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RE: Russia and Ukraine
December 31, 2025 at 12:22 am
Oh whatever could it be that convinced ukrainians they might want to be in nato? I just can't put my finger on it.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
December 31, 2025 at 12:25 am
Belacqua couldn't even provide a video in English for his claims.
The truth is that General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is all for arming Ukraine.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
December 31, 2025 at 1:07 am
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(December 31, 2025 at 12:16 am)Belacqua Wrote: Former NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer acknowledges that pushing for Ukraine to join NATO was a strategic error, and he regrets doing it.
It's possible that the former NATO Secretary General has better insight into these things than we do. Although of course he may be wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39_j71k_wFI
Hey, I asked you a question:
(December 30, 2025 at 4:44 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Can you provide a positive reason to attack noncombatant civilians in support of this invasion? Is there any complaint Russia has that you can cite that would justify their atrocities at Bucha and elsewhere?
Do you not have an answer? Or is your answer so callous that you'd get shit on your face?
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
December 31, 2025 at 10:45 pm
Very detailed description of the state of the battlefield, by someone who has a good record of getting things right:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/2025...attlefield
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
December 31, 2025 at 10:46 pm
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@ Thumpalumpacus
You've made it clear that we disagree on this topic.
And you've made it clear that you express disagreement through personal insults. But I don't do conversations with personal insults, so I'll have to sit this one out.
I'll continue to post links to articles I find helpful.
As I said before, let's give it six months or so and see what condition Ukraine is in then.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
December 31, 2025 at 11:43 pm
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(December 31, 2025 at 10:46 pm)Belacqua Wrote: I'll continue to post links to articles I find helpful.
... and I'll continue to insult as I see fit, because supporting a cause that not only targets, not only murders, but indeed tortures civilians is execrable and you should be ashamed of doing so.
Keep posting your articles without responding to objections, great. Leaves the floor open to those of us who see you for what you are.
I notice you refused to answer my question.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
December 31, 2025 at 11:44 pm
(December 31, 2025 at 10:45 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Very detailed description of the state of the battlefield, by someone who has a good record of getting things right:
Russians have lost half a million people to occupy almost nothing.
![[Image: Map.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/Hs1Jchth/Map.jpg)
Russians controlled about 27% of Ukraine in the first months of the full scale war.
By the end of 2022, it was about 18%.
Now, after 3 more years of war, this percentage sits around 18-20%, including lands they occupied in 2014. They’re dying for nothing.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
January 1, 2026 at 1:55 am
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
January 1, 2026 at 5:03 am
Exhaustively-researched article here from the NYTimes on war negotiations. America's approach sometimes seems chaotic and personality-driven.
https://archive.md/MQK3y
Two things I hadn't known:
At one point Umerov drew a line on the map and indicated that Ukraine would be willing to give up about 20% of its territory.
And to no one's surprise, the CIA has been actively involved at least once in identifying and locating certain targets. This is more than proxy war stuff, this is a direct act of war.
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RE: Russia and Ukraine
January 1, 2026 at 7:42 am
(December 31, 2025 at 11:44 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Russians have lost half a million people to occupy almost nothing. According to official russian sources its closer to 1mio.
If you add all the recruiting numbers, factor in the starting size of the russian army as well as its current size (in Ukraine), there is about 1 million "missing".
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