You would have a point if it was sanctions alone that Russia was facing.

It is fortunate in this case that Russia is also up against a well motivated Ukrainian army whose attacks have been increasing in sophistication as the war has progressed. Russia on the other hand has been on the back foot recently, they have appeared unable to adjust to Ukraine’s drone strikes on logistics behind the front lines and have had a net loss in square km gained the last 4 months in a row.

We’ve been hearing the same idiots saying “sanctions didn’t work immediately therefore they don’t work” since 2022. Those of us with higher than room temperature IQs realised that Russia planned for the war and sanctions to the tune of a $600 billion savings fund.

I still find it hilarious that Russia left about half of this in hostile countries that confiscated it immediately. Imagine Russia had that extra cash? They probably would have had a chance of winning this war without that blunder.

Still no meaningful sanctions on Israel. The blood of this genocide is as much on the hands as those who could have done something to stop it but chose not to. Every single leader in the EU and USA will be remembered by history for this.

After the dust settles Russia is going to be well and truly under China’s thumb. Putin will forever be known as the leader who gave up Russian sovereignty in a vain attempt to earn the title “Vlad the Great”.

I still don’t know how the bald fraud gets all the credit for Russia simply cashing in on years of high oil prices. He was lucky to be in charge when the going was good,he mistook his luck for ability and now here we are. The fool could have gone out on top but instead chose to play the 19th century game of geopolitics forgetting that nukes are a better deterrent to invasion in the modern world than mountains or rivers.

Just Germany doing German things…

You can see how hard the Russian marketing guys are working trying to spin Putin’s historic miscalculation into something resembling victory. Pathetic.

Just putting them by the million into internment camps like we see in Xinjiang…both USA and China can be terrible imperial regimes at the same time!

Keep cheering comrade as the victories get closer and closer to Moscow. I think I can hear Swan Lake faintly in the background, it seems to be getting louder.

Keep huffing the copium from Tass comrade, it will keep you warm at night.

Their standard of living wasn’t too hot during the USSR either as Russia plundered the submissive, subservient states within the short lived “Soviet Union”. Russia brutally oppressed the nations of Eastern Europe to the point where they all now hate Russia’s guys with a passion. Don’t even get me started on the poorly thought out brand of communism they employed and the idiotic state policies.

If Putin wouldn’t have come to power in the early 2000s Russia would probably be a vassal state of the west

This is conjecture and speculation on your part with no proof to back it up, typical of your lot. Putin and his cronies have robbed the nation of Russia blind. All of those mega yachts, palaces and London property doesn’t come cheap. Imagine Russia was led by someone who was not a mafia boss? That fool Putin has wasted the Russian wealth fund on his colonial adventures with nothing to show for it.

China would not be where it is today

Without Putin? Come on dude, that is a hilarious take, China’s rise started way before Putin and he had nothing to do with it. I remember a time when Russia was the senior partner to China, Russia is now China’s vassal, dependant on China for 90% of technological imports. China has Russia by the balls, I’m sure you are happier being a vassal of China than the west.

Ua actions make me believe that the west wants to collapse Russia.

Russia and Putin brought this war on themselves. Europe and NATO never had the goal of a collapsed failed state Russia with vodka drenched immigrants and rogue nukes on its border. The EU and especially Germany fought for good relations and trade. Russia spat in our faces and now faces the consequences.

Russia not only did not lose but is still advancing in ua territory

You clearly aren’t watching the right war. Even the Russian milibloggers and mappers concede that Russia has been either static or losing territory for months now.

This is before we get into the Russian losses of influence in Syria, Venezuela and Mali. Russia is no longer seen as a strong or reliable partner.

Many countries chose to ditch us bonds for Chinese ones after the sanctions applied to russia.

No countries did this in support of Russia my delusional friend. Russia is still seen as the aggressor in an illegal land grab.

What is happening in Iran is proof that Europe does not afford to open another front

I’m trying to make sense of the slop of a sentence you wrote here. Who would Europe be opening up another front with in this scenario in addition to their proxy war with Russia?

Enjoy the collapse of the western empire

Enjoy being a drama queen while you gargle Putin’s balls. I would be delighted to see all the imperial powers collapse.

Russia is the fat alcoholic abusive ex that doesn’t want to see his ex girlfriend moving on with a decent fella.

The best outcome of this war and the one in Iran is that it shows us that the big imperial powers old school methods of power projection are losing relevance as a result of cheap drone warfare.

Russia absolutely could have ignored Ukraine leaving its sphere of influence, in fact they would be in a much better economic and demographic situation had they ignored it.

If it wasn’t for the brave Ukrainians being killed by Russia this war would almost be comical given how terribly the Russian armed forces have performed. Failure after failure, I don’t think Russia has much left in the tank. A smart ruler would give up now and consolidate but Putin’s life is on the line here if he does not achieve some form of “victory”. So Vladimir Put Put is going to drag the Russian nation down to hell with him while the Russian population of cucks cry “I am not political!”

Good riddance to bad orcs, back to the dirt you came from. Even sunflowers won’t grow from your alcohol/krokodil ravaged corpses. I hope Putin dies screaming like the Russian soldiers in the lens of an FPV drone.

What you are calling “religious Jews” are typically referred to as “ultra orthodox Jews”. These communities tend to not marry outside of their community leading to decreased genetic diversity and an increased number of recessive genetic conditions due to the created genetic bottlenecks. These communities have as a result had to resort to pre marital genetic screening services like Dor Yeshorim due to the high levels of local inbreeding in these communities.

So Mr. Piker was not lying when he was referring to the high levels of inbreeding in these communities. You need to question why your anger has led you to jump to the accusation that this man is a racist when he was stating a well known fact. You can’t just go around accusing everyone you don’t like of being anti semites or racists because eventually you just look uneducated and reactionary.

There are very real reasons to dislike Israel and Israeli people such as the current and historic genocide against the Palestinian people or their generally disgusting views when interviewed or questioned.

The term “antisemitism” has been thrown around so much by Netenyahu and his administration that it has lost all meaning. Much like the boy who cried wolf, the word has lost all meaning, especially so in a world where it is European colonial settler Jews like Netenyahu performing an active genocide against a Semitic population in the Palestinian people.

Does this make the settler European ruling caste of Jews in Israel the real anti-Semites?

The war criminals will keep committing war crimes as long as they are allowed to without punishment. Russia was kicked out of international sporting events and the Eurovision for less crimes against humanity than Russia.

Russia are obviously also scumbags but we should at least be evenhanded in our condemnation of Israel lest we look like the hypocrites our governments clearly are.

The US cannot just cut off trade with one EU country. If he tries to do this then EU policy is to act as one, the mechanisms for this are already in place. This is just more pointless bluster from the orange pedi.

The Israeli air defense system is far from impenetrable as we saw from the last Israeli Iranian war when Israel was repeatedly rocked by Iranian missiles. The air defense can be overloaded by saturation attacks and are unreliable/unable to stop hypersonic missiles which Iran does possess.

When Israel attacked Iran last year they did not expect Iran’s response to be as effective as it turned out to be and needed to ask the Americans for help. This time the Israelis made sure to have US back up from the beginning.