General News Discussion

[Unown (WILD)]

So its basically just a few fights here and there. Like they're taking their time. Trump said that the death toll each week was nearly thousands so I assumed that over 3 plus years everyone should be dead by now.

 

[RedCowboy]

I don't know, I'm sure Trump could be embellishing a bit, however there have been over a million casualties, that said Trump should have the better intel.

Casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian War include six deaths during the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, 14,200–14,400 military and civilian deaths during the War in Donbas,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War#cite_note-OHCHR-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a> and up to 1,000,000 estimated casualties during the Russian invasion of Ukraine till mid-September 2024.

Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Invisible Losses: Tens of thousands fighting for Russia are dying unnoticed on the frontline in Ukraine

The Kremlin’s recruitment policy is shielding society from the true impact of war.

www.bbc.com

 

[paul1598419]

Back in 1940 there was a Republican Senator, Ernest Lundeen, who spent his time telling the American people to not support the allies in the war. He was killed later that year in a plane crash, and a speech was found in his pocket that he planned to deliver at the Senate. Well, long story short, he was being paid by the Nazis for his actions. Eerily similar to today.

 

[RedCowboy]

Ukraine was part of Russia, but it also was part of Poland, Lithuania, and the Soviet Union.... I would like to know how much of the Ukrainian population would rather be part of the Soviet Union again, that said if the majority wants to be independent, then we should support them, but Zelensky has to go, he's corrupt, actually Ukrainian government has been one of the most corrupt and the Bidens took personal advantage of it.

Half of Ukrainians Want Quick, Negotiated End to War

Ukrainians are growing increasingly weary of the war with Russia. Gallup's latest surveys of Ukraine show 52% would like to see the war end as soon as possible.

news.gallup.com

 

[paul1598419]

Ukraine was part of Russia, but it also was part of Poland, Lithuania, and the Soviet Union.... I would like to know how much of the Ukrainian population would rather be part of the Soviet Union again, that said if the majority wants to be independent, then we should support them, but Zelensky has to go, he's corrupt, actually Ukrainian government has been one of the most corrupt and the Bidens took personal advantage of it.

Half of Ukrainians Want Quick, Negotiated End to War

Ukrainians are growing increasingly weary of the war with Russia. Gallup's latest surveys of Ukraine show 52% would like to see the war end as soon as possible.

news.gallup.com

Zelenskyy is not corrupt. Your idiol just doesn't like him. Turns out that as many as 600 persons have expressed interest in runnig as a Democrat in the next election. That is as many who wanted to in 2017, that whole year, when Trump was president last time. That was the last time this record was broke.. The reaoning is that no one is fighting hard enough now against Trump. I love it!

Yes, and the U.S. was once owned by the indiginous people. So what?!

 

[Deleted member 46223]

So its basically just a few fights here and there. Like they're taking their time. Trump said that the death toll each week was nearly thousands so I assumed that over 3 plus years everyone should be dead by now.

Yeah, the numbers that Trump has quoted a few times do seem a bit high. He's said millions of deaths a few times and most sources put it closer to the low to mid hundreds of thousands dead. Although as said, he would of course have access to better intelligence than us.


Right now the attrition has slowed a bit, but there were certain points during some of the big urban battles where thousands were being killed a week, which is what he could have been referring to. Like during the Seige of Mariopol, the failed Ukrainian Counteroffensive or the Battle Bakhmut.


According to some, the Battle of Bakhmut was one of the deadliest single battles since the end of the Second World War.

Battle of Bakhmut - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

During the World Wars though, there were countries that lost over 10% of their entire population to the conflict, so in that sense if Russia and Ukraine don't come to some agreement to stop this, they could in theory continue fighting for years more at this rate before they are anywhere near that level of casualties.

 

[paul1598419]

Ukraine is fighting for their domocracy and freedom. That is the important thing to realize here. Putin is a dictator and has reneged on all of their promises in the past.

 

[RedCowboy]

If Ukraine doesn't grant the US mineral rights to compensate us, then they can fight without our help or make a deal to end the war, but no way should we continue to borrow money from our children's children to pay for their needs without any consideration ( mineral rights ).

 

[paul1598419]

Well, Trump's tariffs went into effect. Canada and China have already retaliated with their own tariffs while Mexico is expected to do so soon. If you thought things were expensive before, just wait. The Dow has gone down 1400 points so far just since yesterday.

 

[RedCowboy]

Dow is only down 1.3% which is perfectly normal, it will go back up soon enough.
By this time next year Trumps actions will be paying off, so don't pretend you understand Trumps policy, you don't.
That said the money Trump will save the taxpayers will benefit our economy, cutting democrat waste and fraud will be the best thing for our economy in a long time.

 

[paul1598419]

Democrats aren't the ones raising prices. Trump is doing that. I doubt anyone understands why Trump is doing this. He seems to think other coutries pay tariffs. They NEVER have. It is a tax on Americans.

 

[RedCowboy]

Trump will improve our economy, yes it takes time too see the effects however democrats are the party who always raises taxes, Trump will cut taxes and stop the tax increase democrats already passed for next year.

When Biden eliminated the debt ceiling, democrats spent a Trillion dollars in only 5 weeks, that causes inflation because it was all borrowed money that interest must now and forever be paid on.

p.s. DOGE cutting democrat waste and fraud will improve our economy, by this time next year we will already be seeing the positive effects.

Something else you fail to understand is tariffs and reciprocal tariffs mean new US jobs and thus a stronger US economy, we will do well to make more goods at home...... you talk about improving worker wages, well tariffs will do just that.

 

[paul1598419]

SHIT! Biden only rauised the debt limit to keep the U.S. from defaulting on the debt. Congress had a bipartisan hand in that. Trump has had at least 90 lawsuits filed against him and Democrats have won 31 of those so far. Many others haven't been ruled on yet. DOGE has only cut everything, especially the agencies investgating Musk. That's corruption. Tarriffs mean higher prices. If Trump wanted more jobs herre there are far better ways of going about that.

 

[Deleted member 46223]

They should have at least given all the discontinued booze to random hobos and anyone else in an epic one day giveaway. Leaving so many people scattered across the snow it'd be like the Battle of Stalingrad.

Ontario removing U.S. alcohol from LCBO as ‘first round of retaliation’ against Trump’s tariffs

The LCBO’s website is temporarily down as the alcohol distributer removes all American alcohol products in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Canadian goods.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[RedCowboy]

SHIT! Biden only rauised the debt limit to keep the U.S. from defaulting on the debt. Congress had a bipartisan hand in that. Trump has had at least 90 lawsuits filed against him and Democrats have won 31 of those so far. Many others haven't been ruled on yet. DOGE has only cut everything, especially the agencies investgating Musk. That's corruption. Tarriffs mean higher prices. If Trump wanted more jobs herre there are far better ways of going about that.

No tariffs mean we stop exporting wealth, stop devaluing our dollar, it's not as simple as you would like to paint it, but then again you would take a stand against a cure for cancer if it went against Trump.

Biden let things get to this point, your democrats stole an election and had 4 years to do everything you could and none of it did anything good, all you ilk did was push big government control down to how we thought and spoke about things, mainstream media control, social media censorship, well Trump is for Freedom and smaller government as well as ending wasteful democrat spending and fraud.

 

[RedCowboy]

They should have at least given all the discontinued booze to random hobos and anyone else in an epic one day giveaway. Leaving so many people scattered across the snow it'd be like the Battle of Stalingrad.

Ontario removing U.S. alcohol from LCBO as ‘first round of retaliation’ against Trump’s tariffs

The LCBO’s website is temporarily down as the alcohol distributer removes all American alcohol products in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Canadian goods.

www.ctvnews.ca

Looks like Canada is having a little temper tantrum, lol.