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> March_f6 5 hours ago | parent | context | flag | on: Ukraine's American Missiles Wrecked 21 Russian Hel... I'm honestly not sure but I'm also not sure we have ever seen a nuclear power with its back against the wall to
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You never answered the questions, are civilian causalities okay or not?. Given how multiple cities in Ukraine look after Russias “ground offensive” I presume you’d be fine with Israel flattening Gaza in a ground offensive?. Considering that
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> Again, this is one missile (maybe it was shot down by AA rocket, or just went off course). The amount of precision guided missiles that we have seen hit civilian targets makes me think this is just as likely to be an intentional target
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> As it was already noticed, it was not due to unannounced airstrikes in Bakhmut but due to ground offensive. Any civilians could and should have been evacuated by then, or at least took cover. Sure, So like the Dnipro apartment block st
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> Launching "a missile" at a target pales in comparison with a row of apartment blocks levelled by air strikes. It literally nearly levelled a shopping mall and killed 20+ civilians and injured close to 60. So I guess the real
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> However, the issue is that exhibit B is whole rows of apartment blocks hollowed out, visibly mangled or even levelled out by Israeli air strikes. It’s like your exactly describing what the Russians did to Bakhmut. https://ww
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> As a fact, no, I don't. The amount of carnage seen on Palestine photos and videos is not matched. You’re not looking very hard then. The carnage is identical the Russians have literally leveled entire cities in Ukraine, I dare say
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You can find there investigation here. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/10/18/identifying-possi...
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> That is the difference. People in Gaza also have nowhere to go if they wanted. Exactly, the difference isn't that in the Ukraine war that the Russians are being careful or precise, it's that the Ukrainian citizens can actuall
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> Especially once NATO declared that it would work towards and eventually accept Ukraine as member, which immediately preceded the invasion of Crimea. I believe it was the lack of a solid commitment from NATO that caused the invasion, no
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> I think that's all true, but you also have to take into account NATO expansion. The most ironic part of this is that Russias invasion of Ukraine is directly responsible for recent NATO expansion.
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> My concern is that we (US) aren't doing enough to seek peace as the world leader with clout and acting not too different than the other jerks. How do you have peace with a country that doesn't abide by the peace agreements i
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> Because the Gaza footage is quite a mess. You will have hard times matching it with Ukraine footage. Sometimes, whole neighbourhoods of civilian high rises were levelled. Russia has literally deleted entire Ukrainian cities off the map
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> The event happened. There was an explosion at a hospital that killed hundreds of people. This is not in dispute. Looking at the crater left behind by the missile and the damage radius I find it very hard to believe that hundreds of peo
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> P.S. Palantir was founded by the CIA (In-Q-Tel): Based on that article specifically. >> The only early investments were $2 million from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel, and $30 million fro
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https://aijac.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/utkin.jpeg Is a picture of Dmitry Uktin, who founded Wagner with his Nazi tattoo's. There was lots of talk about him not being part of Wagner anymore
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> Yeah, they pretty much had a choice, no? I mean, they were allowed to leave the country, right? right? They are in a war, its not at all surprising they have closed the border to people leaving there country is literally having a crisi
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>. In all these places the ukrainians are back to work. There are live webcams on the internet if you want to watch these places. Yes for most, then occasionally things explode with the occupiers on board, I suspect being a mayor or high
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> According to who? Are you intentionally demonstrating how silly pro-Ukrainian propaganda is? Russia made the objectives very clear from the beginning: demilitarization and denazification. I don't think anyone aware of that could c
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> Crimea, lugansk, Donetsk, mariupol is all business as usual. Ukrainians care neither about Ukraine government nor Russian government. They just want the war to end regardless of which oligarch is ruling over then. The fierce resistance
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> If the 3-day figure wasn't official (I'm having trouble finding original Russian-language video or audio which confirms this), then certainly, taking Kyiv within the first days of the war was the plan, going off the moves RU
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> Nonsense. Literally everything I said is true. > Ukraine ceased to exist as an independent entity quite some time ago. It 's hanging on only because NATO and EU are propping it up. It's being propped up because it's h
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> I guess everybody is trying to push a narrative, and in general, where if we're being honest, gauging true intent and accuracy is hard, it seems a good strategy to consume a wide cross-section of resources if you hope to build up
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> https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-10423-the-beginni ... Ah yes, why wouldn't I believe a pro Russian source about whats happening in Ukraine. That would totally be an unbiased source based in reality
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> Russia is quietly sapping the strength of Ukraine, NATO and the EU, and Israel is reaping the harvest from sowing discontent in the region for decades. I think it's the other way around, Ukraine is decimating Russias fighting stre
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> Oryx has been proven to be providing false numbers well over a dozen times, including in the pentagon documents. Oryx literally counts visually documented losses on both sides it’s likely to be a lower bound with rather large confidenc
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> I don’t see Russia running out of tanks. There’s evidence they are running out of tanks, like activating T62’s and using Indias T90S’s. They aren’t out of tanks altogether but they are clearly going through tanks faster then they can m
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> I do not request those funds to be deposited to a UK bank account, I even don't have any. Regardless if the banking sector has sanctions against working with Russian citizens they would not be able to transfer you the money as the
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> This Ukraine / Russia conflict could have been avoided. NATO could have respected Russia’s views towards expanding to the east. If Russia cared about this so much they could have either formalised there views and asked for an inte
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> If the goal was to keep territory they'd have been better off taking Russia's pre-war deal - minsk 2, cede Crimea, pledge to stay out of NATO. I’m curious about how this new deal would have actually stopped Russia from just i
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