Sunday’s successful blockade run could signal to international shippers that it’s reasonably safe to resume operations from Ukrainian ports.
Sunday’s successful blockade run could signal to international shippers that it’s reasonably safe to resume operations from Ukrainian ports.
The best answer to Russia’s blockade would be a NATO escort. Unfortunately Turkey would need to be on board and Erdogan is trying to play the role of mediator in the conflict.
I actually don’t blame him for trying to play mediator, I think that’s a good thing here, because I want putin to think there’s always room to talk even while his army is being incinerated around him.
But we should send speedboats with the US flag carrying kfc in and out of Odessa with each convoy.
Ukraine is beating Russia, best case scenario for everyone is this keeps happening slowly enough that putin doesn’t do anything stupid while his empire collapses around him.
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Well they’ve taken more land back in the last couple months than Russia took in the last year, so there’s that.
Russia were kicked out of Kyiv
Russia were kicked out of Kharkiv
Russia were kicked out of Kherson
The reclamation of Russian held Ukrainian land in the east and the south appears to be accelerating.
Russia is resorting to fielding T-54s and T-55s (how embarrassing 😬 )
Putins support at home appears to be slipping
Ukraine has the full support of the west
Russia barely has the tentative support of China
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So Russia still occupies the Kharkiv, Kherson and Kyiv regions do they?
Unfortunately they won’t give you any sources to back up their claims, because they are projecting hard.
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They pulled back because the VDV were wiped out in the battle of hostomel airport and because they couldn’t fuel their tanks where Ukrainians kept blowing up their logistics.
“Good will gesture” was an attempt by the Kremlin to save face while they shuffled back to Belarus with their tail between their legs.
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flairInstance checks out.Propaganda and repetition. Worked 100+ years ago, still does.
Do you want nuclear war? Because nato and Russia engaging in direct combat is a path to that. I know some US citizens believe that the US has a nuclear missile intercept program so they won’t be affected, but no such system exists and is effective. If one warship fires on another it could lead to a chain of events that kills us all
Ww2 started because everyone bent over for the Germans and Japanese, which encouraged them.
In this case, si vis pacem, para bellum.
Either putin is sane and pulls back, or he’s insane and war was inevitable.
This is extremely simplified and comes off as silly. German appeasement was partially because France and Britain wanted Germany to attack the USSR, partially because they needed time to rearm. The US empire had a policy of provocation and containment of the Japanese empire.
In the era of nuclear powers wars are done with non nuclear proxies to avoid a nuclear exchange.
WW2 was pre-nuclear weapons. It turns out that changing material conditions makes old responses inappropriate.
Great, then we’ll give Ukraine F-35s, F-22s, B-1Bs, swarms of Predators and Reapers and be on our way then.
See how easy it is to proxy war Zelensky right into Moscow with a smile.
There are no “Rules” to war, people do what they do and you have to be ready for it. Putin made a catastrophic error and we have to prepare for all eventualities, both good and bad, which means para bellum.
Sure, why not? And while we are at it why not some white elephants?
Also predators and reapers are meant for asymmetric operations where your opponent doesn’t have AA or an airforce.
If you want to give Ukraine an advantage and continue the bloody war just make more artillery shells.
We stopped selling them oil and steel, that’s it. After they butchered and butchered China including the rape of Nanking.
Dude, look in the mirror, you need to live with that person and you’re excusing the crimes of Unit 731.
Not a dude, stop assuming everyone on the internet is.
The pacific theater were two extremely violent empires duking it out.
A) Do you think the US hasn’t done worse than the rape of Nanking and Unit 731?
B) The US policy of containing Japan and economically provoking them does not mean that Japan was justified, it is simply the lead up to war between two incredibly violent factions competing over the same resources.
Show me something we did on that level, not acts of war like bombings, but actual monstrous cruelty on that level.
We’re still doing Guantanamo Bay. Abu graib is another one. If youre looking for direct comparisons. We also went around teaching puppet governments how to torture dissidents.
Not to mention that we saved the Unit 731 scientists for their expertise.
Oh my god. Gitmo, compared to Unit 731.
You need to read some history.
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We’re not over there, and the only help we’re giving is because we’re asked.
People hate russia, they want our help killing russians. Help we are happy to provide.
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No, we’re working with China to weaken Russia so we can divide it between us.
That was the deal.
China had s choice between a weak and stupid russia as an erratic ally, or a broken russia as a resource depot. They hesitated, but the war in Ukraine sold it.
The irony is putin started the war partly to look strong in front of Xi so he wasn’t the junior partner in an alliance. The delicious, delicious irony.
It’s pronounced knee-how btw, might want to practice.
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2nd strongest army on the world, now 2nd strongest army in Ukraine.
Delicious, delicious irony, the US finally got the one thing it needed to destroy Russia forever.
An excuse.
Asked by the government we helped install. Do you not remember the Nuland/Pyatt call?
Have you spoken to actual Ukrainians?
They hate Russians, they hate them like… everybody else really.
Congratulations, Russia managed to do the impossible, unite the world.
Yes, actually. An ethnically russian ukrainian who fled before the war. Can you guess why she had reason to flee?
Strange how most of the world is either neutral or supportive of Russia then. NATO countries aren’t the entire world.