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This guy give excellent updates,definitely worth a watch.

No. I'm an 'actions speak louder than words' kind of person. Miley's quote is just one of the many signs. and emerged after I first raised my concerns about US intent two days ago in this post: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120243686/#Comment_120243686

What I am saying is being thought by Liz Cheney, it turns out, so it's not just me - in the article I quoted.

“We will continue to take every step we possibly can to help the Ukrainians succeed on the battlefield and to improve their position at the negotiating table..." national security adviser Jake Sullivan

And was this me saying this, or someone else?:

"Republican lawmakers are questioning whether the Biden administration is truly backing Ukraine’s goal to reclaim territory lost to Russia eight years ago or is hoping for a stalemate that would force Ukraine to make concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin."

So that's Miley and Sullivan reading from the same script, but you are acusing me of basing everything on Miley's statement. It's the US's actual actions that caused me to reach the conclusion.

I said people don't like anything negative being said about the US - high five...

Something I haven't seen mentioned yet: Ukraine are actively mobilising and have been for weeks now. Additionally, they are forming what I take to be another special forces unit for which they sought volunteers and received 20,000 applications at last count.

https://ukranews.com/en/news/915339-ssu-announces-selection-of-volunteers-in-its-assault-unit

@Pa ElGrande do you actually believe that nonsense, collapse of the eu ,

Q conspiracy theories next

That's what happens when someone reads something and can't see past the quotes for what they are,

Of course Americans will keep putting out statements about negotiating,but when they are already deep into supporting ukraine, they are hardly going to be ramping up retoric against putin,

People are obsessing over the wrongthings

I didn't say they wanted Ukraine to be defeated.

In a single battle against just 6oo Wagner troops in Syria, The US used: B-52s, F-22's, AC-130 gunships, F-15 strike eagles, AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, MQ-9 Reaper drones, and few other minor items.

The US fielded more systems to defeat a pidddling 600 Wagnerians than they have given Ukraine to defeat a far larger Wagner contingent and 93% of Orc ground forces, all numbering in the several hundreds of thousands.

Between that Syrian engagement and the war in Ukraine, do you know what commonality there is in terms of US support? M-777 howitzers, 155mm shells and assorted amminition - from the minor items basket.

RE Miller, Its just geopolitics at play here and it all evolves around US interests, if their intelligence/analists predicts that a Russia without Putin is bad for the US then the Ukraine war will not be the stage for Putins demise... At present they provide just enough aid to maintain a very delicate balance.

RE Cheney, The US and UK itself engaged in an outraged aggresion when they invaded Iraq in 2003, Based on fake intel parroted by then Colin Powell at the UN. resulting in hundreds of thousands excess deaths related to the war in Iraq (Lancet) and the rise of ISIS . Letting people getting away with commiting attrocities is quite normal.

In the context of the massive consequences arrising from this geopolitical game gone wrong, those thousands of children being abducted plays an insignificant role

Surprising to see an increase in support (not doing enough) in Jan for both Republican and democrats.

Start using the seized assets to buy equipment from the US for Ukraine and I'm sure support will increase.

You could be right. Americans see their tax dollars going to Ukraine with little to show for it. A large and successful counter offensive may help with support.

You seem to think the EU is some sort of Soviet Politburo with centralised powers.

What sort of laws do you think this autocratic Politburo is enforcing on Europe? Most EU laws are concerned with the environment, health & safety and workers' hours.

Rather that repeating some nonsense you read about the EU, why don't you do some research and find out what it is and how it works. I'm no expert but the below is a pretty good summary, now can you point out the undemocratic bits your so upset about.

The EU has 3 main bodies,

The EU Parliament where the MEP's are elected in each country respectively. IRL gets a greater number of MEP's than it's population deserves, the EU does this so smaller countries voices aren't drowned out. You get to vote for these people, all EU countries do this.

The EU council where each country is represented by 1 council member (Leo for us). So 27 countries with 1 person from each. IRL has the same say as any other EU country, such as Germany, France, Spain etc.. Each country typically has their PM as the council member, so get involved in your general elections to have your say !

The EU Commission, again 1 rep from each country, you don't get to vote for him, he's appointed by our council member (Leo). But if you don't like that, then petition your local TD and campaign for the IRL commissioner to be elected rather than appointed by our elected leader, who works on your behalf.

All the laws "imposed" on us come from these 3 bodies, look it up yourself. Now back to UKr