I suppose nobody would have died if you know...Ukraine just decided their goal isn't to join NATO and just be the buffer zone independent country it always was and was meant to be I shared the link of Arestovich predicting all out war from 2019, said it would take place from 2020-2022 time frame. The goal is to beat Russia and join NATO as the reward. These people are lunatics and you're an absolute muppet to be following them in lockstep I've shared multiple clips here that you've ignored so definitely not about to waste my time on your demands. The most important clip I shared was of John Mersheimer, considered one of the great geopolitical minds of our time explaining in 2015 in a Univ. of Chicago speech what would happen and what indeed happened. You didn't watch a lick of it. Lol @ threatening to ban me for a lack of sources. Cali snowflake is starting to melt, crumbling like Ukraine's defense of Donbas. This is a dinosaur soccer forum and we're all average nobodies, you think too highly of yourself to want to use your dictatorial powers here like Zelensky did banning opposition political parties lmao! This just made my morning tho, you should add a fact check tab to my posts like fakebook does to every post trying to share the truth haha
Sorry, you are unable to bounce ideas off one another. You just confirm information that you already believe. I already addressed Mershmier. It's you that constantly runs away from rational discussion and brings up 5 different tangents. Every once in a while an academic and their theoretical school face the moment when the rubber hits the road. Mershmier thesis is a) the west doesn't care about Ukraine b) Russia will fight Nato encroachment A) like I said before. Mershmier seems to miss human capacity to mythologize. Everybody in the west seems to care about Ukraine - from Paul McCartney to Macron (there's levels of caring and engagement but sympathies are with Ukraine, no doubt). The reason why the West cares is because Ukraine is a small, young republic, fighting for its democratic independence, championing values that are familiar to us (the west), and going through the birthing pains of democracy that is familiar to most of the west starting in grade school. Shared values can transcend ethnic/linguistic bonds. B) it appears Russia cares less about Nato and more about imperial expansion, regaining republics lost post ussr. No one in Russia seems to care that Finland and Sweeden have joined Nato and I wonder what Mershmier would say if he lived/made his home in Helsinki. Russia doesn't care about Nato in Sweeden/Finland because Russia, like the West, has mythogized this conflict. Their myth being that Russia should lord over most of Eastern Europe and that Kyivan Rus is somehow related to contemporaneous Russia. Myths also have levels of plausibility. Civil Rights is a myth but seems embedded in human capacity for empathy. Other myths - psychic powers, historical revisionism - have less support of being embedded in some substrate in reality and border on just being a lie C) Mershmier operates from theory of realpolitik - which supposes that leadership (elected or bureaucratic) are guided by cost benefit and therefore make rational decisions which the realpolitik school believes has become increasingly more relevant in the age of nuclear proliferation. Like I've already said, humans have an amazing capacity to create stories that are not based in reality and Mershmier seems to miss that. Mershmier was right that Putin would rather destroy Ukraine than watch it leave for Europe
Speaking of NATO: NATO's base in Estonia is closer to Moscow than any such base would be in Ukraine. Clearly, Russia does not care about NATO. Russia wants to liquidate Ukrainian independence
He was right about practically everything Btw surprised that Yasik The Basic didn't post about how Russia bombed their own prison holding Azov members about to face trial and singing like canaries lol..
Yes, and how Ukrainians castrated their own soldier. I guess every independent source has blamed Russia, but Footy knows best....after all, Channel 1 told him so.
He was right about everything except those 3 items I brought up I took you a few days for someone else to come up with that conspiracy to show up here. Delusions aren't even original.
Just found out Merscheimer is on a list of people banned from entering Ukraine, pure evil Mainstream media starting to say some ugly things about Ukraine, NPR and NyT are changing tune. An 82 year old drunk witch is trying her best to make Ukraine old news by passing the baton to Taiwan
US military expert on #Olenivka: Judging from the available video, Russian soldiers most likely locked Ukrainian prisoners-of-war inside the building and then threw incendiary devices inside.https://t.co/NrL72nvHzH https://t.co/36SbyXrWvk— Janis Kluge (@jakluge) July 31, 2022
I don't know why he is referred to as "US military expert." The reference is a guy on YouTube with lots of military experience, seems knowledgeable, but don't know how he is an expert. But that's the likelier explanation. An Himars attack and only UA POWs die. What about the RU guards? Ukraine had previously exchanged for Azov prisoners from Azovstal.
Interesting read. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/05/politics/victoria-spartz-ukraine-republican-reaction/index.html
Don't know what to make of it. I don't know if she has any foreign policy experience, military experience, but miligary aid to is very much a chain of command operation - But again, she has her informal sources. Kind of a she said/they said situation. Alot of info in the article and can't see what you can do with it.
I think it is rather interesting that her activation coincided with a few other sources bringing up the same very argument, despite there being absolutely no evidence to support this line of inquiry.
I've been to her office in the early days of the war to get info about how to get my cousins wife & daughter to USA, surprised she's calling out the evil regime. There's another Ukrainian lady in Indy running against a Black Lives Matter mafia establishment who never loses elections. She won't win regardless, but one of my Bandera fan boys heard she's pro-Russian (she's Jewish from Odessa) Btw Ukraine has been pounding the nuclear power plant in Endogar with rocket attacks past several days, has that made the headlines on any of your fake news platforms you follow? Or just celebrating Crimean successes while ignoring getting obliterated in hell on earth Soledar & Peski?
Interesting offensive. The Ukrainian army continues to improve on the fly. Hopefully the momentum can be sustained
Hey, how's that reuniting Kievan Rus thingie going? I'm hearing Putin's dates are standing him up? That's so woke
American funding for Ukraine is almost about to dry up. Congress still hasn't passed anymore funding for the war effort as the GOP wants to attach very harsh border funding and laws to a Ukraine funding bill which automatically deadlocks any progress for more spending. Hopefully they are able to come to a compromise.