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“UK and European sanctions legislation allows states to freeze assets of the Russian central bank and some oligarchs, but does not provide for the permanent seizure, let alone their unilateral transfer to a fund to rebuild Ukraine.”
More tosh from the Guardian Alan? I think I know what the acronym SPGB stands for…Socialist Posers Guardian Bros. Inherent to this article is the assumption that Russia should be obliged to pay reparations to the fascist state of Ukraine. Why should Russia do so? It didn’t start the conflict, the Ukrainian Nazis, along with their Natostani handlers, did. Russia was invited in to this conflict to help defend the Donbass Republics against a Nazi ethnic cleansing operation. If any actor should be paying reparations it should be Ukraine to the Donbass Republics. As for rebuilding the smoldering ruins of Ukraine, that’s the responsibility of Natostan.
Fake news. The Russians had already mostly withdrawn from the north. There were no large battles there though the ukrainian attackers were pounded by artillery and missile fire. Almost all Russian equipment and personnel were evacuated without loss.
“Talk of large Russian material losses and of thousands of Russians taken prisoners of war are nonsense.”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/the-kharkov-counterattack-was-not-a-big-success.html#more
“The re-militarisation of Germany”
Germany is facing a depression as is most of the rest of Europe. Where’s the money gonna come from? What will desperate, hungry Germans think about all that military spending when their kids have no food? Moreover, German industry is grinding to a halt because of its shunning of Russian gas. No energy no metals production. No metals production no military production. Germany ain’t remilitarising.
“I’m curious to why the USA so far has not supplied Ukraine with a version of the Iron Dome anti-missile defence system.”
Iron Dome is a joke and the Ukrainians know it.
Ukraine ‘Tears Down’ Israel’s Iron Dome Systems; Says They Are Incapable Against Russian Missiles
“Wishful thinking?
According to Newsweek’s William M. Arkin…”
It absolutely is “wishful thinking”. Why do you keep posting western propaganda Alan? It serves no useful purpose other than to confuse visitors to this site. Putin is hugely popular in Russia. His position is in no way under threat.
NATO supplying weapons to Ukraine actually advantages Russia. It takes NATO equipment out of NATO arsenals and puts it on the battlefield where Russia can destroy it. This leaves NATO weaker not stronger.
The claim of 60,000 Russian troops dead is absurd. Almost all infantry combat is being fought by Donbass militiamen not Russians. Reliable sources say their casualties are in the region of 10,000. Ukraine on the other hand has some 200-250 thousand casualties. Ukraine is losing this conflict and losing it badly. Articles like this give false hope to the supporters of the fascists and help to delay any future peace process. Alan, stop posting such rubbish.
“Professor Lyle Goldstein authored a report—titled “Threat Inflation, Russian Military Weakness, and the Resulting Nuclear Paradox: Implications of the War in Ukraine for U.S. Military Spending”?
“Professor” Goldstein knows which side of his bread is buttered. He’s writing copium for his audience. You will actually be dumber after reading this fraud’s report. I’ve previously linked to an article by Scott Ritter, an actual military expert, and he is clear, NATO stands no chance against Russia in a military conflict in Russia’s near abroad.
“Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner group of mercenaries, defended the idea of sending prisoners to fight in the Ukraine war after a video showed him recruiting at a prison.”
Criminals who’d committed serious crimes are not eligible for the program.
“if you arrive in Ukraine and decide it’s not for you, we will execute you”.
Russia does not have the death penalty, meaning that was a joke.
“I understand the risks of a no-fly-zone.”
There already is a no-fly zone over Ukraine. It is enforced by Russia in case you hadn’t noticed.
“Historian” Kamil Galeev is a moron. Russia was perfectly happy with the status quo until the US engineered a fascist coup in Ukraine? How does this fact twash with the “historians” fevered imaginings?
“…Trumpist Republicans calling out proxy-war with Russia and NATO expansion is a classic example of a broken clock being right twice a day. But what’s driving this Trumpist opposition to proxy-war is an ideology that is incompatible with serious anti-war opposition: isolationism…Far Right politicians call for withdrawing from military alliances and wars that they see as costing the United States more than benefiting.”
It’s hard to take this paragraph seriously. Trump sent hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine and expanded Pentagon spending beyond its already obscene previous heights. He continued every one of his predecessor’s wars and tried to start new ones with Venezuela and Iran while threatening DPRK with a nuclear strike.
Ukraine has a “kill list” targeting its critics. Roger Waters and Scott Ritter are just two of the names on it. What more proof does one need that Ukraine is a fascist state?
https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/06/12/eva-bartlett-ukraine-has-a-kill-list-and-im-on-it/
https://www.rt.com/russia/562521-mirotvorets-list-ukrainian-extremists/
RAND Report on ways to weaken Russia published 2019.
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Providing lethal aid to Ukraine would exploit Russia’s greatest point of external vulnerability. But
any increase in U.S. military arms and advice to Ukraine would need to be carefully calibrated to increase the costs to Russia of sustaining its existing commitment without provoking a much wider conflict in which Russia, by reason of proximity, would have
significant advantages.https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RB10000/RB10014/RAND_RB10014.pdf
The “soldier’s” narrative is garbage proof positive being when he says…
“The equipment that was there was old and worn out.
“I only received a bulletproof vest at the very last moment before crossing the border,” he said. “Everyone knows such incidents when 10 men are sent out with two helmets and bulletproof vests, and told to sort it out between themselves. The situation is so absurd that a lot of people are buying their own clothing, equipment, boots, before being sent to war.””
This, no doubt paid, propagandist is riffing on the condition of the Tsarist army in WW1 and his recollections of the US movie Enemy at the Gates which showed two soldiers sharing one rifle. This is completely false. The Soviet army, like the modern Russian army was also very well equipped.
Aljazeera has been infiltrated by the US State Department. It is the equivalent of an Arabian CNN.
On the same theme, an army of bots is spreading Ukrainian propaganda across the internet. Shout out to my hometown.
