Apologies, but those questions are too whatever to be politely described. What are peace marchers supposed to accomplish?? If posters here wish for the US and Europe to abandon the Ukrainian people to the invading barbarians, then just say that.
It's hilarious that you think your boiler plate regurgitation of the "everything is going according to plan" genre of Russian propaganda has caused the slightest reaction in DC, or anywhere for that matter. Anyone who has spent five minutes on Twitter or Telegram since Feb 24 has seen all the brain dead vatniks spewing this same old story without end. Even Russian nationalists have started calling out this narrative for the naïve fantasy it represents, at least those with a small residual capacity for critical thought.
Just consider one thing for a moment here. Imagine on February 23rd, 2022, if someone told you that in 11 months: 1. Russian propagandists would be bragging about the capture of Soledar, a town of 10,000 people, which I guarantee none of you had heard of before this war. 2. That this miniscule tactical success was the only major settlement taken by Russia since summer 2022, and that any attempt to take Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Mykolaiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia or Poltava had long since been abandoned. 3. In the course of abandoning taking those cities, elite Russian units (1st GTA) were forced into full retreat, in which they left behind huge quantities of heavy armour and equipment. And 4. that after all that, people would still be saying that everything was going great for Russia! You would have probably said that person was a delusional nut, blinded from reality by Ukrainian propaganda. I would have said so too. Well who is delusional now?
Re bombs and the 101st to Europe, I think Russia has demonstrated that deterrence is what works with them. Paper agreements go the way of the Budapest agreement to respect Ukraine's borders.
Well, let's hear your solution please. The same for the comments seen below (as I write this).
1) The Taliban kicked both Russia and America out of Afghanistan. Here's how they did that. They wanted victory more.
2) The North Vietnamese, a tiny poor country, kicked the world's leading superpower out of Vietnam. Here's how they did that. They wanted victory more than we did.
These real world facts demonstrate that it's not a given that Ukraine will lose just because they are a smaller country than Russia. Ukraine has what's been proven decisive in the past, the will to win. The Russian soldiers in the field want only to go home.
Also, the combined GDP of Ukraine's western allies are somewhere between 20 to 30 times the GDP of Russia. Don't take my word for it, look it up.
Let's drop the defeatist handwringing please. If you have a constructive suggestion for how to deal with Russia's brutal aggression, let's hear it.
Yes. As you say, countries and peoples fighting for their very existence, like the vietnamese or the afghans, were far better motivated than the US, and won.
However, I don't agree that Ukraina is in deeper existential trouble now than they were a year or two ago. Corruption, emigration, depopulation and foreign takeovers made Ukraine´s future look bleak, that sort of peace made war a rational/acceptable choice.
It is Russia that is now forced to fight for their continued existence. (Or at least, so they think, which gives the same net result).
For the US, on the other hand, this was just another half-hearted proxy war, politicians were bought, demonstrations rigged, war provoked, like so many times before.
It seemed Biden & Co underestimated the graveness of it all, they thought Russia could be beaten through economic warfare, with "sanctions from hell" should turn the "ruble to rubble". Since this obviously failed, the war had to be fought with hardware, and NATO is now stuck in yet another quagmire.
GDP matters little in a war - far more important, as you point out, is existential motivation. Another important factor, the degree of self-sufficiency, is hopelessly low in most (though not all) NATO countries.
Russia is not fighting for it's existence, as no one has any interest in invading Russia, nor could they, given Russia's nuclear arsenal. What is fighting for it's existence is the criminal mob family being led by Mr. Putin. That's as it should be.
As is so often the case, those of your persuasion bring no solutions to the table.
Do you want Putin to conquer Ukraine, or not? Yes, or no?
If you answer no, then Ukrainian fighters supported by their Western allies is all that's standing in the way of what you don't want.
If you answer yes, please stop replying to any of my posts, thank you.
If you are going to dodge and weave your way out of offering an answer, again, we don't have anything else to discuss together.
Mr. Fourier, your remarks are offensive, rude and utter nonsense.
Where are the peace marchers? Where is the anti war left when you need them? They were always hypocrites and still are?
Next question: how may Bidens ever put on a uniform? How many will join the 101st Airborne to jump into this fight. Don’t die laughing!
Great questions. I will leave it at that.
Apologies, but those questions are too whatever to be politely described. What are peace marchers supposed to accomplish?? If posters here wish for the US and Europe to abandon the Ukrainian people to the invading barbarians, then just say that.
The Libertarian Party and People's Party are jointing organizing a "Rage Against the War Machine" rally in DC on Feb 19th
The near universal support for continuing the war is sickening.
No good can come from all this waste of humanity and treasure needed for so many better uses.
This is just more rubbish. I'm out of here. Good luck.
It's hilarious that you think your boiler plate regurgitation of the "everything is going according to plan" genre of Russian propaganda has caused the slightest reaction in DC, or anywhere for that matter. Anyone who has spent five minutes on Twitter or Telegram since Feb 24 has seen all the brain dead vatniks spewing this same old story without end. Even Russian nationalists have started calling out this narrative for the naïve fantasy it represents, at least those with a small residual capacity for critical thought.
Just consider one thing for a moment here. Imagine on February 23rd, 2022, if someone told you that in 11 months: 1. Russian propagandists would be bragging about the capture of Soledar, a town of 10,000 people, which I guarantee none of you had heard of before this war. 2. That this miniscule tactical success was the only major settlement taken by Russia since summer 2022, and that any attempt to take Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Mykolaiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia or Poltava had long since been abandoned. 3. In the course of abandoning taking those cities, elite Russian units (1st GTA) were forced into full retreat, in which they left behind huge quantities of heavy armour and equipment. And 4. that after all that, people would still be saying that everything was going great for Russia! You would have probably said that person was a delusional nut, blinded from reality by Ukrainian propaganda. I would have said so too. Well who is delusional now?
Re bombs and the 101st to Europe, I think Russia has demonstrated that deterrence is what works with them. Paper agreements go the way of the Budapest agreement to respect Ukraine's borders.
Well, let's hear your solution please. The same for the comments seen below (as I write this).
1) The Taliban kicked both Russia and America out of Afghanistan. Here's how they did that. They wanted victory more.
2) The North Vietnamese, a tiny poor country, kicked the world's leading superpower out of Vietnam. Here's how they did that. They wanted victory more than we did.
These real world facts demonstrate that it's not a given that Ukraine will lose just because they are a smaller country than Russia. Ukraine has what's been proven decisive in the past, the will to win. The Russian soldiers in the field want only to go home.
Also, the combined GDP of Ukraine's western allies are somewhere between 20 to 30 times the GDP of Russia. Don't take my word for it, look it up.
Let's drop the defeatist handwringing please. If you have a constructive suggestion for how to deal with Russia's brutal aggression, let's hear it.
Yes. As you say, countries and peoples fighting for their very existence, like the vietnamese or the afghans, were far better motivated than the US, and won.
However, I don't agree that Ukraina is in deeper existential trouble now than they were a year or two ago. Corruption, emigration, depopulation and foreign takeovers made Ukraine´s future look bleak, that sort of peace made war a rational/acceptable choice.
It is Russia that is now forced to fight for their continued existence. (Or at least, so they think, which gives the same net result).
For the US, on the other hand, this was just another half-hearted proxy war, politicians were bought, demonstrations rigged, war provoked, like so many times before.
It seemed Biden & Co underestimated the graveness of it all, they thought Russia could be beaten through economic warfare, with "sanctions from hell" should turn the "ruble to rubble". Since this obviously failed, the war had to be fought with hardware, and NATO is now stuck in yet another quagmire.
GDP matters little in a war - far more important, as you point out, is existential motivation. Another important factor, the degree of self-sufficiency, is hopelessly low in most (though not all) NATO countries.
Russia is not fighting for it's existence, as no one has any interest in invading Russia, nor could they, given Russia's nuclear arsenal. What is fighting for it's existence is the criminal mob family being led by Mr. Putin. That's as it should be.
As is so often the case, those of your persuasion bring no solutions to the table.
Do you want Putin to conquer Ukraine, or not? Yes, or no?
If you answer no, then Ukrainian fighters supported by their Western allies is all that's standing in the way of what you don't want.
If you answer yes, please stop replying to any of my posts, thank you.
If you are going to dodge and weave your way out of offering an answer, again, we don't have anything else to discuss together.