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Biden just committed funds to back Ukraine for months - hopefully it’s enough to drive Russians out vs just prolong things. I can’t recall the dollar figure for weapons but it was pretty huge. Maybe enough. Hopefully enough.

China is watching all of this and learning how not to F up invasions, and what American and NATO response capabilities are etc. if they make a push for Taiwan they’ll do it better than putin bungled this that’s for sure.

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

^I think what the Chinese government has actually learned is to go from "better not to 'invade'" to "never 'invade'". At least until the structure of the economy changes - and I see no sign of near-term success.

Chinese citizens' overseas assets and China's dependence on globalization far exceed Russia's.
The government won't be able to suppress the political unrest that the military action will bring to the domestic economy.

And China cannot recruit as many warmongers as Russia. As soon as someone's standard of living falls because of the war they support, that person immediately switches sides.
Chinese people are quite pragmatic.


I think most Chinese people are more concerned about how to make Russia not let its tricks kill itself now.

Love your Attitude Magz you seem to maintain a very upbeat point of veiw ….. thank you .

No referendum on "Kherson people republic", just the puppet "government" asks Moscow to be annexed.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1524380366991204354
Well, I guess if they tried a referendum, they couldn't secure the desired result, even with all their ability to creatively count votes.
And now Moscow will be claiming they're "only protecting their borders" How about Poland "only protecting" their historical borders from 1612?

As we can see, Russia doesn't have the ability to take over even small portions of Ukraine.

They thought they would take Kyiv-----they thought the Ukrainians would just lie down and allow the Big Bad Bear Russians to conquer them.

Even at a considerable loss of life, and temporary loss of livelihood, the Ukrainians have not "lied down," and they are now, at times, even taking the offensive.

Kherson is the only major city Russians managed to capture but I wouldn't say they couldn't "take over even small portions of Ukraine". They occupy quite a bit of it and from what we know - it's very bad for the people there

I based my supposition on maps of Ukraine. Very little of Ukraine, especially west of the territories the Russians "recognized" were actually under Russian control.

Obviously, atrocities occurred in places under Ukrainian control, primarily. Because of shelling, artillery, etc. And there were disastrous sieges. Mariupol, is an obvious example. The Russians besieged Mariupol, but didn't actually capture it.

Where in the world did I say that Ukrainians aren't suffering considerably? Where did I downplay their suffering?

The regions in red are not small.

Sure, the rest of the country is big (but not really safe due to shellings) and the initial Russian plan failed spectacularily - but it's a big deal to regain the internationally-recognized territory and liberate the people there.

I think it's a big deal, too-----where did I ever state that it's not a big deal?

I know.....it's mostly the territories the Russians "recognized." And adjacent places. And mostly in the east. And it has been stated that Ukraine is on the "offensive" in some of those places.

Right now, it is said that about 3/4 of Kyiv's residents have moved back into Kyiv.

Please.....I never said that it's not a dire situation there, to say the least. I didn't mean to minimize what is happening there. About a quarter to a third of the population displaced. This would be equivalent to about 75 to 100 million people being displaced in the United States.

All I said-----really-----is that the Russians didn't do what everybody expected them to do.

Ukraine is liberating as we speak:

https://babel.ua/en/texts/78555-ukraini ... ublication

Please don't interpret this as a call for NATO, etc., to stop sending aid to Ukraine.

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I believe Biden has proposed $40 billion in aid to Ukraine.

It has to pass both houses of Congress.

The House of Representatives approved $40 billion in aid to Ukraine. The Senate will likely pass it as well.