If he gets back in, he’ll never leave.
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Age (and burgers) will take care of it eventually…
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More of a chicken person? I prefer pheasant, if I’m being honest…
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I agree. German military assistance to Ukraine is mediocre (noteworthy, but still mediocre). Part of the explanation can be of course that the Bundeswerhr is starved for spare parts and munitions due to long German tradition to destroy its own armed forces and make them inoperable (looking at you and some of your predecessors, Ursula). They barely have an armoured brigade operational due to lack of spare parts.
Still, Germany could do a lot more, and should feel a special responsibility given that Germany is partly responsible for destroying deterrence against Russia in Ukraine prior to the invasion by working actively against threats of severe sanctions, thus making an attack obviously more likely since most experts conclude that Russia were surprised as to the eventual strength of sanctions (in deterrence, they need to know beforehand ). If I wanted to be very unfair, I would say Germany is partly responsible for Russia deciding to attack (very many eastern europeans actually claim that), but imo that is a going too far, yet I understand their anger, since Germany has been very unhelpful.
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Yup. They’ve fucked with elections in enough states to ensure victory in 2024, and then we’re finished as a country, IMO.
https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/status/1508784094733291527 (big Ukrainian concession to Russia)
https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/status/1508784559319662599
https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/status/1508784703830212608
https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/status/1508785414634721294 (further fighting)
https://twitter.com/Militarylandnet/status/1508785735347974152 (Russian climb down)
This was reported yesterday but I didn’t post it:
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My forecast:
If negotiations don’t come to any conclusions (i.e. Ukraine cave in) then they will re-arm, re-organise and make another push with fresh units soon. But for now, Russia claims the unit draw-down is due to decreasing tensions during negotiations (lol, hilarious claim really).
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Lindner is a dick (imho) so I’m inclined to believe he would say something like that. He’s also usually wrong about everything, so…And of course the German government was too slow and could do more.
That being said the Ukrainian ambassasdor to Germany, Melnyk…I don’t know, his behaviour, while understandable, I feel like is starting to hurt his cause. He’s been nonstop attacking German politcians, with heavy/foul language and it doesn’t help that he’s publicly layed flowers on the grave of Ukrainian fascist and Nazi collaborateur Bandera. It just plays into the Russian propaganda narrative, a minority of the public here eats that shit up.
Again, I understand his emotions though, of course…
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Lindner hasn’t responded to this yet but if there is any truth in it then I think he’s finished. The Greens stood on a platform that included taking a strong line on Russia and if he has undermined Habeck and Baerboch (Vice chancellor and foreign minister) I don’t think Scholz has any option other than to sack him.
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Your link seems to lead to the MSN site rather than to the original Guardian article.
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Anyone seen the video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting Russian POWs in the legs who are handcuffed as they step off from a truck?
Goes to show there is two sides of the war and one side which the western media ain’t showing because it goes against their narrative