[RD] War in Ukraine: Other topics

[Akka]

What is important here is that Russian allies are taken out one by one, in the long run that’s an advantage.

I certainly hope the next Russian ally to be taken out is Trump.

 

[Snowygerry]

Some kind of regime change in the US is desirable yes - but that's likely to care of itself.

 

[Lexicus]

Trump’s superpower flex in Venezuela delivers a humbling blow to Putin’s Russia

President Putin has proved a useless ally to deposed Venezuelan leader Maduro, but the humiliation runs deeper: The U.S, president’s real global superpower reach is turning the Kremlin green …

www.politico.eu

This is why it's so funny that the official Ukrainian stance is support for this kidnapping. Makes it very clear that most Europoids regard brown people's sovereignty as a joke.

 

[Akka]

What a surprise that people who are getting invaded and slaughtered care more about having one of their invader's allies being out of the game than giving antagonizing lessons to one of their most crucial backers which is already on the verge of abandoning them.
But I guess they are too white to benefit from the racial crusader's magnanimity about latitudes given to oppressed people.

 

[Kyriakos]

It's one of the very few times I can agree with Akka. Zelensky would need to be full-on cretinous to announce something against the US at the moment.
Of course I don't agree that Zel wagered Venezuela's relation with Russia, because that is not even worth to be termed secondary when compared to the risk of offending the US. Likewise Zel had openly supported Israel/US in the other recent military actions, again not even secondarily due to one of the targets having ties with Russia but because he is entirely reliant on the US.

 

[Verbose]

Ukraine is not entirely reliant on the US, but it cannot afford to risk the US support it is still getting. It also cannot risk signing away even a slim prospect of the US getting back to more actively supporting Ukraine. And it can even less afford the risk of the US actively siding against Ukraine. Which with Trump is still a distinct possibility.

 

[EvaDK]

Trump’s superpower flex in Venezuela delivers a humbling blow to Putin’s Russia

President Putin has proved a useless ally to deposed Venezuelan leader Maduro, but the humiliation runs deeper: The U.S, president’s real global superpower reach is turning the Kremlin green …

www.politico.eu

The price of throwing all your countrys resources towards an ongoing unwinnable war.

Russia is itself becoming entirely dependable of China's trade and goodwill.

 

[Snowygerry]

Yes, or as long as all the foreigners are killing eachother you will always come out on top.

Did I ever tell you the story of how we here turned the French Imperial Guard into fine white sugar..

https://www.journalbelgianhistory.be/en/system/files/article_pdf/02%20Wilkin%20v2.pdf

More to the point :

Russia is attempting to discredit the EU by disseminating fake news on a massive scale: VRT NEWS has mapped dozens of stories and explains how to recognise them! | VRT NWS: news

On social media, the European Union (EU) is regularly portrayed as a dictatorship that wants to interfere in every aspect of our lives. Criticism is fine, but there are also many fake stories to influence us, mainly spread by pro-Russian sources. Our editorial team has selected 60 of these fake...

www.vrt.be

The aim is always to stir up polarisation in a country, in the hope of ultimately changing or weakening current policy and, for example, making it more pro-Russian or undermining support for Ukraine. Last year, 38,000 fake channels were identified , spread across almost all social media platforms known in Europe.

The false claims we found can be divided into four recurring themes: the EU as a warmonger, the EU as a censoring power, the EU interfering in all aspects of our private lives and consumer affairs, and the EU influencing our identity.
When it comes to war, for example, VRT NEWS has already been able to demonstrate that the EU does not seize your savings to invest in defence, contrary to what is being said online. In addition, false stories about the EU wanting to divide Ukraine or introduce compulsory military service are also circulating.

To close some good news

There is no evidence whatsoever that the EU is banning Christmas or introducing a mandatory number of LGBTI+ people on Bulgarian farms

 

[r16]

you might not accept it today but the history will show there have been 2 threads or whatever .

one for NAFO

one for not NAFO

so , this is the big day and not everybody got the note . Ukraine has survived longer than the Nazis in the last one . Oh , yeah , pretty sure they see this as a great opportunity to rub some faces . Something to cheer on when the Russians are so easily discussing and agreeing if the war doesn't end , they get ready for the second round or the third or however one wants to name it , by killing ever more Ukranians . With Trump's lot learning to goosestep in some undetermined but no doubt near future , it doesn't seem much of a problem , ı suppose .

 

[Gedemon]

They're killing more Ukrainians, more Russians, more Africans too.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2010304424422576450

 

[soundjata]

This is very sad. Such waste of positive energy

 

[r16]

a formula for success in mindbending is doing it where history shows it hasn't failed already . Yes , anyone can be sure it is observed that the West keeps up the attrition most succesfully and Kremlin still reaches out for friendship from the West it will no longer answer in that way . Try not to tell me that Russians betray their so called friends in an heartbeat . Such understanding comes in the package . Instead try to focus on why the West has been running around in circles in the last two decades , pertaining to the destruction of a certain country .

the results of the Second World War will not be altered . For those who haven't seen it the first time the statement was posted .

 

[Lexicus]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2010795288974541036

 

[Snowygerry]

(…)
the results of the Second World War will not be altered . For those who haven't seen it the first time the statement was posted .

What was supposed to be a quick operation in Ukraine has turned into a grinding war of attrition. The duration of the conflict has now surpassed the 1,418 days the Soviets spent fighting back the Nazi onslaught, ultimately pushing the Germans from Moscow all the way to Berlin.

During its almost-four-year campaign in Ukraine, Moscow has captured only a wedge of the country, at a cost of some 1.1 million Russian casualties and mounting disruption at home. This month some 600,000 Russians were left without electricity in the border region of Belgorod following a Ukrainian missile strike.

Putin’s great-power project faces the ‘end of an era’

The Russian president has been unable to protect his allies in Venezuela and Iran from an unexpectedly belligerent U.S. President Donald Trump.

www.politico.eu

“An entire era is coming to an end,” (…)
Russian authorities, he argued, had spent too much time trying to create an image that the country was a great power rather than taking steps to ensure it became one. The promise that “‘we can do it again’ has failed,” Kalashnikov concluded.

 

[r16]

nice that you are not aware of what you are quoting .

 

[Gedemon]

the results of the Second World War will not be altered . For those who haven't seen it the first time the statement was posted .

seen it the first time, then Lexicus posted that in the end the Nazi won against USSR way before 1991, missed your comment on that then, maybe I'll see it this time.

 

[r16]

don't worry , there will be enough people even in France to question you for the insistence to keep it up .

 

[Gedemon]

don't worry , there will be enough people even in France to question you for the insistence to keep it up .

what is "it" ?

 

[r16]

that you shouldn't celebrate Putin failing to defeat Ukraine in the timeframe it took Stalin to drive into Berlin and forced Adolf to do things ? With Churchill sitting on Adolf's divan or sofa or whatever , too ? That basically all the big names here adroitly carried out on the day and yet as if "it" was just for a day and the next day it comes back ? Don't the guidelines tell one should avoid all comparisions between Ukranians and Nazis and tell it is an evil Russian propaganda ?

 

[Snowygerry]

Certainly you cannot expect it to go unnoticed, comparisons are all over European press, don't they do that in Turkey ?

The front is more reminiscent of the trenches of the First World War than Operation Bagration or the Blitzkrieg of the 1940s. Russian advances in 2025 have been modest, at the cost of even greater losses than in previous years. Ukrainian forces remain on the defensive in a war of attrition, and the occupied villages have not resulted in a strategic breakthrough. In fact, the much-touted conquest of Pokrovsk remains unfinished, despite Moscow having deployed around 170,000 troops to the area. By comparison, the current German Armed Forces has 180,000 active troops.

In the two Chechen wars (1994-1996 and 1999), some 11,000 Russian soldiers died, according to the State Duma Defense Committee. By comparison, in the conquest of Bakhmut alone (2022-2023), 19,500 Wagner Group soldiers died, most of them prisoners released from jail, plus thousands more casualties from other Russian units. This figure is even higher than the 15,000 Soviet deaths during the occupation of Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989.

The invasion of Ukraine has already lasted longer than the Soviet fight against the Nazis in World War II

Vladimir Putin’s ‘special military operation’ marks 1,418 days on January 12

english.elpais.com

Putinism seeks to maintain its long-standing social contract: if you don’t raise your voice and don’t speak about politics, the Kremlin will more or less leave you alone. Except for the forced mobilization of September 2022 to stabilize a disintegrating front, the regime has incentivized contract military service. Thus, the Kremlin has opened the civil service and universities to those who go to war, in addition to paying them a salary — 210,000 rubles a month (around $2,570) — that is three to four times the average Russian wage.

In any case, Russia has mortgaged its future with its invasion of Ukraine. Putin announced in the early hours of February 24, 2022, that he was launching a lightning offensive under the pretext of an operation to “demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians.” The objective was to capture Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the elected president of Ukraine, legitimized by Putin himself in 2019 and who appeared as a comedian on Russian state television’s New Year’s Eve broadcasts in 2013.