Ukrainian War Developments

The negotiation is under way.

The Russian military is a paper tiger on fire.

ger_mark said:

2. After his criminal attack NATO is more united then ever before. More nations want to join because they don't want to get annexed by Putin who suddenly claims the right to decide which nations have a right to exist and which not

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Let's make a count, what other nation, aside from 5 eyes and Some NATO countries who else, OMG ! I forgot the Lion state Singapore had join.

ger_mark said:

3. Russian economic collapse due to sanctions

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Watch that movie before called Crimea in 2014 and it flopped.

ger_mark said:

4. He destroyed the trust between Russia and Germany built up by generations after the war. It will take decades to restore this trust

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Trust and verify is the correct word, the German are never serious in the first place, Gorbachev gave the go signal for German unification with Specific condition that NO NATO expansion. So who broke the Trust Putin, give me a break and where's the gratitude.

more LNR progress

GodRektsNoobs said:

I have a feeling that the increase in military spending will be eaten away by salary increases, frivolous spending ie. $100 coffee mugs, and MIC grift as in case of most liberal democracies. But Europe can prove me wrong.

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If the increase is in % if gdp and not $ the increased cost will already be in gdp.

Su-34 strike plane in action over Kharkiv


Ka-52 in action in Donbas

GodRektsNoobs said:

I have a feeling that the increase in military spending will be eaten away by salary increases, frivolous spending ie. $100 coffee mugs, and MIC grift as in case of most liberal democracies. But Europe can prove me wrong.

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Under normal circumstances you would probably be right alas these times are not. Europe is joining the global rearnament in a big way thanks to Russia. And make no mistake, the US must be delighted. What they couldn't persuade us europeans to do in the last two decades, Putin accomplished in a few days. Just my two cent.