they wrestled with the fear that the United States and its allies had traded hopes of a total Ukrainian victory and for the more practical goal of weakening Russia.
lol
Ok so ya why would we believe them?
We wouldn't. lol. I didn't post that image cause I agree with it. I was making a joke.
They're betting Ukraine has more people than Russia has ammo (and related equipment) they can supply to the front. How is this real life? How can people say they "support" Ukraine and then tacitly approve of Ukrainians being snatched off the street and sent to the front as literal cannon fodder?
do not maintain eye contact with a TCC employee
As if they were wild beasts. lmao. This reads like one of those "what to do if you see a bear" pamphlets.
So they fired everything they had until the maize stopped rustling, and silence fell. Then the Ukrainians moved on.
"Should I say the maize stoppes rustling or that silence fell? I'll do both!"
The funny thing is the prose sounds like it was written by a high schooler.
Or at least there was a reason we’ve been hearing this stuff all these decades.
Yes, and that reason is Franz Halder.
Franz Halder (30 June 1884 – 2 April 1972) was a German general and the chief of staff of the Army High Command (OKH) in Nazi Germany from 1938 until September 1942. During World War II, he directed the planning and implementation of Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. Halder became instrumental in the radicalisation of warfare on the Eastern Front. He had his staff draft both the Commissar Order (issued on 6 June 1941) and the Barbarossa Decree (signed on 13 May 1941) that allowed German soldiers to execute Soviet citizens for any reason without fear of later prosecution, leading to numerous war crimes and atrocities during the campaign. After the war, he had a decisive role in the development of the myth of the clean Wehrmacht.
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Halder denied any knowledge of the regime's atrocities and claimed to be outside the decision-making process; he was found not guilty.[50]
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As the Cold War progressed, the military intelligence provided by the German section of the US Army Historical Division became increasingly important to the Americans.[55] Halder oversaw the German section of the research program which became known as the "Halder Group".[56] His group produced over 2,500 major historical manuscripts from over 700 distinct German authors detailing World War II.[51] Halder used the group to reinvent war-time history using truth, half-truth, distortion and lies.[52] He set up a "control group" of trusted former Nazi officers who vetted all the manuscripts and, if necessary, required authors to change their content.[57] Halder's deputy in the group was Adolf Heusinger who was also working for the Gehlen Organization, the United States military intelligence organisation in Germany.[58] Halder expected to be addressed as "General" by the writing teams and behaved as their commanding officer while dealing with their manuscripts.[59] His aim was to exonerate German army personnel from the atrocities they had committed.[60]
tl;dr: US employed one of the top Nazis to rewrite history.
I always laugh at these analyses. So they're against PSUV, but for... the neoliberal opposition with ties to the US?
Ukraine is losing, despite their copestrikes.
It's crazy hearing the same narrative from Ukrainians themselves.
“All of their defense industry really answers directly to the state"
As opposed to what, shareholders and the bottom line? These people are ridiculous.
It seems that a year ago they managed to shoot down one kinzhal missile. From my understanding, they shot it down in its "final approach"/maneuver to target stage, which happens at subsonic speed.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/05/6/7400941/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ukraine-ap-kyiv-netherlands-moscow-b2333737.html
The actual hypersonic missiles can maneuver at hypersonic speeds, and Russia hasn't used those in Ukraine yet.
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He is humiliated, spinning and wants to be Napoleon III.