@maggiore71@TLunveiled@khodorkovsky_en You invented the character, then argued with your invention.
“Russian bot” is just the latest costume because the actual point clearly became too expensive to answer
@DespoticLiberal@RPhiliponet This is barely an argument; it’s a pile of unrelated metrics. 😂 Distance, casualties and ammunition imports don’t answer the original point: foreign troops fighting beside you do not magically cancel great-power status. You just changed the test after your first one collapsed.
@DespoticLiberal@RPhiliponet “Everyone expected” isn’t a military metric. and no official Russian plan promised victory in weeks. Four years of adaptation and sustained war don’t fit “hollow.”
@DespoticLiberal@RPhiliponet 😂 You keep grading Russia against the fantasy of conquering Ukraine in weeks. Try grading Ukraine too: years of NATO weapons, intelligence, training and money, yet Russia still holds large occupied territories. You can’t use battlefield results to mock only one side.
@DespoticLiberal@RPhiliponet 😂 So now the rule is:
Ukraine + NATO support = resilience.
Russia + North Korean support = humiliation.
The battlefield doesn’t award style points for having fashionable allies.
@mehboul_ta3_sah@TLunveiled@InfosMinutesFR 😂 Justement, génie : Il n’a jamais dit que tu avais parlé de soutien militaire. Tu dis “l’Algérie est clairement dans le camp saoudien”, lui il te répond
que préférence diplomatique ≠ alignement stratégique. Insulter ne répare pas ton problème de lecture.
@DespoticLiberal@RPhiliponet 😂 Try the opposite frame: a country armed, financed, trained and fed intelligence by the NATO bloc has still failed to expel Russia and is still losing territory.
If Russia’s performance is “humiliating,” what exactly do you call that?
@TheAngrySaxon22@PaulNiland@TLunveiled 😂 That’s not strategy, that’s fan fiction prediction by mood .
Maybe they overreach. Maybe Europe overreacts. Maybe both sides climb another rung. The enemy still gets a move after your satisfying little climax.
@TheAngrySaxon22@TLunveiled@PaulNiland “Everything Ukraine does is retaliation.” 😂
Fantastic, we can fire all the strategists now. No need to evaluate targets, costs, escalation or consequences. Just stamp RETALIATION on every Ukrainian move and assume Russia politely accepts the moral verdict
@MB7Art@JohannaNyman5 Ah yes, geopolitics by prophecy: “One day Ukraine will be free.” 😂
Great. Now replace the slogan with a strategy. Who removes Russia, with what forces, at what cost, and through what escalation ceiling?
Calling the enemy “fascist” doesn’t answer any of that.
@JohannaNyman5 There’s something equally repulsive about sitting safely in the West and demanding Ukrainians keep fighting indefinitely while they pay in blood.
Apparently Ukraine is defending Europe, but the bodies must remain Ukrainian
@Jay_Beecher The ugly reality is that modern war runs through logistics. A warehouse can feed civilians and troops at the same time. A rail line can move commuters and ammunition.
Civilian status is not erased casually, but neither is it determined by a Twitter caption.
@Kasparov63 Ah yes, geopolitics by oncology. 😂 Russia is “cancer,” therefore no win-win, no compromise, no settlement, only removal. Very neat. Once you turn a state into a disease, every escalation suddenly sounds like treatment.
@CaolanReports The real ceiling is set by the powers that can escalate this beyond Ukraine: Russia and the US. Their dialogue, will shape the settlement.
Ukraine is the battlefield. The vassals and clients will adjust to whatever balance the major powers finally establish.
@McFaul If your model for changing relations with Russia requires defeating its army, overthrowing its government, occupying the country and imposing democracy, then congratulations ,you don’t have a diplomatic strategy.
You have a fantasy plan for conquering a nuclear superpower.
@Dannyboyish@Gerashchenko_en “Absolutely” 😂 Based on what?
You have no idea who replaces Putin, what faction backs him, or what he needs to do to survive politically. A successor could end the war, continue it, or become even harder.
Changing the man doesn’t magically delete Russia’s interests