Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[gambit]

You deliberately ignored my news link below.

Because it is unrelated to the question, which is where did the US/UK failed in the original agreement with Ukraine?

 

[Wood]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510206027479896066

 

[jhungary]

Machiavelli once wrote that "without its own arms, no principality is secure; indeed, it is wholly obliged to fortune since it does not have virtue to defend itself in adversity." In other words, the wise nation is the one that possesses its own means of self-defense. In an era of increasingly empty promises from Western democracies and unchecked rogue states, this axiom remains more relevant than ever.

One Key Lesson of Putin's War: The Stark Failure of the Budapest Memorandum

The wise nation is the one that possesses its own means of self-defense.

www.google.com

The sanctions against Russia also show that both personal and state property can be stolen. Cats and dogs will also be punished.

So you want to start WW3 because of Ukraine??

In modern politics, the separation between "you have to" and "you need to" is just how you see a line. Just because the West need to intervene, does not mean it have to, especially when there are multiple way to achieve the same goal.

As I said, there are no where in that memorandum saying the US and UK HAVE to guarantee Ukrainian security in a certain way. So, it is up to the United States and United Kingdom to determine what is the best way to secure Ukrainian Security.

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510274616824152066

The CIA may have prevented the overthrow of the Zelensky government and defeat of Russian forces with this piece of intel.

Its amazing how deep US intelligence had penetrated Russian forces.

 

[lightning F57]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1509974354557345795

American Colonel calling for a roll back of VETO system in UNSC. As counterintuitive as it may seem, this may be the only way for western alliance to further their agenda in UN.

Hate their hypocrisy where they completely destroyed a nation on false pretences. Why not get rid of permanent seats and if your not willing to abide by UN then better stay quiet than show double standards.

 

[jhungary]

In other words, you made a false accusation against the US/UK because you did not read the original agreement, then when confronted with the evidence and question where the US/UK failed, you resorted to empty speeches.

That's not even his speech to begin with. That's a direct quote from the link he quoted......

To which I ask, where did it say the US and UK did not fulfil their duty to assure Ukrainian security?

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510274616824152066

The CIA may have prevented the overthrow of the Zelensky government and defeat of Russian forces with this piece of intel.

Its amazing how deep US intelligence had penetrated Russian forces.

Now we understand why Russians got slaughtered at the airport. The Ukrainians were waiting for them.

 

[FuturePAF]

I thought the Russians would have closely watched and learned lessons from the recent Armenia-Azerbaijan war and seen how drones and anti-tank missiles made the difference there.
This war just confirms what I had thought for a long time: Russia is a paper tiger and even if they eventually prevail in Ukraine to make enough strategic gains, they used their poor soldiers as cannon fodders. So sad.

Russia has been running on Soviet fumes for decades. Even in the late soviet period, their highly inefficient system created a force that looked powerful on paper but when it came to the Afghan war and then after the collapse, the Chechen wars, it only showed their limited economic means hamstrung them to attrition warfare. Even if Russia comes out of this war with some gains, the costs will be so high that it will take Russia at least a generation to recover, and even then as heavily dependent on China, similar to a giant North Korea, if the Europeans don’t allow Russia back into the fold. The Russian brain drain on top of Russia’s demographic crisis is just one example of how hard it will be for Russia to recover. Compound this will all the fully trained staff retiring (trained properly when the Soviet Union was still around) and Russia maybe slowly de-industrializing before our very eyes.

This is a golden opportunity for the west to destroy Russia to rebuild it as the Lebensraum the Germans always wanted; a process that had been going on slowly over hundreds of years (similar to how German immigrants moved to the US over the same period of time; Germans had already made up many of the elites of Eastern European cities for hundreds of year prior to even that time). It was going in this way pre-Bolshevik revolution, and could get back onto that track once they last vestiges of the Soviet era are removed. This is why the west is particularly giving no quarter to anyone that trades with Russia. This is about rebuilding Europe and in a way really winning the Cold War; a hundred plus year effort.

A Russia had is dependent on China is not in the western interest, so Russian regime change is what Biden let slip, after which Russia can be let into the western fold as envisioned under Yeltsin.

P.s. should Russia Collapse, China may have to race to send its military to take territory from Sakhalin Island all the way to the Urals and Central Asian Republics if it hopes to keep the west at bay and maintain the buffer Russia has been providing up to this point. Otherwise the west maybe on China’s northern borders.

 

[Wood]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510274616824152066

The CIA may have prevented the overthrow of the Zelensky government and defeat of Russian forces with this piece of intel.

Its amazing how deep US intelligence had penetrated Russian forces.

Yes, I was thinking that Ukraine may have waited for an ambush in that airport for Russian paratroopers. Putin even detained some military leader who was blamed for excessive losses in early operation. Think US had spies in Russian forces who were sympathetic for Ukraine.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Yes, I was thinking that Ukraine may have waited for an ambush in that airport for Russian paratroopers. Putin even detained some military leader who was blamed for excessive losses in early operation. Think US had spies in Russian forces who were sympathetic for Ukraine.

All those Russian helicopters and troops flying into that airport the first couple days of the war were headed into a slaughter.

 

[Wood]

All those Russian helicopters and troops flying into that airport the first couple days of the war were headed into a slaughter.

I can finally accept that some Russians were set up to fail

 

[Vergennes]

Spoiler: graphic

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510280318120570883

 

[jhungary]

Sean Penn Calls On Billionaires To Buy Fighter Jets For Ukraine

"One billionaire could end this war," tweeted Penn, who was in Ukraine when Russia invaded. It's "worth a think."

www.yahoo.com

Sean Penn Calls On Billionaires To Buy Fighter Jets For Ukraine​

Seems like Sean Penn want to Gofundme some F-15 for Ukraine.........

https://twitter.com/x/status/1509626754847031320

The scary thing is, the man was not joking....

 

[jamahir]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1509974354557345795

American Colonel calling for a roll back of VETO system in UNSC. As counterintuitive as it may seem, this may be the only way for western alliance to further their agenda in UN.

The UNSC veto didn't work in the Korea war, the Iraq invasion of 2003 and the Libyan and Syrian invasions of 2011. The three Western members of the UNSC did what they wanted ( with the exception for France in 2003 ). In 2009 Gaddafi called the UN Security Council as the Terrorist Council and rightly so. The UNSC should be disbanded because it has just served as NATO's rubber stamp for imperialism, genocide and war crimes. And yes, the United Nations was generally never united.

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1510283194192613385