Because it was on Malian soil against Malian military assets that happened to be housing Wagner assets and personnel. You'd think if Ukraine wanted to attack Russia it wouldn't do so in Mali but instead shore up its failing front line.
We are forced to conclude that Ukraine is spending resources to attack Mali for the same reason Russia is in Mali - because the USA has an interest there. Russia is trying to disrupt that interest and Ukraine is trying to support that interest like the puppet they are.
$400Bn is nothing in the USA, honestly. Japan could fire sale it all, which it won't, and in the worst case American actors will buy it all up and the market blip will be over in a single day. Someone will make good money on short sales, though.
You know when the best time is to recruit new soldiers and bolster your ranks? It's not 2 years into conflict that has destroyed multiple armies, undermined your defenses, is currently breaking through your weak spots, and nearly all of your equipment is gone. If you do that, you're just sending inexperienced troops into situations that get them killed faster.
@mozz@mbin.grits.dev Thanks for this. Sucks you got banned by Lemmygrad. I don't necessarily blame them, though.
Anyway, I guess you need a refresher on the debate we were having. My position was that the West was deindustrializing and losing economic ground while Russia was growing its industrial base and gaining economic ground. I provided a bunch of sources about German deindustrialization and UK losing steel production and you countered with none of that was important and also Russia was having trouble maintaining their Boeings while under sanctions.
I at-ed you because here we have MORE evidence of deindustrialization of Western Europe and MORE evidence that Russia's economy is growing and your response is: about aid packages to Ukraine.
What’s the oldest tank Russia is fielding in Ukraine? Just in your understanding. And why?
Russia appears to be fielding T-54s and T-55s which are over 50 years old. Why? Because they have no reason to field more advanced systems against Ukraine because Ukraine hasn't reached a threat level that requires more advanced systems, and because 50-year-old equipment will eventually just fail from age, like the USA's Minuteman missile system. It's better to use old equipment, get rid of it, while still making tactical and strategic gains because it reduces the total cost of the conflict for Russia, it streamlines their supply chains and maintenance once those old systems are gone, and it doesn't present their enemies with any new battlefield intelligence because everything the West needs to know about those systems were already known.
Honestly, this is the best reason for Turkey to do this. Trigger NATO infighting. Couple that with the new petition to trigger Article 6 and kick the USA out of the UN, we could see some real decades happen this quarter.
Let's see. CIA activities historically are not revealed for 30 - 50 years, many are never revealed. The CIA has used the AP for propaganda before. The USA has exhibited an incredibly focused desire to delegitimize Venezuela even against evidence from former president Carter's foundation on democratic elections.
Yeah, the fact that they used to be infiltrated and are currently pushing state department narratives is the evidence we need to see them as a compromised mouth piece for North Atlantic hegemony
Good point. I can see maybe a contingent of Italian fascists being sent by the 4th Reich to try to fight China but getting murked long before they encounter Chinese resistence.
Your questions cannot be answered because they assume things about the world that are simply unreal and/or are not even logically consistent enough to be real.
For example, the most corrupt people on the planet are USA politicians. They are immune to insider trading, they have legally structured bribery, they receive bribes totalling in the billions annually, the parties literally contribute to their opponents' campaigns, they control the entire debate system and establish a quid pro quo to require compliance from candidates in exchange for air time, they literally create and maintain prohibition laws to increase profits for private operators of their prison services....
As for dictators, the USA imprisons more of its population than any country in the world. It imprisons more people than the USSR GULAG did at its height, and they were holding Nazi soldiers. The USA prison system produces $11bn of goods and services for private companies using slave labor. Prisoners in the USA are usually charged anywhere from $100 to $350 every day they are in prison and they leave prison with that debt. That debt becomes the pretense for probation, where ex-prisoners who have served their sentences are directly surveilled and are required to work to pay their debt off. Failure to behave can result in a court summons and failure to attend that court summons for any reason can result in further jail time.
And that's just the prison system. There are political prisoners in the USA held for years. There are secret military prisons. Children at the border of Mexico are held in solitary confinement causing permanent brain damage. White refugees are welcomed with open arms. Haitian refugees are met with cops on horseback and bullwhips. The secret military bases are on foreign soil so that the USA can break it's own laws without oversight or consequence. The USA is spending a trillion dollars expanding and upgrading its nuclear weapons. All the while there are a million homeless people and budgets to address homeless are all given to the police to break up encampments and displace homeless people, the citizens pay the most in the world for health care and gets the worst outcomes, the political leaders take citizen money and give it directly to corporations in ways that are completely unnecessary to achieve their outcomes, and citizens who protest are beaten, kidnappped, blacklisted, monitored and surveilled, while citizens who kill protestors are protected and rewarded.
And you don't think the USA is a corrupt dictatorship of the land owners over the masses?
Meanwhile, former President Carter has been at the forefront of election monitoring around the globe. Out of not quite 300 countries his group monitors 90+, so about a third. He has stated, the former USA president has stated, that Venezuela had the absolute best fairest most democratic elections they had seen. And Venezuela got sanctioned for dictatorship, corruption, and unfair elections.
There is no answer to your questions because your questions assume a fantasy world that does not exist. Come back to Earth, dig into what you're observing, learn about what's really happening.
When has it not been?