Most folks don't realize that this Ukraine/Russia adventure was supposed to kick off under President Hillary but Trump threw a huge monkey-wrench into that plan that's been in the works for over a decade. If you think about it that explains so much, from The Russians! collusion narrative to the Biden family ties to impeaching Trump for asking about Ukraine, etc.
Maybe Trump being rigged out.
Now that is massively interesting. When and if the Ukrainians mutiny and refuse to fight it won't happen all of the sudden. There will be a lot of events like this. This and things like this will become somewhat normal. After a little while of these mini-mutinies and refusing to fight and surrenders there will be a mass mutiny at some point. This of course assumes that the process that is happening in the Ukrainian Army isn't interrupted by another different end to the war.
My general sense from listening to Russians who have talked to those people is that they kind of expected Russia to intervene directly at some point but they were also extremely worried that Russia wouldn't. There was a promise made to the DNR and LPR that Russia would intervene someday but until Russia did there was always that worry. Granted I think Putin usually keeps his promises, not that he isn't a dictator, but he if he actually promises you something and you fulfil your end of the bargain he tends to fulfil his side. I'd say he has a pretty good track record for that kind of thing, which is probably the reason he is as powerful and secure as he is. Not that all of the Russians in Ukraine are safe yet and there are still Russians outside Russia or Ukraine who could be threatened.
The imperial ambition accusation of Russia is a meme. Russia is not a state that even has the capability to conquer and hold Europe. The USSR did at one point have that capability but Russia is much weaker than the USSR was at its peak. Russia simply does not have the ability to mobilize millions of men that it would need to do something like that. Part of the reason Russia used to be such a threat hundreds of years ago was because it had an astoundingly high birthrate and consequently the ability to utilize its large young population, and it had land to spare meaning it could theoretically keep growing for an incredibly long time to a massive size. The USSR basically lived off the remnants of this, its ability to tie a massive amount of very different peoples into a viable state and its ability to wield modern state capacities. But the USSR did not manage to keep this very high birthrate and consequently modern Russia no longer has the high birthrate that made it very powerful in the 18th and 19th centuries. To emphasize how insane Russia's birthrate was Russia had a lower population than France in the Napoleonic Wars and in WW1 Russia had a population four times as large as that of France. There is a reason cartoons like this existed.
The company for moral and psychological support? They should just be honest and call them political commissars.
I don't even know why they would want to invade the rest of Europe.
Commissar
Poland for tradition sake and Sweden because they've been asking for it for a long time.
Ah you too are of culture. That anime guy is getting scary at figuring shit out now. He has a deep (rational) hate of globalism zionism and satanism, you have to parse some of his stuff through that hate and he's a little too rapid fire for full context at times but he's on the money.... It's somewhat concerning.
Guy probably did more for troop morale by fragging the "moral support" officer than the officer did.
Is that a joke or is it really happening? Why would they do that?
"The US has like 67 trillion different problems going on right now so why the fuck would they pick a fight against Iran?"
I knew Hillary was basically guaranteeing a war with Russia, but how do you explain in 2012 when Mitt Romney said Russia was the biggest threat to the US, and Obama, the media, and the entirety of the left constantly mocked him about it. I suppose it was too early to show their hand, and any chance to shit on Romney was exploited. Then again, Obama had his hot mic moment with Putin around that time where he told Pootie to be patient and that he could be more flexible with Russia once the election was over. I seriously doubt Obama and Hillary are on opposite ends of that issue.
This is pretty obvious. How else were the DPR and LPR able to score so many victories against it?
There were a large number of NATO trainers that showed up after the stalemate began in 2017.
I strongly believe the whole point of the offensives was to expose Russian warfighting methods and strategy through repeated tests.
Obama was running for reelection and that statement was a chance for future plausible deniability for the shit the US was doing to subvert Russia with the added bonus jab at Mitt.
