1 minute ago, flaming dragon said:

It's a proxy war. Ukraine is the Nigeria of the white man.  The technology and know how come from developed countries.  Where are the F16s?  The Ukies lack the intelligence to operate and maintain them.  

 

Pinging the Ghost of Kiev. Come in Ghost. 

I would suggest they are doing a pretty good job considering what YOU think of them..................

 

It cost a lot of money and lives to deal with Hitler after he invaded Poland, dictators should never prevail......😏

4 minutes ago, transam said:

I would suggest they are doing a pretty good job considering what YOU think of them..................

 

It cost a lot of money and lives to deal with Hitler after he invaded Poland, dictators should never prevail......😏

Hitler is dead dude. He died 80 years ago. 

Hitler lives !    claims the billboard for a Pattaya attraction.  🤣

 

7 minutes ago, transam said:

I would suggest they are doing a pretty good job considering what YOU think of them..................

 

It cost a lot of money and lives to deal with Hitler after he invaded Poland, dictators should never prevail......😏

Where do you live again  ? You democrat of principle. 

17 minutes ago, transam said:

I would suggest they are doing a pretty good job considering what YOU think of them..................

 

It cost a lot of money and lives to deal with Hitler after he invaded Poland, dictators should never prevail......😏

 

Then send in Western troops and fight a real war. Watch our cities being bombed and our populace suffering.  What's going on now is cowardly and disgraceful.  I'd love to see the UK go up against Russia.  UK would be wiped off the map in a day.  The country that produces nothing and has zero natural resources should learn its place and stay in it, but they hide behind Trump and stir the excrement. 

23 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Hitler is dead dude. He died 80 years ago. 

 I didn't know that, thank you very much..................🥰

 

You are sooooooooo funny............🤣

22 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Where do you live again  ? You democrat of principle. 

What has where I live got to do with anything..................😂

10 minutes ago, flaming dragon said:

 

Then send in Western troops and fight a real war. Watch our cities being bombed and our populace suffering.  What's going on now is cowardly and disgraceful.  I'd love to see the UK go up against Russia.  UK would be wiped off the map in a day.  The country that produces nothing and has zero natural resources should learn its place and stay in it, but they hide behind Trump and stir the excrement. 

Don't be silly, the West is fighting a very clever war, nearly 4 years on Putins weeeee escapade is a failure.....🤭

 

You obviously have no regard for a sovereign nation being invaded for land grab, you should be ashamed of yourself, Jack...............🥴

15 minutes ago, transam said:

Don't be silly, the West is fighting a very clever war

To the last Ukrainian.

Pokrovsk   gone already , soon Zaporizhia  then Odesa and everything east of the Dnieper River  there will be little left of Ukraine except the name,the  huge corruption scandals of Zelensky and Co 

and the 'west' wondering how on earth the gas station paper tiger  won.

2 hours ago, transam said:

I would suggest they are doing a pretty good job considering what YOU think of them..................

 

It cost a lot of money and lives to deal with Hitler after he invaded Poland, dictators should never prevail......😏

As a Pole who knows history of my country I agree with many polish historians/experts that we could avoid this war if we have smart politicians at that time between 1st and 2nd world war. But - same as Banderstate now, we had only crooks on the other countries payroll, idiots, cowards and scoundrels who took their wealth assets and (with help of UK and France) fled the country immediately after 2nd war started in september 1939.

I see so many similarities with nowadays Russia - Banderstate conflict. Villains behind the wheel always gonna bleed their own country without second thoughts by the hands of their homies only because it's a good business for them. Obviously doing it remotely while sitting in their safe, comfy holes far away from the real battlefield.

Western media, EU/UK/US politicians and internet warmongering touts have their own share in this cake and are partially guilty of deaths of thousands innocent people and ruining economies of many countries by begging for money/human resources to keep this conflict going on.

 

3 hours ago, bannork said:

Ukraine didn't take Russia on. 

Russia took Ukraine on, expecting to overcome the nation in a few days.

Yet here they are, the 'mighty' Russia, 3 years, 8 months later, still unable to complete their 'special military operation'.

You're parroting US General Kellogg verbatim. Reality is 180 degree different than the Fox News propaganda. Really, when you only have one source for your information your reality gets skewed.  Then what are you left with.  Nothing.  All you can do is call Russian bad names.  Remember.  The ruble is rubble, the Russian economy is in tatters, the unmotivated, poorly train Ruskies are dying in droves and are surrendering is masses, Russia missiles are poorly made out of washing machine parts and can't hit the broad-side of a barn, and Ukraine is winning the war and pushing the Ruskies back to the Ural Mountains - and Russia is planning to invade Europe any day now!  You people can't even keep your Western propaganda straight. 

"Russia, 3 years, 8 months later, still unable to complete their 'special military operation'," says a member of the US representing a US military which fought in Vietnam for 10 years...and lost, fought in Iraq for 8 years...and lost, and fought against a bunch of Taliban goat-herders for 20 years...and lost. I guess the US won the War in Grenada! 

Russia could keep advancing for the next 3 years and 8 months in its war of attrition - but Ukraine will fold well before that. The SMO has been about attriting Ukraine and sapping NATO resources with the strategic goal of getting NATO off of the Russia's border and forcing it back into Western Europe leaving a demilitarized Ukraine as a strategic buffer between a hostile, war-mongering EU (NATO) and the Russian landmass. The root causes of this conflict have always been about NATO's reletless march Eastward and finally right on top of Russia's borders.  The US would never allow a military alliance of, say, a coalition of Russia, China, and Latin America countries to push its way to the US border in order to "Stop American Aggression."  What kind of response did you expect from Russia?  

The Western MSM view of Russia's move into Pokrovsk.

 

 

 

32 minutes ago, connda said:

You're parroting US General Kellogg verbatim. Reality is 180 degree different than the Fox News propaganda. Really, when you only have one source for your information your reality gets skewed.  Then what are you left with.  Nothing.  All you can do is call Russian bad names.  Remember.  The ruble is rubble, the Russian economy is in tatters, the unmotivated, poorly train Ruskies are dying in droves and are surrendering is masses, Russia missiles are poorly made out of washing machine parts and can't hit the broad-side of a barn, and Ukraine is winning the war and pushing the Ruskies back to the Ural Mountains - and Russia is planning to invade Europe any day now!  You people can't even keep your Western propaganda straight. 

"Russia, 3 years, 8 months later, still unable to complete their 'special military operation'," says a member of the US representing a US military which fought in Vietnam for 10 years...and lost, fought in Iraq for 8 years...and lost, and fought against a bunch of Taliban goat-herders for 20 years...and lost. I guess the US won the War in Grenada! 

Russia could keep advancing for the next 3 years and 8 months in its war of attrition - but Ukraine will fold well before that. The SMO has been about attriting Ukraine and sapping NATO resources with the strategic goal of getting NATO off of the Russia's border and forcing it back into Western Europe leaving a demilitarized Ukraine as a strategic buffer between a hostile, war-mongering EU (NATO) and the Russian landmass. The root causes of this conflict have always been about NATO's reletless march Eastward and finally right on top of Russia's borders.  The US would never allow a military alliance of, say, a coalition of Russia, China, and Latin America countries to push its way to the US border in order to "Stop American Aggression."  What kind of response did you expect from Russia?  

Who's from the USA?

NATO and the EU has expanded because those countries didn't want to be under Russian subjugation.

They all joined NATO and the EU voluntarily.

Nobody wants to be under Russian rule.

Putin is terrified that Ukraine joins the EU for Russian envy will turn on him.

Ukraine scrambles to limit damage from blockbuster corruption scandal

“Clearing any corruption in any government institution is a matter of dignity for our government,” prime minister tells POLITICO.

 

https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelensky-ukraine-scrambles-limit-damage-from-blockbuster-corruption-scandal/

 

“The president was very clear: For him, there is no such thing as an untouchable person involved in corruption or crime. He’s a very principled person. First of all, he himself is not corrupt,” Zelenskyy’s top adviser, Andriy Yermak, said in an interview with the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network, of which POLITICO is a part.

“Everything that has happened is the result of absolutely free investigations,” Yermak said. “It demonstrates that all these bodies are independent and working.”

 

I've mentioned Yermak before Zelenskiy's Chief of Staff and most loyal ally through thick and thin. He is the power behind the throne and is still in post. 

 

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What Was the Scandal About

1. Leaked Videos

   • In 2020, Geo Leros (an MP from Zelensky’s party) published videos that allegedly show Denys Yermak meeting people who wanted to be appointed to high-level government or state-owned company jobs. (Kyiv Post)

   • In these recordings, these people are discussing money (“payment for his services”) in exchange for Yermak’s help in getting them roles. (Kyiv Post)

   • There are dozens of hours of footage, according to Schemes (a media/investigative outlet). (Kyiv Post)

2. Allegations

   • The core accusation: Denys Yermak was “selling” state or government positions, using his connection to his brother Andriy. (Kyiv Post)

   • Some of his alleged “partners” in this scheme claimed that Andriy Yermak (his brother) initiated or benefitted from it. (The Kyiv Independent)

   • There were also discussions in the tapes about other business interests — for example, in the KyivPost report, an aide talks about helping a company win tenders, splitting money, etc. (Kyiv Post)

3. Official Response & Investigation

   • After the videos came out, Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) opened a case under “abuse of power.” (The Kyiv Independent)

   • But the case was closed on 14 December 2021, and NABU didn’t publicly explain why. (The Kyiv Independent)

   • Andriy Yermak (the brother) denied wrongdoing. He called the scandal an “information operation” (i.e., a smear) against Denys. (The Critic Magazine)

   • The President’s Office initially said they were waiting on the investigation. (Диалог.UA)

   • Denys Yermak also claimed (on his Facebook) that the recordings misrepresent his meetings: he said he was meeting people as part of his NGO (“Ukrainian Bureau of National Development”), not to offer or facilitate corrupt job appointments. (RBC Ukraine)

4. Public and Political Reaction

   • The scandal triggered public debate: some people thought Zelensky should dismiss Andriy Yermak; others said he should be suspended pending investigation. (RBC Ukraine)

   • Within Zelensky’s party (“Servant of the People”), there was concern. The party’s first deputy head, Oleksandr Korniyenko, said they want law enforcement to “seriously get involved.” (Pravda)

   • In the end, though, with the case quietly shut, many argued that there was a lack of accountability. (The Critic Magazine)

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Why It's a Big Deal

• Conflict of Interest / Nepotism: The scandal raises serious questions about whether Andriy Yermak used his position to help his brother financially or politically.

• Corruption Risk: If true, the idea that key government roles are being “sold” is deeply problematic, especially in a country where corruption has been a long-standing issue.

• Trust in Anti-Corruption Institutions: The fact that NABU opened a case but then closed it (without strong public justification) fuels skepticism about whether anti-corruption bodies are fully independent or effective.

• Power Centralisation: Critics argue that this is part of a broader pattern where Andriy Yermak has amassed a lot of influence, potentially centralising power in the president’s office. (The Critic Magazine)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy_Yermak

 

42 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Ukraine scrambles to limit damage from blockbuster corruption scandal

“Clearing any corruption in any government institution is a matter of dignity for our government,” prime minister tells POLITICO.

 

 

Corruption in the Russian government is a bigger deal. All of those Russian/Soviet ministers should be killed. Any link to the former Soviet Union is as bad as links to the old Nazi Party.

 

Ukraine is making an effort. Russia on the other hand rewards corruption because they are Communist W ankers. Being a Communist or harbouring communist feelings makes you a corrupt animal, in my book. Where you have communism, you have growing communism. Ukraine was communist, they are weeding it out, hopefully using a  9×19mm Parabellum, after due process of course. We should have locked up/executed all those British fifth columnists who called themselves British Communists/Marxists/Trotskyists/Leninists. Free speech be dammed, traitorous filth the lot of them, continually making excuses for all of those Communists.

1 hour ago, connda said:

SMO

 

By using terms only the Russian government uses (even the North Koreans and Chinese don't use that term), you have given yourself away as a paid informant of the Russian government. Must be lots of you, in St Petersberg or wherever, beavering away, joining and posting on forums, as an alternative to signing that Contract, I suppose. The wages from the Internet Research Agency can't be much, but its probably better than the alternative. Remember to update your notes during shift change over.

4 minutes ago, Roadsternut said:

 

 

Corruption in the Russian government is a bigger deal. All of those Russian/Soviet ministers should be killed. Any link to the former Soviet Union is as bad as links to the old Nazi Party.

 

Ukraine is making an effort. Russia on the other hand rewards corruption because they are Communist W ankers. Being a Communist or harbouring communist feelings makes you a corrupt animal, in my book. Where you have communism, you have growing communism. Ukraine was communist, they are weeding it out, hopefully using a  9×19mm Parabellum, after due process of course. We should have locked up/executed all those British fifth columnists who called themselves British Communists/Marxists/Trotskyists/Leninists. Free speech be dammed, traitorous filth the lot of them, continually making excuses for all of those Communists.

Welcome to the forum, Mr Roadsternut.
Just to clarify - we are not collectively giving hundreds of billions in aid and military assistance to Russia. Yes, Russia's corruption and despotism are a given. The issue here, which you haven't disputed, is that Ukraine's leadership cadre appears to be seriously corrupt. It's endemic and long-term.
Meanwhile, poor conscripts die in their thousands - pitilessly - at an unimaginable front, in unspeakable conditions on both sides. This is a war where both combatants have far more in common in terms of language and shared history than we do, sitting thousands of miles away flying our flags of virtue and faux concern.

6 minutes ago, Roadsternut said:

 

By using terms only the Russian government uses (even the North Koreans and Chinese don't use that term), you have given yourself away as a paid informant of the Russian government. Must be lots of you, in St Petersberg or wherever, beavering away, joining and posting on forums, as an alternative to signing that Contract, I suppose. The wages from the Internet Research Agency can't be much, but its probably better than the alternative. Remember to update your notes during shift change over.

Even the Russian troll farms don't consider this backwater worth the candle anymore andf some of our most prolific posters are no more whatever happened to Bkk Brian ex of this parish. He appears to have given up.

Who can blame Ukrainian men for wanting to flee conscription into a meat grinder? Who can blame Germany for saying "we're full"? The same pressures exist here. Britain hosts 255,000 Ukrainian refugees at a cost of billions.
The Homes for Ukraine scheme has cost over £2.1 billion. Total refugee support consumed £2.8 billion in 2024—a full 20% of Britain's entire aid budget. Add £6.5 billion in fiscal guarantees to Ukraine's government, plus over £2.3 billion per year in military aid since 2022, and you begin to understand the scale.
In 2023, refugee costs peaked at £4.3 billion, devouring 28% of our aid budget. Think about that: money earmarked for development in the world's poorest countries is instead housing refugees from a European conflict between two nations with shared language and history. The poorest of the poor are subsidising our virtue-signalling over Ukraine.

 When Tommee ten names and his mob had their flag waving rally in Whitehall there was a Uarainian flag flying over the HM Treasury building. Quite. 

 

Germany slams door on Ukrainian men fleeing war

Merz at odds with Zelensky after relaxation of wartime rules results in influx of fighting-age males - DAILY TELEGRAPH 

 

https://archive.ph/lQ8nq#selection-2433.4-2437.107

 

 

After Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine introduced martial law and blocked men aged 18 to 60 from leaving, even if they were ineligible for military service.
But a new rule introduced by Mr Zelensky in August now allows Ukrainian men under 23 to travel abroad. The same reforms also lowered the age at which men were required to fight from 27 to 25, owing to manpower shortages on the front lines.
The relaxed rules resulted in almost 100,000 young Ukrainian men – a figure higher than the entire 70,000-strong British Army – leaving the country, with many heading to Germany via Poland.
Mr Zelensky wanted to end the practice of Ukrainian parents sending their children abroad before they turned 18 to prevent them from being drafted.

 

Just now, beautifulthailand99 said:

Welcome to the forum, Mr Roadsternut.
Just to clarify - we are not collectively giving hundreds of billions in aid and military assistance to Russia. Yes, Russia's corruption and despotism are a given. The issue here, which you haven't disputed, is that Ukraine's leadership cadre appears to be seriously corrupt. It's endemic and long-term.
Meanwhile, poor conscripts die in their thousands - pitilessly - at an unimaginable front, in unspeakable conditions on both sides. This is a war where both combatants have far more in common in terms of language and shared history than we do, sitting thousands of miles away flying our flags of virtue and faux concern.

 

 

We are collectively giving hundreds of billions of cash to Russia. When you fill up your car, switch on the lights, go for a medical scan etc. Your money is finding its way to Putin, and that doesn't anger you as much as Ukraine

 

I would say Ukraine is not perfect, but it knows its not perfect, and is trying. Russia though celebrates institutionalised corruption. There are many corruption indices; I like Transparency International. Ukraine is ranked 105. Not great. Russia is ranked 154, but you think Ukraine is a bigger deal, unless you have posted elsewhere similar long analyses of Russian corruption. I suspect you haven't, because you seem to be someone fixated on criticising Ukraine, excusing Russia.

 

To put those numbers in perspective;

Thailand is 107. Same as Brazil, Turkey

Serbia is 105.

Vietnam is 88. Cambodia is 158. China is 76. Hong Kong is 17. Taiwan is 25.

 

Afghanistan is 165

 

Denmark: 1

Finland: 2

Norway: 5

Sweden: 8

Germany: 15

Canada: 15

United Kingdom: 20

France: 25

United States: 28

Spain: 46

Italy: 52

Poland: 53

Romania: 65

Bulgaria: 76

Mexico: 140

 

FSU:

1. Estonia: 13

2. Lithuania: 32

3. Latvia: 38

4. Georgia: 53

5. Armenia: 63

6. Moldova: 76

7. Kazakhstan: 88

8. Ukraine: 105

9. Uzbekistan: 121

10. Azerbaijan: 154

11. Kyrgyzstan: 154

12. Russia: 154

13. Turkmenistan: 165

 

Its clear, pivot towards the West, and you become less corrupt. Pivot towards the Communists in Moscow/Beijing, and you become more corrupt. If you genuinely want Ukraine to be less corrupt, you need it to be fully embraced by the West. Corruption has declined immeasurably in the former Warsaw Pact states. The Baltics, for Soviet Republics, are absolute poster boys. When the evil Soviet Union fell apart, much to the disappointment of all those Communists/Maoists/Trotskyists/Leninists, all those new Republics were at the same level of corruption (really bad), the Baltics showed what is possible, when you stand up to Moscow and its Communists. If you turn your back on Ukraine, on the frankly racist basis that "they are all the same", then you condemm them to large scale state kleptocracy, and death; Russia has a predeliction for concentration camps, and is even reviving gulags, exiling Ukrainians to the far east, just like Stalin.

 

Interestingly you take the Russian line of denigrating Ukraine's cultural identity, by dismissing them as the same people.  The commonality is because of decades of imperialism where Russia imposed a Russian identity, and snuffed out a Ukrainian identity. The Irish would probably take issue with you if you said they are just the same as the Brits, ditto India; because they (some) speak English and all like a good curry, they have something in common with the British. The share history you blithly dismiss is Russian conquest. Ireland has a shared history of Cromwell with England, but you won't see anyone in Ireland celebrating the Lord Protector.

 

The Soviet Union was one of the most evil empires in history, finessing genocide on an industrial scale, not through gas chambers, but through insidious industrial and agricultural policy, where you institutionalise, normalise genocide. They brutally suppressed local cultures, in favour of a Russian identity. Its wonderful to see the "new" Republics throwing off the Russian cloak, and embracing their suppressed identities, despite Moscow continually bitching about how Russians are being picked on.

 

Faux concern? Speak for yourself, matey. That's Russian talk coming from you. You're not a Russian are you?

34 minutes ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Even the Russian troll farms don't consider this backwater worth the candle anymore andf some of our most prolific posters are no more whatever happened to Bkk Brian ex of this parish. He appears to have given up.

 

How would you know. What insight do you have to the Russian troll farms. There are plenty of apologists for Moscow/Beijing here.  Or are you deflecting?

3 minutes ago, Roadsternut said:

 

 

We are collectively giving hundreds of billions of cash to Russia. When you fill up your car, switch on the lights, go for a medical scan etc. Your money is finding its way to Putin, and that doesn't anger you as much as Ukraine

 

I would say Ukraine is not perfect, but it knows its not perfect, and is trying. Russia though celebrates institutionalised corruption. There are many corruption indices; I like Transparency International. Ukraine is ranked 105. Not great. Russia is ranked 154, but you think Ukraine is a bigger deal, unless you have posted elsewhere similar long analyses of Russian corruption. I suspect you haven't, because you seem to be someone fixated on criticising Ukraine, excusing Russia.

 

To put those numbers in perspective;

Thailand is 107. Same as Brazil, Turkey

Serbia is 105.

Vietnam is 88. Cambodia is 158. China is 76. Hong Kong is 17. Taiwan is 25.

 

Afghanistan is 165

 

Denmark: 1

Finland: 2

Norway: 5

Sweden: 8

Germany: 15

Canada: 15

United Kingdom: 20

France: 25

United States: 28

Spain: 46

Italy: 52

Poland: 53

Romania: 65

Bulgaria: 76

Mexico: 140

 

FSU:

1. Estonia: 13

2. Lithuania: 32

3. Latvia: 38

4. Georgia: 53

5. Armenia: 63

6. Moldova: 76

7. Kazakhstan: 88

8. Ukraine: 105

9. Uzbekistan: 121

10. Azerbaijan: 154

11. Kyrgyzstan: 154

12. Russia: 154

13. Turkmenistan: 165

 

Its clear, pivot towards the West, and you become less corrupt. Pivot towards the Communists in Moscow/Beijing, and you become more corrupt. If you genuinely want Ukraine to be less corrupt, you need it to be fully embraced by the West. Corruption has declined immeasurably in the former Warsaw Pact states. The Baltics, for Soviet Republics, are absolute poster boys. When the evil Soviet Union fell apart, much to the disappointment of all those Communists/Maoists/Trotskyists/Leninists, all those new Republics were at the same level of corruption (really bad), the Baltics showed what is possible, when you stand up to Moscow and its Communists. If you turn your back on Ukraine, on the frankly racist basis that "they are all the same", then you condemm them to large scale state kleptocracy, and death; Russia has a predeliction for concentration camps, and is even reviving gulags, exiling Ukrainians to the far east, just like Stalin.

 

Interestingly you take the Russian line of denigrating Ukraine's cultural identity, by dismissing them as the same people.  The commonality is because of decades of imperialism where Russia imposed a Russian identity, and snuffed out a Ukrainian identity. The Irish would probably take issue with you if you said they are just the same as the Brits, ditto India; because they (some) speak English and all like a good curry, they have something in common with the British. The share history you blithly dismiss is Russian conquest. Ireland has a shared history of Cromwell with England, but you won't see anyone in Ireland celebrating the Lord Protector.

 

The Soviet Union was one of the most evil empires in history, finessing genocide on an industrial scale, not through gas chambers, but through insidious industrial and agricultural policy, where you institutionalise, normalise genocide. They brutally suppressed local cultures, in favour of a Russian identity. Its wonderful to see the "new" Republics throwing off the Russian cloak, and embracing their suppressed identities, despite Moscow continually bitching about how Russians are being picked on.

 

Faux concern? Speak for yourself, matey. That's Russian talk coming from you. You're not a Russian are you?

Were you MicroB your posting style seems familiar ?

1 hour ago, bannork said:

NATO and the EU has expanded because those countries didn't want to be under Russian subjugation.

You ideologues are sooooo brainwashed.  There is no discussing this with you.  You people are hopeless.  You won't be happy until the collective West provokes a world war, which of course you'll blame on Russian, Chinese, North Korean, and Iranian aggression.  Problem being, if you study history, since WWII, it's the US which is the global aggressor in almost every case. 
The US has 800 bases world-wide. Ah-huh.  Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.  Ah-huh.  The Bid Laden are Saudis but the West attacked Iraq and Afghanistan.  Ah-huh. Clinton bombs what was once Yugoslavia to draw attention away from Monica Lewinsky.  Ah-huh.  The Al-Queda head-chopper Al-Julani is a "reformed terrorist."  Right!    America is in never ending war, and why not - there's nothing but massive amounts of money to be pumped into US corporation to fuel endless war.  Up next?  Invading Venezuela with a made-up casus belli of a made-up term called "narco-terrorism."  Oh, and the new excuse?  "Venezuela has chemical weapons."  Ah-huh.  Right.  And weapons of mass-destruction.  Ah-huh.  And the largest oil reserves on the planet "SHHHHH!" 

The United States IS the cause of global aggression and never ending war.  And like all of his other lies, our President Of Peace is going to pull us into global war.  I expect you'll get your wishes to go to war with Russia, China, the DPRK, Iran, and the Global South starting with Venezuela.  Of course, none of you will volunteer to fight the wars you love so much, nor will you volunteer your children and grandchildren.  Other people's kids need to go die to satisfy your unquenchable war-fever, blood-lust, and ethnic hatred.

Here we go again - Venezuela has chemical weapons and drugs.  They must be destroyed.  

37 minutes ago, Roadsternut said:

Its clear, pivot towards the West, and you become less corrupt.  Pivot towards the Communists in Moscow/Beijing, and you become more corrupt.

Who makes those corruption numbers up?  The West.  "Pivot towards the Communists in Moscow..."  And you ignorant people actually believe that Russia is Communist??? How stupid can you be?  Which is why nothing you said is worth the paper it's printed on.  You literally have no conception of Geo-politics.  You make things up then spew it out as fact.

Z pro Putin bots and trolls Russian and western will be very activated like vulture-hyenas in the wake of the recent corruption issues in Ukraine.

But those change nothing about why Ukraine fights to not be erased by Russia.

It isn't about one man. It's about an entire country. The sovereign nation of Ukraine. 

If Zelinsky who has been an amazingly effective war president up till now loses his legitimacy and effectiveness to continue to lead, then he is expendable.

Ukraine is not expendable.

Maybe Zelinsky who does have incredible political skills can weather this storm, but if not, so be it. 

Let the Z pro Putin trolls have their gloating moment.

The war goes on and Ukraine continues to have significant cards.

1 hour ago, beautifulthailand99 said:

Even the Russian troll farms don't consider this backwater worth the candle anymore andf some of our most prolific posters are no more whatever happened to Bkk Brian ex of this parish. He appears to have given up.

Bkk Brian may have had more than one life.

7 minutes ago, bannork said:

Bkk Brian may have had more than one life.

Don't they all. 

18 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Z pro Putin bots and trolls Russian and western will be very activated like vulture-hyenas in the wake of the recent corruption issues in Ukraine.

But those change nothing about why Ukraine fights to not be erased by Russia.

It isn't about one man. It's about an entire country. The sovereign nation of Ukraine. 

If Zelinsky who has been an amazingly effective war president up till now loses his legitimacy and effectiveness to continue to lead, then he is expendable.

Ukraine is not expendable.

Maybe Zelinsky who does have incredible political skills can weather this storm, but if not, so be it. 

Let the Z pro Putin trolls have their gloating moment.

The war goes on and Ukraine continues to have significant cards.

The snake rots from the head down. 

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/ukraine-russia-war-british-army-b2847816.html

 

• Britain's most senior army officer, Field Marshal Lord Richards, says that Ukraine cannot win its war with Russia and should negotiate peace terms.
• Lord Richards told the Independent’s podcast World of Trouble that Western allies have encouraged Ukraine to fight but failed to provide the necessary means to win, particularly manpower, without direct Nato involvement.
• His remarks followed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to Washington DC to meet US President Donald Trump, where he sought Tomahawk cruise missiles for Ukraine.
• Mr Trump appeared hesitant to provide American weapons, citing the need to maintain US stockpiles, though he seemed open to a drone technology exchange with Ukraine.
• Lord Richards' pessimistic outlook on Ukraine's chances contrasts with some of Mr Trump's recent, more optimistic statements regarding the conflict.

Pokrovsk, a city that held back some of Russia’s fiercest assaults for over a year, is now on the verge of falling. Despite Kremlin claims of encirclement, Russian forces have advanced through infiltration tactics, overwhelming infantry pressure, and relentless drone attacks leaving Ukrainian defenders in an increasingly untenable position. The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell explains how the battle reached this point and what Pokrovsk’s fall could mean for the wider defense of Donetsk Oblast.

 

 

 

The fix is nearly in. Endemic corruption runs from the top throughout the country, territory is being lost, and manpower crises generate record refugee numbers. Ukrainians abroad increasingly refuse repatriation, knowing what awaits them. Meanwhile, the TCC has descended into busification forcibly conscripting men from buses, streets, and public spaces in scenes that undermine the very cause they claim to defend.
Western governments are exhausted, the US has checked out, and Europe desperately wants an exit. The question now is how to shape a narrative that lets them go for the door without appearing to abandon their commitments. Expect the language to shift from 'as long as it takes' to 'sustainable solutions' and 'pragmatic diplomacy.' Yet still, armchair generals cheer on from the safety of their sofas. 

 

https://www.politico.eu/article/war-in-ukraine-draft-age-russia-vitali-klitschko/

 

BRUSSELS — Ukraine is facing a worsening shortage of soldiers as record numbers of men flee to Europe, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko warned in an interview.

“We have huge problems with soldiers — with human resources,” Klitschko told the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network, of which POLITICO is a part, acknowledging the toll that nearly four years of war has taken on Ukraine’s capacity to replenish its ranks.

He said Russian troops are advancing relentlessly, describing their assaults as “like a computer game — they just keep coming, they don’t care about fallen soldiers.”