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You are dealing with someone who starts on about myopic nonsense while holding his eyes real tightly shut and screaming Nuland did it Nuland did it, it was all America causing everything... while clicking his heels together hoping Tinkerbell magic fairy dust will make it so

Also there is no such thing as a NATO funded bomb. Only someone with a brain the size of a walnut and thinking like Donald Trump believes there is. NATO funding only goes to civil, strategic command and common infrastructue / capability planning. Every bomb comes from the military of a NATO member and is funded by that military. The NATO Support & Procurement Agency literally helps pool demand and puts out tenders on behalf of countries as a collective for common weapon system types. It never owns nor stores them. Its why Italian NATO troops can fire 7.62mm rounds from Belgian stocks, 5.56mm from the Yanks, 155mm rounds from us and be carrying grenades from Germany if they deploy asNATO / on exercise. There are no 'NATO bombs' let alone 'NATO funded bombs' going to Israel. Only a moron would say something that stupid when a ******ton of NATO members have banned military weapon sales and only Germany and US actually sell whole munitions to Israel. These delusions are incredible - a few months back the same crazy folk were telling us NATO was out of bombs for Ukraine , now they are apparently funding and supplying the IDF. The brainfarts are incredible

Strangely you do often seem to make it up so...

That the Russians claim only a substation was hit but then don't proceed to showthe substation or any refuting evidence is telling. Alsothe incompetence of the Russian air force in stacking its planes on a runway so they are easier to protect for ground based security / lazy maint also tells a story - air forces at war stopped doing this unless they believed they were completely safe from air attack - its a lesson from the 1940s.

Scott Ritter has got competition for the role of pet nonce in Russia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/fugitive-former-us-city-councillor-enlists-with-russia-for-war-in-ukraine Maybe Russia is running out of its own criminals to recruit

That may count as being liberated in Zugs view of the world...

Because Russians don't want Russian, Chinese or Iranian cars presumably

Wibble and it is not 'friendly fire' that is a term Littlejohn is using with no idea what it means. Friendly fire means being hit by your own side. Civilians are non-combatants and so can never have been hit by 'friendly fire' Littlejohn is a useless tw!£

Sweden is going to create a NATO base on Gotland Island and it has rattledthe Russians. It effectively would allow NATO to hem in the Baltic Fleet and prevent its use against NATO members in Baltic if equipped with anti-ship missiles and long reach radar systems. It also protects the shipping lanes between members

Wibble

Not accurate ones that you could bet your life on. Probably 50% or more but part of the equation is that there aren't enough interceptor missiles nor coverage to prevent the number of fatal to the world strikes that would be generated by a full global launch

Wibble Rollover you are the resident laughing stock, that's why you had to create a new account remember

Wibble but nice try Rollover

If in doubt default pivot to Arab Gandalf, Iraq ,Gedaffi Duck and anything else that fits their loony tunes adventure

The Oz military was very happy with the idea of nuclear subs until they saw the timescales and the hole it left in the defence budget. I believe one comment is 'did we learn nothing from the Pom ******ing carriers...' - off the record

I think we are at the spice to get off the heroin to get off the morphine stage with a domazopan chaser stage if we are being honest

Yep and there's quite a few wibble merchants on here that really display the logic of small kids Claim Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda attack US ( which they then deny happened), Bin Laden & Al-Qaeda are in Afghanistan... but forget all thst and wail 'why didn't you bomb Saudi Arabia where individual donors lived'... Its like IQs dropped about the time Google gave people access to numerous sources of ****** without the capacity to realise its ****** or that they are in fact talking ****** when they repeat it ad infinitum Bin Laden denied ever having any links or training from CIA, all aid was directed via ISI of Pakistan and you'd think Al-Qaeda would make a massive thing of using US weapons against them... but for the dim brigade Bin Laden was a CIA trained operative... Or in reality like many Shaheed and jihadis he had a massive sense of guilt and fear of not being forgiven his sins for doing lots of haram activities- tawba is the biggest recruiterfor suicide bombers among conservative muslim societies. He was textbook newfound pious jihadi trying to 'atone for his sins' and religious recruiters no doubt told him lesser jihad was his only path to paradise because of it. But to the ignorant the conspiracy theories and stupidity of the internet are their sources of truth Same the Moscow attacks - it apparently now is 'a US double bluff to absolve Ukraine'. Just madness

Translated, terms like “unprovoked war” and “aggression” simply mean the ability to withstand Western pressure, but we can see the Washington hive mind at work here. Maybe it would have made sense to knock off Russia first, thereby eliminating a key supplier of fossil fuels and raw materials to China and allowing the West to push into Central Asia disrupting China’s land supply chains and hypothetically blockade it on all sides. The idea of isolating China is so far-fetched it is perhaps understandable that the West would undertake the gambit to defeat Russia and extend its control there and into central Asia. The problem is it not only didn’t work, but the opposite happened. It isolated Russia from Europe, but forced Moscow to forge stronger ties with the rest of the world, especially China. And if it didn’t work against Russia, how should it be expected to work against a much larger and globally interconnected economy like China? The answer from CSIS: Still, the United States and its allies have leverage with China. Whereas Chinese-Russian trade stood at $240 billion in 2023, China’s trade with the EU amounted to about $800 billion, and China’s trade with the United States was more than $660 billion. China has more at stake in its economic relationships with the United States and the EU than it does with Russia. Yes, but what do the US and EU have at stake? Just to mention the obvious, an attempt to isolate China would mean circles of hell pain in the West, which could shatter their economies and societies. As the Chinese President Xi Jinping said in the April 2 phone call with Biden, Beijing “is not going to sit back and watch” is the US keeps pushing. If the preferred method of warfare from the US is a proxy war coupled with an economic war, the contest is an attritional one to see whose system cracks first. And we can see that so far, the European vassals are the biggest losers. (Although I can’t help but think the Ursulas and company of the EU see this as an opportunity to grab more power while capital gets to feast on the underfunded and collapsing welfare states). Who knows, maybe the West believes it can destabilize China before its own structures crumble. Either way, the aristocrats appear doomed to try. And their strategy is only getting more difficult as China gets to watch and learn from the West’s efforts to “isolate” Russia. Wibble

True life - severely wounded Russian soldiers with life changing injurieshave been given Alexa speakers... Its amazing that the loons are trying to now dismantle Merkel who indulged Putin's rants far longer than most in the West to try and maintain peace. Wibble is all they are left with

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Ahem Bin Laden was not funded by the 'Empire' as you call it as he sought mainly Arab donors and sought to avoid US suport. U support msinly fell on mujahadeen who fell under what would later become the N Alliance but don't let reality bite you on the arse Saddam was supported as a buffer to Iran by Saudi & West until he chose to turn to attacking Kuwait and Saudi in a land grab. Saddam was pissed that the West abandoned him over his ue of chemical weapons and.pursuit of a prescribed weapons programme that made him untouchable. Again reality vs Zugworld Its why the 'accidentally' bombed Western assets in ME during the '80s when support evaporated. Soviet and Chinese support however rolled in about that time. Awkward...

This is one of those moments where you look and say - I don't think you are going to get any sympathy there fella.

TASS hahahahaha also the delusion 'Ukraine did it'... So are you telling us 16k of Russian men have been lied toby the Russian state and will now 'take revenge' on the wrong people...

Seems you could merge this thread with some of the waspi women thread

Quite What is hillarious is they also want to create complex reasons for the war and convoluted plotlines. In its simplest form the war started because Russian troops crossed into Ukraine and were shooting Ukrainian troops... it started because Russia believed it as powerful enough to win in 3 days... reality has shown it wasn't