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originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: WanderingMrM
So, no evidence and no reasoned thought......nothing to support your claims.
I know a few Russians, none of them live in Russia either.
How do you think it would go down on here if I posted their opinions on here as evidence to support anything I said?; I'd get laughed off the site.
You seem to be saying everything so far has been a deliberate ploy. a precursor to a larger, global confrontation.
That means Putin has been lying all along and all those on here who are supporting him, claiming he's been wronged and that its all part of a NATO plot etc are indeed wrong.
58,000 Russian soldiers dead so far.....all for a lie.
originally posted by: MidnightWatcher
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
I scanned through this thread and made a few observations.
The US is largely responsible for the war between Ukraine and Russia. It was the biden administration, through the consulate in Ukraine, that urged Ukraine to shut down the opposition party tv stations and seize the assets of Viktor Medvedchuk, leader of the opposition party. Assets that included a pipeline that carried Russian oil to Europe. Within 2 weeks of that event Russia started massing troops on the Ukraine border. That was not Feb of this year, it was Feb of last year. Russia waited a full year before actually crossing the Ukraine border. I suspect that Urkaine acted under the assumption that the US would step in if Russia retaliated. Instead biden did nothing while Ukraine took it full in the face. Then biden started sending "help".
A seal team could easily get in, bomb the pipelines, and get back out safely. That is not beyond the realm of possibility. If destabilization is the goal, that would be a means to an end.
As for world war, I think it would be wise to understand the difference between global conflict and world war. There could be isolated conflicts all over the world without a world war being declared. I can see quite a few smaller conflicts in the coming years but a world war, that is some serious stuff. I have to be realistic and say it could happen. But I think, at least for now, that is too big - too soon. There is no upside to world war. Not any more.
Medvedchuk was added to a terror sponsor list by the UN, not the US or Ukraine.
Most of the rest of your claims happened as a result of russia's invasion.
Meaning they could not have been the 'cause'.
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
originally posted by: MidnightWatcher
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
I scanned through this thread and made a few observations.
The US is largely responsible for the war between Ukraine and Russia. It was the biden administration, through the consulate in Ukraine, that urged Ukraine to shut down the opposition party tv stations and seize the assets of Viktor Medvedchuk, leader of the opposition party. Assets that included a pipeline that carried Russian oil to Europe. Within 2 weeks of that event Russia started massing troops on the Ukraine border. That was not Feb of this year, it was Feb of last year. Russia waited a full year before actually crossing the Ukraine border. I suspect that Urkaine acted under the assumption that the US would step in if Russia retaliated. Instead biden did nothing while Ukraine took it full in the face. Then biden started sending "help".
A seal team could easily get in, bomb the pipelines, and get back out safely. That is not beyond the realm of possibility. If destabilization is the goal, that would be a means to an end.
As for world war, I think it would be wise to understand the difference between global conflict and world war. There could be isolated conflicts all over the world without a world war being declared. I can see quite a few smaller conflicts in the coming years but a world war, that is some serious stuff. I have to be realistic and say it could happen. But I think, at least for now, that is too big - too soon. There is no upside to world war. Not any more.
Medvedchuk was added to a terror sponsor list by the UN, not the US or Ukraine.
Most of the rest of your claims happened as a result of russia's invasion.
Meaning they could not have been the 'cause'.
That is absolutely incorrect.
Medvedechuk being added to a terror sponsor list is akin to US parents being labeled domestic terrorists for wanting to protect their 5 year olds from pornography in the classroom.
Also, everything I mentioned happened in Feb of 2021 except for the part about biden sending help. Russia sat at the Ukraine border for a full year waiting for diplomatic solution to the problem. None was offered. Only after a full year of waiting did Russia actually invade Ukraine. This is not opinion, it is historical fact.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: Vroomfondel
As for world war, I think it would be wise to understand the difference between global conflict and world war. There could be isolated conflicts all over the world without a world war being declared. I can see quite a few smaller conflicts in the coming years but a world war, that is some serious stuff. I have to be realistic and say it could happen. But I think, at least for now, that is too big - too soon. There is no upside to world war. Not any more.
When has there ever been peace in our time?
I don't seem to recall a time period in all my 47 times around the Sun that there have not been conflicts raging around the globe.
I tend to agree with another world war being an unrealistic notion, else about half of the place is apt to end up glowing in the dark for quite sometime to come.
Nobody in there correct mind wants to see nukes fly.
Then again Vladimir Putin seems to be a mad bastard on the edge of a cliff.
originally posted by: St Udio
the USA looks bruised up right now
but just wait for when the USA leadership gets taken over by the master-mind 'Lawless One' with a small party (aka: coup).... only 3 candidates for the coming 'Lawless-One' are former leaders/presidents of the old style USA
The September financial report shows that the Chinese economy is the only one in the green while European and American took a hit. We're going to see rats jumping ship and investing everything into China while taking everything out of America and Europe.
Please never try and pass an opinion about my country's government (rightwing or leftwing) ever again thanks... you clearly know nothing about it. Squashing rights and dissent?.. wtf?
originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: WanderingMrM
And it will bring about your heralded Future Russian Tsar who will lead the fight against The Anti-Christ and the Dawn of a Golden Era in the world under Russian hegemony.
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: CthruU
Time will tell indeed CthruU.
On that score i completely agree.
Tell you one thing all the same people are not lightly to forget the crap Putin has perpetrated.
Coz let's face it he is now on the same to a similar page as Hitler Mao and Stalin.
originally posted by: WanderingMrM
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
originally posted by: MidnightWatcher
originally posted by: Vroomfondel
I scanned through this thread and made a few observations.
The US is largely responsible for the war between Ukraine and Russia. It was the biden administration, through the consulate in Ukraine, that urged Ukraine to shut down the opposition party tv stations and seize the assets of Viktor Medvedchuk, leader of the opposition party. Assets that included a pipeline that carried Russian oil to Europe. Within 2 weeks of that event Russia started massing troops on the Ukraine border. That was not Feb of this year, it was Feb of last year. Russia waited a full year before actually crossing the Ukraine border. I suspect that Urkaine acted under the assumption that the US would step in if Russia retaliated. Instead biden did nothing while Ukraine took it full in the face. Then biden started sending "help".
A seal team could easily get in, bomb the pipelines, and get back out safely. That is not beyond the realm of possibility. If destabilization is the goal, that would be a means to an end.
As for world war, I think it would be wise to understand the difference between global conflict and world war. There could be isolated conflicts all over the world without a world war being declared. I can see quite a few smaller conflicts in the coming years but a world war, that is some serious stuff. I have to be realistic and say it could happen. But I think, at least for now, that is too big - too soon. There is no upside to world war. Not any more.
Medvedchuk was added to a terror sponsor list by the UN, not the US or Ukraine.
Most of the rest of your claims happened as a result of russia's invasion.
Meaning they could not have been the 'cause'.
That is absolutely incorrect.
Medvedechuk being added to a terror sponsor list is akin to US parents being labeled domestic terrorists for wanting to protect their 5 year olds from pornography in the classroom.
Also, everything I mentioned happened in Feb of 2021 except for the part about biden sending help. Russia sat at the Ukraine border for a full year waiting for diplomatic solution to the problem. None was offered. Only after a full year of waiting did Russia actually invade Ukraine. This is not opinion, it is historical fact.
Russia actually offered Diplomatic solutions to NATO, E.U and America but they laughed and basically spat in Russia's face while wiping their asses with the proposed solutions and agreements.
Yet now everyone is like "Why you invade poor innocent Ukraine? Why you be like that Russia?".
I can't disclose the 2 sources I have but they are of decent ranks and come from 2 separate branches of the Russian military, the American source is one that is out of the intelligence branches.