Skooby1

joined 2 years ago
 

If Ukraine is able to replace or recover damaged vehicles why is Zelensky still asking for more tanks (in Switzerland right now)? I thought the sanctions were going to trigger massive inflation and unrest in the Russian economy and their desire to support the war would disappear. I thought the Russians were out of ammunition last year and now they're bombing relentlessly. I though their morale was so low they were going to capitulate when this attack happened, yet their first main line of defensive trenches hasn't yet been touched. If Ukraine morale is high and Russian morale is low why are Ukrainians surrendering or refusing to fight on the front lines?

Austin told us all that he had high expectations for the counter-offensive two days before the Pentagon leaks revealed there were actually low expectations. Why believe the boy who already cried wolf, especially when his words don't align with reality? There's been too much lying. The war is costing too much in terms of tax payer dollars and Ukrainian lives. This Biden administration is stuck is a sunk cost fallacy and needs to stop.

[–] Skooby1@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago

Ask any right wing conservative and they want the same things.

You're a borderline exhibit for what I stated.

[–] Skooby1@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"The link between Christian nationalism and the fascist threat to our democracy is clear."

I'm seeing it. I'm also seeing liberals bring their woke fascism when they ban influencers and online content they don't like. Neither side wants to admit they're being fascists.

[–] Skooby1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Dedollarization has begun. Takes a long time to get dollar denominated debts off balance sheets and to replace it with alternatives though.

Slowly but surely.

[–] Skooby1@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Russia is holding a great deal of their reserves back from this conflict. Ukraine is literally forcing people to join their military while Russia has thousands volunteering every week now. Support for the war increased dramatically after shells hit Russian soil. Russia's increasing military industrial capacity has reinvigorated their economy to the point that Bretton Woods institutions are projecting higher growth for them than most of the countries sanctioning them.

On top of that the Ukrainian counter-offensive has gone so terribly for them that Putin is now able to sell the success of this "special military operation" to the people while having the luxury of considering alternative outcomes depending on what kind of losses they want to take after this recent Ukrainian effort is over.

[–] Skooby1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Russia seems to have only turned into a pariah state for the Western world. The opposite for the rest.

[–] Skooby1@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Rolling Stone is making a fundamental association fallacy here.

I don't believe RFK Jr is a while supremacist by any stretch.

[–] Skooby1@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Ukraine hasn't even reached the first anti-tank trenches yet, which are at the first line of defense which is part of at least three lines of defense (depending on location). They've taken very heavy losses to this point too.

Ukraine is getting stomped, and that's why the NATO bosses are now talking about possibilities like a coalition of the willing or even giving Ukraine tactical nukes in one extreme case I read.