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What a stupid comment in the attachment: Zelensky seeking fame and fortune. The guy already had fame and fortune before he became president.No wonder Ukraine is losing with this guy at the helm
According to the latest figures I read, probably August, inflation was 2.2%. Poverty? I cannot give you a figure but the EU is rich by world standards. Average income: around €28,000 a year.EU has to have the most incompetent leadership ever In the history of mankind.
So much extreme potential yet completely incompetent, increasing inflation and poverty, a host of internal issues and problems, lack of innovation and slowly losing the battle in terms of technology and investing in ai and the future vs China, India etc.. and instead of investing their money in that they keep throwing it away for countless external things all over the world.
I predict in 30 years the EU will have an even much greater poverty and completely lag behind the world leaders in many areas, they are quickly going towards being a 3rd world country in the far future, you can't make this up lol.
Sadly it is at risk if not all shipped before the next US president takes office. If Trump wins, he could put an indefinite hold on undelivered aid.Breaking Significant News!!
Therefore, expect an enormous quantity of military hardware to be announced tomorrow. It will be the largest package we've ever seen announced in terms of material. Just know that it won't all ship immediately. Rather, Ukraine will get about $1-$1.5 Billion usd per month worth of those weapons and equipment for the next 6-8 months.
Ukraine Is About To Get Pledges Of $8 Billion In U.S. Weapons—Including Precision Glide Bombs
But those billions in weapons could take months to ship.www.forbes.com
I guess that some of their usefulness is in increasing the number of fighters the air force has after the losses during 2.5 years of combat.That'd be pretty damn unfortunate if true. Probably gonna have to wait for more sources.
All that being said, the F-16s were never the magic bullet game-changer the transfer was hyped up to be. They're useful, but yeah, were never going to change the state on the ground in a big way. They're not anything the Russians don't have an equivalent of really.
- “Vance has been one of the chief obstructionists to U.S. efforts to providing [sic] assistance to Ukraine.”
- “Vance ‘embraced non-interventionism.’”
- “In 2020, Vance criticized President Trump’s airstrike killing Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, worrying it would continue to bog down America in the Middle East to the advantage of China. Vance suggested that the country had been entangled in wars in the Middle East so ‘financial elites’ could profit from the rise of China.”
IF UKRAINE AND its Western backers are to win, they must first have the courage to admit that they are losing. In the past two years Russia and Ukraine have fought a costly war of attrition. That is unsustainable.
It has repeatedly vetoed other countries allowing Ukraine to use weapons provided by them (not the US) to their best effect- for example, blocking use of Storm Shadow and Scalp against Russian bases used to attack Ukraine.
This isnt exactly trueThe war is going badly. Ukraine and its allies must change course
Time for credible war aims—and NATO membershipwww.economist.com
In my opinion Ukraine would not have survived long without the US sending it US weapons. However, my view is that the US priority is not the liberation of Ukraine but rather the attrition of Russia economically, militarily and financially by this war. I think that US reluctance to give Ukraine its best chance of expelling the Russian army has resulted in Russia building remarkable defences on the Ukrainian territory it has occupied. The US has repeatedly delayed providing Ukraine with the weaponry it requested. It has repeatedly vetoed other countries allowing Ukraine to use weapons provided by them (not the US) to their best effect- for example, blocking use of Storm Shadow and Scalp against Russian bases used to attack Ukraine.
I think that the damage caused to the Ukrainian army, the Ukrainian people, Ukrainian infrastructure, the Ukrainian stock of houses and apartments has been magnified by what I see as the US prioritisation of weakening Russia through a protracted war.
Ukraine has been put in a position where, in my opinion, the possibility of it regaining the ground lost since the invasion has effectively disappeared. I see attacks on military bases, infrastructure, arms production facilities, oil and gas facilities etc in Russia as Ukraine's only real prospect of forcing Russia out of the territory it has taken since the invasion.
I agree with the journalist's assessment that Ukraine is losing. Its human resources do not match those of Russia. It cannot win by defending against Russian attacks. It needs to neutralise the sources of attack in Russia.
PS Russia is losing economically. Critically, it is running out of the labour needed to man both the productive economy and the armed forces.
This isnt exactly true
Russia isnt losing economically at all
1- Core Russian population still remains untouched till this day
2- Oil and Gas revenues have increased in 2024 to outpace all of 2023 and still 3 months are left till the end of the year
3- GDP is expected to grow at around 4-5% which is higher than any European nation
4- Overall prices in Russia are lower than nearly all of the EU and USA
5- Russia has successfully transitioned to a semi-war economy while Europe is still unsure about what to do
6- it is clqimed that Russia has so much money that it is reported that mercenaries's ratio compared to Ukraine's is 4:1; i-e, for every mercenary fighting for the UAF, 4 are fighting for Russia
Meanwhile...
1- Half of Ukraine's population have left the country while another 20%-30% will probably die as a result of this war
2- Ukraine's Debt reached levels that it can never repay even in a thousand years
3- Ukraine's loss of nearly all of Kherson, Donabss and Luhansk constitutes around seven trillion dollars worth of resources which is half of the value of all of Ukraine's proven resources
4- Morale in the army is low
5- Zelensky's approval rating is rock-bottom and public anger is on the rise
This war's result has been clear ever since Zelensky refused the peace plan in Istanbul.
Zelensky's role is to destroy the Ukrainian people and erase them from history in order to fatten the wallets of the tycoons in the USA as well as to reinforce American control over Europe
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he can say what ever he want to say, but beeing at war having lot of economic sanctions, only fool that believe it will not affect the russian economic. More so ever, every single profitable economic activities will be drag to finance the warRussia stopped publishing a lot of economic data some time ago. Why would it do that?
I think nobody disputes that the Russian economy is growing strongly, attributable largely to strong growth in defence production.
But I would say that the war is having a bad effect on Russia economically :
I don't accept your claim that half the population has left Ukraine. Where are these 18 million or 19 million people you allege to have gone elsewhere?
I don't accept your claim that around 8 million to 12 million Ukrainians will die because of the war. I would be interested in how you come up with that estimate.
the possibility of it regaining the ground lost since the invasion has effectively disappeared.
Sanctions were supposed to have a devastating effect on the Russian economy. Oil and gas production was supposed to drop lower and lower due to the withdrawal of western expertise and specialist equipment. That has not happened, in part because equipment has been ordered by other countries then shipped to Russia. Revenue from oil and gas sales was supposed to be restricted by the price cap imposed by the west. That has happened - Russia has to discount the price to sell to new large customers India and China.he can say what ever he want to say, but beeing at war having lot of economic sanctions, only fool that believe it will not affect the russian economic. More so ever, every single profitable economic activities will be drag to finance the war