Ukrainian forces fired six US-provided Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and four British Storm Shadow missiles into Russia’s Rostov Oblast on Wednesday, and Moscow is vowing it will respond.
According to Russian media, the NATO-supported attack targeted a large chemical plant in Rostov. “These actions by the Kiev regime supported by Western handlers won’t be left unanswered,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.
The ministry said that all of the ATACMS were shot down by Russian air defenses, and three out of four of the Storm Shadows were intercepted. One of the missiles fell and caused damage on the grounds of the chemical plant.
President Biden gave Ukraine the greenlight to use US and British missiles in long-range strikes on Russian territory despite Moscow making it clear the move would risk nuclear escalation. Since then, Ukraine has launched several attacks on Russian territory using Western-provided missiles.
President-elect Donald Trump has called Biden’s decision to sign off on the long-range strikes “stupid” and suggested he could reverse the move.
The advanced missiles require intelligence from the US or its allies to be fired, meaning the attacks are directly supported by NATO countries. Earlier this year, a German military leak revealed British soldiers are “on the ground” in Ukraine helping fire Storm Shadows.
In response to previous ATACMS and Storm Shadow strikes in Russia, the Russian military launched a new intermediate-range ballistic missile into Ukraine known as the Oreshnik. The missile was believed not to be carrying explosives since little damage was done, and Putin referred to it as a “test launch.” A strike with a conventionally armed Oreshnik could do major damage, as Putin has suggested the missile could replace nuclear weapons as Russia’s deterrent.
"Ukraine" has personnel capable of firing said missiles?
Probably quite a few — it's not functionally that different from the Soviet-era Tochka, which Ukraine has used since, well, the Soviet era. Just because it's a rocket doesn't mean that firing it is rocket science.
You think all that's involved is pushing a button?
I neither said, nor implied, any such thing. The deployment of that general type of missile system requires trained crews. And Ukraine has had that general type of missile system, and trained personnel to use it, since Soviet days. They’re not starting from scratch. It’s not some kind of mysterious alien technology they’ve never seen. Smiliarly, I don’t have to learn to drive a car anew just because I switch from a 1972 Oldsmobile Delta 88 to a 2006 Subaru Forester.
Clint Eastwood showed us how that works in his movie "Firefox". An experienced jet pilot steals a new Russian plane and flies off with it to America. He just had to think in Russian from time to time otherwise no problemo.
You're speaking of can when may is the key word. Gafla.
My understanding is that in order to launch those missiles they need launch codes, which they can only get from the west. So if those missiles are launched then it's only because the west allowed them to be launched. Also, when the conversation between the four German generals was intercepted in 2023 we learned that launching taurus missiles requires a German crew.
Not even a good try.
“My understanding is that in order to drive you Honda, you need a key, which you can only get from Honda. So if you’re driving your Honda to Vegas it’s only because Honda’s allowing it.”
Whatever you want to believe, Thomas. I don’t care.
Unfortunately, I am cursed with a predisposition to try to figure out what's true and believe that.
If I believed what I wanted to believe, I'd believe that when I leave my home office and stroll into my bedroom, Awkwafina and Jennifer Lawrence will be waiting for me and wanting a threesome.
Your wife would kill you.
I believe based on what I have been told by people I consider to be reliable. They could be wrong, which would mean that I am wrong. I’m not over there on the ground to see for myself. That’s all I can say.
What a horrible and incorrect comparison. You obviously know nothing about the topic. I on the other hand am a 30 year combat veteran.
I doubt you spent 30 years in combat, nor would that be relevant to the question. But you probably spent more time in combat than I did, since I spent very little time in combat. Yay for you.
The relevant question would be how hard it is to train someone to use a weapon system of a type they’ve been using for decades. As someone who’s been both a military student and a military instructor, my answer is: It varies, but it’s not some kind of herculean task.
I'm assuming that launching a cruise missile is a complicated task, much more complicated than starting a car and driving it to Las Vegas. I'm also assuming that the US, UK, Germany and France would not allow a regime like Ukraine to have free access to launch their cruise missiles against Russia, which does, by the way, have the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. That makes perfect sense to me.
The general type of missile has existed for, and been used by Ukraine for, decades. Are there differences? Almost certainly. Are those differences so massive and crippling that people experienced with the general type are completely helpless when it comes to doing the job? Extraordinarily unlikely.
Yes, they don't speak Ukrainian nor have Ukrainian passports but they have them.
Yes
"Advisors". I think they were invented in South Vietnam in the early '60s.
Yes, Russian has them too. And in Vietnam too.
Now they have North Korean advisors. Lol.
Provoking Russia toward World War 3 by idiotic moves, that's about right for senile insane Joey Biden and his war criminals, Jake Sullivan and Anthony Blinken.
President Putin is playing 3 D chess and driving the west crazy by not responding.
Its the UK who is the main Idiots who are pushing this senseless war m8, Keir Hardy will be turning in his grave as to what the human rights lawyer PM keir Starmer is doing to the Labour party today
Why USUK empire?
People seriously overestimate the uk
It was Russia who invaded, not the UK.
Read sometime, it helps.
Not responding and the fact that as a BRICS member it is committed to the last minute peace…!
If Russia was committed to peace, they would not have invaded Ukraine.
It's always the victims fault though, don't you forget.
As a former coworker (born in the USSR, she was) once said, "And if grandma would be having a d**k, we would call her grandpa."
Are you trying to improve your (dis)honesty record by saying incredibly banal statements so self-evidently unremarkably factual that it must provoke migraine headaches in you each time you Comment something that isn't a lie ?
To that end, mention 1000 times that the Sun is "kinda warm" and you're still a million points on the (F**king Liar) side of the credibility line.
A coworker born in the USSr would know bordering russia is like having a neighboir who tries to burn your house down every day
He is the said coworker.
I actually laugh and feel saddened by humanity when people say Putin is being "patient"
"Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he should have violated the ceasefire he had imposed on Ukraine in 2014 by launching a full-scale invasion even earlier when asked to reflect on his 2022 decision to attack. Putin responded to a media question during his annual Direct Line televised press conference on December 19 on whether he would change his decision to launch the full-scale invasion of Ukraine if he had it to do over again, stating that he should have made this decision earlier. Putin added that Russia should have systematically prepared ahead of the full-scale invasion and falsely claimed that Russia "spontaneously" invaded Ukraine in 2022 after Ukraine "directly" announced that it would not abide by the Minsk II Accords."
Doesn't that prove his patience?
Not clear if Bob Vila I MEAN totally NOT a former pro-Kiev pro-Banderite Commenter on here actually reads what he posts. Seems more like a "does this make Putin sound bad ? If YES, then quote !" methodology.
"banderite"
Spoken like a true paid troll
Bet you didn't read it
You clearly missed my point
He didn't miss the point, he is a Russian supporter. Have you ever read anything positive he wrote about Ukraine or something negative about the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
No, he only goes after West.
Even my partner can tell and he barely reads the comments here and he only follows the economic war which unfortunately, this site does cover.
Nothing I've said makes me a Russian supporter. And what have you said "positive" about Ukraine? That you want them to continue fighting a war they cannot win and that will only mean more Ukrainian deaths and more destruction to their land and infrastructure? Between the two of us, I'm the one who cares about Ukrainian lives, not you. I can say I want Russia to leave all of Ukraine's land until I'm blue in the face and they still won't leave. But facing reality to you means I'm "sticking" for the Russians. Once more, you show what an ignorant idiot you really are.
Oh, poor booh! Like you care about Ukie lives!
I obviously do more than you.
Ok
You made a snide remark about people thinking Putin has been "patient". And then you explain how he had planned to invade Ukraine in 2014 but didn't until 2022. What point did I miss?
The defense of him regardless.
Imagine a serial killer is on trial and the judge says
“If you could go back in time and do anything different,” and the killer replies with “I would have done it earlier,” does that win him any sympathy points?
Putin is insane
Your analogy is ridiculous. But even a serial killer can have patience. You implied Putin had no patience and then you gave a scenario in which he showed extreme patience.
No, its really not ridiculous
Yes, it is. It makes no sense. All the serial killer did was admit that he was a serial killer. We were talking about patience. And again, even the serial killer could have patience and probably does. So, even if Putin admitted that he had planned all along to invade Ukraine, waiting 8 years to do so would have taken, wait for it, PATIENCE.
I'm sure anything he does and has done proves his patience to you, pro Russia activists.
So, bad guys can't have patience? God you're stupid
Sad little man!
More Oreshniks are on the way…!
More fapping on the way!
Your dining room must be a mess, if this is the kind of dumb s**t that falls out of your mouth every time it opens.
My apartment is clean
The Russians are hurting.
Loser Putin is now resorting to what he does best, nuke threats.
Hasn't met any objective of his SMO after killing half a million of his young men and now is desperate.
Well, he should've been the adult in the room and keep his army out of Ukraine… but NO.
He should be embarrassed for making such threats and you for supporting him.
And the response was… destroying a military industry near Kiev (official from RT just hours ago).
Crisis! The abuse victim fights back!
Can't have that am I right?
You're a liar and a clown and nobody should listen to anything you say.
Ok child
The liar calling others he disagree with, liars.
How's your favorite SMO going, you propagandist?
"Putin insisted that negotiations with Ukraine must be based on the same demands he made before the invasion and at the moment of Russia's greatest territorial gains, despite the fact that Ukraine has secured Kyiv and liberated much of the territory his forces held at that time. Putin said during Direct Line that he is ready to hold talks with Ukraine without preconditions, that any talks must be based on what Russia and Ukraine had agreed upon during negotiations in Istanbul in March 2022, when Russian troops were advancing on Kyiv and throughout eastern and southern Ukraine, and on "the realities that are developing on the ground today." Putin reiterated that the demands he made at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in June 2024 — that Ukrainian forces withdraw from the entirety of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts before Russia can agree to a ceasefire or peace negotiations — still stand."
Pardon my french, but WHY THE FUK would Ukraine cede territory the invader doesn't even hold?
"So this is Christmas
and what have you've done?"
Shhhh! Just show your kids the ISS and tell them is Santa Claus… ;p
A more recent development is a bombing of central Kiev with Russia claiming that three generals (speculated to be "NATO generals") being killed as result.
The assassination of General Kirilov was not of any strategic or tactical advantage.
An act of terror that was very carefully coordinated. Larry Johnson, on Judging Freedom, said it all pointed to MI6 being involved, and was quite sophisticated in its execution.
If one wanted to p*ss off the Kremlin, the assassination is the perfect way to do it.
Well, killing enemy commanders is part of warfare. I cannot blame Ukraine for that, what I can blame them is for lying about the false accusations: Russia has not made any chemical attack whatsoever (mere Western fake news, propaganda) and is in fact quite exquisite about abiding to the rules of war and avoiding civilian casualties as much as possible (unlike Ukraine and other Western-aligned regimes, for example Israel).
Kirilov outed the 46 chemical biological labs in Ukraine, along the Russian border.
He also out the fact that Ukraine, with the help of friends may have been working on a suitcase nuclear weapon.
Larry Johnson on Judge Nap's show spoke of that.
This is what it's like to have war-mongering asswipes in charge of a government.
Since the end of WWII.
With the exception of President Kennedy. That exception got him murdered.
Since the end of WWII.
With the exception of President Kennedy. That exception got him murdered.
"Putin insisted that negotiations with Ukraine must be based on the same demands he made before the invasion and at the moment of Russia's greatest territorial gains, despite the fact that Ukraine has secured Kyiv and liberated much of the territory his forces held at that time. Putin said during Direct Line that he is ready to hold talks with Ukraine without preconditions, that any talks must be based on what Russia and Ukraine had agreed upon during negotiations in Istanbul in March 2022, when Russian troops were advancing on Kyiv and throughout eastern and southern Ukraine, and on "the realities that are developing on the ground today." Putin reiterated that the demands he made at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in June 2024 — that Ukrainian forces withdraw from the entirety of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts before Russia can agree to a ceasefire or peace negotiations — still stand."
Pardon my french, but WHY THE FUK would Ukraine cede territory the invader doesn't even hold?
From the Russian viewpoint that's all Russian territory and Ukraine is illegally occupying parts of it. That's why the f**k, that and "my Oreshnik is bigger than your ATACMS".
DO YOU HEAR YOURSELF?
‘Ukraine is illegally occupying parts of it[russian territory”
GENUINELY
DO
YOU
HEAR
YOURSELF
That is UKRAINIAN territory!
You are not anti-war. You are a pro-war, pro-invasion bigot
Lol, don't forget, the majority in this blog is not anti war but pro Putin and dictators. They love to blame everything on the US & West. The only pro peace here is the moderator (according to him) so you are way outnumbered, especially if you come here in support of Ukraine.
I see. At least there’s you and Tim
And you. The three blind mice.
Oh, there are other anti-war people here as well.
But MOST people EVERYWHERE, including here, will turn pro-war when and if a war breaks out that has a side they’re invested in (or invested against). Just because I haven’t run into such a war since becoming ideologically opposed to war, it’s not necessarily obvious that I never will. We all have principles until we abandon them.
Point taken.
You support Ukraine like the US & West. Exactly like them. How's that working out so far?
Goodly
I'd hate to see your idea of "badly". But that must mean I support Russia, right? Because Russia squatting on 20% of Ukrainian land and Ukrainian lives being destroyed is "goodly" for those who "support" Ukraine.
Who started the war?
Well, the Ukrainian regime could have refrained from invading the Luhansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic in 2014. Whether that would have avoided the war is, of course, an open question.
Minsk II was extremely generous to the Russians.
However, I think that Putin would have invaded them regardless
Merkel admitted that it was a stall to allow Ukraine to build up its forces.
To prepare against a Russian invasion everyone knew would happen, and Russia was doing the same thing
The regime also could have refrained from killing Ukraine, Russian-speaking, citizens over an 8 year period.
Approximately 14,000.
Still lying about that one, huh?
Approximately 14,000 were killed, yes.
The majority of those killed were Ukrainian regime troops, separatist regime troops, and Russian regime troops.
And all three regimes, not just the Ukrainian regime, did the killing.
What the fuck does that have to do with what I said? It's going "goodly" for Ukraine because Russia was the one that invaded Ukraine?
https://www.rt.com/russia/609759-putin-oreshnik-details-revealed/
Has President Vladimir Putin considered launching the Oreshnik missile in coastal or shallow waters?
The ocean depth could be 100-500 ft. The salt water's density and the target's depth would slow the MIRV's velocity. The exercise may be impractical.
Purely in the interest of tidal wave research?
I am antifascist. I’m getting old but I’ll fight against fascism with all my forces every day. Fascism is war and “Ukraine” (the tyrannic and illegitimate Maidan fascist regime) declared war on the Ukrainian peoples. Never forget Odessa massacre!
I used to be and I am still antimilitarist, nothing of this would have happened if the last democratically elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovich, would not have been deposed by NATO-backed fascists.
"Everyone i don't like is a fascist"
No. Please read something about Gladio Network, about how the Italian fascists joined the Allies, about how German nazis were recycled into governance of “democratic” BRD, about how Britain promoted fascism in all Europe against the threat of socialism in the wake of the Russian Revolution, about how the USA adopted Salazar and Franco and then went on to make fascist or neofascist putsch in other places of the Mediterranean, Latin America or the Far East.
Also I happen to be direct descendant of some of those classical fascists, I was raised (partly) to be a fascist under a fascist regime, I know what is fascism first had all too well, and thus I became very worried when, for the first time since WW2, the fascists took over a European country, Ukraine, in 2014.
I “lie” because there was a previous instance when the FPÖ too over Austria democratically but then a cordon sanitaire was implemented by a EU that was much healthier than today and Austria was suspended of membership until Austrians themselves deposed those fascists. After Maidan fascism has been normalized and now we have Meloni and the return of FPÖ and what not, even pro-Russian fascists rising in Romania.
It’s not just Europe of course but, as European, I’m mostly concerned about this little continent that seems to oscillate between magnificent illustration and rabid militarism, which nowadays takes largely the form of fascism.
So you are fellow European but fail to realise which country is actually fascist?
I’m not sure if I’m your fellow but I’m definitely European, Basque to be specific. I don’t fail to realize anything, it’s you who in your Dudaist ultra-nationalist and Russophobic stand is confusing everything. I gave you the info: it was the fascists and their ultra-nationalist allies, who were in strong minority in Ukraine in 2014, who kidnapped Ukraine and by extension all Europe into this criminal madness.
No pasarán!
I dont like Duda. I voted for Tusk.
Russia is actually fascist. If they weren't fascist they wouldn't need to beat people up in the streets for opposing the leaders views or, in Chechnya, BEING ABDUCTED AND TORTURED FOR BEING GAY
If Russia was not fascist, then why are all the journalists abused and imprisoned?
Be lucky you live in rich southern/Western European contry like spain, because in Poland, we have to border the aggressor.
Russia is not quite fascist: it has elections, the Communist Party is legal, unlike in Poland or Ukraine, and is the second largest force (maybe the first one, if we accept their plausible claim that last elections were rigged). Russia is a conservative authoritarian country, with very dubious policies re. its ethnic minorities, and sometimes it’s idiotic even (accept Minsk Accords when the antifascists were winning the war, cooperate with Erdogan, negotiate Astana, what caused the fall of Syria, betray Armenia, etc.) but Putin is in the end like Churchill: we may not like him but he’s still the lesser evil when compared with the nazis.
Don’t tell me about imprisoned journalists when Poland, your country, arbitrarily arrested for some two years my compatriot journalist Pablo González and dumped him into a dungeon in “Polish Guantánamo” whithout any evidence or charges. It was Russia which had him liberated in a recent prisoner exchange (he has double Spanish and Russian nationality, as he’s descendant of Spanish child refugees and born in Russia). Russia has also granted refuge to whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and Tara Reade, as well as to many persecuted by Ukraine.
Chechnya (Ishkeria) under Kadyrov is hellish but we must admit that the Islamo-fascist degeneracy of late Caucasus liberation movements was totally self-defeating. I am not defending Putin or his regime, I just say he’s the lesser evil when compared with the Ukro-Nazi regime, just as I say that Assad was the lesser evil in Syria when compared with Julani or that the US-backed Afghan Republic was the lesser evil (in spite of all the opium trade and corruption) when compared with the Taliban, or that Hamas, Hizbollah, Ansarullah and Iran are the lesser evil when compared with genocidal Israel (which is incidentally led by Polish people like Netanyahu, what’s wrong with you Poles?)
Fake elections, bt look at the facts. Plese, look at what Russia has done
Russia is worse than Ukraien ebcause in Ukrain they are the defender.
Automatically, aggressor = bad and defender = good
If Catalonia and Galicia and Basque Country all declared independence from spain, which I support fo Catalonia, they would still be seen as the bad guys.
If Ukrain attacked Belarus, Ukraine would be the bad guys.
OK, rigged elections in the ethnic territories quite obviously but whatever, not too different from France, Spain, etc. I’m Basque: I’ve lived through things similar to Chechnya: our journalists murdered by Spain, our newspapers and other media closed down by Spain, their journalists tortured. I am very much aware how the (privately-owned and often foreign-owned) media rigs elections by hyping or silencing, distorting reality altogether often. But I still think that France and Spain are democratic… by Russian standards, which is about as democratic as the USA or Britain (not really democratic at all: their elections are total nonsense, they don’t even have a second round like France!, a party can perfectly get 20% of the vote and remain out of Parliament: it’s ridiculous!)
Also, think about those brave Republicans during your civil war, fighting the Francoists. If they were still alive, if they could see the present situation, I highly doubt they would be ambiguous on their support of Ukraqine
No. The Ukraine you claim to defend is “Franco’s Ukraine”, or more exactly Bandera’s Ukraine, which is even worse if that’s possible. It’s not about “Ukraine” but about fascism (Maidan) vs democracy (Yanukovich) and those seeds of evil planted in 2014 are the ones that bore fruit in 2022. And both the planting and the fruiting was designed by “us” (NATO), because, as one US volunteer in Ukraine found out just after arrival: “we are the nazis”. Then he managed to escape… to Russia.
Maidan was not fascist, Maidan was a democratic uprising.
There is a reason every one of the ukraine haters goes to Russia, because Russia is the one espousing this Ukraine hatred
Yanukovych was crap, his approval rating was like 4% at the time he fled to… RUSSIA!!!
Does it not raise any suspisions about why this UKRAINIAN president fled to RUSSIA as soon as shit hit the fan
You are very wrong and I have already linked to relevant information in this very thread, go to the link and read it carefully: it documents the fraud of the ousting of Yanukovich and, more importantly, it documents all the nazis (not even regular fascists: nazis!, Banderists!) who were in the first Maidan government, including control of the deep state (security apparatus). Those nazis were barely in Parliament at all before the “uprising” (putsch) and, even counting their “moderate” ultra-conservative allies, they didn’t add up to 1/3 of the democratic Ukrainian representation. Yanukovich and his Party of Regions, which was social-democrat and federalist, was the last legitimate government of Ukraine.
Sadly, instead of backing him, Putin tried to negotiate with the nazis and their NATO backers and even aborted the glorious victories of Donbass antifascist militias in 2015, when they were about to liberate all Donbass and maybe could have marched on Kiev even, with the infamous Minsk Accord. That’s one reason (among many) I cannot like Putin and his regime: they may be the lesser evil but definitely not the greater good, too reactionary and nationalist. It would be much better if the Communists (main opposition) ruled Russia.
Putin is the greater of the evil
Putin is a disgusting human being who has raped, tortured and executed his way through peaceful Ukraine.
Those Donbass terrorists were no “liberators,” just like Franco was no liberator. Franco and Putin and Hitler are on in the same, except Putin and Hitler combine fascism with rabid ethnic nationalism.
It is a shame to see a person so vehmently “opposed” to the Russian régime fall into the rabbit hole of propoganda from the state he is against.
Why is Putin, who is not bombing civilians and keeping the war within honorability limits “greater evil” than not just genocidal and organ-trafficking Maidan-Ukraine but also Israel or the USA, which are murdering Palestinians children every day? I don’t get it: what Russia in Ukraine or the so-called “axis of Resistance” in the Levant have is that they wage respectable war, attacking only legitimate targets and not attempting to terrorize or even destroy the population. They have the moral upper ground therefore and IMO that’s half the way to victory.
Don’t dare you to compare the Donbass antifascists with fascists like Franco. My tolerance for such kind of nonsense is extremely thin.
If you don’t think Putin is bombing civilians, that thing you’re doing that you think is thinking isn’t.
No. They are the same thing.
Russia is fascist. They are not anti-fascist, because they ARE fascist THose donbass people are terrorists who continually violated the Minsk agreements. So, they are like Franco, and Russia is francoist.
Bye. I have nothing else to talk with you ever again. You’re a fascist pretending to be non-fascist and insulting antifascists.
And I love the saying “No Pasarán” it was my lock screen for a few weeks
My wife has Basque.
Quite unique history, language.
I say to you: bikaina
Oddly enough not so unique: Vasconic underlies most of European nations, as we are the last survivors of the mainline Neolithic of Europe. This is not known by many, as “uniqueness” has been promoted but well…
Ondo izan.
Batzuetan neure burua harritzen dut
Harritzen? Stone(d)? Ez dugu erabiltzen izaera hori. Ez dakit nola esaten da baina “meloia hartu” (to get a melon) ala “kolokatu” (to fix) edo behar bada “fumatu” (to smoke, to get smoked).
"Operation Paperclip" after WWII.
Allen Dulles saw utility in having certain NAZIs in the new fledging CIA.
One of the first things attempted by the newby CIA was the attempted overthrow of Syria. In 1947.
Failed.
Not to be deterred, the CIA, with the blessing of Eisenhower, went after Iran.
Success.
Overthrow of duly elected leader of Iran, installation of the brutal Shah.
So it goes………………
PS- Also look at what I gathered and shared a decade ago on who exactly took power in Ukraine in 2014 (and how I can perfectly discern between nazis and Julia Timoshenko): https://forwhatwearetheywillbe.blogspot.com/2014/03/who-is-who-in-ukraines-putschist.html
WE, the indispensable nation, did not want Ukraine to get the better oil and gas deal that Russia offered.
It is amazing how much goes back to the oil and gas business. Or warring.
Oil underlies US prosperity and very especially its privileged monetary and financia hegemony. You can well say that the USD is an oil-backed currency, as it’s readily convertible in Arab oil barrels since the Nixon-Saud pact in the early 70s. That underlies much of US imperialist wars, the other reason is that the Americas are not enough to feed the USA with such massive consumerism (alias “GDP”, which is not really a measure of production but of transactions’ market value), therefore the USA “needs” to control much of Eurasia and Africa or face sharp decline and social unrest.
Putin is a loser. He is desperate.
He could've gained more without an invasion but his ambitions took the best of him, now he lost any hope of ever taking Ukraine and has ruined the Russian military, economy, and status on world stage for the next 20 years.
Probably for the better. Now Russia only has respect on the fringes.
Why did the Kiev government shell Donbas for 8 years, killing over 14,000 Russian-speaking UKRAINE CITIZENS?
Why did the US. want to use Ukraine as a launch pad for nukes?
Putin has not and does not want to "take" Ukraine.
"Why did the Kiev government, the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics governments, and the Russian government shell Donbas for 8 years, killing over 14,000 of each others' troops and Russian-speaking, and Ukrainian-speaking, and other-language-speaking LPR/DPR CITIZENS?"
Fixed, no charge.
Do you write fiction on the side?
I am in the Polish army.
"Pardon my french, but WHY THE FUK would Ukraine cede territory the invader doesn't even hold?"
The Russians aren't finished with their Ukraine operation so it is unlikely the Russians will agree to a cease fire until they have either accomplished their objectives, reached the limits of the feasible, or have been defeated. Those territories mentioned by Putin are likely to be fully occupied by the Russians in time.
You're in the Polish Army? You don't come across as any sort of professional, let alone a military professional.
I do
Russia is weak, Russia vulnerable, and Russia is overhyped
That is what have learned
The Russians are no match for our army
Substitute Poland for Russia in your comment. Then you’ll be closer to the truth.
So what do you do in the Polish army? Peel potatoes?
Real jokester
Position, rank, MOS
Ok:
I am in the 2nd Tank Battalion of the 11th armored cavalry division where we operate Leopard 2A5 MBT’s
There are absolutely no North Koreans in the frontlines.
It was all a lie from the West mainstream media. Lol
Are there still any deniers here? Be careful, the Kremlin may soon admit it.
https://youtu.be/M-0a87VEFVY?si=Nf5Yxzlt8yXvxTi0
Let us see video evidence.
https://x.com/i/status/1870361515540586949
Terror attack?
Another troll in the blog.
I support the Russian position if you must know. That means you support Ukraine.
FAFO – Another Dangerous Escalation!
These ATACMS and Storm Shadow missile attacks are not risking a nuclear war with Russia. They are doing very minor damage to Russia and for the most part are being swatted away by Russia's air defense. What these attacks are doing is squandering the US and UK's dwindling supply of these missiles, and reinforcing to Russia the futility of having any expectations for fruitful negotiations with any of these nations. Not that they needed any reinforcing at this juncture.
Russian air defenses? Bahaha
The Kremlin really knows how to spin negative stories.
You can tell that fairy tale to your Russian kids.
Syrians letting Russians know they won't ever be back in Syria, North Koreans shooting each other in the frontlines due to drones, the 3 day SMO now being fought in Russian territory 3 years later, and more than 50 km of Russian beaches contaminated with oil.
The SMO is definitely going according to plans.
https://youtu.be/MmeIakTzAFA?si=RwoW1ANCeSMJQ8OQ
https://x.com/i/status/1870556868793483678
Nostradamus predicted and evil man from the east would end humanity.
I do not believe in predictions but Zelensky certainly is an evil!
p.s. I blocked that absurd guy and do not have to bother with his illogical Polish banter.
Śmiało podnieśmy sztandar nasz w górę!
Choć burza wrogich żywiołów wyje,
Choć nas dziś gnębią siły ponure,
Chociaż niepewne jutro niczyje…
O!… bo to sztandar całej ludzkości,
To hasło święte, pieśń zmartwychwstania,
To tryumf pracy — sprawiedliwości,
To zorza wszystkich ludów zbratania.