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^ I know that Assad was a terrible tyrant but I did some initial reading about the Syrian rebels who overthrew him and they are Islamist militants associated with Al-Quaeda! That country is effed. Is this the case of one tyrant being replaced with another?
^ I know that Assad was a terrible tyrant but I did some initial reading about the Syrian rebels who overthrew him and they are Islamist militants associated with Al-Quaeda! That country is effed. Is this the case of one tyrant being replaced with another?
It's a cycle of the enemy of my enemy is my friend
Also he's a military leader, he did not take over the country nor was he "installed". They pushed the Syrian army out of the city and removed Assad. That's where we are now.
Now he leads one of I don't know how many groups who will want to take control (and I don't know who, if anyone, benefits the people rather than the West or Russia/Iran)
So it seems like Zelensky has agreed to work with Trump over some sort of rare earth minerals plan in exchange for US support. Previously, a leaked version of the initial US plans pretty much suggests US will become an overlord raping Ukraine for its mineral resources as well as having the first right to approve financial dealings and such. It is unclear whether those terms have been revised now that Zelensky has agreed to "work with the US".
Since nobody outside of the US and Ukraine top brass knows what those newly agreed upon terms are just yet, I am not going to speculate what they might be. Obviously I can make some guesses, but seeing how Zelensky has agreed to them now, the only thing I can do now is to wish them good luck.
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The whole world has gone down a road no one can recover from, and it's nothing to do with governments, it's because so much of the general public is so fucking stupid.
Trump threatened to pull support if EU doesn't do the same, forcing Ukraine to cede to Russa. He has given them 3 weeks
They're not about to do this, so get ready for the US leaving NATO
And then get ready for the US to become even more isolated from the rest of the world, putting them at the same level as China. A country others will begrudgingly will work with only if it benefits them.
And good luck beating China at that.
Get ready for RMB to be the de facto currency, replacing USD, and everything that goes with it.
Trump threatened to pull support if EU doesn't do the same, forcing Ukraine to cede to Russa. He has given them 3 weeks
They're not about to do this, so get ready for the US leaving NATO
And then get ready for the US to become even more isolated from the rest of the world, putting them at the same level as China. A country others will begrudgingly will work with only if it benefits them.
And good luck beating China at that.
Get ready for RMB to be the de facto currency, replacing USD, and everything that goes with it.
He also fears BRICS because China’s ultimate goal is to accelerate the de-dollarization process. I doubt Russia or even China will ditch BRICS, they know Trump’s time is limited, so they’ll play nice to extract as much as they can from him. Once he’s gone, they’ll resume their efforts to undermine US dominance.
On Feb 14, Russia flew a kamikaze drone into the $2 billion New Safe Confinement (the sarcophagus enclosing the destroyed reactor) in Chornobyl. Why am I just seeing this on YouTube now and heard nothing about it in the news?
Ukraine just did a massive drone attack on Russia. Took 18 months of planning. The used shipping containers that had drones hidden on the top. They shipping containers where sent to Russian bases. 40 plus Russian planes destroyed including one that cost over 230 million dollars.
That is honestly an amazingly coordinated attack. I'm surprised how they managed to smuggle that much material and personnel into Russia without them knowing. And to be able to get away as well.
It is amazing. They even used Russian truckers so they didn't put any one at risk (at least in the final phase).
No all of them worked, I did see one container that was partially blown apart. Some guy ran into it to stop the drones from launching and I guess they had a booby trap in there because he very quickly exited in several different directions.
I mean kudos to the little guy fighting the big bully. But aren't they afraid of poking the Russian Putin Bear? What if they go all in and drop some BIG bombs in retaliation?
I mean kudos to the little guy fighting the big bully. But aren't they afraid of poking the Russian Putin Bear? What if they go all in and drop some BIG bombs in retaliation?
Well kinda hard to do with 40% of your strategic bomber force destroyed...
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I don't see a scenario where actually dropping a nuke on Ukraine would give Russia an advantage. Everyone likes to use the threat of a nuke, but actually using one would probably make the situation worse for Russia.
I don't see a scenario where actually dropping a nuke on Ukraine would give Russia an advantage. Everyone likes to use the threat of a nuke, but actually using one would probably make the situation worse for Russia.
Totally agree, even the Taco couldn't spin that as a positive for Putin. I think if that happened you would expedite the end of the Ukrainian Russian war and speed up the start of WW3. It would probably be a short one and Putin would no longer be in power when it was over.
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“The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place... and I don´t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it. You, me or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life. But ain't about how hard you hit... It's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward... how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That´s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you worth, go out and get what you worth.” - Rocky Balboa
I have watched hundreds and hundreds of gruesome drone murders in war...
Modern war is nothing like the valor of a cavalry charge on horseback... it is instead dropping bombs to blow off the balls and asses of countless Russians and Ukrainians. There is one horrible video of a female soldier, no idea if Ukrainian or Russian, they had no weapon and were begging the drone not to kill her... the drone hits her and another drone flies up and films her twitching, mangled body as she bled out... so dark. I get nightmares from this shit, definitely don't recommend the watch... I had to switch to Gaza children masscres for awhile, now I'm currently suffering on 3 hours of sleep from the latest splattered infant videos.
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And why are you scared?! you too old and washed up just like the rest of us geriatrics to go fight in a war. Your little respawns however are most likely to be drafted by a schmuck our age to go die via drones.
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