Ukrainian War Developments
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I need to know the source of this statement from Pentagon, this is pretty big deal!
Depends on the Leopard 1 type
Leopard 1A5 or 1A4 could be pretty troublesome since they had pretty decent fire control system with thermal imaging
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On the other side of the negotiating table, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, expects the war to go on for :
Meanwhile, apropos of nothing...
Doesn't take much imagination to look at those two statements, see a western alliance eager to bleed Russia "to the last Ukrainian" and a Ukrainian leader wising up to that...
Note that the troll shows his abysmal 'reading comprehension" (at best) and his fanatical bigotry.
I QUOTED an article by a Lithuanian (who grew up in the USSR) that's extremely critical of Russia and Russians.
I did NOT write that I completely agreed with it. Indeed, anyone who's competent at reading English
(many writers here seem nearly illiterate in English) should have noticed MY CRITCISMS of parts of the article.
In particular, I reject her dichotomy between "Ukrainians are Western and good" and "Russians are non-Western and bad."
It's wrong to blame Russians alone for all Soviet war crimes; Ukrainians committed their share of war crimes too.
If I quoted Putin, then would the idiotic pro-Russian crowd here conclude that I must completely agree with Putin?
I speak Russian and have been in Russia. I know many Russians who are much more informed and more critical of
conditions in Russia than the breathless Chinese acolytes here who eagerly absorb every word of Russian state propaganda.
Many Chinese here seem eager to corroborate--unwittingly--some of the worst stereotypes of Sinophobic propaganda.
I read in Zelensky not a bad man, perhaps a brave man, but certainly not a big man, caught at the center of big events.
I read in him a conflict between, on the one hand, sadness at the destruction being wrought upon his country and indignation at the Russians for daring to invade it, but on the other hand, enjoyment of the adulation being showered upon him by foreign powers for playing the role they assigned him in their effort to use his country to bleed Russia dry.
He certainly is a bad man. What else would you call someone who knowingly brought destruction and death to his country by following foreign orders?
Ukraine is on its way to become a Syria 2.0
He sees much more convergence in the interests of his country and these of the foreign countries in question than you do.
"Ukraine’s ombudswoman for human rights said she had recorded horrific acts of sexual violence by Russian troops in Bucha
and elsewhere, including a case in which women and girls were kept in a basement for 25 days, the New York Times reported.
Nine of those victims are now pregnant, according to the ombudswoman, Lyudmyla Denisova."
I would submit that the unwanted pregnancies may be prima facie evidence of rape.
Given the zeal with which many men here strive to deny any evidence of Russian war crimes, however, I expect some
men would like to believe that these Ukrainian women and girls, pretending to show their gratitude to their 'liberators',
seduced helpless innocent Russian soldiers and enjoyed sexual intercourse with them many times every day for 25 days.
Then the impregnated Ukrainian women and girls suddenly 'cried rape' in appealing for Western aid.
I have heard similar rationalizations of Soviet soldiers' mass rapes when they 'liberated' eastern and central Europe.
Well, currently the only convergence between Ukraine and "foreign countries" is Afghanistan, Syria and Libya.
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