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EU countries will do it, regardless of Trump. Whether it's wasteful or not is not important. The expenditure will simply be necessary if Putin wins. Several countries are already thinking about re-introducing military service. Of course EU countries all hope the increased spending in the military will be a waste. That will be the best possible result. But what needs to be done is re-building production capacity for a full scale ground war in Europe, that supposes the capacity to ramp up artillery shell production to at least one million shells per month within a few months in addition of maintaining a stockpile of at least ten million shells. Similar upgrades have to be made for other military staples as well, including training troops. Until a regime change happens in Ruzzia, things will never go back to normal in Europe, regardless of Ukraine winning or not. I'm not sure the "benevolent partisans of peace supporting Putin's war of aggression" fully realize that. In this light, if Putin is victorious, it will cause huge defence spendings in Europe. That's an additional motivation for EU countries to support Ukraine. It's cheaper if Ukraine wins. I guess the carbon emissions will also be lower if Ukraine wins.

You might be right with that opinion, but you should provide some arguments. If Putin wins in Ukraine, I see an arms race in Europe, which will lead to a boost in economies. Not sure if that's what the "selfless promoters of peace" have in mind though.

and why don't you go fight alongside the war criminals you admire so much ?

I guess there is a lot of disappointment among some posters here, since the orcs seem to have been stopped near Kharkiv.

For obvious reasons, these figures are highly confidential. Experts estimate the ratio of Ukrainian to Ruzzian losses is between 1 to 3 and 1 to 6 overall, counting all casualties. There probably is a much wider gap if counting only the dead. This page lists estimates of various sources : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War I think the US estimates are probably spot-on, but don't forget to add numbers of Wagner, LPR and DPR to it.

seems you can still teach them one thing or two in that matter !

please stop parroting Ruzzian disinformation. here is Ukraine II in the making : over 200.000 Georgians demonstrating against Russia-Law in Tbilissi (Georgia has a population of 3.7 million).

it's not beautiful. it's something horrible that must be done. it must be done a thousand times more probably. let's hope the Ruzzians go home so that this madness can stop.

and it's very worrying. since the misuse of social media that started around 2012-2013, it's being instrumentalized by evil forces to manipulate the gullible and stupid, and to galvanize and rally the angry, the jealous, the crazies and the people who feel excluded. it's a danger for peace and democracy, something needs to be done against it.

yup, Ruzzia is making small, incremental gains while sustaining high casualties. the real question is, how useful is the territory they gain and if they will get to keep it in the end. and let's not forget, it's the second time the Ruzzians invade this territory since the start of the three day special operation over two years ago.

no insult here, the video you posted is from a well-known pro-Ruzzian channel. fact. here is a link to a well-known pro-Ukraine channel. of course it's overly optimistic for the UA side. maybe "pro-Ukraine" will be perceived as insulting or discrediting to some. oh well.

from a well-know pro-Ruzzian channel...

Ukraine didn't really have a choice. It was resist or submit. Personal question : what is your personal experience with living under Russian rule ?

These dumb post campaigns are actually made for two purposes, one they make money with ads, and then secondary money with building lists of dumb people which are easily influenceable by ads to sell them dumb stuff they don't need. The second purpose is political, but the principle is the same, they build lists of dumb people to influence their vote. Notably, votes for Brexit and Trump used that.

this video's poster image has a disinformative title, see here from that timestamp : allegedly 16 Leopards destroyed. "Shoigu...believes that is 100% of Leopards delivered by Poland and Portugal."

the less they are, the more work falls on the individual.

Ukraine had started running low on ammo about 1 or 2 months before I posted this topic: and they were completely ammo starved by the end of October, defending themselves since then with practically 0 of the "important ammo". 6 month without arty ammo ... but that should now be a thing of the past, since US and EU production has picked up to cover at least 30-40% of Ukraine's needs of arty ammo.

the first one is a continuous action and the second one is a state.

nope, there is no pot. there's just a dirty, filthy, disgusting black kettle.

how about Ruzzia doing that ?

Aaaah OK - I didn't understand that you were talking about a very precise model, as you were "assuming". Mind you, English isn't my first language, neither is it my second. So I probably have to brush up my reading comprehension skills then.

that's why I said "typical" - I'm sure you can find models that go faster.

typical top speed of 400cc MC is 170 Kph (110 mph)

this will be a pretty thick book.