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OT: World Politics

TheCountofMonteCristo said:
Has the "greatest counteroffensive" started yet? If not, it is just white noise. If Zelensky wins, it proves his cause was just. If it fails, it shows we wasted a ton of money on a loser.
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He's not losing. He's winning so much that Wagner mercs are now capturing and torturing Red Army field commanders. The Russians are imploding.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
He's not losing. He's winning so much that Wagner mercs are now capturing and torturing Red Army field commanders. The Russians are imploding.
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You told me they were collapsing 3 months ago, told me Artyomovsk would be retaken within a week. Forgive me if I require actual territory to be retaken and Russia actually out of the annexed territories before a believe Russia is losing.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
You told me they were collapsing 3 months ago, told me Artyomovsk would be retaken within a week. Forgive me if I require actual territory to be retaken and Russia actually out of the annexed territories before a believe Russia is losing.
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Finland is now in NATO (something its people likely wouldn't have been in favor of prior to the special operation). A shared border of some 1300 km. He lost even if Ukraine doesn't take back even an inch of territory back.
 
oscarheyman said:
Finland is now in NATO (something its people likely wouldn't have been in favor of prior to the special operation). A shared border of some 1300 km. He lost even if Ukraine doesn't take back even an inch of territory back.
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that is a separate geopolitical question, wehave has made out for months he is losing the war IN Ukraine.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
You told me they were collapsing 3 months ago, told me Artyomovsk would be retaken within a week. Forgive me if I require actual territory to be retaken and Russia actually out of the annexed territories before a believe Russia is losing.
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Russia cannot even control all of Russia. Separatists have taken a bunch of settlements in Belgorod. How embarrassing.
 
Wayward DP said:
does the survival of democracy mean... nothing to you?
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sorry, I should amend this.

do the following bother you at all:
- imperial invasions of conquest;
- attempted genocide;
- subverting the democratic will of the people.

if you answer "yes", to any of the above, then you should be upset and concerned by Russia's imperial war of conquest where they are on record as trying to wage a genocide in Ukraine.

and don't worry, baby Count doesn't have to die - the Ukrainians are happy to fight this war themselves. they just want some modern equipment.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
that is a separate geopolitical question, wehave has made out for months he is losing the war IN Ukraine.
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Russia is losing. If Russia were winning they'd have absorbed and subjugated the Ukraine by now. The fact that the Ukraine continues to exist and fight is your clue that Russia isn't winning.

Russia is like the Leafs over the last 6 years. After this much time you have to think that if they haven't won anything by now they probably never will. This "special operation" was supposed to take 72 HOURS. It's now close to 18 months and Russia still has nothing to show for it except a lot of dead Russian soldiers and lost equipment. They have accomplished nothing. And the few gains they have made are so small and so tenuous that they will likely vanish within hours of the Ukies' counter-offensive. They are getting evicted from the Ukraine THIS YEAR. After that, I expect the Ukraine to join NATO and force the Russians to deal with their fascist dictator of a President the old fashioned way.

The Warsaw Pact is not making a comeback. The end result of this idiotic act of aggression will be 2 new NATO countries on their borders and economic isolation for them.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Russia is losing. If Russia were winning they'd have absorbed and subjugated the Ukraine by now. The fact that the Ukraine continues to exist and fight is your clue that Russia isn't winning.

Russia is like the Leafs over the last 6 years. After this much time you have to think that if they haven't won anything by now they probably never will. This "special operation" was supposed to take 72 HOURS. It's now close to 18 months and Russia still has nothing to show for it except a lot of dead Russian soldiers and lost equipment. They have accomplished nothing. And the few gains they have made are so small and so tenuous that they will likely vanish within hours of the Ukies' counter-offensive. They are getting evicted from the Ukraine THIS YEAR. After that, I expect the Ukraine to join NATO and force the Russians to deal with their fascist dictator of a President the old fashioned way.

The Warsaw Pact is not making a comeback. The end result of this idiotic act of aggression will be 2 new NATO countries on their borders and economic isolation for them.
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I always have admired how you can take any world event and turn it into a Leaf bash, that is deserving of respect.
 
lecoqsportif said:
Dunno. Apparently some of their own troops got trapped in the flood waters on the right bank. Not sure if confirmed.
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in theory this prevents the Ukrainians from crossing the Dnipro for an attack on the left bank. is what I've read. I'm wondering how legit it is.

but yeah, this does affect Crimea's drinking water, I believe. blowing the dam can only be viewed as a sign of serious panic IMO.

but I look forward to Count's explanation as to how this was actually Ukraine, or actually super strategically advantageous for Russia.
 
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