for casual observers its not. which is why i always ask these simple questions. also in the media it is often repeated "unprovoked russian attack" "russian drones" and when somewhere in russia is hit it says "attack" "drones" without saying who fired them.

This post was edited by ferdia on Jan 1 2026 05:41pm

Of course, you are referring to those newcomers who registered in 2025 and immediately started posting in the PaRD section, and specifically within this topic (a dozen bumps in random threads don't count). I understand.

There is really not much to say about the Ukraine / Russia conflict. The EU has no clear realistic plan, while the war is just grinding along.

/closed

It's now about the US and their policy. Russia's red lines, bloodlines, brown lines mean shit. Enter the Trump, so called Kremlin agent.

This post was edited by Norlander on Jan 7 2026 11:59am

Thanks lads. Feels good to be back

Too lazy to make a new thread so dumping this here.

The fucking mad man is going to start stepping on the military industrial complex toes! Trump threatens defense industry with not allowing stock buybacks or dividends if they don’t reinvest in capex

https://x.com/kobeissiletter/status/2008980600082891204?s=46

Our resident NATO fans left the chat now that they learned the US basically claims the entire Western hemisphere as their backyard / sphere of influence.

Shit lords posting that Russia cannot have a sphere of influence because rules based order and such would be hilarious

Sooner or later, delusional cultists must face reality.

If one subscribed to the worldview that all the great powers deserve to have their own sphere of influence and that "might makes right", wouldn't this be all the more reason for the Europeans to try to assert themselves and stop a rival power (Russia) from grabbing land (Ukraine) which they want in their own sphere of influence? Your premise might disprove the initial justification which was given for the Western support for Ukraine, but it doesn't contradict the support itself.


Either way, this conflict is plodding along, with nothing too meaningful happening in recent days while a ton of shit is going on in other places (Venezuela, Greenland, Minneapolis (x2), Berlin, etc.), so it's perfectly normal that activity in this thread slowed down. Even more so over the Christmas holidays.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 7 2026 05:27pm

Once again the facts real quick --> NATO ( millitary alliance founded to counter the USSR) has expanded East for about 3 decades and planned to expand into Ukraine.

It's not the other way around. How is it possible that after 4 years people like you still don't understand that the main issue here is that NATO was in the proces of expanding into Ukraine and Russia is in the proces of preventing that. Which is why this issue pops up in every Russian peace proposal: Ukraine gives up their ambitions to join NATO. And then EU finding that unacceptable.

Another quick fact the thread slowed down because most NAFO hotheads have left or got banned from posting here. We've got 5K pages in the old topic tp prove it