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To all those against aid for Ukraine especially in America.
— WarMonitor🇺🇦 (@WarMonitor3) July 11, 2024
Your country promised to protect Ukraine sovereignty after it gave up nearly 600 nuclear weapons.
You failed on that agreement and now your moaning about aid that actually saves you money in the long run...
In case he deleted his post like he deleted his post where he was crying that the world care less about Ukraine than Palestine
Crying that world don't care about supposedly "Russian" 5200lb missile strike on children hospital that killed 0 children. It's already sounds absurd. But I already proven before that 1st it wasn't x101, such missile would had left a huge hole
And as you see only some windows are blown out and looks like shrapnels. X101 doesn't has shrapnel but AD missiles have
2nd there was no direct hit on that hospital.
Being khohol or devil advocate I wrote when this happened that Russian hit a civilian building in Kryvyi rog and killed people:
This is Soviet building and its a lot thicker than the hospital.
So Ukraine had real story but they decided Kiev and capitalcel lives only matters and started to dance around that absurd story about children hospital.
Warmonitor3 probably realised Palestinian lives matters and just absurd crying that outside world wasn't impressed about story of 5200lbs bomb managing to kill 0 children while 1/3 of Gaza casualties are children. That story is just vanilla.
But now he copes about nukes Ukraine never had. By Soviet laws all nukes were property of Russian Soviet republic and were even guarded by soldiers that were from Russia
Expecting more from west is also low iq. West failed to protect Ukrainian electricity that means west for real has no AD to spare
This winter will be very problematic for Ukraine and December 2023 polls showed 48% Ukrainian want to continue fighting and 44% want peace talk. 7 months later is safe to assume more want peace talk.
So what that warmonitor3 wants from US ?
He should go hold some bakhmut
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That's how pro Ukrainian expected first trial of Busha to sound but it's clown world
According to prosecutor Martin Bílé, 27-year-old Filip Siman joined the Ukrainian volunteer battalion Carpathian (Nazi) at the end of March 2022, despite the fact that he did not have special permission to do so: the law prohibits Czechs from serving in foreign armed forces without the president's permission.
Link to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpathian_Sich
In Ukraine, he received basic training and went with a group of soldiers to the Kyiv region's cities of Bucha and Irpin to perform missions.
According to the indictment, the Czech repeatedly misappropriated the belongings of both dead soldiers and civilians. It is stated that he appropriated a number of jewelry items, cash, branded sunglasses, etc.
Speaking in court, the man denied that he wanted to enrich himself by collecting valuables. According to him, all the units were based in abandoned houses of Ukrainians, so the valuables, money or electronics they found were taken "to the headquarters". The Ukrainians' belongings were taken in case the Russians recaptured the facilities.
I steal it so someone else doesn't steal it even tho Russian didn't steal it the first time.
As "trophies" he brought back from Ukraine Gucci glasses, a breathing mask from an-225 and gold and silver bars, as well as other jewelry.
He said that he removed gold jewelry from the killed because "that's what everyone did." And confirmed that the Ukrainian military not only robbed but also shot civilians near Kiev in Bucha: "We were the police, we were the court, we were the firing squad when it came to this."
Where the frick did they found bars ? Is war legit like battlefield bad company single player campaign ?
Who could had thought the Reddit battalion can be this wholesome
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It's 2022 and YouTube banning pro Russian Russian artists… oh wait it's 2024 and YouTube banning those artist by request of Baltics
Russia directly approved new law to ban YouTube by September
Baltics population is 6 million and now YouTube will lose two countries with combined population of 155 millions
Like it would been understandable if it was 2022 today or US has requested this ban, but Baltics ?
Edit: I read this article in another place that didn't mention this:
the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK)
the Baltic country threatened to fine the video platform nearly $ 55,000
Also all the artist they asked to ban are boomer artists whose main audience ain't even on YouTube
The YouTube foid that was leading this case as true foid. 55k is literally nothing, it's probably not even 0,001% of money they been making from Russia
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🇺🇸‼️🚨 Rob “The Russians are everywhere” Bauer has now a NAFO dog.
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) July 11, 2024
🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/2UxWE9htHI
Pretty much everyone was expecting but a lot more happened than expected.
Before the summit started it was assumed Ukrainian would do some big push to have some gains to show at this summit as winning but nothing happened not even missiles strikes.
Even Russia prepared for this summit better by doing breakthrough in couple of sectors and bussy blasting Kiev.
During the summit there was a lot of talks about nothing like for example this:
And this
Then not even 24 hours after those statements they did a 180 flip. Biden told no and
Poland had interesting ideas about fixing refugees problems
"I think many Poles are outraged when they see young Ukrainian men in hotels and cafes, and they hear how much effort we have to make to help Ukraine,"
So they started a "volunteers brigade"
"In Poland, we are beginning to train the first Ukrainian brigade composed of volunteers from inside Poland. We have up to a million Ukrainians of both genders, and several thousands of them have already registered for the draft,"
"Interestingly, many of them want to serve and rotate their compatriots, but they say: 'We don't want to be thrown into the battle without being properly trained and equipped.' And we're going to do this for them," Sikorski said.
Oh heck yeah, that's why they run away from Ukraine and the mobilisation
"And then they will be available to the Ukrainian government as a unit with the right to return to Poland after their rotation," he added.
He encouraged other European countries also hosting male Ukrainian refugees or with significant Ukrainian minorities to do the same.
"If every European country did that, Ukraine would have several brigades," Sikorski said.
Realistically this move will push Ukrainian to find a job or move to Germany since Germany just can't do similar move because of ma ethics
Then Poland promised Ukraine it would shoot down missiles that are heading towards Poland in Ukrainian sky. But of course did a flip by saying NATO should shoot those missiles but nobody reacted or commented so it went
Then NATO promised to give Ukraine 40 billion next year but just a month ago countries decided to tell no to nato idea of giving Ukraine 40 billions but honestly it's impossible to track all the money heading to Ukraine. Wikipedia stopped updating it and froze it at 380 billion since November 2023 and we know that Ukraine got at least 50 from eu, 61 from US and tons of smaller aids packages this year. Yesterday tho Biden gave Zelenskyy only 220 millions.
Biden was the star of the show tho
So as expected
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 The US will allocate more than 7 million dollars to support women in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, — Secretary of State Blinken.
— MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) July 11, 2024
👀 The aid, in particular, will include more than 10,000 uniforms, shoes and other necessary equipment. pic.twitter.com/t9eraydBcZ
include more than 10,000 uniforms, shoes and other necessary equipment
- usernaw : slow?
- JoylessCat : I didn't read it but I think they are on drugs
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Note:
It won't be as fast a decline as China.
There is very likely going to be a forever war in Ukraine lasting many more years.
Here is my proof:
Russia's war economy has left Russia short of 4.8 million workers - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-short-around-48-million-workers-2023-crunch-persist-izvestia-2023-12-24/
Russian GDP growth for past five years averaged 1.32% per year. ( 2.2 + (-2.7) + 5.6 + (-2.1) + 3.2)/5 = 6.2/5 = 1.32% per year - https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=RU
Russian GDP reached a new peak in 2023 - 2,240 + 3.2% = 2.311 trillion USD - https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/russia-gdp/
Russian population peaked in 1993 at 149 million people. - https://www.bofit.fi/en/monitoring/weekly/2024/vw202409_1/
Russian artillery production is high but Ukraine is still getting better equipment - https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-nato-summit-patriot-air-defense-6bf639e3a76e9ea8adbdadabd2660490
Russia's robot density is 6 per 10,000 workers, so the declining population is not being balanced out by robot production. - https://tadviser.com/index.php/Article:Industrial_robots_in_Russia
Russia is increasing trade with India and China, both economies big enough to allow Russian economy to stay in business for the years ahead. - China economy - 18 trillion GDP. India economy - 3.5 trillion GDP. Russia economy - 2.5 trillion GDP.
Russia's median age is 39.2 years now. - https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/russia-population/
Russia is giving citizenship to 100,000 plus Tajikistani workers per year now. - https://eurasianet.org/tajikistan-as-expat-worker-life-gets-harder-russian-citizenship-tempts
Hundreds of thousands of Russians may already be dead in the Russia-Ukraine war - https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1920357/russia-army-casualties-update-ukraine-war
Conclusion:
Russia is using every single point in its favor to try and win this war. Russia is suffering from a labor shortage that is likely to worsen as long as the war with Ukraine continues. Tajikistan is not a large enough nation state to supply all the labor needs of Russia even if Russians keep accepting Tajikistan nationals as citizens at current rates.
Russia's economy will not collapse due to lack of markets to trade with, however Russia's demographics are going to continue to worsen along with increasing labor shortages over time. The two nations poor enough to keep sending people to Russia are Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The combined population of these two territories is 45 million people. Both of these regions are growing at a fast enough rate economically that the flow of citizens to Russia from these regions is only going to slow down year on year at a rapid rate.
Russia's demographic decline will not be as extreme as other East Asian economies due to being open to immigration from Central Asian nation states, however, Russian economy also does not have the support network provided by mass usage of robotics in their manufacturing industry, meaning that their GDP growth will consistently decline as their overall population declines over time.
As Russia is using every single trick it can to stay afloat, while conducting a forever war in Ukraine, it becomes safe to conclude that Russia's decline will be glacial and guaranteed.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 F-16s are being delivered to Ukraine “as we speak”
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) July 10, 2024
They are being transferred by Denmark and the Netherlands, and the fighters will be in the skies of Ukraine this summer. pic.twitter.com/ti7Kjb3sTA
Probably there will be picture of f16 in Lvov
But telling now that f16 will fly in Ukraine this summer when we are past 50% of the summer is not very wise. People expecting f16 go bombing Russian and destroy Russian jets.
https://x.com/the_real_fly/status/1811069572948148726
And it seems they for real again hyping f16. It's like so not wise to do this with new recon drones.
Also the agreement Zelenskyy is flexing:
Luxembourg army is 900 men
The agreements also literally don't mean anything
However, the degree and terms of this support are not clear. None of the agreements is ratified by the parliaments of the signatory countries
Not ratification means the documents ain't valid
This is an important distinction. The Ukrainian leadership refers to the agreements as security guarantees, choosing a term that is clear and reassuring for the wider public. But using the term guarantees is misleading: Ukraine relied on a similar 'guarantee' without legal mechanisms to enforce it when it gave up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for protection from the United States, the UK, and Russia under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.
Live a life to not learn anything
What the document says:
all the agreements contain a clause stating that in the event of a future Russian attack against Ukraine, the parties will consult within 24 hours to determine the measures needed to counter and deter the aggression.
Basically Luxembourg will give Ukraine advice how to stop Russia.
So those agreements Ukraine is collecting are as good meme as legendary peace summit:
Global Peace Summit will strengthen Ukraine diplomatically – Volodymyr Zelenskyy
If we now google ukrainian peace summit one of results will be:
But I am legit surprised that Blinken let him self so easily be caught
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This is Washington
There are also on other places around the world.
But you have to give credit to those Ukrainian men, they are low inhib as frick. Because when you see Ukrainian men protesting and one that look fit you automatically asking your self "neighbor why u here ?". But they don't give a frick
This neighbor even went cheap and didn't changed his pride month costume
- Healthy : 👏 these 👏 are 👏 not 👏 effortposts!
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https://x.com/ug_chelsea/status/1810273828720758919
There were a lot of hits and in cities that were supposed to be protected by patriot like Kiev and Khrivoi Rog
https://x.com/menchosint/status/1809861278917091768
This patriot system that was destroyed 2 days ago and obviously pro Ukrainian claimed it's fake. Was supposed to protect khruvoi rog.
Ukraine started campaign that Russia supposedly hit some hospital with x101 missile
It's a slowed down video so you can compare that missile with couple of x101 hitting same target
Ukraine also didn't mention that main strike was at night and only focused at that hospital.
Ukraine put a lot of effort in this campaign
https://x.com/mylordbebo/status/1810419215599620181
But question should been what do they expect from it ? US already rushed saying they won't let Ukraine use its weapons on Russian soil. There also wouldn't be any new weapons for Ukraine and Israel with Gaza made sure nobody would give a frick about this event.
But what's important to me is
I been telling for months patriots ain't going to do a shit. And now after Ukraine received more patriots than Germany has, and Zelenskyy promised it would stop Russian bombings. We are enjoying how effortless Russian is bombing a city that has most patriot defence on earth. As I mention in the past, patriots can stop around 100 missiles a year. It's probably less in reality because factories that build those often get caught in fire and storages etc in nato countries get blown up like this happened 2 days ago:
Only a year ago they were proudly claiming patriots are shooting down kinzhals
And now they have to beg Israel to give them ammo
If Zelenskyy poo right now it could turn the tide, I mean everything is theoretically possible.
With new Orlan drones Ukraine is now constantly also losing Himars vehicles
https://x.com/dd_geopolitics/status/1810611257856213352
The targets Russian hit yesterday was some factories and some electricity generators but that's just propping since Russian main goal is to send Ukraine into blackout during the winter.
The winter part will be very interesting because with constant blackouts a lot of Ukrainian will move to the west.
But don't worry to Bloomberg Zelenskyy promised a new counteroffensive and that he end this conflict by end of this year. And yesterday signed some agreements with Poland and Poland promised to him they will shot Russian missiles that enter Polish air space. It's a good promise is will be as effective as:
Russian missiles are just couple seconds in Polish air space, shooting them in Polish air space + making sure it falls in Polish soil is kinda very hard to do. Russia has radars in that area so if Polish missile hits Russian missile in Ukrainian air space it will be a direct involvement.
Edit: seems later Poland did an back-steep
Tusk on the idea of shooting down missiles in Ukraine's skies: we need NATO cooperation for this
We need unequivocal cooperation within NATO for this, because this kind of action does require joint NATO responsibility.
So it was just some food for Ukrainian to feel good yesterday
Edit: Ukrainian twitter channel today flex that it got patriot from Germany on 5 June and something (probably ammo) from Romania on 20 June
https://x.com/ukrreview/status/1810618910154043565
They couldn't pick a better day to flex about it
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Even if we assume Russian won't bomb air fields in Poland.
Ukraine is around 800 miles wide. Polish military bases on western part of the country so we put it at 200 miles from Ukraine for easier math. F16 top speed is 1400 mph so to reach Donbas and back it would take over a hour flight on afterburner but it can fly on afterburner only for 16-20 min. Full loaded with fuel tanks f16 can fly only around 2 hours in low altitudes and f16 cruising speed is 577 mph. If f16 tries a high low mission it instantly will be spotted by Russian AD in Kaliningrad and Belarus so f16 won't be able to do any bombing missions.
So it's not even valid strategy.
It's also funny how Redditors compare f16 to su34 and tell f16 is better
Su34 is a bomber that has more fuel than f16 weight. Russian are successful dropping so many heavy bombs because su34 are huge.
I doubt f16 will even have timed success like himars, atacms, m777, storm shadow and other game changers.
But it's a bit refreshing that Redditor start realising the game changer ain't so game changing and perhaps they find a new game changer to cope ?
Here source for coping hards:
Just as general information, the F-16 at full military power and low altitudes burns about 8000 pounds of fuel an hour
F16 can carry 7,000 pounds internal or 12,000 pounds with two external tanks.
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Meanwhile US GDP peak was last in the year 2024.
Ukraine's last economic peak was in 2021.
European Unions peak GDP was in current year.
China's GDP peak is in current year.
Russia is a has been economy fighting against currently still rising empires. Anybody who thinks Russia is going to win is r-slurred. Winners don't use human wave tactics in current year sacrificing 1000+ troops a day.
It's like watching a senile old man trying to relive his glory days.
The only way Russia could win this fight is by sacrificing the rest of its future in terms of the amount of people it sends out to die.
Russia only has 22 million bodies left to throw at Ukraine. After that its over for Russia.
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It will fall out of the top 15 largest economies of the world.
Other than that not much else will change. It will not collapse, just stagnate as a society as they have sacrificed too many soldiers for the invasion.
Its economic ranking will continue to go down for the next two decades. It will not be in a position to invade again.
In the long run, it is an empire permanently in decline, as it is cut off from the western economic network, and the Chinese SCO still requires a major net importer to hold the system up that nobody is willing to become.
If Russia persists in its decline in relation to other nation states, that means China will no longer be able to compete with the west on its own, as China will have zero powerful partners remaining, which with China's aging population, sets it up to soon follow in Japan's footsteps in terms of global decline, becoming the 5th or 6th largest economy one to two generations down the line.
Conclusion:
Russia's failure to win the Ukraine war along with economic decline will result in a domino effect of the decline of the anti west alliance over the coming decades.
Cuba is already crashed. Pakistan is crashed. Russia is crashing. China is aging fast. That leaves Iran.
The eastern axis will not be able to beat the west
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Russia has become even more irrelevant globally after this current war.
Russia is below Italy, a failing first world nation state.
Russia is below India.
Russia is below Japan.
At this rate Russia is going to be fall out of the top 15 by the end of the decade.
Conclusion:
The current war with Ukraine is destroying the Russian economy even with Chinese backing and the oil sales to China and India.
The issue remains that China and Russia are not powerful enough by themselves to counter 38 western aligned nation states.
Russia marches on with its history of "and then things got worse".
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Steam Deck and Discord used as tools for war pic.twitter.com/1CdjbJlMAk
— Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation) July 4, 2024
I don't know which side is using it But I definitely won't be supporting them
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Multiple Su-27s at Myrhorod airport destroyed by Russian Iskander strikes. One of the Iskanders released cluster munitions. pic.twitter.com/x1UbacdCdU
— ayden (@squatsons) July 1, 2024
Ukraine was using su27 bombing Volvchansk and planned to launch massive counteroffensive east of volvchansk. And they lost the last 3 days around 15 aircraft's
5-7 su27 (visually confirmed)
https://x.com/squatsons/status/1807839326337912875
Couple of mig 29 and su 25
https://x.com/innova_center/status/1808553613108596985
Some helicopters
https://x.com/amk_mapping_/status/1808712267271451041
But only su27 matters for this topic.
Since those su27 were using jdams on north Kharkiv direction. Losing those is big dead. It's also interesting that they were using a fighter as a bomber.
Reason why footages like this started suddenly appearing is that Russian got a new orlan drone that seems to have range of 600+ km more than F16 with internal fuel storage. Why I mention f16 ? It's because now without using external fuel storage f16 will be on Russian visual range so it won't be effective at bombing. Su27 internal fuel range is 6 times more than f16 and yet they still used su27 kinda close to the front line. I already mentioned in July 2023 that Russian were hard preparing for arrival of f16. Now Ukrainian f16 would be able to only drop at best 1-2 jdams doing low low missions. And who knows when Russian launch an 1000+ km Orlan drone. Problem of orlan + iskander combo is that Ukraine don't get much early warning when iskander launches compared to when Russian launches missiles from their jets.
And Ukraine planed to launch counterattacks on that direction for weeks but fab 3000 changed their plans
So Ukraine failed to get critical mass to launch a good offensive (they launched couple smaller one and even managed to regain some territory but again lost it) those loses of su27 basically now tells Ukraine has nothing to kick those 14k Russian
And they gambled hard in that direction by pulling forces from toretsk (last og front line that didn't moved since 2014)
Peepee attack
Need to combine those 2 to understand Russian location
So Kharkiv is Ukrainian peak r-slur moment of 2024
Homos literally knew what Russian were planning, they knew Russian were trying to do by sending a small force to Kharkiv and making khohols think they can easily defeat them and pull forces from other directions 18 brigades vs 6 Russian and then Russian defeated 1/3 of those brigades and Ukraine pulled more brigades and now they lost their offensive reserve brigades
But they coped hard in that direction and given fantastic stories that local r-slurs believed:
Homo @Cobra_Commander come here don't be shy
There was a story that Ukrainian supposedly encircled 400+ Russian soldiers in aggregate plant. At that time there was max 30 Russian soldiers at that plant, the fight in that location is small not many men from both sides yet Ukraine had to launch a cope story and excuse about letting Russian into that plant: NOOOOO WE DIDNT FRICK UP WE ENCIRCLED BAKHMUT
So that plant story is just your typical Ukrainian story where they positioning their frick up as a win and magical encirclement's.
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Well I guess they were right
This is a key General Dynamics ammunition facility: "According to the company's website, the 880,000 square foot (81,750 square meter) facility produces Hydra rockets, Hellfire and Javelin warheads, 120mm mortars, and propellant charges for 155mm artillery shells."
Bad week for khohols
https://x.com/squatsons/status/1807839326337912875
Lost 5-7 su27
Some helicopters
https://x.com/innova_center/status/1808553613108596985
And some su25
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They are now even gonna cull the prison populations. They should have started with them tbh. How do you think they will cull the under 26 Ukrainian males?