Moonbox

Link's a paywall, but point taken. I looked it up and I think it was 10 countries by the end of 2020: In 2014, when allies agreed that all members should meet NATO’s 2% spending level by 2024, only the U.S., Greece and the United Kingdom were in compliance. Now, NATO data shows Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, France and Norway meeting the target. https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/ten-nato-members-now-meet-2-defense-spending-benchmark-but-not-germany-1.649349 Even so, many of these countries had already embarked on massive military expansion long before Trump even came to office (particularly Poland and the Baltic States), and likely as a result of Russia's annexing Crimea. Some of the stuff he says I'm fully on-board with. It's just...there's so much other...shit.

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. “ – Mark Twain What's very clear to you is very "not real". The Red Army's use of human waves were disastrous mistakes, that did not yield results. Their worst recorded use was against the Finns in 1939-1940, culminating in miserable failure in Karelia. They happened here and there against the Germans as well, mostly in the early, desperate stages of Barbarossa, but achieved nothing. As for what needs to be explained to you, are you really going to play that dumb? You've already talked about how more dangerous offensive war is than defense, so perhaps you can connect the dots...perhaps the Soviets had more motivation to fight protecting their homes and families from extermination, and perhaps their generals employed defense-in-depth and ceded territory in the face of German advances, stretching their supply lines 1500+ kilometers to breaking...before counterattacking at places like Moscow, Stalingrad etc in the Winter. Ever heard of General Winter? Hello?

He certainly didn't like Trudeau's 2024 budget. I get the impression that it's less that he likes what Trudeau is doing, and more that he really doesn't like what PP is offering.

I really shouldn't have to explain how bad a comparison this is. An existential defensive battle for survival against a genocidal opponent is by its nature very different than a aggressive war of choice for the sake of a crooked leader's vanity. Even so, the Soviet Union's human wave tactics were not war-winning or effective. They were clumsy mistakes in the early stages of the war, committed by bad/inexperienced officers that wasted finite manpower and resources, and accomplished little.

I see. So logic works backwards for you. Rather than citation being used to help establish the accuracy of the claim, you do it in reverse. You decide whether the claim is accurate first, and the "sources" that support it are thereby validated, regardless of how little credibility they have. What a comfy worldview that must be. 🙄

Yes, but this was mostly lip-service. By the time Trump's term had ended, I think there were two countries outside of the US meeting the spending target. That number is 13 now (not Canada, lol) and mostly a result of the Russia invasion. No argument there.

What I read was that Trudeau was trying to recruit Carney. My guess (or hope?) is that Carney is smart enough not to board this rotten, sinking ship.

Did Trump do it, or did the Russian invasion of Ukraine? This is one of the few areas on which I agree with Trump (especially from the Canadian perspective), but I think you give him too much credit here.

Right...so in your mind, a Rumble video carries the same weight as validated and widely sources news. I suppose claims made on Reddit are also valid for citation now? 🙄

If we liken the Ukrainian war to a game of Chess, then Russia's strategy is to lose both knights and 3 pawns to take out 1 of the enemy's pawns, and "advance" 1 square on the board. The idea that there's some greater strategy at work here, and that the schwerpunkt will later become clear is a joke. These are meat assaults, because meat assaults are all the Russian military is capable of. We haven't seen this level of military incompetence and ineffectiveness probably since Santa Anna and the Alamo. Because Putin is desperate. Manpower is the only real advantage Russia has, and Putin hopes that he can convince gullible dupes in the West that this is a sustainable, war-winning tactic. Russia isn't China or India. They can't afford to lose to lose 1000 troops a day, and this big spring/summer offensive was meant to take advantage of the delays in western support, which has started arriving but still mostly to come. "Advancing is advancing" though...battalions of dead Russian soldiers to capture a few square kilometers is apparently sound and war-winning military doctrine. 🙄

Yes, a lot of them go nowhere, and he compulsively derails even his own threads with his fragile performances, but the derailing is the bigger issue. Unless you move to a different topic, you can't avoid him. He's always there. You can hardly have a discussion here without him puking all over the place, and he requires no particular dance partner. As soon as the first person disagrees with his 10-IQ reasoning, the performative jackassing begins, and the thread is no longer about anything but fragile Fox's ego.

Okay that's better. At least now we have something specific to talk about. Now let's put it into context. If yesterday and the day before were "slow days" as you say, are we to assume that today was not? If we combine this with the past two days' gains, we're looking at an area equal to 2-3 average sized Canadian farms, taken after 3 days of fighting (and presumably ~3000 casualties), on a 1000 km war front. What military doctrine teaches "advancing is advancing", and that losing entire battalions worth of soldiers is worth a single farmer's field? 🤔

Normally I would, but he's like a malaria carrier. I can spare myself the direct effect of his belligerent stupidity, but not from infecting every other part of the forum I'd still see all of his topic spam. He'd still be derailing every thread he joins with his fragile blustering and desperate need for acknowledgement. His puke would still be everywhere, ignore feature or not.

LOL. You don't make anyone cry. The only thing that's notable about you on this forum is how much of a deadbeat loser you are. There are plenty of other people just as stupid as you here, but nobody has less going on in their life than you. You're just a pest.

Did you? Because the word "could" only showed up a single time, in three different sources. That doesn't matter for you though, because clownworld works differently than reality. 🤡🤡🤡

Gaining ground, yes. KMs a day, definitely not. We're talking meters. YOU ARE READING IT WRONG. I already explained how this is WRONG, and I even showed you a screenshot, with the legend. HERE'S ANOTHER ONE. Either you're color blind, or you're bad at reading maps. You tell us. This heroic success is about 200m, and it's one of only two such instances on the entire 1000km front line. This is the progress Russia is making daily, and all for the low-low cost of ~1000 casualties a day.

Wasn't a typo. You reasoned it out and everything! 🤣 Chalk it up as another example of you being a blustering buffoon. 👌 You're the biggest no-life loser this forum has ever seen, and it's not even close:

Is this what you're talking about? You're a treasure trove of truly retarded statements. 🤣

From Russian soldiers and deserters: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/01/18/theyre-just-choosing-where-to-die-when-russias-poorly-trained-stormtroopers-retreat-russian-barrier-troops-gun-them-down/ https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-soldiers-say-blocking-units-placed-behind-them-stop-retreat-2023-3 https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/human-wave-tactics-are-demoralizing-the-russian-army-in-ukraine/ MSM FAKE NEWS right? If it's not from Russia Today, or Tucker Carlson, it just ain't true in clownworld.

Just another example of muppet-logic, from the biggest no-life this forum has ever seen.

This is what's funny. These soldiers are so motivated that Russian commanders employ blocking units behind their assaults that shoot their own retreating soldiers. Russia has low morale, but highly motivated troops 😆...that's good shit.

I suppose it's easy for you to feel that way when you just ignore and blow past any criticism of your reasoning, without even acknowledging it. Evidently, that's also what you seem to do when confronted with facts that contradict your chosen narrative. See below: YOU picked that place on the map, and it's ironically the place where the Russians are making the most progress. Anywhere else, and the "gains" are even more underwhelming. You cannot do the same to make your point, because what you're claiming is not real. Now, instead of rambling off another useless 5 paragraph essay, nut up and show us a place where the Russians are advancing kilometers per day, as you've claimed. Alternatively, you can save yourself some time and acknowledge that your misinformed on that.

The obvious and public examples lends credibility to the ones behind closed doors. As you say, he's a circus clown that attacks people. He also has literally zero credibility, so it's fascinating to see people like you try to rationalize why you'd give him the benefit of the doubt. The endless parade of critics he has from his former inner circle should raise questions for a reasonable mind, but instead: I couldn't have said that better myself.

You are not even a citizen, but a poor Russian mud-person, subject of a small, sad, murderous little clown: Comrade, you need to work harder. You are not convincing anyone. You are not worth the potatoes the apparatchiks are paying you.

🤣 CdNfox skience.