The twitter propagandist says
The laptop is a 14-year-old Lenovo R500 with 250MB of RAM. It came with Windows Vista. I wonder if it even turns on.
But Lenovo disagrees, look here.
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The laptop is a 14-year-old Lenovo R500 with 250MB of RAM. It came with Windows Vista. I wonder if it even turns on.
But Lenovo disagrees, look here.
Indeed inward-looking, our friend armchair analyst probably couldn't locate Ukraine on the map until 12 days ago.
He is just doing what he is paid for.
True but this deal is still much better than I'd thought for Ukraine. It is the absolute minimum for Russian to be able to walk away with face and they still give up substantial gains on the ground in exchange for 2014-2015 borders (before Ukraine retook half of Donetsk and Lugansk).
If they don't take the deal now it is going to get worse not only in terms but for their infrastructure destruction. Right now there are still intact cities, the longer the fighting goes the worse the rebuilding would be.
Ukraine Military base captured by Russian's, also captured equipment and ammo.
Ilya Kiva, former member of the Ukrainian Parliament :-
The only danger is Zelensky's overdose of cocaine. He lost the truth a long time ago, he lives in the joy of drug addiction.
Ilya Kiva, former member of the Ukrainian Parliament :-
The only danger is Zelensky's overdose of cocaine. He lost the truth a long time ago, he lives in the joy of drug addiction.
And what does this say about the US understanding Russia's point of view about NATO?
The case in point is the constant expansion of NATO which is aimed at Russia. The current crisis started with the "U.S. and Ukraine signing a Charter on Strategic Partnership, which asserted America’s support for Kyiv’s right to pursue membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization." on November 10th 2021. Afterwards, Russia mobilised its military and the US government believed that Putin was willing to go to war. Apparently the US government spent 3 months trying to convince China that Russia was actually going to invade. Why on earth didn't the US speak to Russia directly, if they believed Russia was deadly serious about an invasion?
This single failure of US diplomacy is bigger than every Chinese diplomatic failure in the past 30 years.
Sources below
wsj.com/amp/articles/cause-ukraine-war-robert-service-moscow-putin-lenin-stalin-history-communism-invasion-kgb-fsb-11646413200
nytimes.com/2022/02/25/us/politics/us-china-russia-ukraine.html
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Remember that the US is used to throwing it's weight around without regard for anyone else, and creating its own reality that everyone else has to follow, because it was that powerful.
On the diplomatic side, I see Chinese diplomacy being far more sophisticated (and targeted) than the US. That starts with China posting diplomats who can actually speak the local language of the countries they are sent to.
Then we will have more situations where China creates realities that everyone else has to follow.
Thanks for the insult
Sounds like BS. I am not saying there is nothing true in that text. But the idea that whole focus of the operation was to capture Kiev and kill or capture Zelensky makes zero sense. Just look at the directions of offensive thrust. There was a single thrust towards Kiev and multiple thrusts in the Northeast, East, and South. In fact the main focus of the operation seems to be to take control of the Russian ethnic populated regions with Kiev being a secondary objective or feint. @plawolf already provided a good rationale for why the Russians went for the airport near Kiev. Which makes much more sense than this.
The article is also wrong in that the Russian government did announce a mobilization right when the war started. Less than 1/3rd of the active Russian Army is committed to the operation. The counter insurgency phase, when it begins, will also likely not be just Russian Army units but also Russian National Guard and MVD troops. The National Guard alone has around 350,000 troops.
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I wonder how credible this FB post is, and can he get away by posting such info ig true? What he said seem reasonable tho.
there is no realistic way because the chinese diplomatic corp either 1) still has no real fundamental understanding of how the political and economic system truly works and what the real interests and interactions of the players are, or 2) can’t put any such understanding into effective action because it would deviate from and reveal flaws in the communist party’s dogma, or the senior leadership’s perception about how things really work at upper levels in the world outside china.
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