Russia & Ukraine
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Ukraine war will be over by end of spring, country's deputy defence minister predicts
The retired major general says his nation will never stop fighting until victory and even a Russian nuclear strike would not end the struggle to drive out invading Kremlin forces.
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-...g-predicts-countrys-defence-minister-12750712
Ukrainian forces could be back in Crimea by the end of December and the entire war with Russia will be over by the spring, a Ukrainian deputy defence minister has predicted.
Volodymyr Havrylov, a retired major general, said his country would never stop fighting until victory and had even factored in the potential of a Russian nuclear strike.
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The retired major general says his nation will never stop fighting until victory and even a Russian nuclear strike would not end the struggle to drive out invading Kremlin forces.
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-...g-predicts-countrys-defence-minister-12750712
Ukrainian forces could be back in Crimea by the end of December and the entire war with Russia will be over by the spring, a Ukrainian deputy defence minister has predicted.
Volodymyr Havrylov, a retired major general, said his country would never stop fighting until victory and had even factored in the potential of a Russian nuclear strike.
(More at above url)
"...funds appropriated to Ukraine in less than a year to $104 billion, according to Defense News.
Greene and her colleagues argued that the funding scheme is not transparent enough and that there are more pressing matters at home. “Our Border Patrol asked for $15.46 billion to secure the border of the United States. President Trump’s border wall would’ve only cost $22 billion,” the congresswoman said.
“With the money we’ve sent to Ukraine, we could’ve already secured our border but we’re not doing that.” She added that Congress would send “a very bad message to the American people” if the audit is denied."
https://www.infowars.com/
Greene and her colleagues argued that the funding scheme is not transparent enough and that there are more pressing matters at home. “Our Border Patrol asked for $15.46 billion to secure the border of the United States. President Trump’s border wall would’ve only cost $22 billion,” the congresswoman said.
“With the money we’ve sent to Ukraine, we could’ve already secured our border but we’re not doing that.” She added that Congress would send “a very bad message to the American people” if the audit is denied."
https://www.infowars.com/
terr, can you comment for us please on what effect, if any, easier access to non-censored news by Young Russian Men who have left Russia might be having on Putin's ability to continue the war and on political stability within Russia. I am assuming that those who have left Russia to avoid conscription will try to maintain some ties to families they left behind and may be relaying back points of view not available on internal Russian media.
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It is really hard for someone who is not familiar with the Russians and modern Russian culture to understand just how deep and overwhelming the Russian supremacist ideology is.
A lot of these people who ran away are still steeped in that ideology. They grew up with it and it was in their mothers' milk. A lot live outside Russia and hate the people that they live amongst. The support for Putin's adventures among Russians living in Germany or even in the US (my Dad tells me, from Florida) is surprisingly high. And, funny enough, avoiding conscription does not equate to not supporting Putin. You would think it would, but that dichotomy is somehow supported quite well in their heads.
Even when you see these "protests" today in Russia, the families of the conscripted protesting, you don't see them protest the FACT of the conscription or the FACT that their sons and husbands are sent abroad to murder people that did nothing to Russia. They are protesting the poor conditions, the bad equipment, the inadequate monetary compensation, that kind of stuff. It's pathetic.
In the next decade or so, Russia will just cocoon itself inside its own borders and stew in the supremacist juices. That's dangerous. I really hope one day it will be defeated enough to denazify it and cleanse it ideologically the way Germany was. But who knows if it will ever happen.
Pundit on Russian TV tries to say that NATO has no interest in attacking Russia.
Suddenly his microphone konks out on him.
They swap it out for another one or fiddle with the first one. Nope that is not working either.
Russian TV cuts off pundit's microphone after he questions Army's performance in Ukraine
The Russian policy analyst has his microphone cut off during a debate on the country's Ukraine invasion.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/worl...e-cut-out-Viktor-Olevich-NATO-conflict-ww3-vn
Suddenly his microphone konks out on him.
They swap it out for another one or fiddle with the first one. Nope that is not working either.
Russian TV cuts off pundit's microphone after he questions Army's performance in Ukraine
The Russian policy analyst has his microphone cut off during a debate on the country's Ukraine invasion.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/worl...e-cut-out-Viktor-Olevich-NATO-conflict-ww3-vn
Thank you so much for explaining this. It is difficult for those of us who were raised in the democratic countries to understand this Russian perspective because we naturally see things through with our own biases that we grew up with.
Thank you so much for explaining this. It is difficult for those of us who were raised in the democratic countries to understand this Russian perspective because we naturally see things through with our own biases that we grew up with.