not at least try to negotiate with Russia. ...
But during the rally, Trump noted that the fight in Ukraine could very easily metastasize into the next world war.
“We must demand the immediate negotiation of a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine, or we will end up in World War III, and there will be nothing left of our planet all because stupid people didn’t have a clue. They didn’t have a clue,” Trump said according to Raw Story. “They don’t understand, they really don’t understand.”
Trump has proven to have had good instincts for foreign policy. Indeed, the Germans may have snickered at Trump in 2018 when the president warned them about relying too much on Russia energy exports, but his words were clearly prophetic. ...
Add in our suffering economy that is now in the worst shape it has been in decades, and the U.S. is in a very precarious spot as the winds of war blow across the globe.
Donald Trump’s warnings that the world is on the brink of war should not be dismissed. His record of success on the world stage demands he be taken seriously. All it takes is one stupid move, and the world could be plunged into World War III.
And as Barack Obama once said, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to [screw] things up.”
this is the illogical thing about war. If I give Ukrainian soldier a gun, train him, and send him off to go kill Russian soldiers its not war, but if I use a gun myself then it's war. This doesn't make sense to me.
Nothing else was declared a war.
https://www.academia.edu/8776021/The_Snipers_Massacre_on_the_Maidan_in_Ukraine
richwicks says
Nothing else was declared a war.
Russia is also doing this with its "special military operation".
Why? What's the reason for not calling a war a war?
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1580293815357042688
A Russian MT-LB drives into a line of TM-62 anti-vehicle landmines.
What were the lies about Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras, Cuba and Nicaragua?
Were there not Marxist insurgencies (funded by the USSR) fucking those countries up and spreading instability in the Western Hemisphere through the 70's, 80' and 90's?
What are the lies about Iran? Are they not run by Islamist anti-Semitic theocrat nutters who have set that country back half a century?
Geesh - it is a clown show that we have Americans defending Marxists, Islamist and whatever the fuck mutant shit that is going on in North Korea all in an effort to defend Russia's murderous cock-up in Ukraine.
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