Indeed, because if they accepted they'd need to treat Russia as an equal, it would be an admission of defeat in their minds. They can never accept losing primacy.
Meaning, he's likely a CIA asset.
The Ukrainians seem to be pulling brigades even from Kursk to halt the Pokrovsk collapse.
It is likely they realized that the ongoing Kursk offensive or the planned Zaporozhie offensive will not work, especially since their Western masters have not unlocked their ATACMS and other long-range weapons to be able to strike deep into Russian territory.
It is also likely the Russians will hold off advancing further (at least so rapidly) in the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka line in the near future, and instead will push exactly where the Ukrainians are pulling troops from.
This is World News, not Fake News.
That's what I like to see. If Asia finally unites into a common front, they can actually decolonize. Same goes for Africa.
Under the rules of war, Russia has a right to strike targets where weapons are being manufactured for use against them, and where recruits are trained for use against them. There are also facilities that are operated by Western military personel, in Poland and in Western Ukraine, which relay satellite reconaissance information to the Ukrainians so they can make strikes with drones and Western missiles. Those facilities and satellites are also legitimate targets.
These are the same justifications that the US was using for drone striking Pakistan, Iran and other neighbouring countries while occupying Iraq and Afghanistan.
The fact that the Russians have been so patient and reluctant to strike at these targets shows how serious they take the danger of nuclear war. But the West keeps doing what it's doing because they like to pretend that this way, they don't seem to be at war with Russia, and they don't stop, because they think Russia is bluffing when.
Meanwhile the Soviet-made T70 is the best performing tank in the war.
Sorry, that was not what I meant. That's my bad. I mean the report fails to establish Russian war crimes.
Although, I should say a new UN report has come out recently which I did not read yet.
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:d033ebd3-aef1-443e-9810-36667d08a9a5
This is the original UN report. It investigated civilian deaths in 4 areas.
While they document these deaths and they try to accuse Russian forces of being responsible for them, they admit there's not enough evidence except for a few cases. For example, read paragraphs 30-32 on Bucha, where they say their evidence relies only on the testimonies of Ukrainian intelligence services, Ukrainian armed forces and AP journalists embedded with the Azov battalion (which they don't say but was the first to enter the town after the Russian withdrawal)
This is the Russian reaction to the report:
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1831500/
Further investigation on the Mariupol hospital incident also indicates that eyewitness testimonies were cooked up: https://thegrayzone.com/2022/04/03/testimony-mariupol-hospital-ukrainian-deceptions-media-malpractice/
Several forensics academics came out against the methods of the UN report and they were blasted by media: https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/21/bbc-antiwar-academics-uk-intel/
It's the way they do it. China uses actually counted real numbers. US counts small areas, then multiplies numbers for a wider area. Then cooks the numbers anyway.
Recently a couple US think tanks literally used the argument that China's numbers are unreliable because "authoritarianism" and that really they are collapsing. Then compared to completely made-up US numbers. Then came to the conclusion that the US should fight China in a war, because it will win. Shortly after, the US dispatched more carrier strike groups to China Sea.
The US economy is collapsing, and the elites know it. They are trying to cause confrontations against their rivals to buy themselves time and because in a couple decades they'll probably no longer have the capacity to go against them militarily or diplomatically. Also, to further enrich themselves. This sort of propaganda is aimed at manufacturing consent for war.
This fucking Tsarist ghoul ought to be hanged, not retired
No no, of course the West has money and power because it's the best and has the superior civilization. But it doesn't use that money and power to apply pressure because the West are the good guys, and they have honor.
OrnluWolfjarl
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I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that all is well with communists in the imperial core, but what are they expected to do? If Georgian communists, and Ukrainian communists got beaten down, imagine the situation for communists in Europe, or even worse, the US.