Politics

[RTG]

Can one ever get clarity at all with the MSM?

No.

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

There is a reason they are called Royalty. Special rules for the haves over the have nots.

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[Wheels]

You know more quotes from movies than I have seen movies.

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

You know more quotes from movies than I have seen movies.

Wish I could remember names as well.

 

[steve white]

In the mean time we have the strongest currency on the planet...outperforming any other in the last few months....unfortunately for everyone, or business that is paid in usd or gbp etc ....Real fkup as no prices have really gone down....its now 50% stronger that year ago...so I find this fkn unbelievable...I know its not really relevant...but what a load of shit....don't get me going on the rest ...

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Makes you wonder about free market capitalism vs crony capitalism, doesn't it? Here in Texas ranchers were selling off cattle during the drought like it was going out of style--lines over a mile long at the auction barns, with selling until 3 am. Have beef prices gone down at the grocery?

 

[Wheels]

Wish I could remember names as well.

I wish you could too. FYI, my name isn't Buford.

 

[Red Leg]

This had to be done by someone eventually. By the way, "Downfall" is a great movie.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xb0zh1

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

I wish you could too. FYI, my name isn't Buford.

Wait a minute…..you’re an Okie……I thought your name was Bubba!

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

This had to be done by someone eventually. By the way, "Downfall" is a great movie.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xb0zh1

You know truly great humor has with it a certain amount of truth. Hitler was thankfully a military moron from what I can tell. Seems Putin is of the same ilk.

 

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[Kevin Peacocke]

Ukraine will go down in history as the country that beat the mighty Russia, and Zelenskyy as one of it's greatest leaders. Boris had the guts to go and support him when the rubble in Kyiv was still smouldering. The USA lead the way with weapons, but what buoyed the Ukranians through their darkest hour was knowing that the right was with them.

 

[bowjijohn]

Ukraine has the heart of lions

Also

it looks like NATO has them give Russia a bloody nose by merely sending a bit of kit and a few plays from the game book

Makes one wonder what might happen if they actually turned up to play ball

 

[rigbymauser]

Another key factor to this war is that the majority of russians like Ukranians and viceversa. So Putin can`t really create a hostile image of ukranians. The russian troops is aware they are invaders of a peaceful nation. So the fighting spirit among the russians are low. Nothing compared to when they fought Hitler.

 

[WAB]

Ukraine will go down in history as the country that beat the mighty Russia, and Zelenskyy as one of it's greatest leaders. Boris had the guts to go and support him when the rubble in Kyiv was still smouldering. The USA lead the way with weapons, but what buoyed the Ukranians through their darkest hour was knowing that the right was with them.

And the fact that they are tough SOB’s who love to fight!

 

[Hogpatrol]

 

[Red Leg]

Another key factor to this war is that the majority of russians like Ukranians and viceversa. So Putin can`t really create a hostile image of ukranians. The russian troops is aware they are invaders of a peaceful nation. So the fighting spirit among the russians are low. Nothing compared to when they fought Hitler.

That is not exactly true. Telegram and the Russian media have wholly embraced characterizing the Ukrainians as less than civilized - even less than human. The term most often used is "Kohkhol." We should also not forget that much of the Ukrainian population initially welcomed the German Wehrmacht as liberators in 1941. https://www.historynet.com/a-warm-welcome-turns-cold-in-nazi-occupied-ukraine/ Ukraine had just gone through the "Holdomor" in 1932-33- a Stalin created famine that may have killed as many as 12 million in Ukraine and Belarus. Fortunately for the Soviet Union, the Nazis quickly disabused the Ukrainians that they were their saviors.

There are indeed a lot of ethnic Russians in Ukraine - the major factor in the effort of separatists in Luhansk and Donetsk to break away from Ukraine. But that has tended to fuel divisions rather than bring the two cultures together.

Finally, there are not a lot of ethnic Russians in the Russian army. The vast majority of both contract and conscript troops deployed in Ukraine (and also the casualties) come from east of the Urals. There is no sense of cultural identity between them and Ukrainians.