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by Vympel
2024-04-15 07:19am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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I'd consider it just as unlikely, expensive and wasteful as Russia invading Ukraine. Well that'd be an absurd thing to equate, chiefly because Ukraine doens't have nuclear weapons and Russia does, and Ukraine is on Russia's border and not halfway across the world, making Russian intervention far ea...
by Vympel
2024-04-14 10:01pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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The US Army, hopefully. We certainly spend enough on it. The problems with this are many: 1. Risk of runaway nuclear escalation makes this a non-starter; 2. There is a stark divide in the US national security apparatus about whether opposing Russia is the priority or the real conflict is with China...
by Vympel
2024-04-11 07:36pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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There was a bit where Ukraine claimed to have blown up some planes and damaged others at a Russian base, but nothing that was really newsworthy And today, a Key Ukrainian Power Plant was destroyed by Russian air strikes. Usually when the Ukrainians claim an airfield hit, its at least partially subs...
by Vympel
2024-04-09 08:46pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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The line was so badly compromised, it moved a whole ten klicks. I defy you to find a single serious western commentator who doesn't think the fall of Avdiivka didn't compromise Ukrainian defences. Ukraine has been steadily retreating everywhere for weeks. Literally noone is now saying Ukraine is do...
by Vympel
2024-04-09 02:25am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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Ukraine is at great risk of its frontlines collapsing KYIV — Wayward entrepreneur Elon Musk’s latest pronouncements regarding the war in Ukraine set teeth on edge, as he warned that even though Moscow has “no chance” of conquering all of Ukraine, “the longer the war goes on, the more territory Russ...
by Vympel
2024-04-03 06:16pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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Ukraine lowers army draft age to 25 to generate more fighting power KYIV, April 2 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a bill on Tuesday to lower the mobilisation age for combat duty from 27 to 25, a move that should help Ukraine generate more fighting power in its war with Russia. The ...
by Vympel
2024-03-18 11:55pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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US Senator Graham says Ukraine aid depends on conditions, domestic issues KYIV, March 18 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said on Monday, after meeting Ukraine's president, that he was confident an aid package stalled in the U.S. Congress would soon be approved, but called for aid to take th...
by Vympel
2024-03-16 07:28am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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You mean like you've been doing? Maybe, dude, because literally nothing I've said has claimed that the Holocaust is a fabrication or exaggeration- You're not being accused of saying its a fabrication. It's already been pointed out to you what soft-core denial is, which is exactly what you are doing...
by Vympel
2024-03-15 11:15pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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Bullshit. The only one guilty of minimising is you, by trying to sweep under rug the millions of deaths that Stalin and the USSR are directly responsible for. Its very funny how you have nothing substantive to say - its just rote automatic "nuh uh!" gainsaying all the way down, which is w...
by Vympel
2024-03-15 10:59pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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What is a strawman is claiming that pointing out the existence of the Gulags is (somehow) holocaust denialism. Apparently. That's not what you did, and everyone can see that's not what you did, which is why you've been called out. You attempted to draw an equivalence between the gulags and Nazi ext...
by Vympel
2024-03-15 09:40am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

I don't know how seriously I can take someone so obviously out of their mind on cartoonish anti-communism they're calling the Russians 'the Reds' in 2024, but: Well it should tell you something when even Nazi's would make peace and ally with a Jew- The Ukrainian far-right has never been 'at war' wit...
by Vympel
2024-03-15 07:02am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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Well at least there aren't any openly nazi groups operating officially under the us military calling for genocide since they elected Obama. Something the US and ukraine after zelensky have in common. Does the US have open neo-Nazi units in Ukraine? Did Obama pal around with notorious neo-Nazis? So ...
by Vympel
2024-03-15 03:55am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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The "white supremacist anti semites" who take orders from a country led by a jewish person- You sound absolutely ridiculous. Next thing you're going to tell me that the US has no issues with systemic racism because they elected Obama. Just a total denial of the systems and mechanisms of p...
by Vympel
2024-03-14 11:41pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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Nazi's aren't bad because they wear Nazi symbols you lunatic. Nazi's are bad because they advocate for, and previously have committed, mass killings of millions of people deliberately or through other malfeasance. (Ann Frank's death was part of a genocide when she technically died of typhus, as I'm...
by Vympel
2024-03-14 07:57pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

My last word on this particular topic will be this: If anyone deserves a bit of slack for taking the position that there's got to be a strictly limited number of ways the invading forces of Nazism could be any worse than what they already have to put up with, it's someone who lived through the Holo...
by Vympel
2024-03-14 06:48pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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I am the only authority to declare who is naci, who is not, and due to my intellectual superiority I can do it from here, I do not need to check meanings and reasons. Please explain what 'meanings and reasons' make it ok for a state to engage in official Holocaust denial, Nazi collaborator apologet...
by Vympel
2024-03-14 06:01pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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I mean there must've been lots of Nazi style death camps and gas chambers and millions of dead, right? Yes . ~30,000 and ~1.6 million, respectively. A fucking labor camp isn't a the same thing as a fucking extermination camp, and pretending they're the same is actually a form of Holocaust denial. I...
by Vympel
2024-03-14 08:54am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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How is the forced deportation and ethnic cleansing of ethnic minorities not organized mass murder when the resulting estimated deaths were up to 1.5 million ? And that's not even including the additional 1.6 million of people who died in Stalin's concentration camps, I mean, Gulag slave labour pris...
by Vympel
2024-03-14 07:52am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

Oh please, as if the USSR under Stalin wasn't a genocidal state itself? Stalin had no problem in the mass murder or forceful deportation of millions of ethnic minorities (and not just in Ukraine), and his regime treated the common people just as much as slaves. So yeah, I see Stalin with the same c...
by Vympel
2024-03-14 06:05am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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Mmm. Love that young guard organisation. Totally not reminiscent of my grandmothers time in the Hitler youth. LOL yeah dude, the youth wing of a political party named after the expressly anti-fascist Komsomol organisation are exactly equivalent with a state whose political and military figures do o...
by Vympel
2024-03-13 06:59pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread

So 50% of the two battalions. Would you like to estimate the number of fascists in the russian army, you know, for balance? :roll: You'd have a hard time doing that easily, since unlike Ukraine, the Russian military isn't lousy with troops who feel comfortable openly adorning their uniforms with fa...
by Vympel
2024-03-13 12:17am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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It's great to hear that Russians opposed to the war are taking up arms against Putin. Just checking, they aren't Nazis or something, are they? It would be better if they weren't Nazis. They were Nazis the last time they tried the exact same ineffectual PR stunt just before the last counteroffensive...
by Vympel
2024-03-12 06:27pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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An article in France has set out the findings of confidential French defence reports on the situation in Ukraine. War in Ukraine: from caution to panic… What Macron’s shift hides The article is behind a paywall, but its had extracts translated on twitter: "A Ukrainian military victory now seems...
by Vympel
2024-03-10 08:48pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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David Axe is a strange one. He'll post about the Ukrainians losing a Patriot battery rather than cope about it being fake or whatever, I guess because the video was so noteworthy and unambiguous, but at the same time: Ukrainian Patriot batteries in the last month have shot down as many as a dozen Ru...
by Vympel
2024-03-08 05:33am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
Replies: 299
Views: 12933

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How do NATO articles cover targeted assassins against government officials of member states, by outside powers? Because IF the Greek Prime Minister had been killed, I could see Greece going 'he was the target!' They wouldn't. For one, this entire hubbub about the Odessa strike was immediately playe...