re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Please explain how Putin is so much better than Zelensky and Ukraine in this situation. You can’t.

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I’m no fan of Zelensky and think he’s being made into a false idol, but no there’s a big difference between Putin and Zelensky: Putin invaded his country. I’m sorry, Zelensky, while bad locking up political dissidents, is nowhere near the evil Putin has done and continues to do. Zelensky is a shyster and con man while Putin is a genocidal serial murdering thug.

ISW on the situation North of Kharkiv

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Russian forces continued efforts to prevent a further northward advance of the on-going Ukrainian counteroffensive around Kharkiv City on May 18. The Ukrainian General Staff stated that Ukrainian troops took control of Dementievka, about 10 kilometers south of Russian border, and that Russian forces are fighting in Ternova, 5 kilometers south of the Russian border.[26] Russian forces additionally shelled the northern part of Kharkiv City, indicating that they still have control of the highway to Belgorod in a manner than allows them to inflict artillery damage on the northern suburbs of Kharkiv despite pressure generated by the Ukrainian counteroffensive.[27] Russian troops north of Kharkiv City will likely continue to prioritize holding positions in Ukraine away from the international border at the expense of deploying additional reinforcements to Donbas.

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I absolutely don’t mind seeing Ukraine fall. It’s a corrupt puppet nation of the US.

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Let’s assume you’re right: you would actually rather it become a corrupt puppet nation of Russia over the US? Do you realize what you are saying?

This is a nice timelapse video showing the changes in the front lines from the start of the war.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1526986524432158724

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Ukraine is finished with Donbas/Odessa going to the Russians. They realized this after the failed Kyiv seize. The goal now is to bleed them out economically instead of a total destruction of their government by force.

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Maybe they should just quit in shame and refocus on another front like Russia has now done multiple times in this war.

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Russia knows that over the coming years the US general public will grow tired of the endless money being supplied to Ukraine when we have more than enough problems going on at home.

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Bruh we’re 80 years into spending endless money on wars - hot, cold, proxy, unjustified, justified and it ain’t mattered yet. Not to mention, and I cannot stress this enough, our govt dgaf what we think anyway.

This map shows a bit more detail in the Kharkiv area.



Source: https://twitter.com/War_Mapper/status/1527076774718357505

And this one for the Severodonestsk area.

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I wouldn't piss on that bitch if she was on fire, but she was more than qualified to work on Zelensky's campaign.

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The only thing Nina Jankowicz is qualified to do is organize a bunch of losers recreating a Quidditch match.

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The only thing Nina Jankowicz is qualified to do

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A double-major in Russian and political science, Jankowicz graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2011 and spent a semester at Herzen State Pedagogical University in Russia in 2010.[1][2] In 2017, she was a Fulbright fellow in Kyiv, working with the foreign ministry of Ukraine.

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You can hate her politics and point of view and still acknowledge the above. shite like this is why no one takes you seriously.

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You can hate her politics and point of view and still acknowledge the above. shite like this is why no one takes you seriously.

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It was an intentional insult towards her. She played in a Harry Potter band called “The Moaning Myrtles” (which I got to give it to her is a good name for an HP band), and is obsessed with the property. And it’s also an insult towards the White House where apparently the staffers play Harry Potter. What makes it particularly hilarious to me is they’re oblivious to the fact they are clearly the villains of the story completely obsessed with race, propaganda, big government, and despotic teachers.

EDIT: Got to address this in her being an expert.

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A double-major in Russian and political science, Jankowicz graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2011 and spent a semester at Herzen State Pedagogical University in Russia in 2010.

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OK, double major with political science? Granted, I will say that Russian is a hard language to learn, but do you know of how many midwits I know that have a degree in Mandarin and political science or international business? Lots of them, myself included. Those qualifications are a fricking joke. Yeah I was in business meetings with members of the CCP, but just because I spent three years over there does not make me a true expert in those regards even if I know the ropes. Sorry, I know multiple people with Nina Jankowicz‘s qualifications, and they aren’t impressive people.

Where did you see Israel was sending it? AFAIK, Russia was successful in preventing it by threatening to cut Israel off from their access to hitting Hizbollah in Syria, although Lavrov's calling the Jews Nazis may have loosened that up.