Assuming that the EU is fine with worsening it's economic position even more every time some satellite country decides they want some of that good European life too. The EU can only take this much of "Ukrainization".
Also, assuming that the US taxpayers are willing to provide free military gear to all those satellite countries.
Also, assuming that Russia, once completely cornered by NATO will not be simply willing to just push that red button. At some point you gotta ask yourself what being nuclear superpower is even good for.
Yeah, obviously being a nuclear superpower is good for pushing that red button, thereby ending your own life and that of everyone you have ever known.
Biden extended a “state of emergency” that has been in place since Russian invaded Crimea in 2014. Don’t get your news from f*cking idiots if you don’t want everybody to think you’re a f*cking idiot.
How is Russia entering Ukraine an American national emergency?
Actually, we can go back to 911 and the Patriot Act and the AUMF for this massive grab of added powers at the expense of the citizens.
You need to read up. The 2014 emergency was due to expire but the Biden admin added to it and extended it -- the 1st time in 2022 BEFORE Russia invaded!
Now the admin has done it again, further extending its power last week (3/1).
Regardless of the number of reservists that Ukraine may or may not have, Ukrainian tankers have been training in Poland, Germany, and the UK (at least) for a few weeks now on Leopard 2 and Challenger.
It's not like advanced weaponry is being sent to the field with keys and a quick start guide.
Nor is it new that the Ukraine Army has had western trainers.
Russia occupies a huge chunk of Ukraine and Ukraine can't dislodge them. How does that support your assertion that Ukraine is winning?
Both armies are focused on Bakhmut. Russia is gaining ground in Bakhmut and Ukraine is preparing to abandon the city. How does that support your assertion that Ukraine is winning?
I don't think Ukraine is winning. Far from it. I don't see them ever simply beating Russia. But the US (and Nato) have invested too mush to walk away.
Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan... america loses wars. They are not investments and there is no obligation for what was "invested" anywhere. Ukraine is the same. These places are merely spigots for the MIC that can be turned off anytime. Just need places to keep feeding the machine.
The investment is the wasted massive military budget which has made america a failed state, unable to care for its own people. The place of the endless / fake / proxy war does not matter at all.
I'd argue that RU already lost. The best it can hope for is a status quo from before the invasion, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of men, buckets of prestige, and its armed forces in general.
If you are India and you want to buy arms....are you going to buy RU weapons that have proven garbage? Are those the weapons you want to scare China off with? No. they aren't.
NATO and W Europe will hang together better now for a generation. RU has been trying to pry apart the west for 60 years...it gave it all back in one year.
RU has impoverished itself and lost incalcuable amounts of men and treasure. RU lost, even if it keeps its 10% of UKR territory.
A thin counterpoint, but at the moment, Russia has gained a land route to Crimea which is significant.
India is on a campaign to build a domestic arms manufacturing industry and will probably become a net arms exporter in the next two decades regardless of Russia's stature as an arms supplier.
That said, invading Ukraine doesn't seem to be working out for Russia and it's hard to see how they turn it around.
Russia is winning. They are in Ukraine. You mean it's hard to see how Ukraine turns it around.
A thin counterpoint, but at the moment, Russia has gained a land route to Crimea which is significant.
India is on a campaign to build a domestic arms manufacturing industry and will probably become a net arms exporter in the next two decades regardless of Russia's stature as an arms supplier.
That said, invading Ukraine doesn't seem to be working out for Russia and it's hard to see how they turn it around.
Russia has mostly taken territory that was already under the control of Russian backed separatist. The only real gain in territory has been along the coast of the Sea of Azov from Mariupol to the coast of the Black Sea. But the loss of Kherson has turned those gains into a liability with a UA spring offensive likely to focus on taking Melitopol. Russia has largely failed to take any solidly Ukrainian territory after a year of war.
The whole point of this war was to show the former USSR satellites that Russia was in charge of their internal affairs and any attempt to look to the West for EU or NATO membership would be fatal to that country's political regime. But in Ukraine, Zelensky is firmly in control and has been able to stand up to Russian forces. That sets a precedent for Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc. that Russia is weak and can be beaten. It also sets a precedent for people in Belarus who want to get rid of their dictator that Putin may no longer be able to come to the rescue of his pet autocrats. In short, Putin has achieved the exact opposite of what he set out to do in Ukraine.
Of course, many point to the development of relations with Russia and China and other non-aligned countries like India and several African nations as a sign that Russia's war in Ukraine has strengthened a non-aligned movement that will counter US/EU imperialism (albeit with their own and even more brutal imperialism). This would be a concern if Russia was able to find a way out of this conflict with some modest gains and was able to rebuild its economy. But the reality is that all of the talk about sanctions not working may be based on a steady stream of lies from Russia about the state of its economy. What may actually end up happening is that the Russian economy blows up because Russia is forced to print rubles to make up for budge deficits (may already be happening) and China is not willing to bail them out. The moment Russia has trouble paying soldiers and death benefits to families of soldiers, as well as pensions, etc., is the moment that Russia loses the war and the Putin regime will look to flea the country to save their skins.
Russia's economy is expanding because its oil exports are expanding, to BRICS and non-BRICS countries like Japan. Back to pre war levels now. Russia won the economic war already. it's over.
Russia only needs to stop ethnic cleansing by Ukrainian Nazis. They do not need to capture all of Ukraine and experts said that was never their goal. The entire west of Ukraine are Nazis. Putin does not want to bring these Nazi supporting civilian losers into Russia on a MASSIVE scale. He just needs to keep them away from their racism attempts against ethnic Russians. Jews and Roma in Ukraine are already screwed and targeted by Ukraine Nazis. Not Putin's concern but he is ultimately helping them too if they are in Eastern Ukraine.
If you want to understand why he only needs to liberate The Donbas and eastern Ukraine, look at the map below. This is where most the Nazis in Ukraine are. Where all the Pro-Nazi, Bandera monuments are.
1.5 million jews were killed in Ukraine in WWII. Mostly in Western Ukraine. That's why they are mostly Nazis now, civilians too. Western Ukraine are Nazi sympathizers, not just the military. The ENTIRE society. Before WWII, Pogroms were happening mostly in Western Ukraine. They have targeted and killed jews in Western Ukraine for over 100 years. Ukraine is a Nazi state and their racism problems predate the Nazis. When the Nazis came along, it was merely a great match. A marriage of shared hatred and racism. Ukraine just never stopped after WWII, to the point it is open and all over their society.
"When the Ukrainian Parliament proclaimed the Nazi Stepan Bandera a hero on Jan. 1 of this year, what does that have to do with Nazis!?"
Without the "barbarians" in World War 2 we'd be living in the Third Reich right now...
Many of Ukraine's historical heroes were on Germany's side in World War 2...
Man, you just mainline the Kremlin propaganda.
A higher percentage of Ukrainians died fighting the Nazi than the percentage of Russians. And that doesn't include the 3-5 million people in Ukraine who were murdered via Moscow's genocide before the war started.
America isn't an a authoritarian regime despite the Democrats' best efforts.
And calling America a failed state is absurd when it's in better shape than every other state on the planet.
Any country that ONLY allows for-profit deathcare while blocking all other forms of healthcare is a failed state. Here are the results of the american regime's Failed State:
~ worst healthcare outcomes, access, and efficiency among industrialized nations
~ most newborn deaths of all industrialized nations
~ more homeless per capita than China or Russia
~ most spent per student on education for inferior outcomes
~ most uninsured / underinsured / “healthcare insecure”
~ “out-of network” scam to bankrupt/kill america
~ leads in income inequality
~ most expensive place to have a baby
~ america kills 68,000 americans every year with for-profit death care (The Lancet)
~ lead gun violence
~ wastes most taxes on death penalty (death sentences are ten times more expensive than life imprisonment)
~ lead in anxiety disorders
~ lead in homelessness among wealthy nations
~ lead mass shootings
~ 1/3 of america (112 million) are "healthcare insecure" struggle to pay healthcare
~ lead incarceration (globally)
~ lead in energy use per person
~ lead in military spending ($200 – 400 taken from your paycheck for military waste every month, for your ENTIRE working life)
~ lead asset forfeiture (theft)
~ lead in healthcare spending
~ lead in illegal aliens (largely from political problems it created)
~ lead in medical bankruptcies
~ lead in losing military assets ($2 trillion missing / lost by pentagon)
~ lead in calories consumed
~ only advanced economy that doesn't require companies give workers paid vacation
~ lead in prescription drug costs
~ no guaranteed paid sick days like the developed world
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Without the "barbarians" in World War 2 we'd be living in the Third Reich right now...
Many of Ukraine's historical heroes were on Germany's side in World War 2...
Man, you just mainline the Kremlin propaganda.
A higher percentage of Ukrainians died fighting the Nazi than the percentage of Russians. And that doesn't include the 3-5 million people in Ukraine who were murdered via Moscow's genocide before the war started.
70% of German casualties were suffered in the east.
This is common knowledge if you know anything about the war. (You don't.)
Ukraine lost 7 million people in World War 2 by the highest estimates out there. 1.5 million of these were Jews executed by the Germans with the help of Ukrainian collaborators.
Without the "barbarians" in World War 2 we'd be living in the Third Reich right now...
Many of Ukraine's historical heroes were on Germany's side in World War 2...
Man, you just mainline the Kremlin propaganda.
A higher percentage of Ukrainians died fighting the Nazi than the percentage of Russians. And that doesn't include the 3-5 million people in Ukraine who were murdered via Moscow's genocide before the war started.
Everything out of the US is a lie & fraud. Whatever we say about anything, assume the opposite!
US.. "Ukraine is winning" Reality: Russia is in Ukraine. Ukraine is not in Russia.
US.. "Russia’s invasion was illegal" Reality: First, murdering unarmed Ukrainian civilians in the Donbas was illegal
US.. "We condemn fascists, Nazis, etc." Reality: We support al-Qaeda, ISIS, Ukraine Nazis, Mujahedeen, Contras...
US.. “We are helping Ukraine to defend democracy” Reality: Ukraine is not nor has ever been a democracy. america is not a democracy.
US.. "Russia destroyed Nordstream" Reality: The US destroyed Nordstream
US.. "We never agreed to not expand NATO" Reality: Archived documents revealed they broke their word many times
US.. "authoritarian” states must be controlled with american companies Reality: america’s global terrorism hegemony is the biggest authoritarian state in the world
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Ukraine lost 7 million people in World War 2 by the highest estimates out there. 1.5 million of these were Jews executed by the Germans with the help of Ukrainian collaborators.
Russia lost around 27 million.
Where are you getting your data from?
Are you aware that Russia is not the Soviet Union? Or do you spend too much time consuming RT to actually understand what you regurgitate?
Ukraine lost 7 million people in World War 2 by the highest estimates out there. 1.5 million of these were Jews executed by the Germans with the help of Ukrainian collaborators.
Russia lost around 27 million.
Where are you getting your data from?
Are you aware that Russia is not the Soviet Union? Or do you spend too much time consuming RT to actually understand what you regurgitate?
Are we pretending that Russia didn't create the Soviet Union?
You're being willfully dishonest to try to distract from the idiotic point you tried to make.
Are you aware that Russia is not the Soviet Union? Or do you spend too much time consuming RT to actually understand what you regurgitate?
Are we pretending that Russia didn't create the Soviet Union?
You're being willfully dishonest to try to distract from the idiotic point you tried to make.
You could just admit you were wrong and move on. But instead, you keep lowering the bar of how pathetic a human being can go.
You tried to claim all Soviet WWII deaths to Russian SFSR, when in reality, only about half were Russian. Russia lost a lower percentage of it's population than Ukraine, Belarusia, Latvia, Armenia, and Lithuania.
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