jakee
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The Royal Navy. As Kallend pointed out, they were doing a lot. If we’re going to discuss this in a rational manner we’re going to have to distinguish between ‘doing something’ and ‘doing something that immediately worked’ because they are two very different things. You started off by saying the UKs declaration of war was meaningless because we only sent a few troops, now you’re saying it was meaningless because we couldn’t stop Hitler taking France. Sorry, you know that doesn’t make sense. Even then, just the declaration itself matters. Hitler was absolutely convinced that the UK would sit back and let him do what he wanted. He liked us and for some reason thought we liked him. When he had to commit to the BoB, the blitz and then reparations for an invasion it delayed his turn on Russia and guaranteed that they’d be stuck in winter before they were halfway through. That was hugely consequential.
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Pretty sure Trump would have sent Jared Kushner, so let’s just be thankful we dodged that bullet, eh? If the last people you deem acceptable are both from the ‘80s it seem unfair to pick on Harris specifically.
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In NATO airspace.
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I don’t think the Russians really ‘hire’ the Wagner group. It’s more like a pretend PMC which is actually an extension of Russian special forces which they can use when they really want some deniability.
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Especially since they’re telling Poland they should do it unilaterally without involving anyone else. So the whole of NATO is scared to antagonise Putin, but their position is that a relatively small country which shares a border with Russia and has nuclear missiles stationed 20 minutes from their capital should be happy to antagonise Putin all in their own.
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Well, no. Putin didn’t invade Ukraine just for a domestic message, he did it for (what he thinks are) legitimate strategic and economic objectives. Now the war is going badly he still doesn’t need a distraction for the populace because he has instead used it as cover for going Full Soviet on state control of the media. On the flip side, as the world turns against him Ukraine is even more strategically valuable as (in his paranoid fantasies) a buffer against invasion, and the huge oil and gas reserves even more crucial to their economy as the only thing left they’re able to sell.
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What are you talking about? Belarus has a Russian puppet government. Russia literally invaded Ukraine through Belarus. The convoy attempting to reach Kyiv was staged out of Belarus. To most intents and purposes Belarus is already part of Russia.
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No. Did you read it? We promised not to hurt Ukraine. We didn’t promise to help it unless it was nuked.
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Omission? I’m surprised you don’t know what ‘Axis’ means.
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I know. But if you think we were losing aircraft to the Luftwaffe at a rate of 200 to 10 - especially in one day - you’re tripping balls. Again, pretty sure you’re getting confused with the Eastern front.
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This literally never happened. I genuinely think you have confused Britain with Russia.
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Mr Volker does not have an uncomplicated relationship with Ukraine and American support.
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Err, right. Airliners. That is definitely a thing we were talking about.
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Right, but what’s the timescale on that? You think their refineries will be inoperable by June?
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Well, this is on Russia’s border, not on the other side of the world. And while it’s not free, I think the relatively low tech way Russia conducts war is a hell of a lot cheaper than the way the west conducts war. What do they really need? Munitions which they’ll have vast quantities of stockpiled already, and oil which they pump out of the ground. We spend a hell of a lot on protecting our soldiers, Russia is quite happy to spend its soldiers lives. They were in Syria in force for several years without worrying much about the cost.
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You worked with people whose cars were vandalised in Singapore in the early ‘90s (allegedly) by a kid whose subsequent caning was an international incident? Of course you did. We’re they your Ukrainian colleagues who were working with you on an Asian project at just the time this happened? Jesus, it’s like talking to Jay from The Inbetweeners.
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To avoid talking at cross purposes - a no fly zone means direct conflict between NATO and Russian forces. It means shooting at Russian planes and killing Russian aircrew. Bigun’s point, which I fully agree with, is that you can’t talk about a no fly zone as if it’s an alternative to entering into combat. A no fly zone is combat, so you simply have to think in terms of whether you want NATO to be in direct combat against Russia or not.
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Oh that sucks. I'm wondering why we can't be supplying as many drones and anti-armor / anti air defence weapons as possible. The Ukrainians apparenty can't risk deploying their small number against larger concentrations of Russian forces where they'd be most useful. I'm guessing they'd be much quicker to train Ukrainian operators to use than different manned aircraft, and we don't immediately need them in the same way that Slovakia and Poland have an intense interest in maintaining their own air defence right now.
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Fox News Producer Broke Law With Work for Russian, Nothing New Here
jakee replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
Yeah, I mean on the right you've got major, popular media personalities, politicians and numerous staffers, advisors and appointees of the previous administration. On the left you've got a redneck communist from Buttfuck Nowhere, TX. It's completely the same thing. -
Fox News Producer Broke Law With Work for Russian, Nothing New Here
jakee replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
They were his black Ukrainian female friends who all happen to be completely opposed to wokeness, liberalism, paid maternity leave and whatever else you might suggest because of course they are. -
I’m summary, you just made up that summary.
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Anything your quasi-fascist proto-dictatorship can do...
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“Conservative outrage as Biden administration respects rule of law”
