Ukraine is winning — and it is changing
Ukraine is winning — and it is changing
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Ukraine is winning — and it is changing
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I wonder if there's going to be some sort of culture crisis across The West when reality hits, or if Western media is strong enough to distract everyone with something new like they did with Afghanistan.
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Remember when Hong Kong was "winning"?
Opened my eyes to the accuracy of the Western media
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Yeah same. I was there, and seeing what was happening and what was being reported was a huge WTF experience
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I think they're already trying to shift it somewhat, the anti-Chinese stuff has picked up a bit recently.
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Written by Denys Shmyhal
That's Ukraine's current prime minister writing this opinion piece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys_Shmyhal
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Lol, go back to Lemmygrad
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They're from Lemmygrad, you're from Lemmy.world, and you're talking on Lemmy.ml.
What makes you think you have a better claim to the community this thread is in?
Do you just not understand federation?
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how's it feel to get your first ratio on lemmy?
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Crazy how the creators of Lemmy made that instance along with this one.
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69 points. Nice.
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If you are really enjoying simping for a neo-liberal protofascist dictatorship, then stop calling yourself a "Marxist"
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rather simp for someone opposing nato expansion than for a neonazi puppet regime staffed by people handpicked by the CIA. I swear you liberals refuse on purpose to understand that in the grand scheme of things the action of a "bad guy" can still be beneficial.
Russia isn't conquering the world anytime soon. So what would you rather have? a more multipolar world where russia has a relatively safe and solid position after showing that it won't be bullied into submission by nato (with the whole world watching), or a world where russia is balkanized into several statelets without the political, economic or military strength to resist capitalist infiltration?
We saw what happened last time russia got defeated. We lost a bastion of socialism, we saw tens of millions impoverished while a few capitalits dismantled everything that the USSR had built, and the whole thing ushered 40 years of hegemonic atlantist domination.
So yeah, i am rooting for the "neoliberal protofascist dictatorship". There is a reason why literally nobody in the global south sanctioned Russia. 75% of the planet is reasoning the same way i am.
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I just looked at Lemmygrad.ml. The rules on that site say "be respectful".
Your attached picture shows you are not respectful at all. You are supporting Putin, a dictator, who rigs elections, and who orders assassinations of political opponents (Navalny) and former Russian intelligence agents (Skripal, Litvinenko).
And of course Putin has in no way been respectful towards Ukraine. Invading Crimea in 2014, and the larger invasion in 2022.
So, you are being disrespectful towards Ukraine, and therefore you're not embodying the stated rules and values of your Lemmygrad server.
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Be respectful to your comrades. The rest of the rule which you didn't copy: This is a safe space where all comrades should feel welcome. The rules only apply to lemmygrad,
Source: me, an admin at lemmygrad.
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Wait until you find out what the US and NATO have been doing...
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"Disagreement is disrespectful" is a fun take from someone who calls communists authoritarian.
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That community will ban anyone who questions their Christi fascist oligarchy. It’s weird how a bunch of pretend communists can worship the an extreme right wing, genocidal, theocracy ran by oil tycoons who run around in yachts while the working class is thrown to meat grinder.
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Lmao Putin bros on suicide watch. Stay mad.
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Look folks, another communist! Oh how far America has gone, folks. #MakeAmericaGreatAgain
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GDR was a fucking authoritarian travesty fyi
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I guess this is why East Germans miss the GDR...
Today, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 57 percent, or an absolute majority, of eastern Germans defend the former East Germany. "The GDR had more good sides than bad sides. There were some problems, but life was good there," say 49 percent of those polled. Eight percent of eastern Germans flatly oppose all criticism of their former home and agree with the statement: "The GDR had, for the most part, good sides. Life there was happier and better than in reunified Germany today."
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We will tread where we please!
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how does Putin's shit-covered dick taste like, naZi?
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Go fuck yourself, Tankie.
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Ukraine has basically handed the second "strongest" military aa stalemate. Which is a win IMO. Throw the might off the military industrial complex at the problem and banish the military for the foreseeable future.
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"banish the military"
Downsize? Sure. Absolutely. Definitely. By a lot.
Get rid of it totally? Yeah, dumbest fucking thing ever.
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I made a more detailed comment in the "Early Stages of Ukranian" post, approaching the conflict from a tactical position the russian doctrine has shown itself to be superior with a more developed command & control combined with emphasis on smaller unit concentration leadership. The ability to contese a wide swath of ukraine with highly mobile troops supported by a proven equipment advantage (kinzhal, UAV, EW, Artillery)
Then examine the strategic level, particularly the production of referenced artillery which is the lynchpin of this conflict with the russian defensive lines and ukranian anti-artillery efforts
"We know that Ukraine uses a purported 5,000-6,000 shells per day, and that Russia has been estimated to fire as many as 60,000—though that’s a high ‘peak’ amount—the daily average over the course of the war being closer to ~20,000-30,000."
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/on-shells-and-armor-the-war-of-sustainment
"The U.S., self-avowed manufacturing ‘powerhouse’ of the world, produces 14,000 shells a month and have recently announced a “3X production surge” to 40,000 to help Ukraine—which was soon after desperately amended to 90,000 to staunch AFU’s rapidly accumulating losses. Even for the U.S., it’s an effort large enough to take approximately 2-3 years to ramp up to."
"Accepting that Russia mostly depleted usable 152mm stocks by the early 2000’s (not counting aging stocks requiring refurbishment), it’s credible that Russia spent the next two decades producing at a moderate rate equivalent to the U.S.’s 90k a month, which would grant them about 1 million shells per year. And twenty years of such stockpiling, from the early 2000’s, would give approximately 20 million—in line with Estonian estimates.
Russia used an estimated 7-10m so far in the first year of the SMO (20-30k per day multiplied by roughly a year). If the Estonian estimates are accurate that means Russia could have ~7-10m left, which is about another year’s worth of shells.
In WW2, the USSR was said to have produced 100 million shells per year, just to give an idea of what’s possible. Also, as a rule, Russia has several times more arms factories compared to the U.S. per category. For instance, the famed Lima plant in Ohio produces all American Abrams. Russia’s top tank producer Uralvagonzavod alone has roughly 12 factories, though they’re not all committed to tank production. Some produce civilian equipment like train cars, others full-time tank modernization/refurbishments, like upgrading the older T-72’s to T-72B3 standard.
So if U.S. can do 90k shells a month (1m/year) on only one production line by merely increasing shifts, Russia likely has several such production lines, in the famed Tula Arms plant and elsewhere, and should be able to comfortably triple that, at the minimum. And tripling 1m shells gets us to exactly what Estonian intel reportedly estimated Russia manufactures per year; or this source which claimed Russia was assembling 2 million shells per annum comfortably:"
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Let me tell you, folks, those Ukrainians, they're doing tremendous things with what they've got. I wish them nothing but the best in their efforts to keep the Russians out. Nobody understands the importance of tight border security better than I do, believe me.
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The real Donald Trump would probably stop supplying aid to Ukraine though, and thus force Ukraine to accept the loss of some of their territory. He's said publicly that he would get the war ended as soon as possible if he was president again, and I'm sure this is the sort of end he means.
Another problem with Trump is that he implied in an interview with Tucker Carlson that the US blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. I doubt this is true. I think Russia did it. Also, Trump didn't even believe his own intelligence agencies who said that Russia interfered in the 2016 US presidential election.
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the US blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. I doubt this is true. I think Russia did it.
But... why?...
Even the US stopped pretending that Russia did it because everyone understood that it made no sense.
Why would Russia sabotage one of their main sources of revenue in the middle of a war?
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Don't forget that the president Trump tried to extort about "announcing an investigation into Hunter Biden" was Zelenskyy.
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IQ45 did stop the military funding to Ukraine. That's what his first impeachment was about.
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Who wants to bet a hundred bucks?
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Blackrock, JP Morgan, The UK and EU, and dozens of companies, especially in the construction sector.. Oh and I almost forgot, the United States of America.
How about $100,000? I'm thinking about it. Cheaper than retiring in the US.
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