The Ukraine war thread
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@Aqua-Letifer said in The Ukraine war thread:
@Jolly said in The Ukraine war thread:
@Mik said in The Ukraine war thread:
I think he genuinely believes Ukraine is not an American issue. I disagree vehemently.
I think Trump believes Ukraine is primarily a European issue and the Europeans should be the leaders on countering Russian aggression.
If they don't, though, is it worth watching it from afar because we shouldn't have been the ones to do the legwork?
That's a really good question ad one where I think there are good people on both sides of the issue.
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@Jolly said in The Ukraine war thread:
@Aqua-Letifer said in The Ukraine war thread:
@Jolly said in The Ukraine war thread:
@Mik said in The Ukraine war thread:
I think he genuinely believes Ukraine is not an American issue. I disagree vehemently.
I think Trump believes Ukraine is primarily a European issue and the Europeans should be the leaders on countering Russian aggression.
If they don't, though, is it worth watching it from afar because we shouldn't have been the ones to do the legwork?
That's a really good question ad one where I think there are good people on both sides of the issue.
I think the last century taught us that it's better to get involved in situations that can potentially affect everyone as soon as possible, rather than wait for the problem to get worse.
But that's as far as I'm willing to go with having an opinion. I'm not even close to an international politics or military expert.
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@Jolly said in The Ukraine war thread:
As I see it...
- USA
- North America
- Tie. South America/Europe
- Australia
- South Pacific, including Japan, the Phillipines and South Korea.
- Everything else.
And past #3, I'll bend like Gumby.
I have an open mind.
I think a lot of people would argue that Russia's machinations have a direct and material impact on numbers 1-3.
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@Aqua-Letifer You're a little bit wrong. Depending on what Russia will/won't achieve, China will adapt its strategies to what the USA will/won't do.
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@Wim said in The Ukraine war thread:
@Aqua-Letifer You're a little bit wrong. Depending on what Russia will/won't achieve, China will adapt its strategies to what the USA will/won't do.
Well, there's that, too.
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@Wim said in The Ukraine war thread:
@Aqua-Letifer You're a little bit wrong. Depending on what Russia will/won't achieve, China will adapt its strategies to what the USA will/won't do.
Starting to wonder about China. The Belt and Road looks like it needs suspenders...
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Bakhmut has fallen to the Russians.
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@George-K said in The Ukraine war thread:
Bakhmut has fallen to the Russians.
It was by all accounts a Pyrrhic victory.
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Prigozhin and the Kremlin can say what they want and, as the saying in Russian goes, try to make candy out of a turd.
My hunch is that Bakhmut has not fallen to the Russians. Instead the Russians in Bakhmut have been surrounded on all sides by advancing Ukrainian forces.