Most of them don't care about the war or are on Russia's side anyway
Most of those on the side of Russia are because their leadership seem more human than western leadership... offering a truce is human...
During the first world war there were plenty of christmas truces and even games of soccer between enemies... WWII was a different war... both were brutal and bloody but WWII was less of a stalemate... less frustrating... one side dominated initially and was then overcome by production and numbers...
regarding the chrisimas ceasefire, does that apply ony to christians? What about muslims, slavic pagans, buddhists, finnic pagans, communist atheists, etc?
Applies to anyone willing to honour it... the orcs leadership have already said they wont.
And the western countries supporting them have taken the opportunity to announce more weapons they are prepared to supply to add to Ukraines suffering.
It's not just about Ukraine exploiting the opening Russia gives it, it's also about devastating effect this idiocy has on morale of Russian troops
When you are hole beef on the edge of the plate looking at the meat grinder other bits of beef have gone through and you hear from the butcher he is prepared to stop operating the meat grinder for a day or two but the organisation supplying the meat just keeps pushing you in... perhaps it is a couple of days to think about your situation... and your available choices.
Ukrainians have confirmed that Iranian drones are using lots of Western technologies. What goes around comes around.
The west claims ownership of everything... most of these so called western technologies will be made in Japan or Taiwan or China and sold on the international market...
Won't the AIM-7 have abysmal range when deployed like that? It's meant to be launched at altitude, with significant initial velocity for free.
I mean, compare with the Kub in the middle, there is a reason it's that fat and has ramjet cruise engines.
Or is there some add-on booster fitted to them?
It wont have the same range as the air launched model but it is a standard SAM used on US Navy ships as the ESSM.
So wanna hear something funny? Shogu was on the news saying "Despite the fact the Russian military observed the ceasefire we where attacked"
The same truce Ukraine openly say "No" to...
Let that sink in
When you are fighting scum you have to give them a chance to be civilised, but when they prove they are scum and not interested in peace or the lives of their people and all that matters is grafting money and equipment from the west then it makes it easier morally to continue killing them in enormous numbers like they have been.
Since the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, 951 Bundeswehr servicemen have filed reports for dismissal from the ranks of the armed forces due to unwillingness to participate in hostilities.
Not really new.... I remember during Desert Storm there was a US ship that they liked to show off and talk about because it had a high number of women in the crew which was showing how modern the US Navy is in terms of gender etc etc... when the ship was assigned to move to the middle east for the conflict most of the women suddenly got pregnant and the ships orders were cancelled because they didn't have enough trained crew to operate her on her upcoming mission.
Obviously the ship got the nickname "the love boat" after a TV series of the time...
Reaction of nationalist Russian circles, which are also most religious, says it all and they are completely against it. I don't see the point in this.
The Vatican approved it, so Kiev saying no will have some effects in the west... even if they are not enough to make a huge difference... every little victory counts...
If I was Russian I'd want a quick end to all this and cruel blows to Ulraine would not upset me that much at this point. I think Russia needs to bust some heads. Those "allies supposedly supporting them need to be more open in this. Russia cannot be alone
Stretching it out over time costs the west money both directly in money donated to the criminals in Kiev, but also losses of money due to sanctions on Russia and Russian energy and isolation of the west from Russia...
Russia was too connected to the west... all their energy sales were shipped by western ships insured by western companies, the sales brokered by western companies, and most international organisations like SWIFT and WADA etc are too western dominated.... these sanctions are breaking those monopolies and creating alternatives which is a necessary prerequisite for real future independence for any country from the west... a true multipolar future...
Without this conflict it never would have happened... talks about dropping the US dollar and alternatives to SWIFT would remain just talk and never really happen because just bypassing sanctions means the west can pretend to be anti Russian while still making good money from its business with other countries and the west.
That twitter guy Julian is pro ukrainian but at least he knows when to recognize defeat. Compare to the rest of the ukro flag in name group of people on twitter he is a reliable source of informations.
Funny when their fanboys give him shit for stating the obvious instead of keeping to the party line of western propaganda... deny deny deny...