mokwit

Did you know I was quoting Adolf Hitler speaking in advance of the invasion of The Soviet Union?. How it ended is well known Initially it looked as though that might be the case but Russia is a vast land with a huge population. They moved their tank factories beyond the range of German aircraft because the land was vast enough that they could. They could take losses in a strategy of attrition that bled the German manpower resources dry. The Germans destroyed 7,000 Russian tanks at the WW2 battle of Kursk and the Russians were able to continue mounting offenses.

That is effectively what I was saying, but that is probably not what they were told in Korea before they went.

'Russia will burn through N Koreans to force Ukraine to burn through over 25 yr old Ukrainians' Russia is burning through them instead of their own people in an attrition war. I would have thought that was clear from what I wrote to anyone with reasonable English comprehension levels and in the context of discussing attrition war, or were you trying to be funny? (don't, you can't) Your tiresome attempts to flippantly distort whatever other people write don't reflect well on you, it just shows what a dishonest debater you are). N. Korea has reputedly already supplied 10,000 troops and according to propaganda they have taken heavy casualties in place of Russians. We don't yet know what the upper limit will be from N. Korea, they might even withdraw the remainder if as is being suggested they are being used as human wave cannon fodder without regard to casualty levels. We just don't know, they may already have reached the limit, or it may continue into six figures.

Just as N Korea rents out labour for money it is probably renting out soldiers. My guess is Putin paid for these and the reason he did is that they are expendable and without family in the USSR and at this meatgrinder phase of an attrition war they are just as good for the task at hand as civilians from remote areas of Russia who volunteered because the state gave their parents a sheep if they did. Russians families still hurt from Afghanistan and its losses. Russia will burn through N Koreans to force Ukraine to burn through over 25 yr old Ukrainians until they have to lower the conscription age, and then it will be 18 year olds or using NATO armies (more) without officially using NATO armies. An alternative explanation is the Western propaganda one, that Russia's professional army has been destroyed as a force in a similar way that the UK's small professional standing army had been destroyed in WW1 by the end of 1914 with conscription following. I feel sad for the N Koreans who have been subjected to extreme propaganda all their lives and probably feel they are doing their bit to fight the Imperialism that apparently threatens N Korea's existence.

One has merely to kick in the front door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down. Is that what you are saying?

She's done well for "herself".

She's deliberately not setting any kind of standard by which her performance can be measured by. What is she doing to stop the boats arriving TODAY? Same with her pledge to reduce violence against women within TEN YEARS against a parliament life of four years. She should be acting to stamp it out NOW, TODAY. Setting things up so she can never be accused of failure.

I felt that you point was one that could be applied to all politicians, and having stated that I felt obliged to support that position with another example. Perhaps it was your use of the term 'rats' that made me think of this one. HTH.

He will learn that there can be only one.

Indeed, the politically motivated of any stripe vying for position. Your post makes me think of the way the Labour party turned on itself under Corbyn.

Seem to remember Glastonbury previously had a politician up on the stage giving a speech at what was supposed to be a music festival.

Profound. Her words will echo down the centuries.

There will be a candlelit vigil to fix things.

Tried to get a Liberal circle jerk going and totally failed.

Truth is exposing the false narrative of the Left. HTH

Yep. They take advantage of the unsophistication of consumers, and the fact that if they bring the monthly payment down to an affordable level the customer thinks he can afford it. The concept of effective interest rate is not understood by consumers, they just think wow! I can afford this pickup.

The BBC like media everywhere seems to have gone woke starting around 2010 and this seems to be supported by the measured increase in the usage of woke politics associated words from then till the present in the media. I would question that it is a majority, on Social Media it seems to be a small minority very good at creating an impression that they are the majority. How is Bluesky doing? Likewise MSM are good at creating the impression that the minority view is the majority view and you must be The Far Right if you are not onboard with the "majority". Look at how the dam broke with that perception with the Brexit vote and then Trump being elected 2016. Actual voting. I would argue the real acid test is if a business "goes woke" it suffers a backlash. People voting with the pound in their pocket i.e. money not empty words. 'Go woke, go broke' is the phase, but in fairness large companies don't actually go broke for one woke misstep. I was a Gillette customer for fourty years until they came out with their anti white male boys will be boys advert. For the record they also did an ad showing a man teaching his trans son to shave. I actually thought that one was touching and not in any way offensive. Lets see how Jaguar do with their woke rebrand. I would sell their shares if I owned them, not because they are trying to make a niche theirs as a marketing strategy for survival, but because they have selected a niche that is smaller and with less spending power than they think (IMO). That said, you do have a point about changing Demographics, but does that represent a current section of the voter base and all that come behind them, or is it just a standalone cohort, with different views on woke being held by following cohorts.

The 'Gang of Four' link brigade.

I very quickly ignored BBC verify and also Reuters "factcheck". Both sides of the political spectrum/conflicts are lying on any given day, but they only ever went after the one sides lies and not the other (their home team).

Doesn't that sentence apply just as much to the Biden voters as Trump voters?

In fairness they have managed to hold out so far apparently with flat tyres on their vehicles, rotten food rations, no artillery shells and virtually no tanks left for months and months [according to Ukranian/Western propaganda] so we should perhaps not underestimate them based on one sided propaganda. Meanwhile the Ukranian army has been decimated in a war of attrition that was about just that, attrition. That's how Russia prosecutes a war. Remember when Ukraine was "winning", but somehow it still hasn't won. Why Ukraine chose Kursk as it's hill to die on is baffling, the Russians have something of a track record in fighting a battle there. Note: The above is an observation, not a defence of Russia's actions, so please all spare me the emotional Slava Ukraini replies.

Somehow they didn't mention what is likely the real reason which is use of family member accounts as mule/money laundering accounts.

It is impossible to have any meaningful discourse with someone of your mindset. Bye.

It is impossible to have any meaningful discourse with someone of your mindset. Bye.

It would be more accurate to askwho were the International Socialists i.e. the RotFront as that leads less room for confusion. Or are you saying the SA were the Socialists as you alluded in another post.