Get your polymarket bets in before it's too late.
>>65192763Don't know why he continued after the Wagner rebellion. Was the perfect time to just blame the conflict on prigo/mercenaries in general then dip out.
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>>65192772Why did he fly back? I hear they did family threats to stop him from the run on moscow but were they still held by the time he flew back? It was a couple months after the rebellion.
>>65192772Because he wanted that new resource belt in the north of ukriane (or at least as much as possible) and could keep fighting to get more of it. Putin is an idiot, but he's not completely retarded, he knew what he wanted from day -30, the 'russian speakers this' and 'russophobia that' is just convenient excuses, same with how he's trying to pull that fuckhole game in the baltics right now. If he gave up then, with less than what he wanted with the capability on the table to 'get more', why wouldn't he? When ukraine started to really hammer their oil industry, if he gave up then it would have sent a clear message that threaten Russian oil in any severe way, they cave, which he couldn't do. My take is that it's been long enough for him to start saying 'we win' and stop fighting, at least nominally because it's been long enough since the oil strikes got bigger and badder for him that it's just normal now. You give up when it's big news, that's a reason, you 'give up' when it's normal, it's just a dice in the pile.
>>65192763There was a leaked MoD map that they use to inform themselves about the ongoings of the war. Its way, way off from reality
>>65192799this can't be real right?
>>65192763>no way monke is actually cucking>no reasons for piggers to give up right now eitheridgi
>>65192805That's a significant jump up in accuracy.
>>65192805Its an old map that is dated April 9 of this year, but its source is apparently from private TG chats. So take it with a huge grain of salt. The people that are skeptical yet aren't dismissing it entirely have said that it lines up well enough from publicly released Russian MoD statements. Some people are saying that the scaling is off so its fake. So who really knows
>>65192763He's not ending the war without either completely neutralizing Ukraine (which would end in nook-nook-ook-ook) or ceding Crimea.
>>65192763It's pretty obvious that this is for domestic reassurance rather than an actual statement of intent. Still, the fact that Putin feels he needs to do this says a great deal about how the momentum of the war has shifted.
>>65192763Monke always doubles down in conquest of banan.And two weeks until what, exactly? They aren't going to unilaterally declare the end of the SMO, it would first start with negotiations, ACTUAL good faith negotiations where they're willing to compromise on something, and that would take months
so it'll end with a Ukrainian reconquista?
>>65192805>>65192825It lines up with the fantasy maps we have seen in videos from their MoD meetings.
>>65192928>And two weeks until what, exactly?Til russia surrender
>>65192968>fantasy football :(>fantasy SMO :)
>>65192973Perhaps zigs would start squealing for surrender if Ukraine started rating territory at 10 times the speed they have been moving, though at that point Ukraine would have no reason to accept their surrender
>>65192763Lol, he's banking on NATO being pulled into the conflict so he can live a couple more weeks under the guisse of "nato attacked ME". But they aint falling for it and are just gonna keep paying Ukraine to drone the shit outa the Russia until they croak.
>>65192986> fantasy SMO Legends mobile when?
>>65193099Why would NATO get involved at all?
>>65193099100% why the drones hit Romania and why you should expect more drone strikes like that in other NATO countries.
>>65193107Means Ukie air defence has to be multiplied one way or another
Way to many Jeets and their dogs Serbs here
>>65193106Those "accidental" drone strikes.
>>65192926This guy gets it.
>>65192772I'm amazed he didn't cash in on the golden ticket Trump waved in his face. By Trump's second term, the invasion had already stalled, half the conquered territory had been lost, and the remainder held in a grinding stalemate, of which any chance they had of breaking stood on the other side of hundreds of thousands of casualties and trillions of roubles, and even then far from guaranteed. Then along comes this extraordinary opportunity to negotiate with maximum pressure on Ukraine from its own allies. I can't imagine more favourable conditions for Russia. But instead of taking it, Putin makes a straight bet with his house and car. What a retard.
>>65193118>PicWhen the US government signed that bill of sale in 1917 they formally acknowledged that Greenland was rightfully and indisputably Danish territory.They US government has signed at least two other major deals with Denmark acknowledging that Greenland unquestionably belongs to Denmark and that no one else had any right what so ever to claim Greenland as theirs.
>>65192805>this can't be real right?I'd believe it, I've read an interview with an russian deserter that was responsible for mapmaking on the lower level and he said shit like marking terrain as taken when the offensive to take it has not even started was commonplace Also when a mobik managed to slip through the lines all the terrain between him and the main forces was instantly marked as captured even when they even couldn't supply himSpecifically of note was that every time a general or other big wig turned up he had to make special dedicated maps for the guest that lost any connection to reality all together so i wouldn't be surprised if a few of those were responsible kek
>>65192763"We can no longer attack Ukraine because we often miss and hit NATO, who will kick our ass much more if we keep doing it."wat
>>65193193That opportunity isn't lost. Trump and his gaggle of zigger-loving faggots are just giddy at the thought of selling out Europe and doing some sweet deals with russian oligarchs. Trump is always ready to roll out the red carpet again.Only problem is that with each day the relevance of the USA to the war and the pressure it can put on Ukraine is diminishing. I think Monke got high on his own supply of propaganda, and believed that when Uncle Sam says jump, all his vassals ask "how high?". That didn't happen. If the USA wasn't able to force Ukraine and Europe to surrender and give Putin everything he wanted a year ago, it won't be able to do so now. So he will have to compromise, and he will be able to get a better deal through Trump than through Europe
>>65193297How will he and Trump come up with a deal Ukraine will abide by? Like you said Trump's ability to influence Ukraine is waning.
>>65193305By simply revoking aid sent to Ukraine, of which it still depends heavily on. If he pulls intel/weapons drops it will impact the Ukies heavily. As will any conversions made for Ruskie purchase power (for example allowing air components). I sincerely doubt he'll do this tho. Trump had his fun with Ukraine he needed to show his voter base he was such a based strongman he could show those ungrateful slavs who's boss. DESU with you I consider that run of his second term pretty much fed by Ruskie nonsense. It seems like he's gotten the message tho and has backed off. Hard to say if he still is dick riding the Ruskies tho. He swings more than a Thai ladyboy and the sailors they see.
>>65193343US doesn't send any physical aid. And intelligence can be had from France and UK, whom have already stepped up a lot since the last US intel black out.
>>65193343The US has “paused” intel sharing and approval of purchased aid, etc, for timescales up to 6 months already though. The French and the Anglos stepped into the gap. It will hurt Ukraine and extend the war, at the cost of even more US prestige, but it will not make Ukraine submit to Russia, and fears of this very threat have caused Europe to prepare for this very eventuality, so it will hurt Ukraine less this time around than it did last summer.Short of aid to Russia, Trump cannot hand Donbas and the Azov coast to Putikins.Plus it makes about 40% of Republicans mad, and he can’t afford that shit rn.
>>65193351>US doesn't send any physical aidthey still sell weapons to ukraine >And intelligence can be had from France and UKthey won't be able to match how much the US provides
>>65193351>>65193359Revoke Starlink, Ukraine's drone advantage disappears.
>>65193343>simply revoking aid sent to Ukraine, of which it still depends heavily onthe US could do that, but that aid isn't critical anymore.the extra cost of fighting the war without that aid is still lower than the cost of just surrendering.the Us threatening to pull aid is at best enough to force Ukraine to accept a less favorable deal. but far from enough to force them to accept a deal anywhere close to what the russians are demanding. and you can bet that the moment the russians learn about that US pressure they are going to ask for even more.placing that kind of pressure on Ukraine also isn't free. Nearly every other country that the US has defense agreements or sales to will see this as a sign that they have to cut those back and hedge on others.those losses with third nations would be grater than any gain from forcing Ukraine to give in.and while Trump can do a lot on his own he isn't able to just do what he wants, he'd get push back and that would in turn take time and impose costs on him to get done.
>>65193362>they still sell weapons to ukraineThat is not aid.
>>65193365Restoring it to Russia would do more damage. But it still wouldn’t end the war in Putin’s favor.
>>65193365a, there are alternative to starlink granted they aren't as good. but they are still better than what the russians havethis would also impose costs to Elon and the US. no other county or even private companies would expose themselves to such a risk if they could avoid it.secondly even without starlink or it's alternatives the cost of waging the war would still be lower than acceding to russia's demands
>>65193365It would hurt the Ukranians, but the European alternative is already up and running and will grow fast.
>>65193305>>65193343USA doesn't provide any aid to Ukraine. What he could do is end the PURL program, but that's kinda shooting yourself in the foot since you can no longer fleece European taxpayers, open question whether that Nobel Peace Prize is more important than cash to Trumpy.Cutting intel is a bigger issue, but a lot of talk is that Ukraine is decreasing its dependence on USA intel anyway specifically for this reason, relying more on France and the UK and its own methods of gathering intel.The biggest threat is ending sanctions on Russia. That would borderline be a declaration of war on Europe and painting yourself as an adversary to the continent. Does Trump have the balls to do that? He's systematically purging whatever neocons still remain in the Republican party and replacing them with brainless, spineless mentally ill cocksuckers, so who knows. The time window to coordinate that with the Kremlin is ending, the midterms are coming. Trump would love that Dubya of ending the war and would be desperate to put whatever pressure he can on Ukraine
>>65193118>Serbsrentfree
>>65193383>USA doesn't provide any aid to Ukraine>Cutting intel is a bigger issueintel is aid, if the US wouldn't give it someone else would have to get it and that would cost a lot of money to set up the ability to get it.>The biggest threat is ending sanctions on Russiayes and no but mostly nowhat russia needs is a big fat cash injectionto get that it needs to sell energy resources at a grand scalethe only place it has the infrastructure to sell more energy to is Europe and they wouldn't be buying.sure the russians could buy a lot of things they'd need from the US, but how is it going to pay for it? it's sold nearly all it's foreign reserves, no one wants rubles, no one trusts the russians to trust a deed to an asset in russia to be worth the paper it's written on and if you say energy the russians are already exporting about as much as they can via the shadow fleet.this would also piss of the chinks and they offer the russians more now than want the US could potentially offer
>>65192799>Everyone thinks they're fighting in a Russian SMO>Russian MOD is sponsored by playing Raid Shadow Legends
>>65193383>borderline be a declaration of war on Europe and painting yourself as an adversary to the continentNothing new than. He and Vance said similar things before.
>>65193351We have and do sent physical aid. We have restricted that flow, but there are open contracts and aid that is still be disbursed (but new aid has not been allocated) >>65193359US intel sharing still exists and feeds Ukie troops, it is supplemented by private sources but still exists. I don't believe that Trump can single handedly turn the Ukrainian war (largely due to some European actions), but he certainly could put enough pressure to collapse Ukraine if that was a real objective. Instead he is more likely trying to get them to hand over the breakways (not something I like just the reality of the situation), which can be done. The Ukies themselves are still heavily vested in US financial aid. Pull that pain point and the core of the nation will desire a quicker return to peace (at potential land loss). It's still an open point in the gov and a wedge the Ruskies are using to drive divisions int he country. >>65193368It's foolish to believe that the country that contributes more than the entireity of the EU pulling aid would have no effect. It is truthful to say that the current state of aid in 2026 means that the US pulling aid is no longer a single linchpin.>>65193383The US does still provide financial aid (has not allocated new, but is disbursing billions already allocated). It has continued contracts already signed for several missile assets AND also has the PURL program.In general I think the Ukies have gotten themselves to a nice point (but it is 100% dependent on the US to get there). At this current juncture they have more direct say in how the war ends, but it's less around dictating full terms of the war and more around keeping US aid going long enough to dictate terms. They are doing good, but don't get ahead of the current reality nor it's actual factual material dependencies. DESU about the only truly major impact called out in these responses is the shuttering of Starlink. Of course there's caveats to that, Elon obviously
>>65193297>That opportunity isn't lost. Trump and his gaggle of zigger-loving faggots are just giddy at the thought of selling out Europe and doing some sweet deals with russian oligarchs. Trump is always ready to roll out the red carpet again.Trump immediately began attacking the Shadow fleet when the second attempt to get Russia to negotiate and concede on some of their points floundered because Putin made Trump look bad, and people act like that hasn't defined the US stamce towards the conflict since last year. They won't help Ukraine because Ukraine still has suspicious ties to democrats up to and including rerouting aid money to election funds and whom the current MAGA branch of the Republican are waging an internal war against, but they won't help Russia either because Russia has directly aided Iran, Cuba and Venezuela. The US clearly has shifted to "grind them both down and inflict economic damage". Europeans suffering from the oil crisis can't keep supplying Ukraine forever and Russia, getting cucked out of their oil exports by Ukrainian dronings, can't field anything but meat waves anymore. However, if Russia ends the war now and rejoins the international market, it could swoop in and tank oil prices and make the Hormuz blockade much less painful for Europe and Asia and politically less costly for America but it could also recover from the war much faster and encroach on Europe and Ukraine almost immediately Nobody else wins if the war ends right now except for maybe China. The current state is advantageous for Ukraine because Russia is missing out on their golden chance to become rich and imfluential via gas and oil. Russia might tease peace but they aren't ready politically.
>>65193416FYI pulled my info from here if you have issue https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine
>>65193416>pulling aid would have no effectwhere did I say that >that contributes more than the entireity of the EU now you are just blatantly lying >(but it is 100% dependent on the US to get there)lol, lmao evennot the Ukies doing the fightingnot all the direct transfer of soviet arms and munitions from eastern Europe they relied upon in the opening weeks and monthsnot all the financial and military aid they have gotten from Europe no it's all the USAagain lmao
he tried to save russia from (((putin)))
>>65193439Part of me still hopes for the return of Punished Prigo
>>65193433>where did I say that >>65193368>>simply revoking aid sent to Ukraine, of which it still depends heavily on>the US could do that, but that aid isn't critical anymore.>now you are just blatantly lying Taps the graphs, provide sources proving otherwise please. You can see mine >>65193423>lol, lmao evenWho trained the Ukrainian military and allocated gear for them starting in 2015? Who help change their military and reorganize to use NATO tactics? Who provided the necessary manpads that blotted the initial armor advance to Kiev? Who provided the exact invasion date? Who has funded the Ukrainian government in order to allow it the soft power to continue to function in the war? Who has provided the most noted interceptor system that has allowed them to protect their civil infrastructure? You can definitely point to the Ukies own internal drive and soldiers, but the best soldiers in sub standard gear are fodder. If not for the initial US support the Ruskie invasion would have gone according to plan. It's worked plenty of times. It is the US training and information that prevented that. It's not a feeling it's a fact.
>>65193365AI, machine learning and inage recognition is now available in consumer electronics. It's fairly simple to adapt those to autonomously guide drones at the terminal phase. Inertial navigation has been in use since the 1940s and works just fine to get the drone into the general target area.
>>65193449Lol. The US did jack shit in terms of training. Look at your graph. Most of US aid is in military equipment and that is inflated due to the "sticker price" instead of the actual lower secondhand price. The ukies did radical structural changes to their military on their own. They abandoned the top heavy Warsaw Pact military structure and adopted the NATO style from the ground up. Most of their training is/was from EU countries while their drone tech was thanks to the Turks. Don't get me wrong. The US gave valuable hardware when the Ukies were bleeding them but let's not understate the fact that the ukies made structural reforms on their own, essentially changing focus trees in gaymer speak.
>>65193449>pulling aid would have no effect>but that aid isn't critical anymorewould you care to explain to the rest of the class how those statements are anywhere near the same?>contributes more than the entireity of the EU >Graphplease consult your graph and add EU institutions and the contributions of it's member states together>Who trained the Ukrainian military and allocated gear for them starting in 2015training, also provided by the Europeans>Who help change their military and reorganize to use NATO tacticsalso the Europeans>provided the necessary manpads that blotted the initial armor advance to Kievalso the Europeans, the Poles where chucking those things into Ukraine by the trainload>Who has funded the Ukrainian government in order to allow it the soft power to continue to function in the war?as your graph clearly shows, the Europeansagain you where claiming that the only reason the Ukrainians got here is the USthat is blatantly false
>>65192763I stopped giving a fuck 2 months into this mess. Just glass both countries.
>>65193417The last Cope of Russia "AFD will win and Germany will attack Ukraine from the West"
>>65193398You're being pedantic, I obviously meant financial and military aid. Intel is something generally gathered anyway, so it costs nothing or very little for the US to share it with Ukraine. Cutting intel is done only to spite or pressure them>sure the russians could buy a lot of things they'd need from the US, but how is it going to pay for it?That's why Trump and his subhuman failsons are salivating at business deals with Russia. Lifting sanctions and selling of goods in exchange to access to Russia's natural resources, building Trump hotels, opening new grifts all over the country, whatever they want. Why else is the "mediation" done by Kushner and Witless? And the US is still an economic juggernaut, the mere threat of secondary sanctions was enough to scare the shitskins into reducing oil imports.But you're probably right that it's too late to save Snowmalia, but that's not the point, the point is that lifting sanctions is the biggest blow the US can inflict upon Europe, even if it won't win russia the war. But is sure as hell can prolong it and make the final outcome more painful for Ukraine and less painful for russia>>65193416>has not allocated new, but is disbursing billions already allocatedYeah, about that: https://x.com/atrupar/status/2054219183710179574>StarlinkSimilar situation to PURL, it's paid for by Europe (Poland specifically, last I check some months ago, maybe someone else is footing the bill now), so cutting that will also be a double edged sword
>>65193343The US provides Zero dollars and Zero cents to Ukraine and revoking Intel would hurt but wouldn't do much to change the current battlefield outside of removing some of Ukraine's ability to detect Russia's biweekly drone attacks
>>65193416Ukraine can hold out until the midterms even if Trump went all in on the "Fuck Ukraine" crowd, Russia cannot conquer enough Ukrainian territory in the next 7 or 8 months it'll take for the Midterms to utterly cripple Trump politically.
>>65193481>The ukies did radical structural changes to their military on their own. They abandoned the top heavy Warsaw Pact military structure and adopted the NATO style from the ground up. Most of their training is/was from EU countries while their drone tech was thanks to the Turks. https://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/ukraine-obama-putin-russia-216160https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/06/25/417511636/u-s-army-begins-training-ukrainian-soldiershttps://theconversation.com/in-2014-the-decrepit-ukrainian-army-hit-the-refresh-button-eight-years-later-its-paying-off-177881>To support Ukrainian military reforms, the U.S. increased its financial aid to Ukraine shortly after Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its support of separatists in Ukraine’s east.In 2014, the Obama administration provided US$291 million in assistance, and by the end of 2021, the United States had given a total of $2.7 billion in training and equipment.As part of this assistance, the United States helped train Ukrainian soldiers at the Yavoriv military base. The base quickly became a top-notch training center, where an estimated five battalions have trained annually since 2015. >One item of particular interest to the Ukrainians was obtaining better anti-tank missiles. When Russia sent T-90 tanks across the border to support separatists in 2014, Ukraine’s existing weapons were unable to penetrate the armor of T-90s.>In 2017, the United States provided the first set of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine.I'm not sure how you believe a nation that was so broke it couldn't even handle policing action somehow completely reorganized, trained from scratch and just materialized weapons not available to them or in their inventory. You are justifying an institutional move that could only exist with the external aid. If even one component was missing in the initial invasion the results would have changed considerably.
>>65193483The notion that the aid is no longer critical when they are literally looking for sources for US weapons and actively still receiving active deliveries is quite frankly bizarre. >please consult your graph and add EU institutions and the contributions of it's member states togetherPerhaps if you look at the graph you will see the second position which is labeled "EU Institutions". Beneath it you can see the various institutions that contributed to that second place number.>https://x.com/atrupar/status/2054219183710179574>He thinks this means that already allocated Congressional funds are not being disbursed>The US provides Zero dollars and Zero cents to Ukraine and revoking Intel would hurt but wouldn't do much to change the current battlefield outside of removing some of Ukraine's ability to detect Russia's biweekly drone attacksPlease google allocated and disbursed then consult the attached.>>65193508I do tend to agree with this sentiment. I'm not in the business of putting forth unlikely scenarios and even in the most directly offensive cutoff (removal of Starlink) I fundamentally believe the Ukies can hold for at least a year minimum. The reality of that tho is tough to test, especially in the extremely unlikely US yanks everything path. I wish it was more of a sticking point in the US and it does drive me crazy as I view the Ukrainian military as the best return on investment we have spent in the last 60 years. I'm hoping we'll see some plays internally for more Ukraine support, but we'll see.
>>65193498>so it costs nothing or very little for the US to share it with Ukrainethe value provided is not the cost to the US but the savings it provides Ukraine and it's other backersyou are just being pedantic by changing what you "obviously" said after you got proven wrong>in exchange to access to Russia's natural resources, building Trump hotels, opening new grifts all over the country, whatever they wantmay I remember you what I said right after that>no one trusts the russians to trust a deed to an asset in russia to be worth the paper it's written on>Why else is the "mediation" done by Kushner and Witlessbecause Trump only trusts people that he knew from before he entered politics or that he knows are personally loyal to him >that lifting sanctions is the biggest blow the US can inflict upon Europebut that is different from forcing Ukraine to accept terms that it doesn't want tothe same could be said of EU disinvestment from the US. it would hurt the US but that doesn't mean it would force the US to do things that are fundamentally against not it's interests but continued survival
>>65193524The fact that Russian logistics are reaching collapse stage right now is enough that even if the Ukrainian lines outright collapsed Russia might not be able to exploit it.I remember how back in late 2024 and I think early 2025 there was a part of the Ukrainian front that had a massive breach when the Ukrainian unit withdrew without Ukraine being able to patch the hole and it still took Russia nearly a month to exploit it simply because of how hard it was to get men to the front.And things have only gotten worse since then.
>>65193524you are refusing to answer the question how is no longer critical and having zero effect the same? >is no longer criticalbecause even without those deliveries they would still be able to fight just like they where before those systems where deviled in the first place >"EU Institutions"please consult your post >>65193416>the entireity of the EUnot EU institutions but the entirety of the European Union made up of it's 27 member states. why say the "Entirety of the EU" if you are not also referencing it's member states?not doing so would also be highly disingenuous since you'd be comparing the US with it's 52 states as single entity but then cut up Europe into all it's individual states >https://x.com/atrupar/status/2054219183710179574try to at least refer to the annon that brought that upfollowing a tread really isn't that hard to do
>>65193449Kek you can't read a graph apparentlyBut you are a shill, so naturally you don't care
>>65193540I believe that the Russian army is definitely reaching its limits, but what's important to note is that the will to grind is still chugging in Russia. I think personally it's possible they might be able to get enough pressure going, but the Ukrainians have been similarly operationally handicapped and they have been dealing with resourcing issues as well. I do wonder if we'll see a smart EU nation unlock some heli support so they could do a proper VDV push against the Russians (please god it would be so funny). But I have not heard great news from the Ukies vis a vis their manpower. Just good news they aren't bleeding like they did previously. The behind the lines strikes tho, pic related>>65193547So in fact you need to stretch the terms to make the EU aid even come close to a singular nation. Amazing work. Provide evidence backing up this claim then.A twitter post of a retard yelling in Congress does not mean institutional practices are no longer around. Hegseth can not stop disbursement. We literally went through this a year ago.
>>65193449How many gundams has japan given Ukraine? Even Zaku Is would be a great help.
>>65193556so you can't say how is no longer critical and having zero effect the samegood to see that you admit to being wrong>EU aid even come close to a singular nationyou brought up "the entireity of the EU" not meand yes, the EU and it's member states are the right frame of comparison to the US with it's federal government and statesand again you can't even respond to the right posts
Ironically Medvedev just had a tweet about how "The peaceful sleep is over." I wonder what he meant by that when the Tsar is saying otherwise...
>>65193556The Ukrainians have been making some limited counteroffensives the past two months or so, pushing Russia back further into it's blasted territory is a pretty big success for them and it further erodes motivation on the Russia side.The fact that there's a massive dead zone along the front also hurts logistics, if there's a 50 mile wide no-mans-land where everything is destroyed then that hurts establishing successful logistic centers for a major push.
>>65193540>Ukrainian unit withdrewI remember that. Wonder if they got court martialed. They ask a lot of the soldiers, but it still seems insane to just pull out from your sector because you're angry rotation didn't show up.
>>65193570If both sides are suffering logistical collapse 50km into their lines, then naturally gaining a few KM for your depots can still push back your opposition from theirs.It theoretically works both ways, all that changed is the size of the grey zone and the difficulty for supplying infantry in that zone.
>>65193559I'm like 70% certain based off the graph that the majority of that is likely heavy generators. >>65193565You have yet to substantiate your claim with evidence. Provide proof of the EU outfunding. You are welcome to provide any source.>>65193570I've been following the war closely. I've been pretty happy with what they've done this year, but I've also been reading about their manpower issues. I think the Ukies are in a better spot than Russia. I think if the momentum continues they will stay in that spot. I also firmly believe that they can still regain the breakaways. We'll see what the rest of this year brings. If they can crank interceptor production and create a drone defense cottage industry they will likely end up as Europe's most competent military (not a hard competition, but it will be very well earned by the Ukies).
>>65193583nta, but I think it's important to point out that the Ukrainian counter attacks appear to be mechanized pusheswhile the russians have mostly switched to infiltration tactics that would suggest that the Ukrainians don't face the same problems/to the same extent in massing and deploying those from the greyzone into the contact line that the russians do
>>65193584>Provide proof of the EU outfundingthat graph proves it >>65193449add EU inst. with the EU countries and you are well above the US number.
>>65193584I'd like to point out that France have provided more in aid than Maine has, US btfoyou where referring to "the entireity of the EU"so add up the number for the EU and it's member states in the graph you yourself providedor are we going to divide the aid the US has into 50? and compare the state based aid with that provided by the individual EU member states?
>>65193589I wonder why. Do they attempt to establish local drone superiority, like what zigs did with Rubicon?
>>65193601Yeah. With their pushes they work to have extreme drone superiority. +100 drones per target apparently. Hunting russian drone units is also highest priority.
>>65193417Two more weeks zizzy and afd will definitely pierce the 30% barrier and achieve super majorityTrust the plan,Z
>>65193601Apparently at the Zaporizhia front the russians are claiming that for very zigger theres something like 60-70 ukrainian drones
>>65193601a part of it is I think the russian over claims in captured groundI can see that getting in the way of co-coordinating intel and strikes but also a more general drone superiorityeven on fronts where they aren't counter attacking they have a (very) positive K:D ratio. when you keep in mind how drone driven the casualties of those infiltration groups are and that's basically what both sides are doing then there's the element of russian logistics not keeping up and having to prioritize.they clearly value keeping their offensives going more than defending against the counter attacks
>>65193417>until AfD wins electionsthe AFD will never get a majority, and due to the gayass rules they'll get excluded from powereven if they where to somehow form a coalition, they'd not be free to do as they want nor is simping for the russians their number 1 goal that and federal elections aren't due for an other 2 years
>monke says anything>posters immediately start speculating about what this pile of shit flowing out if his mouth this time REALLY meansYou idiots haven't learned anything from the past year. Nothing matters what comes out of the mouths of these lying sacks of shit like monke or agent orange.Only thing that matters is WHAT THE HANDS ARE DOING In monkes case it's quiet mobilization, ever escalating draconian censorship, increasing restrictions on bank withdrawals, rampant theft of outside monke clan assets and preparing propaganda excuses for a chimp out in the baltics
>>65193584I'd also like to ad that if you where comparing "the entirity of the EU" population, economy, or anything else with the USyou wouldn't be comparing the number of eurocrats with the population of the US or the EU budget with the USbut the combined population and economy of the member states of the EUyou are committing the special pleading fallacy by only comparing the EU as and institution with the US when it comes to aid given to Ukraine
>>65193652>WHAT THE HANDS ARE DOINGaren't they also bombing the shit out of civilian targets now?
>>65193677also that
>>65193107I see Romanians at least on /int/ scream it’s a false flag
>>65193001Sure they would, if they accept a surrender they get to name terms which means reclaiming all of their territory without fighting for it
>>65193697even browner than usual 'romanians' you mean
Isn't he just copying the stock market pumping that the US has been doing with its Iran quagmire?
>>65193708>Russian stock marketWith what money is there to pump with regards to government stock market manipulation when nearly 100k Russian workers have reported as not having been paid for months.
>>65193712>No matter how hard you want to believe, to affirm your biases, Donald Trump is not an agent of Russia, and will not help them at all.But he'll still try, and that hurts the most of all.
>>65193697I would not trust anything you read on this website
>>65193398In order to cut Ukraine off from Intel the US would have to cut Europe off and that would mean cutting itself off from intel services that the euroes provideIf intelligence shared is intelligence doubled, then intelligence hoarded is intelligence halved
>>65193723Well I wouldn’t know where to see actual Romanian reactions besides the occasional /int/ or that shithole /pol/. Twitter is too bot heavy to see an actual person so maybe a different site?
>>65193712Donald Trump is so retarded that the only agent he can be is that of destruction, which probably isn't the conclusion you're looking for
>>65193601I'm convinced it's a doctrinal difference rather than a technical one but ill be damed if I know what that doctrine isWhatever it is, it gives the ukies and advantage because, as has been the case for more than a century now, if you can bring a tank to the engagement and your enemy can't, you win.
>>65193599You could do that, but im not sure it would be usefulPersonally I'd be a little interested in seeing how aid from individual US states lines up relative to their parry affiliation but I think we both already know what the trend would be
>>65193677Sure but you should be looking for stuff they are doing now that they haven't been doing this entire time
>>65193417>Just wait until AfD wins elections....and then nothing happens because AfD is controlled opposition. You have to learn the basic tricks of the trade son.
>this many coping mixed race mystery meat circumcised golem amerimutts ITTyour pedophile grandpa leader literally paints his face orange but I'm sure it's hunter biden who shits in his pants in public KEKnoone trusts your nigger nation anymore amd never will again
>>65194013sorry, ivan. but false flagging won't make russia win.
>>65193613that seems kinda small to me unless we are talking a quiet part of the front
>>65192763Places like Russia move slowly and spend a long time convincing their population X is a great idea before doing it.They have spent the last month slowly pushing the idea of ending the war but I think it'll be at least another 2 months before they actually start to wind down.As for reaching a deal Ukraine will accept that is a whole other thing, the Ukies have a lot of war fatigue and public support for taking back Crimea has fallen off a cliff. That said I can't see the Ukies accepting giving Russia anything more than Crimea.
>>65194033Zapo is one of the more quietest parts of the war from my understanding. Once Russia realized that they couldn't push any further than the couple of dozen KMs that they gained in 2025 they just abandoned the idea of any further offensives in the area and left the region to rot.
>>65192791>Because he wanted that new resource belt in the north of ukrianeAnyone who talks about "Muh resources" always comes out sounding like a 13 y.o. edgelord who belives they understood this world, by succumbing to this case of pseudo objective naivitie.They started this war for the same reason they wanted transnistria, abkhazia, osetia, chechnya, and back in the 20th century ukraine, belarus, finland.In none of these cases there was anything thats objectively is super neccessariy and desired, its entirety and fully their retardation.
>>65194044There won't be any recognition of Crimea as Russian. Ukraine made that clear. It'll be a shitty Minsk 3 type deal, but the objective is to get foreign peacekeepers there. Ukrainians know that Russians will start more wars in the future, so whatever territorial victory would be temporary anyway, so better not bleed out over territories but rather plan for the long run.
>>65193486and you specifically came here to let us know how less you caresuch a good boy!
>>65193486You are embarrassing yourself by not supporting Ukraine. Failing to support Ukraine is an anti-social behaviour.
>>65192788It was obviously >we cut your kids piece by piece and make you eat them if you don't fly your jet from here to here on this day on this height with these people on board
>>65192772Sunk costs fallacy all the way.
>>65192772>Don't know why he continued after the Wagner rebellion.Because he legitimately doesn't know how bad it actually is on the front. The man rarely, if ever, leaves his gooner cave
>>65194444Quad quads confirm.
>>65193343>show those ungrateful slavs who's bossYou don't think Melania's ungrateful?
>>65192763>polymarket betsThe only winning move is to be part of the US administration.
>>65194368The resources thing is really more about other people now having them than it is about russia having them, he didn't want a competitor
>>65194486Surely he does consider resources and other practical aspects, but the main motivation by far is ideological. Putin has been treating Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics like a checklist. He really believes he's on the way to restore/build the Russian Empire to something comparable to the Mongol or British Empire, while the USA would be contained, Europe neutered and China collapsed.Whenever people focus on resources they completely miss the point. Again, it's not that they're not considered, it's that people view them as the objective, not a means to achieve the actual objective.
>>65193305Threaten war with Ukraine if they "attack" our Russian ally
>>65193439>maneater jew tried to save russia from another maneater jewThis isn't a gambit anymore, this is straight up Esau's clown show
>>65192928>ACTUAL good faith negotiationsI don't think muscovites are physically capable of those.
>>65192772Because he's a retard. He behaves like a gambling addict who's positive that he'll win everything back and more if he prolongs it just a bit. Need to do another deposit and everything will now everything.
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>>65193439He did not, he strictly wanted to take over the MoD, Putin was never in any danger. He remained a loyal lap dog until the very end. Fucking faggot.
>>65193568He could just be referencing waking up from a nice bender
>>65192791>>65194368The resources thing is just rationalization for westerns whom can't comprehend the russian mindset. Yes, resources are an element of this, but like 25% of the issue at most and not directly related. The real reasons:1. Personal vanity and "place in history books", he styled himself as "returner of the russian lands" and views Ukraine as russian lands, the whole thing. This is based on the overwhelming russian view that Ukraine is in fact russian lands and don't exist as a separate nation or culture;2. Desire to "rebuild USSR" as an insulated regime because the current regime can't compete on the open market, but you need more people in the internal market for it. Ukraine was an obvious choice to get a fuck ton of people with "similar culture" (easy to assimilate) in one go, as well as some crucial soviet industry and infrastructure. 3. Prevent Ukraine from "going away to the west" fully, which would close the window on future possible options, but even more so prevent Ukraine from overtaking russia in success. There's a long-standing idea in the RU regime that they can't afford to have neighboring countries be successful after a protest-based government change. Because that would be too inflammatory for the russian society. That's why the first major issues with Ukraine started right after 2004 (the failed oligarch transition from Kuchma to Yanukovich, which russian banked on in a big way), with russia doing everything short of actual military action to cause a collapse in Ukraine. And well, before 2014 and before 2022 Ukraine was getting live better than average russia despite the russian shit, so military action was deemed as a make it or break it chance;1/2
cont. >>651946554. Prevent western investments into oil and natural gas extraction in Ukraine. Ukraine has the resources, but even more crucial Ukraine has the pipelines into Europe. If Ukraine starts to extract stuff (which is trivial with western investments), it throws the wrench into the russian desire to be a monopolist on the EU market and wield that position as a political weapon. Why do you think NordStream pipelines and other shit was built? It wasn't about the money, Ukie pipeline was already there and had more than enough capacity. At first it was about putting a squeeze on Ukraine by removing transit revenues from them. Then it was about threatening to cut off gas supplies to Ukraine, since russia would be able to do this once enough other pipeleines would be online. Later it became a question of military preparations: can fight without fearing supplies into EU getting cut off when other pipelines are online. Yes, by approving NordStream, Germany basically green-lit the war in Ukraine;2/2Something like this
>>65193697That's the turdie tier "sovereigntist" crowd that will do anything under the sun other than blame puccia. It's always the EU or NATO's fault in their warped minds.
>>65193568He means that his coke and booze ration was cut in half.
>>65194368>>65194531>>65194655You're literally retarded. It is about resources, but not a video game reason.In 2013, Shell signed a deal with Ukraine to exploit their gas and shale oil reserves, it was like $15bn or some shit deal. The reason for this exploitation was specifically 'energy independence from Russia' but ultimately it would mean that Ukraine could, when all infrastructure was set up, be an alternative and viable and 'more friendly' option to Russia to supply EUROPE. Now imagine if that happened, Ukraine is supplying cheaper or at least 'well we're giving money to them not Russia' and Russia could theoretically be cucked out of a very lucrative deal>b-b-but just sell to India and ChinaExpensive and not as profitable. But the most important aspect is Russia would lose its CONTROL over Europe. It could turn off the oil and we'd all freeze and eat hamsters.So Putin couldn't have that which is why, what a FUCKING SURPRISE, little green men invade in 2014 and suddenly Shell gets cold feet over a 'battleground' opening in their area and the deal is cancelled. This is two fold, it prevents Ukraine fucking Russia's trump card and two it weakens Ukraine economically. Which Russia exploited by bribing fifth columnists in Ukraine up until 2022 (FSB leaks said they need 18 months to 24 months more to fully turn the key areas but COVID scared Putin so he rushed it) and it was only due to incompetence that their plan didn't work. The annexation of Ukraine into the 'triple crown' was required as Ukraine was trying to change and align more to the West out of fear of Russia and Russia needed to establish that the Anglo-SATANS needed to bow to the multipolar war (the bonus being China also has to respect us too).So it was all about resources, but not about controlling them to sell them per se, but to make sure you didn't lose a key geopolitical card.
>>65194722oh look it's resource fagso russia is waging a war to prevent Europe from getting gas from Ukraine in turn losing Europe as an export marketyou also forget they Europe is already buying gas from other places before the waror that Ukraine hasn't the capacity to replace russiabut I'm sure a rock is what really matters
>>65194737I literally gave you an example. But I'll ask you a question then, since you seemed to be retarded.Okay? Ready? This might be a bit difficult for you, but try. Really hard.Okay? Here we go. It will be in GREEN text, OK?>Why did Russia invade Crimea in 2014, a few months after Ukraine signed a deal with Shell to exploit their gas and oil reserves with the specific goal of energy independence from Russia?
>>65194739>Why did Russia invade Crimea in 2014because the Maidan protests toppled the Ukrainian regime favorable to russia also in your 2013 focused schitzo post you forget that the Ukrainain government signing that "$15bn or some shit deal" was in effect a russian vassal regimewhy would the russians ever allow their guy to sign a deal they are so set against they'd go to war over it?ever thought about that numbnuts?
>>65194739NTA>>Why did Russia invade Crimea in 2014, a few months after Ukraine signed a deal with Shell to exploit their gas and oil reserves with the specific goal of energy independence from Russia?Correlation/causation, anon.This movement was one of many made by the Ukrainians, along with Maidan in general, that moved Ukraine away from the Russian sphere of influence. This is what this is about. It is not about resources. Sure, the Russians would like control over it, but they are doing this because they feel that Ukraine is a natural part of their sphere of influence and that the war would have been over quickly.You can figure this out swiftly by listening to what russian supporters of the war actually talk about.
>>65194744Yeah man I'm sure it's 'wild schizo conspiracy theory' to point out that a deal specifically designed for energy independence from Russia had absolutely no effect on Russia moving to prevent that from happening. None at all. As for your 'naval bases in Crimea' you mean th e naval bases already rented at an extremely cheap price by Russia already? The ones with Russian warships in it at the time of the invasion? Those naval bases? Wow. You've cracked the code instead, anon!>>65194746Fuck off retard. I guess I'll have to explain it>Have oil and gas>Can supply it to Europe if need be>Want energy independence from Russia>Sign deal to get this>This is a problem for Russia because the pro-Russian guy is ousted>Suddenly Ukraine can now supply this oil ans gas to Europe instead of notWow, almost like if the deal didn't happen, it wouldn't have been an issue. That's why they allowed the deal to be signed because it meant that they could still sell their gas and oil to Europe at a better price than Ukraine BUT it was because of Yanukovych being kicked out that Ukraine could now use this deal to supply the EU instead. If this oil and gas didn't exist, that wouldn't be a fucking risk.Peak Dunning-Kruger.>>65194750It isn't about resources per se, as I said. It's about geopolitical playing cards. Supplying Europe with fuel was a key political card that Russia had and losing that when a pro-West leader is in charge who could turn the Shell deal into something to supply Europe was something Putin couldn't deal with.I mean you don't even need to believe me, the article they wrote on 2024 stated their goals, which was multipolar world order (which I already wrote out) and making the Anglo-Saxons in London and Washington take notice and respect the Russian bear.
To me Russia believing that a "short" war to prevent Ukie gas fields from being exploited and doing a regime change wouldn't be seriously opposed by the EU makes sense. They thought it'd be over in a few months, they'd weather weak sanctions and keep Germany, Poland etc suckling on that has pipeline for decades to come.
>>65194757>If this oil and gas didn't exist, that wouldn't be a fucking risk.the risk is that they left moscows orbit.this is not about controlling things to europe. again: listen to what russians actually say. they think Ukraine belongs to them. they want their empire back.
>>65194722>In 2013Russia started active anti-Ukrainian measures at least in 2004. Cope and seethe.
>>65194757>Can supply it to Europe if need beso can Algeria, the whole middle east, Indonesia and Brunai, the US ect. ect. ect.>Want energy independence from Russiaannon the Germans would sign Nord stream 2 in 2015Europe became convinced of needing to kick it's dependence in 2022 when russia invaded Ukraine >Sign deal to get this>a $15bn or some shit deal>is going to replace the multiples of that being bought by Europe every year up to that poinlol, lmao eventhat also isn't Europe taking a strategic move, it's a private company wanting to develop a resource to make money. probably because at the same time their gas field in the Netherlands was being closed down.>This is a problem for Russia because the pro-Russian guy is oustedsomething you skipped in your first shitzo post and now have to incorporate post hoc like it was always theremissing out on the fact that once again that the "$15bn or some shit deal" was signed in 2013 before the Maidan protests even started an giving that "$15bn or some shit deal" as THE reason for the invasion>Suddenly Ukraine can now supply this oil ans gas to Europe instead of notignoring that this would take decades of developing those gas fields and that those gas fields don't have the capacity to replace russia>almost like if the deal didn't happen, it wouldn't have been an issueagain a deal made by russias little stooge, the little stooge they could have told simply not to sign it, but didn't. >Peak Dunning-Kruger.yea buddy I'm sure your "but it's all oil and gas" is peak performance and not just you being moonbat stuck in 2004but you are funny, so explain the US and Soviet invasions of Afghanistan next
>>65194757>If this oil and gas didn't exist, that wouldn't be a fucking risk.Russians literally seethe that the Baltics live better than them, having to invent turbo-cope about "EU just gives them free money to spite us" and such. Russians literally tried hybrid-warfare against Baltics decades ago. The issue itself is moving away from russia and starting to become a normal country. Resources and economy are just icing on the top.
>>65193365Except the US government doesn't control Starlink, a man that Donny boy personally pissed off and insulted does.
>why is a ex-KGB glownigger who constantly praises Soviet times invading a former Soviet state?>must be the resources (which Russia already has plenty of)
4 years of this shit and people are still replying to vatnik bait
>>65193099He's banking on this lasting until the next German and French elections and hoping the fifth columnists will win and pull any support.
>>65194793It's a valid strategy when the loss of Russian life has no value.
>>65194784>Donny boy personally pissed off and insulted doesDonald reminds me a lot about my mother. Holds grudges and eventually has a falling out with all of his friends
>>65194757This retard wants us to believe Ukraine was invaded over a trade deal that was signed when a Russian puppet was president of Ukraine. The same president that caved at every demand from Russia, cancelled his promise of EU trade deals and even wrote a controversial law that conveniently happened to give Russia cassus belli.
>>65194658>Yes, by approving NordStream, Germany basically green-lit the war in Ukraine;I hate merkel so fucking bad, it's unreal, goddamn stasi prostitute.
>>65194793What's he gonna do if/when AfD pulls a Meloni and goes "SYKE! the aid continues! thanks for getting us elected!"?
>>65192763>>65192817Putin doesn't use internet. Never used a smarphone. His morning routine is a breafing with his generals and advisors and then reading all russian official press. (documentary source)The fucking retard lives in an information bubbleHis generals can feed him whatever bullshit info they want.Remember when Putin had a meeting with the top telegram Z propagandists 3 years ago? They told him the water and ammo situation in some fronts and Putin literally said that he didnt know about any of that and he was going to fix it.I bet that Putin barely knows about most refinery hits or the drone situation.
>>65194859why would AFD ever do this? it deprives them of their belarussian slave plantations.
>>65194865I keep hearing this, and while it is theoretically possible due to Putins self-isolation, why the fuck doesn't have some ultra trusted twinks with him in his bunker that aren't part of the other agencies and military organisations, providing Putin with direct intel using OSINT sources that corroborate or refute reports he is given?There is no way he isn't aware of his position and information vulnerability
>>65193107>100% why the drones hit RomaniaIt's very plausible that it just strayed off course due to GLONASS spoofing.The town it hit is very close to the border with Ukraine's Odesa region.
>>65193193>I'm amazed he didn't cash in on the golden ticket Trump waved in his faceName anyone who has profited by accepting an offer Trump has made.Not one that he agreed to but one he actually proposed and it worked out for all parties.
Please monke. Invade Baltics. It would be so fucking funny.
>>65194879Same reason nobody wanted to wake up Hitler during the night of D-day. Fear.Imagine being the guy telling him that another refinery, airbase, port or the two tupolevs hit today were hit because our incompetence. Every day. Another bullshit.And remember that the Kremlin works like the mafia. Keep telling Putin that gerasimov or shoigu are lying and they eventually will send their own people to silence you.
>>65193365>Revoke Starlink, Ukraine's drone advantage disappears.It also revokes Starlink's competitive advantage which Musk will be mad about.>>65193378>the European alternative is already up and running and will grow fastIf it's needed to fill Starlink's vacuum, it would get fast-tracked and be online even quicker, if only for Ukraine and western Russia.Then, it will gradually replace Starlink in Europe and eventually be a global competitor.That's the last thing that Musk would want, or the US tech industry in general tbf
>>65193497>The last Cope of Russia "AFD will win and Germany will attack Ukraine from the West"
>>65194902>Keep telling Putin that gerasimov or shoigu are lying and they eventually will send their own people to silence you.I've thought about this a lot. While very true, will they be able to reach Putins personal OSINT twink who is two doors down from Putin in the same bunker?>FearNever understood how speaking the truth in the interest of the person it being told to, can cause harm to the person telling the truth.Just state the facts that refineries are burning, nothing more, nothing less.
>>65193579>They ask a lot of the soldiers, but it still seems insane to just pull out from your sector because you're angry rotation didn't show upTypically they discipline the officers and disband the unit and send the guys to other units.I've read of then sometimes taking a bunch of almost-mutinous soldiers, appointing one of them NCO for the unit to make sure problems get heard about and give them to a really good experienced officer who came up through the ranks, to basically take seriously and treat better.I think the idea is that guys like that have above-average esprit de corp and can do "normal" tasks well because they know to take shit seriously and not fuck around with defences and preparations and shit.When you take guys who suffered through supply starvation and failed evacuations/rotations and put them under competent command in an area that isn't getting hammered quite as hard, they can be pretty grateful to have been heard by command.
>>65194902more like the guards at stalins doors not telling anyone they heard him having a strokehitler used to work well into the morning after the reports on the day's fighting came in. so him not wanting to be disturbed wasn't the issue. it was him insisting that only he could release certain assetseven then, taking a panzer division over open roads during the day on d-day? yea him sleeping in saved those units what appears to be happening is the worst of two worlds, over micro managing like hitler and people being scared shitless of going against the man like stalinit's also worth noting that hitler didn't shoot his generals. the only generals he had shot/suggested they commit suicide where those involved in operation valkerie. he just sacked those that didn't follow his orders or disappointed him.if everything did rest on him being awoken and they knew it at that time, they'd have had a marching band in there.the one you'd want to blame is Martin Bormann
>>65193589>the Ukrainian counter attacks appear to be mechanized pushesThey're combined-arms operations with heavy drone support softening up and attriting defenders, then the mechanised units come in and mop up the mobiks cowering in bunkers.All this under EW to keep enemy drones off them and their own FPV overwatch in case Russian defenders attempt to rally.This seems to usually start out with absolute saturation of FPVs in almost a walking artillery barrage so no Russians can move in the open and they're reduced to scattered and pinned groups of half a dozen or less mobiks.
>>65194909>OSINT twink who is two doors down from Putin in the same bunkerputin bans just about every bit of electronics from going anywhere near him. he's not going to have OSINT twink sitting anywhere near him with a device that can connect to the internet >Never understood how speaking the truth in the interest of the person it being told tobecause you don't know if they will believe you or have you shot for bearing bad news/lying/bothering themkeep in mind that the people keeping him in his information bubble are people he's trusted for more than a decade or their kidsyou'd be some rando, aside from getting close enough to speak with you. why would he trust you over them?
>>65194033>that seems kinda small to me unless we are talking a quiet part of the frontIt used to be 5:1 at most, 60:1 is huge.
>>65194044>the Ukies have a lot of war fatigue and public support for taking back Crimea has fallen off a cliff. That said I can't see the Ukies accepting giving Russia anything more than CrimeaNah, they'll manage support for retaking Crimea.It's a knife to their throat if it remains in Russian hands, places like Melitopol and Mariupol won't be secure until Crimea is liberated. Even if it's basically empty with a military presence and secure checkpoints that make civilian presence non-viable, it needs to be in Ukrainian hands to make viable the Azov sea and Black Sea access for shipping.The bridge also needs to go or be extensively modified also.
>>65194923communism and whatever they call it today in russia is so fucking gay and retarded
>>65194909Nothing happens in a vacuum. The boyars would know about the tsar's personal twink. The boyars wouldn't want the twink to tell the tsar how it is, so they're incentivized to get to the twink and, through bribes or threats, get him to embellish a more colorful story to the tsar. Or intervene in the process even earlier, and preselect a twink that the tsar would want to recruit.And if the tsar isn't retarded, which at the end of the day Monke generally isn't, he will know that the twink can be compromised. That will make the tsar paranoid about his twink as well, and with a light hand he may chose to 'discard' the twink if he suspects something. The twink may know that as well, so he won't want to get on the tsar's bad side.That's just what consistently historically happens when when you build a dictatorship on a mountain of lies. Paranoia and distrust and constant danger, meaning people are very often incentivized to cover their own ass first.>Never understood how speaking the truth in the interest of the person it being told to, can cause harm to the person telling the truth.If you're in a high enough position to be delivering the information to the tsar, then it is safe to assume that in some shape or form you are responsible for the outcome and resulting information. Meaning it was your fuck-up, meaning the leader can punish you for it. If you're just a no-name messenger, there are many, MANY parties that will want to intercept you can get you to 'adjust' the information meant to be delivered. Since you're a no-name with no responsibilities, it's not like you have much protection in the first place, very easy to make you disappear.
>>65194934people become paranoid when they have a lot of power because when there are very real people out to get you because of your power you start to imagine more of themit's just that your average paranoid doesn't have tens of thousands of men dedicated to keeping him safe. so they can't act on their paranoia like they'd want to
>>65194937so fucking gay and retarded
>>65194937but genuinely thank you for the write-up, appreciate it
>>65193486>Just glass both countries.I agree, both Russia and India need to be nuked without warning or chance to evacuate.
>>65194478>You don't think Melania's ungrateful?I don't think she gives a shit, beyond a few minor interventions that her staff attach her name to for PR purposes.I think she doesn't think much of Russia, probably because she has experience with Serbs. I don't think she gives much of a shit about Ukraine though.She doesn't even give a shit about Slovenia and got out of there as fast as she could.
there's also the aspect of even if he was getting better information if that would influence his choices.he knew the war would be long and costly after the retreat from Kiev and the construction of the defensive line in the south.would say 20% more cost make the difference?he okayed the ban on export of refined oil products and renewed it several times. so he knows that refineries are being hit and it's bad enough that they have to ban exports. would him knowing how far into russia, how often and how badly really make him reevaluate? no the cost imposed by the false information isn't on his decision making. but on the ground where they have to manage the friction imposed by fantasy and reality not matching.that we are even discussing this means that they also know this. again this doesn't seem to be forcing a change
>>65194531>but the main motivation by far>>65194655>>65194722>You're literally retarded. It is aboutIt's pointless to talk about what factor is dominant in monke's mind.We will literally never know, even if he came out and listed all his reasons and told us which one was most important to him, we'd still never be able to believe it.Or believe that what matters to him after defeat is the same as what mattered to him when he said Go.There are many "good" reasons why he did it, nobody will ever have reliable insight into his mind and be able to say which reason was dominant at any individual moment.The best you can say is "if I were in Monke's shoes, I would care about X more than Y or Z".Get comfortable with never being able to know everything about the world. It will serve you well in life.
Is we getting surp?
>>65194947That's why democracy and a society built upon competence is superior to manly-man dictatorships. And a system built on competence is very fragile and very easy to undo, while getting out of corruption and dictatorship is an order of magnitude harderThat's what we see Trump speedrunning the USA into. Unlike Putin, Trump is stupendously retarded, so he doesn't even have this high IQ internal paranoid monologue of "can I trust this guy, is he just telling me what I want to hear?". No, Trump SPECIFICALLY only chooses people who will EXPLICITLY tell him what he wants to hear and kiss his ass with the most fervor. He wouldn't even get to the point of thinking of hiring a personal twink (beyond wanting to fuck him), and if he did, he would trust (and fuck) him unconditionally
>>65194909>Never understood how speaking the truth in the interest of the person it being told to, can cause harm to the person telling the truthThe simple minded associate bad news with the bearer of that bad news.This is almost always true of dictators like Putin and wannabe dictators like Trump.Narcissists don't really believe in objective reality, those are problems that you can make someone fix by asserting that they don't exist and must not exist, or else.So if someone isn't playing along and pretending that the problem doesn't exist, then they're out-of-line and must be reminded how things work in your world.They don't even really believe that truth exists as a concept, it's just some kind of trick that the so-called "honest" people use to try and make the real players handicap themselves with ridiculous restrictions.Since they also can't abide the idea that anyone is morally superior to them, they believe that the "honest" people will certainly lie when it's to their advantage to do so and are actually hypocrites who will eventually be exposed as liars themselves.Liars cannot abide the truth or those that tell it.
>>65194909>Never understood how speaking the truth in the interest of the person it being told to, can cause harm to the person telling the truthYou've never worked in hospitality and it shows.
>>65194917>the only generals he had shot/suggested they commit suicide where those involved in operation valkerieThat's not at all accurate.Quite a few other senior officers were told to kys, either for losing battles (Paulus) or because they were traitors of one sort or another (Canaris).
>>65194998Trump is kinda a special case as his narcissistic personality disorder is so fucking severe that it's basically a debilitating mental illness. It's like reading about the mad kings of old who bathed in virgin blood and everyone was too scared to point out the emperor's nudity. Trump really is a modern incarnation of that. I don't think Putin comes close to this, he was just born in a vranyo culture where honesty is suspicious, you don't need to be a narcissist to treat truth with contempt.
>>65194934>communism and whatever they call it today in russia is so fucking gay and retardedIt's got nothing to do with communism, it's its own brand of mental illness.You see super-rich become like this too. Living in paranoid bubbles of sycophants and grifting parasites.
>>65195019>Trump is kinda a special case as his narcissistic personality disorder is so fucking severe that it's basically a debilitating mental illnessGranted but not unique.Surely you'd agree that there's loads of similarities between Trump and Idi Amin?Trump is restrained by courts and bureacrats and once-in-a-blue-moon Congress but if he weren't?He'd look even more like Idi Amin.Putin clearly isn't a narcissist on the same level as Trump but he is still one, his behaviour over the years, his need to humiliate potential and actual allies and many other things he does and has done, convince me of this.
>>65195009>You've never worked in hospitality and it shows.Not that anon but seeing how people act when shopping and being told things they don't expect/don't like shook me to my core. People can be fucking crazy.
>>65193449>manpads>amor advance
>>65195016>Pauluswas promoted in the hope he'd end it but he could have also chosen to get out on the evacuation flights>Canarishad acted against the interests of the regime and retired . he only got arrasted of he was named in the wake of operation Valkyrienow compare that to stalin's purges
>>65192817>Horishni PlavniDas it mane? Swimming Mountains?
>>65194985Not yet.
>>65193107I wish he'd hit Bulgaria as well so my fellow zigger loving citizens will get a reality check about who they're supporting
>>65192763I've decided it's not worth thinking about.
>>65195077>not understanding that the zigger lovers will blame the west for getting bombed by Russia
>>65193713You see 100k unpaid workers, i see 100k special military operationists cumrade. Net employment balance = zero
>>65194531You don't even need to dig that far into dugin schizobabble. It's old-fashioned imperialism combined with the fragility of a career gangsters ego. These places once belonged to the pozzian empire and pidor union, therefore they now belong in the kgb-maffia turf. Anything else is "disrespect" and losing face. Which is the greatest threat and insult to a fragile gangbanger
>>65193449Now lets redo this graph and calculate $ donated PER CAPITA which is something you amerimutts have a hard time understanding from what I have heard. Then America will be at the bottom.
>>65195084> that the zigger lovers will blame the west for getting bombed by RussiaJust give the drone wreckage to russia for investigation bro!(putin quotes from address in op)
>>65195120
>>65195120>>65195122a friendly reminder that in the list of "children" the russians gave that where killed, none where born after 2009nearly all of them where adults
>>65195122Russians will shoot an innocent and then lie while standing over the body, this is a core part of their being.
>>65192763How is that cunt still alive?
>>65195199Hiding in bunkers while sending his body doubles out to public appearances and people being leery of killing heads of state
>>65192960If you get to choose, then the best time to end a war is obviously right when you start losing.
>>65195204Still, they took 4 (?) shots at Trump, but none at him?
>>65194859Ain't no way. AfD sucks off Russia way harder than Meloni ever did. They also run on getting NordStream back online. On top of that, their east German factions legit want more russian lessons in school.
Jannies deleted the thread because it veered too political I guess but a reminder that russia lost MORE irreplacable Soviet archeotech including a fucking TEL.
>>65195142>Welding trade school where everyone was working on turtle tanksStill technically a school, lol.
>>65195233Tbf, a Tu-142 is useless in modern naval warfare, no? Still a good strike.
>>65195240it's a potential source of spare parts for the Bears so always a good kill
>>65195240I think they can carry cruise missiles, and I THINK (big amount of doubt but maybe) one of the 142s was a sub command unit. As far as use, subs still can't shoot back at ASW planes as far as I'm aware so if you can find one away from friendly surface ships (where they operate anyway) they're in trouble.
>>65195250>>65195258Why the heck were they so close to the frontline?
>>65195265Supposedly they were at a repair facility.Presumably the only facility the russians have capable of carrying out major work on the airframes.It's the only reasonable explanation I've seen for why they were parked in the Danger-Zone™.
>>65193449>anymoreshow a graph since trump took office
>>65195265Beats the shit out of me. The official cope from Fighter Bomber is they were actually Ukranian and had been waiting repairs for over 25 years, but strategic bombers don't sit fueled up on taxiways for a quarter century, or hide from satellites that long. As for the TEL, what it was doing there is a complete mystery unless they're bringing out more nuclear triad assets to fling SRBMS at parking garages.
>>65195274The only Russian repair facility for Tu-95's is a city on the Sea of Azov?
>>65194906>Goal is to denazify Ukraine>"Surely the actual nazis will help us in this endeavor!"
>>65193193Unironically Putin and the rest of the Russian establishment probably just don't trust Trump & Co. to keep a deal. The whole planet sees Trump as this wildcard chimpanzee figure who just does random shit with no coherence, there is no "deal making" with him, he might chimp out on the deal like 6 months later (e.g. the entire existence of USMCA or the inexplicable Greenland drama).Since Putin also probably believes his Fellow Glowies over at the CIA control the USA the same way his KGB bros control Russia (well, who knows how true that might be), he probably doesn't believe Trump is even a "real" leader.
>>65195306kek this timeline is the best
>>65195307True.It's weird to see anyone on /k/ defend the guy, he's consistent only in his inconsistency and seems anti-gun.
>>65195316>seems anti-gun.He's a filthy rich New York elite. Of course he holds anti-gun sentiments.His retarded comments on that guy getting piled on and shot by ICE are the most recent anti-gun rhetoric he spewed.>With that being said, you can’t have guns.>You can’t walk in with guns. You just can’t.>Certainly, he shouldn’t have been carrying a gun.>I don’t like that he had a gun. I don’t like that he had two fully loaded magazines. That’s a lot of bad stuff.Fuck off.
>>65195316>It's weird to see anyone on /k/ defend the guyTribalism and information bubbles. Comparing news sources of different political camps shows a shocking difference in what even gets talked about. With this example, Trump could skullfuck the next Thanksgiving turkey on the White House lawn while Vance gives a performance of Hamlet in Korean while dressed as Santa and Fox News would choose to air instead a segment how AOC liking pistachio ice cream over vanilla shows how much she hates White peopleAnd yes both sides and so forth, but the right appears to be far more skilled at the media game.
>>65195375>the right appears to be far more skilled at the media game.My take is that, for some reason, the Democratic leadership (ala Schumer, Pelosi, etc) is way more stagnant and set in their ways than the GOP are. Chalk it up to the 2012 Tea Party, I guess.
>>65194865>I bet that Putin barely knows about most refinery hits or the drone situation.He has to know about the drone situation because his lakeside retreat is the most heavily guarded residence in the world in terms of AD. You don't just put an entire small nation's budget of AD by your mansion unless you are really worried about something.
>>65195026>It's got nothing to do with communism, it's its own brand of mental illness.Modern Russia and its society, is a direct result of 70 years of "Building a soviet man", with Putin hismelf being literally the most median possible example of one
>>65195392>inb4 B& for off-topic commentFrom my perspective as an outside observer, the dem leadership seems genuinely retarded and inept.Seemingly living in some kind of isolated social bubble, completely divorced from reality, still trying to push for policies that were already deeply unpopular a decade ago, then blaming the public when they fail to win any elections.Meanwhile the the rep leadership seems to be more competent, but suffering constant psychotic schizo episodes where they do wild shit that makes zero fucking sense to anyone, only to do the exact opposite thing the next week, all while firmly denying that their wild actions the previous week ever even happened.Repeat ad nauseam.None of them even remotely care that typical average middle class voters just want a decent quality of life, lower costs of living, economic stability, and a government that aren't nightmarish Orwellian glowies working for Big-Tech™, Blackrock, or the tiny hat tribe.
>>65195434>a direct result of 70 years of "Building a soviet man"I'm not trying to say you are wrong, but why have the Baltics and most of the former-Warsaw Pact gotten so much better and Russia hasn't?
>>65195447Warsaw pact countries didnt even have a planned economy, and were genreally better off by living standards, for an avarage Soviet person, Poland was literally something magical, not even talking about Eastern Germany.The actual measurement of how good a warsaw/post-soviet country will be, is how much of the Soviet Troglodyte class of people live there
>>65195453>The actual measurement of how good a warsaw/post-soviet country will be, is how much of the Soviet Troglodyte class of people live there>Belarus on one hand vs. Bulgaria on the other handJesus, what even causes this? The Mongol yoke?
>>65195411You also don't bulldoze your own billion dollar mansion on the coast, but he did that too.
>>65195461>Jesus, what even causes this? The Mongol yoke?A society where thieviry, violence and scamming are not considered bad, will be a society where everyone is a violent thieving scammer. Thats in addition to the Soviets completely demolishing any possability of a civil society arising in the area.Also straight up war on self organisation, good luck deciding to wash the walls of your house from shit without an aproval (noone will give it to you). And complete moral degradation, creating a situation where a person might not see anything actually bad in murder rape or whatever else, unless its happening to them, but belives they are moral because they quote a children's cartoon about friendship.WHich is also a very interesting thing about russians and soviets, its the scale of offense they take, if you suggest they might not know something, THEY are the most knowledgable and smart and educated, even if they can barely read and write (which is the case for most russians, they are ridiculously bad at their own language)
>>65195461What are these points?
>>65195495Bulgarian stock market. A non-perfect measure, I know. >>65195492>Also straight up war on self organisationPoland was blessed to have a parallel non-state mass organization in the Catholic Church.
>>65195375The right has figured out that most people don't care what the objective truth is, telling a story that fits their world view ia far more effective. It doesn't help when the left has allowed its own extremists in power to spout talking points that are completely unetenable to anyone anchored in reality instead of telling them to shut the fuck up for fear of offending any of their potential base. Painting anyone that doesn't march in lockstep with those points as an idiotic bigot in their own brand of media isn't helping either, but the biggest thing is they don't have a coherent narrative to sell.
>>65195492>the scale of offense they take, if you suggest they might not know something, THEY are the most knowledgable and smart and educatedRussian chauvinism is legitimately insane. I know people like to give Americans shit for over-the-top patriotism, but most Russians live in a completely different reality. I’ve heard multiple Russians nonchalantly and completely unprompted go on tangents about how Russian culture is objectively the most complex and beautiful culture in the history of the world. I’ve also heard these same Russians rant about how Russian cities are SO much cleaner and safer than European cities and that European cities “have so much less culture” than Russian cities. Of course, all the Russians I’ve heard spouting this nonsense lived in London. Russian nationalists actually believe that Russian culture is the only “legitimate” culture in the world, and every other culture is either inferior or made up (“there’s no such thing as Ukrainian/Georgian/Tajik/Kazakh/etc history! They were all invented by reactionaries/bolsheviks/anglos to divide the great Russian people!”). It’s like an entire country of narcissistic schizos where all the normal people are either chased out or intimidated into silence.
>>65194865He has trusted agents in the field.
>>65195564keep trying, ivan. you're losing the war.
>>65195576He's having a melty over it lol
Ziggers in crimea are starting to channel Pringles now. What I wouldn't do for a march to moscow from crimea (since they have no gas lmao.)
>>65195696I await the day when crimean ad has degraded so badly that they can strangle and starve the russians to submission.
>>65195550>narcissistic schizosThat's what being viking and later mongol slaves does to people.
>>65195713I mean, it's starting right now with the coastal highway of death. The ferries are fucked already and the bridge is limited in what loads they allow through.
>>65195753>The ferries are fucked alreadyDidn't they scrap most of them after the bridge was finished?
>>65193343>If he pulls intel/weapons drops it will impact the Ukies heavilyHe already tried that and it didn't work
>>65193439He wanted to commit to the war even harder because he felt Shoigu and Gerasimov were withholding resources and using Wagner as fodder (they were)
>>65194909>Never understood how speaking the truth in the interest of the person it being told to, can cause harm to the person telling the truth.Go and tell your mom she is fat and losing weight is entirely within her capabilities and self-interest, anon.Or your brother, that the altcoin he has all his savings in will not moon and make him generational wealth, so he should instead focus on studying...then report back to us.
What blew up this time? The ziggers are melting and posting BBC again.
>>65195857I think it's the situation around Kamianske.
>>65195864russians in retreat?
>>65195558>>65195564>>65195585>>65195736>>65195788ziggers are having an absolute meltdown lol
>>65195867I'm not sure, desu.
>>65195806My mom would call me based if I did that
>>65195857>Crimea is nearing empty on its gas reserves as more gas stations start to dry up. Over the past week people are saying that "you can drive to Crimea, but don't expect to drive back home">Taganorag port and military airfield got hit really bad>Unit responsible for the Bucha massacre got one of its training grounds and command bunkers decimated>Rumblings about Moscow potentially abandoning Transnistria is starting to go around>Ukraine is now reporting that one of its newer drones can strike as far as 3500km>Russian logistical lines in the occupied areas are starting to be mined and become a graveyard of supply conboysThe only really good news for the Russians so far is that Kostyantynivka is under immense pressure by the Russians but its not projected to fall for another few months. That is if the Ukrainians don't bring in reinforcements and reverse some of the gains that the Russians have made since the beginning of the assault of the city
>>65195864Could also be the situation in Crimea. Apparently ziggers keep driving there, but are then trapped there because they can't buy fuel anymore lmao.Hopefully they can spare a lane on the kerch bridge for foot traffic.
>>65195896>"You can fly to Hostomel, but don't expect to fly back home."
>>65195896>Rumblings about Moscow potentially abandoning Transnistria is starting to go aroundOh, shit! Really?
>>65195907Yeah it's an ongoing discussion in zigger telegrams.
>>65195921There's an Anglophone guy living in Moldova who I follow on Substack, and he hasn't mentioned anything about this yet.
>>65195921>Years long marinade
>>65195929For me, the self-awareness about a Russian passport being useless in Europe was funny.
>>65195907>>65195921>>65195924Take it with a huge grain of salt to be fair. But my understanding of the Transnistria situation is that Moldova will begin taxing the former's corporations, imports and exports starting 2030. Which will essentially kill the regions already heavily stagnating economy. Moldova is also doing everything in its power to defang the political blocks that govern the breakaway region along with separating itself from the regions stranglehold on its power grid. And since Modolva wants to join the EU (or become a part of Romania again.) It NEEDS to resolve Transnistria relatively quickly
>>65195921They are beginning to understand.
>>65195932more than that the bitterness about it here you are russian national, mighty bear and your papers are worth shit, fucking belgians are worth morehow dare such small gay countries not value the mighty bear, they should fear you
>>65195952It's not bitterness it's actually a massive inferiority complex combined with unhealthy amounts of chauvinism that's ravaging their minds.
>>65195944>https://www.moldovamatters.md/Allow me to recommend this Substack. TLDR: Transnistria's economy was based on free Russian gas and selling consumer goods into the EU, and not paying taxes. That's over now.
>>65195962I I'm aware of the gas deal that Trannyland had with Russia. I was talking about the potential withdrawal of Russian troops from the region. I don't doubt that it would happen in the future, but its more than likely years away (10+ years) and not happening within the next 1-5 years.
>>65195944>2026>Moldova is going to invade Trannynistria>It consists of three T-62s and one [1] Lada>The gypsy blitzkrieg still reaches the Dniester in three hours>Air defence cuckold is joined by navy cuckold and air force cuckold>Maia Sandu reunites with Romania and leads the EU into the tausend jahre Reich
>>65195973>the potential withdrawal of Russian troops from the region.Other than a chunk of the officers, aren't all the soldiers locals?
>>65195974>>The gypsy blitzkrieg still reaches the Dniester in three hoursAnon... the river is the Inner-Moldova border...
>>65195988Ah fine, the Ukrainian border in 36 hours. 30 of that was stealing all the wheels in Tiraspol
>>65195447Balts were independent before the occupation and have never been vatnik. Neither culturally, mentally or even on a genetic level. Pidors to them are as alien as mongols in their back yards
>>65195980Its a mixed bag. There's about 1.5k Russian "peacekeepers" in the region, but the region itself has a force of roughly 5k soldiers with dubious levels of training along with 15-20k for reserves. The armored vehicle fleet is both miniscule and sorely outdated and won't last very long against a more modernized force. As for the officer corps, I think those dudes would bail the moment the opportunity allowed them to were Moscow to offer them positions in the Russian armed forces (I'd also wager that the Tranny armed forces and Russian Peacekeepers would just surrender after a few hours of suffering from a heavy enough bombardment of artillery and drones)
>>65195783As of early 2025 there were no russian railcar ferries operational in the Black sea, I don't know if any of them have been repaired but since several sunk I'm guessing not.
>>65195921>Gleiwitz Typical, they will accuse other of doing false flag
>>65195857Tupolevs, a shadow fleet tanker, oil depots, m-14 closed due to aids, a russian training ground 100km behind the lines (21 times!), crimea is out of gas, and the systematic shutdown of russian refineries continues to accelerate.
>>65194457Based
>>65194531>Whenever people focus on resources they completely miss the point.Resources are part of the point. Russia doesn't need the Donbass resources, but Europe does, and the Donbass resources mostly overlap with the things Europe used to buy from Russia. It was about keeping them out of Europe's hands. And yes, territorial expansion. But blocking European access was a huge part of it.
>>65195316It's cause America has this retarded 2 party system so you're basically forced to choose the lesser of two evils.
>>65195921>unknown drone that fell on Romania was clearly flying from GleiwitzIs that genuine belief or is it a tongue in cheek reference to a false flag?
>>65196084probably just saying it's a false flag from natoI fucking wish, I'd much prefer that over this chicken shit attitude that has contributed to the war dragging on this long. We could be watching russian warlords with their own little armies/PMCs fighting on the streets of moscow. It could've been prigo's moscow excursion x100Instead we get some fucking buryat who's never seen a tv before trying to wack a drone with a stick, and horse drawn carts. Man, what the hell.
>>65196049why doesn't the independent head of state (king or whatever) dissolve the government or call elections? Or his own party could declare no confidence and elect a new prime minister? Most democracies have this independent fail safe.
>>65196209>Most democracies have this independent fail safeThe US doesn't
>>65196241>The US doesn'tImpeachment is supposed to serve that function.
>thread about Russian embarrassment>hard attempt to divert to divide & conquer/American politicsHmmmmmmm.
>>65195219>If you get to choose, then the best time to end a war is obviously right when you start losingUnfortunately, by that point, it's up to the enemy when it ends.
>>65196259>>65196241well if your country doesn't have these basic independent fail safe to remove a tyrant, like Australia, UK, canada, japan, etc then america is going to become like every other republic ie. Russia, Africa, ancient rome, where some strong man comes to the fore.
>>65194903What rockets would Europe use to launch them into orbit?
>>65196262This is the case every time Russia gets embarrassed in the information space. Organic, pro democracy thought leadership both from grassroots 4chan posters, and researchers from the Zinc network and Centre for Countering Digital Hate, will make up the majority of good faith responses, but a few extremism threat actors will seek to push Russian troll talking points to exacerbate divisions within US politics in order to lessen the effect of pro-social UK influence operations designed to help the US overcome Russian disinformation in spite of their first amendment.
>>65193383>purging whatever neocons still remain in the Republican party>replacing them with brainless, spineless mentally ill cocksuckersSo, doing nothing
>>65196339A literal government stooge wrote this post
>>65196209>>65196293On the off chance this isn't a joke, the US doesn't have an independent head of government and head of state.In theory the President is supposed to be somewhat less involved in day-to-day domestic politics than he is in practice.There is a reason many, other states make them distinct roles. There is a certain irony that in a rebellion against a King in the name of representation, they inadvertently created a system that hands a single man much, much more power than the British crown has had for centuries in any realm.
>>65196452No anon, it's just someone that keeps doing a shitty impression of a glowie as an obvious false flag. Non-zero chance it's you and this response is just trying to make it look legit.
>>65196262Unfortunately the current administration’s sympathy for Russia makes that inevitable
>>65196049The lesser of two weevils, good doctor!
>>65196514>sympathyFunny way of showing it by schwacking all of Russia's allies, sanctioning their oil companies, and seizing shadow fleet tankers.
>>65196504Are you retarded? There are two other branches of government and 50 states checking presidential power. They're vastly more effective checks than a figurehead king.
>>65196049>retarded 2 party systemTwo wings of the same bird at that.
>>65196293There are many fail safes. The first being elections every four years, then impeachment, then term limits, then the 25th Amendment.
>>65196049>>65196558People shit on the 2 party system, but can someone cite a single multiparty state of any consequence (GDP >$1 trillion) whose politics aren't a complete dumpster fire?
>>65196559and how are those working out for you? at the end of the day you're stuck with this mad man/corrupted president until 4 years lapse. Then you get democrats who are also corrupt. In a decent democracy with an indepdennt fail safe you wouldn't get this. You get this in most republics. Even south korea. Recently they had the prime minister attempt a coup. It actually worked (the coup) briefly and the initial impeachment attempts failed.
>>65195445The real issue is the mainstream media destroying its credibility trying to prevent Trump's first term. Which is a real shame. An actually functioning press corps is an important means of articulating the moral center of the country and holding power to account. Hopefully the institution can be rebuilt.I genuinely think Trump is a great president and most of his ideas are correct/needed. But his fatal flaw is a massive ego. And he overreaches all the time doing stupid or insane shit in service to his ego. Which is a massive distraction to all the good and necessary things he's doing. The ironic thing is, MAGA gloats about destroying the mainstream media, and to their credit the ghouls running it probably deserved to be knocked down a peg, but an actually functioning media would probably discipline Trump enough that his presidency would be improved greatly.
>>65196553Did you actually read my post? I was just explaining that US politics doesn't really have a concept of a distinct 'head of government' the same way most Westminster-derived systems do, and consequently the office of President holds significantly more direct power than either the current British monarch or the heads of government of the countries of which he is head of state.You're right in that the US government is designed to try and limit the executive branch in other ways, much as how the only limit on a Prime Minister is not the monarch or governor general being able to act as a circuit breaker or the only limit on a monarch a pinky promise.
>>65196567>stuckOnly if you're some kind of leftist pussy. People voted for Trump for president for a four year term. It's the only office the entire country votes for. Why the fuck should some faggot have the right to overturn that? That's not democracy.
>>65196576Apologies, I read your post as agreeing with the insinuation that America is some kind of banna republic because it follows a presidential rather than parliamentary system. Carry on, fellow poli sci minor.
>>65196578>Why the fuck should some faggot have the right to overturn thatbecause sometimes people get dementia/corrupt and you don't have enough people in congress to vote in the best interests of the people.You can do alot of damage in four years. And there is absolutely no practical way to remove them (as evidenced by the USA's situation).Meanwhile, poor bill clinton got impeached for getting a BJ. Your whole impeachment system falls over when you have polarised or corrupt congress.
>>65196583Who is this magical arbiter of whether a duly elected president should be removed? Are they magically incapable of being demented/corrupt? It doesn't seem like it solves the problem.I'd much rather the American system than something like the U.K. or most of western Europe where governments collapse every 7 months and the country just stagnates.
>>65196591his own party (like when australia removed julia gillard), the president (in a system like france where the president is independent of the prime minister), the king/governor general (like when australia had it's consistutional crisis). America doesn't have any of those. You say impeachment and 25th ammendment but it's never going to happen when you don't have the votes. We had a silly situation in South Korea recently where the first impeachment failed after a coup by the president. Then you have russia where the president is not independent and the prime minister/president simply switched roles/looked out for each other.
>>65196592>it's never going to happen when you don't have the votesOkay? That's exactly how it should be. You can't remove the PM without the votes either.Besides impeachment has worked. Nixon resigned when he realized he would be impeached.
>>65196592Russias governing system doesn’t even matter because it is a mafia state. Not even an abstract or high level one.
>>65196580Oh fair enough. I don't think it's a secret which I think is better from a nuts-and-bolts perspective, but it really comes much more down to the political culture of a country which works best in practice. The best designed system on Earth can't survive being used poorly or deliberately abused past a point.And pol/ir was my major, for the record.
>>65196608I'll never be comfortable with the union of the legislative and executive power in parliamentary systems
>>65196562Russia. The average bubushka is glad vlady is killing of their nephews failing an attempt at restoring the USSR at the expense of the other half of the ussr.Canada also seems perfectly happy to get in the suicide pod.Maybe the UK and Germany. Their queer back biting postures seem to reflect their delusional governance.Americans definitely don’t hate their unelected and varsity team (senate) enough. Those niggers do nothing but misuse their misappropriated and or vested authority and pray that the other branches and press will bail them out>no wall>procurement still fucked for nth decade>obfuscating mass fraud at high levels with mass fraud at lower levels.>all compromised by foreign powersThe house is even more of a mess, with overt foreign actors and fraud.All by design.>>65196567>worst korea Both koreas are absolute jokes leadership wise. It’s nothing but low shelf life cults. Somehow when you look at the rest of the orient, this isn’t actually that bad, crazily enough.>>65196583Bad orange man got impeached twice and he didn’t even get a sloppy desk job out of it. Just fake and gay reddit fags seething over fake and gay garbage. The uniparty has its own goals and they don’t give a fuck about doing their job. Just debasing the country for whoever bought their assholes.
>>65196623The UK political system is melting down before our eyes. You're entitled to the rest of your opinions, but I feel it's important to correct the record on that one.
>>65196622Funny thing is I'd say exactly the same thing about how executive power is generally handled in presidential systems, especially with how it often ends up tied in with legislative power in practice anyway.There's always going to be tradeoffs in government design, it comes down to which you think are the least worst for your intent.
>>65196681The massive rise of a bureaucratic administrative state that's wholly unaccountable to the electorate is the real issue. It seems to be a problem whether you are a parliamentary or presidential system.
>>65193351>>65193359Euros stepped upGood jokeTZD
>>65193422>>65196760Everyone forgets the EU let hundreds of sanctioned super tankers pass em by and did nothing until the US did something. They still hardly try
>>65195122>it is impossible to give a specific timeframe, and i wont do that. I did that because we are winning.>The western media is deceiving people. They report on our warcrimes, but not hohol's. It's a disgrace.and the threatening is just never not funnyi love this goober
>>65195461Man, are EU regulations just that good at stimulating consumption or something?
>>65196506A literal government stooge wrote this post too
>>65196553>There are two other branches of government and 50 states checking presidential powerI think you overestimate how much power the UK monarch has had for the last several hundred years.They're a big deal when they say something and their slightest utterance or gesture is analysed ad nauseum but they really can't do very much on a day-to-day basis unless a crisis exists of such magnitude that the public will forgive them exercising some degree of free will in their duties. Which is so rare and unlikely that it has never happened in modern history.There were rumbles about a coup in the mid 1900s that was supposed to be backed by the monarch and when the monarch found out, she shut it down quickly.The British monarchy is successful because they give power to one person (at a time) who is raised and educated from birth to be committed to never using it.
>>65196562>People shit on the 2 party system, but can someone cite a single multiparty state of any consequence (GDP >$1 trillion) whose politics aren't a complete dumpster fire?I think there's quite a few middle powers who have reasonably stable politics.We haven't heard anything outrageous out of Italy since Meloni took over, she seems to have calmed down the Berlusconi shenanigans.Australia is fucked up only in fairly boring ways, it's certainly not a dumpster fire.I don't think the Dutch are *that* bad, are they?The Swiss seem to be pretty calm about their affairs.After that, you fall below your $1T so I'll stop there.
>>65196623>Both koreas are absolute jokes leadership wise. It’s nothing but low shelf life cultsThere are *so many* weird cults and splinter churches in South Korea, it's amazing.There's definitely something in their culture that makes them vulnerable to that specific kind of charlatan.
>>65193200>Also when a mobik managed to slip through the lines all the terrain between him and the main forces was instantly marked as captured even when they even couldn't supply himBased hoi 4 logic in real life enjoyers
>>65196867By themselves, no.But they represent the one boring, lame and annoying thing that businesses love.Stability.And with the Euro. . you now have people from all over Europe able to just buy your shit. Or come visit, sit on a beach or party or look at places where their great-grandfathers fought each other in the mud.
>>65196911The longer you look, the more it seems like they actually use something like HoI to plan their moves.
>>65196540Funny way of being unable to stop Iran, making a deal with China and calling it trustworthy, driving oil prices up to help Russian exports and then allowing Russian oil exports, cutting aid to Ukraine, and insisting Russia be let back in the G7, calling Zelenskyy a dictator while insisting Putin is trustworthy, etc
>>65196541>>65196543>>65196548>Ivan is having a meltylmao
>>65196574>thinks a corrupt pedo and convicted felon is greatBased retard
>>65196988>By themselves, no.>But they represent the one boring, lame and annoying thing that businesses love.>Stability.You're not wrong but I was only half trolling the nanny-state haters.I think such people underestimate the advantages of your consumers have a high degree of confidence in domestic goods. I lived in places where everybody turns their nose up at local goods and if they can afford it, reach for the more expensive import every time.
>>65196541what blew up this time, ivan?
>>65196769>EU let hundreds of sanctioned super tankers pass em by and did nothing until the US did somethingthe fun part being that the whole "cap the oil price but let them export" was a US proposal due to fears in the Biden administration that a spike in oil prices would have cost him the election
>>65196769they're still seizing tankers while the us isn't
>>65196302>What rockets would Europe use to launch them into orbit?Probably the Ariane 6 or the Vega C?
>>65197268I cannot believe the special needs military operation in Iran was conceived entirely to benefit TWO enemy nations at the same time.