baeuchlein on 5/3/2025 at 15:51
Well, radio news here stated that Trump was able to at least fill about an hour with his speech. They didn't speak about whether his speech was sticking well enough to an understandable line of thinking, but oh well. I think it's still a bit of time ahead until the effects of Trump's second presidency show up as a larger picture.
Starker on 8/3/2025 at 12:04
Lord Dampnut wants to increase Ukrainian civilian casualties in order to pressure Zelenskyy to hand over minerals to the US and to give in to Russia's demands:
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/trump-suspending-us-intelligence-sharing-is-suffocating-ukraine-hope-says-ben-wallace)
[...]the US stopped sharing intelligence with Kyiv that had previously given advance warnings of attacks and Brussels agreed to a huge increase in defence spending.
On Friday, the day after intelligence sharing ceased, Russia carried out massive ballistic missile and drone strikes across Ukraine. Soon after the aerial attacks, Trump said Vladimir Putin was “doing what anybody would do”.
Overnight strikes in eastern Ukraine on Saturday killed at least 14 people and wounded dozen more, including five children.
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lowenz on 8/3/2025 at 20:21
If you think deaths means something to a narcissist.......for a narcissist death=stupidity (because he's SO intelligent......) so die already
It's the kind of person that can say you "war is a disaster" (because boosting the obvious is a classical trait) and smile about the real casualties (wrong place, wrong time!).
Persons like Trump are not even genuinely interested in their own relatives so what did you expect, dear americans? :D
You did choose the tyrant, just you don't understand what a tyrant is (it's NOT a dictator, it's something weird and not strictly rational but erratic)
Starker on 10/3/2025 at 10:19
Well, at least nobody can accuse the Russians of not having a sense of humour:
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/09/russian-officials-criticised-for-giving-meat-grinders-to-mothers-of-soldiers-killed-in-ukraine)
Local officials from Russia's ruling party have caused controversy by presenting mothers of soldiers killed in Ukraine with gifts of meat grinders, an appliance widely used to describe Russia's brutal tactics on the frontline.
The United Russia party in the northern Murmansk region posted photos on social media showing officials smiling as they visited bereaved mothers with gifts of flowers and boxed meat grinders for International Women's Day on Saturday, which is widely celebrated in Russia.
The post included a message thanking the “dear mums” for their “strength of spirit and the love you put into bringing up your sons”.[...]
Silentor on 10/3/2025 at 15:23
You are remind me Russian grandma on the bench.
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Rare earth minerals
In Russia, we have an expression: to share the skin of an unkilled bear.
All this time, our dumb
propacondoms have been broadcasting about some deposits, from of which the West wants to get Donbass.
Now listen to the same heresy from yours. :tsktsk:
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Remember, if this ends with a Russian victory, Russia's just going to invade somewhere else next. Heck, they might do that in defeat, too.
Russia was not going to invade anywhere (Poland via Suwalki, Sweden via Gotland or Latvia). This is the initial propaganda for the development of a trillion dollars.
In the noughties, we mean "take a walk to drink" from our side instead of real geopolitics.
At the same time, the elite of "lace panties" was being nurtured on your part. Literally. I have not found a deeper understanding of the market economy among Eurointegrators.
So, it's not Mordor against innocent Hobbits, but the protection of economic interests against the ultimatum of the European Union. The Customs Union (Таможенный=>
таёжный союз a mock reinterpretation, meaning Taiga), what is it? Lukashenko even took advantage of the lack of specificity to turn Belarus into a maritime power. ))
Putin's academic lectures, but with a bias, yes, towards Empire, against ukroalternative history, also "briefly" to thousand years ago.
So "derby" in Ukraine is due to the multitude of imperial ambitions, not just those of Moscovia.
The cancelled Catherine No.2 allowed Zaporozhian Cossacks to settle in the Kuban'. We are here (I am from the Don), in fact, one nation, both Russians and Ukrainians. It is a unique tragedy to see all this when some are abolishing Ukraine, while others, a handful from Kiev, have decided to realize their imperial ambitions with the support of the EU.
Clarification on a possible question: what ambitions, what we want, we do on our territory. It was funny to mention Chechnya here in the context of criticism of such harsh suppression. But why aren't such parallels drawn with Donbass? Ah, Starker?
Early mention of "
украина" as a farland, but not a state (Дикое Поле = Wild Field). But this does not imply a cancellation of Ukraine. But neither is the desire to create a single nation out of "Bandera is good" and "blah blah blah Euro values."
Homework: Why does Moldova have no access to the sea when it has existed as a principality since the 14th century? And even during the time of the power of the Ottoman Empire, it had colonies in the Crimea. Where is the ukroorigin here? Soviet Moldovan officials have been raising this issue for several decades, but to no avail.
The borders of '91 are a project of the damned Bolsheviks. No matter how much it infuriates Ukrainian propagandists.
So why was it impossible to live according to this historicity (my postulate, and not some kind of methodology)?
Pyrian on 10/3/2025 at 15:32
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Russia was not going to invade anywhere...
Just like they weren't going to invade Ukraine? ...Again? Russia was absolutely going to invade Transnistria next - they wrote up plans and everything. They'd already invaded Crimea, Georgia, Chechnya, more. They won't choose to stop - they can only be stopped.
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So why was it impossible to live according to this historicity...
Because it's history, and cherry picked history at that.
lowenz on 10/3/2025 at 16:58
European Union has ZERO power (and NATO too if USA says "no"), so where's the "ultimatum"? LOL
Starker on 10/3/2025 at 18:37
Quote Posted by Silentor
Clarification on a possible question: what ambitions, what we want, we do on our territory. It was funny to mention Chechnya here in the context of criticism of such harsh suppression. But why aren't such parallels drawn with Donbass? Ah, Starker?
On the contrary, parallels with Donbass are being drawn all the time:
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Silentor on 10/3/2025 at 21:54
Quote Posted by Pyrian
Just like they weren't going to invade Ukraine? ...Again? Russia was absolutely going to invade Transnistria next - they wrote up plans and everything. They'd already invaded Crimea, Georgia, Chechnya, more. They won't choose to stop - they can only be stopped.
There are already Russian peacekeepers in Transnistria. And the presence of this problematic region goes back to Romanian imperial ambitions.
Chechnya is a very complex and multifaceted topic. And this region is part of the Federation (damn it). And then there is a direct parallel that Kiev has invaded Donbass. Although technically he also had every right. But if we are talking about excesses in Chechnya, then how can we say that such an attempt to suppress Donbass is something else?
That's what I meant.
Our peacekeepers were going to leave South Ossetia in the autumn. Saakashvili gave the order to shoot at the base. Later, the commission confirmed the validity of the defense. I got this info from Wikipedia, if anything.
You can't put everything in one basket.
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Because it's history, and cherry picked history at that.
We lived in the same paradigm. And the Ukrainian republic was constantly receiving preferences.
And those, who grazed on the paradigm that Ukrainians cannot love Russians, because they caused the Holodomor, took advantage of this. That is, the genocide of Ukrainians. Of course, not.
Of course, yes. There was a Famine. But in the form of Stalin's inadequate grain harvesting in eastern Ukraine and southern Russia, and the slaughter of livestock in Kazakhstan.
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European Union has ZERO power (and NATO too if USA says "no"), so where's the "ultimatum"? LOL
By ultimatum, I meant economic. The way this was forced could only be described as imperial ambitions. The nationalists took advantage of the Maidan. If we delve into the topic, the then authorities constantly backed down after a completely standard crackdown of the demonstration (as in Paris). Where is Putin's influence here? All this could have been nipped in the bud.
He had Olympic prestige on his nose. If it did, it was in the direction of mitigation. The Russian presence occurred only on February 20th after the sniper attacks.
But after that, yes. Since that's how it ended, he decided to "politely" annex Crimea (right on the day of the future presidential election of himself)).
But he gave up on the rest again. So the "north wind" blew only in July. And hybrid. As a result, neither this nor that.
It would have been better if he had fully deployed troops and installed Azarov as the only adequate politician. There would be no landscapes like in Starker's picture (however, the photo of Donetsk is inappropriate: arrivals on the market, petals of cassette mines).