Hole wrote:Like that joke about two russian soldiers meeting in the ruins of Washington.
First soldier: Why so sad?
Reply: I heard we lost the propaganda war.
Hilarious... and worth repeating...
A curious fact is that the Russians did not eliminate these American mercenaries, despite the fact that mercenaries are not covered by the Geneva Convention.
Perhaps one of the reasons the western elite are fighting so hard is because they think the Russians and Chinese are ruthless evil bastards like they are and fear how they will be treated if everyone becomes equal.
Question for the board. While the opinion here its this is a war on Russia, is it possible that it is a war on Slavs?
At a fundamental level the western elites see Ukrainians and Russians and Georgians as Soviets... they are all Russian, so this is a civil war where every death is a Russian death... as they say... well worth the money.
If it was a war on Slavs a few countries would be changing sides.
And the west would lose even harder than they are right now.
That is why Europe goes along so willingly?
Why does Europe need US forces on their territory to protect them?
Europe is full of pussies who like to make war but clearly are totally unprepared for a real peer to peer war.
They are used to fighting pygmies armed with sharpened grass and rather dangerous bits of fruit.
They scared themselves half to death with WWI where the enemy had guns too.
The EU economy was built so that German industry could power Utopian socialism in Nordic countries and lazy Mediterraneans
The whole concept of one currency for all the European economies is stupid, but it was never going to work... I am surprised they kept up the pretense so long.
Corruption everywhere is what has done it and suggesting Germany are the good guys and there are bad guys in this... well pointing the finger usually works best when you point it at yourself.
The role of NATO itself was to keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.
They were using different methods, but the goal was stable.
What a success... the Russians hopefully will learn the lessons and have as little to do with the west as possible moving forward, and the Americans are there to stay... unless Trump gets in... and the Germans without cheap energy are in trouble... but so is the UK and France and everyone else.
Wow, some honesty. Why now?
Maybe they have realised that while telling lies is fun and very occasionally gets you out of trouble, that there is no future being the liar because there can be no trust and no negotiations and mother will always suspect you are guilty for anything even when it wasn't you.
Obviously Russia wont care if they start telling the truth.
Too little too late.
The CIA has created a network of spy bases in Ukraine with 12 secret facilities along the border with Russia, writes The New York Times.
Western training has been about as successful as western equipment in this conflict...
It seems western equipment is based on western ideology so as long as you have air control and artillery on call and your enemy is a third world country you are good to go.
All out of warnings regarding the use of the quote button.