Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I'm afraid Attenborough is right. Studies show that the world can 'comfortably' support 2 billion people. After that, there is trouble. We are now 5+ billion in excess.

There's estimates at both extremes of the scale and everywhere in between. I think we could easily hold 50 billion but only as long as it's in harmony with our environment. The populations in Africa, India and China are unsustainable and causing terrible damage. They need to taper off and bring up their human development index.

I can't say how the graphed figures were calculated but the source of the information is clearly displayed and I seriously doubt you have had time since I posted the image to investigate properly how the figures used to generate the graph were calculated. To do some quick sums myself the latest figure I have found for security assistance from the USA for Ukraine since January 2021 is 17.5billion dollars with the GDP for the USA for 2022 expected to be 22790billion dollars. That in my rusty math works out to the security assistance being 0.08% of the USA GDP indicating the graph figure already accounts for a lot more than the simple 17.5billion dollars that is published as the amount given in direct security assistance to the Ukraine. Whether it is the .08 figure I calculated or the bigger 0.2% of GDP from the graph it is clear that it is not costing the US tax payer a whole lot and the pay back it is gttting in reducing the security risk to the global economy from future activity from a crippled russian military it is likely to be very well spent money for the future prosperity of the USA.

First of all, saying something is nonsense doesn't make it nonsense.

Secondly, the graph likely factors all of those complexities in.

Thirdly, the aid offered by other countries extends far beyond just weapons.

What the hell are you on about?

(post reported as absolute nonsense and misdirection)

i was with you up to this-Ukranian Army + Asov, Right Sector etc. funded by West = British Army + Armed loyalists, it makes zero sense, as the British army would be the Russian army if the situation was a parallel

Irish Nationalism, and even more so Republicanism, (whatever its faults) was not so much pro-Catholic as anti-British. Unlike Loyalism, which was much more sectarian and murdered Catholics just because of their religion. There are of course exceptions to this generalisation.

But overall your analogy is a bit strange. Luhansk/Donetsk = Free Derry (!!). If anything the analogy would be with east Ulster, mush more industrialised than the rest of Ireland 100 years ago.

Nothing more than a clever form of whataboutery?

I have so many questions (edit: I don't expect you to know the answers!) about these stories of vast fleets of drones the mullahs are supposedly promising Russia (and have already started supplying according to US, with Ukraine also giving evidence they have been used in attacks, and examples have been shot down by air defences).

I also find it just quite weird the way Iran has been so gung ho to step into this war and provide extremely large amounts of modern weapons to Russia.

I wonder what they are getting out of it as it all has very little to do with them + will completely alienate EU member states that tended to try and support them in calming relations with the US and getting sanctions removed. Is it help with the nuclear weapons programme or ICBMs? I mean Russia don't care about international agreements any more (not even pretending now), unlikely nuclear proliferation is a worry once they can get weapons to try and get them out of the huge hole they find themselves in.

Can they make that many quickly or is it nonsense? Can they do it without help? Is it a back door for China to deniably restock/upgrade Russia with some new weapons by (possibly) funnelling components & machinery & maybe expertise as well into Iran's drone production.

I haven't tried to find it, but I think poster previously admitted on thread he had the old Russian flag avatar and was posting the odd bit of pro Putin rubbish purely to rile people up (sheeple & morons for supporting Ukraine vs the "enlightened" ones like him who can see "both sides" or else just don't care). So ignore.

What can they do though? If they cross the border they will be absolutely shredded.

No one is there to stop them,

they'll walk in unchallenged and attack everyone they see like they did before.

I’m sure Ukraine would be well prepared this time. The quality of the Russian soldiers and equipment would be much worse this time also.

From the UN vote on the illegal annexation of the 4 Ukrainian regions .

On the 4 Russian KA 52 shot down, they Lost a fair percentage of their fleet of the latest and greatest Russian gunship they only produced 100 or so of them,

Back in the summer they already lost 15% of them they have lost at least ten in the last week or two alone

Just because it's not being tweeted about, that doesn't mean that Ukraine doesn't have forces guarding the border with Belarus. They were caught flat-footed when Russia actually attacked back in February, and you can be damn sure that they're not going to make that mistake again.

Don't forget that, in addition to Ukraine's own border guards and their assets, they now also have access to pretty much all of NATO's surveillance capabilities, except for some of the really secret stuff that the US keep at remote bases like Groom Lake or Diego Garcia. This includes radar satellites like the German SAR-Lupe system that are not impeded by darkness or inclement weather. They'd have quite a bit of advanced knowledge if Belarus began massing troops on the border.