Ukrainian victory over Russia is inevitable

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Anonymous wrote:Because illegal immigration from the South did not exist before Putin? Because poor South Americans need extra encouragement to come to the US? Because the US hasn't been a dream for most of South America before Putin came to power? Don't be ridiculous.

No because he exploited a terrible situation and made it way way worse through spreading well documented misinformation to locals and even providing Russian human smugglers.

You're saying there aren't homegrown smugglers in Mexico and the rest of LatAm? Like the coyote industry does not exist? What information do you think the locals needed to decide to move to the U.S.? I mean is there ANYTHING about life in the US that is possibly a secret to them by now? This is not a young business you know. A bit weird to pin it on Russia since this business has been booming for decades.

No I’m saying he continued the tactics he employed to destabilize Europe by driving Syrian refugees into Europe to exacerbate an already serious situation.

And It is working - I am hearing life long democrats talk about voting for the Republican candidate due to concerns about surging illegal immigration. Putin combines driving illegal immigration into liberal democracies with misinformation that favors right wing authoritarian candidates because he knows isolating Western countries and fracturing alliances with other democracies helps Russia (and China) to further their goals for global dominance.

Russian populist misinformation helped drive Brexit and the UK is in a much weaker economic and political international position for it. He is trying to destroy NATO which would leave Western allies much more vulnerable.

He cultivated, trained and armed Hamas (in collaboration with Iran) over 17 years prior to the October 7 attack. The terrorists were armed with Russian weapons and trained by Russian soldiers in their particularly barbaric and cruel methods of war. That worked for him too in that he got world attention off his horrific war in the Ukraine. Hardly any press about Russian involvement in those attacks.

Putin is an evil genius and knows how to exploit human frailties and vulnerabilities for his own purposes.

If the western governments weren’t so rah rah about tolerance and embracing immigrants and other similar stupid agenda pieces (rainbows and baotbeooms and what not) then the misinformation wouldn’t have a leg to stand on
Sensible policies would have made misinformation a moot point

When confronted with hard truths, deflect with flaky unrelated whataboutisms about rainbows and trans bathrooms. What a loser you are, can't even stay on point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because illegal immigration from the South did not exist before Putin? Because poor South Americans need extra encouragement to come to the US? Because the US hasn't been a dream for most of South America before Putin came to power? Don't be ridiculous.

No because he exploited a terrible situation and made it way way worse through spreading well documented misinformation to locals and even providing Russian human smugglers.

You're saying there aren't homegrown smugglers in Mexico and the rest of LatAm? Like the coyote industry does not exist? What information do you think the locals needed to decide to move to the U.S.? I mean is there ANYTHING about life in the US that is possibly a secret to them by now? This is not a young business you know. A bit weird to pin it on Russia since this business has been booming for decades.

No I’m saying he continued the tactics he employed to destabilize Europe by driving Syrian refugees into Europe to exacerbate an already serious situation.

And It is working - I am hearing life long democrats talk about voting for the Republican candidate due to concerns about surging illegal immigration. Putin combines driving illegal immigration into liberal democracies with misinformation that favors right wing authoritarian candidates because he knows isolating Western countries and fracturing alliances with other democracies helps Russia (and China) to further their goals for global dominance.

Russian populist misinformation helped drive Brexit and the UK is in a much weaker economic and political international position for it. He is trying to destroy NATO which would leave Western allies much more vulnerable.

He cultivated, trained and armed Hamas (in collaboration with Iran) over 17 years prior to the October 7 attack. The terrorists were armed with Russian weapons and trained by Russian soldiers in their particularly barbaric and cruel methods of war. That worked for him too in that he got world attention off his horrific war in the Ukraine. Hardly any press about Russian involvement in those attacks.

Putin is an evil genius and knows how to exploit human frailties and vulnerabilities for his own purposes.

If the western governments weren’t so rah rah about tolerance and embracing immigrants and other similar stupid agenda pieces (rainbows and baotbeooms and what not) then the misinformation wouldn’t have a leg to stand on
Sensible policies would have made misinformation a moot point

No western democracy has open borders. All have systems to place to process legal immigration and deport illegals. Well qualified and hard working legal immigrants are highly sought after in close to all thriving western democracies. All have provisions for humanitarian refugees and that makes us human. Many are not accepted on humanitarian grounds though.

What they were not well prepared for was weaponization of illegal immigration at the scale Putin and his cronies instigated through blanket bombings in Syria, illegal invasion of Ukraine and mass disinformation campaigns in central and South America and other vulnerable communities as well as providing actual Russian smugglers to increase illegal immigration to point that destabilizes democracies.

Putin has been weaponizing illegal
Immigration in US and western democracies for years now.

Managing immigration both legal and illegal is complex and important. Obama and Biden have both been deporting illegal immigrants at higher number than their Republican predecessors AND working on more rational routes for legal migration.

This is hilarious. He's probably behind DC's car-jacking epidemic too. Probably got the whole council on his payroll to be soft on crime just to destabilize the nation's capital.

Putin is such a master of the universe. I wish we had a leader as omni-competent.

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Anonymous wrote:Because illegal immigration from the South did not exist before Putin? Because poor South Americans need extra encouragement to come to the US? Because the US hasn't been a dream for most of South America before Putin came to power? Don't be ridiculous.

No because he exploited a terrible situation and made it way way worse through spreading well documented misinformation to locals and even providing Russian human smugglers.

You're saying there aren't homegrown smugglers in Mexico and the rest of LatAm? Like the coyote industry does not exist? What information do you think the locals needed to decide to move to the U.S.? I mean is there ANYTHING about life in the US that is possibly a secret to them by now? This is not a young business you know. A bit weird to pin it on Russia since this business has been booming for decades.

No I’m saying he continued the tactics he employed to destabilize Europe by driving Syrian refugees into Europe to exacerbate an already serious situation.

And It is working - I am hearing life long democrats talk about voting for the Republican candidate due to concerns about surging illegal immigration. Putin combines driving illegal immigration into liberal democracies with misinformation that favors right wing authoritarian candidates because he knows isolating Western countries and fracturing alliances with other democracies helps Russia (and China) to further their goals for global dominance.

Russian populist misinformation helped drive Brexit and the UK is in a much weaker economic and political international position for it. He is trying to destroy NATO which would leave Western allies much more vulnerable.

He cultivated, trained and armed Hamas (in collaboration with Iran) over 17 years prior to the October 7 attack. The terrorists were armed with Russian weapons and trained by Russian soldiers in their particularly barbaric and cruel methods of war. That worked for him too in that he got world attention off his horrific war in the Ukraine. Hardly any press about Russian involvement in those attacks.

Putin is an evil genius and knows how to exploit human frailties and vulnerabilities for his own purposes.

If the western governments weren’t so rah rah about tolerance and embracing immigrants and other similar stupid agenda pieces (rainbows and baotbeooms and what not) then the misinformation wouldn’t have a leg to stand on
Sensible policies would have made misinformation a moot point

No western democracy has open borders. All have systems to place to process legal immigration and deport illegals. Well qualified and hard working legal immigrants are highly sought after in close to all thriving western democracies. All have provisions for humanitarian refugees and that makes us human. Many are not accepted on humanitarian grounds though.

What they were not well prepared for was weaponization of illegal immigration at the scale Putin and his cronies instigated through blanket bombings in Syria, illegal invasion of Ukraine and mass disinformation campaigns in central and South America and other vulnerable communities as well as providing actual Russian smugglers to increase illegal immigration to point that destabilizes democracies.

Putin has been weaponizing illegal
Immigration in US and western democracies for years now.

Managing immigration both legal and illegal is complex and important. Obama and Biden have both been deporting illegal immigrants at higher number than their Republican predecessors AND working on more rational routes for legal migration.

This is hilarious. He's probably behind DC's car-jacking epidemic too. Probably got the whole council on his payroll to be soft on crime just to destabilize the nation's capital.

Putin is such a master of the universe. I wish we had a leader as omni-competent.

I posted links to highly credible sources such as NATO generals and US intelligence reporting these events.

You have not provided any credible sources for your weaponization of illegal immigration denialism.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As winter proceeds, there has been an interesting observation coming from Ukrainian troops that have used both NATO and Soviet gear:

NATO gear is made for missions, and Soviet gear is made for war. NATO gear performs amazingly when its supply chain is fully intact, it can attack and disengage, and then return to base for maintenance and replenishment. When those supply chains dry up, or it can't be rotated, NATO gear is failing on the battlefield. Many of the NATO vehicles also can't seem to handle the mud and ice. There are videos of Strykers stuck in mud that isn't particularly bad. There are also rumors that the Abrams have issues with their filters, and are being withheld from the combat zone.

Soviet gear on the other hand loses far less capability when supply or maintenance is interrupted. Its more friendly to field and ad-hoc repair. Its also more suited to the climate of Ukraine with mud proving far less of a problem. It may not match NATO gear at its peak, but it seems to be more reliable in the long run.

Its interesting to see a lot of old "what-ifs" from the cold war being played out in Ukraine.

That comparison is interesting though disappointing for NATO in advance of winter - truly hope this pointless and cruel war ends soon …

Yes it is astonishing how many of the Cold War what ifs are playing out. Putin has been playing a very long game since he came to power when it superficially looked like the Cold War was no longer a great threat in the late 90s. But his world view was formed twenty years before as a KBG foreign intelligence officer for 16 years (1975-1991) during the peak of the Cold War.

Putin has been in power as president or prime minister since 1999 and has held talks with and seen four U.S. presidents leave office. He is running for president again this year for a fifth term (even though there was a constitutional limit on serving more than two terms in office) and he has removed all viable opposition.

The need for NATO and Western allies unity has never been higher.

I truly hope that Ukraine will be able to join both EU and NATO. I hope all this suffering and loss will have some important gains for them.

South Korea will soon join NATO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As winter proceeds, there has been an interesting observation coming from Ukrainian troops that have used both NATO and Soviet gear:

NATO gear is made for missions, and Soviet gear is made for war. NATO gear performs amazingly when its supply chain is fully intact, it can attack and disengage, and then return to base for maintenance and replenishment. When those supply chains dry up, or it can't be rotated, NATO gear is failing on the battlefield. Many of the NATO vehicles also can't seem to handle the mud and ice. There are videos of Strykers stuck in mud that isn't particularly bad. There are also rumors that the Abrams have issues with their filters, and are being withheld from the combat zone.

Soviet gear on the other hand loses far less capability when supply or maintenance is interrupted. Its more friendly to field and ad-hoc repair. Its also more suited to the climate of Ukraine with mud proving far less of a problem. It may not match NATO gear at its peak, but it seems to be more reliable in the long run.

Its interesting to see a lot of old "what-ifs" from the cold war being played out in Ukraine.

That comparison is interesting though disappointing for NATO in advance of winter - truly hope this pointless and cruel war ends soon …

Yes it is astonishing how many of the Cold War what ifs are playing out. Putin has been playing a very long game since he came to power when it superficially looked like the Cold War was no longer a great threat in the late 90s. But his world view was formed twenty years before as a KBG foreign intelligence officer for 16 years (1975-1991) during the peak of the Cold War.

Putin has been in power as president or prime minister since 1999 and has held talks with and seen four U.S. presidents leave office. He is running for president again this year for a fifth term (even though there was a constitutional limit on serving more than two terms in office) and he has removed all viable opposition.

The need for NATO and Western allies unity has never been higher.

I truly hope that Ukraine will be able to join both EU and NATO. I hope all this suffering and loss will have some important gains for them.

South Korea will soon join NATO.

Is this full NATO membership or more similar to the Individually Tailored Partnership Programme (ITPP) that Australia is negotiating with NATO?

If SK is admitted as full member, I wonder why not Japan, Australia and New Zealand?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because illegal immigration from the South did not exist before Putin? Because poor South Americans need extra encouragement to come to the US? Because the US hasn't been a dream for most of South America before Putin came to power? Don't be ridiculous.

No because he exploited a terrible situation and made it way way worse through spreading well documented misinformation to locals and even providing Russian human smugglers.

You're saying there aren't homegrown smugglers in Mexico and the rest of LatAm? Like the coyote industry does not exist? What information do you think the locals needed to decide to move to the U.S.? I mean is there ANYTHING about life in the US that is possibly a secret to them by now? This is not a young business you know. A bit weird to pin it on Russia since this business has been booming for decades.

No I’m saying he continued the tactics he employed to destabilize Europe by driving Syrian refugees into Europe to exacerbate an already serious situation.

And It is working - I am hearing life long democrats talk about voting for the Republican candidate due to concerns about surging illegal immigration. Putin combines driving illegal immigration into liberal democracies with misinformation that favors right wing authoritarian candidates because he knows isolating Western countries and fracturing alliances with other democracies helps Russia (and China) to further their goals for global dominance.

Russian populist misinformation helped drive Brexit and the UK is in a much weaker economic and political international position for it. He is trying to destroy NATO which would leave Western allies much more vulnerable.

He cultivated, trained and armed Hamas (in collaboration with Iran) over 17 years prior to the October 7 attack. The terrorists were armed with Russian weapons and trained by Russian soldiers in their particularly barbaric and cruel methods of war. That worked for him too in that he got world attention off his horrific war in the Ukraine. Hardly any press about Russian involvement in those attacks.

Putin is an evil genius and knows how to exploit human frailties and vulnerabilities for his own purposes.

If the western governments weren’t so rah rah about tolerance and embracing immigrants and other similar stupid agenda pieces (rainbows and baotbeooms and what not) then the misinformation wouldn’t have a leg to stand on
Sensible policies would have made misinformation a moot point

No western democracy has open borders. All have systems to place to process legal immigration and deport illegals. Well qualified and hard working legal immigrants are highly sought after in close to all thriving western democracies. All have provisions for humanitarian refugees and that makes us human. Many are not accepted on humanitarian grounds though.

What they were not well prepared for was weaponization of illegal immigration at the scale Putin and his cronies instigated through blanket bombings in Syria, illegal invasion of Ukraine and mass disinformation campaigns in central and South America and other vulnerable communities as well as providing actual Russian smugglers to increase illegal immigration to point that destabilizes democracies.

Putin has been weaponizing illegal
Immigration in US and western democracies for years now.

Managing immigration both legal and illegal is complex and important. Obama and Biden have both been deporting illegal immigrants at higher number than their Republican predecessors AND working on more rational routes for legal migration.

This is hilarious. He's probably behind DC's car-jacking epidemic too. Probably got the whole council on his payroll to be soft on crime just to destabilize the nation's capital.

Putin is such a master of the universe. I wish we had a leader as omni-competent.

I posted links to highly credible sources such as NATO generals and US intelligence reporting these events.

You have not provided any credible sources for your weaponization of illegal immigration denialism.

Pretty much every problem in the US has been blamed on Russians/Putin by "credible sources" over the last few years. If even half of them are true, then it would be in our interest to come to some sort of raproachment with Russia and reap an immediate "peace dividend" that would make everyone's life so much better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because illegal immigration from the South did not exist before Putin? Because poor South Americans need extra encouragement to come to the US? Because the US hasn't been a dream for most of South America before Putin came to power? Don't be ridiculous.

No because he exploited a terrible situation and made it way way worse through spreading well documented misinformation to locals and even providing Russian human smugglers.

You're saying there aren't homegrown smugglers in Mexico and the rest of LatAm? Like the coyote industry does not exist? What information do you think the locals needed to decide to move to the U.S.? I mean is there ANYTHING about life in the US that is possibly a secret to them by now? This is not a young business you know. A bit weird to pin it on Russia since this business has been booming for decades.

No I’m saying he continued the tactics he employed to destabilize Europe by driving Syrian refugees into Europe to exacerbate an already serious situation.

And It is working - I am hearing life long democrats talk about voting for the Republican candidate due to concerns about surging illegal immigration. Putin combines driving illegal immigration into liberal democracies with misinformation that favors right wing authoritarian candidates because he knows isolating Western countries and fracturing alliances with other democracies helps Russia (and China) to further their goals for global dominance.

Russian populist misinformation helped drive Brexit and the UK is in a much weaker economic and political international position for it. He is trying to destroy NATO which would leave Western allies much more vulnerable.

He cultivated, trained and armed Hamas (in collaboration with Iran) over 17 years prior to the October 7 attack. The terrorists were armed with Russian weapons and trained by Russian soldiers in their particularly barbaric and cruel methods of war. That worked for him too in that he got world attention off his horrific war in the Ukraine. Hardly any press about Russian involvement in those attacks.

Putin is an evil genius and knows how to exploit human frailties and vulnerabilities for his own purposes.

If the western governments weren’t so rah rah about tolerance and embracing immigrants and other similar stupid agenda pieces (rainbows and baotbeooms and what not) then the misinformation wouldn’t have a leg to stand on
Sensible policies would have made misinformation a moot point

No western democracy has open borders. All have systems to place to process legal immigration and deport illegals. Well qualified and hard working legal immigrants are highly sought after in close to all thriving western democracies. All have provisions for humanitarian refugees and that makes us human. Many are not accepted on humanitarian grounds though.

What they were not well prepared for was weaponization of illegal immigration at the scale Putin and his cronies instigated through blanket bombings in Syria, illegal invasion of Ukraine and mass disinformation campaigns in central and South America and other vulnerable communities as well as providing actual Russian smugglers to increase illegal immigration to point that destabilizes democracies.

Putin has been weaponizing illegal
Immigration in US and western democracies for years now.

Managing immigration both legal and illegal is complex and important. Obama and Biden have both been deporting illegal immigrants at higher number than their Republican predecessors AND working on more rational routes for legal migration.

This is hilarious. He's probably behind DC's car-jacking epidemic too. Probably got the whole council on his payroll to be soft on crime just to destabilize the nation's capital.

Putin is such a master of the universe. I wish we had a leader as omni-competent.

I posted links to highly credible sources such as NATO generals and US intelligence reporting these events.

You have not provided any credible sources for your weaponization of illegal immigration denialism.

Pretty much every problem in the US has been blamed on Russians/Putin by "credible sources" over the last few years. If even half of them are true, then it would be in our interest to come to some sort of raproachment with Russia and reap an immediate "peace dividend" that would make everyone's life so much better.

So that Putin can lead the way in helping Trump go completely fascist? No thanks Vlad!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because illegal immigration from the South did not exist before Putin? Because poor South Americans need extra encouragement to come to the US? Because the US hasn't been a dream for most of South America before Putin came to power? Don't be ridiculous.

No because he exploited a terrible situation and made it way way worse through spreading well documented misinformation to locals and even providing Russian human smugglers.

You're saying there aren't homegrown smugglers in Mexico and the rest of LatAm? Like the coyote industry does not exist? What information do you think the locals needed to decide to move to the U.S.? I mean is there ANYTHING about life in the US that is possibly a secret to them by now? This is not a young business you know. A bit weird to pin it on Russia since this business has been booming for decades.

No I’m saying he continued the tactics he employed to destabilize Europe by driving Syrian refugees into Europe to exacerbate an already serious situation.

And It is working - I am hearing life long democrats talk about voting for the Republican candidate due to concerns about surging illegal immigration. Putin combines driving illegal immigration into liberal democracies with misinformation that favors right wing authoritarian candidates because he knows isolating Western countries and fracturing alliances with other democracies helps Russia (and China) to further their goals for global dominance.

Russian populist misinformation helped drive Brexit and the UK is in a much weaker economic and political international position for it. He is trying to destroy NATO which would leave Western allies much more vulnerable.

He cultivated, trained and armed Hamas (in collaboration with Iran) over 17 years prior to the October 7 attack. The terrorists were armed with Russian weapons and trained by Russian soldiers in their particularly barbaric and cruel methods of war. That worked for him too in that he got world attention off his horrific war in the Ukraine. Hardly any press about Russian involvement in those attacks.

Putin is an evil genius and knows how to exploit human frailties and vulnerabilities for his own purposes.

If the western governments weren’t so rah rah about tolerance and embracing immigrants and other similar stupid agenda pieces (rainbows and baotbeooms and what not) then the misinformation wouldn’t have a leg to stand on
Sensible policies would have made misinformation a moot point

No western democracy has open borders. All have systems to place to process legal immigration and deport illegals. Well qualified and hard working legal immigrants are highly sought after in close to all thriving western democracies. All have provisions for humanitarian refugees and that makes us human. Many are not accepted on humanitarian grounds though.

What they were not well prepared for was weaponization of illegal immigration at the scale Putin and his cronies instigated through blanket bombings in Syria, illegal invasion of Ukraine and mass disinformation campaigns in central and South America and other vulnerable communities as well as providing actual Russian smugglers to increase illegal immigration to point that destabilizes democracies.

Putin has been weaponizing illegal
Immigration in US and western democracies for years now.

Managing immigration both legal and illegal is complex and important. Obama and Biden have both been deporting illegal immigrants at higher number than their Republican predecessors AND working on more rational routes for legal migration.

This is hilarious. He's probably behind DC's car-jacking epidemic too. Probably got the whole council on his payroll to be soft on crime just to destabilize the nation's capital.

Putin is such a master of the universe. I wish we had a leader as omni-competent.

I posted links to highly credible sources such as NATO generals and US intelligence reporting these events.

You have not provided any credible sources for your weaponization of illegal immigration denialism.

Pretty much every problem in the US has been blamed on Russians/Putin by "credible sources" over the last few years. If even half of them are true, then it would be in our interest to come to some sort of raproachment with Russia and reap an immediate "peace dividend" that would make everyone's life so much better.

Half of it is true but as for rapprochement, I'd sooner see the man toppled from office and destroyed by his own vileness.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As winter proceeds, there has been an interesting observation coming from Ukrainian troops that have used both NATO and Soviet gear:

NATO gear is made for missions, and Soviet gear is made for war. NATO gear performs amazingly when its supply chain is fully intact, it can attack and disengage, and then return to base for maintenance and replenishment. When those supply chains dry up, or it can't be rotated, NATO gear is failing on the battlefield. Many of the NATO vehicles also can't seem to handle the mud and ice. There are videos of Strykers stuck in mud that isn't particularly bad. There are also rumors that the Abrams have issues with their filters, and are being withheld from the combat zone.

Soviet gear on the other hand loses far less capability when supply or maintenance is interrupted. Its more friendly to field and ad-hoc repair. Its also more suited to the climate of Ukraine with mud proving far less of a problem. It may not match NATO gear at its peak, but it seems to be more reliable in the long run.

Its interesting to see a lot of old "what-ifs" from the cold war being played out in Ukraine.

That comparison is interesting though disappointing for NATO in advance of winter - truly hope this pointless and cruel war ends soon …

Yes it is astonishing how many of the Cold War what ifs are playing out. Putin has been playing a very long game since he came to power when it superficially looked like the Cold War was no longer a great threat in the late 90s. But his world view was formed twenty years before as a KBG foreign intelligence officer for 16 years (1975-1991) during the peak of the Cold War.

Putin has been in power as president or prime minister since 1999 and has held talks with and seen four U.S. presidents leave office. He is running for president again this year for a fifth term (even though there was a constitutional limit on serving more than two terms in office) and he has removed all viable opposition.

The need for NATO and Western allies unity has never been higher.

I truly hope that Ukraine will be able to join both EU and NATO. I hope all this suffering and loss will have some important gains for them.

South Korea will soon join NATO.

Is this full NATO membership or more similar to the Individually Tailored Partnership Programme (ITPP) that Australia is negotiating with NATO?

If SK is admitted as full member, I wonder why not Japan, Australia and New Zealand?

And... Taiwan

[Anonymous]

How did Joe screw up “inevitable”

Answer .. he’s not MAGA. He’s weak, slow and a mental midget like his supporters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As winter proceeds, there has been an interesting observation coming from Ukrainian troops that have used both NATO and Soviet gear:

NATO gear is made for missions, and Soviet gear is made for war. NATO gear performs amazingly when its supply chain is fully intact, it can attack and disengage, and then return to base for maintenance and replenishment. When those supply chains dry up, or it can't be rotated, NATO gear is failing on the battlefield. Many of the NATO vehicles also can't seem to handle the mud and ice. There are videos of Strykers stuck in mud that isn't particularly bad. There are also rumors that the Abrams have issues with their filters, and are being withheld from the combat zone.

Soviet gear on the other hand loses far less capability when supply or maintenance is interrupted. Its more friendly to field and ad-hoc repair. Its also more suited to the climate of Ukraine with mud proving far less of a problem. It may not match NATO gear at its peak, but it seems to be more reliable in the long run.

Its interesting to see a lot of old "what-ifs" from the cold war being played out in Ukraine.

That comparison is interesting though disappointing for NATO in advance of winter - truly hope this pointless and cruel war ends soon …

Yes it is astonishing how many of the Cold War what ifs are playing out. Putin has been playing a very long game since he came to power when it superficially looked like the Cold War was no longer a great threat in the late 90s. But his world view was formed twenty years before as a KBG foreign intelligence officer for 16 years (1975-1991) during the peak of the Cold War.

Putin has been in power as president or prime minister since 1999 and has held talks with and seen four U.S. presidents leave office. He is running for president again this year for a fifth term (even though there was a constitutional limit on serving more than two terms in office) and he has removed all viable opposition.

The need for NATO and Western allies unity has never been higher.

I truly hope that Ukraine will be able to join both EU and NATO. I hope all this suffering and loss will have some important gains for them.

South Korea will soon join NATO.

Is this full NATO membership or more similar to the Individually Tailored Partnership Programme (ITPP) that Australia is negotiating with NATO?

If SK is admitted as full member, I wonder why not Japan, Australia and New Zealand?

The ROK cannot be admitted because it has unresolved territory issues. The ROK claims the entirety of the DPRK (and vice versa). It further has unresolved territory issues with Japan (primarily over Dok Do). It is also still technically at war with the DPRK so that is problematic as well.
Besides having territory issues with the ROK, Japan lays claim to Russia’s Kuril Islands so it cannot be admitted.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because illegal immigration from the South did not exist before Putin? Because poor South Americans need extra encouragement to come to the US? Because the US hasn't been a dream for most of South America before Putin came to power? Don't be ridiculous.

No because he exploited a terrible situation and made it way way worse through spreading well documented misinformation to locals and even providing Russian human smugglers.

You're saying there aren't homegrown smugglers in Mexico and the rest of LatAm? Like the coyote industry does not exist? What information do you think the locals needed to decide to move to the U.S.? I mean is there ANYTHING about life in the US that is possibly a secret to them by now? This is not a young business you know. A bit weird to pin it on Russia since this business has been booming for decades.

No I’m saying he continued the tactics he employed to destabilize Europe by driving Syrian refugees into Europe to exacerbate an already serious situation.

And It is working - I am hearing life long democrats talk about voting for the Republican candidate due to concerns about surging illegal immigration. Putin combines driving illegal immigration into liberal democracies with misinformation that favors right wing authoritarian candidates because he knows isolating Western countries and fracturing alliances with other democracies helps Russia (and China) to further their goals for global dominance.

Russian populist misinformation helped drive Brexit and the UK is in a much weaker economic and political international position for it. He is trying to destroy NATO which would leave Western allies much more vulnerable.

He cultivated, trained and armed Hamas (in collaboration with Iran) over 17 years prior to the October 7 attack. The terrorists were armed with Russian weapons and trained by Russian soldiers in their particularly barbaric and cruel methods of war. That worked for him too in that he got world attention off his horrific war in the Ukraine. Hardly any press about Russian involvement in those attacks.

Putin is an evil genius and knows how to exploit human frailties and vulnerabilities for his own purposes.

If the western governments weren’t so rah rah about tolerance and embracing immigrants and other similar stupid agenda pieces (rainbows and baotbeooms and what not) then the misinformation wouldn’t have a leg to stand on
Sensible policies would have made misinformation a moot point

No western democracy has open borders. All have systems to place to process legal immigration and deport illegals. Well qualified and hard working legal immigrants are highly sought after in close to all thriving western democracies. All have provisions for humanitarian refugees and that makes us human. Many are not accepted on humanitarian grounds though.

What they were not well prepared for was weaponization of illegal immigration at the scale Putin and his cronies instigated through blanket bombings in Syria, illegal invasion of Ukraine and mass disinformation campaigns in central and South America and other vulnerable communities as well as providing actual Russian smugglers to increase illegal immigration to point that destabilizes democracies.

Putin has been weaponizing illegal
Immigration in US and western democracies for years now.

Managing immigration both legal and illegal is complex and important. Obama and Biden have both been deporting illegal immigrants at higher number than their Republican predecessors AND working on more rational routes for legal migration.

lol no!
Putin or whoever is able to weaponize immigration precisely because he knows the U.S. is a sissy and will take everyone in and process them more or less humanely
It’s on the US to say no to uncontrolled influx and abuse of the asylum system.

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Anonymous wrote:Because illegal immigration from the South did not exist before Putin? Because poor South Americans need extra encouragement to come to the US? Because the US hasn't been a dream for most of South America before Putin came to power? Don't be ridiculous.

No because he exploited a terrible situation and made it way way worse through spreading well documented misinformation to locals and even providing Russian human smugglers.

You're saying there aren't homegrown smugglers in Mexico and the rest of LatAm? Like the coyote industry does not exist? What information do you think the locals needed to decide to move to the U.S.? I mean is there ANYTHING about life in the US that is possibly a secret to them by now? This is not a young business you know. A bit weird to pin it on Russia since this business has been booming for decades.

No I’m saying he continued the tactics he employed to destabilize Europe by driving Syrian refugees into Europe to exacerbate an already serious situation.

And It is working - I am hearing life long democrats talk about voting for the Republican candidate due to concerns about surging illegal immigration. Putin combines driving illegal immigration into liberal democracies with misinformation that favors right wing authoritarian candidates because he knows isolating Western countries and fracturing alliances with other democracies helps Russia (and China) to further their goals for global dominance.

Russian populist misinformation helped drive Brexit and the UK is in a much weaker economic and political international position for it. He is trying to destroy NATO which would leave Western allies much more vulnerable.

He cultivated, trained and armed Hamas (in collaboration with Iran) over 17 years prior to the October 7 attack. The terrorists were armed with Russian weapons and trained by Russian soldiers in their particularly barbaric and cruel methods of war. That worked for him too in that he got world attention off his horrific war in the Ukraine. Hardly any press about Russian involvement in those attacks.

Putin is an evil genius and knows how to exploit human frailties and vulnerabilities for his own purposes.

If the western governments weren’t so rah rah about tolerance and embracing immigrants and other similar stupid agenda pieces (rainbows and baotbeooms and what not) then the misinformation wouldn’t have a leg to stand on
Sensible policies would have made misinformation a moot point

When confronted with hard truths, deflect with flaky unrelated whataboutisms about rainbows and trans bathrooms. What a loser you are, can't even stay on point.

What I’m saying is the US is kind of asking for it, engaging in unicorns and rainbows problems which have little to do with real challenges of today’s world.

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Also the U.S. is run by lobbies that divert attention from the the real problems.
One of them is the pro immigration lobby (I am not talking about highly regulated high skilled immigration but quite the opposite).
Another puts the interests of another country above American interests.
With lobbies like this who needs Putin?

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Anonymous wrote:Because illegal immigration from the South did not exist before Putin? Because poor South Americans need extra encouragement to come to the US? Because the US hasn't been a dream for most of South America before Putin came to power? Don't be ridiculous.

No because he exploited a terrible situation and made it way way worse through spreading well documented misinformation to locals and even providing Russian human smugglers.

You're saying there aren't homegrown smugglers in Mexico and the rest of LatAm? Like the coyote industry does not exist? What information do you think the locals needed to decide to move to the U.S.? I mean is there ANYTHING about life in the US that is possibly a secret to them by now? This is not a young business you know. A bit weird to pin it on Russia since this business has been booming for decades.

No I’m saying he continued the tactics he employed to destabilize Europe by driving Syrian refugees into Europe to exacerbate an already serious situation.

And It is working - I am hearing life long democrats talk about voting for the Republican candidate due to concerns about surging illegal immigration. Putin combines driving illegal immigration into liberal democracies with misinformation that favors right wing authoritarian candidates because he knows isolating Western countries and fracturing alliances with other democracies helps Russia (and China) to further their goals for global dominance.

Russian populist misinformation helped drive Brexit and the UK is in a much weaker economic and political international position for it. He is trying to destroy NATO which would leave Western allies much more vulnerable.

He cultivated, trained and armed Hamas (in collaboration with Iran) over 17 years prior to the October 7 attack. The terrorists were armed with Russian weapons and trained by Russian soldiers in their particularly barbaric and cruel methods of war. That worked for him too in that he got world attention off his horrific war in the Ukraine. Hardly any press about Russian involvement in those attacks.

Putin is an evil genius and knows how to exploit human frailties and vulnerabilities for his own purposes.

If the western governments weren’t so rah rah about tolerance and embracing immigrants and other similar stupid agenda pieces (rainbows and baotbeooms and what not) then the misinformation wouldn’t have a leg to stand on
Sensible policies would have made misinformation a moot point

When confronted with hard truths, deflect with flaky unrelated whataboutisms about rainbows and trans bathrooms. What a loser you are, can't even stay on point.

What I’m saying is the US is kind of asking for it, engaging in unicorns and rainbows problems which have little to do with real challenges of today’s world.

You're hitting the wodka pretty hard tonight, Vlad!