re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

That’s cool, agree to disagree. It’s what our country is built on. Give me the guy that at least knows what he had for breakfast, plain and simple.

In actual war news, Russia has cut the last real road into what used to be Avdiivka. Ukraine still has some dirt roads that it can use, but options are dwindling for the defense of the area.




In light of the above, the new comments from Syrskyi are very interesting:

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Oleksandr Syrskyi: "The Russian army is now advancing along the entire front, the situation can be called complicated. The Ukrainian army has shifted from offensive actions to defense, the purpose of which is to inflict maximum losses on the Russian Federation."

The new AFU commander-in-chief called the main value of soldiers' lives, and therefore, according to him, he is "ready to retreat from some position rather than sacrifice all personnel".

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Those comments are certainly made in view of Syrskyi's reputation from Bakhmut and the Ukrainians who have referred to him as a butcher for his insistence on defending that area.

Other reports that I've read have indicated that Ukrainian artillery units are now getting more shells. The rumor is that Zaluzhny had started stockpiling again for another offensive, but Syrskyi is now determined to focus on defense, so there's no more stockpiling for now.

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In his last term, Trump had people such as Bolton, Haley, Mattis, and Kelly around to moderate his extreme impulses. Those kind of people would not be around in Trump 2nd term.

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He also surrounded himself with career D.C. shitheads, mostly Dubya's retreads, that tried to cut him off at the knees at every turn.

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How do think we're perceived?

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Post WW2 Russia dominated Eastern Europe with their armies. They put their puppets in place, formed the iron curtain and built the Berlin Wall.

As time passed the Communist governments weakened economically and military to the point where the Russians could no longer dominate Eastern Europe. Countries became independent, Germany was unified, and the Russian bear was forced into hibernation.

So how were we perceived? What did all those European countries do? Did they cling to mother Russia? Or did most of them lined up to get into NATO?

Despite what the Putin backers say we must be perceived favorably, and to demonstrate that I can point to the recent decision of Sweden and Finland to get into NATO.

I realize we have issues here at home, and we have a pitiful president; however, we are still seen as a staunch defender of the West against Russian imperialism. The US isn’t nearly as weak as you guys who make Putin into a modern day Andrew Jackson really believe.

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Our allies have perceived the US as the defender of the free world, just as they have since the end of WWII.

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The same allies we subsidize for defense?

Yeah, I bet they do

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For Russia, it has been more important to be a "great power" than to consider giving up that opposition and enjoying the prosperity that would come with true peace with Europe/USA.

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I think in their minds they would have ended up as a neutered energy and natural resource farm for the west. And that might not be entirely inaccurate.

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The only difference now is that a significant chunk of Americans have decided to take the side of our enemies.

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I'm on the side of American needs over Ukrainian needs, not Russians over Ukrainians in some conflict that doesn't impact me at all. I do think the right has largely gotten a little too into the "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" concept of late though.

Its also an absolute tragedy if there really was a peace deal in place that Boris Johnson stopped though. An entire generation of Ukrainians dead when that deal is likely the absolute best case outcome for Ukraine in any deal completed now.

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I think in their minds they would have ended up as a neutered energy and natural resource farm for the west. And that might not be entirely inaccurate.

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Yet it was paid for and built using money from the West as well as technology from the West. Without that, Russia is one broke arse nation though not as bad as Sri Lanka. Russia ran a huge PR and lobbying campaign to get Nordstream approval and even investment from suckers in Germany. It was always about hooking them politically. Now that natural gas is cheaper than pre Feb 2022, it didn't work as planned.

All of Putin's claims about the West encroachment, didn't stop him from allying with NATO for several years until he refused to doing what it takes to become a full member.

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Russia is but a handful of nations that is superior to the United Sates for white Christian men with traditional values

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When did kleptocracy become a traditional white, Christian value

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But we're hurtling towards a very dystopian future and at some point during my life I expect the grass to truly be greener in another country.

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Bill Maher comically addresses this exact subject in last week's version of New Rules.


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But, hey, at least both Cassidy and Kennedy voted for the supplemental last night, as it officially cleared the Senate and goes on to the House. There are still a few Republicans who don't want the alliance of Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea to rule the world.

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They are rightfully reviled by a healthy majority of Republicans who are paying attention. John Cornyn is done in Tejas after his vote. Done. Just like your boys Romney, Kinzinger, and Liz Cheney.

Cassidy and Kennedy can probably forge ahead bc the average LA voter is poorly informed (even on the "Republican" side).

Sad that you're too into being a cocktail party pseudo intellectual "Republican" to understand that working class conservative populism is our only hope to save the America we grew up in.