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Friendship ended with Elon, now Peter is my best friend.

A little concerned over the impacts of this for the region and their fight against Western backed terrorists.

Last I heard was a big attack in Mali, seems like the problem hasn't been solved. Hopefully AES can support each other

If the Rodney King beating happened in 2025, no one would know about it because of how fucking censored these tech platforms have gotten.

I know adventurism bad, but goddamn, I can not wait for ICE to finally by going after the wrong person.

The best part of Donald’s job has got to be bringing his vassals into whatever the fuck that room is called and making them sit in what is now the White House cuck chair.

I'm ready for liberals to say "he's lying."

I think he is talking about sanctions that ended it before Biden, and then Biden relaxed the sanctions. I don't think he's talking about blowing it up

MEIN FUH- ah, ahem, this was the liberation of my country

And they're lying as well cause he started to say "Yeah it wasn't a pleasant day" before realising how bad it sounds and correcting course to the liberation stuff.

Also "liberation" motherfucker if you were born then, you would have enthusiastically joined the volksturm

Germany needed to have the nazism beaten out of it and the thrashing it got still wasn't enough

Guy on the left looks worse for crediting the Americans entirely

How is he so funny?

Plus the war ended in Europe nearly a year after D-Day on May 8/9 1945

I'm halfway convinced this is the norm in the upper circles of the ruling class

Jesus Christ this is the kind of shit you hear in far-right conspiracy groups and yet. I wonder how many countries' rulers are like this.

There is a big reason why those disgusting dipshits take in fleeing sex offenders. They really practice their exploitation skills over there.

Russia has been going incredibly methodically and slowly for this entire war, outside of their opening weeks bluff to force the Istanbul negotiations (where Ukraine Nazis killed its own negotiator who agreed to peace btw). They have been very light handed with the Ukrainian regime and left intact much of their infrastructure. Their goal is to minimize civilian casualties as well as damage to the infrastructure of captured territories, but also to minimize their own losses in personnel.

Russia’s civilian casualty : militant casualty ratio in this conflict is probably better than any conflict the USA has ever perpetrated. 30,000 civilian casualties : 700-900,000 militants, or around 1 civilian per 25 - 30 soldiers. They are fighting a conventional war, not an asymmetrical one.

For reference, in Vietnam the ratio was the other way around. With something like 3 million civilians killed and only 500,000 or so soldiers killed

These are good questions, and i’ll try to answer them as best i can as a certified SMO-watcher since spring ‘22. Russia is broadly prosecuting the war as gently as possible. War remains a horrific sacrifice of human life, but Russia has almost totally avoided striking major civilian infrastructure, let alone civilians. The only major incident i can think of is the TV broadcast station in Kiev. They constantly attack power switching stations, but not power plants. Ukraine has almost no functional transformers or switching stations, and many parts of the country have 16 hour rotating blackouts. Russia did not strike heat and electrical generation until this last winter. Now, why is this? Some people say it’s a combination of optics and the sense of fraternity between Russians and Ukrainians. More cynically, you could say they want to keep a state around to negotiate with and don’t want to further encourage the formation of Ukrainian ISIS.

Many NATO military theorists really only understand manuever and big arrows on a map. Attrition, that is the exchange of matériel until one side can’t continue, is seen as a failure or defeat state. Any NATO general caught in such a “trap” would try and force some kind of breakout to regain initiative. It would be disingenuous to say all Western military planners are incapable of understanding other ways of warfare, but the journalists and analysts definitely do not. The Western commentariat have created an alternate reality, where Russia promised to win the war in three weeks, but the map lines have actually barely moved because of NATO. In warfare between people of roughly equal or similar capacity, you cannot fight or breakout beyond small, well-planned actions of combined arms. Taking terrain would involve sacrificing personnel and equipment for almost nothing. There are individual tree lines and villages that have seen excess of ten thousand casualties in Eastern Ukraine. This chipping away strategy is a reflection of a lot of new technological developments in war, but the end result is a slow and grinding conflict.

This leads into your next questions, why would anyone want a slow and grinding war? The fact of the matter is that Mr. Zelensky is not freely governing his country, and there are significant Banderite neo-Nazi factions in Parliament, industry, and especially the military. The Azov Nazis and their ilk would assassinate Zelensky, and really any President, who tried to settle for peace. They nearly negotiated peace in Istanbul in ‘22, but Ukraine shot their own negotiator. For all that Russia is a reactionary shithole that hates queer people, they sincerely meant “de-nazification” as a major war aim. Until the people who actively want millions of Ukrainians to die in a bid for ethno-nationalist glory do not have money, guns, or influence, the war will continue. For better and mostly for worse, this means the war will continue for the foreseeable future. A decapitation strike like you’re imagining wouldn’t be aimed at Zelensky or many MPs, but at milita commanders and fascist propagandists. These people are embedded into society, and have moved themselves into the back lines or blocking positions to escape death at the frontline.