Another very dumb point about article above is that the Author still thinks that Russia can rule others by fear.
The west ignores Russian interests unless there are consequences... the west could care less about Russias fears about expanding of HATO so Russia invaded the Ukraine, the west claims that these things are unrelated and Russia is just evil... well if that is the case then the only solution can be a nuclear war where Russia is eliminated... love to see the west try that.
Those times are over also. And is result of USSR heavy suppressing and ruling East Europe for decades. East Europeans experienced stability and freedom past three decades, they will not yield to any nuclear or any other treat if they feel that their hardly won values are under the threat.
Eastern Europe was the buffer zone between the west and Russia and nothing has really changed... the battlefield stats show that the western powers... ie the US couldn't give a shit about Ukrainian lives... you think they care about Polish or Hungarian or Baltic countries lives?
They barely care about American lives with wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria and Libya while Americans live in greater and greater poverty.
As soon as Russia starts to use nuclear weapons I can imagine Ukraine and Poland to develop their own programs in no time.
And the second they announced having such weapons Russia will immediately eliminate the threat with nuclear strikes... do you think London or Washington will save them?
Both countries have skills and will to do it if put under existential threat. To me Russia still does not understand what really means multipolar world for its own external ambitions.
Actually Poland and Ukraine getting nukes greatly simplifies Russias problems... locate and destroy... and then fence off the radiation zones.
Russia never wanted to take the Ukraine or Poland... they just wanted to eliminate the obvious threat both states clearly pose to people in Eastern Ukraine whom they have been trying to murder for the better part of the last 10 years.
This was the west plotting with Kiev to attack autonomous regions in eastern Ukraine and the Crimea... this is not Putin trying to restore the Russian empire.
Russia is better off without Finland and the Baltic states and Georgia and the Stans to its south etc etc... otherwise it would be spending big money and buying up media outlets in those countries to spin lies the way the US and the west is currently doing to turn the population one way or another.
There is excellent BBC article about Russian losses in the war
No such thing as an excellent BBC anything that is not intentionally a comedy... their comedies are funny and their documentaries are comedies that are not funny but perverted.
Besides... (So far NGOs and volunteers in Russia identified an verified 25 000 dead,) what... the Ghost of Kiev shot down 10,000 planes in the first week... how could that number be so small... but of course even one dead is too many.
There is no solace that the enemy has suffered more, but lots of nazis are not breathing because of these guys and their sacrifice and doing that means they did more in their lives than a lose like you who will no doubt live to a ripe old age and die in your sleep... and have done nothing other than spew venom on men dying to make the world a better place for others.
Article explains huge Russian tradition to hide number of dead in war that goes way beyond what other countries are doing in similar situations - for me that is very interesting fact.
From an organisation that is essentially the propaganda arm of the UK government... that is rich.
Again it looks like Ukraine is evolving to be indeed Vietnam for Russia.
Vietnam is a country.... only the west talks about a country like it is a war or event.
That is the sort of thing a colonial power talks about and if you talked to someone from Vietnam about their enormous losses in men and material and the suffering they have had to endure since because the big powers that wanted to own it are nasty vindictive bastards when they don't get what they want so the attacks and persecution didn't end when their forces left... they will probably say it was worth it but their only regret was not making the French and the Japs and the Americans and their allies pay a higher price for what they did.
The rest of the world understands...
Russians don't fully understand but people like you gloating over Russian deaths from this totally unnecessary conflict will help them understand the evil of the west and why this was a lucky escape for Russia and the Russian people.
Full integration into the west turns you into a mindless zombie as we can clearly see in Europe... cutting economic ties with Russia cutting billions of dollars in trade and cutting themselves off from resources their economies need to operate normally.
Enjoy your freedom gas...
Please don't compare the Maidan regime, puppet of the USA, as equal as the Vietnamese who fought against USA imperialism.
It is an insult to Vietnam.
It was literally a fight against colonialism, first against the French, then the Japs during their occupation of western colonial states during WWII, and then afterwards the French and then the Americans... it was all about keeping the natives working in the fields while the white foreign land owners raked in the money...
"The Poles have their own goals, they sleep and see the return of Western Ukraine, and, apparently, they are moving towards this gradually," the head of state said.
Hahaha... yes... in many ways the Poles are feeding their friend... the Ukraine... head first slowly into a furnace... head first so that at the last second they can whip off those boots which look strong and comfortable and which they have had their eye on for quite some time...
Friends like that...
Interestingly enough he talks as if Russia plans to Annex all of Ukraine, which don't get me wrong is the correct move
Well what were you expecting... this whole thing is about US pressure... the whole conflict could have been avoided and sorted out almost a decade ago, but the US wanted war and now it has war but it wants its side to win and the Russian side to lose and that isn't happening and it doesn't know what to do except continue to escalate... it is how the Crimea joined the Russian Federation and it will be how Russia ends up talking to probably European countries about the terms they agree to regarding the return of some land as new boundaries get negotiated.
This is really harrowing, the evil in some people is hard to believe.
Nazis being nazis... it is actually good of them to remind the Russians why they are fighting and losing men, these guys are evil and need to be dealt with.
Oh yeah we bombed the **** outta them, but I was rebuffing the claim that we suffered super heavy loses in nam when in reality we didn't
You spent 60K lives of your young men to protect the US from communism... how long did that communism in Vietnam take to reach the US after you left BTW?
Money and blood well spent.
You could have just ignored it completely.
Russia is not really in the same position... Russia has been under western sanctions since 2014 over an internal conflict in Ukraine that they were no party to except in negotiating a peace deal. The west was controlling Kiev like a puppet and Germany and France and HATO was supplying weapons and ammo and training directly to Kiev, while accusing Russia of invading Ukraine with proxy forces pretending to be Ukrainians but were actually Russian soldiers with Russian supplied equipment.
Since Russia actually got involved I hope those western claims are clearly shown to be lies and the intent all along by western forces was to start a conflict to try to damage Russia... economically you have made them stronger, internationally you have made them stronger shifting their trade from the EU to the rest of the world... all you have is... look how any of their young men our nazis have murdered... I would say double that if you wanted to include Ukrainian civilians the Nazis are murdering and have murdered, but where Vietnam was totally pointless expensive and terribly wasteful endeavour, this conflict is necessary and while good young men are dying, at least they are making the supreme sacrifice for the greater good of their own country and those in the Ukraine who don't want to be a puppet of the evil US of A colonial super power.
My record is clear, I do not advocate for nuclear death, I have called people out for wanting to kill innocents etc, in none of my posts here will you see me saying "Yeah kill all of this ethnic group" I will acknowledge what happened but that is it
When the west cannot back down and can only escalate and will not talk to Russia let alone listen how do you see this as ending.
Besides, any use of nuclear weapons by Russia will have purely military targets until WWIII actually starts and then it will be population centres that are targeted.
A massed force of HATO troops moving towards Kaliningrad and an Iskander battery there can nip that in the bud all by itself.
Polish troops mass up to cross the border into Ukraine and boom on them in the Ukraine.
It is pretty simple... the nuke is just there to say... be very careful about what you do next...