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kraze

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  1. Of course. Why would russians ever announce **** they are gonna do?
  2. I mean as funny as that is - they do need somebody to play the role of russian "opposition" at home for the, now politically orphaned, target audience, since the previous domestic "opposition" is now promoted to storming bars abroad that are occupied by Nazis, who are exterminating the basic right of "liberal" russians to drink themselves into unconsciousness, while screaming about their (remote) love for Mother Russia and ever present russophobia.
  3. This is a very important example of what russian "opposition" really is and why I personally dislike them so much. Also bonus: her godfather is literally putin himself. Not kidding here. It's even more telling how deeply "Navalny camp" is rooted into the imperial "family", sometimes quite literally.
  4. You gotta love how Rybar specifically marked Davydiv Brid as "failed Ukrainian offense" just 3 hours ago. I guess whenever there's a special dedicated mark on russian maps - it means "we are totally effed"
  5. https://babel.ua/en/news/85129-estonia-transferred-drones-to-ukraine-it-was-them-which-the-russian-tried-to-export-for-the-needs-of-the-army-of-the-russian-federation A historic event here. For the first time in 8.5 years of war common russians actually did something to help Ukraine.
  6. winters are random and unpredictable in Ukraine. You can have below zero temps and zero snow resulting in the solid frozen ground one week - and the very next one it's like +1C and a massive wet snow dump which turns everything into mud, then suddenly it's -10C - 20C and a knee-deep snow. And then it's +4-+6C temps and sunny days.
  7. Furthermore apart from what Combatintman pointed out - Afghanistan was US boots on the ground using military technology Ukraine isn't getting at all. There are no american infantry, tanks, APCs, planes, choppers in Ukraine. Only arty, but in Afghanistan there were no artillery intensive battles that required similar numbers to what we have here. If there would've been a plan to stay in Afghanistan - it wouldn't mess with supplies to Ukraine in any way.
  8. Is what I mean. He most likely has protection from some group near putin. Russia is an empire. Throne can only be held by an emperor. An emperor can't be democratic or liberal by definition so in this regard it's hard to know what alternative can even be considered better. Whoever replaces putin will need to keep waging expansionist wars to keep an empire together.
  9. But he did. He already filmed himself "in Ukraine" in front of his gas station network in Chechnya, advertising it. His boys are now mature enough to finally do the same.
  10. Of course he isn't acting - but it's obvious putin and his cronies find him a lot more valuable than people, who were bringing putin billions just yesterday. And it's what I find weird. Bridges with the West are burned so Navalny getting shived by a "random inmate" would've cost putin literally nothing. Unless Navalny has his use. And since we even hear Navalny's statements, despite being in a FSB cage - it means he does. As for Crimea being a "russian populated area" - it wasn't until 1944 when natives got deported to die in Siberia. And it's why stuff like Crimea shouldn't happen again anywhere else and why Crimea can't be allowed to remain in russian hands.
  11. Because Navalny fully supported actions of Russia when he was playing the role of the "controlled opposition" (the imaginary state-allowed opposition so that the West wouldn't be complaining too much since Russia pretends to be "democratic" and all). He made really derogatory comments about Georgians and about Ukrainians, he was supportive of the war in 2008 and of Crimea annexation - while everything was going well for him and Russia faced zero consequences. However after russian invasion of Donbass and ever increasing sanctions - at some point he had a major falling out with putin and was sent to prison. So of course now that he is in a bad position - he realizes his only chance of improving it is to pretend he's all "truly" liberal and pro-Western so he has at least some "allies" of worth. His real position was pre-prison and it was imperialistic one. Everything he says now is only to save his sorry ***. Even then there's still a question you got to ask yourself - in Russia people "walked out of the window" for much less in the past 7 months. Why is Navalny still fine?
  12. if russians are already firing nukes at that point - it doesn't really matter. If US acts - they fire nukes at US, if US does not act - everybody with nukes start using nukes to steal territories from other countries and... eventually fire nukes at US because while that can of worm is closed for everyone - even US-hating crazies keep their nuclear boners in check.
  13. putin from '99 also pretended he is pro-West. What really matters is what Navalny said before he annoyed Vlad so much he got poisoned and imprisoned - and that was him supporting occupation of new Georgian territories in 2008 and supporting occupation of Crimea where he basically told us to forget about it if he becomes president. And this is where he was honest because he faced no consequences. He certainly should not be supported or even trusted by anyone.
  14. "According to researchers, during 1943-1945 about 4.5 million Ukrainians became Red Army soldiers. After June 1944, the Soviet Red Army consisted of almost 40% of Ukrainians. The losses of the Ukrainian people during World War Two account for 40-44% of the total losses of the USSR." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Ukrainian_Front
  15. Because 'russians' weren't really the ones doing the fighting during WW2, in USSR army they were the minority at the frontlines, but a majority in the rear, where they mostly did the (very brutal) occupation / reoccupation "security" (aka terrorizing locals and making sure nobody retreats) But they did create the myth based on lies. Lots of myths. One fun/meme part that our bloggers did over chat roulette when talking to absolutely random russians over the past 8 years was asking them where their grandpa served, of whom they are so proud of. The majority didn't even know. The few that knew - claimed it was NKVD. It's also the reason Haiduk mentioned why "grandpas-on-sticks" end up being in garbage containers after every "great patriotic war" sect march. Reality is that their grandpas weren't ever fighting so they had to carry photos of random people.
  16. Dunno. At first look it looks like Russia escalated and NATO didn't (no modern tanks, no ATACMS, let alone allowing GMLRS strikes against russian territories). And it's a dangerous sign if it stays so. Also mobilization was a much higher escalation but there was no answer to counter that either. Doesn't it tell russians that they can proceed with escalation? Even a formal "roadmap" that is not binding would've been a good counter-escalation while being completely safe and not really making NATO commit to anything.
  17. It's of course better to break your own hand than the remaining one OMOH still possesses after a round in Ukraine.
  18. Hence why a symbolic "roadmap" is probably the outcome. It will certainly dull the "celebrations" in Russia and whatever other anti-West countries, while not actually changing much geopolitically (because let's be realistic - nothing really happened today, territories were already occupied, armies are the only ones that will be doing the real "negotiating"). Of course the real hope here is for a bit of "escalation" like tanks and ATACMS and if those are to happen - man it will be much better than whatever political statement.
  19. I'm trying to be realistic here. At most they may just give us a "roadmap" that will, of course, take years (of convincing Hungary to stop being an ***) and that will be it. And of course the usual "West is united as always, we support Ukrainian borders and fight for freedom etc", while giving us even more weapons (which will be the best outcome and is actually realistic one tbh).
  20. Khuilo: "russophobia is racism and it spreads around the whole world" So even Vlad thinks I'm racist now. Except "phobia" implies fear and it certainly isn't that.
  21. And just to finally end this pointless back and forth topic of misunderstanding - I want to clarify what I want to all people crying "omg you want genocide". I want russian empire to cease existing, ideally, baring that I want a big wall between us and Russia for at least the next century, until they repaid us all the reparations and made sure we rebuilt everything, until this war is just a bunch of pictures in the books to our grand-grandchildren - and if Russia falls down and disintegrates during this time - then I want a big bucket of popcorn and a front seat atop that wall. That's it. I certainly don't want Ukrainians to bloody our hands any more than how it already is. Our lives are too precious for revenge wars.
  22. He gave you a well detailed post about how Russia has not changed over centuries and why "russian identity" is not an identity at all and is used to force people of different cultures under some common denominator (mostly through murder), so that both e.g. Kazakh and Azerbaijanian become "russian". As for this quote - russian children aren't starving (unless not eating McDonald's burgers counts as starving) so I don't see the point of your manipulation. But just in case they will be starving somewhere down the line due to actions of their parents - then, by all means, feed them. Why not? All I'm saying is that Ukraine shouldn't be the one feeding those thus far imaginary starving russian kids. We have quite literally real ones of ours to deal with atm, but I don't see you demanding russians to feed our kids that lost homes or parents, wonder why it is so?
  23. Except there was never a vicious circle. Before 2014 russians were treated absolutely like friends and everything was seemingly forgiven in 1991. Just like it was in 1917 when Ukraine broke free from Russia - our ancestors immediately tried to make friends with "soviets" - and.... in 1932 alone russians murdered 5 million of our people. Ukrainians were falling head over heels for that "brotherly" BS of theirs. Up until 2014 88% (no joke) of Ukrainians were against NATO even. Heck I ceased any contact with "more adequate" russians only in March of this year after realizing it is absolutely pointless. So I have no idea what "hate begets hate" because hate for russians is a very recent thing, caused mostly by them proudly dismembering live Ukrainians for 8.5 years straight, because, as it turns out - at some point they decided we simply shouldn't exist. Again.
  24. Thus far, in 7 months, at the very least 100.000 Ukrainian civilians were murdered, half a million got deported god knows where to Russia: not a genocide. Me writing on some niche forum that russians should be barred from visiting Ukraine until they pay back reparations, prosecute every criminal and completely change their mentality towards us: genocide. OK.
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