No, it is not. There is more to a war than what you see or think you understand.
Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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It doesn't usually include killing your own comrades and running away though.
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If I’m not mistaken, a lot of these missiles strikes that are being carried out lately are with 60’s vintage KH-22’s fired from TU-22M3 bombers, with the KH-22 being a supersonic heavyweight anti-ship missile, that’s equipped with a rather crappy INS guidance system that’s only meant to get the missile to roughly where it needs to be in order to then find a ship at sea using it’s own active radar seeker. Obviously it’s woefully inadequate for precision strikes against land targets, as we’re seeing, but I guess Russia’s objective is more to terrorise the Ukrainian population, than actually hitting actually militarily important targets.
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Your recent posts show that as a foreigner you know little about about "everyone in the UK".
Free thinking people in the UK are not told what words to use and we make our own choices.
Some, like myself, can see that "coloured people" versus "people of colour" was just a black power grab to see if they can subjugate the English language, probably to see if some would fall for it, and basically for laughs.
No one has ever satisfactorily explained to me why the linguistically awkward "people of colour" is not offensive whilst the similarly meaning, but linguistically more elegant "coloured people" is.
Don't start a war and expect others to do it. It is easy to sit at home say what you say from the outside? People like you fall into the trap but small percentage eventually realise by that time you are trapped.
You assume I am not British by using that word, your post assumes many things and they are all wrong. You have a romantic idea of war, or a false sense of loyalty, reality is very much different.
Russia also has a huge problem man power wise when it comes to policing conquered territory - by terrorising populations into leaving before they advance they have a low number of people to deal with and less likely to have problems with those who remain.
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You're a wong 'un.
I see. So "I have a coloured friend" - using this term because he's more brown than black and half Irish so "Coloured friend" seemed appropriate - is deemed offensive.
Had I said "My friend, who is a person of colour" that would have been acceptable.
Blimey! Having known said friend for the best part of a decade and greeting each other usually contains a 4 letter word for lady bits - I doubt he will lose much sleep over my chosen terminology for him.
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Guess it depends on the type of war, if it was a offensive war like Iraq I would want no part of it. We pretty much all know it was wrong and has caused suffering to millions, why would any adult voluntarily take part is beyond me.
If it’s a defensive war aka Russia invading then You don’t really have a choice and would be the right thing to do.
Team killing, lol you a funny guy.
If it’s a defensive war aka Russia invading then You don’t really have a choice and would be the right thing to do.
Team killing, lol you a funny guy.
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Running that through Google Translate the term used was 'unification'. Either way I find that hard to believe given the potential for backlash and Lukashenko doesn't strike me as the sort of dictator that would just step aside an would be happy being a regional governor in Russia.
Careful choice of words to imply success but not to actually claim success.
Any closer to Kherson than a week ago?
Saw a related Tweet to that which made me think about some of the recent posts by certain people in this thread...
Japanese surrender to the US:
For all the ills of the West had it been the other way around it would have likely looked something very different to that - and with brutal regimes that is likely true as well today.
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Unification basically means, CCCP again, Belarus as a state of the new Russian union would still need a governor to rule over the region so nothing will really change for Lukashenka
I wonder what Turkey will do
01-Jul-2022 15:45:56 - Norway Prime Minister: Norway Will Pledge 1 bln Euros to Support Ukraine for the Remaining Part of 2022 and 2023
01-Jul-2022 15:47:31 - Norway Prime Minister: Money Is to Help Ukraine Support People in Need, Defend Itself and for Reconstruction
01-Jul-2022 15:47:31 - Norway Prime Minister: Money Is to Help Ukraine Support People in Need, Defend Itself and for Reconstruction
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The way you have spelt that is almost the Slavic female variant of Lukashenko (typically male names send with and I or O whereas female have an A at the end). Back to the point though for all of Lukashenko's many faults compared to Putin he has allowed a fair degree of economic freedoms which has helped Belarus economically. If Belarus ends up unifying or being absorbed into the the Russian federation CCCP style Lukashenko powers will be dramatically reduced as he won't be able to set laws, determine tax policy, who he gets to trade with, no control over the army or police etc. As I said I don't know any dictator who would willingly give-up power like that.
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