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that is reminiscent of Putin's hollow argument about his current missile attacks on civilian infrastructure (war crime) - "who started it"? stating the attacks are a response to the Crimean bridge bombing... the Minsk agreements were already discussed, and Ruzzia is the one mainly responsible for breaking them. there is one aggressor and one defender in this war.

Zelensky: Russian troops have 'effectively destroyed Bakhmut'. President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening address on Dec. 9 that heavy fighting is ongoing near the towns of Bakhmut, Soledar, Maryinka, and Kreminna in the Donbas in the east of Ukraine. https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/zelensky-russian-troops-have-effectively-destroyed-bakhmut looks like Ukraine will withdraw from Bakhmut

left and right are almost insignificant when it comes to the extreme. people have been known to switch from extreme left to extreme right and back. I think the main common denominator is the "extreme". left and right just provided them with excuses to do what they wanted to do.

I think that all Western leaders have today enough wisdom to not sentence Russian people to poverty after the war. Even after WW2, there was a Marshall plan to reconstruct Europe. But one condition will be the de-Z-fication of Ruzzia, so a regime change seems inevitable if Russians don't want to live like North Korea in the next 25 years. The situation is certainly complicated, with people like Medvedev, Prighozhyn and Kadyrov around Putin, I don't really see how the regime change could happen, it would take a massive uprising, but Ruzzians have proven again and again in the past years that they are cattle, and the progressist, educated people have left Ruzzia anyway, so who will lead that uprising ? North Korea it is then.

that scumbag is the only one threatening nuclear war, but Ruzzia would not gain anything from nuclear strikes. very likely, on the contrary. soon the figure of 100k dead Ruzzian soldiers will be reached, not including wounded and prisoners.

Moscow accuses Ukraine of drone attacks deep inside Russia https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/05/europe/russia-ukraine-missiles-kyiv-zaporizhzhia-intl/index.html "accuses" makes it sound like a bad thing ???? I mean... yes, and ??? what did Putin expect ??

Hungary blocks 18 billion euros of EU assistance for Ukraine. Czech Finance Minister and EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council President (ECOFIN) Zbyněk Stanjura said that the EU is currently looking for another mechanism to start allocating funds to Ukraine. https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/hungary-blocks-18-billion-euros-of-eu-assistance-for-ukraine => Hungary has been annoying for a long time already, if Hungarians support this policy, why can't they be let out of the EU, so they can join Ruzzia's "Eurasian Economic Union" instead ?

the world needs to take this opportunity to show all wannabe nuclear warmongers that they will be stopped. at all costs. if we don't this, any country without the bomb and not member of any nuclear defense alliance will be at risk.

cost of living will become increasingly distressing in the coming years. we haven't seen anything yet.

too late ...

^looks like someone is trying hard to get his postcount up.

I see, please let me delete my opinion then

I don't agree. An average Thai calling caucasian people farang is more or less equivalent to a westerner saying someone is black. It usually doesn't carry judgement and is mostly descriptive.

these would be cashless times. no ATMs anymore. no cash.

how do you pay someone else if there is no terminal, no phones, no nothing ? why do you want to introduce a third party in the payment process ?

cash is freedom. end of demonstration.

Google was great until approximatively 2008-2010, then things started to go downhill. If you remember, they had "don't be evil" as a motto, it was visible until about 2014 on their webpage, but was still in their code of conduct. the phrase was ERASED from their code of conduct in 2018. Today, google maps has ridiculously high prices for API usage, Google adsense for small websites has disappeared, Google adwords became Google Ads and aren't about keyword bidding anymore, instead Google's position is more similar to selling traffic and leads, Google Analytics' version 4 is unusable, etc. Google has become evil, and in my opinion, has peaked. Their 2-factor policy is incredibly nosy and abusive, I have no interest in letting Google know my phone number or my whereabouts. Email verification is fine.

umm... Donetsk : https://weather.com/weather/today/l/48.02,37.80 Feels Like -7°

then you should change your "MicroSoft"

@OP I read you have been "battling it" you didn't mention the usual therapy though - usually around 10 days of acid blockers, mineral bismuth plus two antibiotics: metronidazole and tetracycline. if such a treatment doesn't get rid of it, the bacteria should be tested for resistances and then a tritherapy/quadrupletherapy with different antibiotics should be applied.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/11/23/ukraine-war-european-parliament-declares-russia-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism Ukraine war: European Parliament votes to declare Russia a 'state sponsor of terrorism' If you support Putin or Ruzzia, you support terrorists.

please describe how these reports were unfavourable to Ukraine. Ruzzia has been waging this war since 2014: https://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/117777 This update is provided for the media and the public Throughout the day of 14 April 2014, the western and central parts of Ukraine remained calm, with routine police presence, whereas the situation in the south-eastern and eastern regions of the country remained tense. The situation in Donetsk and Luhansk districts continued to cause concerns owing to the observed presence of masked individuals in several towns of the region, occupying several administrative buildings and erecting barricades and roadblocks. https://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/117787 The situation in Western and Central Ukraine (Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi) remained calm and stable with a routine police presence. Teams judged the situation in Kharkiv, Odessa and Kherson to be calmer, but the situation remained tense in the Dnepropetrovsk region, where roadblocks were being built to protect the region from groups opposed to the Kyiv government. In Luhansk and Donetsk the situation was cause for serious concern due to the ongoing occupation of some administrative buildings and capture of other strategic locations by armed individuals. etc. etc. etc. Ruzzia was lying on the diplomatic front by agreeing to ceasefires and whatever while still pushing its troops forward. It has broken its promises from 1991, from the Budapest memorandum in 1994 and the Minsk agreements. Ruzzia has been sending soldiers to Eastern Ukraine and waging war since 2014, and you say "oh look, the OSCE mission confirmed the Ukrainians have shot back at the Ruzzians while defending their country". The reports aren't unfavourable to Ukraine. One the contrary, they prove that at no point since 2014 the Ukrainians were ready to give in to Ruzzian aggression.

@daviddunham the thread title is a clear indication that you should visit a doctor instead of self-medicating.

I readily admit it. Thank God the Free World is supporting Ukraine. A peace where Ruzzia won is worse than war, not only for Ukraine but also because a Ruzzian victory would mean more war coming later from Ruzzia to other European countries. Ruzzia needs to be stopped (dead) in its tracks and durably neutralized so it won't be threat again anytime soon.

Ukraine indeed has some missile defense in place, and I guess Ruzzia knows if it were to fire its missiles in a continuous flow, most of them would be intercepted. That's why, considering its dwindling supplies of cruise missiles, it launches them in the largest possible waves every handful of days in order to overwhelm Ukrainian air defense. Western allies need to supply Ukraine with more air defense systems. According to kievindependent.com, Israel was asked to provide air defense systems, but instead provides "funding for strategic materials". I don't really understand why Israel is so hesitant about supporting Ukraine. https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/haaretz-israel-funds-strategic-materials-for-ukraine-under-us-pressure Ukraine could also make good use of more Gepard AA tanks. These tanks are obsolete in Western countries, but there are still hundreds of them around, let's send them all to Ukraine to shoot down Iranian suicide drones, which they are ideally suited for. Meanwhile, the disgusting Swiss government continues to block the delivery of ammunition for the Gepards: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/switzerland-refuses-to-budge-on-german-ammunition-request-/48028348 Anyway, 12000 rounds of ammo is a ridiculously low number, since the Gepard fires 1100 rounds a minute. So let's hope Germany or Poland already set up production lines for Gepard ammo.