US and NATO escalation of conflict with Russia is leading to war - PART 2

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The Trutherizer

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Sleeper agents in liberal disguise...you go Poland!
Did you hear everybody?? Russia is "liberal".

Liberalism: Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law
(maybe the next line is the trick)
Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but they generally support individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), liberal democracy, secularism, rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, private property and a market economy.
(nope... nope... Maybe the next bit...)
Liberalism became a distinct movement in the Age of Enlightenment, gaining popularity among Western philosophers and economists. Liberalism sought to replace the norms of hereditary privilege, state religion, absolute monarchy, the divine right of kings and traditional conservatism with representative democracy and the rule of law. Liberals also ended mercantilist policies, royal monopolies and other barriers to trade, instead promoting free trade and marketization.
(still not... maybe the Republican take)
Make me roads without taxes you commies! More police violence, just not more taxes to pay for police! And by gawd give me moar gunzors!
(seems unlikely...)

Where were we again?
 

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Maybe restructure whatever you tried to post so that it makes any kind of sense?
Makes perfect sense..... before that date no one seemed to morally object so strongly to this kind of thing unless I missed such a bombing after?
 

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Taking one example from 1945
"Then they came to me and they said, 'Do you want the town of Cleves taken out?' By 'taken out' they meant the whole of the heavy bombers putting on to Cleves. Now, I knew that Cleves was a very fine old historical German town. Anne of Cleves, one of Henry VIII's wives, came from there. I knew that there were a lot of civilians in Cleves, men, women and children. If I said no, they would live. If I said yes, they would die. A terrible decision you’ve got to take. But... everything depended on getting a high piece of ground at Materborn. The German reserves would have to come through Cleves, and we would have to breach the Siegfried Line and get there. And your own lives, your own troops, must come first, so I said yes, I did want it taken out. But when all those bombers went over, the night just before zero hour, to take out Cleves, I felt a murderer. And after the war I had an awful lot of nightmares, but always Cleves."[6]

Now.... if the man in charge of bombing Cleves was Putin.... would the exact same bombing for the exact same reasons be excused or unilaterally condemned?

Keep in mind this is a whole town not just a few buildings.
 

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Taking one example from 1945


Now.... if the man in charge of bombing Cleves was Putin.... would the exact same bombing for the exact same reasons be excused or unilaterally condemned?

Keep in mind this is a whole town not just a few buildings.

It wasn't right in 1945, and it would not be right now.

I can't believe in the 21st Century, men are still fighting their battles by killing women and children.
 

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It wasn't right in 1945, and it would not be right now.

Many things weren't right. The Red Army raped millions of German, Polish, Czech, etc women it liberated, too. Many were raped to death and many others committed suicide.
 

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Did you hear everybody?? Russia is "liberal".


(maybe the next line is the trick)

(nope... nope... Maybe the next bit...)

(still not... maybe the Republican take)

(seems unlikely...)

Where were we again?
Dimwits missing the joke...its the liberal Russians running for poland if its not just twitter 'fact'...
 

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More donated stuff in use

Now tanks are in service not only with tank units, but also with infantry of the 93rd Cold Yar Brigade.
Enemy crews in a panic under fire from Ukrainian defenders threw completely new equipment. Now it is occupied by infantry and already uses enemy equipment against its former owners.
 

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It wasn't right in 1945, and it would not be right now.
There was absolutely no public outcry over it..... that's the point.

I can't believe in the 21st Century, men are still fighting their battles by killing women and children.
If you can do it better go and do it better. Display for us how the human race as evolved so much.
 

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A bit confused with that bold part, if I understand that part, you're referring to troops which are currently outside of Ukraine and will at some point move into Ukraine?

Russia has five military districts,

1) Western
2) Central
3) Eastern
4) Southern, and
5) Northern

Each with their own leadership structure and command. These districts make up their armies, involving direct reporting units and formations. It is very expansive.

It has been reported for a long time now that Russia has a shortage of troops for participation in their armed forced, hence recruiting foreign units and or legions for supplementing them, it doesn't take way that,


Russia's army has about 280,000 personnel and its combined armed forces total about 900,000, while its 2,840 battle tanks outnumber Ukraine's by more than three to one, according to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

That is the same rough estimate of reservists Ukraine has. Assume Russia has only committed 190 000 troops to Ukraine of which a lot are conscripts which could be due to a varying degree of reasons, then their army is still rather huge. Either their shortages are a bigger issue than known or they aren't committing the full strength of their armed forces because of the particulars of their mission in Ukraine, which isn't known to us. What we do know is that they are recruiting more foreign units and or legions, but they have always done this and isn't out of the ordinary.

It could very well be that Russia's army is bankrupt. Just remember, Russia's first objective would be to protect it own sovereignty, and would hence not commit its defence to the offensive.

I am also very sure that they could already be amassing a second stage, not for invading per se, tallying higher numbers to the offensive, but for momentum, troop rotation, refreshments, etc.
 

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