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Sep 21 2023 12:09pm
Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Sep 21 2023 02:43pm)
How Putin supporters went from Kiev in 3 days to celebrating Poland not sending military aid.

Face it. Paper tiger.


Well they are no Scotland that's for sure
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Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Sep 21 2023 07:43pm)
How Putin supporters went from Kiev in 3 days to celebrating Poland not sending military aid.

Face it. Paper tiger.


Pathetic

How NATO shills went from push to Crimea in a week to celebrating the fall of Robotyne after three months

I could type shit like this all day long

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Sep 21 2023 12:15pm
Quote (JohnnyMcCoy @ 21 Sep 2023 19:40)
lol how the ukraine cheerleaders went from "support ukraine or you are putin" to "poland has every right do whatever" on a dime

absolutely ridiculous, just face it: ukraine gets dropped like a hot potato

Well, I, for my part, have never been an uncritical "ukraine cheerleader". I never advocated for unconditional or limitless support to Ukraine.
And it's not really a contradiction to generally support Ukraine, but call them out if and when they go too far in their brash, tone-deaf treatment of allies.

Likewise, it's not a contradiction for Ukraine's supporters to have given them a shot at winning back lost territories, but then asking them to accept realities on the ground once it has turned out that that's just not gonna happen.
"Dropping them like a hot potato" would look very different, namely reducing military and financial aid so much that Russia is, in the end, enabled to conquer the rest of Ukraine.
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Sep 21 2023 12:29pm
Quote (DizzyBusiness @ 22 Sep 2023 02:09)
Well they are no Scotland that's for sure


I wonder why people like using terms coined by the Chinese historically and frequently used by Mao.
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Sep 21 2023 12:33pm
Quote (Malopox @ 21 Sep 2023 22:55)
People in charge of EU sanctions apparently have the same level of critical thinking and do the same amount of fact checking as our resident pierre here

Using Wikipedia as a source for decision making. Jesus Christ what a mess. No wonder sanctions don’t really work. Now I understand why Ukranian propaganda is effective. A whole generation who grew up without any ability to discern between fake news.

https://www.politico.eu/article/shaky-grounds-secret-slipshod-evidence-eu-use-sanction-russia-oligarchs/


Wikipedia is now a source or it already had been a source for propaganda and skewed information for quite sometime.
I do not think it is wise to use it as a source anymore for certain Geo political issues. Not all issues but hot button ones and those that are related to it.
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Sep 21 2023 12:34pm
Quote (Black XistenZ @ 21 Sep 2023 19:12)
The dispute between Ukraine and Poland is pretty easy to explain: the Polish PiS government has a tight election coming up soon and Polish farmers are one of their most vital constituencies. Therefore, they politically have no other choice than to appease the farmers and limit the import of Ukrainian grain.

Zelensky, failing to understand or consider this, has behaved like a bull in a china shop and tried to brute force Poland to remove the grain embargo via the EU. The PiS represents nationlistic and anti-EU voters to whom it would be completely and wholly unacceptable for Poland to be forced to do something against its national self-interest by Brussels. Therefore, these events have again left the Polish government no other choice than to escalate/retaliate.


The grain is athing for sur sure but... I think Zelensky has minimal amount of advisors... I would go more on some hot air and:

If you read a bit more about this story you may understand that the PIS decided to ally with the FART RIGHT to build a majority for the incoming elections in october. To properly build this alliance the PIS decided to take the risk to make harder stances toward Ukraine and the war itself, btw even with that it is not sure they will get majority anyway, or only 1 chamber etc... I didn't push further into the details.

Would ask to our local polishes : what's the situation, is the PISs winning it along with the fart right ?
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Sep 21 2023 12:37pm
Quote (Hamsterbaby @ Sep 21 2023 07:33pm)
Wikipedia is now a source or it already had been a source for propaganda and skewed information for quite sometime.
I do not think it is wise to use it as a source anymore for certain Geo political issues. Not all issues but hot button ones and those that are related to it.


tend to agree.

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also, no one has dropped ukraine like a hot potato, just to be clear.

This post was edited by ferdia on Sep 21 2023 12:37pm
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Quote (Malopox @ 21 Sep 2023 16:55)
People in charge of EU sanctions apparently have the same level of critical thinking and do the same amount of fact checking as our resident pierre here
Using Wikipedia as a source for decision making. Jesus Christ what a mess. No wonder sanctions don’t really work. Now I understand why Ukranian propaganda is effective. A whole generation who grew up without any ability to discern between fake news.
https://www.politico.eu/article/shaky-grounds-secret-slipshod-evidence-eu-use-sanction-russia-oligarchs/



Peanuts when you read a bit about Staline and Gulag. It's barely inimaginable. Even the lastest Gruuk in Mordor can understand it.

Russia has wonderful propaganda, and nukes, along with an historical 3 days to take Kyiv victory. Oh they also have their own wikipedia lol. Truth must be here.


https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/09/15/russias-answer-to-wikipedia-propaganda-or-common-sense-encyclopedia

the Runiversalis article about the "special military operation" repeats the Kremlin's narrative that Russia wants to "denazify" and "demilitarise" Ukraine.


WEeeeeeeeeeeeeeee



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Sep 21 2023 01:02pm
Quote (Djunior @ Sep 21 2023 07:10pm)
Pathetic

How NATO shills went from push to Crimea in a week to celebrating the fall of Robotyne after three months

I could type shit like this all day long


Who said push Crimea in a week?

Taking Crimea was never even on the table. Getting to Melitopol would have required an incredible blunder of Russian defence.
MSM was expecting Ukraine could achieve a combined arms offensive against well built defences without combined arms.

Something that no modern army would even attempt. Russia at its full strength couldn't take more than 20% of Ukraine and that is without 6 months of dug in trenches.

As it stands Ukraines army won't sever the land bridge to Crimea this year. But two things are happening.
Crimea is within range of storm shadow and the southern supply lines are close to being within HIMAR range.
If any negotiations take place and this is still the case that is leverage for Ukraine.

Russia have shown no appetite to counterattack and ensure Crimea is out of range.
The war has become attritional for both sides and Putin seems reluctant to fully mobilise.
Therefore it is militarily a stalemate at this point.
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Sep 21 2023 01:15pm
Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Sep 21 2023 09:02pm)
Who said push Crimea in a week?

Taking Crimea was never even on the table. Getting to Melitopol would have required an incredible blunder of Russian defence.
MSM was expecting Ukraine could achieve a combined arms offensive against well built defences without combined arms.

Something that no modern army would even attempt. Russia at its full strength couldn't take more than 20% of Ukraine and that is without 6 months of dug in trenches.

As it stands Ukraines army won't sever the land bridge to Crimea this year. But two things are happening.
Crimea is within range of storm shadow and the southern supply lines are close to being within HIMAR range.
If any negotiations take place and this is still the case that is leverage for Ukraine.

Russia have shown no appetite to counterattack and ensure Crimea is out of range.
The war has become attritional for both sides and Putin seems reluctant to fully mobilise.
Therefore it is militarily a stalemate at this point.


Wut lol :rofl:

The NATO trained, NATO equipped superstars were going to smash through the poorly constructed Russian lines and the poorly led, poorly trained and poorly equipped Russian troops that suffer from low morale were going to run for their lives and y'all couldn't wait for the counteroffensive to get started. MSM were talking about reaching Crimea in no time.

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