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That's sad. Seems like you're totally dependent on that malign AI service in order to do you job. Your last sentence is the cherry on the cake: 'Full disclosure, I love being enslaved and I love being clapped daily.'.

Things like these happen if a state fails to secure its information space. Giving control over it to foreign entities means providing population wide manipulative power to foreign entities with adversarial intentions.

Every state should have foreign agent laws (NGOs must register and must be transparent over their financials). Every state should have control over their information space (especially educational, social and news media). Russia and China understood, Brazil and Europe did not.

You can' really blame Putin for not trying to prevent an armed conflict (Minsk 1, Minsk 2, Instanbul talks) for many, many years. Internally, he is often heavily criticized for being 'too soft' when dealing with the Collective West. In fact, it was the US, EU and NATO that finally pushed the Zelensky regime into open warfare.

Let's be honest, there are war crimes committed on both sides on a daily bases (killing of ethnic Russians by Ukrainian troops in eastern Ukraine that are waiting for the Russian army, killing of POWs), I regularly watch them on Ukrainian and Russian Telegram channels. But your claim that Russia 'commit all these war crimes' is just not a serious argument. If you think it is, please provide a list of 'all these war crimes'.

It's always 'Russian propaganda' and never 'US propaganda', isn't that interesting? The idea of Ukrainian membership in NATO was first formally formulated as an objective within the U.S. government in October 1994.

Already in 1993 did Russian President Boris Yeltsin argue that any expansion of NATO into the former Warsaw Pact territory breached the "spirit" of oral assurances given during the 1990 German reunification talks.

In February 2008, during a joint press conference in Moscow, Vladimir Putin issued a direct military threat. He warned that if Ukraine joined NATO and hosted foreign military infrastructure, Russia could be forced to target its missile systems at Ukrainian territory.

These are historical FACTS, do you have any?

Not necessarily, you can buy low priced Deepseek inference also from many services that guarantee ZDR and GDPR compliance. My personal rule is: Never buy inference from those who also train models, because they have an inherent incentive to abuse your data to train their models.

What's your problem with the 'Great Patriotic War'? I use this term intentionally all the time, because it represents the immense death toll the Russians had to endure the last time the West attacked the country in 1941-45.

We are talking about a number of around 25 million people killed on the Soviet side. You may go and search for a memorials (for the atrocities to the Russians on the eastern front) somewhere in Germany or allied axis countries (Romania, Hungary, Austria!, Spain!), just to recognize that there aren't any.

And I'm writing this as a German. The great killing on the eastern front is a black hole in Western history books. These are filled with "Band of Brothers", "Omaha Beach", "6. of June", "Battle of the Bulge"... But no one in the West really knows anything about e.g. the Siege of Leningrad with nearly a million civilian death (including relatives of Putin by the way).

People in the West really need to understand where Russians and Chinese people actually come from historically, the 'century of humiliation' absolutely is over.

> How many troops has Russia lost?

People are not snatched off the streets in Russia, unlike in Ukraine. Putin is the elected president of Russia, while the Zelensky regime is a de facto and de jure dictatorship (by now).

> How many Russians have fled their oppressive regime since the invasion began?

Obviously, the Russian population has not halved as in Ukraine, so what are you even talking about?

> How much economic activity has been lost with the West?

A lot, but that's harming the West (EU) far more than Russia. The EU economies are de facto in recession, while the Russian economy is growing (on average in recent years).

> How much military equipment has been burned up?

A lot, but Russia is outproducing the West in nearly all military metrics, quantitatively as well as qualitatively. Ukraine does not have any air defense left by now, because the West can't provide any. That's why cities like Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov, etc. are successfully targeted on a daily basis.

> Russia had to turn to China and North Korea for help.

Not really, North Korea takes its chance to gain experience in warfare, training soldiers and testing its weapons. It's a rational thing to do from the perspective of North Korea, both sides gain a lot by this.

> Why'd they initially plan to capture Kiev in 3 days then

They went in with 90k troops, that barely enough to "take" even a smaller city like Kiev. The goal was to enforce a political outcome to this acute crisis outside of a total war. Initially, this succeeded with the peace talks in Istanbul and Russian troops retreated. Finally, the West (Boris Johnson, Victoria Nuland, Biden) promised full NATO support for Ukraine and Zelensky smashed the peace treaty into the trashcan. That's when the Ukraine army started its counter-offensive and pushed the Russians far back into the eastern parts of the Donbass. That's when Russia commenced to a slow and grinding war of attrition with the goal of removing the russophobic Zelensky regime propped up by the West.

> Why do they have to recruit in prisons and offer ungodly recruitment bonuses then

The recruitment bonuses are actually quite good, that's why many Russians, especially from the poorer regions, agreed to participate. Every Russian family lost members in the Great Patriotic War, they know who they're fighting. Recruiting in prisons is actually not just a Russian thing, it also happens in Ukraine (where they're snatching people off the streets) and many other countries in conflict situations. That's really not unusual.

> Why does Putin maintain his maximalist goals and requests the entirety of the Donbass he failed to take as a precondition for a ceasefire then

The economically most important regions of the Donbass are by now already taken by Russia. There is not much between the western edges of the Donbass and Kiev. Russia has no interest in a ceasefire, as a ceasefire only provides time for the West to re-arm and prepare for the next attack on Russia. The west shits on Russia since the fall of the Soviet-Union.

> People been saying that for three years. Any time now, you just wait

That's true, but many people couldn't expect how much support in weapons and money the West was and is actually willing to provide to Ukraine. Without this support this war of attrition would be over by now.

> Drone and weapon production for Ukraine is increasing happening in the EU

That may be true, but these weapons need to be transported into Ukraine, with railway, gas stations, bridges and port (Odessa) infrastructure being gradually destroyed by Russia, there is no way to go for the Collective West.

I don't understand how "France's nuclear shield" may help Ukraine militarily in any way. It's the EU that seeks war with Russia, don't pretend it's the other way around.

Yes, who destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines? Biden and Nuland told us. Who developed Stuxnet? Same entities who are behind these false flags.

Ukraine is propped up by the west with money and weapons, without that artificial lifeline the war would be over already. Nearly half the population has left the country, tax income and economic activity are diminished to an unsustainable level. There is no hope and future for poor Ukraine. The west (US, EU, NATO) is to blame.