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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Mar 1, 2022 18:26:43 GMT -5
I knew that about Ukrainians in Canada, I guess the Canadian government wanted to settle the prairies and Ukrainians thought the prairies reminded them of their homeland. Putin blathering on about Dr-Nazification of Ukraine is total bs because President Zelensky is Jewish and he’s very popular, the few actual Nazis in Ukraine are fringe losers who aren’t taken seriously. So the whole rationale is wrong, the Russian army on the ground is pathetic with reports of soldiers asking for directions and gas and many of them look like they were homeless people or dirt farmers forced to fight
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Post by Tim on Mar 1, 2022 18:51:15 GMT -5
Putin is losing friends fast. Even his own allies are starting to back away from him.
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Post by Dark Avenger on Mar 1, 2022 19:09:21 GMT -5
Putin is losing friends fast. Even his own allies are starting to back away from him. Not gonna end well for him. Seeing the reports of the Russian army on the ground is pathetic. Asking for directions and gas. Couldn't believe they actually were asking locals for gas. WTF. Seriously.
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Post by Tim on Mar 1, 2022 19:13:39 GMT -5
I know, right.
One hopes that this fiasco will finish Putin.
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Post by Dark Avenger on Mar 1, 2022 19:15:42 GMT -5
I know, right.
One hopes that this fiasco will finish Putin.
Wouldn't that be the best news to come out of these dreadful past couple of years in the world in general.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Mar 1, 2022 19:22:52 GMT -5
Putin is losing friends fast. Even his own allies are starting to back away from him. Not gonna end well for him. Seeing the reports of the Russian army on the ground is pathetic. Asking for directions and gas. Couldn't believe they actually were asking locals for gas. WTF. Seriously. I’m not surprised, the Russian army is so backwards. Since discipline is so rough and the pay so little, a lot of soldiers are drunks, drug addicts, the very poor and street people. I wouldn’t be surprised if Putin ordered local authorities to force men to fight and rich people bribed their way out, the Russian army is pathetic and one almost feels sorry for these losers.
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Post by Tim on Mar 1, 2022 19:30:20 GMT -5
The Russian Army no more wanted this war then anyone else did. They're just in it for a paycheck.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Mar 1, 2022 20:03:58 GMT -5
The Russian Army no more wanted this war then anyone else did. They're just in it for a paycheck. Or not go to jail, a lot of the army are guys who joined up in lieu of jail. The US used to have something similar until the 70s when people found guilty of minor crimes would get to serve in the military during Vietnam instead, but that’s not allowed. The current Russian army reminds me of the Czarist army during WW1, in the sense of having badly trained soldiers who are don’t really know what they’re doing and making a big mess, plus the war being highly unpopular with many Russians
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Post by Tim on Mar 2, 2022 0:23:35 GMT -5
And that is why this won't be the easy victory Putin hoped it would be. His soldiers are just there to get paid, or to stay out of jail. They have no real investment in this ill fated enterprise.
On the other hands, the Ukrainians are fighting for their homeland, and they are invested. They're not gonna stop until the Russians withdraw.
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Post by Squad 51 on Mar 2, 2022 12:09:37 GMT -5
Putin is now glued to power. He lost the opportunity to step back or change Russia to a better way. Now the view goes only back for Russia, not forward.
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Post by Tim on Mar 2, 2022 12:15:05 GMT -5
Russia's only hope now is that Putin will be deposed and replaced with someone more rational.
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Post by Dark Avenger on Mar 2, 2022 18:17:53 GMT -5
Not gonna end well for him. Seeing the reports of the Russian army on the ground is pathetic. Asking for directions and gas. Couldn't believe they actually were asking locals for gas. WTF. Seriously. I’m not surprised, the Russian army is so backwards. Since discipline is so rough and the pay so little, a lot of soldiers are drunks, drug addicts, the very poor and street people. I wouldn’t be surprised if Putin ordered local authorities to force men to fight and rich people bribed their way out, the Russian army is pathetic and one almost feels sorry for these losers. Yeah, very true. They really are backwards. And have no idea what they are doing, and not trained well. Putin is now glued to power. He lost the opportunity to step back or change Russia to a better way. Now the view goes only back for Russia, not forward. Not in a good way moving forward. I feel sorry for the good people of Russia who don't like Putin, and this has only put their country in a bad light. Russia's only hope now is that Putin will be deposed and replaced with someone more rational. Exactly. Remove him, and then hope someone in put in charge who can move the country forward. Will take a while to rebuild their reputation with the rest of the world.
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Post by Tim on Mar 2, 2022 18:25:13 GMT -5
Like what happened to Germany and Japan after WWII.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Mar 3, 2022 6:38:19 GMT -5
Here’s a blog I follow written by a woman from Ukraine who’s an American citizen, she’s got a lot of stuff about the war from Russian and Ukrainian sources which is different from the US sources clarissasblog.com/
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Post by Squad 51 on Mar 3, 2022 12:34:59 GMT -5
To think if I still lived in the GDR now, we'd be enemies. *shudder* Thankfully, the wall came down in 1989.
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