russia has lost almost every war it's fought since 1900, except WW2, and that only with money, treasure and lives of the UK and USA. Not a great history of fighting, those boys.
Note that around 3 of those wars ended in regime change in moscow. I hope the same will happen this time.
Russia basically won WW2 by itself... You hate Russia. Great. That doesn't mean you can just lie about history.
The vast majority of the 1000 posts on this thread were by posters stating Putin is a mean man. Such feminine energy. Finally some of you Zelenskyy lovers are saying Zelenskyy should surrender 1/2 of Ukraine. Soon, the majority of Zelenskyy lovers on this thread will state Zelenskyy should surrender 1/2 of Ukraine. Finally, eventually many U.S. citizens will contact their U.S. Congressperson and tell U.S. to cut off Ukraine. When U.S. Congress signals to Executive Branch, no more military aid, Zelenskyy will either be the fool he has been so far and actually fight to the last man or Zelenskyy will surrender. What a waste of money. What a waste of life. Putin would have accepted 1/2 of Ukraine day one.
No, I think you'll find that most of the posts generated on the thread were from a few posters that supported Putin and at least 20% of all posts were by one person alone.
Laughing at you IS the obvious sober and intelligent response to your posts.
Now please attend to your feminine energy.
Zelenskyy and his cousins who post on here. You have nothing to add to Russia-Ukraine discussion do you?
I am not sure if I do or not. What I am sure of is that, if I have zero to add to the Russia-Ukraine discussion, that puts me light-years ahead of your, ahem, "contributions".
Like a lot of foreigners eager to fight the Russians, Paul Hughes arrived in Ukraine expecting to be handed a gun and taken straight to the front line. And, like many would-be combatants,he had decided to come to Ukraine on a bit of a whim. Mr. Hughes, 57, is an anti-poverty activist from Calgary who spent some time with the Princess Patricia Light Infantry years ago. He felt compelled to join the struggle in Ukraine after the Russian army invaded last month, even though all he knew about the country was that it contained a city called Kyiv.
A generous donor gave him a plane ticket, and, after travelling a circuitous route that included a brief detention in Germany, Mr. Hughes arrived in Lviv on March 4 eager to sign up with the newly formed International Legion for the Territorial Defence of Ukraine. “I thought literally when I got across the border they were going to hand me a gun,” Mr. Hughes recalled. He quickly discovered that the legion was ill-equipped and disorganized. “They couldn’t guarantee me a weapon,” he said. “I’m not going anywhere near Russia without a weapon. So I bailed on all that.”.
Some find the newly formed International Legion for the Territorial Defence of Ukraine to be ill-equipped and disorganized, while others recount a frightening and dangerous experience
Russia basically won WW2 by itself... You hate Russia. Great. That doesn't mean you can just lie about history.
Earlier you said Russia did it 50/50 with the real Allies. Yet another failure by you to stay consistent from one post to the next. It's a sweltering mess in that brain of yours, random stuff piled high all over the floor, stinking up the place.
Anyway, we've been over this, and you got biffed on it. You've been lied to, and you bought the lies like a piker. Russia's performance was pathetic in WW2. They had their hands out to the real Allies the whole time, while they somehow managed to get 20 million of their citizens, including 8 million soldiers, blown up. WTF? That is staggering incompetence.
Don't make me correct you on this again.
The Germans had the finest military he world had ever seen up to that point and 80% of it was directed at Russia.
You haven't corrected me on anything you've just doubled and tripled down on your ignorance.
ENGLAND had it's hand out to the US the entire war. Russia produced WAY more than it got from the lend lease program.
Russian produced over 50,000 T-34 and T34-85's the best tank of the war. American tanks were useless against German tanks.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Like a lot of foreigners eager to fight the Russians, Paul Hughes arrived in Ukraine expecting to be handed a gun and taken straight to the front line. And, like many would-be combatants,he had decided to come to Ukraine on a bit of a whim. Mr. Hughes, 57, is an anti-poverty activist from Calgary who spent some time with the Princess Patricia Light Infantry years ago. He felt compelled to join the struggle in Ukraine after the Russian army invaded last month, even though all he knew about the country was that it contained a city called Kyiv.
A generous donor gave him a plane ticket, and, after travelling a circuitous route that included a brief detention in Germany, Mr. Hughes arrived in Lviv on March 4 eager to sign up with the newly formed International Legion for the Territorial Defence of Ukraine. “I thought literally when I got across the border they were going to hand me a gun,” Mr. Hughes recalled. He quickly discovered that the legion was ill-equipped and disorganized. “They couldn’t guarantee me a weapon,” he said. “I’m not going anywhere near Russia without a weapon. So I bailed on all that.”.
Most of the idiots took a selfie at the border and went home. Many others got to the barracks inside Ukraine and THEN took the selfies and posted them to social media which drew the russian missiles which killed dozens of them.
Earlier you said Russia did it 50/50 with the real Allies. Yet another failure by you to stay consistent from one post to the next. It's a sweltering mess in that brain of yours, random stuff piled high all over the floor, stinking up the place.
Anyway, we've been over this, and you got biffed on it. You've been lied to, and you bought the lies like a piker. Russia's performance was pathetic in WW2. They had their hands out to the real Allies the whole time, while they somehow managed to get 20 million of their citizens, including 8 million soldiers, blown up. WTF? That is staggering incompetence.
Don't make me correct you on this again.
The Germans had the finest military he world had ever seen up to that point and 80% of it was directed at Russia.
You haven't corrected me on anything you've just doubled and tripled down on your ignorance.
ENGLAND had it's hand out to the US the entire war. Russia produced WAY more than it got from the lend lease program.
Russian produced over 50,000 T-34 and T34-85's the best tank of the war. American tanks were useless against German tanks.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Lend Lease:
Even before the United States entered World War II in December 1941, America sent arms and equipment to the Soviet Union to help it defeat the Nazi invasion. Totaling $11.3 billion, or $180 billion in today’s currency, the Lend-Lease Act of the United States supplied needed goods to the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945 in support of what Stalin described to Roosevelt as the “enormous and difficult fight against the common enemy — bloodthirsty Hitlerism.” 400,000 jeeps & trucks 14,000 airplanes 8,000 tractors 13,000 tanks 1.5 million blankets 15 million pairs of army boots 107,000 tons of cotton 2.7 million tons of petrol products 4.5 million tons of food
The Germans had the finest military he world had ever seen up to that point and 80% of it was directed at Russia.
You haven't corrected me on anything you've just doubled and tripled down on your ignorance.
ENGLAND had it's hand out to the US the entire war. Russia produced WAY more than it got from the lend lease program.
Russian produced over 50,000 T-34 and T34-85's the best tank of the war. American tanks were useless against German tanks.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Lend Lease:
Even before the United States entered World War II in December 1941, America sent arms and equipment to the Soviet Union to help it defeat the Nazi invasion. Totaling $11.3 billion, or $180 billion in today’s currency, the Lend-Lease Act of the United States supplied needed goods to the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945 in support of what Stalin described to Roosevelt as the “enormous and difficult fight against the common enemy — bloodthirsty Hitlerism.” 400,000 jeeps & trucks 14,000 airplanes 8,000 tractors 13,000 tanks 1.5 million blankets 15 million pairs of army boots 107,000 tons of cotton 2.7 million tons of petrol products 4.5 million tons of food
I read once that the Soviet Union repaid their lend lease bill in full. None of the other countries did.
Ok we will see if Putin started the war because of NATO. Ukraine has offered not to join NATO. So, adult, clearly RU will retreat to its own borders, right? Right? Yes?
FT: Ukraine is ready to declare neutrality, abandon its drive to join Nato and vow to not develop nuclear weapons if Russia withdraws troops and Kyiv receives security guarantees, says president Volodymyr Zelensky
Ok we will see if Putin started the war because of NATO. Ukraine has offered not to join NATO. So, adult, clearly RU will retreat to its own borders, right? Right? Yes?
FT: Ukraine is ready to declare neutrality, abandon its drive to join Nato and vow to not develop nuclear weapons if Russia withdraws troops and Kyiv receives security guarantees, says president Volodymyr Zelensky
No, Russian army will stay in Ukraine because Ukraine can't be trusted so it won't become nazi state again
Like US stayed in Germany and controls it for the last 77 years s
The Germans had the finest military he world had ever seen up to that point and 80% of it was directed at Russia.
You haven't corrected me on anything you've just doubled and tripled down on your ignorance.
ENGLAND had it's hand out to the US the entire war. Russia produced WAY more than it got from the lend lease program.
Russian produced over 50,000 T-34 and T34-85's the best tank of the war. American tanks were useless against German tanks.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Lend Lease:
Even before the United States entered World War II in December 1941, America sent arms and equipment to the Soviet Union to help it defeat the Nazi invasion. Totaling $11.3 billion, or $180 billion in today’s currency, the Lend-Lease Act of the United States supplied needed goods to the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945 in support of what Stalin described to Roosevelt as the “enormous and difficult fight against the common enemy — bloodthirsty Hitlerism.” 400,000 jeeps & trucks 14,000 airplanes 8,000 tractors 13,000 tanks 1.5 million blankets 15 million pairs of army boots 107,000 tons of cotton 2.7 million tons of petrol products 4.5 million tons of food
No one denies lend lease existed....
England received 63% of the aid from the Lend Lease Act. By your logic England did nothing during the war but take handouts...
Earlier you said Russia did it 50/50 with the real Allies. Yet another failure by you to stay consistent from one post to the next. It's a sweltering mess in that brain of yours, random stuff piled high all over the floor, stinking up the place.
Anyway, we've been over this, and you got biffed on it. You've been lied to, and you bought the lies like a piker. Russia's performance was pathetic in WW2. They had their hands out to the real Allies the whole time, while they somehow managed to get 20 million of their citizens, including 8 million soldiers, blown up. WTF? That is staggering incompetence.
Don't make me correct you on this again.
The Germans had the finest military he world had ever seen up to that point and 80% of it was directed at Russia.
You haven't corrected me on anything you've just doubled and tripled down on your ignorance.
ENGLAND had it's hand out to the US the entire war. Russia produced WAY more than it got from the lend lease program.
Russian produced over 50,000 T-34 and T34-85's the best tank of the war. American tanks were useless against German tanks.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Pro-tip: if your 'finest military the world had ever seen' gets absolutely stomped in under 4 years. It wasn't that great. The German military was (like Russia's today) poorly organized, under funded, over extended, and rapidly going obsolete. You've bought the lie that they were actually impressive. They were not, and got suitable destroyed.
The Germans had the finest military he world had ever seen up to that point and 80% of it was directed at Russia.
You haven't corrected me on anything you've just doubled and tripled down on your ignorance.
ENGLAND had it's hand out to the US the entire war. Russia produced WAY more than it got from the lend lease program.
Russian produced over 50,000 T-34 and T34-85's the best tank of the war. American tanks were useless against German tanks.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Pro-tip: if your 'finest military the world had ever seen' gets absolutely stomped in under 4 years. It wasn't that great. The German military was (like Russia's today) poorly organized, under funded, over extended, and rapidly going obsolete. You've bought the lie that they were actually impressive. They were not, and got suitable destroyed.
Close to 14 million Russian soldiers and civilians perished in World War 2. This number does not count the injured or those that surrendered.
The German extended their supply lines too far on the eastern front, the Russians left little to nothing behind for them to use, and the winter took its toll and that is why they failed. It's difficult to say that they were destroyed by others or whether they destroyed themselves.
To say that the Western front was not a factor is bunk and also that the victory over Japan was anything but easy.
There is a lot of misinformation here from both sides. Go ahead with the downvotes but I am right.
remember that pretty much the only person on the planet Stalin trusted...was Hitler. So Stalin made a non-aggression pact with Hitler. They were....if not allies....pretty close to buds. When Hitler attacked Russia, Stalin simply did not believe it was possible. So of course Stalin had not prepared any defenses against the Germans.
Oh man russian tyrants are fools.
I should have pointed out that one reason Hitler had so much success in WW2 is that Stalin trusted him, kept him full with gasoline and food and raw materials. And then if Stalin had taken the German threat seriously he could have prepared a defense. And probably not let the Nazis use russian airfields for practice.
Sure would have been nice if Russia had built up defenses against germany instead of signing an alliance with it.
Would have been even nicer if naive fools weren't running France and England and just sat back and watched Hitler militarize Germany for years in direct violation of the Treaty of Paris...
Ok we will see if Putin started the war because of NATO. Ukraine has offered not to join NATO. So, adult, clearly RU will retreat to its own borders, right? Right? Yes?
FT: Ukraine is ready to declare neutrality, abandon its drive to join Nato and vow to not develop nuclear weapons if Russia withdraws troops and Kyiv receives security guarantees, says president Volodymyr Zelensky
No, Russian army will stay in Ukraine because Ukraine can't be trusted so it won't become nazi state again
Like US stayed in Germany and controls it for the last 77 years s
The Germans had the finest military he world had ever seen up to that point and 80% of it was directed at Russia.
You haven't corrected me on anything you've just doubled and tripled down on your ignorance.
ENGLAND had it's hand out to the US the entire war. Russia produced WAY more than it got from the lend lease program.
Russian produced over 50,000 T-34 and T34-85's the best tank of the war. American tanks were useless against German tanks.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Pro-tip: if your 'finest military the world had ever seen' gets absolutely stomped in under 4 years. It wasn't that great. The German military was (like Russia's today) poorly organized, under funded, over extended, and rapidly going obsolete. You've bought the lie that they were actually impressive. They were not, and got suitable destroyed.
You are truly a moron...
Obsolete? They had the most advanced weapons on the planet.
They were superbly organized.
They lost because they were fighting the entire developed world...
France had a much larger army with better tanks in 1940 and they got beaten in 2 weeks even with Britain's help.
As always you have no idea what the hell you're talking about.
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