Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fewer tweets, more discussion

Russia invaded Iraq in 03?

Goddamn. Had me fooled.
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Same country that started the war in Iraq in 2003.
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The First Chechen War and Russia's support for Serbia despite the evidence of genocide in Kosovo are major reasons as to why several Eastern European countries joined NATO from 1999 and onwards. In short: Russia inflicted that expansion upon themselves and have remained shit at building any form of geopolitical trust.

Believing in Jimmy Dore is just as bad as to believe anything from The Sun.
 
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Don't forget the absolute shameless and brazen lying before the invasion.

 
About time this geezer actually threw his weight about a bit, good on him for growing a pair.
Yes, while Germany started massively supporting Ukraine quite quickly the messaging was always off.

Good to see that this changed since the new minister of defense got into office, feels like he was able to convince Scholz to up his rhetorics
 
This thread is full of people who get taken for a ride time and time again. And will only learn after the fact, when someone leaks classified documents. They would then forget it quickly and hop on the next ride.

One of the many voices of insanity. A self-aggrandizing grifter if ever there was one.
His views on apartheid Israel are certainly more accurate than yours, Raoul. So I'm not sure I buy into your opinion of him.
 
This thread is full of people who get taken for a ride time and time again. And will only learn after the fact, when someone leaks classified documents. They would then forget it quickly and hop on the next ride.


His views on apartheid Israel are certainly more accurate than yours, Raoul. So I'm not sure I buy into your opinion of him.

Just because he agrees with you and your particular pet cause issue doesn't mean he's correct in everything he randomly pukes up on social media. He's a massive bellend who deserves the endless ridicule and mockery he receives.
 
It is. For example Rheinmetall is building a new facility in Germany to produce medium caliber ammuninition and just yesterday the contracts were signed that they will produce and deliver the 35mm Gepard ammo for Ukraine. And that's not the only movement towards more ammo production, but just an example.
Yes, but a large stock of old, degrading artillery isn’t going to be as useful as a growing stock of new artillery. Not to mention, Russia’s entire army doctrine relies on burning through massive quantities of shells and howitzer barrels before making an assault. Doing that with reduced quality equipment is going to lead to a large capability gap between what their stockpile can provide and what their doctrine demands. It will lead to them ordering, as we’ve already seen evidence of, large infantry assaults without their usual covering artillery and armor. Fighting in Ukraine has increasingly resembled the Western Front of WWI and in recent months we have been witnessing Russia’s capability and doctrine devolve from Western Front 1917-1918 practices to Western Front 1914-1915 practices… which is not good for them. 1914-1915 showed what happens to infantry assaults against prepared positions without adequate artillery support, and it was a bloodbath.

The US, for one, is increasing artillery production by 500%.
Those developments are great. At the very least, it will provide some comfort to UA defenders to know that better and more supplies will continue to arrive for them as long as they are willing to fight.
 
Just because he agrees with you and your particular pet cause issue doesn't mean he's correct in everything he randomly pukes up on social media. He's a massive bellend who deserves the endless ridicule and mockery he receives.
I think you meant that he agrees with me and all noteworthy human rights organizations on a very important subject.

At least he gives me a reason to not discredit him entirely and listen to what he says. I'm willing to listen to your opinion on why he's a massive bellend though, genuinely.
 
I think you meant that he agrees with me and all noteworthy human rights organizations on a very important subject.

At least he gives me a reason to not discredit him entirely and listen to what he says. I'm willing to listen to your opinion on why he's a massive bellend though, genuinely.

So basically humans all who don't agree with you and Jimmy Dore are not "noteworthy". That's quite a position to take.
 
This thread is full of people who get taken for a ride time and time again. And will only learn after the fact, when someone leaks classified documents. They would then forget it quickly and hop on the next ride.

Mind being specific about what people are taken for a ride on regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Please be as detailed as possible.
 
So basically humans all who don't agree with you and Jimmy Dore are not "noteworthy". That's quite a position to take.
Are you being purposefully obtuse? I said human rights organizations. Noteworthy in this instance would refer to the depth of their study on the matter. Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Betselem and others.

But you do support apartheid Israel, so it's only right that you'd think human beings would go into "noteworthy" and "not noteworthy" categories. Freudian.
 
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Are you being purposefully obtuse? I said human rights organizations. Noteworthy in this instance would refer to the depth of their study on the matter. Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Betselem and others.

But you do support apartheid Israel, so it's only right that you'd think human beings would go into "noteworthy" and "not noteworthy" categories. Freudian.

Unlike you, I don't have a dog in the fight, which allows for a degree of objectivity. Now lets stop derailing this thread with your Israel/Palestine talk. Further discussion can be had in the appropriate thread.
 
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This thread is full of people who get taken for a ride time and time again. And will only learn after the fact, when someone leaks classified documents. They would then forget it quickly and hop on the next ride.


His views on apartheid Israel are certainly more accurate than yours, Raoul. So I'm not sure I buy into your opinion of him.

Jesus Christ… and you don’t know your arse from your elbow, facts from fiction.
 
This thread is full of people who get taken for a ride time and time again. And will only learn after the fact, when someone leaks classified documents. They would then forget it quickly and hop on the next ride.


His views on apartheid Israel are certainly more accurate than yours, Raoul. So I'm not sure I buy into your opinion of him.

I’m presumably being taken for a ride then, maybe because I don’t have the benefit of listening to the likes of great minds such as Pilger and Corbyn. Please explain what we are all missing about an imperialistic war of conquest to dominate a neighbour and suppress its identity? Is it the solipsistic rationale that Ukraine does not have agency (any preference of its people to align with the EU and NATO obviously being a product of US manipulation) while the current regime in Russia is merely reactive to events provoked by the West and therefore similarly lacks the ability to formulate its own range of interests and objectives?
 
Are you being purposefully obtuse? I said human rights organizations. Noteworthy in this instance would refer to the depth of their study on the matter. Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Betselem and others.

But you do support apartheid Israel, so it's only right that you'd think human beings would go into "noteworthy" and "not noteworthy" categories. Freudian.

What are you on about, there are plenty in the US against the likes of Netanyahu and the ultra orthodox Israelis, two wrongs don't make a right.
 
This thread is full of people who get taken for a ride time and time again. And will only learn after the fact, when someone leaks classified documents. They would then forget it quickly and hop on the next ride.

Mind being specific about what people are taken for a ride on regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Please be as detailed as possible.

Nothing? Just a drive-by comment? I guess Raoul was the intended target, the rest of us were just collateral.
 
Pretty direct & a bit scathing speech she gave today…


I hope that will be followed by a press conference featuring many of the prosecutors who went after Milosevic and his cronies in the 2000s. We will need as much input as possible from the people who were last involved in a major case of war crimes.