I've been wondering if Ukraine is to become the European Afghanistan, in a sense. Not the best analogy but the US in particular seems perfectly content keeping the blood flowing as long as it hurts Russia in some form or another. Never mind that it also hurts Ukraine, Ukraine supplies the manpower and the West supplies the gear. The gear is effectively limitless and no one seems to care what the manpower limit is.
Personally, never let the possibility of getting a medal or not getting a medal concern me at all. Just concentrated on getting my missions done. Suggest the US military could do with fewer ribbons and medals; the fewer there are, the more meaningful the medals/ribbons awarded. When you look at a military member's rack of ribbons, the only ones worth taking seriously are those above the National Defense Service Medal, which ribbon is red, white, yellow and a tiny bit of blue. Those above the NDSM are for actual individual achievements, those below it are the "I was there" and "I never got caught" types.
These are Europeans, this situation is not comparable. All they really need is legal documentation and the ability to start working. But EU officials don't want that because people will start to put down roots and won't want to return to a war torn Ukraine that was a corrupt shithole before the war, but now will be a total desolate and ravaged dumpster fire with zero economy. EU is still holding on to some quick victory over the Russians and they can all return to a Free and Democratic Ukraine, so they are holed up in refugee camps while the young women turn to Tinder for their way out.
Of those 2.5 million, I doubt all of them will want to go back. Even without a war, Ukraine isn’t a place even some Ukrainians want to live in. People say Russia has a population issue, but Ukraine gets overlooked. Between the amount of people fleeing and those dying, especially lots of young men, getting the population back to pre-war levels will be difficult.Last I checked they were saying 2.5 million in Poland alone.
It will be interesting if we start seeing suicide bombings as a tactic coming out of Ukraine. The levels of fanaticism we are seeing are almost there. Not quite yet, but almost.
I don't expect Islamic fanatic levels of retardation from Ukrainians but we may see.
Seems like the military has the same kind of thinking as a video game style achievements system.
With how it's going, terrorist attacks on Russian soil is of greater concern.
How is Russia going to do this lol
I understand this may be quite sensitive but can you share a bit about your inside-man in the Russian MoD?
11 year old hohol taken from Mariupol now in Moscow cleaning Kremlin toilets of course
Interestingly those pickups are setup different from the ones used by the 30th Separate Motorized Brigade.
Completely unrelated question, but did Ukraine classify Ammonia Nitrate as a blasting agent? If farmers are sitting on thousands of tons of boom-boom with nothing to fertilize, tractor memes are going to be lit.
How is "we want books, music and tv programs in ukraine be in ukrainan language" comparable to "we are going to take ophans from your city, take them away far away in russia and told them that ukraine is country of nazi that has to be erased from earth"?
I've never said any of that. My point is that the west at leas has some promise to it, why would nations want to align with it.
What's the promise? Nigger worship?
I swear, american culture is centered around nigger. We could discuss Russian invasion on Ukraine and all they can think about is niggers.
That sad sack of soft shit is what we call "tore up from floor up". I'm surprised they didn't volunteer him as a "sapper" for that .mil clout; he wanted them to pin a medal on his corpse for something.
Yeah, the ones in that TikTok look like the Russians liberated a dealer or shipment of fleet vehicles bound for somewhere else.
There's enough unexpended ordnance buried in their fields to keep them busy for years, and they'll probably never need to buy fertilizer again.
I didn't say anything like this. However if you read the wiki sub-section you'll see it's not just "we want media to be in Ukrainian" it's "Media will be in Ukrainian, including foreign films which must be approved before being aired in Ukraine," and more.
Oh well never mind, the primarily Russian-speaking demographic has no reason to be upset after all.
Agreed but I think it's disingenuous to pretend the West hasn't been directly meddling in Ukraine affairs for a long time now. Biden was famously there personally preventing an investigation into corruption with billions of US tax dollars on the line if the investigation continued. C'mon man!
it really is all you have to do is go to an American history class and all they will tell you about is Niggers and the holocaust. I was once in class and a guy said the civil war was a for redemption for all the messed up things we did to Indians and niggers.I swear, american culture is centered around nigger. We could discuss Russian invasion on Ukraine and all they can think about is niggers.
