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The media won't give me great answers to this question and I think this I trust this community more, thus I want to know from you. Also, I have heard reports that Russia was winning the war, if that's true, did the west miscalculate the situation by allowing diplomacy to take a backseat and allowing Ukraine to a large plethora of military resources?

PS: I realize there are many casualties on both sides and I am not trying to downplay the suffering, but I am curious as to how it is going for Ukraine. Right now I am hearing ever louder calls of Russia winning, those have existed forever, but they seem to have grown louder now, so I was wondering what you thought about it. Also, I am somewhat concerned of allowing a dictatorship to just erase at it's convenience a free and democratic country.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 176 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Woah dudE!

Reminds me of the starting scene in Lord of War

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

"Warlord."

"I prefer it my way."

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Came here to say "Raytheon".

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The Military Industrial complex .... which has no allegiance to any nation and controls more money than most nations in the planet.

Even the US is beholden to it's power ... one of the best descriptions of America is that I've ever read was ...

The US isn't a nation ... it's a corporation with a military.