Aren't you a ray of sunshine.

Russia labored under the assumption that they only had to worry about the line of contact in the East, and left the rest of the border relatively unguarded. The Kursk offensive shattered this illusion and now requires Russia to exert much more resources to prevent future incursions.

And BTW the idea that Ukraine wants to destroy Russia is absolutely ludicrous. They didn't start the war and the goal is to kick Russia out of Ukraine and reestablish the borders that Russia signed on to respect in more than one binding treaty.

Beats me why you would adopt such absurd positions if you weren't in fact Russian.

Mearsheimer is well past his use-by date. A fossil stuck in Cold War thinking.

Russia had NATO at their border for twenty years when the Baltic republics joined. A ballistic missile can reach Moscow from there as quickly as from Ukraine and get much faster to Saint Petersburg.

Also Putin is not a complete idiot, and only a complete idiot would have not foreseen that Finland will join NATO after a full on Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Clearly it was never about NATO.

It's about Russia not accepting a sovereign Ukraine. Russia can only accept a Ukraine that is a fully controlled vassal. If that is not in the cards it needs to be subjugated. Internally the Kremlin makes no qualms about this motive. The NATO smokescreen is for fools like you.

Five Eyes is so last century.

What Western country will at this point still share critical intelligence with DC?

That's some impressive copium.

All you have is infantile both siding when one side started it and has a clear record of targeting hospitals and civilians - especially kids - unforgotten the targeted attack on the theater in Mariupol.

You lack any moral compass.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/lat...

You are just spouting Russian propaganda verbatim.

Pretty much everything you are writing is a blatant lie.

Yanukovych could have served out his term and accept responsibility for his crimes and corruption, but he rather decided to flee to Moscow. At which point the Ukrainian parliament had no other choice as to impeach him. BTW almost all members of Yanukovych own party voted for his impeachment as well.

The "civil war" was instigated by the Kremlin, pretending that Russian speakers are automatically "ethnic Russians". There is no such thing they are all Slavs and the Soviet Union force Russification an all its territories. So even Zelensky's first language is Russian.

The fact that Russian troops were active in Eastern Ukraine in 2014 is overwhelming, as well as the evidence that Russia is responisible for the downing of MH17.

https://www.icao.int/Newsroom/...

That is why the EU price cap is so important.

China and India get a nice deal but Russia gets significant less revenue, while the world oil marker remains well supplied keeping our gas prices in check.

And natural gas export mostly relies on pipelines and they have none that go to India or China. And interestingly the latter does not seem to be terribly interested in building one. Russia's natural gas exports cratered.

Russia had NATO at their border for twenty years when the Baltic republics joined. A ballistic missile can reach Moscow from there as quickly as from Ukraine and get much faster to Saint Petersburg.

Also Putin is not a complete idiot, and only a complete idiot would have not foreseen that Finland will join NATO after a full on Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Clearly it was never about NATO.

By listening to what the Kremlin spouts rather than analyzing what they do, it is you, my friend. who falls for propaganda.

Due to the Russian armies corruption and culture of "zeroing own" the kill ratio at this point will be 5:1 or better.

https://en.zona.media/article/...

The attacker always suffers more loses against a well entrenched defending force, but Russia's "meat assaults" are taking this to an entire new, absurd level.

Vatniks pretended that "Russia already won" for the entirety of this war. It's getting old.

Show me a single Russian video that illustrates how a Russian drone lead a Ukrainian soldier who surrendered to safety.

There are several documented cases of Ukrainians doing just that for Russian soldiers.

On the other hand it is well documented at this point that Russian forces often kill Ukrainian soldiers who surrender. And the ones imprisoned face abuse and torture.

  https://news.un.org/en/story/2...

Also you are comparing the wanton killing of a toddler to the fate of soldiers, who signed up to serve in a war of aggression. Take a look in the mirror, pal, and ask yourself what the heck you are doing here.

You will get a first class demonstration as to why libertarian small government utopia is but a fantasy.

Capitalism and markets don't just arise as humanity's natural state. They are created by strong government through the enforcement of contract law and by creating a level playing field. Public R&D serves as a multiplier generating far more wealth down the line then what has to be invested up front.

Anyhow, enjoy your age of austerity.

And in order to escape the terror of the pronouns the republic had to be burned down and the earth salted.

Great job snowflake!
 

If you don't monitor it the problem will surely go away,

Elon settled SpaceX with the disastrous decision to use stainless steel for the Starship. So it'll be interesting to see how much money he will have to throw at it.