Ukraine conflict

Quote: DRich

Holy crap!! Ruble went from 105.5 yesterday to 111 today. We may be witnessing the largest currency crash in most of our lifetimes. If this keeps up we might see hyperinflation soon. I am still holding a $50 billion dollar bill from Zimbabwe and I will definitely buy a $50 billion Ruble bill if it becomes available.

Quote: rxwine

Putin appeared to be authorizing a major assault the last few weeks. Perhaps a classic attempt to appear strong while actually being near spent?

This is what I'm thinking of. "While the Tet Offensive was a military defeat for the North Vietnamese forces, it is considered a strategic turning point in the Vietnam War as it significantly eroded public support for the war in the United States, effectively marking a major political setback for the US despite the military victory against the communist forces."

Quote: DRich

Russia has been making huge moves in Kursk and throwing everything at trying to take it back before settlement talks begin. Fortunately, they are not very creative and just keeping sending forces right into the kill zones trying to overwhelm them. It is not working as they are getting slaughtered in Kursk.

Quote: Evenbob

Putin is already kissing Trump's ass, just listen to the speech he gave the other day. He's saying how much he understands how much Trump has been through in the last couple years and he sympathizes with him. That's kissing ass if I've ever heard it.

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This year there were 500 suspicious incidents in Europe,” Czech foreign minister Jan Lipavský told reporters ahead of a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels last week. “Up to 100 of them can be attributed to Russian hybrid attacks, espionage, influence operations.” Almost certainly, according to various sources, Russian-affiliated spies, vandals, arsonists, saboteurs, hackers, and assassins are behind many of the others. And yet there’s uncertainty in each instance about how deeply the Kremlin’s involvement goes. That’s part of the game.

The Insider, a Russia-focused, independent media outlet, reports confidently that European-based “acts of Russian state terrorism are now growing in tempo, scale and ambition…. Culprits tied to these operations have been arrested in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Poland, Czechia, and the Baltic Sea region. Their targets for arson or bombing attacks include industrial sites, defense plants, shopping malls, bus depots, and museums.”

But lacking concrete evidence of Moscow’s role in the plots, certain European nations have been reluctant to call out the Russians. “We are simply being too polite,” Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen lamented in a conversation with the Council on Foreign Relations in July. “They are attacking us every day now.”

Quote: rxwine

This year there were 500 suspicious incidents in Europe,” Czech foreign minister Jan Lipavský told reporters ahead of a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels last week. “Up to 100 of them can be attributed to Russian hybrid attacks, espionage, influence operations.” Almost certainly, according to various sources, Russian-affiliated spies, vandals, arsonists, saboteurs, hackers, and assassins are behind many of the others. And yet there’s uncertainty in each instance about how deeply the Kremlin’s involvement goes. That’s part of the game.

The Insider, a Russia-focused, independent media outlet, reports confidently that European-based “acts of Russian state terrorism are now growing in tempo, scale and ambition…. Culprits tied to these operations have been arrested in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Poland, Czechia, and the Baltic Sea region. Their targets for arson or bombing attacks include industrial sites, defense plants, shopping malls, bus depots, and museums.”

But lacking concrete evidence of Moscow’s role in the plots, certain European nations have been reluctant to call out the Russians. “We are simply being too polite,” Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen lamented in a conversation with the Council on Foreign Relations in July. “They are attacking us every day now.”