When I read the news that the Ukrainian army is unable to repel the attacks of the drones that Russia acquired from Iran, it becomes clear to me that the Ukrainian surface-to-air defenses are very weak or non-existent at all.... Sure, that is why the SUs and MIG are all over Ukraine supporting the ground forces - Except for the fact that they are absolutely absent since day 0. RF air superiority, which was taken for granted even by Ukraine allies has proven to be non-existant. It is just another of the myths about the RF army that have been vanished after this botched aggression that has benefited only the US. Russia is using drones and missiles, many of which are intercepted and many of which are inaccurate to the point of being useless because they cannot risk planes and pilots to missions in a relatively well defended sky. Trying to win a war by cutting civilians from water, electricity, hospitals and schools is useless. Its not useless, as UK/US "Shock and awe" proved in Iraq...its just that Russia was for some reason reluctant to use it at start Russian military power is a mirage. Their last major victory was against nazi Germany (thus the bizarre fixation on nazis even to this day) 80 years ago but even that comes with some caveats, such as lend-lease, second front, and the amount of cannon fodder Stalin used up. Since then they failed in Afghanistan, barely defeated Chechnia (a nation of ~1.5 million) by bombing it into rubble, and incited some smaller conflicts (Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine pre 2022). They haven't been able to create any substantially new weapons and can barely maintain old soviet equipment. Corruption in all levels of Russian government, including military, is legendary. Here is an interesting analysis on how their claims differ from reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHhgVrKJJoAtl;dr: claimed to have 10+ thousand tanks, may have actually had 3000 potentially usable ones before the start of the war. So now that Ukraine destroyed more than 4000 out of those 3000, there are no tanks on Russian side of battlefield? |
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<...> Russia has issued a grim warning to the rest of the world: World War III is all but guaranteed if Ukraine’s Western allies continue to meddle in their ongoing conflict. Specifically, a top Kremlin official threatened worldwide destruction should NATO approve Ukraine’s request to join the organization. <...> Of course, the threat of a nuclear conflict should not be underestimated, but I do not think that there are suicide bombers in the Kremlin or the Pentagon who are ready to destroy themselves and the whole world in a fiery hell. And even if there are such rabid psychopaths in the highest positions, they are more likely to be neutralized by people from their environment who want to live. However, while European leaders are now methodically killing the economies of their states and escalating the conflict more and more at the instigation of the USA, the confidence that a global war between East and West can be avoided is fading before our eyes.
paxmao, when you describe the concept of "legal annexation", what relevant international legal documents did you follow so that I could also get acquainted with them? In the course of your comment, I had a few questions. If you don't mind, please answer them. I have put my questions in brackets in your quote. Legal annexation could potentially be if, after a long period of peace (How many months or years exactly?), a referendum with all guarantees (What are these guarantees and who provides them?), time to put forward arguments against and in favour (Who chooses such time?) and abundant international observers (How many observers should be there and who should appoint them?) is held among the inhabitants of a region a a majority decides that they want to join a different state.
According to the definition of "annexations" which I found, they are illegal. <...>F. Evaluation
38 Under present international law, annexations are illegal since they are incompatible with the most fundamental rule
on the prohibition of any threat or use of force. As such, they do not result in a lawful title to territory. All States are
under a legal obligation not to recognize annexations and their consequences as lawful. They may, however, give some
de facto recognition to unlawful annexations in order to accommodate adequately the needs of the inhabitants of the
annexed territory. There are good reasons to consider the prohibition of annexations and the obligation not to recognize
them and their consequences as lawful as rules of customary international law with the rank of ius cogens. Links: http://www.anamnesis.info/node/624https://opil.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/law:epil/9780199231690/law-9780199231690-e1376
It is much better understood if one thinks of a referendum of independence of which there are a few cases.
Regarding referendums, there is an interesting post with some historical data confirming that the countries of the so-called collective West (led by the US and UK) are ready to recognize or not recognize the results of referendums, only when they get benefits from it.  Source in Russian* Updated quote from Encyclopedia of Public International Law on Annexation Not all separatists are treated equally https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1581759661769826304 |
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Following you argument, who in their right would try to stop NATO on a battlefield. When you get to war like this is because you have already failed in using soft power.
Its impossible to win using soft power when other side own world money printing machine You've got it backwards. Russia attacked Ukraine, then NATO expanded. Really? I thought many Warsaw Pact countries joined way before that |
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Seems pretty clear that out of control corruption and Yanukovych refusing to sign the trade agreement were the main reasons for the revolution. Not cookies. Not even evil America. The guy was turning Ukraine into a Kleptocracy and not even bothering to pretend he wasn't.
If corruption is main reason for revolution, and it got WORSE after Yanukovych got overthrown, why we didn't see more revolutions? Could it be that corrupt money was flowing in right direction after he got overthrown, so there was no reason and no cookies? |
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Azerbaijan is worse, when you look at genocide against Armenians
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The fact is that world's most powerful countries always want to remain powerful and fearful. Non wants to be intimidated or sidelined. I still believe that any of the World's most powerful countries would still do almost the same thing being done by Russia.
I think the facts are talking about the opposite. For example, America had every opportunity to destroy Russia in 1990, but it is not an aggressive country, it does not need foreign land, unlike Russia. Really? And how it would do that? |
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When you're thinking about all the evil America did in the past decades, and doing those mental triple back flips to get to the place where all those bad things make Russia justified in starting a war with Ukraine, does Stalin ever pop into your head? The guy just rounded up hundreds or thousands of people at a time...and executed them. Almost 1 million citizens of his own country were executed. He intentionally caused multiple famines that killed millions of Ukrainians. 10's of millions of people were murdered on his orders.
For an American President to come close to matching the amount of pain and suffering that Stalin intentionally caused, they would have to first seize pretty much all political power. And even then, it would take years to get to the level that Stalin did.
That hasn't happened yet to America. It could start to happen some day...but it hasn't yet.
Appears it's started to happen in Russia though.
You have to count better http://www.spectrezine.org/global/chomsky.html"Overcoming amnesia, suppose we now apply the methodology of the Black Book and its reviewers to the full story, not just the doctrinally acceptable half. We therefore conclude that in India the democratic capitalist "experiment" since 1947 has caused more deaths than in the entire history of the "colossal, wholly failed...experiment" of Communism everywhere since 1917: over 100 million deaths by 1979, tens of millions more since, in India alone. The "criminal indictment" of the "democratic capitalist experiment" becomes harsher still if we turn to its effects after the fall of Communism: millions of corpses in Russia, to take one case, as Russia followed the confident prescription of the World Bank that "Countries that liberalise rapidly and extensively turn around more quickly [than those that do not]," returning to something like what it had been before World War I, a picture familiar throughout the "third world." But "you can't make an omelette without broken eggs," as Stalin would have said. The indictment becomes far harsher if we consider these vast areas that remained under Western tutelage, yielding a truly "colossal" record of skeletons and "absolutely futile, pointless and inexplicable suffering" (Ryan). The indictment takes on further force when we add to the account the countries devastated by the direct assaults of Western power, and its clients, during the same years." |
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If you like Zelensky, you'll love his request for NATO to start a nuclear war. Why does he want the nukes to fly? Because he is failing against Russia in Ukraine.
Who is this Ukraine joker, anyway... who wants world nuclear war? Doesn't he realize that any scenario he dreams up, has already been thought of in Russia and all around the world?
How about the scenario where Russia fails to kill him, fails to take Kiev, gets their main battleship Sunk, Crimean bridge blown up, and after a bunch of other embarrassments finds itself on defense losing territory they thought they had secured last for good last spring, and now forced to mobilize 9 months after starting the thing they thought wouldn't even be a war by invading Ukraine . You think Putin thought of that scenario? Doesn't seem like it. Putin was obviously wrong when he calculated that Biden won't risk nuclear war similar to Khruschev over Cuba missiles. He also calculated that EU is not such vassal state to USA. He seems intent to recalculate and fix his errors |
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Are you trying to argue that freedom to protest in the US and Russia are the same?
No, I'm arguing that police reaction is the same |
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Curious you could not find a better pic. What I see there is one protester being arrested while 50 people in the background film it.
An seriously speaking, protesting in most developed countries is widely admitted - not if it carries violence. We have all seen people arrested in the Red Square for holding a white sheet of paper.
Its not a problem to find a video, thousands of it actually...i just put pic instead because forum cant properly embed video (for people lazy to click). Here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf5vpzMIgyUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp2b9Qo88UI |
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They are protesting but in Russia they have special police trained to fight protesters and these guys are brutal. They don't care if you're a woman or a child, everybody gets hit with batons and sprayed with tear gas the same way and then they drag you to a prison transport and you don't get a phone call to family like in the US, or a hot meal. More likely they'll make you take your clothes off and leave you naked for the night or come back in a few hours to beat you. You don't get to experience this in "normal" countries. You need big balls to be an anti government protester in Russia or Belarus.
Thank God, similar policemen in the West give protesters donuts and coffee, and spread love and peace among protesters  So they applied "Shock and awe"? And whose invention was that? |
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The cowardly and vile russian army knows how to fight only with civilians.
Not saying that it is a case here, but previously Amnesty International accused Ukraine of using schools, kindergartens and hospitals as military objects, so they can accuse Russia if they strike back...seems like useful PR tool |
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Or maybe you're wrong.
Russia does keep keeps losing land. They're had to give up on cities they've occupied since the spring - they were getting ready to start school with all the new Russian curriculum. And then all the sudden the Russian military has to run away to avoid being encircled.
Russian installed deputy head of Kherson region posted a video saying Putins defense minister should kill himself because he's fucked things up so badly. Feel like that guy isn't going to be alive much longer either way.
The Nintendo Wiibloggers, who have been pushing Kremlin lines for years to millions are freaking out at how shitty Russias military is from top to bottom.
State media is starting to ask where all the funds went that were supposed to be invested in the military. (Although, I think they know the answer to that question)
You're more loyal to Putin than most of his own people.
tends to happen in most armies...Putin generals warned him that if he wants good army, he should be in perpetual state of war like USA or Israel, but he obviously made mistake |
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Random hobos from bitchute aren't mad enough so you need a screaming clown from youtube to tell you that to think. He's anglosaxon like you pretend to be, just smart |
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WTH is going on here, who's scamming whom and how?
Plain words, not everyone follows internal dramas and accusations
inside every coin out there
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I am against war and killing. You have been justifying the RF aggression because is "a fight against capitalism".
Unfortunately, there are countries in which changes are possible and others in which, as of now it is not. The pressure from EU and US for social liberal policies is subject to reality checks, like most things in life.
Tell that to someone else...your comments sound like you have orgasms over death of Russians...and I'm pretty sure you don't care about Ukrainians, its just not opportunistic because of current "reality check" |
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"Adolf Putin is desperate enough to sell gas to EU" so Putin would be desperate to sell gas and Germany would help him out by buying it, because the rules of the mafia world? And knowing that beforehand, he blows up his own direct pipeline to Germany so they'd have to ask permission and pay Ukraine or Poland to transfer more gas to Germany? Did i understand you correctly?
As far as US pushing EU to diversify its energy resources from RU, now you're starting to open up your eyes, think macro level and ask very dangerous questions. Careful, real world is not pretty and dangerous questions might lead to disillusionment and why everyone cares about Ukraine all of a sudden.
You take them too seriously...they're just trolls and cheer for all dead Slavs, be it Ukrainians or Russians And as you noticed, they're pretty picky which country women rights to demand, and which country women rights they don't care about |
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