I do believe that. His organization would be swimming in cash at that point.

Interesting line I noticed

trading the soil for the lives of our people

This shows lack of awareness. If he and every other Ukrainian nationalist didn’t act so fanatical about keeping their land, then most of the dead Ukrainians would be alive. Russia never intended on taking any land until they realized they had to do it the hard way. Zelenskky provoked everyone to fight. He had the power to tell everyone to stand down and cede to Russia’s demands.

They kept saying Putin miscalcuated in like the first month or so. Things can still change, but I think he’s proven himself to be a master calculator.

leaning much more for NATO and friends than RU at this point in time

Yeah it’s worthwhile to note that the Ukraine has essentially become a neo-colony for NATO (mainly the US). Afaik, for most of the aid they’re receiving, they’re expected to pay interest on it. The West doesn’t want to lose out on that money. I’m sure rebuilding the country would involve loans with interest as well.

trying to condense all of that into an argument when I will be proven correct or incorrect in a few months is a waste of time I think

Well I liked reading it at least. Always like different analyses and predictions.

Well here’s some examples

Korea - was losing very badly at first, got pushed all the way to the southernmost point

Vietnam - never quite got a good foothold in the 7 or so years they were there. Wasted countless artillery and air strikes on trying to bomb VC bunkers and trenches, but were ineffective probably 90% of the time. Also was too cowardly to invade the north, when I think it’s likely that China wouldn’t have escalated.

Afghanistan - spent 20 years, got nothing productive done, the liberal govt installed was a failure, no one cared about it, everything was completely pointless in the end.

And this

If this is in response to the two amerikan soldiers that got captured by Russia (and the one that died), then that would be very funny.

Desperate to not make it look like amerikan soldiers suck (which they do a lot of the time…they continually lose over and over even though they like to spin it otherwise).

“There was no security,” Nettles says. “We should have all been slaughtered, because no one had guns on the wood-line, and most everyone was being extremely loud, and we were very close to the burning vehicle right next to the Russian position. If the Russians had any tactical competence or courage at all, they would have sent a forward observation team, who would have seen our group with no weapons up, carrying a stretcher, and killed us all.”

Keep taking that copium

I myself don’t know. I would like to know as well.

My guess is that I think Russians are called orcs by Ukrainians, and orcs are green, so it would represent that.

The confluence of the two bug me to no end. It’s such an insult to the lgbt community.

Because I think it’s not a very good religion. Better than the abrahamic ones I suppose, but it leads people down to lives that I don’t think are positive development.

Also, the way it was implemented felt very forced. Didn’t feel natural. Just felt like a promotion for the religion.

It did lead her to eventually feal inner peace though, so that’s nice.

“here’s how Ukraine can still win”

I agree. It’s potentially very destructive. I don’t know if you ever watched this film called Heaven & Earth, but it’s about a Vietnamese women marrying a US soldier, moving to the US with him, and having children. He seemed nice at first, but then he starts getting abusive, and threatens to kill her. And he also admits to her that he was a Black Ops soldier who tortured Viet Cong.

Based on an actual Vietnamese woman too! Main issue I have with it is that it has Buddhist stuff in it, since the writer/director Oliver Stone is a buddhist himself. But besides that, it’s pretty good.

I know they technically meant well, but it was for all the wrong reasons.

Yep. I can’t stand those people. Also, I think the Southern mothers who gave up their children to US soldiers are absolutely reprehensible.

Based on his family name, Andy seems to be ethnically Vietnamese.

Shame on him. But I’m sure his family were one of the ones who left during Saigon’s liberation.

I hope the US doesn’t eventually send Tomahawks. You know Ukraine will be cheeky with them.

Zelenskky said his dream is to retake Crimea after retaking everything else. That would an extremely bloody conflict. At the very least, settle that Crimea will always be Russian from now on. But no, he’s surrounded by a bunch of rabid dogs who just want endless war with Russia.

Not at all surprising, if it’s true. These “people” are the worst.

Yeah I fear what will happen once it’s clear that the UAF is close to annihilated (I think it’s only a matter of time at this point). I don’t think NATO will just say “Alright, well they gave it their best shot”.

Of course. If he had a conscience, he would’ve resigned by now. Or at least fought back against it. But I have little doubt he’d eventually get killed by them in that event (and have it be blamed on Russians).

Oh yes I agree. It’s just clear that he isn’t the one truly running things.

The war could and probably would end immediately if the Ukraine’s government weren’t filled with corrupt monsters.

Journalist tries “Keep the narrative on the side of the West” challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

I think that puts the final nail in the coffin to the conspiracy theory that the governments of LDNR were shelling its own citizens. Such a ridiculous thing to allege.

That’s why Russia and LDNR must win. There can be no compromise with the Ukraine and NATO, for if they had their way, Russia would be wiped off the map, with ethnic Russians being tortured or murdered. It’s not some fantasy, they all admit it. Ukrainian neo-nazis especially, many of them say they want to genocide all Russians.

The anti-imperialist core is rising!

US: Oh no no noooooo, it wasn’t supposed to be this way!

Whoa. I had a school ID in elementary school and high school, but not like a badge that you have to wear. And transparent backpacks, that’s wild.

Are they supposed to wear it all the time? Chronic shoulder and back pain incoming then.

“We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won’t allow them to write ‘fuck’ on their airplanes because it’s obscene!”

• Colonel Kurtz (Apocalypse Now)

Nice, these are the websites that we need

Perfect analogy. Russia seems to be powering through these sanctions well.

Also, kinda side note but lol at everyone who thought because of sanctions, the oligarchs would “put a hit on Putin”. That’s like hollywood nonsense right there. These people still think that the oligarchs control the government. I still need to learn more, but from what I understand, Putin essentially excised their influence long ago.