Russia - threadbanned users in OP

The majority of their military is made up of conscripts , but over the last 10 years they built a vanguard force of 80,000 professional and well equipped soldiers who would do any initial fighting before leaving the conscripts to hold ground as they move forward to another target

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Trump gave record amounts of weapons to the Ukrainians, why would he do this if he wanted to destabilize them and give their territory to Russia?

Serious derangement here going on, next thing you know Trump will have been undermining Taiwan and Hong Kong all along. And he's also responsible for climate change!

I really don't think it takes a rocket scientist to understand that it suits Putin absolutely no end in a long game to continually disrupt democratic presidents and promote less chaos when republicans are in because he has various GOP bought and paid for.

I mean a child could figure this out in less than five minutes. But you need a diagram it seems...

He's weakening the US. It's not a hard strategy to see.

I'm conflicted about the ignore here. It could lead to a mountain of lies going unchallenged and casual users falling into the trap or it could actually just make it all better.

One reason why Putin may not have tried anything drastic during the Trump years was the sheer unpredictability of Trump. I think that in many US circles there were fears about the likes of Trump having his finger on the big red button.

At least there is a rational administration in Washington now.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/02/21/russian-troops-at-ukraines-border-face-nightmare-living-conditions-a76488

Nope, keep the pressure on democratic rational governments and make them out to be war hawks or what ever the internet has been fed recently it plays right into his nato disruption. Have trump come in and throw flames into the EU and nato relationships.

It's so obvious it's ridiculous. He doesn't need to start anything during trump years as he's creating the chaos for him.

Overall the US becomes increasingly less strong and internally broken. The divisions within the parties now are exactly what Putin wants. A long war of misinformation and spending money through 3rd parties.

It sounds more like YOU want a war... you're practically foaming at the mouth with some of your posts.

And it's very strange too, because you have been maintaining all along that Russia have no power anymore. You have been laughing at them and ridiculing their current status in the world.

If Russia are so weak, then why are so many of you guys spreading so much fear about what they might do? Even going so far as to compare them to the Nazis, about to take over the world? Ridiculous nonsense tbh. lol

Doesn't sound like the sort of rhetoric you might expect towards a weak former world power?

UK looking to take RT off the air there by all accounts

For a few weeks we've had posters like yourself spewing lies about how the end of the world is nigh and Putin is going to invade murder and capture all of Ukraine up to the Dnieper if not beyond. Plenty of doomsday "today is the day" type crap out of you too, and yet it never materializes. So far we've got Putin recognising the separatist regions that have been in civil war for almost a decade - a full scale invasion of Ukraine it is not.

And to be honest from the way you and others post about the prospect of war it seems like you all are eager to see NATO and Russia going toe to toe, sure who cares about the lives lost, I get to see my team win against the baddies.

There will be no nukes dropped, there will be no NATO response, there will still be a Ukraine. The same posturing and political alliances will veto any intervention at the UN, and China will back Russia to the hilt deterring any US or NATO response other than sanctions.

So let me get this straight.

Ukraine should front up militarily to a far superior force, knowing their odds are hopeless... get slaughtered in conventional warfare... and THEN fall back into a guerilla campaign?

In the process losing many of their best and bravest soldiers, before the real long war even begins?

If you know you're the underdog from the start, why not just skip the first part and go straight for the insurgency and save your best guys for the real fight?

I'm all for being brave in the defense of your nation, but I don't see why that should involve sending well trained men to a certain death for no good reason?

Anyway, I'm still not really convinced we are going to see a full scale invasion of the country. I consider Putin to be a very clever cookie, and I just don't see how that strategy would be an intelligent choice. (for a number of reasons)

Your gas.

But very very very unoriginal. Theres nothing edgy or different in your input. You are not giving anything outside of the main stream. In fact it could be argued your takes are now main stream.

Russia good. Western world bad.... Zzzzss