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Now imagine you are Ukrainian soldier inside a shallow trench somewhere in the contact line. Just one drop of this near you. And if you're lucky to survive in one piece, you are under concussion and in 5 minutes a Russian assault team with tanks is coming at you.
No wonder Ukrainian positions are being seized one by one everyday.
Nah, he is okay. @Gary won't go down that easy.
After a whole day of watching Russia Today, if you find time, read other resources.I can't answer that question because its extremely simplistic and ridicilous, if you knew anything about the conflict about Ukraine and Russia that started A DECADE ago, you would know its not that simple as comparing it to some fictional "invader" that wants to invade your country.
Infact no one scenario is the same, and no war is the same, so you can't make comparisons like that.
It seems like you are victim to the propaganda from your leaders that basically says Russia is pure evil and completely horrible and wrong and Ukraine is a saint and 100% innocent, well thats rubish buddy, things are not black and white.
After a whole day of watching Russia Today, if you find time, read other resources.
Let's say this American.
It will also be useful for @Gary
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Putin said that Russia is ready to take the most extreme measures if the West brings it closer to strategic defeat: “For Russia, this means the end of its statehood. This means the end of the thousand-year history of the Russian state. Then why should we be afraid? Isn't it better then to go to the end? This is elementary logic."
At the same time, Putin believes that Russia does not yet need a preventive strike and that the potential enemy will be “guaranteed to be destroyed.”
American expert Shelby Magid said that Putin's threats do not surprise anyone, since he has been abusing them for two years and the fear that he will use nuclear weapons is beginning to subside. Rather, he said, they can be seen as a sign of weakness and desperation: “He uses nuclear threats as a show of force, and they have deceived many in the world, especially in the West and in America, into making our policy conditional. due to fears of escalation in Russian use of nuclear weapons.” weapon...
Nuclear threats used to hold America back, but now we see that this is a bluff. The US has just announced a further change in its policy, saying that Ukraine could use American-supplied weapons to attack Russian territory. The White House is easing restrictions on Ukraine." According to Magid, "Putin went to North Korea, which is the largest rogue state in the world - the most totalitarian, but very poor country - to essentially ask for help..." He believes that
“Putin made another huge strategic mistake by signing an alliance with North Korea, threatening South Korea, which now has one of the largest armies and is now considering helping Ukraine militarily.”
Commenting on Putin’s words that the possible loss of the Russian Federation in the war means the end of Russia as a state, the expert said that “it is he (Putin – ed.) who continues to spread the truth in a way convenient for himself.” for him to justify his own war and policies while trying to maintain power. I suspect he is afraid of what the outcome of the war will mean for him and wants to maintain stability in the country."
There are many people in the west who would love to see a totalitarian, belligerent Russia gone. That does not mean they want to see Russia gone.And his fear is justified. the West is loud and clear when it declares that the only political outcome they accept is, let me quote that
"the defeat, de-nuclearization, and balkanization of Russia into smaller state"
Currently, the war is not to Russia's disadvantage, Russia is actually winning the war even though without any real breakthrough. But what if the situation reversed ? And in war reversal of fortune is not something that is not uncommon. So Putin, as a good statesman needs to put that into his calculations on how to move forward. He must be prepared for the worst contingency, the kind of scenario where Putin's army is actually rolled back into Russia or even worse, into Russia's proper.
So I think he made the correct move by actually 'warning' the West about what is his intention if that is the case. In the end nuclear war = MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). They want Russia gone ? Fine, then the West will too be gone, as no one will survive nuclear exchange.
And his fear is justified. the West is loud and clear when it declares that the only political outcome they accept is, let me quote that
"the defeat, de-nuclearization, and balkanization of Russia into smaller state"
Currently, the war is not to Russia's disadvantage, Russia is actually winning the war even though without any real breakthrough. But what if the situation reversed ? And in war reversal of fortune is not something that is not uncommon. So Putin, as a good statesman needs to put that into his calculations on how to move forward. He must be prepared for the worst contingency, the kind of scenario where Putin's army is actually rolled back into Russia or even worse, into Russia's proper.
So I think he made the correct move by actually 'warning' the West about what is his intention if that is the case. In the end nuclear war = MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). They want Russia gone ? Fine, then the West will too be gone, as no one will survive nuclear exchange.
"the defeat, de-nuclearization, and balkanization of Russia into smaller state"
I'm surprised that Gary isn't more in favor of the balkanization of Russia considering how many Muslim peoples live within it and are constantly being kept down by the Russians to crush their desire for freedom from the Russian state. You'd think he'd be in full solidarity with these oppressed peoples and praising Ukraine for actually being the ones to give Crimean Tatars their rights back after decades of getting screwed by Russia.
I'm surprised that Gary isn't more in favor of the balkanization of Russia considering how many Muslim peoples live within it and are constantly being kept down by the Russians to crush their desire for freedom from the Russian state. You'd think he'd be in full solidarity with these oppressed peoples and praising Ukraine for actually being the ones to give Crimean Tatars their rights back after decades of getting screwed by Russia.
For Gary, the only muslims that matter are the Palestinians (not that he cares about their lives, but he invokes them as the reason why he hates the West), the Houthis (because they fight against the West) and the Islamic State (because they are fanatical radiclas like him).
He doesn’t care about moderate muslims being opressed in Russia or China.
There are many people in the west who would love to see a totalitarian, belligerent Russia gone. That does not mean they want to see Russia gone.
Putin can threaten to end it all for everyone if his ambition to re-create a lost empire is thwarted (probably including you - fallout, nuclear winter etc). The west will not accept that everyone has to do what a dictator in a place called Russia says.
There's no such things as moderate Muslim, you either follow what Muhammad told or not. I used to be happy when people call me moderates, but now not anymore.
You just confirmed my point. You are a radical, and you don’t even consdier the moderates to be muslims. Very much like Daesh ideology.
Don't ever use my country for the garbage you say , ok?What for? So that 'Muslim' statelets could appear from the ruins of Russia?
If there's one thing I notice as a history buff is that nominal independence =/= freedom. From the 20th Century onwards Muslim-majority states popped out exponentially. But once they gained their independence (which required a lot of Muslim blood) it turned out to be a disaster for the Muslims who fought for it.
It is not lost to me how many Mujahidden battalions from across the world fought wars in Bosnia, Kosovo, etc, only for this country to join the EU and Western-led order and worst of all they adopted secularism, not Islam.
The Indonesian War of Independence wouldn't have been possible if the Muslims hadn't fought tooth to nail for it where their cities were razed to the ground, yet once independent the Indonesian leadership who inherited the country did all it could to fight Islam. The Muslims are the actual losers of the Indonesian independence.
Those Crimean Tatars will eventually return to their homeland, this is the shared debt of Muslims worldwide. But not under the banner of Ukraine, nor Russia or any Westphalian-style nation-state, it will return under the banner of a Unified Islamic (Super) State. Until that day comes, I advise Muslims, both in Ukraine and Russia not to waste their blood for the infidels of Russia and Ukraine, but save it elsewhere where their actual struggle will pay off. Do not repeat the mistakes of the 20th century. This is not you war.
We are still far from the reality of an Islamic superstate, but then again the Middle East is a hotbed for the nucleus of such a state, and I'm betting on a Russian victory in Ukraine to make that reality faster.
All Muslims matter to me LMAO. I have made it clear how I don't adopt the Russian stance on Chechnya or the Balkans or the Chinese propaganda of 'happy' Uyghurs in concentration camps. Even I felt so much anger when Bangladeshis depicted Rohingyas as a national burden.
There's no such things as moderate Muslim, you either follow what Muhammad told or not. I used to be happy when people call me moderates, but now not anymore.
Don't ever use my country for the garbage you say , ok?
In all , almost 4 years of war in Bosnia, there were between 900 to 1100 . About which effin battalions are you talking about?
What? You have a hard stool and you thought that it is hardness of the soul.
Don't strategise here ,ok? Don't imagine that you are kinda socio, military and political thinker. Don't talk about history, because you ain't one.
You, from Indonesia, who was occupied by the Dutch???!!! Will tell me that so called Islamists saved me?
Bosnian people killed more white people then South East Asia and Indian Subcontinent put together.
Don't philosophise here , trying to teach me what is Russia or Europe etc
I am not teaching you about your nick of wood.
You are going to wash your mouth and pride yourself on the lives of my father, uncle and 2 cousins.
3rd world will act like my saviours?
On this forum, a gentleman posted the picture of Bosnians in Lavov in both world wars.
You are going to be the ultimate strateg ?
You don't know even how to cut bread.
Which effin battalions were in Kosovo?
What you sent me tin of tuna and you think that I will go onto Paris to satisfy your complexes of inferiority?
There are 280 of you, guns in hand and go. OK?