Russia is so incompetent they couldn’t even defeat just one country in NATO, Poland
How do you know this? What are the winning lottery numbers for tomorrow?
Remember when that Polish minister knelt at the Bandera monument?
Goodbye any fear Europe had of Russia. They can’t defeat Poland much less all of NATO.
I think you'll find the war is in Ukraine, not Poland. Easy mistake to make for an American.
the gathering of BRICS and other countries this week spotlights a growing convergence of nations who hope to see a shift in the global balance of power and – in the case of some, like Moscow, Beijing and Tehran – directly counter the United States-led West.
Tacit admission the two are one and the same. To shift the global balance of power the United States-led West must be countered.
But despite Russia’s sweeping rhetoric, the leaders meeting in Kazan have a wide range of viewpoints and interests – a reality of BRICS that observers say limits their ability to send a unified message – especially the kind Putin may desire
Democracy? That's actually a bad thing, sweetie.
Attack on journalist part of broad crackdown on Palestine reporting, activism.
British counterterrorism police on Thursday raided the home and seized several electronic devices belonging to The Electronic Intifada’s associate editor Asa Winstanley.
Approximately 10 officers arrived at Winstanley’s North London home before 6 am and served the journalist with warrants and other papers authorizing them to search his house and vehicle for devices and documents.
A letter addressed to Winstanley from the “Counter Terrorism Command” of the Metropolitan Police Service indicates that the authorities are “aware of your profession” as a journalist but that “notwithstanding, police are investigating possible offenses” under sections 1 and 2 of the Terrorism Act (2006). These provisions set out the purported offense of “encouragement of terrorism.”
An officer conducting Thursday’s raid informed Winstanley that the investigation was connected with the journalist’s social media posts. Attempts to reach the Metropolitan Police Service for comment for this story have been unsuccessful.
Although his devices were seized, Winstanley was not arrested and has not been charged with any offense.
As the conflict expands across the Middle East, western leaders refuse to implement any red lines for Tel Aviv
One year on, the evidence is overwhelming.
>We can conclude that during the Al-Aqsa Flood offensive:
- Israel expanded the use of its murderous “Hannibal Directive” – designed to prevent soldiers from being taken alive as prisoners of war – by killing many of its own civilians.
- The use of such “Hannibal” strikes are confirmed in a UN report published in June.
- Fire from Israeli helicopters, drones, tanks and even ground troops was deliberately undertaken in order to prevent Palestinian fighters from taking live Israeli captives who could be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners.
- At the initiative of the local Gaza Division, “Hannibal” was carried out right away: less than an hour after the Palestinian offensive began.
- By midday, an unambiguous order was given from the high command of the Israeli military (the so-called “Pit” headquarters, deep under Israel’s Hakirya building in downtown Tel Aviv) to invoke the Hannibal Directive throughout the entire region, “even if this means the endangerment or harming of the lives of civilians in the region, including the captives themselves.”
- This bombing of Israeli captives by Israel continues in Gaza even today.
- Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted in a December meeting with released captives and families of captives that they had been “under our bombardments” in Gaza.
- Hundreds of Israelis were likely killed by Israel itself in “Hannibal” targeting incidents as well as unintentional crossfire.
- Israel has been engaged in an aggressive cover-up of its crimes against its own people.
The country’s industrial and military status are reaching a whole new level, with implications for the Korean Peninsula and other theaters around the world.
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>Hamas on Sunday rejected an updated U.S. proposal for a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza
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>More specifically, Hamas objects to the fact that the proposal doesn't include a permanent ceasefire
b asks: "There is no ceasefire deal. How then could Hamas reject a ceasefire deal?"
The world’s second-largest economy is expected to leapfrog France and the US as the top source of atomic power.
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A Ukrainian retreat would be risky. But it might be the only realistic option.
>The firepower imbalance might prove decisive as the battle rages on. Sensing an opportunity and apparently feeling confident in their chances, Russian commanders have shoved the 15th and 74th Motor Rifle Brigades into the salient along with elements of the 90th Tank Division and some special forces.
>At least seven Ukrainian brigades and a separate battalion are fighting back: the 23rd, 25th, 47th, 100th and 115th Mechanized Brigades, the 25th Air Assault Brigade, the 3rd Assault Brigade and the 425th Assault Battalion. The brigades typically deploy just one battalion at a time.
>It’s apparent the Russians have, in all, more than 10,000 troops in or near the salient. Just 3,000 or so Ukrainians oppose them, if the Center for Defense Strategies’ estimate is accurate.
Ignoring the context, the one on the right looks absolutely pathetic. It would have been better to remove the whole thing.
2nd one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10A12WGrviQ
Democrats hate democracy.
Oh right. I was misunderstanding everything yesterday. One of those days...
If you believe that, then the Democrats' propaganda is working. Biden didn't close the ICE centres or stopped family separation at the border. Obama bombed civilians in Muslim countries and didn't close Guantanamo bay.
The two parties are exactly the same, except the Democrats pretend like they don't do those things.
Are you asking about coherence and reason in the narrative? What are you, a Russian bot?
Where? In the country where they took Jack Ma's company away from him? In the country where a CPC representative has to sit on the board of directors of every company? In the country where the punishment for embezzling millions is death?
The existence of wealthy people does not mean those wealthy people have control. They have easy lives, riches, opportunities, sure, but they don't have to have influence in how the country is run.
Haha yes. Meanwhile Zelenskyy said victory for Ukraine is taking back Crimea, but they will keep changing the victory conditions.
That's what liberals do, they try to control the narrative to try to control reality, because they are idealists. I'm glad to see most of the world rejecting their narrative, such as African countries. Then the liberals cry how the Chinese and Russians are "bribing" the Africans by building hospitals, schools and infrastructure. Yet they didn't think of "bribing" African countries the same way, but continued trying to exploit them.
That and "Ukraine actually won, because Putin didn't achieve his goal of conquering the whole Ukraine and genociding all Ukrainians, as he had planned to do." Because we all know Putin controls a country of 140 million people using his mind powers, but he's also sick and about to die from cancer.
There has to be cognitive dissonance. I really do believe the liberal media keeps people in a state of cognitive dissonance on purpose to prevent them from reasoning. And I don't believe for a second that the liberal pundits and politicians actually believe what they are saying. They wouldn't be where they are if they were that dumb.
Liberals (liberal establishment/media) have already started laying the groundwork for the upcoming narrative.
Ukraine lost because of Trump (despite the election taking place 7 months from now and despite the next president being inaugurated in January of next year).
And Ukraine lost because of "pro-Russian" elements in the EU, that is anti-NATO and anti-war people who don't want to see taxpayer (working class) money be wasted on a corrupt country like Ukraine that never stood a chance anyway.
The narrative is that Ukraine was winning, that they could have won had it not been for the aforementioned people. Liberals/democrats blame Republicans for stopping the Ukraine aid (after 100+B sent) yet they don't wonder how Biden and the MIC is able to greenlight billions to Israel without congress' approval.
I hate liberals on an ideological level, but on a personal level I absolutely despise them, they disgust me. Them and their "We could have done ____, had it not been for ____." Every time they get power they don't know what to do with it, that's why every time liberals "win" like WWI and after, fascists take power. That's pretty much what happened in Ukraine during and after Euromaidan. Liberals know they are weak and pathetic, so they use fascists to do the things they know they can't.
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I wish we could turn back time, to the good old days...
"Russia is heading for an outright defeat in Ukraine." -- Francis Fukuyama, March 10, 2022
https://www.americanpurpose.com/blog/fukuyama/preparing-for-defeat/
The war in Ukraine is likely headed for a "devastating Russian defeat," according to an expert on economic policy in the eastern European region.
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-headed-devastating-defeat-ukraine-war-expert-1710410
the critical weakness
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
This. Although I don't expect him to act on it. These are all pre-election promises that are never fulfilled. It'd be nice if I were wrong, though.
Well yeah, they don't want unification because they think northern Ireland will become a burden on the republic. Perhaps things will change in the future.
I'm all for the breakup of Great Britain. It'd be nice if NI joined the republic and Scotland became independent... An empire spanning the globe and controling 25% of it reduced to England and Wales. A fitting end.
But apparently most people in the Republic of Ireland don't want reunification. Can anyone familiar with the issue confirm?
Sanctions on China backfiring, you love to see it.
American-made F-16 fighter jets due to arrive in Ukraine this summer are “no longer relevant”, a senior Ukrainian military official has said.
>Before their arrival, the Western warplanes had been held up by some as a potential war-winner that could turn the tide of the conflict in Kyiv’s favour.
>“Often, we just don’t get the weapons systems at the time we need them – they come when they’re no longer relevant,” a Ukrainian high-ranking officer told the Politico news website.
>“Every weapon has its own right time. F-16s were needed in 2023; they won’t be right for 2024.”
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Good analysis (as always) from b on Moon of Alabama.