Some people here look really stupid in hindsight, to put it mildly. How close is it to the acceptance stage now? US and its 50 puppet allies couldn't do any real damage to Russian economy or society in 3 years, and they've tried hard. GDP growth is over 4%, production 4-5%, manufacturing 8-9%, budget deficit under 2% - 2 years in a row. And that's before our agent Trump came into play.
All the foreign agents and traitors gone, culture, education and politics cleaned up, any pro-western sentiment is marginalized, many of those sad bastards now crying out in youtube that they have no money and can't return because of the legal implications. We're getting the new national elite from the front - uncorrupt, patriotic, conservative, pro-Russian, anti-immigrant. Import substitution and lack of competition has done wonders to the economy - a lot of companies I know doubled or tripled sales in 3 years. Make no mistake here - I've worked for major players in the biggest fmcg sectors and seen it all myself.
Turned out all this time we had to feed Europe with our cheap resources and allowed them to enjoy huge margins in one of the biggest and most profitable consumer markets in the world. When those european bastards come crawling on all fours, the payback will be enourmous. We're gonna make them restore, rebuild and repay all the damages in Ukraine, Donbass and Crimea for the last 11 years, including death compensations for a million dead ukrainian soldiers, who didn't have to die.

What I think you don't understand is it's already done. You just see the media facade, but the real thing is already done. Ukraine didn't lose this war. USA and Europe did. Joe Biden did - he started the war with Russia and lost miserably, disgracefully, publicly, now they're gonna make the corrupt old fuck a scapegoat in history books. No one gives a damn about Europe. Europe has been our bitch for hundreds of years, coming for our vast resources and getting its ass kicked over and over again. But the big guys want to save face for the US before the world. US doesn't lose. And so that you commoners wouldn't feel bad, they're gonna open up about evil dictator zelensky, ukrainian nazism, biden's family corruption - for the sake of storytelling.

What I think you don't understand is it's already done. You just see the media facade, but the real thing is already done. Ukraine didn't lose this war. USA and Europe did. Joe Biden did - he started the war with Russia and lost miserably, disgracefully, publicly, now they're gonna make the corrupt old fuck a scapegoat in history books. No one gives a damn about Europe. Europe has been our bitch for hundreds of years, coming for our vast resources and getting its ass kicked over and over again. But the big guys want to save face for the US before the world. US doesn't lose. And so that you commoners wouldn't feel bad, they're gonna open up about evil dictator zelensky, ukrainian nazism, biden's family corruption - for the sake of storytelling.

Sad how we had the longest sustained peace in human global history and now we are going to fuck it up

This isn’t even true. Rome was stable for longer. And the “Cold War” doesn’t exactly qualify either. Neither does 9/11, or the Islamic State. Plus, Coronavirus is a symptom as well of an unstable international economic and political system.

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Yeah, you agreed with me because you’re Russian, but you’re also delusional because you’re Russian.

Time to turn that page and move on before it's too late. Trump knows US lost and tries to cut the losses and save face. Go ahead and read first pages of this 3-year ongoing conversation and you'll see who's delusional. US greatly underestimated Russia in the long term and overestimated its own power and its allies. Ukraine lost when it started shelling Donetsk in early February 2022 and provoked Russia's answer. 3 years and a million deaths later it's getting the worst deal ever. But now it's not even about Ukraine - it's about Europe. US is taking NATO infrastructure back to pre-1997 like Putin demanded in 2021, EU pays all the damages, ukraine's demographics suffered irreparable blow, Eastern Europe got millions of far right refugees, Germany forever fucked up its economy. Oh, and next up is Baltics - time to get rid of Kaliningrad's blockade.

It’s very clear you have to treat Trump like a toddler. The Taliban and Putin understand this, but Zelensky does not. You gotta make him feel like a big boy and is very special. Then you can get what you want from when you make him feel good about himself.

This is weird to watch, I have more more respect for Zelenskyy after it for seeming real.

I think Russia should be condemned for invading Ukraine, otoh it seems like Ukraine's plan is to throw people into the meat grinder against them endlessly, and I think it if it continued for 2 more years Ukraine is more likely to collapse than Russia. Russia knows how to avoid being the country who's invasion collapses because they were not prepared to go that long, because that's usually how they win when countries invade them. Ultimately the best you can do may just be letting Russia have the captured territory and preventing a lot of deaths.

ukraine assembled troops and started shelling Donbass weeks before invasion, and Russia had to take in hundreds of thousands of refugees.
ukraine is a corrupt nazi regime - it has to go, one way or another. Captured territory won't be enough - Putin's ultimatum stays, not only for ukraine, but for NATO as well (December 2021, to remind you). Then Europe will pay and repent - finance Donbass and new territories reconstruction (as well as Kursk territories), compensate sanctions to Russia, pay out all the pensions ukraine stole from Donbass population in 10 years. Then some form of long-term compensation to families and children of dead and wounded ukrainians (not involved in war crimes) should be established (like, education, housing, medical care).

You are probably right. But this might be the jolt Europe needs to take up the reigns as leaders of the free world. They have more people than the US by a lot and Russia too and better infrastructure and smarter people in charge. The hope for the free world rests on Europe’s shoulders now as one third of the US was fooled by tabloid crime boss who may more or may not have been a pawn in the continued war Russia is waging against the west

Ukraine is so screwed. Russia's invasion will be a success. I don't know when but it wil happen. With the current US administration, there is just no stopping it. Trump is pro-Putin and pro-Soviet Union. He is not a president, he is a mafia boss, and that's precisely why he adores Putin. It's a sad time watching Trump and Putin divide up Ukraine between themselves.

Anyway, Ukraine is done. The rest of Europe need to move on to how they protect themselves against the next phase of Putin's war against the western world.

The hope for the free world rests on Europe’s shoulders now as one third of the US was fooled by tabloid crime boss who may more or may not have been a pawn in the continued war Russia is waging against the west

Ukraine is so screwed. Russia's invasion will be a success. I don't know when but it wil happen. With the current US administration, there is just no stopping it. Trump is pro-Putin and pro-Soviet Union. He is not a president, he is a mafia boss, and that's precisely why he adores Putin. It's a sad time watching Trump and Putin divide up Ukraine between themselves.

Anyway, Ukraine is done. The rest of Europe need to move on to how they protect themselves against the next phase of Putin's war against the western world.