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Eh; most western countries have pivoted to a war time production posture. Lockheed went from 1 javelin a month to 30; general dynamics is gearing up to go from 15 tanks a year to 300….the industrial base takes a while to heat the fires under but in 12 month the US could be at 50% there; Europe could be there in 9 months if they need to be with lower tech weapons. |
Russia has already gone to full war tine production. Unfortunately they are using it up as quick as they make it. |
But the war was illegal and unjustified, remember? Iraq never attacked the US or did it any harm. Iraq and the US were NOT in a military conflict, the US decided to invade and attack the country, and here you are arguing it's a good thing somehow. The Iraqi soldiers it killed were innocent. The US always says this bit about "minimal civilian casualties" but then it's like let's go practice drones on weddings. The US sees resistance to invasions and occupations as criminal because it's "leadership" must not be questioned.
Do you disagree that support for the invasion was near universal across the aisle? That the mainstream "liberal" media supported the war? Do you really need the list of links from, say, MSNBC?
Snipers don't pretend to be the beacons of democracy or to minimize civilian suffering. The US does. Out of two killers, I'd prefer the honest one.
Yawn, DCUM is full of virtual diagnosticians and you all sing the same tune. Be different, recommend cyanide for variety's sake! |
Ma’am, this is a Ukraine thread. |
For real. Go ahead and start an Iraq thread elsewhere |
Exploit the weakest links:
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- and that does not even include the mighty M-1 Abrams main battle tank, which has a proven record of out-classing the Russian T-72 in every encounter. The vapor-ware T-14 Armata will not fair any better against Western MBTs and western ATGMs. |
Ukraine is not Iraq. Iraq was not occupied by the US for 300 years, during which Arabic was banned and English was only language in universities, government administration, etc. The US did not return to occupy Iraq 30 years after Iraq gained independence, announcing that they are “brotherly nations” and have a “long common history”. The US did not ban Arabic as the first thing that they did. Ukraine did not have a war with its neighbor countries and no Ukrainian president used chemical weapons against its minorities, Ukraine also did not invade Kuwait or any other neighboring country. If drawing parallels, then draw the parallel of Iraq invading Kuwait in 1990, to Russia invading Ukraine in 2022. |
I didn't realize that you were looking for identical twin situations or that two invaded countries have to be identical in every sense for both to be viewed as sinful. But that's not a good reason to let your lies go unchallenged. Not only wasn't Ukrainian banned, the Moscow government has in fact embarked on a policy of forced Ukrainization as early as in 1920s. Behold:
Here is a BBC blog with more details. Use Google translate https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/blogs-russian-45028831 Here is a translated quote from a Ukrainian blog: The maximum circulation of books in the Ukrainian language was published in 1974 - 104,795 thousand books. Since 1974, a steady decline in the circulation of books in Ukrainian began until 1987, when the perestroika began. https://www.istpravda.com.ua/articles/2010/11/9/3586/ Here is a Ukrainian blog that lists all the anti-Ukrainian language actions, whilst making it painfully obvious that the USSR was way, way kinder and inclusive than the Russian empire toward the Ukrainian language: https://learning.ua/blog/202111/yak-borolysia-z-ukrainskoiu-movoiu-ta-kulturoiu-protiahom-xvi-xx-stolit-chastyna-1/ru/ Here is 2 seconds of worth of googling for "USSR publishing in Ukraine"
It would be super weird if the US declared itself a brotherly nation to Iraq. Especially after long-term sanctions that crippled Iraq's healthcare and tech development. https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/01/world/iraq-sanctions-kill-children-un-reports.html "As many as 576,000 Iraqi children may have died since the end of the Persian Gulf war because of economic sanctions imposed by the Security Council, according to two scientists who surveyed the country for the Food and Agriculture Organization. The study also found steeply rising malnutrition among the young, suggesting that more children will be at risk in the coming years... In 1991, after the war ended, Dr. Fawzi and other researchers found that mortality rates for children under five had tripled during the war and its immediate aftermath. By this year, the rate had increased fivefold. Deaths related to diarrheal diseases have tripled in an increasingly unhealthy environment, the study says. Water and sanitation systems have deteriorated, hospitals are functioning at 40 percent of capacity, food prices are high and many people are living on Government rations that provide only 1,000 calories a day." Thank you, Security Council, these dead children definitely helped to bring Saddam down oh wait they didn't they just died for no major reason.
Do any of these things have to happen for the Iraq invasion not to count? I mean other than your deep-seated inclination to weep for the blue-eyed and the fair-skinned more than for the brown and the Muslim? |
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I would caution that April 1st is around the corner. Keep an eye on people heading out of town or unusual Russian movements.
Russian propagandists on the motherland front seem to be only discussing nuclear war. I would be very careful at this point - especially this Friday (April Fool's Day), that has symbolism to the Russian government (who often label Westerners as fools and naive). The new Kremlin take seems to be deflect, distract, detract attention in the West. Iraq seems to be the theme (and the only theme) the Russians can push across the isle, and it's working to tie up congress with frivolous matters - evidenced by the Russian propaganda troll blogging the Iraq theme here. |
Russian propaganda troll = someone saying things I disagree with but can't effectively refute. |
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lol. Russia is in the toilet right now thanks to the Russian propaganda trolls, so I'd recommend learning how to speak Chinese. |
Oh, btw. You also forgot you were supposed to be an Arab on the previous page, remember? Just thought I'd remind you, in case you wanted to change what you wrote before. |