The word “gradually” is doing some heavy lifting in your post. the economist estimates that russia has only captured an additional 1.45% of ukraine in 3 fucking years. the surge you mentioned has been a month long. it will sputter, just like every other putin blunder. russia has a lot of meat to throw at the enemy and the russian plebs seem remarkably complacent about putin’s misrule, but they can’t sustain this level of pressure.
here’s a chart to put your claim in perspective:
as for russia’s economy being strong - their interest rate is 16.5 percent. inflation is rampant. the us just made it harder for russia to sell oil with new sanctions on lukoil and rosnef. what school of economics do you beong to that calls this situation “holding on strong”?
the evidence that russia influenced the election is pervasive. so many maga influencers have been revealed as foreign accounts. i wouldn’t be too surprised to learn that you yourself are a russian bot, so uncritically do you spout moscow propaganda.
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i wouldn’t be too surprised to learn that you yourself are a russian bot
wouldn’t be too surprised to learn that you yourself are a russian bot, so uncritically do you spout moscow propaganda.
Yeah, no shit the “evidence is pervasive” when your standard of evidence for declaring someone a Russian agent is “they disagree with me”
You are a fascist, you are a Nazi ranting about Judeo-Bolshevick conspiracies, you are a McCarthyist ranting about communist subversion of our precious bodily fluids.
There’s no evidence that the collapse in Ukrainian defenses will slow down, rather it seems like it will accelerate as strongholds fall and the war becomes increasingly unpopular. Russia isn’t trying to take all of Ukraine, just the four oblasts, the Economist is trying to frame it as total and complete conquest of Ukraine. When compared to Russia’s actual objectives, Russia is advancing steadily.
Further, Russia does not “throw meat” at the war. Russians are largely supportive of Putin right now because he’s doing a balancing act between appeasing the Russian capitalist class and the rising socialist movements in the public. Russia’s economy is holding strong, the sheer fact that sanctions are still coming out means they haven’t been effective thus far. I belong to the Marxist school of economics, which recognizes actual production over the largely financial western economies.
Your final accusation that I’m a bot for not agreeing with you is just the cherry on top. You give clear examples of liberals manipulating data like the economist graph and using percentages of total Ukrainian territory and not the Donbass region, because when we measure Russia by its ability to achieve its actual goals its clear that its rapidly advancing towards them. You’re quite literally uncritically spouting liberal, western propaganda that falls apart at the slightest prodding.
The word “gradually” is doing some heavy lifting in your post. the economist estimates that russia has only captured an additional 1.45% of ukraine in 3 fucking years. the surge you mentioned has been a month long. it will sputter, just like every other putin blunder. russia has a lot of meat to throw at the enemy and the russian plebs seem remarkably complacent about putin’s misrule, but they can’t sustain this level of pressure.
here’s a chart to put your claim in perspective:
as for russia’s economy being strong - their interest rate is 16.5 percent. inflation is rampant. the us just made it harder for russia to sell oil with new sanctions on lukoil and rosnef. what school of economics do you beong to that calls this situation “holding on strong”?
the evidence that russia influenced the election is pervasive. so many maga influencers have been revealed as foreign accounts. i wouldn’t be too surprised to learn that you yourself are a russian bot, so uncritically do you spout moscow propaganda.
I could name a hundred things that are both pervasive and false. Previously:
These kinds of accusations get removed.
Yeah, no shit the “evidence is pervasive” when your standard of evidence for declaring someone a Russian agent is “they disagree with me”
You are a fascist, you are a Nazi ranting about Judeo-Bolshevick conspiracies, you are a McCarthyist ranting about communist subversion of our precious bodily fluids.
There’s no evidence that the collapse in Ukrainian defenses will slow down, rather it seems like it will accelerate as strongholds fall and the war becomes increasingly unpopular. Russia isn’t trying to take all of Ukraine, just the four oblasts, the Economist is trying to frame it as total and complete conquest of Ukraine. When compared to Russia’s actual objectives, Russia is advancing steadily.
Further, Russia does not “throw meat” at the war. Russians are largely supportive of Putin right now because he’s doing a balancing act between appeasing the Russian capitalist class and the rising socialist movements in the public. Russia’s economy is holding strong, the sheer fact that sanctions are still coming out means they haven’t been effective thus far. I belong to the Marxist school of economics, which recognizes actual production over the largely financial western economies.
Your final accusation that I’m a bot for not agreeing with you is just the cherry on top. You give clear examples of liberals manipulating data like the economist graph and using percentages of total Ukrainian territory and not the Donbass region, because when we measure Russia by its ability to achieve its actual goals its clear that its rapidly advancing towards them. You’re quite literally uncritically spouting liberal, western propaganda that falls apart at the slightest prodding.