Is the Ukraine-Russia conflict really just a proxy war between the US and China?

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  1. PARTIZAN1

    PARTIZAN1 Well-Known Member

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    Of course they “could”. What I do not believe is that there are tens of thousands of foreign mercenaries fighting for Ukraine. There are not 20,000 Polish troops fighting in Ukraine incognito. as someone else ( not you) claimed.
     
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    There is absolutely a cooperation between Putin and the oligarchs. Sort of an “honor” system between thieves.

    PS You do know that George Soros, the Bildeburgers, and a network of unnamed bankers originally from the ancient Middle East run the world. Ha ha ha ,
     
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    The oligarchs don't control when or if WWIII begins.
    The generals do, and Russian generals view the conflict in Ukraine as existential; you and I may disagree, but that changes nothing. When (not if) the puppet government in Ukraine crashes Poles will rush to "liberate" western Ukraine, and Biden will vomit-up "We Must Do Something." What happens next is TBD.

    All oligarchs are greedy; they made billions from WWI and II. and they are arrogant enough to believe WWIII will be even more profitable.
     
  4. The Scotsman

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    :)...I think my Mother-in-Law's on the board as well....formidable lass.....
     
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    owwww I think they do......we'll beg to differ I think
     
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    The result of a Pay to Play system .. is that the Oligarchs .. the "Feudal Lords" are the one's in control .. it can't be any other way .. when you have pay to play .. and everyone in Washington knows it .. :)
     
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    Russian generals are existential when it comes to failure. Putin doesn't like failure.
     
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    Russia are the masters of Oligarchs. That is all Russia really is, Oligarchs of Elites and the cannon fodder.
     
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    "Masters of Oligarchs" - Agree with the Oligarchs part .. Calling Russia the Masters however is unfounded - extremely poor assessment on your part Morty. Russia is the Johnny come lately to the Oligarch room - absolutely no comparison to some of the Western Feudal Lords . and yeah .. the serfs by definition are "Cannon Fodder"

    Did you not understand the "Pay to Play" system Mort .. something not clicking in ?
     
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    just a bit of fun....anyway in terms of this supposed proxy war.... this is one China's most respected Generals....seriously....he's called Mao Xinyu and he's Mao's Zedong's grandson..

    upload_2023-7-14_13-8-40.png upload_2023-7-14_13-11-51.png

    He's mining ammo presumably.....manufacturing hypersonic snot rockets......this guy is seriously high-up in the Chinese high command and he's in charge of war theory for the PLA.....he's illiterate......

    China: the land where make believe is reality...
     
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    Have you looked around you? The Russian elite act like mafia. Nobody in the Kremlin government cares about its citizens. You are all just money makers for them. Why do you think the Government doesn't adequately equip their soldiers or provide armor. That would be like taking money out of the Elites pockets. You are all just tools for them. How many Generals have you gone through? Don't see crap at that level from any western civilization. Someday, Russia will grow up.
     
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    Hahaha. Russia hasn't had a none elite ruler who feeds off the Russian people as cattle since The Bolshevik Revolution. The USA is nowhere near as corrupt as the Russian elite. Heck, you rarely see American elite jumping out of windows.
     
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    Who said they didn't look like Mafia Mort .. and what kind of torrid necessary Illusion have you bought into .. thinking that our Oligarchs care more about the Citizens than in Putlerland.

    Time to wake up and smell the rot in the state of Denmark - put on the Big Boy Pants - and take the big log out of own eye .. that you clearly didn't realize was there.

    Who doesn't adequatly equip soldiers .. and how does this take money out of the pockets of the fellows selling the arms and equipment .. ??? Loopy made up la la land.

    What part of Pay to Play system .. did you not get .. and the fact that our Oligopolies are way more established .. and don't give a rats two bits about your backside.
     
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    Sorry, you’ve already admitted Russia is not fighting on it’s border.
    Sorry a picture with a caption from an affirmed liar doesn't mean anything.
    So now you're quoting a leftist open source blog which is heavily edited by tankies.
     
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    Ukraine joining NATO, The US giving Ukraine thermobaric weapons, or just placing NATO personnel in harms way, either as trainers or "observers" and they're killed in an incident. Not that any of this means anything to someone who doesn't know what escalation means.
     
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    Ukraine is basically almost de facto NATO...Mike

    Thermobaric weapons?

    Well....let's see....Mafiosi drew some red lines

    NO Javelins/Stingers....that line was crossed

    NO....M777S?....that line was crossed?

    No ....HIMARS?....that Line was crossed

    No....clusters.....that line was crossed.

    No ...Abrams....that line was crossed.

    No....Patriots....that line was crossed.

    No ....F16s....that line was crossed.

    No.....Leopards

    No....Challengers

    No....Bradley's

    No....Strikers


    No.....Storm Shadows.....etc.

    Lotsa lines crossed here?.....

    Why should therombaric be any different....considering the schnegs themselves used them?
     
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    Russia has been using thermobaric weapons. I haven't heard of the US giving such weapons to Ukraine.
     
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    Ukraine is on Russia's western border.
    Russia is fighting in Ukraine.
    What's the logical conclusion?
     
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    Russia and Ukraine are already at war. We are not (yet) at war in Ukraine, and I would like to keep it that way.
     
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    Hmmm...and yet you don't see what could possibly be escalation?

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    Ad hominem responses make one appear deceitful or ignorant; here's an approximate four minute video of Oleg Tsarev's public accusation from the floor of the Ukrainian parliament alleging the US meddling in the domestic affairs of a sovereign foreign government that produced a civil war:

    https://countercurrents.org/zuesse090215.htm

    "This new evidence proves, even more than before (if that were even possible to do), that the current regime in Ukraine is definitely illegal — but that's not all.

    "Even after fake ‘democratic' elections, it's the same illegal regime in Ukraine that the U.S. imposed at its February 2014 coup, because no nationwide vote has occurred in Ukraine throughout that country's expanse after the American coup; it's still just a rump-Ukrainian Government, not one representing the residents either in Crimea or in Ukraine's far east (neither of which regions participated in Ukrainian elections after the coup) — and yet this illegal violent coup-imposed Ukrainian regime (and the U.S. that imposed it, and even the EU that sheepishly backed it) nonetheless demand (against all legalities) that this blatantly illegal U.S.-imposed Ukrainian Government must control those areas, which reject this nazi imposed Government — that the residents in the regions that had voted overwhelmingly for Yanukovych don't have the right to self-determination, but must instead accept a coup that goes exactly against, and even has gone so far as to overthrow, the Government for which the residents in those regions had overwhelmingly voted."
     
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    Which "affirmed liar" are you imagining?
    Do you imagine any alleged liar rivals Joe Biden with his 50 years of service to corporate, capitalist war criminals?
     
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    Right from the start we knew that Ukraine is not gonna win, they should not continue fighting because it's only depleting their resources and eventually making Ukraine a poor country in the process.

    Unfortunately Zelensky has turned into a puppet of the westren countries that are wasting ukraining lives in order to keep Putin under control.

    The best bid for Ukraine is to give up Donbas region and sign a peace treaty with Putin as soon as possible because it is already an attrition warfare for Ukraine and the US will not help them indefinitely, so why are Ukrainians keep fighting and letting Russia to wear them down bit by bit?? It is stupid.
     
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