Ukraine war Bullshit.

[BCP]

Should be but...having Russia as the enemy/boogie man is what helps and keeps the MIC making MONEY.

Well yeah, war on terror was the same thing. You've got the 30mil predator drone firing a missile that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars (or millions) into a cave to kill a 5'4" tall sand person who has a rusty AK and a bucket full of hand grenades.

The US spends about 800 billion on defense annually. There's a lot of people making a lot of money not to mention regular blue collar folks, cities around military bases, it's a huge part of our economy.

 

[doubloon]

Moldova, Ukraine, Serbia and Belarus are the non-NATO countries which have the combat power to

ETA: I understand now, I followed the chain back far enough. I was only naming non NATO countries not non NATO countries who could threaten Russia.

Combat power to ... what?

Or combat power too?

Respectfully, not following. But I also wasn't implying anything more than they are countries not "protected" by NATO.

Most of them have a rank in power lower than Cuba, as rated by an arbitrary site that ranks countries by firepower.

I'm a bit skeptical.

Rightly so. Ukraine would have folded like a cheap suit already without US.

2025 Military Strength Ranking

Ranking the nations of the world based on current available firepower.

www.globalfirepower.com

 

[dino67]

Maybe's there's a 'ghost of Chișinău' with a heap of Su-35 victory markings on the fuselage.

 

[Edsel]

Will ye lookit that…

It’s just so cute, the pretense that all of this juicy stuff’s now “unavailable.”

Well, it’s actually surprising that we flaunt all our illicit war crimes and policy papers and assorted malarkey for the world the see and read in the first place, so…

Hint: This is a poke at USAID

 

[sharac]

https://www.iri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/public_-_03.2021_national_eng-_public.pdf

https://ratinggroup.ua/files/ratinggroup/reg_files/2011_november_21_survey_of_crimean_public_opinion__september_20-october_2__2011.pdf

This one is more telling especially about amount of people willing to vote and how 2021 public support for the cokesniffer fell and the fucker after the war claims he has some substantial support while he in '21 had basically pathetic 40% among those who would actually vote while a lot would not (and the survey was among west Ukraine people discount entire East).

But this is water under the bridge and completely irrelevant except for gauging the methods and procedures of external provocateurs and how their methodology works. (ID differences, ID weaknesses and exploit those by emphasising differences along those "IDed cracks")
Same goes for identity policy or any other method of dividing people (like new popular word in europe "femicide" as if killing a person of female gender is somehow different from killing a man and from the same people that claim that there are more than two genders etc..).
Its all a giant smoke and mirrors casino game and most of the people are dumbfucks dancing to the tunes of their own destruction while some suffer knowing there is little to be done because "dumb is overwhelming majority on this globe".