Russian special military operation in Ukraine #53

I think those graves are exclusive to the western Ukr elite. The cannon fodder they recruited from eastern Ukraine (who are ethnically Russian)
are either left to rot on the battlefield or buried in some dirt hole with a wooden cross. So these images are yet more Ukr propaganda.

A whole of Ecuador's stock can be placed in a gym.
Mi-8 including.
The whole thing has only propaganda meaning and I would call it a sign of pure desperation.

I disagree. Ecuador was being neutral and then they started making money by siding with the west against Russia... should Russia ignore this?

Should Russia reward Ecuador for helping the US arm Kievs forces trying to murder not just Russian soldiers but also Russian civilians?

I read an article on a news website with a Swiss official who claimed that Switzerland was still a neutral country and people should still invest and bank their money there, but just because the Swiss have joined economic sanctions against Russia does that mean they have to lose their neutral status?

Of course it does because the meaning of the word neutral means not picking sides whether it is in your interests or not.

The leader of Ecuador said what they were sending was scrap and was not worth anything but they were getting 200 million dollars worth of US equipment to replace it... why would scrap need to be replaced?

When the whole conflict is put in perspective in the future to reach a legally binding settlement, it needs to be crystal clear to any external observer, that Russia only escalated when forced by their opponents and after many diplomatic attempts, only that will create international recognition for eventual new borders an/or the dissolution of 404.

It is not rocket science... Russia has been very careful to limit collateral damage and minimise the effects on the average civilian in the Ukraine as far as possible... including increasing risk to soldiers in some situations. The west seems happy to feed Ukrainian men and now women into a meat grinder with no care for their welfare at all and attacks on civilians are claimed to be legitimate targets of war when Kiev is responsible.

It is pretty clear Russia cares about the people more than the west. The west is either interested in the value of resources in the Ukraine or in damaging Russia and Russians.

The morality is clear.

India is not at war with USA and it's not their job to police what their customers do with the merchandise after they purchased it from them

At the end of the day it is in Indias interests to remain neutral and not help the US damage Russia. It seems at the moment India wants to use the US to damage China or offset Chinas influence. The US of course wants to damage India and Russia and China because they are all potential rivals and getting under their skin and stirring shit is what they do best.

India will have had clauses in the agreements and sales contracts with the US that gives India some control... India would certainly object if the US gave Indian munitions to a country like Pakistan or China for what ever reason.

If these rounds were sold to European countries the same applies because the EU are US vassals and will do what the US demands. They don't have morals or ethics or independent thought so it wont matter to them what the US orders them to do.

"Mobile Infantry made me the man I am today"

(Desire to learn more is conspicuously absent)

The good old BBC showing you the news from every angle... except Putins perspective or any vaguely Russian friendly angle.

They exclusively reject right wing ideas, because they are trying to harness the energy of these centrist moderates that plague political systems in the west and then using them to enable mainstream establishment parties to continue to rule

They preach tolerance through intolerance... agree with me or you are putins puppet and need to be fired from your job.

So in Italy we saw a "right wing" politician get co-opted and essentially fall in line, while in Germany and France they do the same thing

The ease with which they are manipulated is partly because they are so weak and not so stupid, but part of politics in the west is being flexible to gain power over others so changing your direction to get what you want makes them easy to manipulate and control.

In order to foster change in western countries, it is important to form counter-narratives that focus on dispelling the disinformation and propaganda they use on their own citizens

I would say forget trying to fix the west... any attempts will just be seen as attempts to corrupt and interfere in the west and will cause them to further double down on stupid. Turn away from the west and let them stew in their own juices for a bit... Russia will do fine without the west and the rest of the world will do better with BRICS than the west... first and foremost because the rest of the world will be able to join BRICS which has never been an option for them to join the west.

You might say the west allows countries that are fully european colonised like Canada and Australia and New Zealand join the west, or occupied countries like South Korea and Japan. But even countries like Turkey are allowed in HATO but not the EU so they can join the meat shield squad, but not be allowed in the Garden.

Turkey has enormous potential but the west will never let them achieve it.... and I don't mean expansion and empire creation, I mean developing and growing and improving the lives of all its people to a comfortable level.

Possible last fling?

Those are lines on a map. Have they made those thrusts and is that line on the map the new line of contact, or is that their plan of what they want to do but have not achieved yet?

Those blue lines are total fiction.    When has the front moved this much this fast in the last year?