Tucker Carlson Leaving Fox News
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KilroywasNOTHere
"BEEP!"
Perhaps you have a point but I don't think Putin and his type are the based saviors people like you see him as no more than any of the sides during WW2. some fights are a case of two bullies fighting for control of the sandbox. Same outcome different coat of paint.
Personally I think if Ukraine wants to be independent that's their right to fight. It doesn't matter whether it helps or hurts them in the long run (I'm sure there are plenty of Internet philosophers that would say that in the long run the US would be better off had they remained Vassel colonies of the British empire)
That being said it's their war to fight. I will say that I don't believe the cold war ever truly ended. So your not going to see very much solidarity from me for the Russian government.
Simonbob
Well-known member
Dude.
The US is in how many warzones? Right now? Don't give me that crap.
The US is throwing away it's strength on a heap of battlefields, in places all over the globe. Everybody knows the US will pick fights.
I just want you, the general you, to stop picking fights against those who aren't, yet, your enemies. It's way to late, for most of the Middle East, and it might never have been possible at all, but I'm pretty sure you could have had Russia as an ally/subordinate. Not now, of course.
But, the Deep State didn't want that, so now they're your enemy. One who can't really project power meaningfully, and one who wouldn't be dangerous to you at all, if they didn't have remains of a fallen empire.
If you were talking, say, Iran, that'd be different. I still don't like war, but Iran's theological Gov can and does fund terrorists. Picking a fight with them? Sure. Syria? Why the fuck are you in there? The Syrians aren't great, but they didn't really care about the US.
Now they do, however. Like Russia, now they know you, and the face they've seen, they hate.
You're right. But, you're mistaking your place in this. Both Russia and Ukraine? They're your victims. You're the bully. You're just lucky Putin's sane.
Putin and Russia fund Iran and Hamas, as well as Assad and Hezbollah. Iran helps Russia attack Ukraine.
How neat of you to ignore that fact when talking about the Middle East and Iran for you point about 'the theocratic gov of Iran'.
Vyor
My influence grows!
One, if you count Korea.
LordsFire
Internet Wizard
I think the US has too many troops deployed in too many places too.
But if you think it's the US getting involved in the ME that caused jihadis to hate us, you know nothing about Islamic theology.
If you think that it's because we're helping the Ukrainians that Putin and his ilk hate us, you don't understand the culture of Russian imperialists. I'd like it if a different group of Russians controlled that nation, but right now, revanchists like Putin do.
If you think that America has been 'bullying' Russia over the last thirty years, I'd like for you to point to the incidents and policies that count as such.
If you think that America is 'bullying' Ukraine... I have no idea where on earth this concept comes from. We're one of their largest supporters in a fight for their survival.
Bigking321
Well-known member
You aren't wrong.
But to be fair the Obama and Biden administrations have done quite a lot to fund Iran and Hamas. To the tune of billions of dollars.
Not sure about Assad and hezbollah.
LordsFire
Internet Wizard
Give him a glock and a bomb vest and you'd be more accurate.My opinion in a nutshell.
"We must fight and destroy this guy!"
The guy.....
I sideye.
"You sure?"
Tiamat
I've seen the future...
I take offense to that notion!
As a lover of Glock pistols, I'm offended you would insinuate such a beloved name.
Give him a Makarov pistol instead, or even worse a Hi-Point, nobody cares about those.
Yes, and we have told you why, repeatedly. China is the problem, Russia isn't doomed to remain as it is now for eternity, giving into territorial demands now on the basis of historic 'claims' here will only result in other countries thinking they can get away with the same tomorrow.My opinion in a nutshell.
"We must fight and destroy this guy!"
The guy.....
I sideye.
"You sure?"
Either back the many claims you are making with information concerning your point or disprove our own, this bizarre form of posting where you never address anything is getting us nowhere.
Please enlighten me as a dumb American as to what warzone's we are in? The only thing our military has personally done recently is bomb the Houthi's from the air for shooting merchant vessels and given they are doing it in the biggest sea lane in the world which everyone relies on to keep the global economy up it is unquestioningly for the best.
We are bullying them by prolonging the war a truly bizarre stance, to claim you stand for the betterment of the Ukrainian people on humanitarian grounds and that you are impartial to any side, while at that very same time ignoring the right to both Ukrainian self-defense and self-determination in favor of Russian geopolitical security worries.
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Lord Sovereign
The resident Britbong
Please…for your own sake…go touch some grass.
It must take some real dogma to think America is worse than Russia or China.
I liked the interview, lots of exploitable Putin chuckles through it.
AnimalNoodles
Well-known member
Neither China nor Russia dictates the rules I am forced to live under. America does.
Based and liberty-pilled. Lmao.
So you have no issue with Russia helping fund groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, or with the Kremlin's backing the theocratic gov of Iran you actually seem to care about countering?
Why does Russia get a pass for their role in the conflict/situation you do seem to care about?
It does.
Because not treating either as an enemy allows them to pull what they pulled in Oklahoma.
Allows then to basically infiltrate the countryband make things like thier own.
But hey, American rules can change, Chinese and Russians wont
Tryglaw
Well-known member
So I checked.
According to an interview (Polish only) with this guy, gen. Skrzypczak former commander of Polish land forces:
- the "replacement" general Syrski is given the nickname "butcher" ("Mjasnik" ~ literally a butcher who kills and strips meat of animals) by his troops due to the way he treats and expends them, Skrzypczak described Syrski as "having been forever a stooge of Zelensky";
- on political orders from Zelensky Syrski fought "to the last man" defending Severodnonieck, Soledar, Bakhmut and Avdiejevka costing Ukrainian army "several dozen thousand casualties" of their best troops, and these casualties in turn much delayed Ukrainian counter-offensive, about 6-7 months extra for Russians to prepare their defense lines;
- Zelenski ordered Syrski to fight for "symbolic value" targets at the cost of vast casualties. Bakhmut alone had cost Ukrainian army 4 to 5 brigades worth of casualties of their best trained forces;
- Syrski has his troops fight in Stalin's "not a step back" mode, even when they should manouver around back and forth, feinting retreats and then returning to previous positions. Syrski prohibits even tactical level manouvering, "you are to fight to the last man". End result is batallions starting with 200 men now being down to 40;
- End result is Ukrainian army being in it's worst condition ever so far, as casualties and lack of general mobilisation draft (not done to preserve popularity of Zelensky) are such that even deliveries of Western arms are not of much use as there is no trained personnel to man them;
- Syrski was in one of commanders of Debaltseve operation, his part was noted to be "exceptionally badly prepared".
Also, Zelensky is much hated by the common soldier, so Zaluzny getting sacked is a popular commander removed and replaced by a political yes-man. And it was Zaluzny who shattered the myth of Russia having "World's second army" in '22.
All in all, general Skrzypczak was extremely critical of both changing the commanding general itself, and of "quality" of replacement.
I've heard the same from other sources as well.
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I have heard the same but I can also understand why he was switched out.
Sometimes a general like the new guy, who had the very successful Kharkiv offensive, is needed when the other has not gotten where you needed him.
Ridgeway replacing MacArthur.