Deep inside. They should reduce putins homes to rubble. That shitbird keeps hitting civilian targets. It seems like striking his home and the homes of other russian thugs would be nightmare fuel for them and make them lose the will to fight. After all that is what they think killing all those children will do to Ukraine.
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I hope Ukraine gets mostly bunker buster missiles for high value targets.
Target the rich, spare the poor.
Yup, target the guilty which is the rich in this case.
I mean itβs not even a secret anymore that huge palace he built for himself on the Black Sea- makes a nice juicy target for a barrage of cruise missles
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The Moscow middle class are about to get a very real taste of the war.
Not quite, unfortunately.. these cruise missiles donβt have the range to cover the distance to Moscow. Perhaps another exploratory excursion into the Kursk region might be necessary?
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Slava Ukraine! Strike hard, strike deep, and let 'em feel the burn.
Am I the only one surprised to see the USians supporting this? In spite of Trump. Just great!
If anyone can share details on this.. It would be very welcome
IF Trump is mentally competent enough to know what it means then something probably happened in private between Trump and Putin. Both the old men are aggressive and senile so it's difficult to say what exactly. Maybe Putin dropped the bombshell statement that he wants to be in charge of the USA.
Maybe Putin dropped the bombshell statement that he wants to be in charge of the USA.
It would be interesting to see how the MAGA mob responded to that
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Good hunting, I assume they know the location of more than one dacha belonging to Vlad
Slava Ukraini
They should have done this a year ago, though nowβs the second best time.
I hope this announcement means that the Taurus missiles are already in Ukrainian hands, and ideally one of them is rapidly approaching a high-value target that has hitherto been considered safe.
The concept was very clearly to slowly push Putin red line, let him walk it back a little, rince and repeat. Because like it or not, Putin has nuclear weapons and that's enough of a threat to not take the risk of skipping steps up the escalation ladder.
They should have done it at the start of the conflict
Or admitted Ukraine to NATO the first time Putler started making expansionist noises towards it.
Fuck 'em up
This is pretty much always the result of widespread bombardment of civilian cities. It seems like it would result in people suing for peace, and if you have a certain type of psychopathic version of how to interact, it seems for that reason like it would be a good idea. But it just doesn't work. Even if you kill a huge fraction of people in the country and reduce a bunch of their cities to rubble, what they want to do is fuck you up even worse in retaliation, not suddenly become submissive and hope you will stop.
Ukraine's not even retaliating in kind, just hitting military and strategic targets inside Russia. Anyway. Fuck 'em up.
It would be pleasant to hear that the multi billion dollar mansion where putin sometimes resides cops a decent amount of "rain". With him in it at the time would be the icing on the cake.
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I was just wondering to myself how long the West intended to just eat Russia's shit when it comes to this constant disinformation undermining the integrity of their states before they would stop playing by the rules even the tiniest little bit. Unless every single Western leader is compromised it just didn't make sense - and that level of compromise just didn't seem likely. Maybe this is it.
I think it's more about keeping Putler away from the nuke button. The West can easily take Russia. But Putler is an evil man who might prefer a burning world over defeat.
Xi has actually been the one slapping Putin's wrist whenever the Russian dictator makes threats with nukes, even if the threats are empty. With three years of empty repetitive threats and Xi leashing Putin about it, this may have emboldened the West to finally allow Ukraine deep strikes and thinking to themselves "aww..the dog is all bark after all."
Although on the one hand, some countries are still reliant on Russian gas and oil imports and receive them in stealthy ways. So the other motivation is not just fear of nukes, but also the possibility of economic paralysis if oil and gas supplies are affected.
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Mr. Zelenskyy, remember to send one to the White House with a thank you note.
Excellent! I'm genuinely looking forward reading all about international terrorist Putin's inevitable blind date with a cruise missile.
Let's see if this forces the Russians to negotiate in good faith. Either way, now the ukrainians can fight better
Good faith and Russia don't ever belong in the same sentence. They only understand superior armaments.
It'd be really nice if the US could decide which side they were on. Obviously we don't really want them to be on the side of Russia but this flip-flopping is confusing.
I personally think that the U.S. is at moment a subsidiary of Donald Trump & Silicon Valley Enterprise LLC. Could be wrong, of course, that's just an opinion formed out of the news in recent months.
Finally. But what's been going on in Russia isn't making sense either.
Consider: Some estimates show Russia used 69 missiles and 298 drones between May 23-25.
Googling, "How much does a Russian drone cost?" gives: The cost of Russian drones varies significantly depending on the type and capabilities. Some cheaper drones like the "Ghoul" quadcopter cost as little as $500, while others, like the Shahed-136, are estimated to range from $20,000 to $80,000. More advanced drones, such as the Merlin-VR, can cost over $300,000
So let's say they used a mid-range drone, call it $30,000. 298 of them is $8,940,000.
Google again, "How much does a Russian missile used against Ukraine cost?". Lots of variation, but call it $500,000 for each of the 69 used, for a total of $34,500,000.
So, for this two-day attack, they spent about $43-44 million dollars. And Google again, "How many people were killed in Ukraine May 23-25" says, "at least 12".
Twelve people killed for $44 million. How stupid can you get? Do the Russians realize they could have simply bought the land they want in the Ukraine, if they'd done so through a dummy corporation or something like that?
I realize it's the whole, "terror" thing, but frankly Ukraine ain't terrified.
And now they're going to be really well armed, and off the chain.
Thinking about this in terms of money spent is the wrong mindset. That 44 million dollars went from the hands of one Russian into the hands of another. And it even counts towards their GDP. On the other side, 12 Ukrainians are dead. Think about that. Depopulation, especially of working aged people is what's really going to hurt your economy, not spending money on weapons.
As a sidenote, politicians often want you to believe that you can't have nice things because "there isn't enough money". That is just bullshit.
Excellent points. While on the outside it does look like the Russians could have bought out all of Eastern Ukraine's homeowners/farmers/citizens for $1 mil apiece, spent less money and still got the territory they want, it isn't that simple.
The war never made economic sense. Russia was well off before, with a huge reserve. It could have invested in its own people. But it did not.
Even the second most important city of Russia, St Petersburg, is in shit ruins with infrastructure falling apart.
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giving what was lost in 1994 to ukraine too?,
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