Russian warship, go f**k yourself!

The US are against ISIS in Syria. The extremists you speak of are just enemies of Assad. Word play. Russia is there for oil, gas and a base for it's military on the Mediterranean.

Russia being Russia don't give two fiddlers when it comes to war. There was a documentary made of a journalist killed in Syria. Her crew were filming the Russian bombardment of a city. This till a colleague pointed it was a walking wall of bombing was coming in their direction and they should evacuate the building. The journalist got killed before they got to safety. Putin honed his craft for hitting residential, hospitals, schools, places of worship first in Syria.

Your take on this conflict, IMO , is totally misplaced. By way of example to simplify it , if you see two fellows having fisticuffs outside your house in a nice leafy suburban area - say it happens once or twice a year - and after five minutes they move on. You will more than likely do ABSOLUTLY nothing about it - classify it as a minor, local skirmish between two frunks or whatever. BUT , BUT, BUT if , in the same area, you have a brawl , say, once a week on average -and escalating- involving tens of people using baseball bats, slashers, billhooks, forks, etc and a lot of blood on the road afterwards I AM SURE THAT YOU WILL HAVE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT ATTITUDE and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

ITS the scale of things , the international ramifications, etc, that is the difference between the current conflict and the others that you are trying to compare it to. There is also a bit of ‘ that was then and this is now ‘

A classical example of cherry picking if ever there was a one

Progress has been about 10 miles in two small parts of the 700 mile front during the past to months of summer. Ukrainian soldiers must be taking very heavy loses having to clear every single trench. This offensive isn't working

It's an invasion of conquest in Europe involving a major power on a scale we haven't seen since 1939. As a history buff, the analogy is completely apt.

The sanctions are a result of the invasion. If Putin had not invaded on Feb 24 2022, he wouldn't be under those sanctions.

Again, it's not a "competition of suffering". We're European, a European country is being invaded.

This is a thread on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

You're clearly triggered that a serious conflict you don't care about it is receiving attention, so you've resorted to virtue signalling about other conflicts. It's real Clare Daly/Mick Wallace bottom of the barrel stuff.

Serious???

Well yes, not Tipperary or Westmeath but further land grabs and then if emboldened by lack of an action that creates a bigger conflict that causes even bigger headaches for all...

It's one of the (former) "superpowers" annexing sovereign territory on its borders via an invasion after trying it on previously and in fairness getting away it so not hard to see the pattern escalating if a stop/end isn't put to it....kind of sets a worrying precedent for the majority of countries out there regardless of how deadly conflicts are elsewhere.

It's not trying to unduly influence or bribe or install puppet leaders which is abhorrent enough in its own right but less likely to "capture bleating hearts"

Ill admit Im curious, what should have captured the bleating hearts in your opinion?

Except that all the time Ukraine is getting more and better weapons, especially longer range artillery. These guns don't mind what the road conditions are like. But for sure Russian defenses will be very much aware of them.

When the muck, as you say ,takes over :-

,- first of all, will it not at some stage get frozen enough to take soldiers and vehicles and what then kind of ingenuity could UKr come up with. —

-Secondly, these Russian soldiers manning the front lines, occupying the trenches will have to be fed, rotated and supplied with fuel, arms bombs, etc. Can the UKr cut off these supplies or very significantly reduce them by direct hits on mobile units, stores , bridges, roads , rail lines airports, etc. I get the impression that UKr is getting better at picking off these targets. The Russian soldiers will not be happy campers if this strategy works

-and, finally, I assume that UKr will keep the Russians busy on the Black Sea and in targets within Ru itself

who EVER, EVER, EVER thought back in Feb 2022 that:-

-the war would last for more than one week - I am being generous here so I am giving Putin an extra 4 days along with his three days. It has now gone on for over circa 520 days and the UKr are very from being beaten,. It is much stronger now than at the start

-when it was reported that the UKr where going to resist the invasion of numerous tanks with monotov cocktails, I said to myself ‘ what is UKr at’ . At the time I was thinking that it may only take 2 instead of 3 days - especially if they drive the tanks into gear and do not stop for a smoke, for a slug of the bottle or say ‘hello’ to the women welcoming them i

that UKr would push back the Ru in a major part of Kherson and Dunbar and get the Ru out of other areas that Ru was occupying the NOrth and NE corner of UKr and right back to the Boarder with Belarus from which the initial invasion came from

that UKr would be attacking Ru , targeting Moscow and other strategic parts of Russia and strategic targets in Crimea and the Ru navy fleet, .

It’s unbelievable the progress that UKr has made and WE ALL thought back in Feb 2022 that any of the above would be only a PIPE DREAM even to those on the weed

A lot to unwrap here.

I haven't seen anyone claim it was a random/crazy act. It's been planned for years. In the context of historical invasions of conquest, it's as black and white as we can get.

Putin's goal was to take all of Ukraine. Nothing "natural" about it, even in 2014 Eastern Ukraine showed in polls only a minority wanting to be absorbed by Russia. They never had a choice.

In terms of negotiations, that's up to Ukraine if/when they decide to negotiate.

Cultural genocide? Not sure what is meant by that. Russia is systematically destroying Ukrainian culture/identity in the areas it holds, forcing children to speak only Russian, taking down Ukrainian symbols, essentially Russifying those areas.

Crimea had a "Russian majority", yet leaks showed that in the sham Russian referendum of 2014 only 30% of people voted, and out of those only 50% voted to join Russia. That's 15%. Regardless, neither Crimea, nor any other part of Ukraine has had any official choice in any of this. These lands were either illegally annexed by Russia or invaded.

Unless they actually make serious progress soon it does look like the best option would have been negotiating April last year or at the start of the winter just gone. As if they can't make serious progress now, when will they? And what will be different that will actually facilitate progress?

It's very easy to say attrition is the answer. But it comes at a severe cost without any guarantees of it working. Also runs the danger of it not working fast enough and more defenses being built in the meantime.

Out of curiosity, where's the source of that stat?

Problem is nobody knows what was reality. America spent millions over the past 20 years driving the current wedge. Those sources could be every bit as reliable as the russian funded ones who would say the opposite.