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14-05-2022, 01:04 PM | #841 | |||
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Interesting take on the lend lease.
America’s massive ‘lend-lease’ aid plan for Ukraine recalls similar help in Britain’s ‘darkest hour’ https://theconversation.com/americas...st-hour-182889 Quote:
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14-05-2022, 01:24 PM | #842 | |||
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Not saying that the US isn't delighted by this opportunity. And I'm sceptical of the motives of politicians; if there were no votes in it would Biden have been as quick to send aid? Not sure there are any "spoils of war" to be had out of this either; the bill for the taxpayers of the NATO countries will be huge. The cost to poorer countries of the increases in food and oil prices will be that thousands will die. |
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14-05-2022, 02:16 PM | #843 | |||
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Read that Zelenskyy had an approval rating of 20% prior to the war. His popularity took a nose dive after being named in the Pandora Papers. But has sky rocketed back to +70% since the invasion. Someone will benefit from all those hundred million dollar yachts and billions in frozen assets. I think the British have said they don't intend to ever release the assets back, even if the war ends. We'll see.
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14-05-2022, 05:10 PM | #844 | |||
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14-05-2022, 05:24 PM | #845 | |||
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This is all about the “Wack job” running Russia, trying to recreate the Soviet unions’ Sphere of influence, period. Most of the stupid young Russians that are being fed to Ukrainians as cannon fodder, come from “poor villages” that we don’t see here. Why on earth do you think they loot Washing machines, toilets, and childrens toys ? Those uneducated young fools don’t have morals, this is why the west has the moral high ground in this conflict, and this is why more countries want to join NATO. No decent European country wants anything to do with Russia. |
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14-05-2022, 07:12 PM | #846 | |||
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There would be no proxy war with the US or anyone in the west if Russia did not invade Ukraine. I don't get why people think Putin had no choice but to invade - the bull**** excuses like "denazification" (then Russia then sends in the fascist Wagner group); the keeping a buffer between Russia and NATO (that worked out well with Sweden and Finland now applying to join); the supposed liberation of a persecuted population who are fighting against Russia's occupation with more vigour and determination than almost everyone expected (definitely more than Russia expected, and most of the west expected too). No, it's all about a pathetic man's ego, Ukraine's natural resources and warm water ports. |
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If both sides were WACK JOBS at least it's harmless and they might be too busy to shoot each other
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15-05-2022, 05:54 AM | #849 | ||
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"the west has the moral high ground in this conflict"
'The west' has no 'high moral ground' in this conflict or just about anywhere else. |
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15-05-2022, 06:27 PM | #851 | |||
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Ehhhhh ok. Whoever thought this was a good idea. WTF is a hedgehog war game?
Finnish and Swedish troops will join US and Ukrainian forces in ‘Hedgehog’ war games next week in Estonia https://thefrontierpost.com/finnish-...ek-in-estonia/ Quote:
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15-05-2022, 06:35 PM | #853 | ||
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Anti-Western rhetoric is so meh...
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15-05-2022, 06:36 PM | #854 | |||
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A score for Zilo...
From the former head of NATO’s armed forces, Gen. Philip Breedlove.... Quote:
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Otherwise the audio still works, but you'll have to sit through the whole thing . Edit: Actually just checked, you can still scroll through the transcript with the subscription pop up in place. Enjoy. A bit before and after... Quote:
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15-05-2022, 07:06 PM | #857 | ||
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If it was the “Washing Machine” war games, the entire Russian military would be lining up at the Estonian border to get one.
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15-05-2022, 07:14 PM | #858 | ||
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They’d go there for the donuts, if they knew. Probably fill up their washing machines with them.
And they’d keep getting blown up by booby-trapped robotic donut carts. |
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This all seems to be going to plan for putinland...?
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16-05-2022, 11:39 AM | #865 | ||
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Not fake but a bit exaggerated maybe. The experts say that on average, for every soldier killed three are wounded. So if 26,000 are killed then 78,000 are wounded; total 104,000. Russia only sent 127 battalions to start with which is 127,000. Again the experts say that once a force has lost 10% of its strength it starts to become ineffective.
No matter what the real figure is it is still a monumental waste of life. Have a look at some of the Ukraine vids of interviews with prisoners of war; reminded me of the Forest Gump movie. The Russian conscripts had no idea of where they were and what they were supposed to do. |
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16-05-2022, 12:18 PM | #866 | ||
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Yeah I heard that too, the “Jack in the box” T-72 & T-90 ( the T-90 is just a rebrand of the T-72 after Iraq) turret, is part of the plan for Russian tankers to enjoy the sunshine, and no Russian tanks have been “hit” by inferior Ukrainian/ NATO weapons.
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16-05-2022, 07:50 PM | #868 | |||
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Can be seen flying on any street corner or freeway overpass in the US.
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There's plenty of stories available on how the Russian soldiers are looting Ukrainian homes and trying to send the stolen items back home. That didn't work out too well as apparently the postal workers stole the packages. But that may have just been the conscripts; the higher ranks were into looting on a grand scale. The John Deere dealership at Mariupol lost $US5mil worth of combine harvesters. Being hi-tech gear with GPS it was able to be tracked to where it all ended up hundreds of miles away in Chechnya. This gear has immobilisers too but maybe they can disable that.
Egypt has turned away two Russian freighters because it was believed the grain they were carrying was stolen from Ukraine. The estimates are probably exaggerated but Ukrainian authorities are claiming that approx 400,000 tons have been stolen...so far. This has robbed Ukraine of badly needed export income and what they need for their own consumption. Some of what was taken was also the seed needed to plant this years' crop. Hard not to see this as an attempt to totally destroy the economy of the nation and cause mass starvation. At a stretch it could be called an attempt at genocide. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-Ukraine.html |
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16-05-2022, 08:51 PM | #870 | |||
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A good info graphic on where Ukraine and Russia wheat exports usually go... https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/...ly-interactive
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