The Corrupt Ukraine Scam

HDGristle's Avatar
You are part of that "some in the West" you bolded.

Concealed it? That screams "I don't actually pay attention beyond what's scraped and put into my feed" while looking for every available excuse to give up.
berryberry's Avatar
These shipments of tens of billions of dollars increasingly look like Senile Biden is using taxpayer money to pay off his Ukrainian blackmailers

Senile Biden will ask for $25 billion in aid for Ukraine, according to multiple reports released this week.

FUCK CORRUPT UKRAINE AND SENILE BIDEN
HDGristle's Avatar
Ukraine appears to be on the verge of liberating Urozhaine and is closing in on Robotyne.

Slava Ukraini!

Also, the Russians have been recently reinforcing their tanks with wood slabs and logs

They're also expanding control in the South after crossing the Dnieper, adding another vector in the South, near Kozachi Laheri

On a more somber note, the Russians are about 6 miles from Kupiansk.
berryberry's Avatar
You know its bad for corrupt Ukraine when even NBC News says this

Is Ukraine's counteroffensive failing? Kyiv and its supporters worry about losing control of the narrative. Some U.S. officials are frustrated at the pace of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, which has gained less than 100 square miles of territory.
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https://www.newsweek.com/russian-sta...lovyov-1818931

Russians TV starting to get testy as the ruble continues to fall.

Wouldn't be in this position were it not for the illegal invasion of Ukraine and financing their war machine amid all these sanctions.

"The bloody Central Bank, which has alarmed the whole country and isn't even explaining why the hell the ruble exchange rate has jumped so high that they're laughing at us abroad, at our ruble being one of the three weakest currencies
Tone rings familiar... where have I seen a similar tone?
berryberry's Avatar
This is what all those hard earned American taxpayer dollars Senile Biden stole to pay off his Ukraine overlords bought

Results of the Ukrainian Counteroffensive, after 2 months

Their progress is marked in dark blue

HDGristle's Avatar
You're not even showing the whole map, let alone accounting for the impact to the Russian military.

Please try again

If you'd like we can do a deep dive on your ever shifting overlord rhetoric and lack of consistency over who owns Biden. You've made a plethora of varying claims in this thread alone, including how Biden is the one using the Ukrainians.

Care to explain the scam in more detail?

Slava Ukraini!

Also, the Russians have been recently reinforcing their tanks with wood slabs and logs :roll1 Originally Posted by HDGristle
The wood on the tanks is there to throw under the threads in mud or on soft ground to keep the tank from getting mired.
There is never nothing available when and where you need it so you bring your own, you own a tank you can do that.
And if a log causes a RPG to pre-detonate before it encounters your armor so much the better.
How much difference that would make who knows?
But it might make you might feel better.

But it is really there for the mud .
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 Heroyam Slava

The only "peaceful settlement" here involves Putin leaving Ukraine, returning every inch of land he's illegally annexed, and getting what's coming to him for committing untold numbers of war crimes. That's it. The only way. As HDG said, "peace on Putin's terms isn't peace".
HDGristle's Avatar
Joe, we're not talking about unditching logs. These are absolutely attempts to uparmor.

It's a mix of wood and scrap metal over key weak points, similar to the on-the-fly wood armor they put over the grills of their trucks last year after the functional trucks they had were getting disabled
Joe, we're not talking about unditching logs. These are absolutely attempts to uparmor.

It's a mix of wood and scrap metal over key weak points, similar to the on-the-fly wood armor they put over the grills of their trucks last year after the functional trucks they had were getting disabled Originally Posted by HDGristle

Oh OK thanks I'll take a look.
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Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 Heroyam Slava

The only "peaceful settlement" here involves Putin leaving Ukraine, returning every inch of land he's illegally annexed, and getting what's coming to him for committing untold numbers of war crimes. That's it. The only way. As HDG said, "peace on Putin's terms isn't peace". Originally Posted by tommy156
Peace is when people on both sides stop dying.
Peace is when people on both sides stop dying. Originally Posted by Jacuzzme
Which is completely, entirely, 100% Putin's responsibility. He's illegally invading a sovereign nation. Full stop.

Ukrainians have no obligation to stop killing Russians as long as Russians are there killing Ukrainians.
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This is what happens when you refuse to negotiate for peace and instead choose to get your asses kicked

According to the Washington Post, many citizens of Ukraine are adopting a darker mood about the war with Russia, and national unity is beginning to fray. The change in sentiment comes as Kiev’s spring counteroffensive fails to retake significant territory despite surging casualties.

"Ukrainians, much in need of good news, are simply not getting any," the Washington Post reported Thursday. One Ukrainian, Alla Blyzniuk, interviewed by the outlet, said, "[before] people were united." Now, she described, a sense of collective "disappointment."

The sense of despair is driven by massive casualties in Kiev’s counteroffensive. Blyzniuk said that most soldiers sent to the front die in just two to three days.

Last week, Politico reported that Kiev had committed 150,000 troops to fight along three fronts. Nevertheless, the Pentagon admits that Ukrainian forces have failed to make any significant gains.
HDGristle's Avatar
You're aware that both sides have laid out peace plans and are actively playing the game, right?

Directly and through intermediaries