Moses

The war began with the genocide of Russians by the new Ukrainian regime that came to power as a result of a coup. The war began with the bombing of Luhansk on June 2, 2014.

It was only 2 months in 2022, because they had to change logistic to new suppliers... All you other "news" are also new as mammoth.. Current situation - Russia may wait peace - by peace agreement or by force it will get all it need. Ukraine is on knees and no money may substitute lack of man power. EU can't supply Ukraine with man power. So it will be war till last Ukrainian or war till peace agreement. Second option is better for Ukraine, but EU insists on continuation of the war till mythical Ukrainian win. Real reason - profit from weapon trade and dream about arrested $300 billions of Russian reserves. EU bureaucracy dreams to accumulate power in own hands by collecting it from EU states. They need Russia as a reason for such theft of sovereignty.

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https://english.nv.ua/nation/zelenskyy-leads-in-first-round-vote-but-zaluzhnyi-would-win-runoff-poll-50525230.html Even 2 months ago Zelenskiy wasn't favorite in public opinions. Now, when Ukraine lost more than 1700 sq.km additionally, when Ukraine lost 100+ villages and towns, when Zelenskiy agreed to discussion about territories in White House, Zelenskiy lost almost all support - mostly on right and nationalistic wing, and got nothing on left and center. You are living in illusions installed into your heads by Western medias, you are reading filtered news. You are thinking, what when EU bureaucrats say about possibility to "force Russia to peace" they have power to force. Illusions. 18 waves of sanctions don't work. EU speaks how they hate Putin and Russia and at the same time buys gas, fertilizers, titanium and other goods from Russia - in total more than $30 bln in 6 months.

"millions" are forced to "defend country" 18 waves of mobilizations, google word "busification" , "бусификация", and watch videos and pictures from Ukraine They hunting males on streets and forcing them to go to war:

You have to read Ukrainian sources, for example censor.net - far right Ukrainian site... there are almost daily reports and now he has 4%

It is obvious that a significant part of Ukrainians do not like Russia. But they hate the Zelensky regime even more, which, in order to maintain its own power with money from the West, forces Ukrainians to die. Ukrainians are fleeing abroad, breaking through both the peaceful western border and surrendering en masse on the east. Murders of border guards on the western border and breakthroughs of groups unwilling to die for the brown regime occur almost daily. The country, which not long ago had a population of 42 million, now has about 21-23 million. About 5 million fled to the West even before the conflict, when the EU gave Ukraine a visa-free regime. About 2 million went to Russia. After the start of the conflict, Europe accepted 8 million refugees, Russia 3 million. Just last week, the head of the presidential administration of Ukraine and the gray cardinal of Ukraine Yermak decided to hold a meeting with students at one of the major Kyiv universities. He was asked many very unpleasant questions and booed at the end. And it is certainly a coincidence (no), that a law is now being urgently prepared allowing men under 21 to travel abroad, since the current law prohibits travel from 16 to 60 years old. Zelensky is trying to get rid of the electorate that hates him, since elections will have to be held, and Zelensky has no chance with such an electorate.

Well, Zelenskiy had chance to stop counter on a third month of conflict - in Istanbul. But Wests insisted to continue. Since 2022 I write here: West pushing Ukraine into war "till last Ukrainian"; war, which Ukraine never had chance to win. But West do not care and insist on mobilization wave after wave as a condition for money supply.

I don't see Trump as a "strong leader" at all - he is acting like businessman...

Hackers got database of Ukrainian ministry of defense. Ukraine lost in total 1,700,000+ of military personal - died or missed. Samples of docs published by hackers:

Well. I would not like to disappoint you, but the observation is very superficial and so generalized that it does not correspond to the real state of affairs. Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are truly Islamized and homophobic. Moreover, if in Tajikistan there is practically no gay life, then in Uzbekistan it is there and is not too hidden. But to get into this movement, you need to have local acquaintances. But what is noteworthy: in Tajikistan, homosexuality is not punishable by law, but in Uzbekistan there is an article in the criminal code, although in real life everything is the other way around: due to the strong influence of Islam in Tajikistan, a gay person will have much more problems than in fairly secular Uzbekistan, although there is criminal punishment in the country. Kyrgyzstan and, especially, Kazakhstan are secular states where homosexuality has been decriminalized for more than 30 years. The influence of Islam in these countries is much weaker, and in Kazakhstan Islam is not the dominant religion at all, since the country has had a significant Russian diaspora of former Cossacks since the conquest of the steppes several centuries ago. If we place these countries on a scale of anti-gay actions by the state, then the situation of gays in Kazakhstan is better than in Kyrgyzstan and even better than in Russia, although at the everyday level it is a little more complicated. In general, listing Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in one line through a comma is as correct as listing Uganda, Ethiopia, Italy and Germany through a comma as an example of Catholic countries.

By the way, do you know which country is Russia's closest neighbor with a sea border? USA. The distance between the closest territories of the Russian Federation and the USA is only 4 km (2.2 miles)

The Russia/Ukraine conflict was initiated by attempts by Europe and US Democrats to remove Ukraine from Russia's influence. This began in the 2000s with external stimulation of nationalist ideas and sponsorship of nationalist parties, in the hope that Russia, given its weakness at the time, would not be able to keep Ukraine close to itself. There were 3 attempts - 2004, 2008, 2014. The expectation was that under the pretext of "installing democracy" Ukraine would be drawn into NATO and the EU, thereby weakening Russia's strengthening as a global geopolitical player and the second military and nuclear power in the world. Russia has repeatedly stated and warned that it will not tolerate NATO's eastward expansion threatening national security and contradicting national interests. Europe and US Democrats believed that they could cope and overestimated their ability to manage the situation without involving the world in a third world war or a nuclear conflict. The Western-sponsored and encouraged coup in Ukraine in 2014 brought extreme nationalist forces to power and legalized Nazism. This was not accepted by the predominantly Russian population of eastern Ukraine and caused separatist movements and the formation of "republics" in eastern Ukraine. The new Ukrainian regime tried to destroy these "republics" by military means, but encountered fierce resistance: local security forces - the military, police, and secret services - were on the side of the separatists. Then the Kiev regime began regular bombing and shelling of the rebel territories: the first bombing was carried out on June 2, 2014, on the capital of the Luhansk region (and the new "republic"). For almost 8 years, Russia tried to stop this carnage. There was the Minsk Agreement - 1, Minsk Agreement -2. All of them were only on paper and did not stop Ukraine from committing genocide against Russians. On the contrary, over these 8 years, the following were gradually banned in Ukraine: Russian as the second official language, Russian in newspapers, magazines and cinema, Russian-language schools, the Russian Orthodox Church. And more than 16,000 Russians were killed. The trigger for the hot conflict was the inclusion in the Ukrainian constitution of a declaration on joining NATO at the end of 2021, despite Russia's warnings. From that moment on, a military conflict became inevitable. So world came to February 2022. And let me remind you: Russia did NOT plan to seize Ukrainian territories all this time - the "republics" were not recognized by Russia. And even after the start of the military operation, Russia did not recognize them - until the collapse of peace talks in Istanbul in the spring of 2022. Only when Ukraine interrupted peace talks in Istanbul, Russia recognized the "republics", referendums were held in the summer of 2022 and these territories were accepted into the Russian Federation. This happened six months after the start of the conflict and now Ukraine has no chance of getting these territories back. But everything could have turned out differently, if not for the naive ideas of gerontocrats and European bureaucrats about the possibility of overpowering the second military machine and the second nuclear power in the world, if not for Boris Johnson's false promises to Zelensky that Ukraine would defeat Russia.

I do not follow closely internal situation in US, sorry: no interest. But I told already some my impressions in general: US isn't real "democracy" - it is "clan gerontocracy" with strongest corporate influence, legalized bribing in form of lobbying, mess in law, and high crime. Also I wrote already: Trump is doing right things for state in economic in crisis - tariffs, stimulation of local manufacturing, cutting expenses and working with enormous national debt. On geopolitical scene Trump got 2 positive results very fast: Thai/Cambodian crisis and Azerbaijan/Armenia crisis. His participation in regulation of Israeli/Palestinian crisis isn't that successful (I think because of strong pro-Israeli lobby in US).

In UN 1 country = 1 vote

Oh. That they say to you? Fact: only 39 countries from about 200 support sanctions. So, when you think who is in isolation - think twice.

Dear, I can swap ruble to any currency. In bank apps or in exchange stall. Here is no limits on exchange. The only limit is to bring cash over border above $10,000, but why I need cash when I have bank cards? P.S. And before you will start to talk about VISA and MasterCard sanctions... A lot of countries are happy to open bank accounts and issue cards for Russians. I got bank card without visiting China and even without leaving home, just ordered it via app in one of Russian banks for a small fee ($30). Proof: photo of card with this thread in background P.P.S. (just trolling) Oh, I forgot about one more limit: as private person, I can't transfer abroad more than USD 1 million per month without obtaining in advance special permission from Central Bank (I must fill form on website of State service and wait up to 24 hours).

Sure. Like recession in Germany. And in 2022 I wrote, what with sanctions EU will shoot own legs.

Since at any moment it can be exchanged to crypto or any other currency, there is no difference. You still not got? I didn't wrote what US lost global control. I wrote: because of stupidest Biden's decision US lost control on Russian trade: now whole trade is going by alternate channels and US doesn't see where and what Russia buys and sell. Instead of almost total transparency at past, when 95% of trade went via US banks, US now is blind. And that is one of the main reasons why sanctions don't work.

Did you meant "strong"? "Russian ruble: The curious case of the world’s best-performing currency this year" "Ruble is Top Performing Currency outpacing Gold" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/ruble-surges-as-best-performing-global-currency-outpacing-gold I got +35% via currency trade in 6 months. I wrote here back in 2022 that Biden's decision to ban Russia from paying in dollars was the stupidest decision of the century: it is impossible to push Russia out of world trade due to its high share in many markets. Therefore, when sanctions were introduced, Russia simply began to trade in rubles, and this strengthened the ruble. All, what Biden's administration got from this ban - lost control on Russian payments. Just 3 months after Biden boasted that the rate was 200 rubles per dollar, the ruble strengthened 3 times and became 60 rubles per dollar. Reader wrote just six months ago that the ruble collapsed again and became 120:1, and now it is 80:1. Volatility is not a problem, but an opportunity to earn. A lot of money. Meanwhile share of US $ in SWIFT payments dropped from 59.3% in 2021 to 49.1% in August 2024.

you don't see difference btw "deal with enemy" and "waporising in nuclear flame hundreds of thousands of civilians"?

Inflation is covered by bank interest 20-24% all innovations from iPhone to modern processors are still on market, the difference is - now we buying everything from abroad not directly but from UAE, Turkey, Chinese and other distributors, why else EU preparing already 19th wave of sanctions? just because they doesn't work it is funny: German GDP growing is negative while growing of GDP of Russia under sanctions is greater than US GDP growing... Russian international trade after 18 waves of sanctions still brings billions and Russian debt is lower than before and now is just 14% of GDP...

Oh, dear. It is problem of planet Earth: why else decision or prosecutors and courts in US and views on Trump's, Biden's, Obama's actions depends on who is in power in White House?

BBC: real number to May 2025 is 108.600 https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/16/bbc-and-mediazona-confirm-deaths-of-more-than-108-600-russian-soldiers-in-ukraine

Who said I'm running "from Russia"? Server is in Canada, so I'm running from Canada. By the way: have you try to find word "gay" on Siamroads site? I'm sure - you didn't. P.S. Kotov was prosecuted not because he had gay travel agency, but because he opened political club within LGBT clientele Right now bunch of such agencies are working here without problems. For example: https://atour-online.ru/countries/turtsiya/oteli-dlya-odinokih-muzhchin-v-turcii/ - quite large agency (use google translation) - tours for male travelers and nobody will ask you there about your orientation.