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Russo-Ukrainian War - 2022 Edition - Part 8
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Cos its gaudy and tasteless, just like its owner.
Dave
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Matata
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How do you know how many planes they have? Did you count them? At the time local media was going on about how many of the Migs stopped flying.
rambo919
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While the poor were starving the Politbeuro ate caviar. It's the Russian way.The guy has effectively been in power for 22 years, rules one of the most corrupt countries in the world but am absolutely sure he never took a ruble for himself.
Matata
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From March last year when the talk first started.
Logistic challenges abound for potential US-Poland-Ukraine fighter swap - Breaking Defense
Talk that Poland could send MiG-29s to Ukraine in exchange for the US sending F-16s to Warsaw is enticing to some, but questions about timing, maintenance and pilot availability will complicate it.breakingdefense.com
I think thats proof enough that Poland hasnt given any operational planes.
Well no, that's not proof of anything because this source:
In the Polish Air Force inventory there are 22 MiG-29A and 6 MiG-29UB
Is not cited.
So did you go and count them? Maybe you have such connections, even I don't.
ForceFate
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Next, he's going to tell us JZ is squeaky clean because there's no direct link between him and corruption around him.
Correct.The guy has effectively been in power for 22 years, rules one of the most corrupt countries in the world but am absolutely sure he never took a ruble for himself.
Within his first year as the head of the Committee for External Relations of the Mayor's Office in St. Petersburg, he was found to be corrupt and was recommended to be fired from his job. He was involved in some dealings totalling around $100 Million.
He was never fired though. He was in that job from 1991 to 1996.
He is ex-KGB and was in charge of taking care of the files in East Germany as the wall fell. I am sure he gained sufficient leverage to keep himself in that job.
This is an example of Western naivety. That's also common among many of you guys here. If only we change Putin or if Navalny comes along... etc. Nope. Russia needs a major paradigm change. They have to abandon their empire and that's a very very long way off.
Even the Telegraph doesn't understand things. At their most recent Ukraine podcast they were going on about funds for Ukrainian reconstruction and attracting investment. But pray tell who in his right mind would invest in a country where the war has only been temporarily frozen? Without solid security guarantees which will require the US, Ukraine will not want to talk truce and investment won't come.
The same guys who are still in charge, still sending the poor to their deaths, this time in Ukraine.
F the Politburo. The central committee is where the real jol's at.
It will mean NOTHING without a real, solid security guarantee from the United States and other countries in the region. However, the US would be the keystone of such a guarantee. A guarantee akin to the one given to Finland and Sweden. Nobody will invest in Ukraine is such does not materialise.
But you're pro looting of Russia. Your Kremlin has been supporting it and even using these oligarchs as fronts for Russian peoples' money.
MunosMachos
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10/10. At least you are good at two things. Trolling and lying.
rambo919
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
They had their experiment with plutocrats and it became so dysfunctional someone like Putin had to step in and take control.
This is just how Russians are but now at least they don't have Communism weighing them down anymore. Putin effectively is a new Tzar the same way Stalin was. And that's fine if that's what the Russians want. If nothing else Putin's Russia is more functional than Stalin's Russia and the gulags which apparently are still operational do not operate on quota's anymore so there is a great improvement by itself.
I really do not see the point in insulting the man all the time as if it actually accomplishes anything. But then again I am not an old woman with an uncomfortable wet panty so what do I know.... I mean.... does he ever read all the insults people throw at him?
When we insult Rhamamparra and Mr Showerpower at least we can laugh about it without getting heartburn from bitterness. What I get from you guys regarding Putin is.... freakishly personal. You people are weird man.
The current status quo in Russia that is waging war in Ukraine is filled to the brim of oligarchs and apparatchiks who have looted and corrupted their way to the positions of power.
rambo919
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Same is true on the other side.....
Unhappy438
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Yes I went and counted and then posted the numbers in all the articles like this one.
Poland may hand MiG-29 jet fighters to Ukraine within weeks
Poland's prime minister says his government may hand its Soviet-made MiG-29 jet fighters over to Ukraine “within the next four to six weeks.”
abcnews.go.com
Sorry you don't have connections like me, you should work on it.
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