zephyreks [none/use name] @ zephyreks @hexbear.net

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The US and UK will lose some credibility internationally if they pull out now, but they'll have more flexibility to address domestic issues that can help them in the next election. Given the relative strength of the opposition this election, they'll need all the help they can get.

Zelensky buddy...

Biden's polling below Trump in the US (Nov 2024), Sunak is doomed (Jan 2025), and Scholz is leading a flagging economy down the drain (Oct 2025).

Regardless of how people feel about Ukraine, Western support is not indefinite and at some point the Western powers will have to focus their efforts on domestic issues.

You have to read the whole article instead of Ctrl+Fing...

Yes but you see, no country has declared war based on the threat of nukes.

Quarantines are, of course, different. As are special military operations. Of course.

Dude's from England, cut him some slack for being oblivious. Cuba was only part of the British empire for like a year.

A fair number of bombings have been attributed to defective Ukrainian munitions...

Sovereign nations like Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, and Cuba, right?

... right?

Then lastly on Sweden. First of all, it is historic that now Finland is member of the Alliance. And we have to remember the background. The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invade Ukraine. Of course we didn't sign that.

The opposite happened. He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. We rejected that.

So he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders.

At least quote the relevant section ffs

Sure, but their offensives and encirclement happened mostly in Jan/Feb/Mar.

Clearing the city took until May, though.

Source?

I mean, that's literally NATO doctrine. Can't blame them for following doctrine.

Didn't Russia literally take Bakhmut over the winter?

“That is why it is so important to achieve all the goals of the special military operation. To push back the borders that threaten our country as far as possible, even if [this is to] are the borders of Poland,” said Medvedev.

English translation isn't doing him any favours. He's saying he wants to push to the Polish border, not across it.

Doesn't China already have the solution to the debt crisis in a hiked property tax? They're just debating whether they want to do it because it'll tank property values and probably lead to them reporting a shrink in GDP.

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Has Russia made any indication they want to touch NATO?

Ah yes, because it's Assange's fault that Clinton spent more effort trying to take down Sanders than on campaigning against Trump.

She ran a garbage campaign because polling said she was way ahead of Trump when she wasn't.

If you think that journalists should hold back information because it might impact politics, I'm really not sure how to talk to you.

Nazi in Russia refers to the forced displacement, prosecution, and rape of ethnic Russians and Communists by the invading Nazi forces throughout the war. The Nazis had a much different view on Western Europeans than they did on Slavs and Jews and Communists, so is this surprising at all?

Whereas the West was treated more or less as though under military occupation (see: France, Norway), the goal of the Nazis during Barbarossa was the extermination of the Slavic peoples.

Ichi-Go was pretty futile tbh. It accomplished its strategic goals, but strong Communist control in the countryside led to a drawn out guerilla war that stretched Japanese supply lines to their limit.

Chaing Kai-shek was right in assessing that, by that point, the greatest threat to KMT rule was the Communists rather than the Japanese. That's why so much of his forces were tied up with the Communists rather than against the Japanese.