Ukraine (Mod Note & Threadbanned Users in OP)

When is the last time the US invaded anywhere? There has been virtually nothing in the last seven or eight years. It's a line pushed all the time by the Putin bots on social media but they (US) have been largely non interventionist in the last decade)

There's nothing over dramatic about what is happening in Ukraine. Six to seven million refugees have fled the country westwards - that is the biggest displacement of refugees since WW2.

You are attempting to diminish the facts about an invasion in one part of the world because of your partisan dislike of countries in other parts of the world.

They aren't mututally exclusive, you realise that? You can criticise multiple situations.

You don't have to go through all these silly mental gymnastics trying to downplay the invasion of Ukraine or validate it just because you have strong emotional feelings against the US/West/whatever.

Not to mention countries aren't people, they are made up of different administrations.

Also, no one is sorry that the current war, which is the largest since WW2 and genuinely threatens world peace is hogging the limelight from your cherry-picked conflicts you are "concerned" about.

Some definitions of a failed state. Total corruption; One man and his cronies robbing the nation blind. An army so rotten with corruption that officers sell off rations, equipment and electronics to gangsters for kickbacks. Flunkies promoted and given preferment over the competent. The media all speaking with one voice and any voice to the contrary silenced. Inconvenient people having ''accidents''. A lack of research and innovation. Young men from ethnic minorities and underdeveloped regions used as cannon fodder. Religious leaders subservient to power and parroting it's lies. A police and judiciary under the control of one man. A secret security service with power over everybody in a position of great influence. The widespread use of torture, maltreatment and illegalities by the security services. People dragged before the courts for the slightest sign of open dissent. Hundreds of thousands of the country's best and brightest fleeing the country to seek their futures elsewhere.

Charrychar2:42 pm

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Afghanistan doesn’t ring a bell no? Or do you consider Afghanistan a successful state?

Afghanistan has been a failed state since the mid seventies and it still is. All the Taliban have achieved with the departure of the Americans is a return to the dark ages and the resumption of a vicious struggle against an enemy even more cruel and backward than they are.

No, shrill....you are not getting it.....

Ah, both sides is it? Nah, that card can’t be played. Russia demolished much of Mariupol. The blood is on their hands. No one forced them to invade a peaceful neighbour that they had signed agreements with.

**** he/she is finding all the threads

Russia is responsible for those deaths, that's 100%.

As for which specific unit caused the building to collapse? Considering the Russian military shelled and bombed the city for over 2 and a half months, the building collapse itself could have been due to an artillery strike, and aircraft strike or culmination. Not that you are the slightest bit interested in the details, only in projecting fringe views via disingenuous "questions".

The Oryx vehicles and equipment information is based on visually confirmed info (photographs/video), all of which are linked. You can confirm them yourself. Also recent documents captured from Russians with vehicle losses figures confirm that the info on Oryx is below the Russian totals (by around 20%)

Another fresh account and another ridiculous post

Mariupol has always been pro Russian. Look it up. The Asov battalion used the poor residents as human shields in their buildings, kept them in basements for weeks and shot at them when they tried to leave because they were pro Russian and they were expendable.

Mariupol will never go back to the Ukrainians after 8 years of Asov mafia style abuse.