Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[Hassan Al-Somal]

So lets talk geopolitics.

Situation januari:
Europe and russia starting closer ties. Germany close to open nordstream 2 (despite american pressure)

European defense spending/readiness all time low.

Usa/EU relations weakened (thanks to trump and continuing differing interests)

Capacity gas supplied to europe 10 times that compared to gas to china

Ukraine in frozen conflict. Seeking closer ties eu and nato, but still remaining far away in this process.


Now russia COULD have sought diplomacy and trade to resolve matters with ukraine, then gain immense wealth through trade and european integration.

HOWEVER, they preferred their “stick and..stick” apporach..what the soviets always had done and why so many former warsaw pact came running and screaming to nato for protection.

Sure…if they could have pulled off a full takeover in a week…things would return somewhat to normal. By the time the EU would have finished their first debate things would be over already.
(though still high risk of long insurgancy and long troubled relations/sanctions).

However now russia is:
100 days in a war of attrition with no exit in sight. High russian losses of men and military equipment…constant inflow of arms and support for ukraine.

Under heavy long term sanctions…from their main customers….now thanks to the post corona trade issues this disruption is good for resource prices…in a few years they will lose most of their market. And china will then be able to set the price…

Nation building moment in ukraine…against russian influence. Full in western camp now.

Usa gained the opportunity to get europa back in its grasp

As a result of russian aggression, nato is set to expand with multiple countries.

Nato vs russian military spending was already heavily lopsided….now europe is doubling defence spending…dwarfing the russian spending even more.

European/russian ties heavily damaged for many years.

A complete disaster really….the pain is buffered by the high resource prices (eu did unfortunately not stock up on gas…the idiots…) but this will be temporary. Russia will get hit militarily, economically, and in prestige that will set them back decades.

Winners? USA, China.
Losers? Russia, Ukraine, EU, third world nations (food prices)

Russia is paying a heavy price because, unlike EU, the Russian leadership and Russian people don't want to be dictated to by Victoria Nuland and other Neocons. If they were compliant to the dictates of Nuland and her ilks, just like the EU is, Russians would've been left alone, of course with the price of their natural resources looted.

So in essence, Russians are paying a price to be a free country, and frankly their freedom is worthy of whatever pain that the empire is inflicting on them.

 

[K_Bin_W]

Russia can today flatten entire Ukraine by carpet bombing the shit of it or just simply nuking it. Ukraine and West can’t do shit about it.

They have been playing gently uptill now and Ukrainians and their handlers should hope they continue to do that.

They certainly have the firepower to do it but they will not because there is a large minority that supports Russia.

 

[Viet]

Well, think of it this way.

With Russia now bankrupt, their contract to EU is more than important than just about anything else. There are not much Russia can do, not like they have another 450 billions enterprise hidden somewhere in the Siberia. If you look at the contract being cancelled by Russia, they are small peanuts, big contract like Germany and France are untouched, no matter how "unfriendly" they are, because that's 75% of EU oil and Gas contact goes

Not saying the world will not suffer, in fact, of all those country, Ukraine would probably suffer the most, the problem is, for them, that price to pay is to keep their country, so you can sell it to everyday Ukrainian to laydown their life and pick up a weapon and die for their country, how are you going to sell to the Russian and asking them to die for Donbas? And if they did not die, they are going to eat dirt for the next 20 years or so (that's how long it take to recover from last Bankrupt)

Putin is like a rat caught in a trap. There is no escape. There is a story. Putin was bitten by a rat when he was young.
He hunted a rat thru the floors. When the rat was cornered it sprung him into the face. One lesson he learned from the encounter: never push anyone or animal into a corner.

 

[RoadAmerica]

Russia can today flatten entire Ukraine by carpet bombing the shit of it or just simply nuking it. Ukraine and West can’t do shit about it.

They have been playing gently uptill now and Ukrainians and their handlers should hope they continue to do that.

Oh yeh because they’ve been playing nice. Do you seriously believe this crap

 

[Wolfhunter]

Oh yeh because they’ve been playing nice. Do you seriously believe this crap

This is what happens when you smoke cheap shit.

 

[RoadAmerica]

Too early to say Odessa is saved. After Donbass, Odessa will be the new front. And Ukraine will be finished if they lost their sea access.

And Russia is not exactly dirt poor as you say. Don’t exaggerate please.


Looks like they have not learned the lesson after what happened to the last foreign legion which got hammered brutally.

Please explain how Ukraine is finished if they become landlocked? You mean finished like the the majority of Europe which is land locked, ever heard of roads and rail

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

I see you missed out all the other videos I shared right and went straight for the dildo... What a dirty mind you have.

Here is another one for you:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1532791387468464128

Propaganda and a manufuctured story to keep the Western sheeple inline. There were countless Ukrainians whose cries and pain were posted online. Show me any major media/propaganda outlet that aired and showed it to the Western audience. You wont see it because the true cost of the war in Ukraine is hidden from the Western societies. That is how you know they manufacture stories in Russia when they hide the true stories on the Ukrainian side.

 

[Vergennes]

Oh yeh because they’ve been playing nice. Do you seriously believe this crap

"Russia can destroy Ukraine in 30 seconds if it wanted to but wants to save Ukrainians from neonazis"
"Russia's only sending conscripts and second tier equipment"
"The real Russian army is waiting in Russia for NATO".

 

[RoadAmerica]

The amount of territory taken is less important than than its location. If Odessa is conquered, & the industrial region captured, the Russians will have severed Ukraines access to the sea, appropriated the offshore gas & vast mineral resources, including valuable lithium, & reduced Ukraine to Russias captive breadbasket, as it was in the days of the USSR

What exactly is Russia going to do with a completely destroyed east and coast of Ukraine. They couldn’t even rebuild east Germany they better like rubble.

 

[Wolfhunter]

Propaganda and a manufuctured story to keep the Western sheeple inline. There were countless Ukrainians whose cries and pain were posted online. Show me any major media/propaganda outlet that aired and showed it to the Western audience. You wont see it because the true cost of the war in Ukraine is hidden from the Western societies. That is how you know they manufacture stories in Russia when they hide the true stories on the Ukrainian side.

 

[kingQamaR]

Always interesting to see how propaganda is being used, I think majority of the public have clocked on how brainwashing and fake news works

 

[RoadAmerica]

Already land the size of UK is under Russian rule in the Donbass, 100 town and cities all under Russian control, water switched back on to the Crimea, the entire AZ.OV battalion currently incarcerated in Russia, a land Corridor to Crimea, the entire AZ.OV coastline Russian, if that is losing what is winning?

Shall we count the Russian losses?

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

I'd strongly consider you read this before making statements like this:

Institute for the Study of War

Russian forces continued to make incremental, grinding, and costly progress in eastern Ukraine on June 2. Russian troops continued operations to capture Severodonetsk and further operations to capture Lysychansk. Russian military leadership will likely

www.understandingwar.org

No sane human should read the propaganda gibberish that is constantly passed as analysis by Neocons at the ISW. It is the same group of people who engineered the wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and then installed Zelensky in Ukraine in order to wage this war against Russia. I am not sure why people have a short memory. Nobody should listen to this evil.

 

[ZeGerman]

Russia is paying a heavy price because, unlike EU, the Russian leadership and Russian people don't want to be dictated to by Victoria Nuland and other Neocons. If they were compliant to the dictates of Nuland and her ilks, just like the EU is, Russians would've been left alone, of course with the price of their natural resources looted.

So in essence, Russians are paying a price to be a free country, and frankly their freedom is worthy of whatever pain that the empire is inflicting on them.

Utter dribble.

Russia was free of neocons. (Not free from putin and oligarchs stealing billions btw) And could trade. However chose to invade a sovereign nation which russia vowed would respect its security.

 

[Wolfhunter]

No sane human should read the propaganda gibberish that is constantly passed as analysis by Neocons at the ISW. It is the same groups of people who engineered the wars against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and then installed Zelensky in Ukraine in order to wage this war against Russia. I am not sure why people have a short memory. Nobody should listen to this evil.

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And I suppose your Russian sponsored sources are angels right?