Youtube hearted comments of John Walsh (@johnwalsh4857).

  1. Im not surprised the Americans sometimes did not take Japanese prisoners they were probably outraged that the Japanese committed atrocities on POWs and civilians, and rarely took prisoners, So I find it crazy that the Japanese thought the Americans are dishonorable when they themselves were even more dishonorable and brutal as hell.
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  2. Also excellent as a direct fire weapon.
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  3. I always buy my cold wallets straight and I emphasize straight from the manufacturer. This is the most critical education anyone who wants to buy a cold wallet.
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  4. the Italian L35 was also used by the Chinese KMT vs. the Japanese army. the only battle they were used in was at the battle of Kunlun pass 1940. Well many were supposedly destroyed by Japanese infantry. and anti tank guns.
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  5. this is a workhorse, still one of the best arty in the world as of 2021.
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  6. its not only the massive influx of western weapons that helped Ukraine, but its the ukrainian will to fight which is much higher than that of Russia who's soldiers have low morale and motivation. the influx of massive western aid just amplified that Ukrainian will to fight. Also add in poor russian leadership training , corruptiton , incompetent. the only thing going for Russia is their manpower and firepower, they massively stocked up on weapons dating back to the cold war. even now these weapons are being rapidly depleted. and RUssian industry cannot cope with the war. Russian logistics also suck. if the Russians were more competent and motivated to fight then the Ukrs will be in trouble.
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  7. I remember being a tourist in the USSR in 83, I bought several glass packs of Soviet black beluga caviar at 5 USD each from a waiter at the Kosmos hotel restaurant, took me to the hotel food storage, he said, sorry we only accept USD, UK Pounds, Deutsemarks and French Franc, and sorry no Yen rubles and Italian Lira he said jokingly. Yah gave him some Philippine and Mexican pesos as gifts haha that made him happy.
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  8. Russian Ruble is practically a meme coin these days. heck Im not surprised if the Russians will accept crypto tokens like DOGE and PEPE over the Russian ruble heck those two crypto tokens are worth more than the Russian ruble LOL
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  9. Musk looks like he is high on Pablo Escobar white when he went onstage.
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  10. I store my seed phrases in paper. three copies two in my house, one in my bank vault.
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  11. less than half is overly optismistic, Russia took 30 percent of Ukraine from Feb to april of 2022, now May 2023, Russia controls like 15 percent of Ukraine. most like Russia acomplshed 15 percent of its goals so far and Ukraine is far from surrendering, in fact they are readying for another offensive while Russia is faltering badly and having problems trying to recruit 400K men . if Russia tries to recruit about more men after the 400K there is a real risk of unrest.
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  12. he cant admit that probably since the FSB Russian money for foreign propogandists is too sweet. The lad needs to pay for his drug habit and rent.
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  13. I never keep anything on crypto exchanges that is what I first learned when I started trading crypto in 2017 a cardinal rule.
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  14. alan lichtman the nostadamus of USA elections is the only one I trust, he already predicted a harris win.
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  15. there were mass surrender since the minders of the conscripts there the FSB, and Chechens either also surrenderd or ran away so without their minders the Russian soldiers will most likely surrender.
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  16. short term survival long term collapse.
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  17. Meanwhile Russian soldiers in Ukraine are also freezing, poor winter gear. Russian gov and military is a joke.
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  18. particularly annoying is that MAGA reporter who asked why Zelensky does not wear a suit, yah his reply was brilliant , ill wear a costume next time hahaha
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  19. after this war is over the political situation in Russia will be like the 90s on steroids the worse political situation since the 1917 revolution. noting many factors such as : 1. economic collapse, 2. Thousands of soldiers not paid going back to a economically collapsed Russia. 3. massive anger at the Russian gov. 4. Russian oligarchs forming their own PMCs(when political factions have their own private armies and the strong leader is gone, well this does not end well). 5. foreign meddling in the Russian political situation post Putin. 6. No strong leader after Putin is gone. 6. Secessionists. I dont think the Russian Fed will collapse and break up however I do think the Russian fed will lose territory to seccesionists.
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  20. Zelensky is one of the greatest leaders in history, much better than Putin.
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  21. Putin almost used nukes in late 2022 after the successful UKrainian counteroffensive, USA threatened them with WW3 and they backed off.
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  22. hopefully before Putin's 2025 birthday, his gift will be a casket with swan lake playing on Russian TV.
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  23. Actually according to a former Soviet soldier turned Canadian citizen told me the Soviet Afghan war did not really affect the Soviet populace, there was a lot of censorship in the USSR so the populace was fed victory propogandas. and the Soviet army sent category C units from Central Asia whose republics did not hold the levers of power in hte USSR(the politically important Soviet republics were Russia, Ukraine and Belarus). supported by the elite Soviet VDV and Spetsnaz units. yes many Soviet troops died but it really did not affect the Soviet populace support of the war, however what affeted the Soviet populace was the economic cost of the war in Afghanistan was just another facet why the Soviet lost the war, it was the economy .
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  24. let see Ukraine lost 40 percent of Kursk since August 2024 but yet Ukraine is still holding hard in Kursk , 5 months later and the UKrainians are still holding in Kursk despite heavy Russian attacks so does that mean the so called self proclaiimed second strong army in the world Russia cannot seem to beat Ukraine. while suffering 35K casualties HOW EMBARASSING RUSSIA.
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  25. I find that the more the Russian bot trolls attack you , the more you are actually correct in your statements.
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  26. Russia has a good chance of becoming a Titanic disaster in the next few years, esp. if it loses the Ukraine war. the biggest geopolitical disaster since WW2. I can see Russia becoming a massive geopolitical headache after this, similiar to China in the 1920s when China was ruled by warlords .
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  27. yah same with Cramer , anything he says do the opposite. haha
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  28. I find it hilarious Garasimov is fired and replaced by FSB head Bortnikov then after 24 hours he is fired and replaced by Putin bodyguard Dyumin. This shows confusion and indecision in the Kremlin.
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  29. literacy in Russia may be good but common sense and logic is severely lacking.
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  30. for now Russia does not have any armed internal opposition , however later that situation can change rapidly esp. post war.
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  31. this is the 21st century version of hitler's first speech in 1933 when he became chancellor of Germany. hopefully the trump regime doesnt last 12 more years as hitler's did
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  32. well I hear the going rate is if you are buying USD on the Russian black market prices can range from 200 to 300 Rubles to 1 USD. if you buy Rubles in a Russian bank with USD, Ive heard they charge 45 to 60 rubles to 1 USD. In Bangkok currency shops, the going rate is 200 rubles to 1 USD if you are selling your rubles to USD. In Vancouver , Canada, Ive heard its 200 rubles to 1 CAD.
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  33. yah peace on Russian terms like Russia on her knees and begging to please have good relations with me again.
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  34. of course Poland, Poland has been better off than Russia since the 2000s and Russia is declining gradually. After the war is over, not surprised if millions of Russians will be streaming thru Poland to get to the west. Here in Vancouver Canada we have had waves of immigration from different countries , back in the 90s I remember it was from Somalia, former Yugoslav nations, Honduras, El Salvador, Hong Kong , China, being the largest immigrants now its the Indian students, but in the future oh say in a few years, you will see large numbers of Russians immigrating here in Canada.
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  35. I thought Prigozhin said he already conquered bakhmut a few weeks ago hahaha
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  36. well in Afghanistan a disproportionate number of Soviet fighters came from the Central Asian Caucasus and Baltic states. that brought out a lot of resentment later, leading to unrest in those areas and later break up from the Soviet union, in Chechnya many of the rebels were ex Soviet Afghan war veterans who used their experience that they learned in Afghanistan to fight the Russian army defeating them in the 1st war,
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  37. its more like a stupid rally, ive been voting since 1980 and I have never ever seen something Unhinged like a rally like this from a USA presidential candidate ever. Trump is going to lose big time this year.
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  38. wooden ships and iron men??? do you play Avalon Hill Board wargames, love them.
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  39. in the power struggle between the FSB/Patrushev/Rosgvardia(which is cold war KGB border guards 2.0) vs. Shoigu/GRU/Russian army, I highly suspect that Patrushev really wants to weaken and destroy Shoigu's power base which is the Russian army and what perfect way to do it is to ground them down in Ukraine which is what they are going to do since 85 percent of the Russian army is deployed in Ukraine, also that is why Shoigu knows this that is why they have a bunch of PMCs like Patriot and Redut to become his real base . Even being booted out of the ministry of defense shoigu probably still has the loyalty of the Russian military officers along with teh GRU which is the most important. I can see the power struggle between Patrushev and shoigu becoming much more overt in 2025 and in 2026.
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  40. Trump as garbage truck driver is very fitting, to collect all of his garbage supporters.
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  41. I dunno who is more unhinged trumpo fanatics or Russian bots???
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  42. as for other Russian fuck ups, ongoing, well. already 5 months into the Ukrianian Kursk offensive, Russians still cant kick out the Ukainians and have reportedly suffered 75K casualties so far trying to kick out the Ukrainians at Kursk. Heck its so bad North Korea suffered about 3K casualties in nearly two months since being deployed in force in Kursk.
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  43. Silicon you should get Alan Lichtman in your channel. author of the 13 keys to the white house
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  44. vlad knows its an error and cant get out of it , that is what is making putin nuts lately.
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  45. I hope the Trump regime is short lived like does not finish its term. and Trump Musk Vance all go to prison.
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  46. I find this strange and amusing since I thought Russia had a space program and a system of sattelites to gather military intel, maybe the officials have also been robbing the maintenane money for this hahahaahah
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  47. and a militarized society is very bad when you lose the war, will contribute to unrest as large portions of the Russian popualtion are armed and have military training, and angry at the Russian gov in the midst of political and economic chaos. ....= we got a revolution civil war. Add to that Oligarchs are starting to form their own PMCs and private armies, even Gazoprom has a PMC. add to the mix, thousand of angry unpaid Russian ukraine war veterans unemployed with the PMCs being the only ones to pay them, plus rumbles of secession among the poor non Russian ethnic areas of the Russian federation. Also outside meddling from USA, China, Turkey etc.
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  48. that is why DOGE is going up, Elon's crypto coin and you knows Department Of Government Efficiency(DOGE).
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  49. and when Russia started mobilizing since Oct 2022, something its not done since WW2, you know Russians are losing this war.
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  50. I think Ukraine can go at it withouit USA support, but with EU notably French, German and UK support. , the Russian army has really under performed in this war, and continues to underperform badly. and a lot of Ukrainian weapons esp. its drones are made in Ukraine. I think the western Europeans will back Ukraine if Ukraine does not accept a USA mandated peace deal with Russia. I think the Western Europeans are offended by Trump and his VPs meddling in EU affairs, not surprised if the reaction is to arm up their weapons production and support Ukraine and defy the USA esp. if the USA pulls out of NATO. I think NATO will survive even without American support as the UK, France and Germany take over the leadership of the organization and the Russian threat is much diminished due to the war in Ukraine. Ukraine's steadfast European allies will use Ukraine as the anvil to much diminish Russian military and economic power. and even without American support for NATO the Russians will still not attack NATO with the current state of the Russian military where it cant even defeat the Ukrainian and have to beg the Iranian, North Koreans and Chinese for help. Its that bad, even Russian nuclear forces is questionable as most Russian nukes probably wont work due to poor maintenance and corruption.
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  51. it would be very amusing if we found out that the real Putin was kaput in oct 2023 and was not ruling Russia since late 2022 due to sickness. and Patrushev and Shoigu have been ruling through Putin doubles hahaahah. the fall of Russia will be a black comedy. and not surprised if movies were made about it. Heck Leonardo di caprio I hear still wants to play Putin, with Scorcese directing hahah
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  52. Yep agree, its rumored Shoigu and Patrushev(Russian army and FSB) took over ruling Russia after Putin's death in Oct 2023, since then there has been a power struggle. between Shoigu and Garasimov which was characterized by arrests and Russian oligarchs military officers, and gov officials falling from windows, seems like Patrushev FSB won the power struggle which Shoigu was removed from his defense ministry position. however was transferred to Patrushevs former position as secretary of the security council of Russia(suceeded by Shoigu) and became the aide to the president of Russia or maybe should I say , the real President of Russia with the Putin look alike being the puppet. with Patrushev really directing the show. Interesting that Shoigu was not killed and or arrested but was put in a new position as secretary of the security council of Russia, a ceremonial and useless position. Shoigu probably still has influence in the Russian army high command and if he is arrested or killed, the Russian army would probably revolt and do a coup. Notice the FSB is now heading up the so called Special military operation in Kursk, where the army should be the one heading it.
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  53. I am quite impressed by your video you make a solid point
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  54. while Kursk 2024 was the biggest display of military hardware in a battle....ever, the Russia Ukraine war 2022 to present is simply the biggest waste of Russian ex Soviet military hardware ever. imagine, Soviet military hardware built up and stored in poorly maintained Russian military storage depots since the 1950s was simply wasted away, in poorly planned coordinated military actions. the Ukraine warzones have become a massive military scrap heap of Soviet weaponry.
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  55. and even though Russia manages lets say to "win" by keeping its current winnings in the war, the captured territory is in ruins, infrastructure and industry mostly destroyed. depopulated, Ukr partisans still menacing the Russian army. Russia cannot exploit its winnings in fact, Russian economy is so damanged they wont have the funds to do it, even trying to maintain whatever army they mobilized is difficult. and very taxing on the Russian economy.
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  57. The collapse will get worse as the war goes on will get worse when the war is over when the Russian gov tries to shift the Russian economy from war to civlian, I forsee economic depression , hyperinflation, soldier who are paid say the ruble equivalent to 8K USD now all in rubles will suddenly find they have lost their value by 75 percent. by the time they go home after they demobilize , and faced with very high unemployment, the hundreds of thousands of Russian war veterans coming home to high unemployment depressed economy hyperinflation high prices of foodstuffs many will go into crime or get employed by the many PMCs private armies of Russian elites. who pay well and treat their soldiers much better than the Russian army. and with many soldiers getting out of the Russian army to these PMCs or form criminal gangs, then Putin tries to purge Russian elites and shift blame to them for the war failures and to try to ban PMCs, well....that will be a good recipe for a CIVIL WAR. I think this will occur within 10 years of the end of the Russian Ukraine war. and in the meantime, Ukraine will be rebuilding and rearming and reforming its economy , gov and esp. its mlitary for round 2 reform and rebuild along NATO lines. So imagine in ten years after the war is over, Russia on the verge or going into full blown civil war, with a now strengthened , strong and stable Ukrainian gov economy and military very vengeful and looking to take back its lost territory looking to take advantage of a Russian civil war. (not surprised in the meantime, the Ukrainians fund anti Putin and secessionist groups in Russia). ....the coming Russian civil war will be very bloody and confusing as the Syrian civil war with many factions and possibly even foreign intervention. Just like the 1917 to 1922 one=.
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  58. well I disagree with userfriendliness, my safepal is more userfriendly than my other ledger nano S non air gapped.
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  59. yah his double must really be basking in the glory, Im not surprised his double actually thinks he really is Putin haha
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  60. i predict thaw into civil war. Russia lost WW1 turned into a civil war. in 1917, USSR lost the cold war , it almost went to civil war in 1991. in the Russo Ukraine war 2022 to present. Well I think the war will drag the Russian economy to depression hyperinflation whose effects will come to full bloom after the war is over. With hundreds of thousands of Russian war veterans going back to their homes facing economic depression, hyperinflation, the massive loss of value of their savings. , rising and high food prices, high unemployment, even more repressive Russian gov. and the only jobs they can do in this environment that is in demand are hiring up to PMCs, the private armies of the oligarchs and elites and criminal groups. In order to secure his grip on power Putin blames the oligarchs and elites for the failings of the war and tries to purge them and outlaw PMCs, With their backs to the wall, the oligarchs and elites rebel with their PMCs, then there is civil war.
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  61. bet you after all this is over, vance will say he did not mean what he said, just like he was insulting Trump years ago.
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  62. there was also a massive spike in violent crime in Russia post Soviet Afghan war and the 1st Chechen war, this war will probably spark a worst crime wave than the previous one in the 90s. in fact possibly unrest and rebellioin in the poorer ethnic parts of Russia.
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  63. Orsk I call it Karma. yep Russian flooded southern Ukraine, with them blowing the dam. so yah Orsk is flooded , tit for tat.
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  64. well I use a safepal and its excellent, and its very secure.
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  65. its not brilliant we thought he is a moron. doing those trying to be like the ordinary American they can see through it.
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  66. the Ukrainians probably knew what was in the ship that was it was targetted its now a submarine museum .
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  67. I notced the Russians are the ones constantly attacking yes, its in their doctrine, the best defence is the best offense, that is how their army was bult, the Russian army of 2024 is practically still the Soviet army of the cold war. while the Ukrainian army started out this war having a hybrid Russian and NATO combat doctrine and throughout the war has been gradually shifting to the NATO combat doctrine. While the Ukrainian army is not yet a fully NATO style army, it is very NATO like in doctrine and equipment, practically a lot of their combat equipment are NATO weapons.
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  68. safepal also has a crypto token, yep safepal also earned mucho
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  69. yah what is Russia going to do invade uzebekistan hahahaha, Russia has 85 percnet of its standing army stuck in Ukraine, and trying to win that war, and Russia cant spare any men for Uzbekistan. Russia is pathetic, I predict after this war is over, millions of Russians will run to Uzbekistan to escape the coming Time of Troubles 2.0 in Russia, yep Uzbekistan might just impose on them to learn and speak Uzbek hahah
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  70. and the safepal has the best variety of crypto it can store compared to other hard wallets.
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  71. I never have anything on exchanges and these days I use defi for trades. However I do quick swaps on several exchanges and cash outs but never keep anything on any of them for more than a 30 minutes. everything on hard wallets.
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  72. I heard that the going black market Moscow Rate for the ruble is 400 rubles to 1 USD. if you want to buy USD , however if you sell USD its 50 rubles to 1 USD hahah. very amusing. Here in Vancouver Canada , most currency exchange shops do not offer the russian ruble and the few that do have horrible exchange rate, so in those shops, when selling the ruble the rate is 1 CAD = 133 Russian rubles, when buying Rubles its 1 CAD = 40 rubles LOL.
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  73. so let me see according to the Russians since its a SMO special military operation, they can stop it any time and it they stop it, its unlawful for Ukraine to continue fighting. its that stupid in Russia lately.
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  74. Personally I think with a Kamala win in 2024 which I think is a bit more likely than Trump winning, Russia will lose this war , Russian elites will cut their losses and withdraw completely from Ukraine including Crimea in exchange for lifting of all sanctions and normalized relations with the west. I also predict the Russian withdrawal from Ukraine will really be messy and will be worse than the Russian withdrawal from Chechnya in the aftermath of the 1st Chechen war where Russian officers will abandon their men and Russian soldiers in Ukraine will fend for themselves as Russian units dissolve into mobs of bandits, the Ukrainian army will probably still be fighting to maintain order, noting that the Russian army has around 85 percent of its current standing army in Ukraine it will be a massive disaster as the Russian army practically collapses and as that happens, without the Russian army which is the glue that keeps the Russian federation together, things will go south fast in Russia as law and order collapses and the only ones keeping order will be PMCs. and the Rosgvardia. the Russian army will leave most of its weapons it Ukraine behind and the Ukrainians will use these to influence the unrest in Russia influencing their favorite political factions with weapons support. Time of troubles 2.0 will be coming to Russia in 2025 or in 2026. and it will be worse than the 90s and last longer too. Russians you can all thank Putin for what will be coming.
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  75. well the best book Ive read on the Ukraine war in 2023 is War in Ukraine volume 2 Russian invasion Feb to April 2022 Helion publishing by Tom Cooper and Edward Crowther, military detailed book on the initial invasion of Ukraine. you guys should get the author Tom Cooper into the show, one of the best military analysts out there wrote books on various subjects going all the way back to the Iran Iraq war.
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  76. I think Zelensky and western intel services know a lot more what is going inside Russia , the power struggles, the economic problems. all will come out in 2025 or in 2026 , will come out in full force and in all its glory. It will be so sudden just like how most Russians were surprised when the USSR collapsed in 1991.
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  77. yah my fave hardware wallet safepal is air gapped. excellent security.
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  78. I think it ends just like 1917 ended the Czar Nicholas II, yah Putin may be rumored to be in his ural mountains bunker. but if Moscow goes against him, his power is kaput. Yah Putin is quite smart and machiavellian, but his ego was his downfall, yah he planned a lot alright and Ukraine was supposed to be his crowning achievement but unfortuantely for him his gamble failed, and failed badly and now he will pay and he will take down Russia with him. Future Russians will remember Putin and wish he was never born. his name will be synonymous with hitler and czar nicholas II both failures. and bad leaders.
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  79. I agree with him, as I said many a time in the past , PUtin is probably frozen in some freezer in his ural bunker kaput since Oct 2023, and the Russian elites are just waiting to see the results of the 2024 USA presidential elections, if Trump wins more war and get a superior position in the peace negotiations, if Kamala wins, then the elites will cut their losses and negotiate for peace in 2025. Either way, I think the war will end in late 2025 or in 2026 with either the Russians negotiating a peace deal with Russia in control of 20 percent of Ukraine and keeping Crimea, in a Trump win or a complete Russian withdrawal from Ukraine including Crimea in a Kamala Harris win. Also swan lake will probably play in 2025 or in 2026 then later all the blame will go to the now deceased Putin. I suspect in a Kamala Harris win, the Russians might go on a desperate on last major all out offensives in 2025 in order to inflict such a blow to the Ukrainians to get a leg up in the final negotiations, this will probably be disastrous and fail which will influence the final outcome of the war.
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  80. and the most dangerous veterans are the Z convict soldiers. They were already violent before they got sent to Ukraine, they will even more violent when they get back to Russia, and to add to my earlie post most importantly these veterans of the Urkaine war will have experience not only in killing people but also in using military weapons, they will add to the chaos after the war is over, heck they will probably be getting the best jobs in Russia after the war, since the oligarch PMCs, regional militias, criminal gangs will need soldiers to enforce their laws and rules and what better these former Ukraine vets.
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  81. Also another possibility is Russia becoming a decentralized semi anarchic state, while still semi stable with the technical Rule coming from Moscow from the Russians states esp. in the caucasus , far east central asia have a lot more leeway of independence, most of the centralization from Putin's time is gone, Like Russian states acting liek almost seperate countries but still defer to Moscow as the captiral of a Russian federation or more like a Russian confederation. After this war is over, the Moscow gov. will be focused on economic survival and maintaining stability. and not military and territorial expansion. I think the Russian confederation will be much influenced by its neighbours esp. USA/NATO, China and Turkey who influence their favorite puppet Russian state. While Russia certeinly will lose a a lot of central planning it will still maintain cohesion and stability more or less.
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  82. Yah I also had the same situation in guangzhou China in the mid 90s oh how they loved the USD, or the Hong Kong dollar, the Chinese yuan was crap. I remember they did not use coins, instead Chinese yuan cents were in small mini bills, and they were crappy in quality and fell apart easilly. heck the Chinese yuan bills back then had really poor quality, the bills were like rags.
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  83. trump is getting desperate since if he loses esp. if he loses big, his finances might collapse , the stock price on his companies will crash hard, and the US gov after the elections will go after him hard. and his ego will be blasted hard losing to a African American woman, and lsoing two bids for the presidency. disaster for his ego. prestige
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  84. I also think teh Hamas attack on Israel in late 2023 contributed to the defeat of Kamala Harris in the US 2024 elections, yep Hamas you did that you are now going to get a Trumpo admin who hates you guys. Hamas and Gaza would have been better off if Kamala won but nope Arab Americans seemed to moronically think that Trump would be better since they hated the Biden admin, well now you guys just shot yourselves voting for Trump.
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  85. yah I remember reading the UK intel report that the Russians are running out of missles in 2023 which was scoffed at by the world media, well Russia buying missles from NK and Iran is proof that the Russians have nearly run out of missles.
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  86. well in context, the Russians during the years leading up to the 1917 revolution also lived a lower living standard than their European counterparts at the time. Took them 3 years of war and a decade of humiliation(since their defeat in the 1904-1905 Russo Japanese war) and food shortages and a collapsing economy and ongoing corruption and incompetence from the Czarist gov to break them and make them go into revolution mode. The same will happen with Putin's Russia, lots of parallels with Putin's Russia , and Czar Nicholas II Russia. .
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  87. Im not surprised if post war, the Rusians adopt the Yuan as a regular currency haha
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  88. I think whether Russian wins or loses this war, Russia will be in a very bad shape economically and militarilly after this war is over and will be destabilized. I can see a Russian civil war being a several years slide to a break up. Decades from now, future Russians will rate Putin as the worst Russian leader ever and will wonder why the he had a lot of support from the Russians during his tenure.
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  89. Yep its going to hit so hard, not only will they not know what hit them the Russians but they will really be unprepared like no central gov to deal with the problem.
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  90. well the FSB does not control the entire show, its rivalled by the Russian army and the powerful GRU which has been there a lot longer than the FSB. Its said teh GRU actually has more influence than the FSB.
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  91. everything about the Russian gov lately is bogus and delusional.
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  92. geopolitical and economic go hand in hand. As Clausewitz said paraphrasing through James Coburn in Cross of Iron(not said by him), War is continuation of state policy by other means.
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  93. well Karma may well come to Russia after the war in Ukraine is over, Russia becomes a massive Syria. lots of PMCs, these days in Russia.
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  94. not surprised Russia is desperate to keep their supply lines going to Africa and Latin America. The rebels are controlled by Turkey who does not want Russian dominance in the area.
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  95. well I think there will be a recession during trump's term and a consitutional crisis probably after the 2026 mid term elections. and massive anti trump street protests in the USA, I will personally go to DC to see Trump getting removed from power.
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  96. I predict in the future Vance might be a witness vs. Musk in a future prosecution case, Vance might seat in a cushion right now but I forsee his future clothes as orange prison clothes
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  97. hahah Im still a big board wargame fan and player to this day, first started playing board wargames in 1980 with my first played games being Bundeswehr and Titan strike by SPI. Still continue to play and collect board wargames to this day. and I have even graduated to playtesting board wargames for Decision games board wargame magazine like strategy & tactics, modern war and world at war and various independent board wargame designers like Ben Madison, heck even wrote historical articles for those magzines and reviews on paper wars.as well as got a board wargame called Storm over Taierzhuang 1938 published for Against the Odds magazne.
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  98. Russia currently is in a similar situation to the Russian empire before the 1917 Russian civil war. 40 percent of its budget is now geared to military spending. and its shifting 6 percent and more of its economy to war. its in a bloody stalemate not winning in Ukraine. suffering horrendous casualties and equipment losses., more repression of free speech from the state. Rising food prices. It will get worse in the next few years culminating in Russia becoming more repressive suffering from venezuela style hyperinflation, suffering from battlefield defeats and even more significant casualties. This will trigger widespread protests in Russian cities , and lead to more Russian gov repression, and the match that causes the fire will be simliar to the start of the Russian civil war in 1917, Russian security forces massacre Russian civilian protesters which leads to a general mutiny in the Russian army, As the Russian gov collapses so does the collapse of the command and control of the Russian army in Ukraine, which is taken advantage of by the Ukrainian army who launches major offensives which collapses the Russian army in Ukraine and Ukraine regains a lot of its lost territory in the offensives. The end of the Ukraine war ends not with a negotiation but with the Russian army in Ukraine collapsing in mass surrenders and desertions with their officers abandoning their troops just like in the end of the 1st Chechen war. There is no Russian gov to negotiate with . The upcoming Russian civil war which I think starts in 2027(110 years from the start of the last one) wil be very bloody. and also have a lot of factions. I think the west and China will meddle in the war and support their proxies. However just line in the 1917 to 1922 civil war which had the Reds(communists) vs. the whites(anti communists), this civil war it will be Freedom/Liberty and the letter L who are supported by the west and Ukraine vs. the Nationalists/Patriots and the letter Z supported by China. With the collapse of the Russian army in Ukraine, the Russians left massive amounts of weapons and military equipment , many of which will be given to the Russian Freedom Legion which I think will be massively expanded into a real army(from 2 current battalions as of April 2024). with recruits from the surrendered Russian soldiers in Ukraine and volunteers from Russia itself along with volunteers from Ukraine and other countries. and aided by support from the west. The other side is like the whites during the 1917 Russian civil war, factionalized with an assortment of Russian nationalist movements and regional militias but with the uniting goal of being opposed to liberal democratic Russia that is influenced by the west. China supports it with funds and weapons. The Freedom of Russia army is more coordinated and united with support from the west plus a head start in former Russian army weapons and equipment and large appeal from the Russian people. The Patriots also have a significant influence from the Russian people and initially have a bit larger recruit base but is poorly coordinated but support heavilly by China, Iran, North Korea etc. The Russian civil war is bloody and also affects its neighbours as millions of Russian refugees cross into their countries with teh largest European refugee crisis since end of WW2. Also well armed Russian bandits raid into their neighbours and also become pirates, the Russian navy has practically devolved into a Pirate navy hijacking shipping in the black caspain and Baltic seas .
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  99. First saw her in Death on the Nile with Peter Ustinov when I watched it in a manila cinema back in 79.
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  100. well its Zelensky playing Trump , cant be antagonistic to Trump have to coddle his ego get him on your good side during the negotations get him to give up more military aid to continue the war. etc. Zelensky is a good negotiator both him and Trump are actors.
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  101. Putin looks drunk, I think his double probably had one too many due to job related stress. Probably scared that he will lose his job and maybe his life after he saw that Trump Kamala debate , got depressed since he knows Kamala will win the elections and Russia's war in Ukraine is kaputski. No more freeloading as Putin's double haha
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  102.  @cyberscrilla  yah that is why I use the old one and the pro. dont like the blue tooth connection on the new one.
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  103. Post war, Ukrainian economy will boom with trillions of USD pouring into Ukraine to rebuild . Russia meanwhile suffers economnic depression, near collapse of economy, social and political unrest as the new Moscow regime tries to survive and stabilize Russia. The west supports the new Moscow regime to forestall a Russian civil war. After a period of instability I think the Russian fed is more or less intact with some of its territories in the Caucasus going independent . However the new Moscow gov and Russian military is really weak, the real power will be with teh oligarchs and their PMCs, its like the 90s all over again but on steroids. with the oligarchs on the driver's seat but this time back up by powerful PMCs. which become Russia's real military. Russia becomes a decentralized state similiar to China in the warlord era but without the fighting. The PMCs and oligarchs with western support cooperate more or less to rule Russia. the Moscow gov are just puppets of the oligarchs. PMCs big and small abound even political parties have their own PMCs, the Russian army becomes a joke. More like a police force. In the meantime millions of Russians flee to the west trying to escape economic depresssion, high crime rates etc. Heck you might even see the next refugee wave being composed of mostly Russians. coming to Canada in the next few years.
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  104. yah reminds me of the pizza restos and convenience stores in the main druggie area of Vancouver main and hastings selling drugs under the counter .
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  105. they arent arresting her since she is the only good Russian economist in power, you arrest her you leave idiots running the Russian economy, which will collapse faster
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  106. Farage himself should have his career kaput. bet you after this farage will turn around and say well trump went out of control that is why he lost (that is when the trumpo money to farage dries off) and probably say I am a proud full supporter of Ukraine down with Putin hahaahha jsut to save his political career
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  107. now looks like most of the EU and Canada will have to stick it alone supporting Ukraine. vs. Russia, Russia is a threat to Europe and the USA but its been well weakened by 3 years of war in Ukraine. Yes the loss of US aid will hurt bad, but Ukraine will get over it when the rest of NATO steps up its support for Ukraine. and the war goes on. and we in Canada and Americans will have to deal with this ahole in the white house called Trump and his real boss Elon Musk.
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  108. the way the Russo Ukraine war is going , with the rise of Russian PMCs, succession of power in Russia might well be decided by the power of the gun , the military might of the PMCs, that is a civil war.
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  109. the Russian army does not care if you are not fit, they recruit people with aids hepa C , force invalids to the front. heck even if you are lame and invalidated they wont allow you to go back home, as Putin made a decree with Russian soldiers in Ukraine serving until the war is over.
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  110. yah cause Russian front line military hospitals care centers suck at medical, Russian battlefield medical is horrible. most of the time, only officers get evaced to good medical care, everyone else, GOOD LUCK YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN....or if you are lucky enough to have a friend officer or have a pull with a gov official you might get also evaced out. Otherwise, the average Russian soldier at the front does not even have adequate first aid kits, they use clothes rags, tampons(LOL) for bandages and wound blockers. and yah vodka(the cheapo and fake one) for anaesthesia and disinfecton. That is why there a a lot more Russians dying of their injuries which can be treated than the Ukrainians and if Russian soldiers are wounded many cant even be put back in the field since they would be permanently injured or dead. and that is for regulars, conscripts , mobiks, the Z convict Russian troops its even worse, ive seen videos and heard stories where Z convict troops who are wounded getting executed by their officers. its that insane in the Russians army.
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  111. if the Russians are using IRBMs, well that is a sign , the Russians are running out of missles and drones enough that they using ICBMs and IRBMs.
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  112. student and work visas for Indians , well we have a problem with that in Canada since a lot of Indian run colleges are frauds.
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  113. after this war is over and Putin gone and there is going to be a lot of wanted Russian war criminals starting with many gov and military officials, like Medvedev, shoigu, garasimov, Kadyrov and oligarchs like Prigozhin and propoganda pundits which will be arrested when they step out of Russia and sent to a a war crimes trial, and the Ukrainians will be hunting for them, kill on sight orders. I expect a lot of Russian officials and oligarchs will be falling out of windows after this war.
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  114. a source told me that the black market rate for the Russian ruble for a USD buy in Moscow is 400 Rubles to 1 USD, however if you sell your USD its 1 USD =50 rubles hahahaah hilarious.
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  115. well if you believe Putin died on Oct 2023 , the much worse alternative Patrushev is rumored to be running the country , probably already won the succession from Shoigu, Shoigu's buddies got purged.
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  116. Russians should thank the Ukrainians for exposing corruption in Russia via drones and massive explosions of ammo dumps and oil refiniries, like hey where did all those billions of USD which were suppoed to be allocated to Russian air defense and ammo dump infrastructure go???? hmmm maybe the Russian generals in charge boy friends needs a new swanky penthouse suite condo in Moscow
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  117. netenyahu's career might permanently end when he gets ousted this time.
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  118. watched it back in 1983 on a bootleg betamax rental in the Philippines. This is a really good movie, the acting is great all around. and in my opinion the best of all the rescue the Vietnam POW movies.
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  119. Russian battlefield medivacs are just for officers, if not your are on your own good luck.
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  120. as I said before the longer Russia is in this war the more its economy, will break leading to disruption of Russian society leading to political change. I think the pivotal event will be Biden winning the US elections of 2024(this year), made even worse by a possible demo sweep of the Congress and senate. With this the American will significantly raise the aid to Ukraine in 2025 and every year after that making it very difficult for the Russians to conduct the war in ukraine. In fact the Russian minister of econmics stated that the Russian economy cannot indefinitely support the war in Ukraine as the war in Ukraine is costing the Russians 400 million USD(official estimates) per day just to maintain the Russian army in Ukraine and not counting manufacturing costs, buying parts for weapons and whole weapons systems etc. The Russians have put 30 percent of their 2024 budget to prosecuting the war in Ukraine. and as the war drags on, the Russians will probably devote a higher percentage in the next years. This will have a very bad impact on Russian infrastructure, as the money and personel dedicated to maintaining it, goes to the war in Ukraine, the already mediocre Russian infrastructure starts breaking down bad. That is why you are seeing poorly made dams collapse, and Russian heating systems fail during winter killing hundreds of Russians. it will get worse. Also Russian national wealth fund is set to run out in 2025, in fact with the Russian economy being put on war mode, producing more military supplies than civlian goods, Russia cannot anymore support its currency as its forced to print more rubles. and this leads to hyperinflation with that a massive rise in the price of essentials like food and gasoline. Also analysts estimate the Russian cold war stocks of tanks and APCs are estimate to run out by late 2025 and into 2026. This will cut the production and refurbishment of tanks and APCs by two thirds. The Russian industry itself cannot produce enough tanks and APCs to keep up with the destruction of tanks and APCs in the Ukrainian battlefield. and it will get much worse as US and allied aid to Ukraine ramps up in the next few years. The Russians will be forced to spend even more money probably buying maybe North Korean tanks (which are bad copies of Soviet cold war designs), the Russians are so desperate enough in the past that they bought millions of poor quality North korean artillery ammo as the Russian artillery expenditure is so rapid , local Russian production cannot keep up. Heck the Russians even bought a good number of poor quality North Korean surface to surface missles (NK SCUDS). Again poor north Korean copies of Soviet cold war weapons. Russia is that desperate these days. and it will get worse. Also the Russians since 2023 had started fielding 70 year old T-55s and T-62s and WW2 artillery in large numbers in Ukraine. The last time the Russians fielded T-55s in large numbers was during the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. Heck a number of the Russian T-55s in Ukraine are so old they served in the Soviet army during the Hungarian revolution of 1956. Also despite the Ukrainians having shortages in artillery ammo and some essential weapons systems due to lack of US aid for half a year, are still holding the line strong. The Russians are only able to make small gains of territory but at the cost of massive amounts of casualties and loss of tanks and APCs. The Russians are able to blow holes in Ukrainian lines but not able to exploit them and collapse the whole Ukrainian line. The Ukrainian are able to retreat back a short distance and establish a new line of defense. and the Ukrainians are also counterattacking hard to plug up lines and repel Russian attacks. All this very much is a sign of weakness for the Russians that the war is really not going well for them. Only a matter of time that the Russian gov economy and political stability will break from all this and 1917 2.0, will happen again. and this will be probably the most important event in the 21st century as Russia turns into a massive failed state, a massive version of Syria/Somalia. with massive geopolitical implications.
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  121. well back in 1990 85 percent of Russia probably supported the USSR until they were all told out of the blue sorry no more USSR and good luck hahaha
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  122. Well the Russian war in Ukraine is a bit worse in in terms of casualties nd intensity than even the Soviet Afghan war of the 80s and the two Chechen wars. In Ukraine the Russians lost around 100K casualties, in ten months, in Afghanistan the Russians lost probalby around 50K casualties in ten years and the Soviets never mobilized their population for that war. nor did they mobilize for the two chechen wars, Russia has not mobilized its population for war since WW2. and with mobilizations the Russian population is definitelyi feeling it albeit not the ones who are politically important since the Russians are mobilizing in the poorer less politically significant areas of Russia but once the Russians start mobilizing significantlyi from Moscow, St. Petersburg etc. then you will have a major even critical political problem in Russia regarding the war.
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  123. my take on how Russia loses this war, Kamala Harris wins Nov 2024, even better if Congress and senate are controlled by the dems. and the USA massively ups aid to Ukraine in 2025. a Kamala Harris win alone in Nov 2024 wil cause a massive Political tsunami in Russia, the Russian elites know the Russian economy cant support another 4 years of war, and the Russians are scraping the bottom of the barrell in terms of refurbishing Soviet stocks of tanks and APCs, even better if the Ukrainians score a major victory ont he battlefield. in 2025 I can see the Russian elites and disgruntled military officers start organizing to chuck Putin out of a window and get a new regime going which I think happens in 2025 or in 2026. WIth a new regime , negotiations occur and the Russians totally withdraw from Ukraine including crimea, in exchange all sanctions lifted, all Russian assets unfrozen in Western banks, no war crimes trials for Russian leaders. , normalization of relations with the west. a formal peace treaty recognizing borders. That is how the war ends with a Kamala harris win in 2024.
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  124. I think in the Trump presidency USA becomes more isolationist , but does not abandon the world stage entirely, its focus now is on China. and getting better relations with Russia. to play it vs. China. and I think despite all the bluster, Xinping does not invade Taiwan, probably does more intimidation excercises and aggressive rhetoric but nothing much. As for Ukraine, well. I think USA will stop all aid to UKraine including the ones promised but not sent. not surprised if Biden in his final act before the inaguration sends all the aid and maybe more. Then Zelensky will have to play it very very carefully , Ukraine cannot afford to be incompetent and stupid vs. Russia in the next 4 years. So UKraine will have to mobilize its young population train and source its weapons wherever and whenever it can. Zelensky cannot afford to play politics here or it will be disastrous for him. Im pretty sure Trump cant just end the war with one phone call. but he can maybe bring on a direct negotiation between Putin and Zelensky. possibly ending the war mid 2025. in a Korean war style armistice. with Russia having the upper hand in negotiations.
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  125. I predict this 2024 USA electoins will be a surprise, I think Trump will get his ass kicked and might even lose with a landslide Kamala harris win , a win for the dems not seen since the 2008 elections where Obama won more than half the electoral votes. and I posit that the big dem win will be Texas which goes from red to blue in this election, since its senator Ted Cruz is very unpopular, and Texas becomes a swing state.
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  126. while the Turks may look like they are buddy buddy with the Russians, actually they hate each other. as characterized by the Russian ambassador getting assasinated in Ankara back in 2016 and the shooting down of a Russian SU-24 by a Turkish Jet in 2020 all to send messages to Russia.
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  127. russian bots are masquerading as trumpo bots hahaah
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  128. yes always have a plan B and C. and maybe even D just in case that is why Zelensky did not criticize trump at all. he smart hedging his bets. so now its Plan B. time to butter up trump and play games , 2025 will be game negotiations with Trump. In my opinoin the situation is Trump is pres. Trump is for himself , Trump has lots of assets and investments in Russia, also borrowed lots o money from Russian, lots of Russian investments in his companies. So Trump really has vested interest with Putin. HOWEVER....the big guys in the USA and European political and military industria infrastructure have a vested interest to see Russia not win this war, their goal, a much weakened economically and military Russia without Putin and a weak Russian gov. but a Russia stable and not in civil war. Trump may think he is da man, but nope he has to answer to these people. who are much richer than he is. So Trump probably has a vested interest which coincides with the vested interest of the leaders of the American political sphere and military industrial complex. A weakened Russia stable with a weak gov is easilly exploitable by US companies for its cheap natural resources esp . by Trump who is just salivating to get more money from this. and also with Ukraine, the big boys in the US gov and miltiary want Ukraine to not only survive but serve as a foil vs. Russia. Like a wall to keep Russia out of Europe. and to that end , USA and the Europeans want a strong Ukrainian military and a stable ukrainian gov . and the hundreds of billions of USD in Ukrainian reconstruction money comiong will handsomely benefit trump . So I think 2025 will be the year of negotiations, and the war will go on, and there is an even chance the USA continues military aid to Ukraine even under trump. Seeing that possibly in 2026 you might see the start of the collapse of the Russian economy with hyperinflation along with widespread discontent which leads to Putin getting removed from power. So in the future maybe in the USA interest to keep a strong Ukraine hostile to the Russians to act as a wall for Europe, and a Russia will a weak Russian gov and military but with a stable more or less gov that is easilly exploitable for its cheapo natural resources.
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  129. while the Kursk offensive is bad enough I think as many Russian mil bloggers like Igor Girkin think its just phase 1, Phase 2 is coming and even bigger and more ambitious than the Kursk blow. and many of them are pointing at Crimea . As I stated in an earlier video, an even worse event happening with be the collapse of an entire Russian army group. by a major Ukrainian offensive. I think the Ukrainians have carried out a masterful campaign of deception couple with the usual Russian victory propoganda that really fooled the Russians and I think this deception extends to Ukrainian reserve manpower which I think is still significant despite a lot of info coming from the Ukrainians that they have a manpower issue. I think they may have but its not as bad . and I think these reserves are being readied for another major offensive vs. the Russians which will inflict a blow so bad that it will have political repercussions on Putins hold on power.
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  130. Putin driven mad by not only power but also covid isolation and the steroids and other drugs he has been taking to keep him alive. So it can be said that Putin decided to invade Ukraine in a fit of roid rage. and cabin fever
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  131. and as I said before the longer the war goes the more kaput the Russian economy and military is. yep Russian buying North Korean weapons, Russia buying North Korean troops to fight ukraine and negotiating with the Taliban and Houthis for fighter to Ukraine. Russian ruble devaluating and turning into a meme coin. meanwhile advancing a few kilometers a day and suffering 2K casualties a day for it. and the fronts really have not changed much at all and the Russians suffered nearly 800K casualties half of that since the start of 2024 alone. Yep Putin is desperate and Trump may not be his answer to ending this war. I can see Putin escalating this war even more in 2025. since he knows if the war is not stopped in 2025, his economy will get markedly worse in 2026 and also degrading the war fighting capabilities of his army as his stocks of weapons start running out. but of course Putin wants the upper hand in negotiations, typical Russian negotiating tactics, demand everything and start from there. and deal.
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  132. Orban is another traitor and he virtually insinuated that Hungarians are cowards and that he would surrender hungary if the Russians ever invaded.
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  133. I think Russia's desperate attempts to create a second front distraction in the middle east with the Hamas Houthis and Hezbollah has blown up in their faces. Yep Russia lost syria(with the Turks laughing at the Russians), Hezbollah crying uncle in the face of the IDF offensive into Lebanon and Hamas practically a shadow of its former self and with the new Trump admin, Gaza will probasbly be annexed by Israel and rebuilt and turned into a Israeli city populated by Jewish settlers.
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  134. even if Putin manages to survive after this war is over, this war would have very seriously affected his heatlh, he will probably die shortly after, heck maybe die during this war. Like when Stalin died which ended the Korean war in the same year. PUtin's death might end this war.
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  135. yep goes to show, Trump Musk (Vance is a puppet mouthpiece of Musk) both traitors to the USA, Americans you voted for these morons prepare for possibly the worst consitutional crisis in the USA since the civil war.
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  136. not surprised if Patrushev is running Russia right now having won the struggle with SHoigu, so after Putin went belly up and frozen, the FSB/Rosgvardia(under Patrushev) and the Russian army/GRU(under Shoigu) were ruling Russia jointly but there was a power struggle in the background. However starting early 2024 due to the poor Russian army performance in Ukraine, the FSB won the power struggle, hence Patrushev is in the driver's seat and SHoigu sidelined. Yep so you have a hardliner Patrushev running the show, with the FSB in command of the Russian army. and the war in Ukraine. If that is so, Ive heard Patrushev is even more of a war hawk than Putin and has maximalist goals on Ukraine. If the war goes on and bloodily stalemated with a depressed Russian economy, Patrushev may well lose his position, however from what I heard, Patrushev/FSB won the power struggle handidly and effectively removed Shoigu's supporters in the Russian army and gov. and Patrushev boys are now firmly in charge of the Russian army. so there is really no major faction to challenge Patrushev/FSB for now. Patrushev has also purged (fired and or arrested) possible dissenters in the Russian army. the Loud mouth Prigozhin is dead, Surovikin I hear has been arrested, Igor Girkin is languishing in prison. (rumored to be dead). Navalny dead. and so on, that means Patrushev probably cleaned out purged any possible rival to his regime. and now the Russian army officer corps are populated by yes men and FSB informants. along with lots of micromanagement down to the battalion level from the Kremlin. That is why you notice the Russian army tactics are not just plain jane unimaginative attritional meat attacks. However I do hear a lot of grumblings in the Russian officer corps and many are not happy with how the war is being run. So if the Patrushev flubs up, we could see possible revolt from the Russian army.
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  137. Plus Musk pissed off the US , EU Ukraine govs. and also pissed off the Dems. with his support for Trump. Well, I can see Musk get investigated. and heavilly fined. Musk is probably not going to jail but he will have a massive blow to his wealth and influence.
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  138. I think a major battlefield victory by the Ukrainians will further weaken Putin political stability substantially and I think this whole operation is being shaped for that. I dont think the Putin gov will collapse in the even of a major Ukrainian operational victory but it will lead to that.
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  139. well you know your war is not going well when even your most rabid pro war Russian military bloggers are criticizing your gov and handling of the war to the point calling out for your ouster(in a subtle way).
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  140. Me played board wargames from avalon hill SPI, GMT and other stuff rather than PC games, however my goto PC game fave wargame of all time is Operational art of war .
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  141. well I advice Harris to throw the book at Trump make him go to jail investigate his finances same for Elon and his other allies They all belong to Prison
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  142. yah cause the Russians are desperately trying to support and boost the Russian ruble. , well I can say, Russia waste more money, all it takes is a major geopolitical event like Prigozhin's coup to kaput the ruble . When Russia loses this war, Ruble is toast,
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  143. after reading the recent article in the New York Times about a Nepalese volunteer in the Russian army, Its massively insane to actually pay 5K USD to have yourself smuggled into Russia just to join the Russian army in Ukraine, since these dupes think they will get paid 2K USD a month and Russian citizenship...well what ended up happening to him, he was wounded got flown back to Russia for medical , and tried to pay smugglers to smuggle him out of Ukraine and Russia for 5K USD. they gyped him. Then he had to take a 15 hour taxi ride to the Nepalese embassy in Moscow for them to send him back to Nepal. Yep spend 10K USD, , got disabled and nothing else but back to Nepal unemployed.
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  144. I heard a conspiracy theory blunt was killed by MI5 for hte damage he did the UK gov.
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  145. another show from Russia of weakness, blustering and making threats more bullshit from Russia, in fact another sign that Russia is losing the war in Ukraine getting desperate just like those nuke threats lately about NATO missles being used in Russia, another bluster of desperation. Russia in its current state is not in a position to invade Uzbekhistan. or any other nation since at least 85 percent of its army is stuck in Ukraine and trying to defeat the Ukrainians. its that bad. and invading Uzebekhistan and any other country , will probably result in massive sanctions vs. Russia and possibly even from the Chinese. and the Indians.
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  146. Putin is using the mid east problem to his ends to distract the west from Ukraine. Putin is getting desperate to get a win in Ukraine.
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  147. true ...being Chinese from the Philippines, the Chinese are all about making a buck , very capitalistic business oriented. Yah the Chinese want to take back Taiwan not only for the land but to win their civil war which started in 1921 and has not ended yet since the KMT is still alive in Taiwan and protected by the USA. They want to get rid of the KMT and any opposition to the CCP once and for all. As for making a buck, the CCP are very much enemies of the KMT in Taiwan and the Taiwan independence parties. much they have strong business relationships with each other, all of them are enemies but making a buck with each other. Same can be said with the China and USA relationship. Political and military rivals but deep and strong business relationships. USA and EU are China's best business partners and customers but also China's main political and military rivals. As for the Russian Chinese relationship. They never liked each other, heck then almost went to war in 1969 with the Sino Soviet border clashes and the USSR threatened war with China in 1979 if China besieged Hanoi . and still have some border issues. the Russians did not like the way the Chinese were pirating their military designs. and entry into their economy. However due to the Ukraine war and desperation of the Putin gov. China is making a buck out of the Russians , also China is making a buck out of the Ukrainians. by selling both sides drones, electronic equipment , parts, and not surprised if the Ukrainians are buying artillery ammo in the black market and Chinese artillery ammo is being sold there. Russia bought lots of artillery ammo from North Korea, and North Korea has long been a middle man for military arms sales for China. During the Iran Iraq war North Korea was a middle man to sell Chinese weapons to Iran which at the time had arms embargoes on it. Meanwhile the Chinese were selling weapons directly also to the Iraqis. Again the Chinese making a buck.
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  148. more than half of those casualties are from the start of 2024 alone. goes to show you the desperation of Putin.
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  149. after the war, Georgians will kick out the current regime and the Georgian Russian puppet pres. in jail or in exile.
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  150. I have a strong feeling Musk will have a massive downfall in the next 10-20 years, when he is investigated by the USA gov. The dems really hate his guts. After trump's term they will go after musk.
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  151. when Kamala wins in 2024, You will hear swan lake playing in all the Russian TV channels.
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  152. Why? because Putin is desperate to win or at least something that he can spin as a victory to the Russians. Its his own hide he is concerned with. Heck I bet he will sacrifice millions of Russians to survive politically because if he loses the war(or perceived to have lsot the war by his own people), he is KAPUT.
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  153. also there were hundreds US M3 Lee and Stuart and British Churchill tanks at Kursk 1943, yep 81 years later US M1A1 Abrams and British Challenger 2 tanks are at Kursk 2024
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  154. I forsee a bad future for Musk the US gov will come after him in the future, so what if he is the richest man in the world, the beginning of the end for him is his overreach, he pissed off the democratic party of the USA and they are not going away. In fact when they get back to power, Musk is done, even Canada will arrest him if he comes back here, best for him to go exile himself in North Korea China or Russia. or maybe he ends up like Epstein.
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  155. they caught the shooter of april 12th 2022 a day later.
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  156. I think the west is trying not to let the Ukrainians win too fast, since Putin might get desperate and press the red button aka. tac nukes flying and also they want Putin to grind down his army in Ukraine so that the Russian army does not become a threat for the next few decades and they know Putin's psychology of not backing down and doubling down, yep Putin would sacrifice the entirety of Russia to win in Ukraine. . The Russian army is a joke, even when Ukraine is being drip fed weapons, only ten percent of the promised military aid going to Ukraine, Ukraine has been well holding off the Russians despite the Russian manpower and firepower superiority. the Russian army is so messed up that the Russians had to call in North Korea for help. and Russians are using even T-54 movie prop vehicles and captured Bradley APCs in the front lines. its that bad.
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  157. yep NATO is much needed to protect the rest of Europe from aholes hitler wannabes like Putin.
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  158. my view is that Elon meddles in politics when it threatens his money making ventures which in the USA elections, as well as European politics means Crypto currency. Its well known that Musk , his big tech buddies like Peter Thiel, and financial institution buddies like Black Rock and Goldman SAchs are heavilly invested in Crypto esp. Bitcoin and did not like the democratic party's stance on Crypto hence Musk and his buddies went all in supporting Trump who had a much more pro crypto position than Kamala Harris. and I think Musk is now interferring with Canadian and western European politics due to their not so friendly crypto regulations which Musk and his friends want changed. ....To give you a hint on how much Musk and his buddies are invested in crypto currencies, just look at how he named his new US gov agency under the Trump gov, DOGE(department of gov efficiency) which is the name of the large marketcap crypto meme coin. and its well known the Elon Musk's favorite crypto token.
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  159. I dont believe in BS polls Alan LIchtman 13 keys to the white house, he has been right 90 percent on his USA presidential eelction predictions since 1984. He predicts a Harris win in 2024. and the polls have been mostly wrong in all USA presidential elections. Things can change. rapidly in a short time. I think there will be a massive surprise this elections which will blow away the pollings.
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  160. both sides are not going to back down, Russians have the money to hire North Koreans to die for them. which has solved the problem of possible mobilization from the Russian populace which Putin does not want to do. Ukrainians well they think they still have a lot of fight in them. Also Russian demands for peace is so bad, the Ukrainians will not take it. even if the USA under Trump threatens to suspend all aid and starlink be turned off. The Ukrainains will still fight on hard. albeit with even greater difficulty. however. the French and Brits will probably step in and fill the USA shoes in support of Ukraine.
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  161. that crap spewed out from Trump is insane, heck the US rep party is a mental asylum, back in the day someone like trump would not have been allowed to run as USA pres. he would be kicked out of both parties and probably run as a independent and laughed at, such is the state of US politics these days. Not surprised the Rep party politicos love all that Russian money milliions flowing in from US and Russian billionaires . that is why they tolerate trump
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  162. I think this war will not only be the physical death of Putin but also the death of his regime, and his legacy, he will probably be denoucned and villified by his successors and blamed for all the wrongs and ills plaguing or going to plague Russia. Most of his achievements overlooked and all his mistakes magnified. Not surprised if his wealth is broken up among his oligarchs, and his family members will probably survive post war but with a warning to keep what you have and dont meddle in politics or else. Putin wanted to be compared to Peter the Great , instead he will be compared to Ivan the Terrible , Czar Nicholas II or Adolph hitler
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  163. the older generations in the eastern European countries who think the Soviet times were better should go to the afterlife post haste. the faster the better for Europe to move on.
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  164. yah just like their non working stored weapons they also stole a lot from infrastructure maintenance
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  165. There is a rumor going around Igor Girkin died in prison...can anyone confirm that?
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  166. im not surprised by any of this Putin bankrolled the Trump campaign for billions of USD through Russian oligarch investors to Musk and his friends companies then funnelled to Rep super pacs lobbies etc. Trump convinced Putin he is his only saviour in the war with Ukraine and the money was used to bribe Rep poliiticos to nominate Trump. However as we all know, Trump is known for backstabbing his business partners esp. when he has the leverage to do so for more money, in this case, Trump when he wins probably went to tell Putin well we have to make a new deal. and that was why Putin was reportedly pissed off(probably Patrushev was pissed off) however knowing Trump , he cant afford to alienate Trump. since the USA has all the leverage vs. Putin. and Russia. So not only does Trump get paid LOTs of money by Putin but also gets to indulge in the hundreds of billions of USD in reconstruction funds going to Ukraine after this war is over. Trump specializes in real estate and construction, so Ukraine needs reconstruction, and that is where Trump will make mucho dinero a lot more money. Probably also threatened Putin(Patrushev) if his investments in Russia are ever harmed, he would go all out and support Ukraine even more. Trump feels he can make more money in Ukraine than in Russia. while satisfying and appeasing the US military industrial complex. as they get to sell even more weapons to Ukraine post war as Ukraine rebuilds rearms and reforms its military to NATO lines. Plus he gets adoration from the world , and Ukraine for stopping the war and saving Ukraine. Probably gets the Nobel Peace prize he covets.
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  167. I find it amusing that trump is getting more unhinged with that fascist madison square rally and him driving a garbage truck trying to be like the average american worker hahahah, signs of desperation, Trump knows he will lose. I would suggest trump prepare and fuel his jet in the next week so he can exile to Russia.
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  168. NATO was never going to accept Ukraine as a member until you maniac Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine. yep 3 day miltiary operation is now nearly 3 years into the worse war in Europe since WW2. and Putin is still trying to justify it while trying to win the war. Yep this low class worm wanted to be remembered as Peter the great, yah he will be remembered as Czar Nicholas II and hitler.
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  169. dont think so, more bluster, according to Woodward in his latest book war, the US got intel on the Russians thinking hard of using tac nukes against the UKrainains during the Ukrainian offensive of late 2022. however the USA threatened the crap out of the Russians and scared so much they backed down. So nope using a tac nuke(s) by the Russians will trigger war with the USA and NATO. and teh Russians despite all their peacocking are really scared of NATO. esp. the Americans. and also I hear that the Russians are also afraid that the majority of their nukes might not work, so even in a nuke war, the Russians would get their asses destroyed while inflicing some hurt on the west, the west would be hurt but survive with command and control intact while Putin and Russia will lose everything.
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  170. you mean the chosen one....MOST LIKELY TO GO TO PRISON AFTER THE ELECTIONS. First USA president to go to prison.
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  171. yah the black sea, WILL LITERALLY BE THE BLACK SEA....Black due to Russian crude oil spills. and Putin place low priority on clean ups.
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  172. there are rumors that Putin was poisoned after he ordered the use of nukes in late 2022. a slow acting poison . ironic that he loves to poison his enemies.
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  173. I think the Kursk offensive is paying off in many ways, 1. It has badly embarassed Putin and affected his political standing. 2. it has disrupted Russian supply lines in the area which is important to resupplying the Russian forces in Ukraine. 3. It is a political win for the Ukrainains. 4. also serves as a distraction for the real blow that is to come probably before the fall rains come in.
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  174. the Russian oligarch church is fake, its leader is a former KGB agent. and buddy of Putin.
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  175. not only taht the Russians are spending lots of money to repair and refurbish their stored Russian weapons since many dont work, they have been maintained and stored badly many Russian tanks and APCs are unrepairable and used for spare parts.
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  176. and the French Mirage 2000 jets are coming very soon.
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  177. yep and the PLA is the biggest mega corporation in China owning lots of different companies from making weapons to smart phones to dollar store nick knacks. Yep despite reports the PLA corporations has been broken up I dont believe it.
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  178. I predict after the war is over, the Russian economy will experience massive Zimbabwe style hyperinflation, in fact the USD Euro and other stable economies will be accepted even crypto will be accepted over the Russian ruble .
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  179. Interesting that the USA and other western countries warned ukraine that their missles cannot be used to launch attacks from ukraine to Russia but now they are perfectly fine their missles being used to attack Russia from Russian territory(Kursk ) LOL. Hilarious.
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  180. There are already a bunch of board wargames published on the current war In Ukraine and the 2014 Ukraine war. and for future reference also a bunch of wargames on a future Russian civil war.
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  181. I think Putin well knows his situation and is super desperate to keep his regime alive , to get something out of this war and turn the Ukrainians to the negotiation table with him having the upper hand. That is why his health has been deteriorating even more recently, I think he has a bunch of doubles who have been standing in for him in public. and I think due to depression in realization of this current predicament is affecting his health badly.
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  182. WOW... I really love this movie, probably my most watched movie of all time I probably watched this movie at least 50 times since 1980, watched it in the cinema when it first came out, on bootleg betamax rental, on laser disc , on dvd and then on Blu ray. Honestly the Ronin Flix Blu ray of Dogs of war while having a nice interview with some of the actors does not really do it justice, it has to have a nice audio commentary. Its in my opinion the best mercenary movie of all time. story is simple enough great acting, great depth, great action. also its one of those movies which I watch as a background movie while Im doing something else. I remember watching a making of documentary of dogs of war back in 1980 on TV as a TV promotion for the movie but now its probably lost or gaining dust in some archive warehouse. This movie needs another Blu ray or 4K release from a production company like Kino or Arrow Films to do it justice, heck severin should come into the game which they did the excellent Blu ray for wild geese.
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  183. 15 years of Russian military reform created several Russian cruise line sized oligarch yachts, while hollowing out the Russian army.
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  184. well I hear early in this war in 2022 that Putin's decision to invade Ukraine was caused partly by his enforced isolation due to covid fears(cabin fever) and steroids and other medications to treat his parkinsons and rumored cancer. All this worked on his ego which caused him to give the go ahead for the invasion.
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  185. More like on drugs, from US police shooting videos Ive seen US criminals get shot several times with powerful 9mm hollow point rounds and still continue to attack the police. and the drugs being used are meth , crack and PCP(aka. Angel Dust), , probably also captagon. all these are easy and cheap to manufacture, and probably given to the convict wagner troops, hence you see them being shot but not falling. Of course these guys are walking dead men, since after the drugs wear out, they will die from blood lost and destroyed internal organs.
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  186. Asma should merit an open window and the Russian version of Dr. Kevorkian
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  187. not surprised if Putin hair is a wig or transplants , that is why while in Chechnya he wore the headphones forward not touching his hair and head
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  188. so my scenario here is that you have a Trump admin who will probably do all it says during the presidential campaign like massive rise in tariffs, withdrawal from NATO, USA effectively becomes isolationist. the rest of NATO EU step up in a dramatic way and replace USA aid to Ukraine as peace talks break down. with UK and French troops deploying to Ukraine HOwever USA ups its oil drilling massively bringing down world oil prices, which strongly impacts the RUssian economy. Russia does not do war with NATO even with USA withdrawal and Trump stating the RUssians can do whatever it wants with NATO, Russians do not attack NATO countries since its military is near total committed to Ukraine and does not have enough forces to take on NATO even without USA out of the organization. War goes on , this time, Ukraine is not constrained anymore by the Americans, a lot more Ukrainian bombing of Russian oil infrastructure ammo dumps etc. hits the Russians hard. The war goes on, the Russians step up yes probalby gain more land at thte same rate but getting massive casualties ,
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  189. wait the russkies blaming USA and its allies for sanctions causing the Russian ships to sink is most amusing, yah they cant blame anyone but themselves for their incompetence, yah why those ships are sinking since they are using ships suitable for rivers and coastlines, to be put on the deep high seas, result ,they sink when hit by storms and noting Russians are not known for competence in maintenance you get all this. HOW EMBARASSING RUSSIA.
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  190. my take is that since Trump has won and their USA presidential gambit has been successful the Russians will now push harder, thinking Trump will be instrumental in bringing to them a peace deal advantageous to Russia. with Putin dead(and I do believe he is already dead), whoever is running the show(probably Patrushev) so 2025 might be the year of negotiation on who gets the favorable upper hand in negotiations to end the war. USA does not want Russia to go into civil war, if Ukraine really wins this war evicts the Russians and results in the collapse of the Russian gov. So I think probably war ends in 2025 , with negotiations where Russia keeps the 20 percent of Ukraine it alrady occupies, European peace keepers in Ukraine, Ukraine allowed to rearm but not allowed to join NATO and the EU. but getting billions of USD in reconstruction aid meanwhile Russia has all sanctions lifted and all asssets unfrozen. Not surpirsed if Ukraine gains defense pacts with Poland, France, UK. and the Ukrainian army is rapidly reformed rebuilt along NATO lines. with the help of friendly NATO nations. Not surprised if Putin dies shortly after the war is over, with Patrushev assuming the leadership role.
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  191. Yep I read that the Putin approached Hu Jintao in 2007 and asked Hu to team up with Russia to crash the USA economy by selling off US debts while the US was experiencing a economic meltdown. The Chinese were horrified instead they told the Americans during a visit to China by Henry Paulson US secretary of Treasury of hte plot. I think since then the Americans have been long trying to unseat Putin from power. and now when the opportunity presented itself in Feb 2022, Americans took advantage. to give some pay back to the Russians and oust Putin from power.
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  192. It will be funny whent he Ukrs start using fuel air weapons for their HMARs RUssians cope more hahahaha
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  193. also depends on what happens in the EU. without USA aid and USA dallying on its NATO membership and worrying statements from Trump and EU fears of Russian aggression on NATO members, I think the rest of NATO will break from the USA. and this time with urgency rearming and covering up the USA aid to Ukraine, USA stops sending aid to Ukraine, the rest of EU/NATO steps up dramatically. Yes USA may withdraw from NATO lifts all the sanctions on Russia, but the EU NATO and allies do not comply with the USA and breaks from it. and steps up aid to Ukraine. This time, there is a sense of urgency and then you dont have delayed aid anymore from NATO members since the USA is blocking them politically, thsi time the pro Ukraine NATO members do not listen to the USA then massively ups the aid to Ukraine. Russia threatens war but its army is so much stuck in Ukraine cant even do much , but do sabre rattling, France UK, send troops to Ukraine. and lift all the restrictions on their weapons use on Russian soil. France and UK probably threaten the Russians too of war if nukes are used. the French and UK may have much smaller stockpiles than the Russians but they will mostly work, the Russian nukes are very much in question , my estimate 75 percent of it will not work.
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  194. not surprised the FSB and GRU are working overtime in sabotage assasinations etc. in the western countries who are supporting Ukraine.
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  195. Yes Putin is alreadyi shifting more of the Russian economy to a war economy, ive read currently 25 percent of hte Russian economy is devoted now to the war in Ukraine. As Putin gets more desperate, Putin will shift the Russian economy to a total war economy. This will be disastrous for Russia after the war is over since it will contribute to the economic collapse of Russia post war.
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  196. well its a 2 star hotel with a 4 star 16 people rating on Tripadvisor.
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  197. well this is the sub Kursk KARMA coming to bite Putin in the ass decades later. The war in Ukraine will be a turning point in Putin's career probably physically fatal for him in the end.
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  198. Ive seen this Chinese bluster before, the Chinese like to bluster and beat its chest and threaten war but nothing happens, the CCP is not stupid like putin, Xinping is not Putin and he has to answer to his party not the other way around. and the CCP is not suicidal once China attacks the USA, or Taiwan, CHina is kaput, economic collapse destroyed navy , air force, blockades, total sanctions, destruction of Chinese shipping. = Chinese civil war.
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  199. as for the Russian nationalists yep , with the oligarchs and political figures forming their own PMCs private armies , this will really be bad after the war is over esp. with Putin gone and a Russian defeat coupled with political and economic chaos add to that the Russian army soldiers not paid , and the only one paying are the PMCs and there is a polititcal struggle for succession to the Russian leadership and add into the mix Russian ultranationalists, ethnic non Russian secessionists, criminals, warlords etc. also in the background no Russian central gov or a fragile central gov. with lots of weapons and lots of Russian ex military who know how to use them and angry at the Russian gov.
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  200. well Russia could well be the Germany of the 21st century that committs 2 major wars against its neighbours. in this case Ukraine being the target as what Germany did obsessed with defeating France and Russia in two world wars
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  201. yah trump is talking to the Putin actor haha, maybe in reality , Trump is talking to the Putin actor with Patrushev feeding the Putin fake standin his lines haha
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  202. I can see Lukashenko stepping down and blaming people for all his problems after putin is gone. I can see regime change in Georgia too.
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  203. Moscow and St. Petersburg are practically different countries from the rest of Russia. .
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  204. My Israeli buddy informed me life is getting harder in Israel , rising prices across the board esp. with rent, food prices , gasoline etc. and the wages are not really going higher to meet up with this. Yep the Israelis do not like Netenyahu but then again then dont like the opposition either seeing them as much of the same.
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  205. well Post war, even if the Russians refuse to hand over their war criminals, I will not be surprised if many Russian war criminals suddenly fall from windows after the war, Ukrainian intelligence kill teams will be rife in Russia, and Russian gov military intel services are so corupt they will sell info for good USD.
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  206. This flexibility of command in western doctrine being used by the Ukrainians is key to the reason why the Ukrainians are able to hold off and even defeat the Russians who have firepower and numerical superiority
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  207. or it can be interpreted, the Russians are running out of missles so they turn to ICBMs
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  208. well 1 option...FIGHT ON, im pretty sure most of NATO will support Ukraine.
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  209. I think the actor/double playing Putin is hamming up. I think the FSB is currently running the country having temporarily won the power struggle with the Russian army, for now.
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  210. yah I think Netenyahu's career will be kaputski after this, and will probably retire.
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  211. Trump/Musk regime and Putin have an agreement to end the war in Ukraine on Russia's terms. I think Putin financed Trump/Musk take over of the US gov to establish their Greater America technocratic dictatorship ruled by Silicon valley whackjobs like Musk, Thiel and Sachs following the teachings of Curtis Yarvin which posits a technate Greater America which stretches from the Mexican border to the North Pole and Greenland. If you though what i just wrote is crazy its not, with the Canadian PM saying in public that US wants to annex Canada. Putin , Musk/Trump all view the existing world order to be anathema and to be destroyed.
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  212. what sphere of influence, Russia I think has lost its sphere of influence its very poor performance in the Ukraine war has destroyed its capability. Even Belarus, the main puppet of the Russians Lukashenko has made statements of his refusal to get into the Ukraine war, deems the war as a Russian disaster.
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  213. full russian asset, his actions prove it.
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  214. not surprised if after the war is over, the RUssian soldiers in occupied Ukraine are not allowed to go back to Russia and instead are offered land in occupied Ukraine and encouraged to settle, this will be Russia's solution to the Hundreds of thousands of Russian war vets. so they are not allowed to cause chaos in Russia proper. and also serve as a valuable defensive tool for future Ukrainian attempts to take back territory.
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  215. I think NATO will survive minus the USA, and if the dems come back to power, USA will probably be accepted back into NATO but USA troops will probably not come back to Europe. Russia in the meantime might view this as a victory, but the Russians are fragile, I think the Russian threat will be neutralized, when Putin and his regime is gone, without a reliable successor and a still hostile Europe and a future hostile USA , Russia I think goes into Time of Troubles 2.0 in the next decade. and that is when Ukraine regains its lost territories and then some. probably annexes more Rusian territory as payment for the war.
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  216. the commanding Russian general supposed to protect Kursk was General Lapin, the same Lapin who presided over the disaster of the Kharkov counteroffensive of late 2022 where the Russians got 3 divisions mauled, lost a lot of territory in eastern Ukraine and lost 450 tanks and APCs(mostly abandoned). in what Igor girkin said the worst Russian tank loss since Kursk 1943. Lapin was fired due to this but rehired to the Russian Eastern offensive of 2024, Im surprised he hasnt fallen out of a window yet. The worst Russian general of the war so far.
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  217. Trump thinks he will get away with all this, but looking at the amount of damage he is doing to the US economy, USA relations with other countries , I think it wont end well for Trump , USA presidents have been assasinated for less.
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  218. besides planes how about Russian oil tankers 4 or them sinking in 4 days. The Russian army while making gains is super slow and have not much expanded from the 20 percent of Ukraine they occupy, while suffering 2K casualties a day. and the Russians so desperate they have to bring in the North Koreans to aid them in trying to expel Ukraine from Kursk which is now 4 months and still the Ukrainians hold large parts of Kursk.
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  219. usa will be in its worst shit show in the next few years under so called ahole whacko USA pres. Trump(the real USA pres. is elon musk)
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  220. hey anyone notice ts 1 USD = 115 Russian rubles, the Ruble is rapidly going down haahahaha. I heard the head of Rostek Chemisov who owns 80 percent of the Russian military industrial complex and close friend to Putin is in a bad fued with the head of the Russian central bank Nabuilina, due to very high interest rates, looks like Chemisov won and rumors Elvira might fall out of a window soon. so Russians prepare for HYPERINFLATION haahah
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  221. I never keep anything on exchanges since 2017 first thing I learned is not to keep anything on exchanges
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  222. Russia in Georgia is now limited to small detachments of FSB troops masquerading as Georgian police trying to control the protesters. since the local Georgian police and army refused to intervene. If many protesters are killed you might have a mutiny by the Georgian police and army.
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  223. The Russian gov would never admit responsibility for any fuck ups. Russia is falling apart slow motion. Heck lets see a failing war in Ukraine, with 800K casualties so far, half of that in 2024 alone. Heck the Russian mayor of Moscow admitted recently of 600K severely wounded Russian troops who need rehabilitation, so not surprised if already 1 million Russian casualties in the war as the real number. Russian tankers sinking causing the black sea to literally turn black and the laughable Russian response to it. Heck the clean up is so stupid , Russian clean up crews dig up the oil contaminated sands put them in bags, and bury them nearby . Its that stupid.
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  224. this rally is just another sign Trump is freakin desperate , Alan Lichtman whom Trump believes a lot in since Lichtman predicted his 2016 victory despite being laughed at and hated in the academia predicted his 2020 defeat and now predicting his 2024 defeat , Trump is in a PANIC MODE. He knows he is losing. and the more Trump becomes desperate the more Trump goes unhinged. Trump cant help himself , he will say anything that comes to his whacko head. yep dementia has well settled in and it shows. and Yah Kamala knew this and in the debate got under his skin so much Trump started blurting out unhinged bullshit. Trump is handidly destroying his own presidential campaign. Bet you the Russians who poured billions of USD into the Trump campaign is getting pissed off and disappointed. that they cant control trump's actions, that is why Elon is on the phone with putin every day hahahah desperation.
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  225. well I think they are dealing with Patrushev the Presidential aide to Putin, so the Putin is a vaudeville puppet actor probably with an ear piece telling him what to say.
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  226. I think Putin's double probably is sick of playing his role so they had to put him out of view. haha
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  227. I think the Russian leadership is going stir crazy trying to respond to the crossing of red lines by the USA and their allies. the Russians know doing war with NATO is suicide. not only with the Russians lose the war in Ukraine, but their army will get blasted so much they can do a reenactment of Desert storm 2.0 with the Russian army playing the Saddam Iraqi army. and Putin if he is still alive (which I i doubt very much) probably does not want to go reprise the role of Czar Nicholas II in his final days. most importantly the Russian elites who have a lot of assets in the west, do not want to lose those assets and their kids arrested and deported back to Russia. and Russian going thru economic collapse and possible 1917 2.0.
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  228. a massive trumpo defeat in this election will break not only Trump but also Maga. there will be a purge of the rep party, Trump will get backstabbed by his so called supporters and will pilie on him as he goes to prison after the elections. The Trump name and legacy will be in the gutter and talking about his buddy Putin same will happen, his legacy and name in the gutter. Trump wanted to be known as the greatest president ever, he turned out to be the worse president ever. and at least the worst presidential candidate ever. Putin wanted to be compared to peter the great, he will be compared to adolph hitler.
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  229. even if the USA comes to its senses in the future, it will not be viwed the same by its allies and other countries, they cannot trust the USA the same way before trump since they view the USA politics as unstable and it will take decades for normal relations to come back. Canada in particular will get closer with EUrope Latin America and possibly china rather than have the majority of its trade with the USA.
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  230. yah I remember in the 70s and 80s the world media esp. the communist bloc propoganda was harping all about the fall of the USA and capitalism and western democracy due to victory of the USSR and decadence in the west. Nope...USA and western democracies won the cold war USSR collapsed and broke up in 1990 , China has graduated from a agrarian Maoist communist state to a Authoritarian one party capitalist state who still does lip service of being communist. Russia has evolved from a one party communist state being hte successor state of the USSR to a multi party authoritarian capitalist state(reminds me of the third world capitalist American aligned dictatorships of the cold war era like Marcos Philippines, Somoza Nicaragua and Pinochet Chile etc. ) where one man has been dictator and president for life since 2000.
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  231. many of these guys are ex cons just came out of prison, or out of prison and unemployable. bankrupt. so what do they do, become homeless or try to get back into prison.
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  232. Polls are bullshit never believed in them, and how about both Alan Lichtman and Michael Moore saying Trump is going to lose big time. both of these men predicted Trump would win in 2016 now they are predicting a trump defeat. I predict Trump will get blasted with a landslide vote and the dems will sweep the house and senate.
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  233. the regime collapsed already a few hours ago. REbels captured Damascus with hardly a fight. yep Ukrainians helped plan the Rebel offensive as a big FU to Russia. next up GEORGIA, EUROMAIDAN part 2. and I hear Ukraine has a hand in helping the protesters too.
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  234. Russian gov also likes to blame other countries for their problems that they created themselves, like for example in the war with Ukraine , Russia likes to amusingly say that they are not fighting Ukraine but fighting NATO, and their propoganda bot orks like to make this a case constantly since they cant bring themselves to believe that "little Russians" the Ukrainians are beating them and outfighitng them. and causing so much hardship that its breaking Russia.
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  235. well as I said before, the longer Russia is in this war, the more damaged the Russian economy, military and Putin's political hold on Russia will be and the beginning of the end will be Kamala Harris winning the 2024 elections. Kamala and her VP are known to be pro Ukraine war hawks. and its rumored she will be changing the US national security advisory board completely and staffing it with her own people who are strong Pro Ukraine war hawks. 2025 will be annus horribilis for Russia. as the USA will probably significantly increase USA aid to Ukraine, take out most if not all the restrictions on the Ukrainian military to finally end the war on Ukrainian terms. and also all this plus major battlefield succeses in Ukraine will finally convince the elites to get rid of Putin. cut their losses to save the Russian economy and whatever is left of their miltiary. and to forestall a civil war. So I can see 2025 is when the war ends.
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  236. alan lichtman 13 keys to the white house the nostradamus of USA elections, who predicted USA presidential elections 90 percent correctly since 1984 says Kamala will win, Michael Moore who predicted a Trump win in 2016 predicts Kamala will win.
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  237. its useless debating with Russian bots masquerading as Trumpo bots, the Russians are pissed off since their billions of USD given to trump elon and maga politicos are going down teh toilet hahahaah
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  238. and the implosion its severity will depend on what the state of Russia is when this war ends. The longer Russia prosecutes this war the worse the implosion will be.
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  239. In the light of current events the world order has become upended with a USA trump presidency. I can see USA becoming isolationist with tariffs on its former close trading partners. its former allies also economically and politically isolate the USA breaking the age old western alliance, I can see the EU Canada, Australia getting economically closer to China, while the ne Trump USA might even become economically close to Russia. after losing its Canadian and EU and Mexican trading partners. Even if the Dems take over the gov again and remove the tarriffs and try to normalize relations with its allies, the USA will never be viewed the same by its allies, the Trump presidency in a few years has done so much damage that will take many years to repair.
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  240. it will be interesting in 2025 when the USA cuts off aid to Ukraine, EU and UK step in and increase aid to Ukraine and buy weapons from the USA , and Trump Okays this and the war goes on. Trump would love EU money billions of USD going to the USA and buying off weapons to feed to Ukraine to keep up the war. , this time no restrictions on their use on Russian soil.
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  241. depends if Erdogan is OK with that , so far Erdogan no like Russians in Syria.
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  242. dont ban RT news, RT news is the NEW COMEDY CHANNEL, gives me a lot of laughs on how amusing their pro Russia war rhetoric is. after this war is over, I bet RT news, will be focused on saying how bad the Putin regime is and that they are victims and focus on other things.
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  243. agree, if Arab and muslim voters in the USA either dont vote or vote for Trump due to anger on the USA stance in Gaza, well they will get a Trump presidency that will be far worse for the Palestinians, not to mention Trump possibly cracking down on Arabs and Muslims in the USA. Those voters will have shot themselves in the foot for not supporting the dems. I think a Trump win in 2024 will mean Gaza is ground down totally destroyed and probably annexed by Israel and turned into a Israeli city, its Palestenian inhabitants either deported en masse or dead, and the Gaza will probably be rebuilt with cheap housing for Israeli citizens or guest workers from overseas. And Netenyahu will probably politically survive.
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  244. the upcoming Trump meditated 2025 negotiations will be very interesting as both the Russians USA and Ukrainians play each other, with Trump trying to get as much from the Russians and Ukrainans , the Ukrainians trying to butter up trump stroke his ego and offer him incentives and the Russians doing teh same. meanwhile the Ukrainians and Russians fighting each other as hard as ever trying to get the upper hand in negotiations.
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  245. My view is that Russian casualties go from 600K to 1 million casualties of that Russian deaths are from 150K to 250K deaths. many Russian deaths go unreported, bodies not even recovered and Russian books have been cooked names erased on purpose, also many are missing, probably kaput.
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  246. Now as for the media saying a lot that trump is enamoured with Putin, Trump i like a giddy school boy around putin etc. etc. etc. Nope dont think so, since in the interview of Epstein as to what he thought of Trump, he said that Trump was an expert ingratiator, he is expert at buttering people up, stroking people egos so he can get a good deal then he backstabs them later, like his former business partners, black mails them , tells their wives of their infidelities, then uses that to bed them, then later swindles his business partners by not paying the full amount he owes them. since he has blackmail on them. I think Trump will do the same with Putin. Trump will backstab Putin. Trump will drain both Putin and zelensky for what they are worth, however even Trump and USA politicos, strategic planners, etc. they would like Russia to be properly weakened. so they can properly controlled and not a threat to their neighbours, Putin out and with weak leaders in power, and not coillapse in civil war but stable politically. Zelensky, well he is already controlled very much by the Americans. and they want to build up Ukraine so it can be a counter to a possible future resurgent Russia if Russia gets a another strong leader after Putin is gone. and also make money while doing it. since Trump would like all that sweet hundreds of billions of USD in Ukraine rebuild aid along with being the leader who saved Ukraine.and he downgrades and laughs at Biden saying this guy was mediocre in aid while I won the war or something like that, heck a nice Trump tower in Kyiv would be nice along with avenues being named after him.
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  247. ive already known for a while now that Trump has been bought by Putin a long time ago, probably has blackmail on him and Melania. and in the 2024 election Putin through his oligarchs funneled money through Musk and his buddies to Trump and the Rep super pacs and lobbies to effectively bribe the entire Rep part to nominate trump. Trump is effectively Putin's puppet. Same with Musk. I think the whole thing will probably piss off the Europeans and the Ukrainians and the negotiations will basically be not about ending the Ukraine war, but officiating a USA withdrawal from Ukraine. and minimizing the American support for NATO to the point that the Americans probably wont be supporting NATO if the RUssians ever attack. However I think Ukraine will not accept the peace deal and be defiant. and will be backed up by the Europeans. esp. UK, France and Germany. who will continue to send even more increased aid to Ukraine. The war will probably rumble on. with increased sanctions on Russia, from the Europeans, and sanctions being lifted on Russia by the USA. so now the Ukrainians will have to weather the storm until the 2028 elections and hope that the demos get elected again. and resume support for Ukraine, if the war is still ongoing. I think the lifting of USA sanctions on Russia will give the Russian economy a boost , however if that happens, I think the Europeans will retal unfreeze the 300 billion USD Russian assets held in the EU and give them to Ukraine. I can also see EU nations ramp up their arms productions and send them to Ukraine in addition with Ukraine buying off weapons abroad.
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  248. also love my safepal due to its massive array of coins
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  249. well by itself crypto is not a scam but its the way crypto is used can be a scam, simliar to junk bonds for stocks which are scams, in the crypto space its meme coins, that is why Crypto needs good legit fair regulation as stocks which were regulated a hundred years ago. now crypto is an emerging market which will face the same regulations. Meanwhile, making money out of it.
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  250. well the Russians are having manpower issues themselves according to ISW the RUssians raised the sign up bonus to 1.5 million rubles or 15K USD. and still the Russians are failing recruiting quotas badly , so bad that they had to get the North koreans help them fight the Ukrainians are 2K USD per North Korean soldier per month . the Russians have suffered around 350K casualties since Jan 1 2024, making 2024 the deadliest year for the Russian army , yet the Russian army despite making gains only captured 0.5 percent of Ukraine so far while suffering 350K casualties, 10K destroyed tanks, IFVs and APCs, and the Ukrainians still hold a large part of Russian territory at Kursk and 3 months now despite Russian attempts at reconquest. the Trump win could not have come at a opportune time for the Russians. now we wait and see. whast happens in 2025.
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  251. when you have trump trying to have oral sex with a microphone in his latest rally and Musk saying that Trump will be disastrous for the US economy and Epstein tapes newly released with Epstein saying Trump liked to fuck young girls at his parties. Its like trump is trying to lose the elections. Trump will get blasted when the elections happen. then he will claim victory and cheating and try to foment a civil war.
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  252. yah he can fix the eyes of Russian artillerymen , to improve their sucky accuracy rates
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  253. coming from a former KGB ahole, yah Kiril is hilarious and the Russians are hilarious for believing him.
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  254. I think Trump wants this war done and over with as soon as possible so he can get the nobel peace prize. ASAP. Putin is bought and paid for by the RUssians since 2024. and he is fullfilling his end of the bargain with Putin.
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  255. after this war is over they will blame everything on Putin and sorry no preserved body on display for him, he will probably be buried with state honors in a Moscow or st. petersburg cemetary which will probably get vandalized post war, not surprised someone blows up his tomb.
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  256. WOW crazy first movie I watched and one of my faves is French Connection watched it back in 1979 on cable TV. My most fave Hackman movies: The French Connection The French connection 2 A Bridge too Far March or Die Under Fire Uncommon Valor No Way Out Bat 21 The Package Mississippi Burning Crimson Tide Get Shorty Enemy of the State
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  257. 10 years from now I predict, we will all look back to this war and see Johnson for all his faults was ABSOLUTELY RIGHT....and Putin's imperialism was stupid, as it has destroyed his nation, as Russia goes thru a civil war and a possible break up of the nation. Putin will be much studied as a leader by future historians and seen as a cautionary tale. of one man's ego greed and probably mental illness causing the destruction of all he has built, his legacy and his nation.....Russians undergoing a civil war break up and a refugee crisis with millions fleeing Russia to Europe and elsewhere will look back and wish Putin was never born. and to think what could have been if Putin did not invade Ukraine.
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  258. I think with Putin Zelensky will try a different tact, play the sycophant to Putin, play his jester then make it clear to him that if Ukraine fails, it will be seen as a failure of USA policy, and Trump would be blamed for it. However if trump were to succeed in Ukraine, Trump would be known as one of the greatest USA presidents ever even over Biden hahaah, with Trump you have to butter him up,
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  259. my personal view, Russian is a country willing to sacrifice everything for a dead frozen Putin in a fridge. more like his elites and oligarchs will probably trot him out until they get some sort of a win in the war quote on quote a "win" like keeping territory then when that happens and negotaitions produce an armistice, they will start playing swan lake on Russian TV. Then I think the fun begins post war as all blame is put on the dead Putin meanwhile Russian post war economy spirals into economic depression, hyperinflation high crime rates, political instability as the Russian elite , oligarchs have their own PMCs recruiting from the hundreds of thousands of demobilized Russian veterans start making for plays, as the Russian gov tries to purge and put down Russian PMCs. it will be a shit show post war which can amount to a Russian civil war.
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  260. my opinion they will announce Putin death in 2025. after the inaguration of Kamala Harris to the white house.
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  261. i think Ukraine will probably fight on, with European support, and Trump will probably enact a brutal trade war with Ukraine's allies to get them to lay off supporting Ukraine. and this will cause along with other things a worldwide recession. starting in mid to late 2025. Just in time for the pivotal 2026 US house and senate elections which will see the democrats sweep the US house and senate, with trump not accepting the results defying the courts and ruling by decree, which sees a constiutional crisis massive street protests to impeach trump and trump declaring martial law and Trump getting physically removed from power with him and Elon either in prison or exile probably to Russia.
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  262. and I thought Yeltsin was pretty bad, a corrupt drunk buffoon who liked to dance and grope women in public while Russia endures high crime rates and corruption, yah true, Putin was a steady hand for a decade but after that his bad side started coming out starting with the invasion of Georgia in 2008 , yah we tolerated his antics since he was providing a steady hand for Russia and selling cheapo oil and gas to the Europeans and we thought yah putin can be brutal but this guy is not crazy, well, Feb 2022 invasion of Ukraine proved us all wrong about this craphead.
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  263. talking about Georgia, , supposedly South Ossetian volunteers are headed to Kursk to fight the Ukrainians, yep so far thousands of South Ossetians were killed in Ukraine since 2022. I predict after the war in Ukraine is over with a Ukrainian victory, South Ossetia will go back to Georgian control.
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  264. Polls are bullshit , not only will Kamala win but she will win with near landslide. and the dems will sweep the house and senate, in the 2016 elections, the NY Post said that according to their polls Hilary will win 85 percent.
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  265. the war will go on. Ukraine has backing from the EU UK Canada, USA goes away fine , Ukraine will fight on and endure and wait until the democrats come back to power, and the way Trump and the real president Musk is running the country, the wait might be shorter than 4 years as Trump and Musk are literally breaking Federal and State laws with their actions.
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  266. me Im buying as much ARB as possible accumulation period is until end of 2024. ARB lower marketcap much more room to move. also a layer 2 ETH helper. with massive popularity/.
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  267. Putin is the first zombie world leader hahah. a frozen one at that.
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  268. True, Im not surprised if Putin died in October 2023, and Russia was since ruled by Patrushev and Shoigu and now these two bozos have been engaging in a brutal power struggle which sees oligarchs FSB and military men getting arrested or falling from windows or just yesterday a FSB col. Maksim Yeremin aka. Putin's hooligan died choking on a lump of meat. Last month Russian general Magomed Khandayev a close Shoigu associate died myteriously. So Im not surprised if the FSB(Patrushev) and the Russian Army/GRU(Shoigu) have been engaging in a brutal power struggle behind the scenes, possibly since late 2022. Ive heard rumors that Putin himself has not been ruling the country since mid to late 2022 since he was very sick at the time reports said. which lead to his death in Oct 2023, again rumors say natural causes but others speculate Putin may have been poisoned. I think a dead Putin is quite useful as the ones behind the scenes have more control of the state of affairs so as not to escalate to the use of nukes. I think Putin is a very useful rallying point and a scapegoat for the war, if the elites feel that the war is lost and they need to cut their losses. Swan lake will probably start playing on Russian TV before the announcement that Putin has kicked the bucket. . and negotiations can begin. to end the war. and then the Russian gov will start releasing certain damning facts on putin saying that he was a bully etc. etc. etc. and that the Russian leaders were victims themselves. yada yada yada.
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  269. excellent
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  270.  @Professor-Gerdes  I think this is quite possible if the Russians attack again in a major way then outrace their logistics then get hit hard in a Ukr counterattack which collapses the line. Im not surprised the Russians really did learn from their earlier experience, their solutions more tanks soldiers and artillery
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  271. not only well wn but win hard I predict possible around 360 electoral vote win for harris near landslide. and the dems sweep the house and senate. disaster for trump , maga movement and the rep party. and esp. if there is a bloody insurrection in 2025 , US gov goes after trump and his supporters like they were domestic terrorists.
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  272. from what I heard, the Russians withdrew most of their SAMs from Kursk region and deployed them to Crimea, the Ukrainians having heard this and know the area is manned by poor quality conscripts chose to attack this weak point, I think it probably surprised the Ukrainains on how successful it went , the Ukrainians who attacked were hard vets with air and artillery support, and complete air superiority over the Kursk area. the Russian conscripts mostly ran and surrendered.
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  273. Trump has done more damnage on US foreign relations in two months than another other USA president in their terms of office . the worst USA president ever, and the stupid Americans voted for this guy, goes to show you its not only the US gov cannot be trusted but the American people cannot be trusted. Maybe better off for someone else more stable to lead the free world like the EU. USA relations with its former allies will not be the same even after trump is gone, we will remember this.
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  274. trump can nyack all he wants, but I dont think the US senate congresss and military leadership will obey Trump, in fact anything he tries to do will probably be blocked by senate and congress and even appointing his chief of staffs need to be ratified by congress and senate and the rep party is fighting a civil war.
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  275. yah its quite just Russia lose this war, and swan lake plays on Russian TV , the sooner the better
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  276. not surprised the FSB is working hard with their bots to make pro RUsskie comments, very amusing, hey I usually get swarmed by them, but you know what I love it, since I know my info is quite accurate for them to swarm me and try to suppress me. Very amusing, heck I got under their skin so bad that they even send the more elite bots the ones who can actually get into a conversation with you hahhahah. I like to play them. very funny they are.
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  277. and goes to show you how trash trump is, he told Zelensky and his staff to leave the white house and said no meals for you, disgusting, heck not a problem, trump probably put botulism in the meals anyways,
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  278. 2nd American revolution incoming for Trump after teh 2026 house and senate elections. I think 2027 will be a pivotal year to impeach the whole Trump admin and restore sanity and order to the US gov.
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  279. who are they ...probably a group of them led by PATRUSHEV. the president's aide and soon to be heir once the war ends,
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  280. yah its a war due to Putin's ego. no matter how he presents it, after this war is over Putin will be seen as one of hte worst Russian leaders who led to the Russian federations downfall and possible break up . he will be compared to Nicholas II and hitler. by future historians,
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  281. Trump is simply one of the worst USA presidents ever. and the worst Presidential candidate ever. he will be in the history books, worse than Nixon, and the Trump name will be in the garbage can.
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  282. Zelensky before the war was quite popular in Russia as an actor. and yes while now he is hated in Russia, I think Zelensky in the long run after the war is over will be more popular in Russia than Putin.
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  283. yah bet you the guy ruling Russia now Patrushev who has been amusingly given the title aide to the Russian pres. is the real leader of Russia, and is even more of a war hawk than Putin, having won the power struggle vs. Shoigu. That is why the FSB is now running the war in Ukraine and given the military leadership to run the Kursk offensive. Reminds me of the USSR leader Andropov who in my opinion was even more of a anti USA hawk than Brezhnev that was why you had near WW3 tensions with the Soviets during his term(interestingly Andropov was ex KGB, and Putin and Patrushev greatly admired Andropov).
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  284. Alan Lichtman says Polls are bullshit , it how you rule the country which decides the elections. 13 keys to the white house.
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  285.  @sebastianforbes1  yah cause the enemy keeps on attacking you , you dont run , you fight unless you chicken you run, Ukrainians smart, they fight hit on hard, move back then fight hit you hard then move back.
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  286. Putin died already on Oct 2023, I belive that and a power struggle in the shadows on the quiet or not so quiet between Shoigu and Patrushev characterized by arrests and assasiantions of gov officials, oligarchs, and military officers. Looks like Patrushev won with the arrests of Shoigu's closest buddies. I think a Kamala harris win will send shockwaves in the Kremlin and a possible swan lake being played on Russian TV might happen in 2025 paving the way for real negotiations to end the war.
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  287. and I think Russia will not be able to intervene when Georgia overthrows the Georgian dream party and replaces it with a Pro EU gov. Currently the Russian North Caucasus military district has about a division worth of troops and in no condition to attack anyone most of their usual deployments have been sent to Ukraine where many thousands have become casualties, even their South Ossetian and Abkhazian puppets are not willing to fight for Russia with thousands dying in Ukraine.
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  288. also I do believe the Ukrainians have done a marvelous deception campaign to fool the Russians saying that they are low in reserves and their forces weak. I think the Ukrainians have a lot of reserves which is just waiting for the right target to hit. and that will be the major punch coming for the Russians.
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  289. Russia is always underestimating Ukraine, despite the facts, I think mental illness and cope is rife in the Russian military and civilian leadership.
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  290. Yep bet you Patrushev runs Russia right now , and after this war is over, whoever is running will blame Putin for everything.
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  291. as his biographer said, Trump is all spectacle acting, he wants conflict, to grab the headlines. that is trump all show nothing underneath.
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  292. Im catholic but I dont listen to the pope , the last good pope I actually listened to was Pope John Paul II. who was very influential in the cold war. after him all the popes are mehhh, like his succesor the former hitler youth pope who resigned. and the current pope who seems to be pro Putin.
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  293. It will be quite hilarious, if Trump does his end the Ukraine war diplomacy but plays both sides to get maximum profit for himself and his cronies of course. while the negotiations are happening fighting is still going on, while the Americans do not send free aid to Ukraine, Trump is actually convinced to allow the sale of weapons and supplies to Ukraine, via the billions the EU and allies will give to Ukraine. Trump is very much transactional and he can be tempted and bribed , so the Russians and Ukrainains will play a game of bribery with trump all the while war goes on, I think the Europeans will probably speed up their weapon transfers to Ukraine, and start buying US weapons systems supplies etc. and then tranferring them directly to ukraine esp. artillery ammo. It will be ironic that the US will send these weapons faster as they are bought directly by the EUropeans and Ukrainians, meanwhile the Russians get more frustrated by all this threatens cajoles bribes trump more. The Longer the war goes the more whacked the Russian economy is, more desperate putin becomes the more Trump elon and their cronies can milk the Russians for all they got. Also USA military arms manufactures will get pissed off if they dont profit from this war.
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  294. now the clown will kaput the KGB agent in reputation...HOW EMBARASSING
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  295. it will be most amusing if the Russian fed after this war is over goes into civil war and breaks up all because Russians fought and died for Putin's ego and reputation. WOW,,,,,future Russians will say how Russians of 2024 could be so stupid to still support Putin in this war.
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  296. actually the European powers must focus on neutralizing Russian power, a lot of it has already been kaput in Ukraine, Ukraine will be the anvil that Russian power is decimated, when you have the Russians properly weakened with a different gov then you will have peace in Europe Europeans dont have to rely on the Americans to protect them from a severely weakened Russia. or Russia in turmoil. Heck Ukraine would be the shield to protect Europe from a future Russian threat. if it ever happens after Russia goes into Time of troubles 2.0.
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  297. If Putin is dead which I actually believe he is. I think the powers that be are just waiting for the results of the 2024 USA elections, if Trump wins war continues since its predicated by them that the loss of USA support will mean the Russians win the war by keeping their winnings so they can spin this as a victory. If Kamala wins, they will cut their losses and negotiate a end to the war with terms favourable to Ukraine. Either way, Putin will be declared to have died of natural causes(even though he died in Oct 2023 with his body in deep freeze) and be blamed for all the failings of the war, in order to solidify the regime of the next Russian leaders to take over. I think a power struggle has been taking place in the Russian gov ever since Putin's supposed death in Oct 2023, and from what I heard Shoigu and Patrushev took control of the gov soon after Putin's supposed death then a power struggle occured between Shoigu and Patrushev. with Patrushev winning. Patrushev may be seen as a crazy more radical war hawk than Putin but I think he is pragmatic. Since its not his war he can negotiate a end to the war. However I dont think Patrushev has the management abilities of Putin. So while I think Kamala harris winning 2024 will bring the war to an end in 2025, in what way the war will end in the negotiating table is something to contemplate and the state of Russia after the war.
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  298.  @FunRunEndsInTragedy  the double of course.
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  299. Ive read excerpts from the upcoming Bob Woodward book war, seems like the Russians were strongly contemplating to use nukes in the aftermath of the Ukrainian oct counteroffensive which took back 50 percent of what they lost in the process mauling 3 Russian divisions. After the Americans found out, Biden had Jake Sullivan and lloyd Austin basically tell the Kremlin that the use of Russian nukes in Ukraine will basically result in war with NATO. Reportedly Shoigu replied that he does not like being threatened to which Lloyd Austin replied, I am the leader of the greatest military power in human history and we do not make threats, haahah that supposedly scared the crap out of the Russians.
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