I'm seeing reports of routs/large territorial gains by UKR around Kiev - looks like Russia meant what it said when it said it was running away, tail between its legs. Brava,Ukraine.
And bravissima for hitting an oil depot in Russia proper. First military strike in RU since WW2? I suspect there was some serious NATO targeting help with that one.
Now the battlefield switches to the East and South. Key will be if the West can set up anti-aircraft systems. Russians have a much larger air force and if they win the skies they could win the war.
No, it's about NATO expansion. Or Nazis. Or gas reserves. Or access to a warm water port. Or Putin being an authoritarian murderer that thinks Ukrainians are actually Russian. Some day you trolls will get your stories straight.
Now you're citing comedians (yes, I see know that Zelensky was a comedian) that worked for Russia Times for insight on economic policy? Do you go to Carrot Top for medical advice? Do you get your stock picks from Larry the Cable Guy?
The Telegraph isn't exactly representative of "overseas press" though is it? It's the mouthpiece of the right wing. Boris Johnson used to write for them but was fired for lying.
For all of the geniuses who think that they prove their wisdom by showing that they put more trust in random people on the internet than mainstream journalists, I'm wondering if you see the OBVIOUS problem with that?
But since you MIGHT not be geniuses, I'll point out the problem: The logical outcome of your position - IF it got a LITTLE smarter by putting as much stock in non-journalists as actual journalists - is that neither you nor anyone could trust ANYTHING.
We'd all be blissfully ignorant about everything that wasn't happening in our front yard. And hey, maybe we could just BELIEVE what the Trumps and Putins of the world told us about it !!
Basement-level intellectual views of the world....from people who ACTUALLY think that they're wise.
The New York Post's columnist Miranda Devine says the real take-away from the Hunter Biden laptop scandal is the serious claims the US president has been "co...
While I don't support Putin's invasion of Ukraine, I could see it coming a mile away. Great powers have spheres of influence. Case in point: The Cuban Missile Crisis. According to Anatoly Dobrynin in his memoirs, Khrushchev was cautioned that "reactionary forces" in America would ensure a strong response if we found out what was going on. Khrushchev dismissed this advice out of hand, and sure enough, we wound up on the brink of nuclear war.
Ukraine entering NATO would have been the equivalent of Florida or Texas joining the Warsaw Pact. Russia was never going to accept this. Period. You would think a few swamp creatures at the Pentagon or State Department would have made our elected officials aware of this very basic fact.
Everyone who isn't a moron saw it coming.
So naturally, DC and the EU were stunned when he actually invaded.
Given that "DC" was telling the world that Russia was going to invade well before it actually happened, I thing you're wrong here.
Published 6 days before the invasion:
"Citing U.S. Intelligence, Biden Says Putin Has Decided to Invade Ukraine"
President Biden said Russia would target Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, in the coming week. The Russian president said earlier Friday that he was still open to diplomacy.
That video you just posted was just a montage of NY Post and Fox News interviews and opinion pieces. Are they considered "overseas press" now? And your first link was clearly labeled commentary. Gee, a right-wing columnist in a right-wing newspaper wrote an opinion piece critical of Biden, I guess it's all over for him now!
For all of the geniuses who think that they prove their wisdom by showing that they put more trust in random people on the internet than mainstream journalists, I'm wondering if you see the OBVIOUS problem with that?
But since you MIGHT not be geniuses, I'll point out the problem: The logical outcome of your position - IF it got a LITTLE smarter by putting as much stock in non-journalists as actual journalists - is that neither you nor anyone could trust ANYTHING.
We'd all be blissfully ignorant about everything that wasn't happening in our front yard. And hey, maybe we could just BELIEVE what the Trumps and Putins of the world told us about it !!
Basement-level intellectual views of the world....from people who ACTUALLY think that they're wise.
Yes all the smartest people get all of their information from 1 side of any issue and just declare any conflicting information to be propaganda and lies...
lol...
You've got a LOT of work to do to even make it to "basement-level intellectual".
You'd do a lot better here if you didn't resort to making stuff up.
He started massing forces on the border in the SPRING of 2021. Declaring that an invasion was imminent almost a full year later isn't a "triumph" of intelligence work.
Ukraine was completely stunned by the invasion. That's a failure.
Zelensky was on TV making fun of the US reports of an impending invasion. The geniuses that notice Putin put 200,000 troops on the border forgot to tell the Ukrainian government apparently...
You'd do a lot better here if you didn't resort to making stuff up.
He started massing forces on the border in the SPRING of 2021. Declaring that an invasion was imminent almost a full year later isn't a "triumph" of intelligence work.
Ukraine was completely stunned by the invasion. That's a failure.
Zelensky was on TV making fun of the US reports of an impending invasion. The geniuses that notice Putin put 200,000 troops on the border forgot to tell the Ukrainian government apparently...
None of which has anything to do with your false statement ("DC was stunned when he actually invaded") or my response.
Yes all the smartest people get all of their information from 1 side of any issue and just declare any conflicting information to be propaganda and lies...
lol...
You've got a LOT of work to do to even make it to "basement-level intellectual".
Every link you post is either a low quality news source or a rando YouTuber. You then dismiss all western news sources as being brainwashed with propaganda.
If there are legit sources that support your side of this debate, you should post them. Most people would rather read that, than consume a bunch of post-truth conspiracy theory trash.
I will readily concede that there have been some really horrible misfires on the left about the war in Ukraine and this is another one. The main premise of Camps argument is that conflicts from Iraq to Iran are all tied to efforts to break US dollar hegemony, in particular in energy markets. The big problem is that most of the cited cases are those where countries have proposed moving to the euro (and it is pronounced "you ahn" not "yen"--that is the Japanese currency). Both the EU central bank and US central bank have been in lock step in enforcing sanctions against Russia.
But this is just one in a long line of arguments that attempt to make Russia's invasion of Ukraine a direct result of US foreign policy. These arguments just stack BS on top of BS. The Maidan revolution was a conspiracy between the US and ultranationalist in Ukraine to start a proxy war with Russia. But while ultranationalists were on the front lines of the Maidan revolution (primarily because they were armed and willing to fight the police and military's violent suppression of the protests), a coalition of ultranationalist parties (Svoboda, Right Sector, etc.) only got 2.15% of the vote in the 2019 election. Zelensky won with 73% of the vote running on an anti-war platform.
Russia doesn't like NATO expansion, but it has a nuclear arsenal and has developed hypersonic missiles. No one is going to invade Russia because they will get nuked. Russia's real beef with NATO is that it provides protection for former Soviet satellites that Russia wants to control. Russia invaded Ukraine at a time when there was nothing going on as far as Ukraine attempting to join NATO.
I will readily concede that there have been some really horrible misfires on the left about the war in Ukraine and this is another one. The main premise of Camps argument is that conflicts from Iraq to Iran are all tied to efforts to break US dollar hegemony, in particular in energy markets. The big problem is that most of the cited cases are those where countries have proposed moving to the euro (and it is pronounced "you ahn" not "yen"--that is the Japanese currency). Both the EU central bank and US central bank have been in lock step in enforcing sanctions against Russia.
But this is just one in a long line of arguments that attempt to make Russia's invasion of Ukraine a direct result of US foreign policy. These arguments just stack BS on top of BS. The Maidan revolution was a conspiracy between the US and ultranationalist in Ukraine to start a proxy war with Russia. But while ultranationalists were on the front lines of the Maidan revolution (primarily because they were armed and willing to fight the police and military's violent suppression of the protests), a coalition of ultranationalist parties (Svoboda, Right Sector, etc.) only got 2.15% of the vote in the 2019 election. Zelensky won with 73% of the vote running on an anti-war platform.
Russia doesn't like NATO expansion, but it has a nuclear arsenal and has developed hypersonic missiles. No one is going to invade Russia because they will get nuked. Russia's real beef with NATO is that it provides protection for former Soviet satellites that Russia wants to control. Russia invaded Ukraine at a time when there was nothing going on as far as Ukraine attempting to join NATO.
US conflicts are all tied to liberal hegemony. Liberal democracies don't go to war with other liberal democracies.
US foreign policy since WW2 has been about promoting democracy and fighting communism and authoritarianism.
The lessons of Iraq, Iran, and even Ukraine proved that not all peoples are suited for democracy.
How can you admit the US helped overthrow the Russian puppet government in one breath and then say the invasion being related to that is BS? The Russian separatists have been at war with Ukraine literally since the revolution.
Russia doesn't want NATO on it's border specifically because they can counter their ICBMS hundreds of miles inside of Russia. Putin has said this repeatedly.
