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5 hours ago, ballpoint said:
What are they going to do? Conscript everyone and throw coins at the Ukrainians? They're running low on officers, non-conscripted soldiers, tanks and ammunition.
It is what it is, UA is getting their teeth kicked in and it's time to cut their loses and tell the west, Biden and the other war mongers to take all their toys and go play in Putin's big sandbox and make a deal, for peace, before someone drops the MOAB's and there's no turning back.
Give up a little, make it work. Just do it.
Biden officials privately doubt that Ukraine can win back all of its territory
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/politics/white-house-ukraine-projection/index.html
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Seems sanctions are working in reverse now, maybe time for Biden and his gang to implement round 7 of his sanctions and kill more jobs and business globally.
Russian Gas Cuts Threaten World’s Largest Chemicals Hub
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3 hours ago, Lacessit said:
There's not much point to having money if you can't spend it as needed. That's why Russia has defaulted on its debt, the Western sanctions in the banking sector have blocked repayment to the bondholders. Fairly obvious it was going to happen, Russian bonds have been at a deep discount ever since Putin decided to invade.
Those were government bonds, it gets REALLY interesting when company bonds fall due over the next couple of months.
Oil rules, just ask Putin
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5 hours ago, Lacessit said:
Russia defaulted on its debt on Sunday, the first time since 1917. Is that a valid enough claim for you?
I see that, I'm sure the Ukranians watching their homeland get bombarded daily really care about a big fat nothing for Putin and his debt payments blocked by sanctions.
"This put Russia on default watch as early as the spring. But Moscow kept paying its debts from currency reserves at home. In May, however, the U.S. Treasury blocked even those transfers to American investors.
With that, two Russian interest payments — worth about $100 million combined — got stuck after Russia transferred them out of its coffers in May. On Sunday night, the clock ran out on a grace period for these payments, and several reports say bondholders have not received this money, meaning a default.
However, an official declaration of default is unlikely. Major credit ratings agencies, which might typically declare, face sanctions barring them from Russian business. And investors themselves may prefer to stay out of the limelight as they sort out how they might get at least part of their money back."https://www.npr.org/2022/06/27/1107750231/russia-default-foreign-debt-payments-explained
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9 minutes ago, coolcarer said:
Delusion by a Russian apologist.
I don't like Putin at all, but what I dislike more is war mongers pounding the war drums, and if all this keeps up, this tough talk of NATO and 300K troops, and so on, don't say you didn't see it coming when the fire reigns down on all of mankind. Then it's too late, it may be all over for many.
So, your specific delusion, I think you have some good basis for it.
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31 minutes ago, ozimoron said:
Even if Russia wins in Ukraine,
Yes, Russia is on the military offensive in a land dispute just like all the others wars based on land or territorial disputes, and those based on questionable basis such as the Iraq invasion and all the weapons of mass destruction. And now, in order to prolong the war the EU and the genius in the WH figures this will be a great opportunity weaken Putin and oh....all the while 10,000's of Ukrainians get slaughtered. Sounds like a winning strategy and outcome for, whom exactly I don't know.
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34 minutes ago, Lacessit said:
Other analysts are saying the Russian forces are so exhausted they are only capable of incremental gains.
Yes, easy to say that here, and you may be onto something but I doubt the veracity of your claim without corroboration. You should try to post something that backs up your dubious claims.
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Analysis: Tide turns in the Ukraine war as Russia makes progress in the east
"They have eliminated most Ukrainian defenses in the Luhansk region, consolidated control of a belt of territory in the south, improved their logistics and command structure and blunted the effectiveness of Ukrainian attack drones."
This is typical of the reports now circulating and reporting on the situation in UA. Its not even a war at this point but an incursion. I don't see much hope for UA now. Zelenskyy needs to talk real nice to the western war mongers to find a way out of this.
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Just now, Lacessit said:
So will thousands more of Russians.
Russia's own financial experts are predicting the effects of the war and sanctions will be costing Russia for a decade in terms of GDP. The only help they will get is from the Chinese, and they don't play nice either.
Tell that to the 1000 or so shoppers that just got bombed in Ukraine’s central city of Kremenchuk, maybe they will care if they don't die.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-kyiv-politics-d649a733dc688379ec15652b19ae305f
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6 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:
I hope we can see a new Russia soon, free and peaceful.
You mean free and peaceful UA?
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Just in:
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-kyiv-politics-d649a733dc688379ec15652b19ae305f
No help, where is this 50 or $80B in military aid to UA paid for by the US tax payers? When is it time for the west to defeat Putin, after all the shopping malls are destroyed in Ukraine?
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Just now, Bkk Brian said:
But the west is helping and Russia is not flying flags everywhere, sorry to disappoint you.
The disappointment stems from the carnage, pure and simple. If you can see that, then there's no reason I should engage with you any further.
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5 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:
Putin will end like Hitler, Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Karadzic, Milosevic and other terrorist dictators and murderers.
He has nothing in common with this list. He is light years ahead of them and most others in terms of raw power, nukes and resources.
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8 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:
They did very well without any help repelling the attempted invasion into Kiev. This is not about Biden alone, its about NATO, EU the UK along with other countries. Who knows where this goes? certainly not you that's for sure
Biden (US) pumps more $$ into UA than all of the EU combined. If not for the western financing this proxy war UA would be hanging russian flags everywhere.
The U.S. remains the biggest overall contributor, with €42.7 billion, or about half of the commitments, while the EU has ponied up €27.2 billion across countries and European institutions. “It is remarkable that the US alone has committed considerably more than all EU countries combined, in whose immediate neighborhood the war is raging,” the paper notes.
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1 minute ago, placeholder said:
You know that phrase "All dressed up and no place to go?" Well if Putin can't buy the chips and high tech machinery to create missiles and sophisticated aircraft, will Putin even be able to ratchet up his campaign?
A starving world with an energy crisis will get them scrambling like rats. But, should it progress this far, is that what you want to see?
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Just now, ozimoron said:
Russia has no practical way to to ratchet up anything.
Ask that question when Germany goes cold this winter when Putin closes the valves on the gas transmission lines and Germany scrambles to energize the country with coal or the nuke plants that are shut in.
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1 minute ago, ozimoron said:
Long since common knowledge. The Russians were trashed when they tried to assail Kyiv.
But, the real damage is in the south and well, go check out Mariupol, is it still there?
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2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:
Ukraine's decisions are theirs to make, not yours, not mine, they are fighting for their homes, families and children and they will not stop nor will the west stop helping fortunately. A sovereign Ukraine will outlast Putin.
From Ukraine's Ministry of Defense yesterday:
This war will stop only when Ukraine wins.
if they can win, w/o Biden they are dead in the water. Even with Biden and the west proxy war Putin will ratchet up his campaign and WHO KNOWS WHERE THIS GOES.
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6 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:
Nobody said it was easy but then freedom is never easy but will prevail over an evil dictator intent on expansion through war crimes
Time to cut the loses and get on with it, don't you think and agree?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-war-eastern-ukraine-gains-lysychansk/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61920708
1,000's more will die in UA.
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4 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:
Yep the sooner Putin is defeated it is over, get it now................
easier said than done for so many reasons, not to mention the Geo-political fallout from this.
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Just now, placeholder said:
But your statement Russia will destroy Ukraine is a prediction. And given how previous predictions fared about how Russia was going to crush Ukraine, you might want to be a bit more circumspect in your outlook.
Sure, but hows it really looking as of today, where is the UA shout outs of kicking Putin out of UA? Where is all the discussion how Putin is sick, weak, cancer ridden dying, and all the talk about his military being run rough shod and the unsubstantiated, wild and absurd claims of military loses? It's not happening now, but UA is showing some chinks in their armor EVEN with 50 or $80B in western aid and armaments. It should be over for Putin, he's single-handedly fighting the west and all their military aid but the Ukrainian fighters have no victories to share with the western media now. Why is that?
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1 minute ago, JoseThailand said:
The Russians thought they would capture Kyiv in 3 days lol.
Oh, and you know this how.....from CNN, MSNBC? Can you articulate your comment further?
Did perhaps Putin tell you this? You are letting propaganda lead you and shape your thoughts.
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6 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:
Link to your claim that Russia will destroy Ukraine?
The price of freedom is worth paying and G7 today made that very clear today, you should check up on it.
How many lives need to be lost because of this proxy war against Putin? Putin is on the glide path, he's holding some chips:, food and energy. Sanctions are hurting Russia, but maybe more pain on the West, and for how much longer. The sooner this is over, the better, get it?
Ask yourself why Pearl Harbor happened.
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2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:
Link to your claim that Russia will destroy Ukraine?
Why, you don't believe me or more like you don't want to believe me? I am making a statement of my own, you can discuss, debunk, refute, agree or just move on, up to you.
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Russian missiles strike Kyiv for first time in three weeks; Russia will soon exhaust its combat capabilities
in World News
Posted · Edited by lemmie
Economic sanctions are a declaration of war and that's what US did to Japan so they attacked Pearl Harbor.