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Stirlingsays 30 Mar 24 10.10am | |
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Originally posted by NJ CLOCKTOWER
All I am saying is Russia for its size has been slapped in the face by many small countries So was China. But we are living in the modern world and need to deal with the reality of organised population sizes and military capacities and types of regimes. Poland is in Nato and unless it attacks Russia is unlikely to be attacked itself.....The fact that we are talking about a Nato/Russia conflict exposures just how serious the situation is and why de-escalation and negotiation is so important. The longer it goes on the more entrenched and intractable it becomes and calm heads and realistic calculation are our only real defence. Edited by Stirlingsays (30 Mar 2024 10.12am)
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Behind Enemy Lines Sussex 30 Mar 24 10.28am | |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
So was China. But we are living in the modern world and need to deal with the reality of organised population sizes and military capacities and types of regimes. Poland is in Nato and unless it attacks Russia is unlikely to be attacked itself.....The fact that we are talking about a Nato/Russia conflict exposures just how serious the situation is and why de-escalation and negotiation is so important. The longer it goes on the more entrenched and intractable it becomes and calm heads and realistic calculation are our only real defence. Edited by Stirlingsays (30 Mar 2024 10.12am)
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Stirlingsays 30 Mar 24 10.38am | |
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Originally posted by Behind Enemy Lines
Yep, we have seen in recent years the old truism that fear wins over reason most times. There has been a huge effort put into dubious fear mongering towards the trustful non political normie. A restriction of alternative viewpoints. Imagine what it would be like without Twitter. Edited by Stirlingsays (30 Mar 2024 10.38am)
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steeleye20 Croydon 04 May 24 3.20pm | |
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I am reading now 150,000 Russian fatalities, over 500,000 casualties. Various news sources saying about the same. And for what? In two words, absolutely nothing. Russian forces making progress, it's like WW1 minimal gain with maximum pain.
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Stirlingsays 04 May 24 5.06pm | |
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Originally posted by steeleye20
I am reading now 150,000 Russian fatalities, over 500,000 casualties. Various news sources saying about the same. And for what? In two words, absolutely nothing. Russian forces making progress, it's like WW1 minimal gain with maximum pain.
Neither side releases those statistics but that does kind of sound realistic. I guess if you haven't heard their side of the story then you could believe it's for no gain. To me their motivation is as obvious as Israel's.....the difference being that the Russian war was far more avoidable. However, as you aren't a youngster and would have been around in 91 when the Berlin wall came down and what happened in Russia afterwards I should think some idea of how we got here should take root. Edited by Stirlingsays (04 May 2024 5.10pm)
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Stirlingsays 05 May 24 2.22am | |
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The story of how this war came to be and what Ukraine should have done versus what it did and was led into is a tragedy. Another story of highly paid...massively paid leaders failing upwards and making decisions with bad outcomes. An unemotional calculation of what's coming this summer.....with another Russian offensive likely in the north around May 9th (important Russian day) you would think that those invested in Ukraine's future would be looking for negotiation and staking out what's possible in agreement with Russia. The reason this won't happen is because no one is willing to admit failure for earlier poorly calculated decisions (which were stated at the time) and would rather fight it out until capitulation (in many instances using mobilised men forced to fight) or in the hope that they can induce a wider war to bring in Nato troops. That means that things will get worse and worse for Ukraine's future and at the end it is likely the costs will be lumped onto the European and American taxpayer.....at least until governments replace them who bulk at these commitments for decisions made by previous failed politicians. The idea often floated that sieged Russian funds will be used instead (which would pay for about three or four years) is highly unlikely as it would scare away states from investing in western banks....something that would cost them far more....for those who didn't understand why that hasn't happened. America has done a version of this on interest but that is already highly controversial and likely to be reversed. It's a complete disaster because no one in power was willing to listen to common sense when this war could have been negotiated....something that seems common to the neo/social liberal mindset. Now we will have a negotiation but the outcomes will be far far worse for all of us. And the politicians responsible will have left the scene and never face any accountability because that's how democracy in the west works.....no different to any of the authoritarian regimes they all criticise. Edited by Stirlingsays (05 May 2024 2.26am)
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Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 05 May 24 10.40pm | |
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Several interesting analyses on the state of the war in Ukraine here:- They differ a little but are unanimous in their assessment that Russia is not winning and that the West ought not to be attempting to force negotiations at this point, not least because there isn't anyone to negotiate with. Putin hasn't changed his demands, or seemingly, his objectives. This is a little out of date as it was written before Congress released the aid package that is providing Ukraine with more, and better, defences.
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Stirlingsays 06 May 24 10.59pm | |
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Do not be surprised, from what I hear, if Zelensky is replaced within the year.
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Stirlingsays 07 May 24 12.33am | |
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After Cameron gave Ukraine the all clear to use British Storm Shadow missiles in Russia, Russia have stated that attacks on its mainland by those missiles will mean they will attack us here. We are ruled by idiots and unless people start working to de-escalate this tinder box could go off. Cameron has always been a disaster and I hope that our defence department makes it very clear that what he said is rescinded. So for myself I'm rather hoping that the Ukrainians don't use our storm shadow missiles to attack the Crimean bridge and that instead we start towards finding a resolution to ending this war instead of jumping to the State's department's terrible tune. However from Ukraine's perspective it's in their interests to widen the war...but a lot will be going on behind the scenes....so for better or worse we will find out. Edited by Stirlingsays (07 May 2024 12.45am)
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Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 07 May 24 9.04am | |
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It seems that the threat of an attack on the Crimean bridge has had the desired effect as Russia no longer uses it to supply its military. As Crimea is regarded by us as occupied Ukraine whether a bridge built to it by the occupiers could also be regarded as occupied territory is unclear and probably a mute point in reality, given who those occupiers are led by. I cannot imagine any NATO country’s weapons actually being used to attack targets on Russian soil. It would threaten the integrity of NATO. Just the threat appears enough. Until Putin calls the bluff anyway.
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Stirlingsays 09 May 24 3.11am | |
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Well, Russia built a railway through its land bridge instead so it's not as though Crimea isn't being supplied. The long standing problem with this war is that western leaders made a fundamental mistake at the beginning....I contend that's due to the socially liberal mindset that's been divorced from more equal wars since Korea....as opposed to a conservative mindset that doesn't assume success. That's where we are....the acute problem is that our western leaders have a detachment from reality and can't bring themselves to accept the huge blunder they made....something that is costing us all while they are financially insulated of course. There were a lot of assumptions on success in this war when the reality was that to beat Russia we would have to undergo significant deprivation and risk....hell these fools are taking huge risks anyway. The real argument is that fighting this war requires a scale that isn't worth it. To believe it's worth it you have to believe an existential threat comes from Russia....which frankly just doesn't deal in the facts of the situation....but hey, if the last few years has taught me anything is that people will believe just about anything. So our politicians, like Sunak and Cameron lie to the public about the risks to us if Putin takes Ukraine...or succeeds in Ukraine whatever that actually means. However, as stated many times, if they truly believed we were under an existential threat then we would already be in a war economy. The reality is that not one Nato country has entered a war economy. The only two countries in a war economy....which is typically war and defence spending of 40 percent of GDP are Russia and Ukraine.....We have made a commitment to...at some point raise our defence spending to 2.5 percent. There are words and there are actions. Words can be lies whereas someone's actions are a more truthful and unavoidable reveal. Regardless it appears the strategy by the geniuses in the State department (and thus all its client states) is to fight until the last Ukrainian in the hope that some magic happens to change the dynamic. The Ukrainians aren't going to be allowed a vote on that...the latest mobilisation law, which is highly unpopular seems forced onto them by the Americans who attached it as a requirement for the last military aid package. So essentially the plan appears to draw out this war as long as possible rather than come to some negotiated settlement. It just seems that the same lack of a realistic exit plan that we saw in Iraq and elsewhere from decades ago still resides here. The incumbents make terrible decisions and then just kick the can down the road spending a fortune before disappearing down the line from accountability by the time it all ends in ruins. My principle concern is at what cost this comes to my country. You can imagine my fury when the unelected David Cameron went to Kiev and pledged three billion pounds per year to Ukraine.....We have food banks in this country and Cameron gives Ukraine three billion for a war they can't win. However, the bigger picture is what happens post war and who funds what remains of Ukraine. That is going to cost far far more....I've heard the estimate to just keep the bare bones of Ukraine running requires eighty billion a year. When we are talking about the rebuilding we are talking into the trillions. Then you have the young person problem in Ukraine.....I don't see how that works. This is what happens when bad decisions are made at the top....they cascade and no one is big enough to change course and mistakes are turned into tragedies. The risk taking is emboldened to a large extent as none of these leaders or their children have to get into a trench. Another flaw within our now western globalised wealth class is that as long as they go along with the group think..failed or not they can then avoid accountability for failures and are often rewarded with failed upwards jobs in globalised institutions. So even if their populations vote them out they are insulated from consequences....and often their national taxpayers are still forced to pay their wages. This is not a healthy system....It's a form of modern aristocracy and largely divorced from the results based meritocracy that nations require if they are going to succeed. At least a few of us can say we pointed out these blunders at the time....the more we go on the huge disaster of Johnson and Biden convincing Zelensky to not sign that peace deal appears starker by the day. Edited by Stirlingsays (09 May 2024 4.04am)
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Stirlingsays 12 May 24 7.08pm | |
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Andrew Bridgen letting us know just how dishonest and more importantly how dangerous things are and giving some insights into other areas. [Tweet Link]
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