When the call came, my immediate family has answered for generations. We have fought for freedom and this country in every major conflict since the civil war… I’m sure we will again.
Most of those casualties are Russians… Putin could stop the deaths tomorrow. He just needs to leave the world order as he found it.
This is the stupidest sentiment ever.
How upset were you watching us sit on our hands while Russia invaded Ukraine knowing Ukraine would never be able to take back that lost territory once Russia established defensive lines?This stuff is close to home because we have Ukrainians in our family. Her family is directly involved in this conflict. Brother can leave the country and fighting. Mother and other family members left. This is real stuff, and how many have characterized this conflict is pretty sick here. The way they have characterized it in the media has just been to get paid. It isn't as a different way to think. Some of it has even been paid directly by Russian state propaganda like Tenet media with people like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool.
I am fine with discussing whether the US should give so much money. But don't act like we have given 300 billion dollars. We haven't. We have provided 80-90 billion in military aid built in the United States; much of it is old equipment. Some of us have discovered how bad our logistics capabilities are for major conflicts. We can't build big artillery rounds. Now, the big orange guy will reduce the size of the military even further. Good luck boys! We voted for it.
Putin was doing that crap well before in places like Georgia and Chechnya. The history of Ukraine is that they wanted to be allied with the West because they like Western freedoms in the EU, not sham courts and mafia oligarchies that exist in Russia. There was history there with the Orange and Maidan Revolutions.
You people curiously, willfully or ignorantly don't talk about it. I don't know what it is. It is more significant that Putin didn't want them in NATO, so he invaded. GTFOH. Watch their stuff on Russian State TV. Watch Putin's speeches and what he wrote about before he invaded.
Putin was a weird ally to some of the right-wing because he talked about trannies, so that's super cool etc...
This is a very weird reading of history....
Agree. Unfortunately, I don’t see that happening. So it’s either a NATO ground war against Russia or a peace deal. Time isn’t on the Ukrainian side
I wanted Biden to do them then... we had whole discussions on here regarding the similarities with the 1930's..
I’ve said 1000x. Once we allowed Putin to take that eastern territory Ukraine would never be able to supplant them. I would threaten military intervention in the war (NATO) and use that leverage to get the best deal we can. Not sure NATO is willing to make that threat though. The longer this goes the worse our negotiating position gets. Need to get this done sooner rather than later.
What is your point? Are you suggesting this is like Trump and the apprentice?
NATO airpower. It has never been applied.
NATO will never agree to those military actions. The last thing they want is for this conflict to spread beyond Ukraine’s borders. Missiles hitting London, Paris, Berlin, etc…is their worst nightmare. They seem perfectly happy to supply Ukraine with just enough military assets to slowly lose the war
Russia is incapable of doing such things. They could not get their ships out of the Baltic Sea. At that point, aegis and patriot systems are knocking their stuff down, which they have shown to be capable of.
You’re wrong. Russia has hypersonic missiles which could easily reach every major city in Europe. Hypersonic missiles are very difficult for us to intercept. We might get some but others would surely reach their targets. NATO will not chance their major cities being hit
We have knocked all of their stuff out of the sky. All of it.
No we haven’t. We are currently unable to effectively intercept hypersonic missiles. We even struggle at times intercepting traditional missiles when multiples are launched simultaneously. Europe will not risk its cities being hit. Quit reading the propaganda
By not chancing their major cities now, they chance more destruction to them later….
Europe is risk adverse when it comes to a widespread war on the continent. I assume they would have to be directly attacked before they would be willing to enter a war with Russia.
To some degree I think they are because of what they went through historically, but that memory is fading, many nations are looking at what’s happening and starting to grow some backbone. Especially those next in line like the Baltics or Poland.
The same thing could have been said about Reagan after his first term. I don't the significance of this remark.
As far as your remark about elections in our times of war, I don't remember any bombs being dropped on us during our wars. The closest we ever came to that was cannonballs in the civil war. But never any bombs during wars with other countries. So your point seems kind of moot.
We did have an election at the very tail end of the civil war, when things were pretty much wrapped up... of course it only encompassed the Northern states.... and a few months later the war ended and the president we elected was shot in the head and replaced by the guy who the other side liked.
You’re one of the few people who believe Ukraine gains in negotiating position as time goes by. Ukraine will lose more territory this spring and summer. Territory they will likely never get back. Long term does not favor Ukraine. They are losing the war
Putin is only winning because he's pouring money and people into the meat grinder. Heck he's been trying to get soldiers to fight for him from every backwater in Africa, the middle east and North Korea. It's estimated that his liquid reserve assets will dry up by the fall.
www.independent.co.uk
www.pravda.com.ua
Russia doesn’t have to overcome the combine war economies of NATO countries because we aren’t operating under war economies nor are we contributed those type of resources towards the proxy war. Now if we would begin a war economy and contribute those resources to the war we would quickly overcome Russia as long as NATO troops are utilized. Ukraine is running short of fighting age able bodied men. We will see what this spring holds as far as territory gains by either party. Ukraine’s losses will increase if they attack fortified Russian positions in efforts to regain lost territory. I’m not optimistic they have the manpower to withstand such lossesPutin is only winning because he's pouring money and people into the meat grinder. Heck he's been trying to get soldiers to fight for him from every backwater in Africa, the middle east and North Korea. It's estimated that his liquid reserve assets will dry up by the fall.
Are you really trying to tell me that Russia, all by itself is able to overcome the combined war economies of all of Europe and the USA? If that's the case, then we might as well close up shop right now and start learning Russian.
His electricity costs have risen 250%. His interest rates are at 21%. His inflation is at 9%. He's spending 40% of his budget on Ukraine yearly. He's lost 3/4 of the Gazprom pipelines. $600 Bn of his foreign currency reserves are frozen in our banks. He's having to pay his troops 4x the average Russian salary in many provinces.
The Russian economy is on the brink of collapse and Putin knows it
The Russian ruble has lost over half of its value in a decade and inflation is rampant - with electricity up 250 per cent and interest rates at 21 per cent. As its citizens become increasingly impoverished, the key to peace will be Putin’s finances, says Owen MatthewsRussian economy minister acknowledges countryâs economic slowdown
Russia’s economy has begun to slow due to high interest rates and inflation, which has already affected sales and orders across various sectors.
Not really applicable. That was a single event on our only island state to provoke us into war. That happened before we entered the war, and it happened nowhere close to an election. The main thing is it was not sustained, and killed very few of our men and it did not put large areas into danger and/or occupation during the war and also during times around the election. The shores of our country were not in danger.
So you don’t believe we will find Zelensky put millions on his pocket from this war?
