re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.

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tell us what you mean. I can never get specifics, and it seems like you might have some real insight here.

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I have no magical source it’s just a matter of using a brain that God gave us. The biggest supporter of Ukraine is the U.S. Europe is just throwing pocket change at the problem

No one is gonna convince me Russia is this inept it’s a matter of numbers. Will Trump eventually stop it all. And when I don’t know and when that happens it’s over for them

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Russians are in lines miles long to fuel their cars with rationed gasoline.

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I might be a bigger fool than doubledore. Go stand in a stupid corner.

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The biggest supporter of Ukraine is the U.S. Europe is just throwing pocket change at the problem

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You may want to check the math on that one

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No one is gonna convince me Russia is this inept

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I don't know what to tell you here

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it’s a matter of numbers.

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You're right about that. Here's the number that matters: The GDP of the nations supporting Ukraine is cumulatively 35x the GDP of Russia. It's a matter of money. One side has it and the other doesn't.

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Will Trump eventually stop it all

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It seems like you inverted those two words and meant to say that Trump will eventually stop it.

Remember that Trump is the one who got Johnson to unblock the $68 billion (or whatever it was) that was stalled in Congress. Johnson went to MAL for a meeting with Trump, returned to Washington, and announced that he was now supporting the aid bill to Ukraine. That was Trump.

I realize that the geopolitical construct of this situation doesn't fit with your idea of the way things should be. Or the way you want them to be. Putin isn't an idiot. And right now he feels pretty much the same way you do: "How the heck did this happen? And why are things they way they are?"

Reality is funny that way.

Russia is just China's proxy. China funds Russia via loans, while supplying electronic parts and engines for its drones. It also provides satellite intel which Russia doesn't have the capability on its own to provide realtime satellite data

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At some point the spigot is gonna get shut off, it's inevitable then Ukraine is done

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Likely the opposite is true and Ukraine will get all of the equipment, aircraft, pilots and crews that they need because nobody trusts the Putin, Nork, China and Iran axis for good reason.

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Likely the opposite is true and Ukraine will get all of the equipment, aircraft, pilots and crews that they need because nobody trusts the Putin, Nork, China and Iran axis for good reason.

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And the cope will flow freely forever and ever.
You think Ukrainians will magically sprout fighting age males? They're only useful until they run out of manpower, then they're dead weight.

Russia too is limited. They have to ration their missiles to be effective.

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Key Takeaways Russian forces conducted a large, combined missile and drone strike against Ukraine on the night of October 2 to 3, increasingly leveraging missiles in large but infrequent strike packages.
Russian forces likely stockpiled ballistic and cruise missiles throughout September 2025 to conduct a few large scale drone and missile strikes on select days. Russian forces are likely leveraging recent upgrades to Russian ballistic missiles to improve their ability to penetrate Ukrainian air defense systems. Russia continues to escalate its destabilization efforts against Europe as European officials continue to report unidentified drones operating in their airspace.
The Kremlin continues efforts to undermine Western-brokered peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, likely as part of a larger campaign to divide and distract Europe. Norway and Ukraine’s European partners opened the largest training center for Ukrainian military personnel in Poland on October 1.
Ukrainian forces recently advanced near Pokrovsk and Velykomykhailivka, and Russian forces recently advanced in northern Kharkiv Oblast.

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Ukrainian forces tried to score another “online victory” yesterday, posting photos of what they claimed was a U.S. Patriot air defense system, covered with dozens of markings supposedly representing intercepted Russian missiles.

But the truth surfaced quickly — the pictures showed not a Patriot, but a Soviet-era S-125 “Neva” radar in its Polish SC modification, likely transferred from Poland’s old stockpiles.

The stunt came right on cue. Ukrainian and Western outlets recently reported a sharp drop in Patriot effectiveness against Russian ballistic missiles — from 37% to just 6%. Clearly, Kiev needed an urgent PR distraction."

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I don’t agree with the latest support Trump threw Ukraines way at all. Trump wants it over Biden and Obama made it our problem I think the majority of the American people want the money to stop being given to them. When did Ukraine deserve American tax dollars and we not takin care of us 1st I personally don’t give a shite about Ukraine if we stop aiding Ukraine then the rest of Europe needs to be funding it not us. But that’s what THE politicians in DC do

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Thanks for posting, we need some new talent in this thread.

To try to add clarity to a contentious topic, the US taxpayers were sending financial and military support to Ukraine under Biden, but that stopped with Trump. The current process of sending US arms and other support to Ukraine is that Ukraine buys all of it from US manufacturers, thus benefitting US taxpayers directly and indirectly.

Where do the Ukrainians get the billions required to keep fighting against Russia and winning this fight? Well, from Russia.

Yes, that's no typo. Russia is paying for all of it. You see, the Russian government had between $280 and $330 billion invested in the EU and US when the war started. Putin expected this whole operation to take a couple of weeks at the most, so he made no provision for pulling this money out and returning it to Moscow.

This money was quickly frozen by the Western countries and has been sitting in that condition ever since. Much of the debt issues have fully matured, so these funds were rolled over into money market accounts. Which of course generate huge spreads for the [CoughBelgiansCough] managers, but we digress.

So now, the Ukrainians are being given the interest on this portfolio*, which is currently over $7 billion per year. More importantly, the EU loaned Ukraine $50 billion last year, using the Russian portfolio as collateral. And the paperwork on more loans are signed when needed.

So with massive irony, the Russians are paying for the Ukrainian war effort. And will pay for the recovery after they finally are driven out of Ukraine. Well, maybe it won't be 'Russia' that pays for the recovery, as that country will be splintered beyond recognition after Putin bolts for China, but that $300 billion that is growing every year will do it.

* Note: For the trust attorneys in the audience, this is not 'portfolio interest', but 'interest on this portfolio'. Calm down.

US MIC Stacked; Russia Fricked.