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23 Feb 2025, 6:58 am

carlos55 wrote:


The distance between for example London and Moscow is 2.500 km. That's well below the 12.000 max range of the UK missiles. Russia is not some tough warrior looking for a fight to death. It's a bully looking for an easy prey.


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23 Feb 2025, 3:20 pm

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What a bunch of twiddle twaddle!

The US has not bombed Tahiti, either. Is that because we are terrified of Tahiti? Not hardly.

Methinks you are missing the most important point -- the US is not going to bomb North Korea just because the North Koreans are being belligerent little twats. In case of a war, the ones who would really suffer would be South Korea, not the US.


If you want to call blatantly and openly threatening to nuke you while firing test missiles towards your country (the US) as being a bit belligerent like a naughty child lol

2017 article:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017 ... orth-korea

Tensions got so bad there was even a nuclear alert in Hawaii

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawa ... sile_alert

So they invaded Iraq to kick it out of Kuwait, invaded it again because of a potential chemical weapons program they found threatening to the US , they bombed Libya because they didn't like their leader. The bombed Serbia because they had invaded its neighbour. Syria because they used chemical weapons.

But didn't bomb N Korea because its directly threatening to use nukes against them lol

Doesn't make much sense.

If Russia is so weak , its nukes will explode in the silos, it solders too drunk to fight, why for all the condemnation didn't Biden bomb them?

Why didn't he use the US air force or even cruise missiles to take out Russian positions while they were advancing on Ukraine positions since the Ukrainians were being beaten back & in theory would have been a game changer.

There`s only one conclusion because they were scared of the Russian response on them. If they are scared now, what makes anyone think they wont be scared in the future.

Now Ukraine has been largely destroyed from 3 years bombing, half its population left, lost 20% of its territory, a million of its best soldiers dead.

Things are so desperate they need to lower the conscription age to 18, but there is hardly any 18-24 year olds left to fight. Ukraine had a demographic crisis before the war & the best have already fallen.

But NATO still dangle the NATO membership to Ukraine.

NATO has a rule no membership to counties with border disputes, so for Ukraine to even be considered NATO membership they would have to fight their way through thousands of sq miles of Russian held territory with hardly any airforce or army left. Then invade Crimea, a large mountainous peninsula which is heavily populated by ethnic Russians.

You don't need to be a military general to see that that is not going to happen.

Of course they could give NATO membership today & they would be in a state of war with Russia today, it appears they don't want to do that for reasons mentioned.

But are happy to continue to send men to their deaths for something unachievable just to make a point

I wouldn't listen to what politicians say rather what they do, the best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour.

Good video basically confirms everything I said

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7MzKB-HDI ... J5IHNhY2hz


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23 Feb 2025, 6:23 pm

We must be scared of them because we haven't bombed them?

There is nothing about such ideas that rings the slightest bit true.

The North Korean military is so outmatched that beating them in war wouldn't be at all difficult.

They may have a large military for their country size, but they aren't a good military. They showed in the Ukraine that they aren't even prepared to fight a modern war. They flat out do not have the capacity to take on a modern military. They would be wiped out in no time at all.

Their military is ranked as 34th in the world, behind Mexico and Argentina and ahead of Bangladesh and the Netherlands.

South Korea, on the other hand, has the 5th ranked military in the world.



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24 Feb 2025, 8:05 am

kokopelli wrote:
We must be scared of them because we haven't bombed them?

There is nothing about such ideas that rings the slightest bit true.

The North Korean military is so outmatched that beating them in war wouldn't be at all difficult.

They may have a large military for their country size, but they aren't a good military. They showed in the Ukraine that they aren't even prepared to fight a modern war. They flat out do not have the capacity to take on a modern military. They would be wiped out in no time at all.

Their military is ranked as 34th in the world, behind Mexico and Argentina and ahead of Bangladesh and the Netherlands.

South Korea, on the other hand, has the 5th ranked military in the world.


Russia is number 2 on the respected firepower index

https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-listing.php


You keep repeating the same Hollywood movie narrative of drunk badly organised Russian military without giving a logical answer to my slightly rhetorical question.

That being if the Russian army was such a joke and they were so outraged and angry at Putins invasion they didn’t use military force at all like they did to Iraq 1991.

And other interventions since.

Instead they stood back “outraged” and watched a million Ukrainian soldiers die and lose ground, not even giving air support nothing.

The only conclusion that can be had is the US is scared of getting in a fight with Russia.

Even big mouth big “tough guy” Trump dare not attack Russia and is trying to back down.

So nuclear deterrence works as in North Korea.

Will also work with China in Taiwan

Zelensky is becoming a bit of a Russian asset as he keeps bringing this up begging for NATO membership and security guarantees where it’s clear none can be given.

He’s exposing the fact the US is scared to get into a fight with Russia which is probably not being lost in the Baltic states and Poland.

I’m just an average guy with Asperger’s and I’m not even claiming I’m that smart and I can see this. What will smarter experts see in this from China for example .

NATO inaction is obviously weakening NATO weakening the US. Its commitment to fight is being tested and the silence and inaction is deafening.

Which ironically gives even more logic to my argument.

The US can’t protect E Europe or Taiwan so may as well give up trying to be world policeman and spend the money on its people and infrastructure instead of playing cruel games with other countries that cost lives


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24 Feb 2025, 11:50 am

Sounds like somebody puts too much faith into Russia's campaign of information space shaping being based in honesty.


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11 Mar 2025, 11:46 am

Kyiv launches largest ever drone attack on Moscow as Ukraine and U.S. give diplomacy another try

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As American and Ukrainian officials met Tuesday in Saudi Arabia for talks on ending Russia’s invasion, Kyiv and Moscow were counting the costs from a night of firing hundreds of missiles and drones at each other.

Russia resumed its almost nightly strikes on Ukraine, whose defenses shot down 114 drones, Ukrainian officials said. But less familiar was the massive wave of drones Kyiv launched on Moscow, which Russian authorities said was the largest such attack on the capital and surrounding area.

The Russian Defense Ministry said it downed 337 Ukrainian drones, 91 of which came down in the Moscow region. Two people were killed and 18 were injured, while air and rail travel faced huge disruptions. Ukraine said among its targets were oil production and pipeline control facilities.

Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz met with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine's presidential office.

"We have to understand the Ukrainian position and just have a general idea of what concessions they would be willing to make," Rubio told reporters on the plane to Saudi Arabia on Monday. "You're not going to get a ceasefire and an end to this war unless both sides make concessions."

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called the drone strike on his city as the “largest” such attack on the Russian capital.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a Telegram post that their drones successfully struck the Moscow Oil Refinery, on the southeastern edge of the capital, which it said provides up to half of the city's gas and diesel needs.

It blamed Russian air defense for damage to civilian infrastructure facilities."

American podcaster Lex Fridman posted to X on Tuesday that he was in Moscow and that the "mass drone attack hit very close to where I am located." He added that "when I traveled to Ukraine there were a few close calls. And same in Moscow now. These are not actions of two sides that are pushing for peace."


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