Quote (Black XistenZ @ Feb 20 2024 08:07pm)
"The strategic importance of things and places is 100% static and cannot possibly change over the course of a war" - Djunior
Ukraine will have to fight to take back their own fortifications (they stated they will).
If you really believe it no longer matters that the place is heavily fortified or strategically important then you're the one who's dense.
The Russians will obviously
STILL regard it a strategically important city close to DPR's capital Donetsk and fight like hell to keep the Ukrainians out (and they won't be affected by Western propaganda stating the place is no longer important).
Quote (Black XistenZ @ Feb 20 2024 08:07pm)
North Korea spends something like 25% of its GDP on its military while its people eat seagrass to avoid starvation, lmfao. The current situation is the first time in decades that their bloated military budget is good for anything - and that anything is helping a foreign autocrat wage a war on the other side of the globe which does jackshit for the common people of NK.
I never denied that the economic sanctions didn't cripple Russia's ability to wage war nearly as much as we had hoped for. They have mostly failed in this regard.
That the combined West isn't able to muster enough supplies for Ukraine comes down to a lack of urgency and political will, rather than a lack of ability.
If sanctions failed to stop tiny players like NK then how would sanctions stop the largest country on Earth (nuclear power / BRICS member / etc). Sanctioning Russia massively backfired but you guys can't help yourselves, look at this
-->https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/navalnys-widow-joins-eu-foreign-ministers-ukraine-war-nears-two-year-mark-2024-02-19/Quote
Germany, Lithuania and Sweden were among EU countries calling for specific new penalties against Russia over the death of Alexei Navalny in a remote penal colony in Russia's Arctic.