So much westoid cope as they struggle to come to terms with reality. Half of this is acceptance, but the other half is still in denial. Leading to this article to be a contradictory incoherent mess because they can’t give up entirely on the fabricated narratives they have been sold since 2022.
Meanwhile, Putin sees himself holding the cards, a view Trump has publicly endorsed. Economic sanctions, which since January the US has quietly eased on Russian financial transactions, are nowhere near tough enough to make the Kremlin quit.
The west made Russia the most sanctioned nation on Earth and in history. They leveraged all of their sanction power and overstepped legalistic lines that made even their own capitalists and regulators balk, unprecedented actions like seizing the reserves and cutting off SWIFT. None of this worked, they tried it for 3 years and it failed. Russia’s economy still grew and they just had workarounds for everything. They still think turning up the sanction dial will do anything when it clearly doesn’t, and can’t get past it. They are obsessed with sanctions for some reason.
Mercenaries fill the yawning holes in Russian ranks made by casualties. Meanwhile the Ukrainians struggle to recruit. Many of their young people have fled abroad to escape the front lines.
The hole in the Russian ranks is “yawning” from the massive casualties supposedly inflicted on the Russians, yet somehow it’s the Ukrainian side with manpower issues. They supposedly fixed this with “mercenaries” even though at this point in the war, the entire thing is completely handled by the Russian Armed Forces. The roles of the DPR, LPR and Wagner groups has been fulfilled and they basically don’t exist as meaningful forces on the battlefront anymore. How Russia is able to fight the entire thing with the RAF directly while taking “massive casualties” is never explained. Ukraine running out of people is talked about as a logistic problem, but it’s never acknowledged that this means hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are dead.
The country would thus eventually become a failed state, over which Putin can secure hegemony. He has already achieved this with neighboring Belarus, and is on his way to gaining control of Georgia and Moldova.
How is Belarus a “failed state”? It has the highest quality of life and life expectancy in all of post-soviet nations. It’s literally the most succesful post-soviet state, not a failed one. Russia and Belarus are both massively more successful states than Georgia or Ukraine, which when run by western aligned cronies became corrupt shitholes and the worst post-soviet nations in terms of statistics like life expectancy, suicide, crime, poverty, etc. The west is living in bizarro world where being pro-NATO is automatically being a “successful democracy” despite any other indicators.
Putin is a man with an obsession: to rebuild the Russian empire, the old Soviet Union; to revive what he, and a dismaying number of his people, see as their national greatness. The bigger picture is that Russia is extending its foreign influence while the US is in headlong retreat from overseas commitments.
Wait so is Putin appealing to nationalists at home who want to rebuild an empire? Or to foreign nations? How Russia’s “imperialist ambitions” leads to it becoming internationally more popular is not explained. These people have never seriously listened to a thing Putin has said in a speech or statement in their lives.
This article is basically unreadable. Just lie after lie after lie.
How is Belarus a “failed state”? It has the highest quality of life and life expectancy in all of post-soviet nations.
High life expectancy in post-Soviet national populations is a failure of the Western intent for the state.
turning a big dial taht says “suffering” while looking back at billionaires for approval like a contestant on the price is right
Not to mention retention of agriculture and industry instead of becoming a financialized vassal.
Ukraine has and had a lower HDI than several african states, it was one of the lowest in europe, along with moldavia. In comparison Belarus loses less IHDI due to inequality than Austria, Sweden and Germany. Only 9 other countries are less unequal than it, and norway is just 0.1% more equal than Belarus. And thats all wikipedia brained whitey approved metrics.
Failed state is beyond reason.
It’s really funny to watch western media trying to reconcile the official narrative of the past three years with the reality that’s increasingly difficult to ignore.
Yep they are really trying to reconcile the past Slava Ukraini narratives with the modern reality in a way that they can save face and not admit they were wrong. Much the same tendency we saw towards the end of the Iraq War and Afghanistan War. We were right the whole time until we randomly weren’t right at the end! We only made one tiny little error!
It’s incredible how libs falls for this every single time too.
Before I knew the first thing about the nature of this conflict, it felt familiar in a way that reminded me of Iraq. The simplistic and one-sided narrative that focused on the personalities of leadership instead of the stated positions and geopolitical analyses, the extreme and pervasive harassment of not just dissenters, but even people who asked unapproved questions, the absolute lockstep of liberal media.
And on the modern internet, it’s hard to get any sort of genuine perspective outside of the one that the US favors, so even researching this was extraordinarily difficult.
I’m honestly not surprised they fell for it. You have to be outright contrary in personality just to think to question it to begin with (aside from actually being informed of this ahead of time by meager leftist infostreams)
well put
Well putting the pieces together requires a memory of the entire event from start to finish, which libs are incapable of
Wonder what it’s like to go through life with the mental capacity of a goldfish.
Liberals oppose every war except the current one.
The eternally “tricked” lib. They thought they learned their lesson after the iraq war.
Russia will fall by Christmas!!
They’re out of missiles! They were trying to take Kiev but were defeated! The ghost of Kiev shot down 20 Russian jets! They’re using shovels! They’re using chips out of washing machines! They’re using human waves! They’re using human waves of Koreans!
putin foolishly rejects our ultimatums so we must elect King Sanction XVII
Most likely they’ll just blame Trump for it all. He’s given them the easiest way to save face, of course they’re going to take it.
It was funny to me months into the SMO when it was already obviously false, now it’s just sad. It’s like dealing with a dementia patient, “no grandma, the ghost of kiev isn’t coming to visit today”
truly
Wait so is Putin appealing to nationalists at home who want to rebuild an empire? Or to foreign nations? How Russia’s “imperialist ambitions” leads to it becoming internationally more popular is not explained. These people have never seriously listened to a thing Putin has said in a speech or statement in their lives.
Clearly Putin is doing this because his mum didn’t say that she loved him enough.
Why did you have to remind me of the “dear Putin, if I was your mom…” thing?
Because it is the apotheosis of liberal realpolitik.
Putin is a man with an obsession: to rebuild the Russian empire, the old Soviet Union; to revive what he, and a dismaying number of his people, see as their national greatness.
Claiming that this is an expansionist war is the linchpin of the Western narrative. if Putin isn’t just grabbing land, then NATO’s role in provoking the conflict becomes an uncomfortable question.
smartest journalist
this kind of shit is so embarrassing it should get you laughed out of the room and yet Biden’s shambling corpse was repeating it while president
Saw a pundit on TV say unironically “Russia has been trying to dominate Ukraine ever since the 1940s.” Completely ignoring the Russification in Ukraine that was started a hundred years earlier by the imperialistic Czars, the very same Czars that the Bolsheviks hated and overthrew (with many Bolsheviks being Ukrainian socialists themselves, including Trotsky). Also, Ukraine joined the USSR in 1922, not the 1940s, so even the lib revisionist history is wrong by its own logic.
Completely ignoring the Russification in Ukraine that was started a hundred years earlier by the imperialistic Czars
??? Ukraine was never russified, it was one of the historical centers of Russian culture, in the hundreds of years later it was occupied and torn by Mongols, Poles, Tatars, Ottomans, Austrians. Especially the Poland and Austria is notable, Poland polonised entire Ruthenian nobility and Austrian supported the new Ukrainian nationalism in XIX and XX century.
This is correct. Ukraine was not “Russified”, “Russianness” began in Kiev. If anything, Moscow was “Ukrainified”
Ukraine as a country and culture was invented in XIX century, before that the broad culture was usually called alternatively Russian or Ruthenian (there are even early XX century censuses where the peasants are just calling themselves “we are from here” having no concept of nation). The most important of founders of Ukrainian culture, Taras Shevchenko, died in 1861. Ukraine just means “borderland” because it was the centuries long battlefield between Poles, Tatars, Turks, Russians and Cossacks.
Right, you put it more eloquently. My point was only that “Russia” began in Kiev and then moved East into what is modern day Russia. Russia didn’t invade Westward.
Right, their biggest extent was to the north
To be fair though it was more of an unification than real expansion since most of that territory was already under the various Ruthenian principalities. Essentially the process would probably sooner or later resulted in unified Russia much like the last of Rurikovich did, but Mongol invasion and then Lithuanian emergence put a 250 years pause on it and moved the center from Kiev, which seems to be the Ukrainian nationalists main gripe really, they would love to be Russia, but history decided they aren’t.
Kiev was the start of Russian civilization lmao.
uh, they meant when the soviet union reconquered the territory from nazi germany
spare a thought for Volodymyr Zelenskiy
But not for the Ukrainian civilians who are still being fed into the meat grinder so that they can live in a super-charged neoliberal hellstate afterwards.
He has nursed a personal grudge since, in his first term, the Ukrainian leader refused to help him skewer Hunter Biden.
Does Trump even remember or care? I mean, he got out of that situation pretty cleanly. This feels like personal conjecture.
Ukraine can keep fighting for maybe four months before it runs out of key munitions
This calculation is based on what exactly? Why is it 4 months? Why not 2? Why not 6?
Meanwhile, Putin sees himself holding the cards, a view Trump has publicly endorsed. Economic sanctions, which since January the US has quietly eased on Russian financial transactions, are nowhere near tough enough to make the Kremlin quit.
It was literally never possible to make them tough enough to force Russia onto its knees by using sanctions.
North Korea is estimated to have provided Russia with 6 million artillery rounds, around 40% of its consumption.
A tiny (20-ish million population), sanctioned to hell communist state’s military production prowess is literally on the same order of magnitude as the entirety of the western imperial cabal’s military production (with pop 1 billion). This shit will never not be funny.
even if the Russians can’t conquer Ukraine, they can keep it a scary place to live and a rotten bet for investors.
The fuck did the Russians do to fuck up Ukraine’s domestic politics? The Russians did not nazify or impoverish the country. It was already like that before the war.
a dismaying number of his people, see as their national greatness.
Maybe you should have let the USSR live instead of killing it and millions of its people. Then there would not be such yearnings or wars or hyper nationalism.
While polls suggest no great love for Putin’s tyranny, they show a decline in hostility — an unwillingness to treat Russians as enemies — such as we have taken for granted since 1945.
Oh no! Americans grow weary of nationalist bs because they have more important things to worry about! What a tragedy.
The Ukrainians excel at asymmetric warfare, launching terror hits deep inside Russia
Freudian slip up
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Uh this shit is too long. I don’t want to respond anymore. It’s mostly just standard lib nonsense.
and a rotten bet for investors.
and there it is. who the fuck cares, you god damned ghoul. die. die die die die.
A tiny (20-ish million population), sanctioned to hell communist state’s military production prowess is literally on the same order of magnitude as the entirety of the western imperial cabal’s military production (with pop 1 billion). This shit will never not be funny.
It is increasingly becoming undeniable that the golden billion are really the pyrite billion.
spare a thought for Volodymyr Zelenskiy
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