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You're completely right MCATEE.
Hopefully once Boris goes we'll see a far more cautious approach to supporting Ukraine. Better yet, get those sanctions lifted, and stop shipping arms to Ukraine. If the next leader did that, you'd see a boost in the economy and people would be praising them. Could be very tempting for a new leader to set themselves apart from Boris.
Russia has all but achieved what it set out to do now and it has proved our sanctions are but a flea on a bears back. We're just committing self-harm so long as the sanctions stay in place.
The liberal rags you you probably love have been posting dozens of articles on a regular basis about Ukraine's Nazi problem. They've only decided to not mention it the last four months, In case you need some links because you're too bone idle to look for yourself. Here you go.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/02/neo-nazi-groups-recruit-britons-to-fight-in-ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/aug/27/they-wanted-to-kill-us-masked-neo-fascists-strike-fear-into-ukraines-roma
There's hundreds more where those came from
You're the one who raised the subject of death. The reality of war is the figures tell a clear story about what's happening. If it was left to me there wouldn't have even been a war and there wouldn't have been a deaths. It's people like you, thrashing the war drum in favour of a country that hails proud self-confessed Nazi's as hero's that have no heart in all of this. You also didn't seem to care when those very Nazi's shelled and killed 14000 innocent people in eastern Ukraine prior to Russia moving in. You are either utterly clueless or being purposely deceptive.
War is cruel and there are all kinds in every army. As crimes against humanity go, the Azov battalion and the scum that support it have been doing the worst things imaginable to gypsies and innocent "undesirables" since the war began and long before. People tied to lampposts because of there race or creed and brutalised. While we're on the subject of murder, I refer back to the 14000 innocent people killed by the Ukranian government as part of their genocidal cleansing of the east.
Russia is one of the only true conservative capitalists nations in the world today. Britain and the US who entertain all the liberal woke weirdos and now confiscate private property are the closest things to communists that I can see.
As far as the shopping mall goes, it's common knowledge it had been closed for months and the missile was targeting a railway spur and military related facility next to the shopping mall. The empty shopping mall may have also been used by the military. More cheap western propaganda. If you get you news from more than one source you'd know this. Unless of course you and all the other turnips here are 77th con artists trying to manipulate the minds of shareholders of a company that has been badly wronged.
"So Russia have prolonged this war, when it could've been over at the beginning of April? For 3 months Putin has been sending his soldiers to their death. Or haven't Russia had any casualties? More western lies?"
Are you purposely trying to be an imbecile IsleworthSpy?
Russia hasn't gone in all guns blazing because it's trying to protect the people in eastern Ukraine. Russia wants to minimize casualties as much as possible. It's been willing to sacrifice it's own soldiers to use the softly softly approach. The Ukrainian army has been purposely hiding in, and launching attacks from eastern towns and cities to try and turn the people of eastern Ukraine against Russia, flee and/or see them killed. The Ukrainian army has spent the last eight years shelling and killing the people of eastern Ukraine and now they're using them as human shields. Russia has gone in as delicately as possible.
Regarding Russian soldiers dying, yes they are, that's how war works you complete imbecile. You'd also do well to note that the real casualty and death figures tell you exactly who's winning this war, and it ain't Ukraine.
It's sad to see so many people falling for the same old lies churned out by the mainstream media. The thousands of fake accounts on social media, plus the spam comments on news articles put out by the likes of 77th brigade may have sucked some of the more simple minded folk in, but I think most intelligent people who don't get all their news from one source (If you do, then you'd love North Korea) know full well Russia has had this war under control from the outset, contrary to most claims in the mainstream media.
Russia could have steamrolled Ukraine in a matter of days if it had wanted to. Russia assigned what is essentially an expeditionary force of less than 80k soldiers, out of it's army comprising as much as 3 million including reserves give or take. Russia is outnumbered many times over in Ukraine against the Ukrainian army, never mind the untrained armed conscripts and mercenaries fighting there who eclipse the actual Ukrainian army.
With the smallest number of soldiers and equipment mobilised, Russia has methodically cut through a western backed Ukraine that is armed to the teeth with everything the west has at it's disposal, all the money it wants at it's disposal, and all the mercenaries it can get from the rest of Europe at it's disposal and it's losing in spectacular fashion.
The mainstream media and the likes of 77th Brigade are making themselves look foolish given the glaring reality of the situation now. Time for them to let up and accept the reality that the west has failed miserably yet again and plunged it's own people into deeper poverty. Putin hasn't destroyed our economy, Boris and Biden have. Remember that.
As I've said several times. The western media has been lying constantly for propaganda purposes. Last week they said the battle over Lysychansk would last months and I said it would fall to Russia well within a fortnight. It's obvious Russia is winning on all fronts, and if the west and Zelensky don't back down, there'll be no Ukraine left to argue over. Time for them to sit down and agree to allow eastern Ukraine to become a republic or part of Russia as the people there desire.
Boris, Biden and the European NATO puppets have destroyed their own economies over literally nothing but an expensive experiment in what happens when you keep poking a bear. Well at least we know now, and we're all the weaker for it.
As RASP expands and demand for coal goes through the roof, we will find that is likely worth 3-4+ times more than the price EVR was suspended at alone. Gormless CEO's across the London stock exchange could learn a great deal from the people who managed this company. I'd go as far as to say, a lot of the people who ran EVR were among London's best assets.
Britain doesn't produce great business minds that are bold and act with impeccable initiative any more. Just shzit-libs who can't find their arze with both hands. We could learn so much from the Russians at this point in Britain's descent into third world living and economic conditions before things get worse. Unfortunately the British establishment has chosen to keep on bluffing with the worst possible hand like a rank amateur. Where have all the great British minds gone?
Quite the reverse. I'd be surprised if this wasn't trading again in the next five months.
Putin has all but achieved every single objective he set out to achieve. The UK, the US and the rest of Europe look like complete fools. The sanctions have destroyed what was left of the wests economy, the west is still totally dependent on products only the east can provide. Winter is twelve weeks away and Europe is already preparing for stricter rationing than in WW2. The west is bluffing at the moment, but Europe at least will be crawling on it's hands and knees for the war to be over and sanctions lifted if it isn't over by Autumn, which I'm quite sure it will be as Putin has all but succeeded in everything he set out to do now.
I haven't once said one side is perfect. I also don't pretend Putin and his government aren't corrupt. It's characters like you who have gotten into the habit of thinking that however low the west stoops, that somehow it's never as bad as the east. The gormless western moral supremacist attitude of "We're bad, but it's even worse over there".
Julian Assange has been a political prisoner for 10 years, currently locked in a hell hole and now facing extradition to the US and rotting in a cell being tortured for the rest of his life. Don't you dare tell me the west respects free speech and doesn't lock people up, threaten, torture and murder those who expose it. Assange's crime was showing the world footage of US military forces laughing like rabid hyenas as they knowingly gunned down civilians, journalists and red cross workers for fun.
I notice you're not mentioning innocent Ukrainian's and their families being rounded up by Zelensky's mob for posting anything online that's considered pro-Russian. Plenty of videos online of citizens having their door smashed in and being brutally manhandled by the Ukrainian security forces for posting anything online that isn't completely supportive of western Ukraine's genocidal attacks on the east for the last 8 years.
Quite similar mate, except the Russian government is cancelling lies, whereas western governments are cancelling the truth.
I notice mods here are deleting perfectly truthful and reasonable posts I have made that received more recommends than any others. It wouldn't be so bad if they also removed the uninformed pro mainstream media responses here, but they are leaving those alone.
We really are living in 1984 now where only one side of a crooked argument is heard and drummed into people as forcefully as possible.
MESSAGE TO THE MODS: If my posts have broken any rules, tell me which ones, and if I break any rules, feel free to ban me, but don't just quietly take down well informed posts and leave pro establishment garbage.
It's also a shame that the US and UK couldn't find the discipline not to start a war in umpteen countries they had no business, like Iraq for instance. A million people dead as a consequence. In fact, compared to the invasion of Iraq carried out by the UK and US, Putin's justification for going into Ukraine looks extremely watertight I would say.
This war won't last for years. Russia has almost achieved it's objectives. Western news media and leaders putting on a brave face in public and pretending they're willing to back Ukraine to the death, but it's all bluff IMO.
We see today Ukraine has made further moves to criminalise and persecute all Russian speakers in Ukraine. The Ukrainian government has now banned all music and literature of Russian origin since 1991, further living up to Putin's claim that they are fascists or at least fascist influenced. This will only help push Russian speaking Ukrainians who were either loyal to Ukraine or neutral further into the arms of Russia and the idea of independence.
Crimea isn't any more, though the west argues it still is just to be awkward. The Donbas region is, but most people in that region would either prefer to be completely independent or part of Russian. Since the coup, the Ukrainian government has gone about trying to cleanse eastern Ukraine of those who are culturally different. They've been shelled brutally for 8 years and even told they can't speak Russian in many areas of society, even though Russian is their first and only language.
Why should the people of Crimea and Donbas sell up and move on. It's their home, and they have their own distinct culture. Like most brainwashed followers of the MSM, you're ignoring the fact that the Ukrainian government has been complicit in having eastern Ukraine shelled non-stop for the last 8 years. That would be like telling Scots who don't like being part of the UK to sell up and leave their home if England had spent the last 8 years shelling them. I mean it's an idea, but I don't think it would go down well, neither would it be very fair.
The democratically elected government was overthrown by a US coup back in 2014 in case you'd forgotten. For the last 8 years people in eastern Ukraine have suffered a constant barrage of brutal shelling by the government and the extreme elements it allows into it's motley military. You weren't crying for the people of Eastern Ukraine when they were be killed daily by the most corrupt government in Europe, but suddenly you are crying now their big brother has stepped in to defend them. All the evidence is there from numerous sources that the Ukrainian military, especially the extreme elements such as Azov essentially use the population in the east as human shields. Take the Azov steel works for example where the military were not allowing civilians to leave the shelters that the military forces were hiding in. The Ukrainian nationalists fighting in the east are more than happy to hide behind the people of the east, because they've spent the last 8 years shelling them anyway.
The reason this war has dragged on in is because Russia has moved as carefully as it possibly can. We all know if Russia had wanted to achieve what you and the rest of the west are suggesting, they could have achieved that within hours, or even days at most. The fact they haven't sent in the big guns tells you that Russia's perspective is more in line with reality than any of the tripe coming from the neo-liberal scum in the western media.
The Ruble has gone to the moon, while the pound and the dollar are tanking miserably. The MOEX has bounced back and the LSE looks terrible.
These sanctions are crippling the west, while more and more people are living out of foodbanks, some of which Abramovich helped set up ironically.
This ridiculous argument that anyone who tells the truth is a Russian asset is just part of the British and American propaganda tactics.