As defeat looms Putin lashes out

mchill

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17 Mar 22

kevcvs57

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30 Mar 22

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@no1marauder said
No, they didn't. You keep confusing the 1994 campaign with the 1998 one. IMO, neither was justified, but the second one - who's aim it was to detach Kosovo - was not backed by the UN. And the Hague did not "see it the same way" as your one sided view; it prosecuted individuals on both sides.

Well clearly my one sided view does refer to the 1994 event and given that 1998 intervention was carried out in opposition to UN wishes it’s a much murkier act by NATO but still I would argue it’s scope and motivation was in no way comparable to the actions of Putin’s regime in Ukraine and in no way makes NATO’s stance on the present invasion of Ukraine illegitimate. A mugger who tackles and stops a rapist is still a mugger but he did the right thing this time.

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30 Mar 22

@pawnpaw said
I've heard of the Stingers, Javelins, C-RAM systems, Bayraktar etc, but the MANPAD is a new term lately.
Has it been around for a while?
How effective is it, and how does it work?

A Stinger is a type of ManPAD (Man Portable Air Defense) weapon.

AThousandYoung

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30 Mar 22

@no1marauder said
I looked at this battle map and wonder what a "looming defeat" looks like: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/17/un-says-more-than-700-civilians-killed-ukraine-liveblog

I suppose if some of our posters here had been around in September 1939 they'd be musing about Hitler's looming defeat in Poland; after all, Warsaw held out for four weeks.

Well the Soviets did intervene on Hitler’s side on that one. There is no large power in a position to do that this time.

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31 Mar 22

"And in a rare sign of internal dissent, Zelenskiy also said in a video address that he had sacked two senior members of the national security service on the grounds they were traitors."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraines-zelenskiy-situation-southern-ukraine-211136745.html

Russia is winning.

kevcvs57

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01 Apr 22

@metal-brain said
"And in a rare sign of internal dissent, Zelenskiy also said in a video address that he had sacked two senior members of the national security service on the grounds they were traitors."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraines-zelenskiy-situation-southern-ukraine-211136745.html

Russia is winning.

Hahaha well I hope I never win anything if that’s what it looks like.
Idiot! Putin is getting his big bully boy butt kicked all over the play ground by the dweeby little nerd. I’m luvvin it.