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War in Ukraine

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by PITBOSS, Jan 21, 2022.

  1. tampagtr

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    Humor in a bad situation

     
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  2. duggers_dad

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    What I’ve been trying to say …

     
  3. duggers_dad

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    Estimating Russian losses based on reportage from sources hostile to the Kremlin …

     
  4. vegasfox

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    Russia had 3 key demands

    Ukraine should not join the hostile NATO.alliance that wanted to turn Russia into 18-32 countries

    Ukraine should not get missiles that could hit Moscow in 3 minutes

    Ukraine should honor the Minsk accords that they signed and stop killing Russian-speakers in the Donbas

    The Biden administration and Ulraine wanted war and they got what they deserved

    No competent thinker thought ZUkraine could win
    It was always going to end this way

    The Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election and one million people died in Ukraine as a consequence. Good job Biden viters
     
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  5. duggers_dad

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    He left out they’re under your bed as well …

     
  6. duggers_dad

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    The effects of Deep Ancestral Russophobia …

     
  7. PITBOSS

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    good idea…..

     
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  8. duggers_dad

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    ^ Ukrainian nationalists getting a small taste of what the ethnic Russians in Donbas has had to suffer for a decade.
     
  9. l_boy

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    Get some of the glut of Chinese solar panels to Ukraine.
     
  10. chemgator

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    Quite an ignorant thing to say. Putin authorized the insertion of Russian terrorists and weapons into Ukraine in 2014, and attempted to take over the country through terrorism, and then ten years later complains that Ukraine must be invaded and subjugated BECAUSE UKRAINE HAS A DISLIKE FOR RUSSIA. What the hell do you expect? Are you really that ignorant to believe that Ukraine should appreciate and respect a neighbor who tries to take over their country through terrorist means?
     
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    More ignorance (on your part). The British may or may not have done the most to defeat the Germans, but they were certainly fighting them when no one else was, and taking the biggest losses until the Germans invaded Russia. If England had fallen to Hitler, there is no way that the U.S. is able to invade Normandy, and no way that the U.S. is able to deliver war supplies to Russia. Without U.S. war supplies, Russia does not drive to Berlin (or keep the Germans from taking Moscow). Stalin said so himself. So if the Brits want to feel special about their part in the war, they have some right to do so.

    This sounds like Kremlin propaganda to try to divide the U.S. and the Brits based on irrelevant historical polls and prevent cooperation between the two to defeat Putin in Ukraine. Cheap tactic, but it's what we've come to expect from you.
     
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  12. apkgator

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    I see you edited this post......I can't imagine how unreadable and crazy it must have been previously
     
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  13. l_boy

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    Putin Is Running Out of Time to Achieve Breakthrough in Ukraine

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    For months, Russia’s army has made only limited gains on the battlefield against Ukrainian troops starved of weapons and ammunition. That’s a growing challenge for President Vladimir Putin as his military’s advantage starts to erode.
    With Kyiv now taking delivery of billions of dollars in fresh arms from its US and European allies, the window for a Russian breakthrough is narrowing even as it continues to fire missiles and drones at Ukrainian cities including energy infrastructure.
    A Russian attempt to open a new front in Ukraine’s northeast Kharkiv region already appears bogged downwithout achieving Putin’s goal of creating a buffer zone along the border. Ukraine claims to be inflicting “very high losses” on Russian troops in battles around the town of Vovchansk.
    Russian forces advanced only marginally since taking the strategic eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka in February at the cost of huge casualties in months of fighting. They’ve been trying for weeks to take the key settlement of Chasiv Yar in the eastern Donetsk region.
     
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  14. okeechobee

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    This is one of the best time lapses for WW2 I have seen. Perhaps the best. Illustrative of what can happen in a war with Russia.

     
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  15. vegasfox

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    Apologies. Fixed it
     
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  17. okeechobee

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    Pride Parade turns violent?
     
  18. duggers_dad

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    Propaganda works! Look at you!
     
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    Fact Check: Yup

     
  20. okeechobee

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    It sounds so simple on the face, but America can’t afford to keep her roadways in tact, yet we’re sending $150 billion in aid to a known corrupt entity in Ukraine. With the debt, the failing infrastructure, I hope more voters wake up to recognize we can’t do this forever. It will end much like the Third Reich, after biting off more than we can chew.

    And before someone says “we can rebuild infrastructure AND be the world’s police force!” No, we clearly cannot. We are plunging ourselves into more debt just to keep up with those items, while the interest payback on accrued debt grows exponentially. There is no way we can keep up with both. We are failing to do that now as it is.