Ukraine
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The Hill is usually an interesting watch as they bring in people with different positions. The video referenced in that clip is worth a watch in entirety.
I watched this video with Vladimir Pozner a few nights ago too, and I thought it provided an interesting insight into what he sees to be the Russian view (as opposed to the view we might draw from the media we see).
Edit: By the way, the speaker from that Hill video (John J. Mearsheimer) filmed a segment for King's College (Cambridge) in mid February. As he mentions, for the Russians this is really Realpolitik 101. He also discusses some of the complicating factors such as the gift of Drones from Turkey etc.
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@gt12 Not having a crack at you, but this fails to address the desire of multiple countries to join NATO. Do these countries need to kowtow to the wishes of a failed state in order to guarantee their security. No one in Eastern Europe was Pax Putin.
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@victor-meldrew said in Ukraine:
Here's a bloke who obviously loves his job.
this war has been pretty "cool" for the access.
Troops are running around filming themselves on their phones fucking shit up. I watched a cool one yesterday of some Ukrainian dudes wrecking some tanks with RPGs. Then posing for a quick smiling shot.
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@mariner4life and the amount of weapons coming in is mental. Sure, they aren't getting air support directly, but they have a shitload of gear to take out armor and air targets now. Pew pew lads. Crazy stuff for sure.
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@tim Yes definitely. Kinda like MMT economics enthusiasts seeing inflation happening in front of them.
I guess for me, there's two takes I can't really get around; poking the bear and getting the claws, and by arming Ukrainians the West is increasing their suffering. Both those take away their self-determination.
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@paekakboyz said in Ukraine:
@mariner4life and the amount of weapons coming in is mental. Sure, they aren't getting air support directly, but they have a shitload of gear to take out armor and air targets now. Pew pew lads. Crazy stuff for sure.
A bit like the US tooling up the mujahadeen
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@paekakboyz said in Ukraine:
@mariner4life and the amount of weapons coming in is mental. Sure, they aren't getting air support directly, but they have a shitload of gear to take out armor and air targets now. Pew pew lads. Crazy stuff for sure.
A bit like the US tooling up the mujahadeen
they sent fucking Rambo!
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@mariner4life said in Ukraine:
@paekakboyz said in Ukraine:
@mariner4life and the amount of weapons coming in is mental. Sure, they aren't getting air support directly, but they have a shitload of gear to take out armor and air targets now. Pew pew lads. Crazy stuff for sure.
A bit like the US tooling up the mujahadeen
they sent fucking Rambo!
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@mariner4life That is a terrible movie by any measurement. Action was lame as fuck. Rambo 4 was such a massive return to form.