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The only one crying for a cease fire right now are the folks in DC.
Hamas started crying for it almost immediately, which fits the pattern to a tee. The
When MSM puts Ukraine in the blame barrel, you know it's time for the partition.
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1723257442342150278
Not sure these images are real. Could be computer generated.
Whereas, Russia has gone bonkers in the last 2 months throwing tens of thousands into the meat grinder trying to take Adiivka.
It’s Time to End Magical Thinking About Russia’s Defeat
Putin has withstood the West’s best efforts to reverse his invasion of Ukraine, and his hold on power is firm. The U.S. and its allies need a new strategy: containment.
... For two years, the Journal has resolutely promised that Russia would crumble under Ukrainians’ fierce courage, dissolve under international sanctions, implode due to a lengthy list of allegedly-fatal Putin health problems (six different types of cancer, and counting), wither under a penetrating and glorious Ukrainian Spring Counteroffensive, and be wrestled to the bargaining table, where the former communist empire would be forced to cough up all its annexed territories and the Crimean peninsula to boot.
But um, nope. None of that happened. Not even close. It’s more like the reverse opposite.
Joining Time and NBC, the Wall Street Journal expressed plain pessimism over Ukraine’s plunging prospects:
Putin does not feel any pressure to end the war or worry about his ability to sustain it more or less indefinitely. As winter approaches, the Russian army has mounted a limited ground offensive of its own and surely will expand missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities, power plants, industrial sites and other critical infrastructure. ...
Oh. One more question. Since it’s now suddenly “magical thinking” to believe Ukraine can beat Russia, can we get our hundreds of billions of dollars back? Some of us knew it was magical thinking to start with and would like a refund.
Our special event in Ukraine is going so poorly that the very Director of the CIA, William Burns, paid a not-so-secret call on President Zelensky Wednesday. Usually, this sort of call from one polity to another is performed by diplomats. How many of you noticed that Mr. Burns is not a diplomat? Rather, he is the blob’s consigliere, the very guy you don’t want to show up at your door with a message. You might wake up tomorrow with a horse’s severed head under the sheets. Or maybe his message is, we’ve got a nice cozy villa for you down in sunny Tristan da Cunha….
That war is a lost cause, and the cause was extremely stupid in the first place. Do you even remember what it was? I’ll tell you: to prod Russia into destroying itself. Oh? But why? Because, you know . . . Russia (and Trump!). There is your blob logic. Cost us something like $150 billion, a large part of that distributed among Mr. Zelensky’s circle while he sacrificed a whole generation of his country’s young men to Russian artillery fire and leaves what’s left of his sad-ass land an economic basket-case.
Best ROI we have ever gotten out of our bloated military budget.
Russia would get absolutely smoked fighting a conventional battle against the US or NATO that has advanced airpower.
And Russia is stronger than it was two years ago.
Just laughable.
Russia has lost its top Generals, best armor, Crimean Navy bases, Helicopter squadrons.......not to mention all of Wagner and hundreds of thousands of human casualties. Even the most conservative Russian military casualty estimate is appallingly high.
Over 300,000 smart Russians fled the country before the war too.
Russia has half the population of the US and is shrinking fast
Russia can't keep up this level of loss for long.
Ukraine is heading for partition, every country is telling Zelensky to cash it in, and it's still "Ukraine is winning bigly! The Russians are defeated and don't know it!" Where is the Kool Aide coming from?
But above all, we spent $$$ that should have never been spent. Comparing it to other things that should also have never been spent is saying 'two wrongs makes a right'.
I’m happy to report that the Biden Sanctions Program is going great. Russia should be surrendering any day n… oh, wait. This week, Bloomberg ran a story headlined, “Russia’s Cash Inflow Gains Momentum as Oil Exports Recover.” Apparently Russia is on track to hit a $75 billion-dollar trade surplus this year, which Bloomberg characterized as a “flood of cash” into the heavily-sanctioned nation.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/heroic-officer-harper-saturday-november
I’m happy to report that the Biden Sanctions Program is going great. Russia should be surrendering any day n… oh, wait. This week, Bloomberg ran a story headlined, “Russia’s Cash Inflow Gains Momentum as Oil Exports Recover.” Apparently Russia is on track to hit a $75 billion-dollar trade surplus this year, which Bloomberg characterized as a “flood of cash” into the heavily-sanctioned nation.
"Ukraine is winning bigly! The Russians are defeated and don't know it!" Where is the Kool Aide coming from?
Russia can't keep up this level of loss for long.
Personally, I think it's entertaining to go back and read some of the 'Russia is losing' comments here and from the corporate media from around the world.
Not as funny as reading all the pro Russian garbage by you and others making CONFIDENT claims of Ukraine's imminent fall.
Yet here we are nearing 2 years into Russia's total cockup and they will still have less Ukrainian land under control then they had the first week of their invasion.
Meanwhile Russia's objectives of preventing NATO expansion in Ukraine while protecting ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine has been achieved.
How many new NATO members are on Russia's border now?
Ukraine, despite what you think - is now one of the most experienced and most heavily armed militaries in Europe
How many new NATO members are on Russia's border now?
Meanwhile Russia's objectives of preventing NATO expansion in Ukraine
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