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Misc
2025 Oct 27, 10:27am
Macron says that France will send 7k French troops to fight in Ukraine if the war lasts until 2026.
Ukraine is short on manpower and I'm sure that they will make a decent if short showing for themselves.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/france-to-deploy-7-000-soldiers-to-ukraine-in-2026-against-russian-forces/vi-AA1Phz0A?pc=HCTS
Ukraine is short on manpower and I'm sure that they will make a decent if short showing for themselves.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/france-to-deploy-7-000-soldiers-to-ukraine-in-2026-against-russian-forces/vi-AA1Phz0A?pc=HCTS
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MolotovCocktail
2025 Oct 27, 3:56pm
MolotovCocktail
2025 Oct 27, 3:56pm
Misc says
Sure he will.
Macron says that France will send 7k French troops to fight in Ukraine if the war lasts until 2026.
Ukraine is short on manpower and I'm sure that they will make a decent if short showing for themselves.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/france-to-deploy-7-000-soldiers-to-ukraine-in-2026-against-russian-forces/vi-AA1Phz0A?pc=HCTS
Sure he will.
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UveBeenNudged1
2025 Oct 27, 4:50pm
UveBeenNudged1
2025 Oct 27, 4:50pm
Misc says
Macron says that France will send 7k French troops to fight in Ukraine if the war lasts until 2026.
Ukraine is short on manpower and I'm sure that they will make a decent if short showing for themselves.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/france-to-deploy-7-000-soldiers-to-ukraine-in-2026-against-russian-forces/vi-AA1Phz0A?pc=HCTS
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HeadSet
2025 Oct 27, 6:40pm
HeadSet
2025 Oct 27, 6:40pm
MolotovCocktail says
To help with the surrender...
Misc says
Macron says that France will send 7k French troops to fight in Ukraine if the war lasts until 2026.
Ukraine is short on manpower and I'm sure that they will make a decent if short showing for themselves.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/france-to-deploy-7-000-soldiers-to-ukraine-in-2026-against-russian-forces/vi-AA1Phz0A?pc=HCTS
Sure he will.
To help with the surrender...
4676
stereotomy
2025 Oct 28, 1:10am
stereotomy
2025 Oct 28, 1:10am
I thought the Frogs were supposed to start the war, then pussy out and hand it over to the US. Maybe they think if they send some frogs over to be cannon fodder and cry loudly enough, this might trigger a "save a frog, lose hegemony" response from the US?
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socal2
2025 Oct 28, 6:50am
*Putin fears another coup as Russia finally begins to buckle*
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c2568849ede24738
Suddenly, Putin has many reasons to be worried.
Russia’s economy is beginning to buckle. Businesses have been crippled by high interest rates, government borrowing costs have soared and economy minister Maxim Reshetnikov warned in June that the country was “on the brink of a recession”. Warnings are mounting over a potential avalanche of bad debt that could trigger a financial crisis.
Now Donald Trump is turning the screws. After frustration over a lack of progress to end the war in Ukraine, the US president announced new sanctions on two of Russia’s biggest oil companies on Wednesday.
India and China, the main buyers of Russian oil since the war began, responded by curbing purchases. It threatens to cut off crucial oil revenues to Putin’s war machine – and the Russian state.
“For the first time in three and a half years, Russia’s really getting hurt,” says Timothy Ash, an associate fellow at Chatham House’s Russia and Eurasia programme. “I think there’s some panic.”
The war is hitting home for ordinary citizens. Thick plumes of smoke have been rising from Russian oil refineries across the country this year following an unprecedented barrage of Ukrainian drone attacks.
Since January, Ukraine has hit 21 of Russia’s 38 largest refineries where crude oil is refined into products like petrol. It has struck as far as 683 miles into Russia from the Ukrainian border.
So much supply has been knocked out that petrol prices have surged by 40pc since the start of the year. Officials have introduced rationing in occupied Crimea while small petrol stations in Siberia have closed down. Social media is filled with video footage of enormous queues of cars waiting to fill up.
It has also massively ramped up borrowing. Between January and August, Russia’s issuance of bonds surged by 104pc year-on-year, according to the KSE Institute. Total issuance this year could hit a record high.
This borrowing binge is eye-wateringly expensive. Yields on 10-year Russian government bonds hit a four-month high of 15.2pc earlier in October.
Trump has therefore chosen a particularly painful moment to begin turning the screws on Putin.
***
Russia’s economic weakness may encourage Trump to go further. “A major argument for him pushing Ukraine to compromise was that Russia would inevitably win this war. As he put it tactlessly in the White House, ‘You have no cards,’” says a former US diplomat, referring to Trump’s explosive White House press conference in February. “He does like winners.”
Now, it may be Putin who has no cards.
Intense pressure will be essential if Trump truly wants to stop the war, says [Mikhail] Khodorkovsky. “All the concessions that could have been offered to Putin have already been offered. It’s time for Trump to play the ‘bad cop’.”
He appears to be doing just that, pushing Russia’s economy to the brink. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office: “All of a sudden this economy is going to collapse.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/c2568849ede24738
Suddenly, Putin has many reasons to be worried.
Russia’s economy is beginning to buckle. Businesses have been crippled by high interest rates, government borrowing costs have soared and economy minister Maxim Reshetnikov warned in June that the country was “on the brink of a recession”. Warnings are mounting over a potential avalanche of bad debt that could trigger a financial crisis.
Now Donald Trump is turning the screws. After frustration over a lack of progress to end the war in Ukraine, the US president announced new sanctions on two of Russia’s biggest oil companies on Wednesday.
India and China, the main buyers of Russian oil since the war began, responded by curbing purchases. It threatens to cut off crucial oil revenues to Putin’s war machine – and the Russian state.
“For the first time in three and a half years, Russia’s really getting hurt,” says Timothy Ash, an associate fellow at Chatham House’s Russia and Eurasia programme. “I think there’s some panic.”
The war is hitting home for ordinary citizens. Thick plumes of smoke have been rising from Russian oil refineries across the country this year following an unprecedented barrage of Ukrainian drone attacks.
Since January, Ukraine has hit 21 of Russia’s 38 largest refineries where crude oil is refined into products like petrol. It has struck as far as 683 miles into Russia from the Ukrainian border.
So much supply has been knocked out that petrol prices have surged by 40pc since the start of the year. Officials have introduced rationing in occupied Crimea while small petrol stations in Siberia have closed down. Social media is filled with video footage of enormous queues of cars waiting to fill up.
It has also massively ramped up borrowing. Between January and August, Russia’s issuance of bonds surged by 104pc year-on-year, according to the KSE Institute. Total issuance this year could hit a record high.
This borrowing binge is eye-wateringly expensive. Yields on 10-year Russian government bonds hit a four-month high of 15.2pc earlier in October.
Trump has therefore chosen a particularly painful moment to begin turning the screws on Putin.
***
Russia’s economic weakness may encourage Trump to go further. “A major argument for him pushing Ukraine to compromise was that Russia would inevitably win this war. As he put it tactlessly in the White House, ‘You have no cards,’” says a former US diplomat, referring to Trump’s explosive White House press conference in February. “He does like winners.”
Now, it may be Putin who has no cards.
Intense pressure will be essential if Trump truly wants to stop the war, says [Mikhail] Khodorkovsky. “All the concessions that could have been offered to Putin have already been offered. It’s time for Trump to play the ‘bad cop’.”
He appears to be doing just that, pushing Russia’s economy to the brink. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office: “All of a sudden this economy is going to collapse.”
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Eric Holder
2025 Oct 28, 4:30pm
Eric Holder
2025 Oct 28, 4:30pm
Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win. This is not distinguishing Russia. In fact, it is very much making them look like "a paper tiger." -- Donald J. Trump
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Ceffer
2025 Nov 27, 10:45pm
Ceffer
2025 Nov 27, 10:45pm
"C'mon. Can't we muster a litlle Baghdad Bob enthusiasm here? I know you are all eager to test drive your WWIII survival bunkers."
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MolotovCocktail
2025 Dec 2, 8:41am
MolotovCocktail
2025 Dec 2, 8:41am
Looks like the EU crooks aren't going to get their hands on Russia's money today!
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