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On August 18 2025 00:19 Billyboy wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2025 23:23 Billyboy wrote:On August 13 2025 05:53 zeo wrote:On August 13 2025 03:50 Excludos wrote:On August 13 2025 03:48 zeo wrote:The Donbass was never strategically important posts incoming. "Russia is doing better than ever and the economy is booming" posts incoming. I'm sure if you just throw a few more hundred thousand men on the fire, all your problems will finally go away. Any day now Ah yes, the side losing a bajillion men a month is just walking 18km into empty and undefended newly built one billion USD defensive networks because the other side with a supposed million man army has no casualties and just got tired of killing Russians. Yeah, lets take units directly from the front lines of other areas to stop the breakthrough. No need for reserves that are totally there and exist. Everything is fine lol  What did the Russians do with this massive gift? What is your information telling you? From this side of the world it looks like they were beaten back or encircled and mostly captured and killed. Since zeo had no response and everything from the bloggers is coming out as positive with Russian soldiers all being encircled and beaten back, it looks that they were not able to take advantage of this break through. They are continuing to sacrificing "bajillion" men for a couple square KMs but everything is still pretty stable.
The breakthrough is pretty much over judging from the reports. Russians were stopped, then cut off and encircled. They tried advancing in a different direction but this also didn't go well for them.
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By the way, I'm really wondering why US is even involved in the peace talks? From the data it seems that this year they provided pretty much no support to Ukraine whatsoever and it's Europe that has been picking up the slack and expanding their infrastructure so they can supply the same amount of military aid to Ukraine without US as they did with US last year.
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/
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^ I suspect, because IF the US firmly picked a side, that side would be 'guaranteed' to 'win'.
Europe expanding now to potentially provide more support later isn't particularly relevant. The US could end the war tomorrow.
It's not a good reason per se, but it feels obvious that Zelensky & Putin absolutely will always want to court American favour.
This would feel like an obvious statement under any president other than DJT, but alas here we are. X_X
I feel like the UK, France or Germany could also end the war quickly, but it wouldn't be simply a flick of the wrist.
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On August 18 2025 10:18 Manit0u wrote:By the way, I'm really wondering why US is even involved in the peace talks? From the data it seems that this year they provided pretty much no support to Ukraine whatsoever and it's Europe that has been picking up the slack and expanding their infrastructure so they can supply the same amount of military aid to Ukraine without US as they did with US last year. https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/
Trump has made no attempt to hide that he wants a Nobel Peace Price. That's all there is to it
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On August 18 2025 14:02 Excludos wrote:Show nested quote +On August 18 2025 10:18 Manit0u wrote:By the way, I'm really wondering why US is even involved in the peace talks? From the data it seems that this year they provided pretty much no support to Ukraine whatsoever and it's Europe that has been picking up the slack and expanding their infrastructure so they can supply the same amount of military aid to Ukraine without US as they did with US last year. https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/ Trump has made no attempt to hide that he wants a Nobel Peace Price. That's all there is to it
It is so utterly silly that that is a thing. Also so very obvious he just wants it because Obama got one, and he has to be better than the black guy.
(To be fair, the Obama preemptive Nobel peace price for not being G.W.Bush was pretty silly to begin with.)
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Obama getting a Nobel was dumb.
Kissinger getting one after bombing the fuck out of Cambodia and being very active in supporting juntas and cues all over the world was insane.
Trump is never going to get it no matter how many dictators and ass kissers nominate him.
US could end the war if it released the flood gates of equipment, this could have been done by Biden and that + withdrawal from Afghanistan and not actually starting any wars, maybe throw in actually putting pressure on Nethyanahu and not giving the ceasefire "win" to Trump might make him a good candidate for a Nobel.
Unfortunately Biden and his people were afraid of Putin and Bibi so now we get to live in this shitty reality where a reality TV star is trying to make this (and every other) war about himself.
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Russia-Ukraine, India-Pakistan, Israel-Palestine.
All of them just Trump chasing a Nobel prize he will never get.
India even had to come out with a public statement that Trump had nothing to do with ending the conflict because he was taking credit for it.
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