Ukrainian War Developments
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What's your evidence that Ukraine is militarily winning this conflict? Are you primarily basing your opinion on the number of drone footage you're enthusiastically showing as proof of Russian military incompetence? Plus the fact that you're Turkish surely can't hide your optimistic assessment and quality of the performance demonstration of your country's drones right?
Unless the Russian forces are being repelled and or in military retreat then your assertion is simply unfounded and not supported by objective analysis of the situation.
We should wait, observe, and take a dispassionate look at the situation before making some wild pronouncements that we may come to regret and bite us back in the end.
US treasury bonds are bought and sold on the international bond market, usually via third party intermediaries or holding companies. You can't cancel it because you don't know who owns it. Like stocks.
Same. I was a perm banned from /r/geopolitics because I was neutral-positive on China. Literally these Westerners can't tolerate the truth or opposite opinion. That sub went downhill as a echo chamber circlejerk.
Exactly. His best case scenario as reduce Ukraine to Belarus-status with a military-installed puppet regime. Occupation is too costly. The second best scenario is force Zelensky to sign an Unequal treaty.
George Bush needed to weaponize 9/11 unity to a completely different country using flimsy evidence. So long as China doesn't trigger that type of 9/11 unity by pre-emptively attacking US first (like Osama), then I think China can get away with Taiwan.
really. like... that's a pretty 'meh' result compared to all the shit Russia is going through economically. Might as well annex some territories and also demand neutrality.
This is so smart. I agree 1000% The best scenario is Belarus-puppet ally.
Eastern Europe is not a core area of Chinese interest, and China isn't going to de-couple from West and sign a formal alliance with Russia, so why do censorship to silence anti-war voices? Does Russia do censorship to help Chinese territorial claims in SCS?
Exactly. In other words, US needs to station kajillion CATOBARs and 5th gens in Taiwan region to forever prevent China to invade (again and again and again). It's dumb, US can't think it can win one-off battle, this is a long war and China will just invade again, again, again. It will be like Afghanistan, what is US exit strategy in defending Taiwan? It's either a) Force China to sign unequal treaty relinquish Taiwan forever, or b) Joint ROC-US combined conquest of Mainland. Both are impossible, so even if US can defeat one invasion attempt, another will happen again, and US will overstretch it's imperialism overreach.
Japan was already developed and industrialized great power before occupation by US. So Japan could have become rich by itself too. How come Phillipines, Thailand, and other US allies did not become rich like Japan?
If we had to condemn every internet comment, then we will be busy all day. I would suggest not to take anything said on internet seriously. There is 25-30% of the US population that is batshit insane and out-of-touch with reality. Just assume that idiots exist everywhere and your life will be a lot easier.
And you call this Ukrainian military winning right? Genius I tell you.
Breaking News: Vladimir Putin states the obvious in a meeting with part of his cabinet:
All of this is equipment that the Ukrainian military has. Given the paint scheme and those other factors I think this is a Ukrainian military column. I already told you. Regular T-80U tank was put into stockpile by Russians and replaced with T-80BVM. They also wouldn't use vehicles in combat which can be easily mistaken with Ukrainian ones unless they really had to.
Russia already has SPFS. It connects Russian banks, the rest of the Eurasian Economic Union, and to banks in China and Cuba.
In 2014, invasion of Crimea, there was real danger because Russian banks all used SWIFT even for national inter bank transactions. All bank cards were VISA and Mastercard. US threatened sanctions. But VISA and Mastercard had 5% revenue on all bank transactions. CIA/NSA could also snoop all Russian bank transactions via SWIFT. So they forced US government officials to back down.
Russia then made the Mir debit card and gave them to all pensioners, public servants (including the military), and made it available to the general public. They made SPFS to replace SWIFT for state banks and later other banks connected to it. The sanctions mean SWIFT will die inside Russia. And for foreign bank transfers not covered with it they will likely use the Chinese payment system. Trade with China will explode. It already increased like 10x over past decade. After this, Russian companies will have no choice but use Chinese system, and be forced to drop their tendency to go for European products.
The fact that India did not collapse to US pressure is a good thing. Without India there is no way US has a chance to control world system. As gravity of world economy shifts to Asia, European economy will implode, and will become backwater. Economy is based on selling internal combustion engine vehicles and jet aircraft. European computer industry is mostly gone. Only piece missing is Chinese domination of semiconductor market.
Just like Iran. Russia is food and energy independent.
Russians are complaining Ukrainian armed groups are using mortar attacks on cities and said they aren't using infantry mortars.
I have seen lots of photos of downed drones. Just ask the Turks how well their drones fared in Libya.
North Korea can't feed itself. Due to climate, soil, conditions and lack of resources to make fertilizer.
Wikipedia even stopped updating the map properly. Kiev is surrounded. They entered Kharkiv and the mayor surrendered.
The Ukrainians have more manpower. It is just that the Russians have better training, equipment, and leadership.
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