keas66

Here's the thing though - generally - at its best - the West as part of its advantages over more totalitarian places - has come to represent toleration of a whole lot of things which are not necessarily the end of Human Civilization as many who oppose such toleration seem to think . The West is not going to fall because of trans gender rights or any other sub group of people wanting to express themselves how they feel . Its going to be because of war , resource scarcity and global changes to our economic systems due to our continued mis use of the planet .

Is anyone here subscribed to the sarcosaurus substack/feed - The daily emails are pretty in-depth on current situation on ground . https://xxtomcooperxx.substack.com/

Honestly - Historically - when have the Russian Military ever behaved differently in any major wars they have been involved in ? The value of human life in Russia appears to be evaluated with a completely non-western view of things . In what other modern army do we see soldiers choosing suicide as a actual battlefield choice ? One can I think , understand a little the anti-russian / anti-communist propaganda of the past about hoardes of sub-human robots making human/meat wave style attacks no matter the cost .

With regards close in use of tanks against trenches/infantry pockets by the Ukrainians at least - the clips we keep seeing - I have seen mention that these types of use cases only occur after surveillance by drones . No idea if true or not - but smells reasonable .

That's your "Occam's Razor" interpretation of this ?

You are clearly either delusional or this is just a deliberate campaign of mis- information - I'll be blocking you going forwards .

The IDF is pretty much doing what it likes right now - do you care much ? - and you expect the West to condemn some minor revenge attacks by Ukraine on Russia ? Unless said attacks threaten somehow the stability of the relationship between the West and Russia/China I can't see anyone caring much at all . Not sure why some folks on this board think the Rubicon has somehow been crossed .

What I can find online about the 2010 elections at least tends to describe it as a successful democratic election - international observers and all not finding anything too untoward unlike his previous attempt back in 2004 . What happened after the election and the direction that Yanukovych took Ukraine - leading up to the events of 2014 is another matter . He was however the democratically elected President of Ukraine at the time .

You either need to stop posting while in this mood of black despair you seem to be in - it really does not help I think or as has previously been suggested , maybe you are posting these defeatist subjects and questions deliberately ?

I'm not sure what you think you are achieving by presenting these background views from the "normal" ? Ukrainian citizen point of view ? Encouraging the idea that the support of the Ukrainians for this fightback against the Russians is in fact collapsing and now everyone just wishes to be done with the thing and return to being Citizens of the Greater Russian Empire ? . In other times and other places comments such as yours would be deemed material evidence of working with the Enemy ? Baffled .

I'd have to agree - that does not look like an IDF launched munition .

If that Hospital was in- fact being used by Hamas to store munitions - I expect the owner /operators of that hospital would likely be a little disappointed with their security/administration staff ? "The al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City — where authorities suspect an airstrike killed hundreds of people Tuesday — is owned and operated by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, said Eileen Spencer, head of the American fundraising arm for the diocese." ( from the WaPo online story )

Pardon my disbelief that the Israelis are not capable of lying when it suits them . They have done it plenty of times before . I'm also wondering whether it is actually realistic that a single Hamas originated rocket could cause that level of destruction . They don't cause any where near that level of destruction when they hit targets inside Israel . Seems more like a bomb sized event . I am guessing the truth is going to be very hard to find out now and will only come out once things have calmed down ( if even then ) . It's to both sides advantage to blame the other side at this point .

Gets a bit tricky doesn't it when the IAF starts bombing hospitals . I see the IDF is still lingering on the start line - I imagine they know whats going to happen to a lot of them when they go in . Like I said a week ago - this is going to be a bloodbath for both sides and in the end will solve nothing . Now is the time for diplomacy . Too many dead on both sides at this point .

Kind of wish I was subscribed - paywalled - but seem to goes into my own concerns about how the IDF are doing in this crisis . I pretty sure they will not do too well with a ground assault into the Gaza Strip if Hamas are ready for them https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israeli-military-vulnerable-war-hamas/675591/