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[Tubby’s Canteen]

I’m sorry but I was taught that your word is your bond, and a handshake is a contract. I think our treatment of Ukraine, beginning with the invasion of Crimea in 2014, is a national embarrassment.

Careful those are starting to sound like old school Canadian values they fell out of favour some time ago unfortunately.

 

[rigbymauser]

The US has apparently moved on from Ukraine, but the Ukrainians certainly haven't. The narrative for the last couple of years by the naysayers was that the Russians were heedless of casualties and would inevitably overrun whatever they wanted to take. Quietly, that bit of strategic fantasy seems to have finally died during last year's largely aborted Russian offensives - at least those fantasies have died for everyone but the isolationist right and Putin's useful idiots, which with respect to this topic, may unfortunately include Trump and his Vice President. This year's winter/spring efforts by Russia were not only stopped, but Ukraine has gradually begun to retake some strategic ground in the East and South. Russian casualties, 1200-1400 a day, remain at what are for even Russia unsustainable levels. At the same time, Ukraine's strategic economic bombardment of Russia's petrochemical industry continues to accelerate.

I genuinely feel Putin has maneuvered himself into a position from which he has no good way to extract himself. Barring an ever less likely Ukrainian collapse, his only face and perhaps regime saving hope is likely, and to my mind unfortunately, Trump.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1t1mhj2/the_fires_at_the_rosneft_tuapse_oil_refinery_are

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1t1778l/tuapse_everything_is_fine

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1t08ec5/a_clear_unobstructed_angle_of_the_fire_at_the

What we heard a few weeks ago was Ukraine is now able to kill more russians per day than Russia can supply per day. That would turn the tides mathmatically.

 

[Boyd Brooks]

I watched some of the May Day protests and their thoughts on what needs to be done, no work, shopping, school, etc. All I could think of was, what a great idea! Hard working people stop paying taxes, so you lazy fu*ks wouldn’t have your free shit. Don’t go to school so you won’t be indoctrinated by the socialist liberals that run institutions of learning. I really think they might be on to something.

 

[AJ Peacock]

I’m sorry but I was taught that your word is your bond, and a handshake is a contract. I think our treatment of Ukraine, beginning with the invasion of Crimea in 2014, is a national embarrassment.

Yes, the time to support was before the battle began. When the threat appears is when you put your hand on your pistol grip, not after you have a gun to your head. Obama missed his chance to stop this and so did Biden.

AJ

 

[mdwest]

I’m sorry but I was taught that your word is your bond, and a handshake is a contract. I think our treatment of Ukraine, beginning with the invasion of Crimea in 2014, is a national embarrassment.

I don’t disagree with you…

I’m simply stating that there is a reason a “memorandum” was written and not a “treaty”… and why that memo contains assurances rather than promises…

The left continues to tout broken promises and broken treaties… which is a lie… the Budapest Memo is not a treaty and does not contain a single binding promise…

And was 1000% written that way on purpose…

It wasn’t about duping Ukraine…

It was about allowing Ukraine save face…

Had they not given up those weapons, the “friends” signing that memo would have quickly become enemies and the UK and US (along with the Russians) would have taken actions against Ukraine to force them to relinquish the weapons…

 

[spike.t]

Psychology asserts that children of the 1960s and 1970s did not become emotionally strong thanks to better parenting, but because they grew up with enough daily neglect to learn to self-regulate, solve problems on their own, and develop a resilience

Did less supervision make kids stronger? Research links independence in childhood to better emotional resilience later

www.ecoticias.com

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Careful those are starting to sound like old school Canadian values they fell out of favour some time ago unfortunately.

He didn't add "ay" at the end though.

 

[Aaron N]

He didn't add "ay" at the end though.

We aren’t pirates!

 

[Boyd Brooks]

We aren’t pirates!

Eh?

 

[Red Leg]

Another example of the fallacy of the pro-Russian inevitable victory narrative. The chart is from the latest Institute for the Study of War report on Ukraine. https://understandingwar.org/resear...ian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-2-2026/

From the report: Russian forces in April 2026 suffered a net loss of territory controlled in the Ukrainian theater for the first time since Ukraine’s August 2024 incursion into Kursk Oblast. ISW has observed evidence to assess that Russian forces lost control of 116 square kilometers in April 2026, not counting areas into which Russian troops may have infiltrated. The Russian rate of advance across the battlefield has been steadily declining since November 2025 as continued Ukrainian ground counterattacks, Ukrainian mid-range strikes, the February 2026 block on Russia’s use of Starlink terminals in Ukraine, and the Kremlin’s throttling of Telegram have exacerbated existing problems within the Russian military.

The Reddit post shows the relevant chart from ISW. Coupled with increased bombardment of the Russian petroleum infrastructure, and air raid alerts (Ukrainian drone attacks) now occurring almost nightly in the greater Moscow region, It is no wonder Putin spent an hour and a half on the phone with Trump.

How did Warren Zevon put it? "Send Lawyers, guns, and money, get me out of this ......!"

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1t2esxy/isw_russian_forces_in_april_2026_suffered_a_net

As part of the Ukrainian strategic petrochemical campaign, Ukraine is also continuing to strike the Russian tanker fleet using surface drones.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1t2ekw0/two_russian_shadow_fleet_tankers_were_hit_by

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

We aren’t pirates!

I make my living on the ocean have a fair amount of tattoos and an inclination towards rhum…..

 

[Killingtime]

I make my living on the ocean have a fair amount of tattoos and an inclination towards rhum…..
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Mencken had so great quotes. That has always been one of my favorites. His view on government and mainstream media at the time holds more true today then ever.

 

[Tanks]

Another example of the fallacy of the pro-Russian inevitable victory narrative.

As long as Trump thinks so, they are good.

 

[Scott CWO]

As long as Trump thinks so, they are good.

Foolish statements and the ridiculous admiration of Putin continues. His dislike of Zelensky somehow overrides the atrocity that Russia continues to conduct.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

Foolish statements and the ridiculous admiration of Putin continues. His dislike of Zelensky somehow overrides the atrocity that Russia continues to conduct.

Yep. Utterly ridiculous

 

[Red Leg]

As long as Trump thinks so, they are good.

I know of not a single military professional whose military expertise I respect who would remotely agree with this nonsense from Trump.

 

[Altitude sickness]

I know of not a single military professional whose military expertise I respect who would remotely agree with this nonsense from Trump.

It boggles the mind why he would undermine Ukraine and embolden Putin by repeatedly saying Ukraine is defeated. And in the next breath chews the corrupt medias ass for insinuating that Iran has the upper hand.

To say Iran has the upper hand is anti-American and in emboldens Iran, but the opposite is true for Ukraine. it’s very strange.

I keep holding out for, and have faith that there’s an underlying strategy in play by playing both against the middle. But it’s appearing more and more that it is just simply Trumps hatred for Zelenskyy. I’m still hopeful Trump isn’t that simple.

 

[Altitude sickness]

 

[Brent in Az]

Trump announced project freedom will commence tomorrow, escorting ships out of the SoH

 

[WAB]

He didn't add "ay" at the end though.

It’s ‘eh’, as in ‘how’s it going eh?’