Can we offer this Ukranian solider a scholarship?
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I doubt Joe was even in the room when the long-range missile decision was made. Just like when some unknown person wrote his Tweet announcing he wasn’t running for a second term. Jill wore red on Election Day for a reason, just as she ignored the Obamas on Veterans Day for a reason.
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Supporting Ukraine is less Ukrainian blood. We've been over this. Giving up support for Ukraine is asking for the other 80% of Ukraine to be razed and colonized slowly but surely under the boot of a paper tiger and a massive global militarization in response.
Ukraine will be forced to form an elite but always overmatched guerilla force in a massively expanded global military threat and humanitarian crisis with increased tyrannical destruction and death for everyone involved, but mostly for Ukrainians until it's someone else.
Get it through your skull. A temporary ceasefire at any line but the border is laughable for Ukrainians, for one, but it allows Russia to reconstitute and get after it later. Putin would absolutely love that. It's what he fucking wants. You'll call it a win for Trump until you realize it wasn't, months or years later.
Putin is cackling right now. He's being forced to use North Korean and Houthi troops and is playing you/the world with social media propaganda and nuclear bluster, as he always has, among many other things, while having totally normal chats with Elon Musk, I'm sure.
European/American military will be in Ukraine within the next year because of Vladimir Putin, and no one else. It's high time you get it. This will not end on Putin's terms. The only question is just how much more tyranny is needed for the West to commit actual military. Doesn't need to be ground troops on the front lines. Air Force/Navy no entry zones, ground logistical support in Western Ukraine, etc. Putin will fold. Shoulda done it years ago, but today will always be better than tomorrow.
Greatest ROI ever, if you don't want WW3, and ya can't see it.
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It's year 3 and Russia has barely gone anywhere. I think Putin realizes the jig is up.
Ukraine will mine thee absolute fuck out of everything. Even if he tries again that shit will not go well. Russia cannot get an air superiority advantage over the poorest country in Europe, even at the start of the war when Ukraine mostly had a bunch of soviet garbage.
Russia is a paper tiger and has been for 40 years.
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@callmebigern Musk is a Russian agent, I did hear about that on Twitter. So is Tulsi, Trump, Tucker and JD can’t be far behind. Probably those Project 2025 guys too. You sound insane honestly. Sometimes funny.
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There's a very good reason Russia hasn't gained a ton over 3, and hasn't achieved total air superiority, and it's not because of Russian ineptitude and Ukrainian wrist rockets.
It's far superior than what Ukraine has.
We also shouldn't ignore the 23% he has conquered, just because it's taken longer.
They were terribly inept at the beginning of the 2022 special military operation though, that's true. A sounder military strategy and Vlad would be sitting on a chair made of swords in Kyiv right now, eating some dumplings.
That's still a main goal.
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Yes it's because Russia has 0 answer for NATO and American hand me downs.
Here is a 35 year old US missle platform hitting a major Russian airfield right across the border from Ukraine:
Lucky Russian driver. Some nice Uncle Sam fireworks.
This missile attack also destroyed the "state of the art" S400 defense system at the airfield.
It cannot be overstated how much Russia sucks, and how far behind they are on pretty much everything. "Gas Stations with Nukes" was spot on from John McCain, and Romney was pretty prescient about Vlad too. Obama drew lines in the sand that got ran over.
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Fuck yeah they're weak right now. Of course. Why are North Korean and Houthi troops fighting against Ukraine? Why is Russian land occupied by Ukraine?
Yet Russia reconstitutes and rearms constantly. It's not hard to see that Vlad is biding his time, and has shielded Moscow/St Petersburg from everything. Russia also has a huge dusty weapons stock. That's what they're using right now to wear down will from the West, bide time, and missile and terrorize Ukraine because Ukraine can only defend with what they have, and he knows Ukraine can't realistically counter on their own. If Ukraine was strong, they wouldn't be getting slowly worn down right now by meat waves, boomsticks, global Russian propaganda and nuclear threats. Ukraine is badass, but it's not an equal fight.
Western forces would help push Russia out of Ukraine in a few weeks time right now. It's now or later. Much more effective and efficient right now. I'm assuming Putin will fleece Trump and broker a deal that freezes lines temporarily and gives Putin his Donbas shale basins and Black Sea oil so Europe still has to rely on HIS fossil fuel, not Ukraine's. Trump and Putin will be regarded as temporary heros for saving the world while Putin cackles and prepares for the rest. Russians will vacation in Crimea again.
It's all fucked. This is why Western military confrontation is coming whether we like it or not. Poland and Finland are gonna stop waiting around soon.
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Russia does not have the technology and military capacity to do anything anytime soon. They are in a stalemate with fucking Ukraine.
Ukraine isn't going to just smelt the weapons and wait for Russia to attack again while doing nothing. That border will make the Korean border look demilitarized…
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You seem to be implying that Russia is in a stalemate with Ukraine for 3 years solely because of Russia's weakness.
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@PostGameOrangeSlices , it's good to have someone in here who can point to Ukraine on a map at least. I question your recent decommitment, but it's something we can work on. You're not licking Putin's gooch. It's a start.
