re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

And Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

You probably had a friend in Russia or BFE that saw them.
Why can't you neocon birds finally admit that Bush and Cheney should be tried for war crimes.

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Bush and Cheney should be tried for war crimes.

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Their bodies should still be hanging on the lamp posts outside the Hague. Mummified and rotten as a warning to anyone who launches an aggressive war.

Putin should hang right there beside them. Turn it into a wax museum against destroying a country just because you don't like them.

Maybe it would make Xi think twice about Taiwan.

You would be wrong Kamala boy.

I would be willing to bet Tim Walz is a role model to you.

I could see you loving his bathroom policies.

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Good reason to break the roadblocks on domestic mining.

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I'm sure that's exactly what this has done...

ISW Update Dec 4th

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Key Takeaways:

Mounting evidence continues to personally implicate Russian President Vladimir Putin and other senior Kremlin officials in the forced deportation and "re-education" of Ukrainian children in Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to posture Russian economic stability and growth while high interest rates and efforts to combat inflation suggest that the Kremlin is worried about economic stability in the long-term.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on December 4 that Armenia has effectively reached "the point of no return" in its ties with the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

Ukrainian forces recently regained lost positions in Toretsk and near Velyka Novosilka. Russian forces recently advanced in Chasiv Yar, near Toretsk, Pokrovsk, Vuhledar, Velyka Novosilka, and in Kursk Oblast.

The Kremlin continues to use its "Time of Heroes" program to place veterans of the war in Ukraine in leadership positions within the Russian government and major state companies.

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HTS has taken Hama.

There's no longer any reason to believe that Assad can remain in power. Regime forces had time to reinforce Hama and put all available power in place to defend it. There's nowhere that's easier to defend than Hama.

And this means that Russia will lose its military bases in Syria.

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im willing to bet 20 years ago you were all the frick in on the war in the middle east

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So people were led to support something that we now know was bad via hindsight by an institution that (until recently) people generally trusted and respected? Wow, that is groundbreaking news.

The government officials and media who knew better and knowingly lied are the ones who deserve our scorn, not regular people who are more focused on their families than they are rationally analyzing the possibility that Saddam had WMDs at all, or the fact that even if he did he wouldn't have any that could hit the US.

Just via the fact that someone would engage in discussion in this thread at all makes them less likely to have supported the WOT from the start because we are more likely to pay attention to geopolitics and know (roughly) how it works, we just interpret events and predict future outcomes differently.

Britsh Defence Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE UPDATE
UPDATE ON UKRAINE
05 December 2024

The average daily Russian casualties (killed and wounded) in the Russia-Ukraine conflict reached a new monthly war high during November 2024. The average daily loss rate was 1,523, according to Ukrainian General Staff reporting. This is the third straight month that Russian Forces have sustained new war high average daily losses. 28 November also saw a new war high of 2,030 losses in a single day, the first time more than 2,000 have been reported.

November 2024 was also likely the most costly month of the war for Russia with a total of 45,680 casualties reported by the Ukraine General Staff. 41,980 Russian casualties were recorded in October 2024. November was the fifth straight month that Russian Forces have suffered an increase in monthly total losses.

The high rate of casualties is likely reflective of the higher tempo of Russian operations and offensives. Russia is attempting to increase the pressure on Ukrainian lines as they seek to push Ukrainian Forces back on several fronts including Kursk, Kupiansk, Toretsk, Pokrovsk and Velyka Novosilka. Russia's casualty rate will likely continue to average above 1,000 a day in December 2024 despite the onset of winter, with continued dismounted infantry attacks on multiple axes.

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Do you believe what these two, among a host of others say in support of Putin's Russia?

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I take what they say with a healthy grain of salt with knowledge that there is or at least could be a Russian slant on everything they say. And I do the same with the Ukraine partisans as well.