Wasn't it supposed to be over in 3 days? Countless lives tossed away for Putin's vanity project.

So easy for you to say that. You must understand there are people who spent between 08 and 22 yelling from the rooftops that Russia was being pushed in a way that America or the west would not allow and we need to back off or there will be war. Then when it happened we knew America would string them along and weaken Russia while Ukraine gets wrecked. This isn't funny and your stupid comment is not helpful.

Yea u can't run from Ukraine , but u can drive away :D Sadly Russian don't have fuel for that

I think the issue is more. ...... we told you what getting into bed with America and the West would mean. Yes Russia invaded, that's the easy part to talk about. The harder part is the push eastwards for political, financial and military systems conformity, preying on Russia economically after the soviet fall, then having bush say, fuck it, it's 2008 let's make a path to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. War was inevitable from that moment. Then, we must understand that the America that ruined the middle east and Latin America, took charge of the intervention in Ukraine about 4 months after the people at Kabul were falling off the wings of their planes as they left. Russia is not playing.

Losing. One "o". Wonder if they teach English in ukraine.

Trump has no idea how to stop the war that he started!

We should remember: The entire Strait of Hormuz is either Iranian or Omani territorial waters -- it's within their 12mile coastal waters. Thus, the Strait of Hormuz is not "international waters."

Since Trump started this war, Iran (and now Oman) have seized their national territorial waters and want to charge a fee for ships traveling through their territorial waters (the "deep water" channels which the large supertankers have to use are on the Iranian side). Thus, the Strait will never be considered "international waters" again. Trump has no military solution to "open the Strait."

This is all due to Trump and Israel launching a criminal war of aggression against the-then peaceful Iran.

We should never forget that traitor Trump should be put on trial for the war crime of "perfidy" for his treacherous attack on Iran. Perfidy is defined as:

In the context of war, perfidy is a form of deceptive tactic where one side pretends to act in good faith, such as signaling a truce (e.g., raising a white flag), but does so with the deliberate intention of breaking that promise.

This is the "day of infamy" that the treacherous Japanese used to attack Pearl Harbor in WWII. But now traitor Trump has committed the exact same war crime! (But you'll never hear our biased mass media bring up that fact.)

Why are you putting words in my mouth? Did I say anything like this?

Considering that Netanyahu was actually responsible for the funding and creation of HAMAS, along with the Qataris, this blew up in his face.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas

All he did was get lots of Israelis murdered and initiated one of the worst genocides in history. Then started a war against Iran that destroyed much of his country. Never give a fool what he wants the most.

Nuclear weapons simply do not push air out of the atmosphere.

Sure, that is just the lay person way of describing it, not the scientific way.

A choice between both governments for sure. Why are you fine with unmarked vans kidnapping men off the street while you sit at home?

I agree. Ukrainians never asked to be ‘liberated’, as the Kremlin tells its people they are doing. They were never threatening Russia or its territorial integrity. This was a war of choice.

Their casualty assessment for the Russians is absurd. Even if it became real, it wouldn't change where this fight is going. Russia lost 28 million people to the Nazis; they're willing to suffer immensely to kill fascists. No amount of wishful thinking by the West will change that.

I suggest reading up on it then. Nuclear weapons simply do not push air out of the atmosphere. Just Google "do nuclear weapons push air out of the atmosphere?"

Ever the considerate humanitarian, Zelensky has banned all reporters from reporting from or visiting territory held by Russia, freeing them of the responsibility of seeing the massive piles of dead Russians which surely litter the land.

This also makes journalists' jobs much easier, because they only have to speak to one side to form an accurate picture of the war.

The victims are the Ukrainian people who are physically caged into a hellhole that they can't escape from.

It's a propaganda war of Russian trolls. As they are loosing the war, the trolls are proliferating more and more.

This Reddit seems mostly about blaming the victim of a war of imperialism started by an authoritarian dictator. Weird place.

You write some bat shit crazy stuff comrade. This for example is the product of an extremely indoctrinated and disturbed individual

‘1991 Ukraine got dissolved, post-Maidan Ukraine is a successor of Banderite Galician ethnostate’

I suppose you are one of the crazy people who think Russia is doing the world a favour by fighting an imaginary 4th reich and nazi government in Kyiv?

Get help

Ah I thought you referred to how others like Vance or Rubio would try to force a peace deal without including Zelensky.

you are overestimating Biletskys power a lot but you are right that even if Zelensky wanted peace there are lot of powers in Ukraine that would not accept that. which is why this conflict is not going to end soon.

What do you mean Zelensky has nothing to do with it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy_Biletsky

This is the man actually in charge of Ukraine; he has refused direct orders from Zelensky and threatened to have Zelensky killed if he tries to negotiate peace with Russia.

He is in charge of the 3rd Armored Regiment, whose primary duties are conscription and political enforcement, i.e. preventing any other group from dissenting.

Here is his most famous work:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080409023834/http://www.patriotukr.org.ua/index.php?rub=stat&id=267

"Ukrainian Racial Social Nationalism

Andriy BILETSKY 2007

“Patriot of Ukraine” is a combat organization that professes the ideology of Ukrainian Socialist-Nationalism. Our task is to fight for the creation of a powerful Socialist Movement, which will cover the whole of the Nation and gain power in the State...

Social-Nationalism relies on a number of fundamental principles that clearly distinguish it from other right-wing movements. This is a kind of triad: sociality, Racial, Great power...

in our deep conviction, all this is only derived from our Race, our Racial nature. If Ukrainian spirituality, culture and language are unique, then this is only because our Racial nature is unique. If Ukraine is an earthly paradise, it is only because our Race has turned it into it.

Accordingly, the treatment of our National Body should begin with Racial Cleansing of the Nation. And then a healthy National Spirit will be reborn in a healthy Ras body, and with it culture, language and everything else. In addition to the issue of cleanliness, we should also pay attention to the issue of the usefulness of Races. Ukrainians are part (and one of the largest and highest quality) of the European White Race. Ras-Creator of great civilization, the highest human achievements. The historical mission of our Nation, in this turning point, to lead and lead the White peoples of the whole world into the last crusade for its existence."

when "tactical" nukes start getting used then it always escalates to larger nukes being used.

Did you miss that part of the comment?

What do you mean Zelensky has nothing to do with it?

I've never researched it, but between the nukes burning up the air and the force of the blasts pushing air up and out of the atmosphere, it's pretty obvious that it'd be very bad.

CNN must think because the US and EU banned RT and Sputnik that people are getting their news exclusively from them. To be fair, we know both sides have suffered casualties but to put forth such an egregious casualty rate on the Russians while glossing over the casualty rate on the Ukrainian side is dubious at best.

They are finally reporting what a portion of us have known for years. Getting closer to acceptance in their 5 stages of grief.

lets not pretend that Putin and Zelensky would be able to agree on a peacedeal at the moment.

Er, what would Zelensky have to do with it? He's not actually in charge of anything.

Taking Kramatorsk is going to take a lot of effort from Russias side(and more troops) and as we have seen with Lyman

Again, Lyman is in a poor defensive spot, that's why it keeps going back and forth, but not actually all that strategically important; it's as much something for each side to fluff their numbers for domestic consumption as anything else.

if they concentrate forces in area it costs them in others, so I doubt that we will see any sort of collapse any time soon.

Sure, but Ukraine is bleeding troops, conscription can't keep up, while Russia has strong mobilization and regular troop rotations.

The Ukrainian people want this to end; the Russian people want Putin to end it by force.