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The closest thing of an actual "justification" I have heard concerning this war from some proRussian people on the internet, is the argument that people from the eastern regions of Ukraine wanted to belong to the Russian federation, because alledgely they felt more identified as Russian than Ukraine. So Russia pushed some bogus separatist Referendum and probably financed separatist armed group in the east of Ukraine.
Assuming all of it has some factuality, it only would give any legitimate and sovereign country (like Ukraine) more reasons to defend themselves from an agressive neighbor like Russia.
Imagine what would happen if Mexico did something like that to the United States, for example: financing separatist combatants in California, in order to try annexing that state. It would be foolish to assume USA would do nothing about it.
The claim of having an "oppresed minority" that want to "join Ruzzia" is as bogus as all the rest. People were leaving in peace and many Ukranians speak Russian, Polish and Lithuanian and nobody cares. Ruzzia just pours money to make it look like there is an issue where there is not one and then sends the troops. It is not that they were likely financing, it is that there is clear evidence of military, financial and intelligence support of Ruzzia to create a problem in the fake-publics of the donbas. And the problem is that this hybrid / frozen conflict way of working can be repeated eg. in Poland. Ruzzia could claim they are not attacking NATO, that is oppressed Polish who have called Putin and Ruzzia just has to deny everything. If you allow him to take, he will take, and then take more, and then another bit here... That's how bullies work. First they insult, if you do nothing, they hit you, if you do nothing they beat you bad. You just have to punch their noses hard once and they go look for easier targets. The flaw in your thinking is that if Russia/Putin has enough strength to do what you say, they certainly have enough strength to win the war... easily win the war. Then why don't they win it? They are simply not of the mindset to destroy their Ukrainian 'relatives'. After all, the reason they entered Ukraine in the first place was to save their brothers and sisters in Donetsk and the Donbas. The war isn't against Ukraine. It's against the everlasting encroachment of the US, Nato, and the Federal Reserve banking system.  No this is a war in which Ruzzia has tried to topple a democracy and then invaded Ukraines sovereign borders - and before that they had been financing terror in the donbas. There is no liberation of any kind. The narrative about brotherhood and liberation is false. Putin's money created a proxy war / frozen conflict where there was nothing but people living peacefully. How does a dictator free you for anything other than becoming his slave? Putin cannot finish the war, he can simply cause as much destruction and innocent deaths as possible, that is what is left for him to avoid an internal coup (another?). The narrative about "goodwill" gestures is another sack of shit. It is just impossible to believe any of those arguments by simply looking at the basic facts, this is just for Republicans that are trying to justify another Trump term. Sure hey, I agree, he does not have enough strength to invade Poland and not even enough strength to win over Ukraine - but that is as long as the US, EU an Ukraine actually do something to stop him. Bullies that get their nose punched do not come back for more. You let them their way, they come back again and again. |
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Actually none of what you said justifies the invasion. If Ukrainians had attacked Kursk region in February 2022 and killed 1000+ Russian civilians in farms and concerts then I could at least see how one could come up with some sort of comparison between Gaza and Ukraine... except in your parallel universe both Gaza AND Russia are the good guys LOL. Looks like you're... what's the Russian saying, stretching an owl over a globe? Indeed, only those zombified by Russian propaganda can justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There was no reason to start this war. Ukraine did not threaten russia in any way. They invented a story about the nazis in Ukraine, but in reality the nazis are the Russian leadership that kills peaceful people and the russians themselves who support this war, and every time they rejoice when they hear about another victim among the civilian population of Ukraine The closest thing of an actual "justification" I have heard concerning this war from some proRussian people on the internet, is the argument that people from the eastern regions of Ukraine wanted to belong to the Russian federation, because alledgely they felt more identified as Russian than Ukraine. So Russia pushed some bogus separatist Referendum and probably financed separatist armed group in the east of Ukraine. Assuming all of it has some factuality, it only would give any legitimate and sovereign country (like Ukraine) more reasons to defend themselves from an agressive neighbor like Russia. Imagine what would happen if Mexico did something like that to the United States, for example: financing separatist combatants in California, in order to try annexing that state. It would be foolish to assume USA would do nothing about it. The claim of having an "oppresed minority" that want to "join Ruzzia" is as bogus as all the rest. People were leaving in peace and many Ukranians speak Russian, Polish and Lithuanian and nobody cares. Ruzzia just pours money to make it look like there is an issue where there is not one and then sends the troops. It is not that they were likely financing, it is that there is clear evidence of military, financial and intelligence support of Ruzzia to create a problem in the fake-publics of the donbas. And the problem is that this hybrid / frozen conflict way of working can be repeated eg. in Poland. Ruzzia could claim they are not attacking NATO, that is oppressed Polish who have called Putin and Ruzzia just has to deny everything. |
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Branko & da here are very selective on what they focus their attention. I am not sure that is any better than what BA does, which is not focusing his attention much in anything being discussed. In the end this is about Ruzzia deciding that it is ok to impose their geostrategic interest by force, nothing more, nothing really new. My take is that they have misjudged the will of the Ukrainians and the will of the allies. I recall that at the beginning of this conflict Putin sent different letters What Ruzzia has proven for now is that their army can cause a large economic and infrastructure damage on adjacent countries, but also that Ruzzia goes into a recession when doing so. Ukraine has shown that they effective can apply a porcupine defence - yes you will hurt me, but you are going home with a bruised eye and not much gain. Speaking of porcupines, have you all seen the fireworks in Moscow? |
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I'm late to respond this but even tho AI is good when play a certain game but they didn't know card from the dealer card right?
Is stil 50.50 or I am Missing something here?
It's fairly easy even the AI doesn't know the card, you don't even have to use an AI as traditional programming might be able to help you with this one, if you can find a programmer that can create a card counting scheme that keeps track of the cards that's been used in the deck by the dealer and by the player, you can just deduce the possible cards that the other players are holding depending on the card count but that's not a guaranteed win as there's always that possibility that the other players will win plus in poker, you can bluff your way to intimidate your opponents and the AI can't keep track of the players' cards that have folded pre-flop so it's still not that good but if you really want to cheat in poker, why not just coerce the dealer? Poker is not a 50-50 game at all, you have to know the chances of winning very well to be a pro player. They train many hours a day if they want to keep on top of the game. An AI does not get tired, does not forget, can learn without any sleep and can play over and over millions of games until it learns. It can even learn about the habits of player better than the player itself. |
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Urozayna is about to be liberated. Actually none of what you said justifies the invasion. If Ukrainians had attacked Kursk region in February 2022 and killed 1000+ Russian civilians in farms and concerts then I could at least see how one could come up with some sort of comparison between Gaza and Ukraine... except in your parallel universe both Gaza AND Russia are the good guys LOL. Looks like you're... what's the Russian saying, stretching an owl over a globe? Even Americans say if China did in Mexico what USA did in Ukraine, USA would immediately attack Mexico https://www.newsweek.com/why-its-us-interest-support-israel-not-ukraine-opinion-1841573"Just for a minute imagine if an elected Mexican president was replaced in an anti-American coup supported by China, and then the new regime sought a military alliance with China. Washington would react in very much the same way Moscow did." Who in the US says that? There are millions of people in the US, you probably can find one that fully supports your bullshit. For example, this article simply states many of the (wrong) points of the Trumpists, not a problem of "the US", like "it is ok to let Ruzzia grab as much as they want", "Ukraine is to blame because they choose to make Ruzzia angry", "this war has no consequence for the US".... all false arguments: Ukraine is a free and recognised country, no, it is not ok to land-grab from internationally recognised nations, the US has a stake on Ukraine, because letting Ukraine fail will bring more wars in the future and possible a return to the cold war. And Ruzzia has already interfered in the elections in the US and UK and other countries and nobody has invaded them. On top of that, it is interesting to see that whoever said that considers that the US can choose the government of Mexico. However this is interesting... The effort to untie the two wars will likely not survive in the Senate; It is interesting that even this journalist has the clarity to at least see that. No doubt, President Biden will get the funds he has requested for both Ukraine and Israel; there is no safer bet in Washington than that requests for increased military funding will be honored. |
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I really want know if getting more degrees can make life financially better because I come from a country where their are no job and I have seen people that the only thing they can do in life is to read books, getting more degrees attaining all these degrees yet no still go job for them with good pay. Do think people who read in a region with slim job opportunities are doing the right thing?
Most people who go for more degrees believe they can get better job at the end of the day. People that only go for more degrees in a stare with high unemployment rate are they doing right thing by putting all their focus on academic because this is the only thing they can do best.
The answer is it depend. What degree, what university, what cost... Certain countries have reached a point in which Uni no longer makes sense, it is much better to get a basic degree and join a company that develops the people or get directly into business and learn as you need. Some countries however offer cheaper education and then is fine to have a degree - you can then go to another country and make more money. |
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Yeah, you heard me right. Today I was scrolling through some Instagram Reels and I saw a video of a person saying this. I'm still confused. Should I laugh or should I feel sorry for that person? So here's how the whole video goes. The man said and I quote" I saw my salary on a bottle of perfume today. So you are saying that someone out there smells like my salary."
It's kind of funny but also sad at the same time. Where have we come today? There are people trying to live a normal life with what little amount they earn. And there are people using the same amount of money just to smell good.
I bring up this to talk about financial freedom. What is financial freedom to you? Is it about having a certain amount of money that is required to have financial freedom or to have an amount of money which can potentially give you freedom in the future?
To me, I will choose the second one. If I am happy with what I have and I am certain that it will continue to help me in the future too, then I have successfully achieved financial freedom. But most people these days are caught up with the thought of using luxurious thing and being able to continuously use it is financial freedom to them.
Do you agree or disagree to this? Let me know your thoughts.
[Just for context, I am not talking about holding money. I am talking about investments that good give me passive income that will continue to come in the future and give me financial freedom. As long as I can survive with that amount of money and not worry about the future, then it is financial freedom to me.]
I think this guy is completely wrong, the perfume is probably good, but his salary probably stinks  Nothing new here to be honest, there are people out there who have a shitload of wealth, and it is not those that appear in tv doing extravagant stuff, it is people who do not look at the money when they want something. If the restaurant is 1000 pounds, so be it, it does not matter. If the parfume costs 3000... whatever, it is the one I like. Basically a bunch of people who have forgotten the real value of money. Look, the fee for attending the last forum of davos was 15.000 dollars. |
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Keep up the propaganda, maybe the fact that Ukraine has attacked the airbase at Taganrog will go unnoticed. Ruzzia says the missiles or whatever was intercepted as usual, the target probably the airbase where the helicopters have now been sent. What's new on this... well, Taganrog is in Ruzzia. It seems that near the dnipro more Ukrainian forces are achieving a degree of advance, nothing serious - not yet anyway. be.open, this is not for you to react, it is for the general information of anyone who reads around here. ...
And not just Russia, China has been doing exactly that as well. That's the problem of letting the precedents slide and only addressing them when someone else does it, oh they did it too? then lets start with them, logic. Calling wars "operations", having PMCs, and now China can fully blockade Taiwan (until Taiwanese military gave up all of their food, water and fuel) and apparently that wont be a war crime now.
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It shows in the fact that the DS are bringing piddly little charges against Trump
Deep state lol. Trump has been indicted by multiple grand juries across multiple jurisdictions for both federal and state felonies. If convicted on just a few of the nearly 100 charges he could easily spend the rest of his life in prison (although he will most likely spend the rest of his life in the White House or dragging out appeals). Not so piddly imo. In Florida: 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information under the Espionage Act One count of conspiracy to obstruct justice One count of withholding a document or record One count of corruptly concealing a document in a federal investigation One count of concealing a document in a federal investigation One count of scheming to conceal One count of making false statements and representations for allegedly causing his lawyer to certify that all classified documents had been turned over to federal authorities on June 3 In Georgia: Violating Georgia's racketeering act Solicitation of violation of oath by public officer Conspiracy to impersonate a public officer Conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree False statements and writings and filing false documents In DC:   Remember when they used to chant that? I do remember Trump in an electoral debate saying to Hilary - "you are going to jail" and for much much less than what he is accused of and with much much less evidence of any offence. I think that the good thing about the trial in New York is that all the evidence is in written so only those who are willing to simply ignore anything that is not to their liking can keep defending the guy and thinking he is not a felon. |
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^^
Even before the invention of AI technologies, computers were designed to beat humans and they did it.
AI aren't designed to beat humans but they were designed to make it feel like you would have a chance to beat them.
AI systems can process multiple equations in a second without any emotional interference which gives them advantage over humans. As a human you can process more equations than cpus but your emotions will keep you behind.
I think some AIs are designed to beat humans such as in chess or in other games, there are many cases in which the computers clearly beat the masters and others in which they can defeat 90% of the players out there such as chess. I would not think that it cannot be the case with many other games and poker let's not forget, is a game with an important math element to it. |
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It is very sad to hear that a bounty is not paid, particularly on white hat bug-finding because it really encourages people to actually not ever report and even take advantage of the bugs found which can even be a problem for the site and other users. Make sure that any reputation concern is stated in the forum, because if more people say the same it means something is not right.
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You're right. If this article contains at least half the truth (and it was essentially written by Zelensky’s court journalist, who is inclined to smooth out corners and embellish reality) - Ukraine is absolutely fucked, and Russia’s capture of Kiev is only a matter of time.
LOL, here we go again with wet dream about taking Kyiv  With such kind of articles it seems that someone is trying to destabilize situation inside Ukraine that heads of country of army would start to look for enemies among each other. And again we see attempts to push idea of peace talks with Russia. There is also talks that Ukraine should hold president elections next year in war conditions and seems that Arestovich already started his elections campaign. Fact that less US people support sending weapons to Ukraine is normal thing IMO. War is going one for more than 1.5 years and people got war fatigue, what is probably normal reaction, especially when you're thousands km from frontline and when war in Israel is getting more attention is Western edia now. Glad you're having fun. In the article by Simon Schuster, Zelensky is presented as an inadequate madman, divorced from reality, who imagines himself to be a messiah who must save Europe and the whole world from the Russian threat. It kind of reminds me of Hitler in the bunker, giving orders to his now defunct troops as the Russians approach Berlin. In the context of Zaluzhny’s interview, who admitted the failure of the counter-offensive and the lack of understanding of how to win this conflict, all this looks very shitty for Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukraine has hit a frigate in Kerch and there are indications that an airfield has been hit in Rostov=on-don. The first one is a new ship that was "about to be finished", so I guess Ukraine thought a good idea to actually "finish it". The airport hit is not confirmed but the explosions in the are certainly are - there are several S-400 in the are so that may be a possibility too - they are good at intercepting missiles by waiting in the ground for them. |
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You're right. If this article contains at least half the truth (and it was essentially written by Zelensky’s court journalist, who is inclined to smooth out corners and embellish reality) - Ukraine is absolutely fucked, and Russia’s capture of Kiev is only a matter of time.
LOL, here we go again with wet dream about taking Kyiv With such kind of articles it seems that someone is trying to destabilize situation inside Ukraine that heads of country of army would start to look for enemies among each other. And again we see attempts to push idea of peace talks with Russia. There is also talks that Ukraine should hold president elections next year in war conditions and seems that Arestovich already started his elections campaign. Fact that less US people support sending weapons to Ukraine is normal thing IMO. War is going one for more than 1.5 years and people got war fatigue, what is probably normal reaction, especially when you're thousands km from frontline and when war in Israel is getting more attention is Western edia now. I think that the articles themselves are more related to selling newspapers than providing a honest depiction of the Ukrainian government working and state of things. Ukraine is simply requesting a honest support from the US. Not "just enough to hold" which seems to be what the US is doing right now. I am quite convinced that if the US wanted they would push much harder, but they are quite happy seeing the Ruzzian army burn through their stockpiles, which would not happen if the war was clearly in favour of one of the parts. I am not sure US is measuring clearly the problems that Ukraine is facing. |
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Just wow, think this is by far the most damning article I've read (exactly when i was expecting the opposite, some typical rosy propaganda). It'd be hard to imagine even gloomier outlook. 59% of Americans are against sending more weapons to Ukraine and increasing fast, Ukraine is out of options but Zelensky is delusional and feels betrayed by "West". US acts dumb and asks Ukraine what will happen if they'll stop providing aid., Ukraine was giving their lives for US money, but that's not enough now. Military commanders are refusing even direct orders by the president, there's not enough weapons, but even if by some miracle UA gets more weapons there's just not enough soldiers to man them, recruitment nearly ground to a halt, US is using corruption in UA to shift the blame and now just directly tells UA who to fire. Feeling the end is near, government officials are stealing like there's no tomorrow (which for them there might not be). On top of all that UA is also now loosing media war with headlines dominated by middle east. Thus now Ukraine aid doesn't stand a chance in Washington  You're right. If this article contains at least half the truth (and it was essentially written by Zelensky’s court journalist, who is inclined to smooth out corners and embellish reality) - Ukraine is absolutely fucked, and Russia’s capture of Kiev is only a matter of time. Update from the dnipro banks: it seems that there is certainly a mid-sized operation ongoing to cross the dniper in several points. Nothing to be scared of, just adjusting ownership of a few square kilometers of land, very close to Crimea and not covered by the so called "Surovikin line". It must be going well for Ukraine, because the local military chief psycho has been replaced with another psycho. The cannot fire the team, so they fire the coach.
You have been consistently pushing this fantastic story of Ukraine crossing the Dnieper for several months now, apparently trying to achieve some kind of reaction. Well, you achieved it, here it is - Ukraine’s crossing of the Dnieper is a pathetic media attempt to sweeten the bitter pill of disappointment from a failed counter-offensive and nothing more. There is no meaningful reason or technical feasibility to undertake any large-scale efforts to cross the Dnieper. Stop fantasizing about this topic, this is just the usual petty fuss of sabotage and reconnaissance groups. I hope that on your part this is just a ridiculous attempt to distract the audience’s attention from really important and key areas. Because if you are sincere and this is truly your best hope for success, then your despair is even deeper than the current situation in Ukraine really deserves. Oh, sure, if your narrative about the article is right the Ruzzians will be in Kiev in three days. Again. And then they will do a few gestures of goodwill, and then reduce the "scope",... sure we know the drill. I am not trying to get any reaction on the dnipro crossing, I am just stating that there is Ukranian activity in the East bank and there is video footage of fight, shelling and the usual things that happen when people cannot reach a peaceful agreement on what belongs to who. If you think it is not important, then it is not important. Nothing to worry about. Of course there is nothing to worry about here. I think Ukraine has more than enough logistical problems with supplying its troops in Kupyansk, Seversk, Avdeevka and Rabotino to add logistical problems with supplying any large-scale group in the Kherson region on the left bank of the Dnieper. It does not seem that Ukraine is having logistical problems in any of the places you mention. They are all either holding well, even ridiculously large meat assaults like in the case of Avdiivka or even with morderate Ukranian gains like near Robotyne. It would be quite interesting for Ukraine to hold both banks of the dniper for many reasons. Just like Ruzzia is not very happy about having large cities in the east in artillery range of Ukraine, Ukraine is not too happy about having Kherson so close to the frontlines. This crossing as of now is just a border shaping operation, with very close artillery positions in the west bank, if you are already imagining large groups crossing and taking all the villages in the east bank... well, who knows... |
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More than hospitals I think the people need basic supplies. Food and water might be things we take for granted but I promise you the people in Gaza don’t. They’re having to rob and kill for food and water right now. It’s something that everyone should have sympathy for. Nobody on this earth should starve today.
The problem is that Israel says that those supplies will be used by Hamas, so they do not allow a normal supply, not even a really minimal one. However, having hospital ships (a few nations have some type of these, large or small) does not allow for Hamas to use or retain supplies for their own use, so there is not an issue of possible use for military purposes. Also, the people in the ships are much more controlled that in camps. |
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/02/donald-trump-jr-day-two-testimony-fraud-trialhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/nyregion/eric-trump-donald-jr-fraud-trial.htmlIn a sometimes tetchy exchange, Eric Trump was asked about emails that showed subordinates asking for information about Trump’s financial reports. “Hi Eric, I’m working on your dad’s annual financial statement,” read one email from Jeffrey McConney, the Trump Organization’s former controller, asking for details about a Trump property. Trump sons are trying to blame the accountants for the valuations and other fraudulent activities. They could very well say - "hey I was just enjoying the life of the rich, I did not know I had to know about the money you know?". Trump’s Sons Cast the Blame for Fraud on Their Company’s Accountants
Donald Trump Jr. and his brother Eric Trump both testified in the trial that accuses their family business of overvaluing its assets. Just in case, for people who may not be familiar with the US system - you cannot discharge your faults on to your accountant. If an accountant prepares your tax return and these are not correct, it is you who gets audited and it is you who can even serve time in prison - not to mention pay hefty fines.
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This is not a pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian post, this is a pro-humanitarian post. I am not taking a party and what I write here is just a practical concern on people, whoever they are. In the current situation, medical facilities in Gaza cannot deliver the services that people who are ill or injured require. Israel is unlikely to allow a flow of medical supplies since these could potentially be used by Hamas (I am not here to judge how good this argument is).
There is however no reason why hospital ships could not be used to care for children, pregnant women, old people and others that require special attention. Even men and women in general.
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Just wow, think this is by far the most damning article I've read (exactly when i was expecting the opposite, some typical rosy propaganda). It'd be hard to imagine even gloomier outlook. 59% of Americans are against sending more weapons to Ukraine and increasing fast, Ukraine is out of options but Zelensky is delusional and feels betrayed by "West". US acts dumb and asks Ukraine what will happen if they'll stop providing aid., Ukraine was giving their lives for US money, but that's not enough now. Military commanders are refusing even direct orders by the president, there's not enough weapons, but even if by some miracle UA gets more weapons there's just not enough soldiers to man them, recruitment nearly ground to a halt, US is using corruption in UA to shift the blame and now just directly tells UA who to fire. Feeling the end is near, government officials are stealing like there's no tomorrow (which for them there might not be). On top of all that UA is also now loosing media war with headlines dominated by middle east. Thus now Ukraine aid doesn't stand a chance in Washington You're right. If this article contains at least half the truth (and it was essentially written by Zelensky’s court journalist, who is inclined to smooth out corners and embellish reality) - Ukraine is absolutely fucked, and Russia’s capture of Kiev is only a matter of time. Update from the dnipro banks: it seems that there is certainly a mid-sized operation ongoing to cross the dniper in several points. Nothing to be scared of, just adjusting ownership of a few square kilometers of land, very close to Crimea and not covered by the so called "Surovikin line". It must be going well for Ukraine, because the local military chief psycho has been replaced with another psycho. The cannot fire the team, so they fire the coach.
You have been consistently pushing this fantastic story of Ukraine crossing the Dnieper for several months now, apparently trying to achieve some kind of reaction. Well, you achieved it, here it is - Ukraine’s crossing of the Dnieper is a pathetic media attempt to sweeten the bitter pill of disappointment from a failed counter-offensive and nothing more. There is no meaningful reason or technical feasibility to undertake any large-scale efforts to cross the Dnieper. Stop fantasizing about this topic, this is just the usual petty fuss of sabotage and reconnaissance groups. I hope that on your part this is just a ridiculous attempt to distract the audience’s attention from really important and key areas. Because if you are sincere and this is truly your best hope for success, then your despair is even deeper than the current situation in Ukraine really deserves. Oh, sure, if your narrative about the article is right the Ruzzians will be in Kiev in three days. Again. And then they will do a few gestures of goodwill, and then reduce the "scope",... sure we know the drill. I am not trying to get any reaction on the dnipro crossing, I am just stating that there is Ukranian activity in the East bank and there is video footage of fight, shelling and the usual things that happen when people cannot reach a peaceful agreement on what belongs to who. If you think it is not important, then it is not important. Nothing to worry about. |
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False. He has not said at any point that the war is unwinnable, further from that he has declared that he has the highest conviction in victory. Please, do not spread fake. ‘Nobody Believes in Our Victory Like I Do.’ - https://time.com/6329188/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-interview/The reason, he later said, was the exhaustion he felt that night, not only from the demands of leadership during the war but also the persistent need to convince his allies that, with their help, Ukraine can win. It is actually an unnamed source, just one, conveniently not known, that says that Zelensky has higher conviction than others. Others may be wrong. So Branko, as usual, you are saying exactly the opposite of what has happened. |
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Casualties of the Ruzzian army are not in the range of 150k but in the range of 300k. If you wait for tomorrow add between 600 and 900 more. Ukraine officials are stating the obvious, the message is not "we got it wrong" (that is an interpretation, biased as usual) the message is that they are fighting with a country that has lots of people and a regime that is ok letting them die and a society that is ok accepting such regime so they need the right level of support from their allies. Ukrainian officials are being straightforward with their allies and supporters and they certainly need to be straightforward: either you provide proper help or Ruzzia will eventually be knocking at your own doors or, for the US, you will be dragged into a cold war that is far more expensive than supporting Ukraine. US people and some others are failing to realise that the alternative of peace, as of now, is not a real alternative, all that will happen is that Ruzzia would start preparing the next invasion in 5 years time, maybe less. That is not peace is just a pause to get their breath, recruit another 250.000 poor bastards from the poorest regions and send them to the next meatgrinder to capture city XYZ. When you are a mid-size country fighting a large-size country, the strategy is to be "too expensive" or "not worth it". Ukraine has shown to be quite expensive to invade and I am not sure you can class the current holdings of Ruzzia as "worth it", I mean, half of the arsenal of soviet era stuff is now recyclable rust. Putin & the Psychos do not care for the soldiers, that has been made clear, but they may actually care for the gear they have left. Now on the US support for aid. While support (this month, in October it was in good health at 65%) has been reduced, the majority of democrats, that will decide if Biden gets another chance, do support Ukraine, so the usual Washington trade-offs will progress as usual and eventually some form of aid will go to Ukraine. The F-16 training is ongoing, the shipments are ongoing... Ukraine should have a winning hand, but at least they do have a fighting chance. BTW, how many spare artillery and shell does North Korea have? You know that due to the meat tactics, Ruzzia cannot be in the offensive unless they have a ridiculously large supply of shells. It could perfectly happen that the supply is just not enough. Progress has been slow but analysts at the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) say they have confirmed that Ukrainian forces are operating armoured vehicles beyond the Russian anti-tank ditch and dragon's teeth obstacles in the area for the first time - just to the west of nearby Verbove It has been under Russian control for several months but Ukraine has gained some ground in the surrounding areas and the MoD says Ukraine has now secured the villages of Klishchiivka and Andriivka, about 8km (five miles) south of the city. Ukraine war: Why Kyiv's Dnipro east bank gain could be significant
Published 21 October
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Ukrainian fighters on the frontline say troops have not only crossed into Russian occupied territory but held a position, apparently for the first time, on the fiercely defended east (or left) bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson region.
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In a text exchange, the 46th brigade told the BBC that troops were engaged in heavy fighting as they try to take full control of the village of Krynky. If successful, the force said, the settlement would give advanced units a base from which to launch a larger offensive aimed at dividing Russian troops and cutting off their supply lines.
The US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said that Ukrainian forces were continuing larger than usual ground operations on the east bank and Russian military bloggers have also noted fighting in Krynky. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67182172 |
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