Eventually, I expect, Russia will officially get its security guarantees from Ukraine, some kind of autonomy for the disputed regions and some accepta...
Why do you think you know more about the facts on the ground than Ukrainian officials? Are you in Ukraine now? Are you closer to the Ukrainian militar...
Why does the news have to be good? Why is it not newsworthy, seeing as it relates to Ukraine's ability to defend itself? And why do you think Ukrainia...
I wouldn't trust war commanders any more than micromanaging dictators with saving lives. But I don't have clear evidence of Putin micromanaging, anyho...
They have a multitude of goals @"frank". I don't think they'll achieve every goal and while winning a war in the first few days would be desirable for...
I'd be absolutely justified in saying you were trolling if you are deliberately trying to annoy posters here with vacuous low effort posts and smears ...
What are you arguing against? I don't think there's anything in the quote or what I said that says the Russians wouldn't have liked to have taken Kyiv...
That's just a smear. Here's just one point out of the many made: Here's evidence for that point from the mouth of a Ukrainian presidential adviser. ht...
Of course you don't understand what's going on. You've done zero analysis and have not responded with a substantial argument of your own to anything y...
Yes, exactly, and I've been having trouble getting this point across as succinctly as above. Anyhow, regardless of whether anyone agrees with you, the...
I don't have a wife. I have a short bald man who I dress up in female clothes and take around with me though in order to tempt people to insult him/he...
And then come up and accept an award. I'd like to see what would happen to anyone who walked up and slapped his face on the street. Not that I recomme...
Expect the war to end soon. This is Russia's way of getting Europe, particularly Germany, to put pressure on Zelensky to capitulate and I expect it wi...
This is not so much a criticism of Ukraine for making stuff up to boost morale. I can understand why they would do that and why the Western media woul...
Some more on propaganda/misinformation/bias or whatever we choose to call it re Russia vs Ukraine's military successes/failures: https://en.wikipedia....
Yes, Crimea was quite close to being an unmitigated victory for Putin, whereas this will be a problematic victory at best with quite a bit of downside...
Yes, agree also. Russia's not trying to occupy the whole of Ukraine for the next ten years. That's not feasible and I'm pretty sure they know that. Th...
The bluster and distraction won't detract from the fact that I've never spoken in absolutist terms. It's not an unmitigated victory for Russia (I've e...
OK, the fact that they are holding Ukrainian territory and Ukraine has admitted they can't take back that territory by force. Apparently that is an 'u...
I wish the war was an 'unmitigated disaster' for Russia, but the fact that they're winning, despite their problems, mitigates the disaster somewhat fo...
Yeah, I taught this to Chinese students as part of media literacy when they were studying at a British University. They had no major problem getting i...
Maybe 'propaganda' is too emotive a term for some. But the basic definition is simply: "information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used...
To those who still insist the war is going 'disastrously' for Russia because they read that on CNN, ask yourself how Ukraine having the upper hand can...
Some recognition of reality here (i.e. they are losing, not winning, the war): https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/mar/27/russia-ukraine-war-l...
You should quote me or you risk going off on your own strawman tangent. I specifically pointed out their propaganda was more pervasive and extreme tha...
Yes, but to your earlier point about other countries not being so enthusiastic: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/mar/27/russia-ukraine-war-...
Right on cue: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/mar/27/russia-ukraine-war-latest-zelenskiy-calls-on-west-for-planes-and-tanks-biden-says-but...
No, this was in 1997. So, he was specifically referring to the post Soviet era. I agree there have been fuckups on the Russian side. I just don't thin...
Biden: Tough talk. The Whitehouse: No, no, we didn't mean it! If anyone thinks this is going to scare the Russians... https://inews.co.uk/news/world/w...
I'm sure it'll show up. Meanwhile, it looks like Russia's response to Biden's fiery rhetoric in Poland has been to unleash some real fire and fury on ...
How I see it playing out is as above: Russian puppet control of Donbass and Ukraine accepting neutral status. The question is how long it takes. As fa...
There is information out there if you dig but, yes, it's not easy to know their intentions; what they say means almost nothing because they're happy t...
I've read various reports on this but nothing solid yet. Its significance depends too on Russian plans. If they are as they say they are concentrating...
A bit more analysis on whether the failure to advance further on Kyiv was a disaster or intentional or something in between. https://twitter.com/defen...
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