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Long range HIMARS, Ukraine counteroffensive & Russian parliament extraordinary session
The Duran: Episode 1329
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QUESTIONS: -Why does Russia inexplicably continue to supply its enemies with oil, gas and other natural resources when all it gets in return for its generosity is simply more demonization, insults, provocations and aggressions? Why, for example, doesn’t it tell the Germans and Canadians to stuff the pipeline turbine they’re holding back up their collective sphincters instead? -Why does Russia continue to unnecessarily prolong its military operations by metaphorically tip-toeing through the tulips instead of violently wiping its enemies infrastructure and communications abilities off the face of this earth, as it could so easily do? -Why does Russia continue to… Read more »
RE: “One thing’s for sure. This entire Ukraine debacle is starting to look like one of those rigged World Wrestling Federation matches wherein the “fighters” are actually all in cahoots and play-acting to merely put-on a show.”
Pretty serious game of play-acting. Appears more like a demonstration of a quote by Goethe: “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
They faked a pandemic. They faked an election. They faked an insurrection. They fake a geriatric senile old coot as being a credible ‘leader’. They fake the reality of biology. They fake having a viable judicial system. They invariably always fake the reasons for going to war ..but HEY! …you gotta be crazy to think that they’d fake a war in Ukraine, right?
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I’m not so sure about the universe.”
-Albert Einstein
You can’t fix stupid.
Ron White
The answer is really quite simple. Russia doesn’t want to be dragged down to the low standards of the west. It want to set the example of rising above that slime, and how civilized nations can and should act.
“It want to set the example of rising above that slime, and how civilized nations can and should act.” In order to be effective, the act of setting an example necessarily requires a sane audience that can perceive, recognize & appreciate civilized goodwill gestures. For the collective West, such acts of decency & self-control are instead dismissed as signs of weakness. Hence the desired outcome of showing restraint becomes counter-productive, as it only serves to egg-on further endless provocations. The best example Russia could set that Western leaders can understand would be to take-out Zelensky and raze Ukraine to the… Read more »
Yes, why the Russian soft approach instead of the traditional hard approach? How about the harder approach? Russia could have simply told the Ukraine: Every time a shell lands in the Donbass, we will hit you with a tactical nuke. Where it hurts. Then follow up. War over! Next hoax.
“Every time a shell lands in the Donbass, we will hit you with a tactical nuke.”
It needn’t be a tactical nuke, at least not immediately right off the bat. But they could threaten to obliterate Kiev using standard blockbuster-type munitions. In any event, I like your hardcore thinking. Putin should fire his generals and appoint you instead.
One advantage of Russia following its present course is that it is taking over large and valuable sections of the Former Ukraine permanently, thus redoing the geopolitical landscape, and not much can be said or done in opposition to this. So this method, while more painful in the short run, may lead to greater stability and fewer problems in the long run. If the Ukraine had conceded on day one, it might have remained virtually intact. Every cloud, as they say, has a silver lining.
Why do you expect Russia to follow the corrupt west’s example of nastiness, destructiveness, hate and self-destruction. Russia is rising above the sinking ship which is the west. It sets the example of how nations should act, not how the west acts. What’s not to understand. It’s trying to set an example of how grownups act, how nations with a positive, cooperative, civilized mind act. But it appears nobody in the west gets the message.
Every second spent talking about this war in Ukraine is a second that’s NOT spent in talking about the increasing evidence of ‘vaccine’-induced premature deaths, blood clots and myocarditis. It’s also a second NOT spent in talking about the USSA’s recent election fraud, it’s war crimes, the massive pedophilia of Western leaders, the rigged economy that’s imploding as we speak, the institutionalized torture, the constant illegal surveillance, the state-controlled news media, the dementedness of Woke politics, the massive unemployment, Amerika’s ongoing societal collapse and the pharmaceutical drug dependency of Amerikans that’s unquestionably the reason behind almost every single case of… Read more »
Talking may be therapuetic, but unless it turns into action it is an exercise in futility. What’s the plan?
I look at it this way… talking things out here is a pressure release. A means to get out in the open what’s percolating inside. Otherwise we’d be talking to ourselves all of the time. It helps to find out that, NO… you aren’t “crazy” for seeing things for what they are. Now beyond that there’s almost nothing that can be done to stop the train wreck that’s in motion. If you’re on the train you get off or get out of the way but you certainly don’t ride it for all its worth right over the cliff. Save yourself… Read more »
RE: “If you’re on the train you get off or get out of the way but you certainly don’t ride it for all its worth right over the cliff. Save yourself and save those closest to you. The rest can take care of themselves.” Easier said than done. Emigrate to another country? Form a similar minded community and live amongst yourselves? Right now we talk about America becoming a tyrannical police state. What happens when that is a brutal reality? When even talking may get you in trouble? If you have children, you have to deal with their education and… Read more »
By announcing what they are NOT going to send, (eg Himars long range), they are letting Elensky know what to ask for next.
Under the table controlled escalation via weapons supplied.
What is not discussed is the fact that George Soros runs Ukraine and he now runs eastern Europe and the d.c. cabal. So having aid sent by his USA state dept to his Ukrainian government is a great way to launder money
These billions of dollars will be used to create so called open societies worldwide he will need a great deal of financing to get through the mid terms in USA but he is involved in sri Lanka Thailand Pakistan and a number of others. Why use his money when he can use uncle’s
The million man (and woman) army is a very convenient way of semi imprisoning the entire physically active population knowing that a large percentage must be in a rebellious state of mind if not actually wanting to join Russia.
And wait till Odessa is back in Russian hands and the Caspian Sea and Black Sea are Russian lakes.