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Putin’s Russia is closing in on a devastating victory. Europe’s foundations are trembling. (www.telegraph.co.uk)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The same guy before: Take away Russia’s nuclear weapons – for Putin is finished and his country may soon collapse

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fucking Hell, flair this fucker NSFW. I very nearly read a Daniel Hannan piece by accident.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Step 1) open up the emergency case

Step 2) take out the bottle

Step 3) take off the safety cap (careful: very corrosive)

Step 4) Tilt head backwards

Step 5) pour and apply the solution liberally to your eyeballs

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Meanwhile, back in reality, Poland just shitcanned their right-wing gov & the EU is about to hand Ukraine ~$15B in seized Russian cash.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The US already cut off Europe from Russian oil and gas. There’s natural gas off the coast of Gaza. It is obvious how this is playing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Natural gas .. Gaza. In the mean time less than a million dirt poor Guyanans are sitting on the worlds largest reserve. Getting in on that is way less of an issue for anyone.

You are drawing lines that are not there. Gaza is horrible enough without inventing nonsense around it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Yet…

“Amid ongoing war, BP and Eni among firms awarded gas exploration licenses in Israel” https://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-ongoing-war-bp-and-eni-among-firms-awarded-gas-exploration-licenses-in-israel/

Gaza is much closer to Germany, that now been cut off from Russian fossil fuels

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

zelensky-pain pls, just a few more himars bro, we're almost to Moscow, bro pls just a few more javelins

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's some Daily Mail quality opinion piece.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The telegraph is the daily mail for the middle class.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Welp, time for the bitter recriminations to begin

[+] [email protected] -21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh look it's a less than a day old troll account.

Move along

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

His first post was him saying someone looks like a monkey which looking at his account seems like got deleted. Easy block

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, sure. Three day operation tops. Unless Russian corrupted system tops this.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I'm rather to eastern-european for a amarican. And there's more guesswork in the article than there is any relation to logic. Guy states defense gives massive advantage, points out what decides of battlefields, and then glides over the issue of how that will favor Ukraine, particularly in winter, and trips out about what might have happened during some talks, but really he has nothing to back it up either way. Same as for the threefold increase in production. Or how Putin would go about mobilizing this massive population, even if he bothered to check the demography stats of it's age, or considered why they seem to be very afraid to do so.

I'd be quite interested in a well researched article on Russian chances of winning, but this is some conservative rag bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You could watch some Perun videos on the subject. But THE question seems to be what victory looks like. Russia never was explicit on their objectives and what they would call a win.

Even if Ukraine would receive less help, Russia is not going to steamroll a country filled with people that know that losing to Russia means they will be starved, beaten and murdered.

I hope we don't have to find out, but ita going to be a long and bloody road regardless of outcome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Russia never was explicit on their objectives and what they would call a win.

No but it is easy to guess from their actions.

They were pushing for Kyiv and expected an easy win. There objective was to dispose the current gov and put a puppet vassal in place.

Putin's dream was to recreate the Imperial Russian Empire of Catherine the Great. Taking Ukraine was supposed to be the first easy step.