Furthermore (as i have been pointing to in my ealier posts here today), i would argue that Russophobia is now tollerated and even encouraged in most of Western Europe. In fact so much so, that it becomes dangerous to not participate in it, let alone advocate against it. Even if Ukraine is no longer Russophobic when all is said and done, it is naive not to look beyond the borders of Ukraine and realise that much more of the same sh*t is beeing prepped there as we speak.
I am pretty sure Russia will not longer care about the opinions of those in the west, but having neighbours directly on their border with such attitudes is a direct threat... if the US can convince the EU to give up cheap energy from Russia what could they convince a Russophobic Ukraine to do with bio weapons labs and nukes and nazis...
I will repeat again, that all I see is the catastrophic underestimation of the situation, brought about by a kind of hubris from the Russian elite that I've noticed for a while now. "Oh yeah the West will just give the Ukraine up, etc..", or "Ukrainian cities will defect", etc... Yeah no, they're not going to tolerate anyone trying to challenge the world order and their position in it.
You care so much for the knife that was about to be pushed through your chest, the west wants to split Russia up, but what it is doing is severing all ties with Russia which wont break up Russia, it is more likely to break up the west... and make Russia stronger and more self reliant.
None of the Kremlin's political calculations, ideological justifications, military plans, infowar, etc... are worth shit. It has all so far failed in the Ukraine.
The Kremlin didn't plan this and has done everything it could to avoid open conflict, but the US gave them no other choice and ironically this break with the west that you seem so upset about is the best thing that could happen to Russia to be honest.
The west is broken and toxic. It has been trying to break up its enemies all this time... it categorised the world as there being the first world.... the west... and the second world.... Russia and the commies including China, and the third world... everyone else.
It seems eastern europe has moved from the second world to the first... all it had to do was give up all historic ties with former allies and pledge blind allegience to the US which they all happily did. The baltic states shifted ship too.
But Russia is not allowed in the first world and can never be considered part of the west... I guess it is geography.
It is good for Russia though because to be part of the west you have to be Americas bitch, and while weak western countries comply I don't think Russians would put up with that.
Russians are basically the new N*ggers now.
Been saying that for a while myself... the sooner Russians get that message the sooner they can work to make the world a better place for themselves and the majority of the human population that does not live in the west and has mostly suffered from its policies and actions over the last thousand years of so.
So with the Kiev withdrawal or re-focusing. are Russia gonna use more aviation to try interdict western supplies coming for Kiev ? Guess more Inokhodets or standoff attacks.
AFAIK attacks on western Ukraine did not originate from the Kiev region so I suspect it will be business as usual.
And it's been 8 years - a whole new generation of young men are now in the Ukrainian military, ones that had no part in the initial Donbass fighting or took part in it only the trenches after 2015 where you shell and you get shelled back. Without necessarily even knowing who you're fighting, why, or what you're targeting.
Ohhh they didn't know... well stop reading about this conflict and then you wont know and so Russia wont be to blame for anything... honestly it is what we do in the west... we don't know what
we are and we like to keep it that way... still feel sorry for us and our meat shields?
And then when Putin did strike, it turned out that he was unprepared, and it all turned into a nightmare.
You say that but does that make it true?
They took steps to make things more successful, but as usual the slimy ukrainian scum betrayed them and so things weren't as easy as they could have been... the real victims of their betrayal will be Ukrainian civilians so why would anyone be upset?
Another video in which it is said that Russia has all the possibilities to lower the value of the dollar to 40 to 50 rubles for one dollar. Yuri states that Russia has prepared well for the economic war with the West in the past few years, and that he thinks that this is not the case with the EU and the USA.
Juri states that Europe will face a drop in production and an increase in inflation due to the impossibility of accessing the raw materials they imported from Russia.
Also, Juri predicts that there will be a drop in personal income in Europe, while the cost of living will increase. The worst thing that could happen would be the possibility of hyperinflation in the EU, because that would lead to regime change in many EU countries.
I think this man connects things well.
He must connect things well.... video no longer available.
Like Madeline Albright, who said that 100,000 Iraqi children were a necessary price. I'm sorry but no.
It was 600,000 Iraqi children... and the west could care less about them why would you care about Orcs?
Putin was snookered by America, and then put into the same position as Saddam Hussein essentially, and ended up launching a calamitous invasion to get out of it, willingly walking into a trap. Although from the military point of view, the Iraqi army actually did a very good job with the brisk takeover of Kuwait. You can't say the same here.
Yes, Putin was totally defeated by the US, his plan was partnership and cooperation with the west for mutual benefit and growth and the US just wanted Russians all dead and their country split up and owned by big western companies.
Putin realises now he can't get what he wanted and he now realises the west is bad for Russia and is bad for humanity and the rest of the world... all its talk about human rights and dignity and ethics and morals is bullshit... it doesn't care about 600K Iraqi children or any children, and never has... that is the problem with the west... a vineer of compasion as a mask covering the face of the devil.
But thanks to the US getting Putin to start a war they have actually taken several enormous steps backwards from their goals of defeating Russia and preventing a Russia/EU partnership, because it is not Russia that will struggle now it is the EU that will likely break... their own magnified Russophobia will cause them to cut cheap energy supplies from Russia which will make everything harder and more expensive and make them less competitive against the rest of the world too which now includes Russia and China.
The thought war would destroy Russia but the result will destroy the Euro, but in doing so who is going to keep using US dollars... when no one accepts US dollars then the west is over because why do tricks for a master who has no treats to give you when you get something right?
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He should move to an alternative platform and get his followers and readers to follow him to the other platform.
Why continue to support Twitter?
Will Russia respond with hostility to Finland joining NATO tho ? The Ukraine case has been neuralgic to Russia but they dont seem to say anything about their Scandinavian neighbors.
Finland is free to do anything it pleases to make itself feel safer, but when Russia stops trade then they might have to cut down their own trees perhaps?
US could use nuclear shells from 152 and 203mm guns for a first strike.
It's way more dangerous than tomahawks in Ukraine or cuban missile crisis.
This could lead to a first nuclear strike on Finland and nato HQ to deter this happening.
The Russians are working on small cheap SAMs able to intercept artillery shells fired in large volumes, so if Finland joined and started that sort of BS the Russians would likely respond by moving enough Iskanders with nuclear warheads to the region to make every square metre of Finland glow in the dark.
Artillery rounds are easy to intercept unless fired in enormous volumes, but also it will encourage preparations for nuclear strikes on the US because even if they are based in Finland the Fins wont have any control of them.
Make a public statement: The moment you sign I nuke you.
This is what America did and worked fine for them.
Speak to the people rats with the language they understand.
Very true and very hippocritical considering the US already had their own nukes in Turkey which made the Soviets want nukes in Cuba to counter them.
We should go into finland, for rovaniemi
That's a good airbase to control the baltics and the Scandinavians
We can ground the Swedish gripens from rovaniemi
Also the British f35 and the b52 at lakenheath
I want us to hit the British hard
You don't need to... they are already shooting themselves in the feet... they have their own new cold war and their military spending is going to shoot up... literally... but their fundamental problems of not balancing budgets and of course all that borrowing... they are their own worst enemy... pretty soon the rest of the world will have other options to look for money centres...
Russia has threathned to make some adjustments on our border and I'm sure those are not nice ones. Honestly I'm thinking that we deserve them. There is very strong anti-russia stance in this country. I don't have single friend , relative or collageu who understands my point of vies about this situation. But, cest 'la vie!
It is a western thing when the US is control... perhaps when economic situation changes and the US has no solutions the Europeans might become a bit more practical... like the Hungarians for instance.
If the US wants to put missiles there, Russia can respond by arming its subs with Zirkons.
They are going to deploy Zircons in ships and subs anyway, so not really a response.
With images of Tulpan 240mm mortar you might not need massive 3000kg bombs, Tulpan is ideal for destroying buildings, it all depends how much of the steel plant they want to save. I would imagine after a days worth of Tulpan firing on to the neo Nazis they will be giving up fairly quickly
The concrete piercing model of 240mm mortar rounds would be particularly effective against dug in troops.
It is a 130kg HE round with a very thick case that allows it to penetrate into dirt or concrete and then explode... the effect of which is to stir up the dirt and turn it effectively into a liquid that will expand into any cavities like bunkers or tunnels which will fill up burying anyone there alive and then solidifying under its own weight and setting like concrete the way snow does in an avalanche.
And of course it can sit there and do that all day...
What kind of BULLSHIT defeatist attitude has plagued Russia lately??
Any losses are significant when they are Russian soldiers doing the world a favour by eliminating some nazis.
No they're just hedging bets
Wouldn't want to put themselves in the line of fire
To be honest I don't blame them. We didn't stick up for them in the 90s. So they're going to quietly just go along with whatever until we reach them ourselves. As it is now, they're surrounded by NATO.
When Russia couldn't help them they felt betrayed. This is a simple vote they could easily have abstained from without much repercussion... the US wont be surprised if they abstained... but they clearly wanted to fit in... but if they want to fit in why bother trying to "reach" them at all.
But then since when did EU governments ever consider the views and wants of their own people... they are getting more European all the time.