Russia fired missiles at Odesa and hit a church, monuments and residential buildings, last night.Yes, it’s a war. People are getting hurt and dying. That’s what happens and why they should be trying to hammer out a peace deal.
At least 19 civilians injured, including 4 children
Not a peep out of the "peaceful settlement" brigade, including fake thoughts and prayers Originally Posted by HDGristle
Yes, it’s a war. People are getting hurt and dying. That’s what happens and why they should be trying to hammer out a peace deal. Originally Posted by Jacuzzme
Hope your people in Sevastopol remain safe and unharmed.
Peace on Putin's terms isn't peace. Remember that. Originally Posted by HDGristle
No, his point is Democrats are blocking any accountability for the billions being doled out to Ukraine and who's getting it. Originally Posted by The_Waco_KidYeah, only an idiot or a crook getting rich off the war would want to give away billions of hard earned American taxpayer money to corrupt Ukraine with zero accountability of where that money went and how it is used
could have happened a long time ago except Biden nixed a Israeli brokered deal of "No Ukraine in NATO".Indeed. Senile Biden intervened to nix a peace deal because the grift is profitable for him. Corrupt Ukraine even bombed it's own people in Donbas. Ukraine has thwarted peace when they had the chance and now are paying the price for their poor decisions
isn't it? as has been discussed in this thread there were agreements going back to the fall of the USSR and Gorby that in exchange for Ukraine declaring as a sovereign nation for the first time all the nukes would go back to Russia and that NATO wouldn't expand eastward. then they did.
then there is 2014. those negotiations called for a semi-autonomous Donbas which is overwhelmingly ethnic Russian and who wanted to be under Russia. it was ultimately Ukraine's fault this didn't happen and it's either they were too slow or stalled it on purpose. that's on Ukraine. Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
Hope your people in Sevastopol remain safe and unharmed.Amen. Any "peace deal" would require Putin be put in jail for war crimes. Or *at very least* fucking off and returning every inch of land he's illegally annexed.
Peace on Putin's terms isn't peace. Remember that. Originally Posted by HDGristle
When CNN admits this, you know its going really bad for corrupt Ukraine. They should have negotiated a peaceful settlement when they had the chance. All these US Taxpayer dollars wasted on a corrupt country who has no chance of winningThe Pentagon leaks above show that Western officials were warned about Ukraine’s poor prospects months ago, yet concealed it and kept wasting hard earned taxpayer money. That’s what’s sobering here.
CNN - New: Weeks into Ukraine’s highly anticipated counteroffensive, Western officials describe increasingly “sobering” assessments about Ukrainian forces’ ability to retake significant territory, four senior US and western officials tell me.
“They’re still going to see, for the next couple of weeks, if there is a chance of making some progress. But for them to really make progress that would change the balance of this conflict, I think, it’s extremely, highly unlikely,” a senior western diplomat told CNN.
“Our briefings are sobering. We’re reminded of the challenges they face,” said Rep. Mike Quigley, an Illinois Democrat who recently returned from meetings in Europe with US commanders training Ukrainian armored forces. “This is the most difficult time of the war.”
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These latest assessments represent a marked change from the optimism at the start of the counteroffensive. These officials say those expectations were “unrealistic” and are now contributing to pressure on Ukraine from some in the West to begin peace negotiations, including considering the possibility of territorial concessions. Originally Posted by berryberry