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' knows the West knows he’s in trouble .. This war .. was always about economics. It would be a true triumph if Ukraine could outlast the mighty Russian oil saturated economic monster. Because that’s all it ever had, oil & gas. Who even knows of a genuine Russian manufactured consumer product anyone wants?
If Ukraine and the West keep up their economic pressure the time to collapse i
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Archive '..Ukraine must keep pushing these drone attacks, already they have spread to oil pipelines and pumping stations, gas piping stations and factories. Keep it up and it will have the impact they seek. Remain relentless. Win.'
- Ukraine's Oil War on Russia, February 4, 2025
Context '..carte blanche'
('There is 1 year left. We are 75% done.') - '..
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Archive 'Negotiations should go like this:
Putin asks
you say we’re not ready yet
wait 6-8 months
Putin will ask again
you agree to start
make it drag on 6-12 months
every day that passes putin gets weaker, and more eager to end things.
Eventually he will give you what you want.'
'There is absolutely no reason for Ukraine to negotiate with Russia, at all, for any reason, in th
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Archive 'Trump will want a quick deal, but he cannot be a loser on this. So, the more Ukraine keeps fighting, hold fast, surely and literally, ‘all hands on deck’, avoiding more (substantial) loss of territory and surely avoiding mistakes of military management and tactical choices, Ukraine must and will resist.'
'Ukraine must look at the resilience and cunning of either Finland or Isra
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Archive 'Certainly what is the case is that if Ukraine’s partners pulled out the stops and provided support to this campaign, the Russian ability to make money from oil would not just be damaged for days, it would be months or longer.
In other words, it would help Ukraine win the war.'
'In other words, the Trump administration has already started to actively weaken Ukraine.
And re
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Archive 'Velez-Green, who now serves as the senior adviser to the undersecretary of defense for policy, told Stars and Stripes last year that requirements in the Pacific mean European allies will need to shoulder a much larger share of the security burden on the Continent.'
'President Donald Trump’s team of defense advisers is taking shape, this week adding two high-level officials who
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Archive Unleash hell.
Context No Holding Back
No mercy to 'a fascist imperialist regime..' - 'It is normal for Russia to lose wars.'
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Archive 'The Blinken/Sullivan duo will be studied for achieving the impossible - that has the most disastrous foreign policy of the US in the last thirty years after the end of the Cold War.'
- Velina Tchakarova (Source, January 6, 2025)
'Now in Washington, there is no talk about the so-called end state of Russia .. The key issue is the willingness to take risks. Both for the Unit
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Archive '..Putin has failed, and only Western cowardice can save him.'
- Joni Askola (Source, December 25, 2024)
'..Most of the European states polled think they are not giving enough . For anyone concerned about the other poll trends, they need to be message amplifiers on why defeating Russia benefits THEIR country's economy & security.'
- Florida-Boy (Source, De
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Archive 'There can be no ceasefire without clear and comprehensible security guarantees for Ukraine.'
- Zelenskyy
'Defense expert warns against freezing Russo-Ukrainian war without weakening Moscow.
Mykola Bielieskov cautions that a rushed ceasefire without security guarantees would enable Russia's strategy to destabilize Ukraine systematically.'
- Euromaidan (Sourc
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Archive '"NEW!!! White House says Biden today virtually met with G7 Leaders and encouraged them to unlock the full value of immobilized russian sovereign assets, including by finding a legal pathway to seize the principal value of the assets to provide Ukraine resources it needs. (Alex Raufoglu, December 15, 2024)"
This is the most significant thing that the allies can do to save Ukrai
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Archive 'With Syria fully lost and Africa on the verge being lost or at least diminished, Russia is in the ropes. The wisest decision for the West would be to unleash whatever had been held back. It is an even more ideal time to do so. It is time to finish the job..'
- Tendar (Source, December 12, 2024)
'..describing the current security situation as "the worst" in his li
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Archive 'Syria war live news: Opposition takes Damascus, says al-Assad overthrown'
- Al Jazeera (Source, December 8, 2024)
'Syria has shown that Russia:
1. Extremely weak.
2. Has thrown all its resources at Ukraine.
This is a very important signal for everyone who has territorial or other conflicts with Russia. Take action.' (Rinat, December 7, 2024)
- Trent Telenk
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Archive 'People in Homs celebrating as if they won the world championship and they have all reason to be. This is how true happiness looks like after 55 years of Assad tyranny. (Source)
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The people in Homs celebrate the fall of the Assad regime.' (Source)
- Tendar, December 7, 2024
'Homs is won. Assad is finished.'
- Charles Lister (Source, December 7, 2024)
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Archive '"No plan" = "no resources". Russia's terrorist empire has been degraded to the breaking point by Ukraine. It will collapse completely unless the West once again throws Putin a lifeline with negotiations & deals. Don’t let up anywhere. Increase the pressure. Finish him.'
- Garry Kasparov (Source, December 6, 2024)
Context 'NATO Chief Urges Mor
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Archive 'If only Ukraine’s partners had the courage to arm Ukraine to win, Putin might have made the stupidest strategic decision in history.'
- Prof. Phillips P. O’Brien (Source, December 6, 2024)
Context 'Crimea is Ukraine. Donetsk is Ukraine. Kherson is Ukraine. Luhansk is Ukraine. Zaporizhzhia is Ukraine..'
'What are Ukraine's borders? .. they’re internatio
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Archive 'NATO’s new top diplomat suggested on Tuesday that Ukraine should put off any peace talks with Russia until Western allies can send enough military aid to help Kyiv push ahead on the battlefield and garner a stronger negotiating position.'
- NATO Chief Urges More Weapons for Ukraine Ahead of Any Peace Talks, December 3, 2024
Context 'What are Ukraine's borders? .. th
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Archive 'A rebel advance on Homs, 40km south of Hama, could meanwhile cut Damascus off from the coastal region..'
'Syrian rebels have captured the city of Hama, a major victory in a week-old lightning advance across northern Syria and a devastating new blow to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies.
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The collapse of Syrian government control in the n
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Archive 'Russia's position in Syria is collapsing like the US position in Iraq did during the Obama Administration era ISIL/ISIS offensives.'
- Trent Telenko (Source, November 30, 2024)
'Pro-Russian/Pro-Syrian accounts on X seem to be a little behind on battlefield developments in Syria.
Assad SAA forces cannot be holding a defense line at Hama, if large columns of Syrian
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Archive 'By all means, ignore the word of the former president of Estonia. I agree with him. The U.S. has enough leverage now to push Russia over the edge towards economic collapse if it chooses to
It’s not there yet, it needs a shove. The U.S. has enough to shove.'
- Prune60 (Source , November 9, 2024)
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(Ukraine can win this war) - The Northern Group-Ukraine format
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Archive 'Twelve European countries and Ukraine have established a new defense cooperation format.
The Northern Group-Ukraine format includes Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland, the Baltic countries, as well as the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland.'
- Roman Sheremet (Source, November 21, 2024)
Context (Russia, a fascist imperialist regime, must lose) - 'It is nor
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Archive 'The Russian railway system is now falling apart. 2/
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The Russian rail system collapse sequence is as follows:
1st trains on remote Russian rail lines derail.
2nd more Russian trains on lines closer to Moscow derail.
3rd the Russian repair trains derail on the way to open derailments. 9/
4th we see triage as the Russian rail system starts collapsing on a LARGE SCALE.
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Archive '..if Ukraine were helped and kept in the fight with the strong support of its partners, Russia would have real troubles in less than a year .. So, once again, Ukraine can win this war, but not on its own. Russia remains a weak economic power that cannot expand production significantly. The choice we face, which will become increasingly a European one I fear, is whether we do want Ukraine to
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Archive 'Europe can still play an important role in the outcome of this war, but it really has to start standing up now .. expect the USA to be useless.
But thankfully Ukraine is not—it is taking an extreme toll on the Russians—and hoping that Europe steps up to the plate and eats a little meat.'
'..The US was unable to dictate the end of the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Invasion
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Archive 'OK, Trump has won and the GOP will be more powerful than before. Europe should have been preparing for this for years (at least months) but it hasn't. I put together this piece starting a discussion by focussing on just two of the many questions that need to be faced now.
These are:
1) How does Europe keep Ukraine supplied and fighting effectively without the USA
2) How does Europ
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Archive 'The President of Georgia has announced that the parliamentary elections were falsified. Europe must now stand with the Georgian people.'
- Radek Sikorski (Source, October 27, 2024)
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'If Ukraine wins, the whole tide of the anti-democratic movement can be halted and reversed.'
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Archive 'An article worthy of respect. The Biden policy on Ukraine has been a global disaster. He had a chance to commit to democracy and NATO, and he blew it..'
- Prof. Phillips P. O’Brien (Source, October 26, 2024)
'How much of this could have been prevented? Some developments, such as the China-Russia axis and rising rightwing populism, were happening anyway. The war simply acce
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Archive '..the Russian military remains more than beatable if Ukraine’s partners wanted to help Ukraine beat it..'
'Ukraine represents a chance for renewal for Europe, a reassertion of the values of openness and democracy with which it was rebuilt after 1945. If Ukraine wins, the whole tide of the anti-democratic movement can be halted and reversed.
However, if Ukraine is sacrificed,
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Archive '..the analysis for Russia and Ukraine was not only off, it represented the greatest strategic failure in analysis in modern history.'
'..all analysts do make mistakes. Certainly I am no exception. However in this case the mistakes were so grave and had such significant policy implications that they require particular study. This was not a case of just a normal error. As part of
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Archive 'Perhaps the most significant outcome of the 1982 Israeli invasion was the birth of Hezbollah .. Beyond Lebanon and Israel, there is the example of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, a lesson in the wages of unfettered hubris..
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Beware of those who promise a new dawn, the birth of a new Middle East, a new balance of power in the region. Lebanon is a microcosm of all that can go wrong.
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