re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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We should probably spend more on Ukraine considering how well that money spent in Afghanistan went to defeating the bad dudes.

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We crushed the bad dudes sbd eventually took out OBL.
The war went great and pay back was given.

The problem was we tried to make Afghanistan something it will never be, a real nation.

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Ukraine was never going to win. Russia is fighting with limited men and equip, they could easily overwhelm the Ukraine. We need them to negotiate for peace, not spread this war. We are subsidizing war.

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I will throw you a bone here. Now seems like a good time to try and negotiate a peace settlement. Putin has Luhansk and can now claim a Pyrrhic victory. Russian troops are on a break. Ukraine still has 70 percent of the country. On paper I agree with you. Time for a negotiated settlement.

Problem is I see zero chance Putin abides by the terms. As long as Ukraine has self governance, he’ll claim Russia is threatened (and LARPers like sir Winston and Lima will lap it up) and keep encroaching if not outright launching another invasion.

Best case is we reach a settlement and there is some sort of DMZ along the current battle lines, and even in that case Ukrainian nationalists will be rebelling in the captured parts of the Donbas.

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Best case is we reach a settlement and there is some sort of DMZ along the current battle lines, and even in that case Ukrainian nationalists will be rebelling in the captured parts of the Donbas.

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People deserve the type of government they choose. My hope is this is what happens and some treaty will recognize that.

But my biggest question is this:

Since we are not tied by treaty to Ukraine, why can't this be Europe's problem and not ours?

People love intervention, despite the pleas to the opposite at times. I don't support neither side, and think non interventionism is the proper approach for us, across a continent and an ocean away. Let Europe run this operation.

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Whatever, Bolton.

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frick you. I'm completely anti-war and have been for longer than you've followed politics. I didn't start this war, Russia did.

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But hasn’t happened yet. It happens, I change my mind, but no, you have not convinced Putin is Hitlerlian.

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Again naïve.

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This invasion has gone poorly enough for Russia that I’m relatively confident China isn’t going to invade Taiwan anytime soon since it’s a far, far more difficult invasion than Russia invading Ukraine. Like at minimum it would have to have four times the invasion force of Normandy, the landing beaches are much smaller and are on the other side of the island, and they will know the Chinese are coming long in advance. And that’s just the initial invasion, nevertheless sending in reinforcements and supplying their forces.

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I genuinely can't trust your analysis, because everything you've said about Ukraine also applies to Taiwan. Outside of the idea that you think Taiwan's chip foundries have some special magic that they do not possess, you've made the argument that protecting Taiwan is pointless for the same reasons providing aid to Ukraine are pointless.

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The points just go completely over you warmongers heads. When I say we shouldn’t be spending this cash, y’all respond where should we spend that cash? The fact that we shouldn’t be spending it in the first place is the point.

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We make promises and we need to keep them.

We promised to protect. We promised to defend them if attacked. If China attacked Taiwan, should we just look the other way now?

We made promises to Ukraine. We need to keep them so Russia and China know that we keep our promises. If we don’t there would be more wars.

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Yeah, great use of a trillion dollars there.

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Considering the people who were in charge are again in charge... It was a colossal waste in every possible way.

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The battle for the Donbas has been characterised by slow rates of advance and Russia's massed employment of artillery, levelling towns and cities in the process. The fighting in Donetsk Oblast will almost certainly continue in this manner. So Russia is leveling towns and cities because they want to be Russian? Thxs for the good war reports.

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No they are supporting the LPR and DPR liberate themselves. The Russians are focusing on incorporating the Kherson and Zaporizihia oblasts into Russia before the Ukrainians counterattack causes those oblasts to be destroyed like the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are. Russia is going to leave the LPR and DPR remain separate nations so they don’t have to pay to repair them.

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I used your exact words. Your shitty communication skills aren't my issue.

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Your failure to understand what "respect borders" means in the context of nations at war vs what it means in the context of immigration is absolutely your issue. Problem is it seems you will never grasp language so we all have to deal with you and your lack of comprehension.