Russia vs. Ukraine Part 2

[1DOWN4UP]

Russia suspends only remaining major nuclear treaty with US

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Moscow is suspending its participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States.

apnews.com

He also warned America that using ANY DU Ammunition will be a big No No. GOOGLE Fallujah birth defects.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Did he yell "I'm serious" with a constipated look on his face?

No, it was more like, "One year after the first Russian tanks entered Ukraine, (creepy whisper starts now) Ukraine still stands."

His babbling can be seen here.

Biden in Poland says US and allies 'have Ukraine's back'

Biden arrived in Warsaw on Monday after paying an unannounced visit to Kyiv on a mission to solidify Western unity.

www.wthr.com

 

[BigRed]

Russia suspends only remaining major nuclear treaty with US

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Moscow is suspending its participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States.

apnews.com

Remember when the orange man with mean tweets was going to get the States into war?

 

[BigMoose]

Well back to the war itself. The momentum has indeed changed, ever so slightly to the Russians.

The Russians are gaining ground in the east, but at an absolutely horrific cost. For 10kms in places, they are creating massive rivers of blood.

In ONE year, it is estimated that the Russians now have more then 60,000 deaths on their side. The US total in Vietnam was 58,200 for all years. They have also topped the casualties for the Soviets in Afganistan.

Russia’s Death Toll From Ukraine War Is as High as 60,000, U.K. Says

The U.K. Defense Ministry estimates that more than 200,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded since the start of the invasion.

www.wsj.com

As I have said, its good ole Eastern style war.. "here is AK, go that way and make sacrifice for mother Russia, use pointy bullets or bayonet, when you die, leave AK where next guy can find it please".

And yes, it is... sort of working, this damn war is a meatgrinder that will eat any human or weapon of war sent into it. The Ukranians must weather this storm..

No one will win this war, the victor will simply be the one that outlasts the other.. This is why we send them armaments. So they can outlast the Russians, and as much of Ukraine as possible will stay free from Putin's Soviet Russian V2.0. Totalitarinism without the failed economic system.

 

[DadSmith]

 

[jamil]

Yeah, I guess we just don't have the 'proper standing' to have an investigation

No. You don’t have the proper outcome.

 

[Mgderf]

It appears to me that Biden is trying his best to goad Putin into striking REAL American interests.
Bravado does not go well unless you're willing to back it up.

 

[Ark]

The US ‘Domain Awareness Gap’ Goes Way Beyond Chinese Balloons - Bloo…

archived 12 Feb 2023 23:28:25 UTC

archive.is

Great piece. Some sobering numbers and facts in there.

He's absolutely right that these bloated, eternal, big ticket procurement programs are absolutely killing us. Largest defense budget in US history and we don't have ammo to shoot out of our existing weapons systems for longer than a couple weeks of actual peer state conflict.

 

[BigRed]

It appears to me that Biden is trying his best to goad Putin into striking REAL American interests.
Bravado does not go well unless you're willing to back it up.

obiden is a clear and present danger.

 

[BigRed]

Great piece. Some sobering numbers and facts in there.

He's absolutely right that these bloated, eternal, big ticket procurement programs are absolutely killing us. Largest defense budget in US history and we don't have ammo to shoot out of our existing weapons systems for longer than a couple weeks of actual peer state conflict.

Yeah, but we're ahead on DEI

 

[nra4ever]

 

[jamil]

It appears to me that Biden is trying his best to goad Putin into striking REAL American interests.
Bravado does not go well unless you're willing to back it up.

Hey. Cornpop and joe are tight now. That’s plenty of backup.

 

[Mgderf]

Hey. Cornpop and joe are tight now. That’s plenty of backup.

In my very best SpongeBob SquarePants voice,
"Good luck with that..."

 

[actaeon277]

Does anyone remember uranium being sold to Russia, and being told it's no longer a threat?
Pepperidge Farms remembers

 

[1DOWN4UP]

Well Sieg Heil from Ukraine .

 

[DragonGunner]

Debt service is 14%/$261 billion currently, with 10 year treasuries running at about 3.85%

Total debt is over $31 trillion. To pay off even 5% of that would require repurposing 85.5% of the current federal budget to ONLY that

That would in turn only save us $13 billion, which would be offset in a mere 0.0414% rise in interest rates that we have to pay. Recall that when Greece's ability to repay its debt was doubted the interest it had to pay to roll over loans nearly doubled

If that happened to us, debt service would exceed all other segments of the budget and crowd out a lot of other spending, some of which might actually be needed.
It would take a 10% cut in the budget, devoted only to debt retirement, to pay off slightly less than 0.6% of the debt in any given year. The numbers are stacked against any realistic repayment strategy

The debt is so high that very little of it can be repaid in any FY and that only through cuts and pain in other areas of spending. Few if any politicians want to make that type of trade off because they want to get re-elected, so they will continue to make bank personally while Rome burns

Been saying for years we are going down the same road as Rome almost to a “T”. 99% of the time I get dumb look like I don’t know what I’m talking about followed by “it doesn’t matter.” I’ve told and written so much about Rome and the same things we are doing I just quit. Then I read your post and maybe I just found that other 1%….. lol! By the way, in the end Rome burned to the ground but at least the supreme leader pet chicken wasn’t killed, that’s all that mattered to him. True story.

 

[DragonGunner]

Does anyone remember uranium being sold to Russia, and being told it's no longer a threat?
Pepperidge Farms remembers

More Russian collusion, what does it matter now!

 

[Hawkeye]

You don't care that the United States may have engaged in terrorist attacks against civilization infrastructure in order to force Europe into participating in a proxy war? You just...think it's no big deal?

Key word is your speculative "may". And yet you persist in pushing this as incontrovertible truth in most of your posts.

 

[Wolfhound]

This article gives an explanation of how and why the 35 mile long column of Russian vehicles failed to reach Kyiv.

How Russia's 35-mile armoured convoy ended in failure

How Russia's plan to overthrow Ukraine's government ended in embarrassing failure.

www.bbc.com

 

[Route 45]

Well Sieg Heil from Ukraine .

I like the Ukrainian Nazis better than the Russian Nazis.

Russian Neo-Nazis Participate in ‘Denazifying’ Ukraine – Der Spiegel - The Moscow Times

At least two neo-Nazi groups are fighting for Russian forces in Ukraine, throwing into question Moscow’s claims of “denazifying” its neighbor, German weekly Der Spiegel reported Sunday, citing a confidential intelligence report.

www.themoscowtimes.com