Russia's Brutal Honesty Has Destroyed the West's Appeasers
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Lets see how those potential new members of the Slavic Alliance are doing in the 2022 Tank Biathlon. Countries from around the World have sent their Finest Tank Crews to Russia to compete.
Here we got Sudan.
And Zimbabwe.
Iran not wanting to be left out.
And of course the Bolivarian Socialist Republic of Venezuela.
Looks like Russia is going to be Number One in this Military Contest at least.
And to be fair it's not all bad. Check out the Unrecognized State of Abkhazia doing a sick drift.
As these Tank Biathletes are using Russian T-72's Russian T-62's are being dragged out of storage for use in Ukraine.
Ukrainian frontline in Donbass is starting to collapse it seems, fighting inside Soledar and Bakhmut is being reported and there's indications the Ukrainians are starting to conduct a retreat. Ukrainians have also been panicking the past week because a Russian buildup is occurring in the South; various indications it could be directed at Nikolaev, Krivy Rog or Zaporozhye; have also seen some claims it could be against Kharkov, given ongoing Russian gains around Izyum. Regardless, big things are coming and it's increasingly clear how degraded the AFU has become as a result of the Russian advantage in material takes its tool.
My belief is the offensive will be against Nikolaev and Zaporozhye as the main effort, with a smaller effort against Kharkov. Taking Nikolaev is a major blow to the Ukrainians strategically, because of its industries and location on the Black Sea coast, which also sets it up to be the Russian stepping off point for the eventual liberation of Odessa. Zaporozhye, meanwhile, is politically necessary because of the planned referendums in the region as well as its strategic transportation networks making it useful in forcing the Ukrainians out of Donbass.
Russia is winning, decisively so, in short.
Well, I think that Bush Jr. expected a quick and easy win and then having Iraq adopt US-style democracy like Germany, Italy, and Japan previously did. De-Baathification was expected to be Iraq's version of De-Nazification.
Since posting this, the first defensive line in front of Kharkov has been pierced and the AFU General Staff has openly admitted there was not any Kherson offensive. Recent reporting shows their units have been shattered in attrition warfare around the city and the Russians have cleared the path by piercing much of their "trip wire" defensive line. Ukrainian sources are also freaking out because there is indications the Russians will be going all out around the 24th; I'm withholding judgement on their prediction for now, but general activity and associated Russian battlefield success continues to accumulate.
Those are some pretty steep claims, and steep claims require evidence.Since posting this, the first defensive line in front of Kharkov has been pierced and the AFU General Staff has openly admitted there was not any Kherson offensive. Recent reporting shows their units have been shattered in attrition warfare around the city and the Russians have cleared the path by piercing much of their "trip wire" defensive line. Ukrainian sources are also freaking out because there is indications the Russians will be going all out around the 24th; I'm withholding judgement on their prediction for now, but general activity and associated Russian battlefield success continues to accumulate.
Since posting this, the first defensive line in front of Kharkov has been pierced and the AFU General Staff has openly admitted there was not any Kherson offensive. Recent reporting shows their units have been shattered in attrition warfare around the city and the Russians have cleared the path by piercing much of their "trip wire" defensive line. Ukrainian sources are also freaking out because there is indications the Russians will be going all out around the 24th; I'm withholding judgement on their prediction for now, but general activity and associated Russian battlefield success continues to accumulate.
Then he was idiot.But,if he was idiot,he would never become president,so no.
Remember,he was protestant - and protestants do not have problemd with genociding other christians.Especially,if it would be done by somebody else.
Why do you think USA gave us to soviets in 1945? they thought,that Sralin would genocide us.
I highly doubt that the US actually wanted the Poles to be genocided. I mean, for goodness sake, the US already had a lot of Poles even then. Why aim to have Communists slaughter their family members? Rather, it was simply because the US did not want to waste additional lives in a new war against the Soviet Union in order to liberate Poland.
What war? USA had A bomb and air forces capable of deliver it.Soviets had not,and 50% of their oil come from Baku.
Americans would need only to bomb Baku,and then one soviet city per week.No A bomb needed,soviet fighters was joke.
When Truman say that soviets must run from Iran,they run.If he say the same about Poland,reaction woud be the same.
-Belgium-style treaty neutrality for Ukraine, complete with binding multilateral (including Western) security guarantees for Ukraine. If any of these external parties violates Ukrainian neutrality, then Ukraine can end its neutrality and join NATO.
Ukraine will not trust Russia to make or keep such a promise, nor is it likely to trust NATO for such. In the treaty in which it gave up its nuclear arsenal, NATO and Russia promised to protect its territorial integrity in return.
Now Russia is claiming Ukraine was never a real country in the first place.
But Russia doesn't want it to be over quickly, Russia wants it to be over victoriously due to sunken costs.Would nuking one Soviet city per week plus nuking Baku have actually been enough for this?
By the way, if Russia genuinely wants this war to be over quickly, then it should propose this:
-Belgium-style treaty neutrality for Ukraine, complete with binding multilateral (including Western) security guarantees for Ukraine. If any of these external parties violates Ukrainian neutrality, then Ukraine can end its neutrality and join NATO.
-Treaty neutrality for Ukraine should not prohibit it from militarily cooperating with any country, only from establishing formal alliances and from having other countries' military bases on its own territory.
-The final status of Crimea and the Donbass will be deferred for the future. Or, at least, free and fair referendums will be held there (sooner or later) to determine their final status.
-Russia will withdraw back to the January 2022 front lines.
-If Russia wants the post-invasion sanctions on it lifted, then it will have to pay full war reparations to Ukraine.
That's not how large scale population movements work. 50% in a short timeframe? Impossible. Maybye over a couple decades, and even that would be very fast. Even Syria didn't lose half its population despite what a shithole it is being over the last decade.@Marduk @ATP @Husky_Khan @History Learner In the unlikely event that Russia will conquer all of Ukraine, including Galicia, Volhynia, Subcarpathian Ruthenia, and Bukovina, what percentage of Ukraine's overall population (excluding Crimea and the Donbass, obviously) do you think will permanently move to the West (or to Israel, which is a Western ally and outpost)? My hunch is that it's going to be over 50%. Perhaps even significantly over 50% since Ukrainians overwhelmingly hate Russia's guts right now. Even most eastern Ukrainians.
It's still just another random piece of paper. Reminder that USA and UK, among others, already have guaranteed Ukraine's security in the Budapest Memorandum. What matters is willingness of the guaranteeing countries to escalate if shit happens. That's why Ukraine will try to go for NATO and/or at least EU membership.Yeah, a NATO security guarantee is likely to be much more reliable for Ukraine than any security guarantees that come from a neutrality treaty. At the very least, the political fallout from violating a security promise to a NATO ally is likely to be harsher.