I don't understand how can ordinary Ukrainians stand this man and the most disastrous policy in 21st century.
It's not like they have much to say about it, Ukraine was basically couped in every decade, 1991, 2004, 2014 and war in 2022.
No no , I think there is a considerable amount of population who strongly identify with the current nationalistic government. Same goes in India , majority upper caste Hindus identify with Hindutva ideology
Of course, but remember Zelensky was really elected as a peace candidate, so most of Ukrainians at least were on the lowest denominator of wanting the ongoing civil war to stop.
It's like they had to choose between poroshenko and Zelensky.. And the media manipulated the people with that damm show, servant of the people.
Tbf, Zelensky did try at the start. But changed course after being told he'd get killed if he went through with it.
Yeah, Zelensky pretty much is just a mere hostage to the Nazis surrounding him in the military, who are happy to have a Jewish actor there to downplay their presence and garner Western support. It is somewhat similar to how the military junta in Myanmar allowed Aung to serve as their country's face to the outside world while still holding on to the actual power.
I wouldn't call him "mere hostage", he's massively corrupt and embezzled giant amounts of money so he's a huge opportunist if not nazi himself, but regardless, he does ride on not even one, but around three tigers at the same time: US, ukronazis, war - when those tigers stop going side by side he will have trouble.
Zelensky is a flip flop guy, once he told the media that they shouldn't hype about Russian invasion the 2nd day he went to Munich and asked for nukes. This guy is literally brain dead. He is only living because of Western monies and weapons
The producer of that show has some, let's say interesting, connections as well. Since the comedian became president this media mogul has gotten control of Ukrainian state media (which is essentially all legal media in the country).
- Show“We did it, Zelenskyy, we took back 1 acre of land!”
- Send old jets to Ukraine.
- Use taxpayer monies to oligarchy to build new jets
- Pressure vassal states to buy news jets now that all the old jets are gone.
- Profit.
Exactly this - it's an excellent business move for all the people in the MIC. It needs to continually destroy its products to generate more money.
Thank you Russia for depleting the NATO war arsenal and thereby making WW3 with China less likely
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that will occur no matter what , US will not let China grow up beyond a certain point.
Thank you Russia for depleting the NATO war arsenal and thereby making an imperialist victory in WW3 less likely
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If WW3 happens, it might actually be the war to end all wars this time, and the end of society along with them
Nuclear stockpile's way smaller than it was in the 80s. The only thing that will end war is the end of the human race, and there aren't enough nuclear weapons around to accomplish that.
We can still end the human race. A few will survive, just like some dinosaurs did when the meteor fell, but they won't be enough to keep our species alive, at least not in the way that we know it.
They're aware Russia has one of the best air defense systems in the world right?
they shoot our planes down = we have to build more planes = more $$$ for the war profiteers
everything working as intended
They will press those countries to buy F-35 on probably shitty terms to further tie their militaries to US.
I wonder how this wonder waffle will compare to the previous ones.
I believe they need to sell/buy new F35s and to empty garbage somewhere.
I really doubt they have best interest of people in Ukraine in mind. Those people are weapon dealers, that's it.
Once I have lived in a building in which most people were from local arms export company, everyone was depressed or sick.
I guess less slavic people is also nice, like Hitler wanted.
They'll be a nuisance to Russia but nothing the S-300's can't deal with eventually. They're not going to change the outcome of the war, just delay the inevitable negotiated peace.
And maybe next we can send money to Australia by flushing it down the toilet.
You say that but I have a special toilet in my house that will send money directly to Australia. Guaranteed. I'll flush any cash payments you like. Just send them to Redtea, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne, Australia. Don't forget the stamp.
Surely this time the supreme best western le epic NATO weapon systems will kick putler out. And if not maybe the next one.
A common lib point by now. Sad to say I've seen it across a few lemmy instances by now.
SU-57 production has increased by several times recently. That's what telegram channels are saying anyway.
Telegram channels say a lot of things, depending on the bias of the owner. If possible, talk to people involved in production
I get what you are saying about the reliability of sources, everyone is susceptible to copium. Getting a hold of someone that works in high-end Russian military production isn't exactly something I can just readily do unfortunately I just got to go with the best sources available.
Do you think if Trump was president he’d be sending weapons to Ukraine? I am not a Trump supporter, I’m just genuinely curious.
I don't think there'd be any material difference - he'd say he's charging more for weapons, whine about other NATO countries not sending more, and probably suspend deliveries every once in a while for some tantrum or other.
That’s a fair analysis. I just ask because of the whole “Trump loves Putin” hysteria that permeated his presidency.
The libs would have forgiven trump like they forgave george bush. Hell, the real beef that the libs have with Trump is his personality, not any particular policy of his.
I don't recall him stopping the sales or training of Nazis while he was in office
A few things I can recall from his presidency was banning certain immigrants, pushing to build a wall along the southern border, and fear mongering about China and North Korea constantly. Continuing to arm Nazis doesn’t seem super far off base.
More weapons for the locals who are not trained in using them? US loves sending Ukranians to their deaths.
Apparently getting enough trained maintenance personnel is a problem as well as getting enough pilots. Not only are the western F-16 maintenance guys busy being retrained to service F-35's, language skills are also a problem as all the manuals for the F-16 are in English only and you need the repair guys to be pretty good at English to understand them.
Lmao is The Netherlands going to send their 1/2 F16 they have? I'm sure this will go well
So btw the reason the US is involved in this trade is because when you buy US military planes, they don't really belong to you. There's especially some places of the plane you're not allowed to open and repair yourself, you have to fly in an engineer with proper security clearance from the US lol
Yes i remember this being one of the louder controversial points when Poland was buying F-16. Polish arms industry is in pretty crappy conditions right now, but it is not entirely demolished yet and have the ability to manufacture wide range of pretty modern equipment, including most parts for fighter planes. Other potential contractors, France and especially Sweden, offered to invest and modernise polish aerial industry so we could manufacture parts, but USA demanded we buy everything there.
Of course Poland bought F-16, but the scandal about the contract terms was quickly eclipsed by USA not even adhereing to its terms (they were supposed to invest some money as an offset, but didn't do it).
Effect: something like 1/3rd of the planes are already cannibalised for parts.
It's cases like these I wonder what sort of backroom deals happen, because most of Europe settled for F16s and F35s (the dual submarine one) when there are perfectly fine planes from neighbours that don't lock you into this nonsense. And at least theirs actually fly.
(they were supposed to invest some money as an offset, but didn’t do it).
I'm shocked. Literally shaking rn.
The french and Swedish offerings don't perform as well in trials or simulation unfortunately.
Hmm they better hope no one tries to sell competing DRM-free airplane
Actually if Americans were any clever they would have befriended China and kept their relationship intact and after kicking Russia's ass then they should have threatened China with full force. But US lack cunning politicians like Kissinger.
I think the current attacks at Russia came in a big part as consequence of China's growth - note US woken up in 2018-19, tried to stoke shit in HK and trade war, they failed and turned to Russia as a mean of encircling China and breaking BRI.
but they made a major mistake , China was not very close to Russia and it was after Trump anti china policies and hardline hawks Xi kinda went to Putin's side. Putin was also not very keen to make enemy out of US but it was the Ukraine issue which displeased him and his cohorts in the government. I remember clearly that it was the LDPR and KPRF who were very vocal about NATO intrusion in Ukraine but Putin was nonchalant about it. I will say Nixon and Kissinger were better in geopolitics , atleast they understood that Russia and China shouldn't come together to kick their ass. Even now China can kick Russia's butt if US normalizes relations with China but I think the hawks and incompetency in congress is very high.
The system naturally filters out people who would make actually intelligent geopolitical strategies.
