IOC not planning on inviting Russia or Belarus to the Olympics.

The Middle Easterners apparently aren’t people and thus the IOC would never ban America or the West for their illegal wars.

I just hate the rank hypocrisy so much.

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The libs I know that were horny for Ukraine at the start have not posted at all about the NATO summit.

I hope they're feeling a little embarrassed about the naked geopolitics on display.

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What a perfect exemplification of the conflict as a whole. Millions of Ukrainians will be thrown into the inferno, entirely disposable in the eyes of the West, so long as we burn some Russians in the fire.

When I started pretending to be a cartoon dog on twitter and began speaking like a 12 year-old, I made a promise to myself and to the west. I was prepared to fight this war to the last Ukrainian. If decades from now they're still being blown up by the bombs I send them, I'll know they're still resisting Vladimir Shitler and will salute every child who also sacrifices their time and energy to see this war through to its end. I'm doing my part and they will be too.

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is still one of the most insane stories I think I will ever see in my lifetime

Why was Sweden so desperate to get into NATO anyways? They are literally surrounded by NATO countries, there was tangible zero threat to them.

And now they have to waste 2% of their GDP on military spending instead of using it on literally anything else. For what? Where's the benefit?

So I will say with respect to your first question, the war has been a strategic failure for Ukraine. I'm sorry excuse me, a strategic failure for Ukraine. Thank you for the correction.

The CBC has decided to be pro-cluster munitions. Highlights from the article include:

Cluster munitions are responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians and have been banned in more than 120 countries, but military experts say they would be an effective weapon for Ukraine's army against Russian forces, which is why the United States has decided to provide them.

"There's no question these things are very effective," said Mark Cancian, a senior adviser with the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

"It will be a useful increase in artillery effectiveness," he said. "It's not going to be a game changer, but in the end, it will make Ukraine virtually more effective."

So these weapons cause untold human suffering for decades to come, and won't be the desisive wunderweapon to win the war, but they're an effective weapon so...

They pointed to U.S. army data that found that during the Vietnam War, the number of conventional high-explosive 155-mm rounds fired for each enemy soldier killed in combat was 13.6, compared with only 1.7 for cluster munition shells.

It's cool and good to point to Vietnam war era bodycounts to justify your civilian killing weapons

But Cancian, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said even if the failure rate is double what U.S. officials are saying, the cluster munitions would still be "pretty damn effective."

The nub of the Ukrainian argument for using them, he said, is that every day the war goes on, Ukrainian civilians are killed, and they have to weigh that with the risk of dud weapons killing their own population

We need to salt the earth with explosives that ensure no one will be able to walk across a field in Ukraine without fear of getting blown to pieces to prevent more people from being blown to pieces

There's more in the article, including a token bit of "what about the bombs that don't explode?" but the grand majority seems like it's trying to justify the use of these horrible weapons

I now firmly believe that Western cope over the Soviet Union beating back the Nazis is contributing to the west thinking this war is winnable.

“The soviets only won because of our material. This time Ukraine is the one with our support.”

As if somehow foreign aid could win a war. It helps, but it’s not even close to a determinative factor. Countries willing to donate enough to the cause to win are parties to the war. If you aren’t willing to be party to the war, you wouldn’t send enough to win. The distinction barely exists at that point.

Anti materialist nonsense propaganda has once again become a rake the imperialists have stepped on.

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I genuinely hope (I'm not optimistic) that when America and the EU ban Chinese students from their universities, that this will be a massive slap in the face for Chinese and other Asian guasanos. They need to realize that they aren't even considered to be "honorary aryan" and that westoids will always see them as barbarian hoards no matter how much balls they lick. America and the EU would love to see China implode and tens of millions dying like the collapse of the USSR.

Found an article from last year about some foreign mercs in Ukraine with some fantastic bits in it

Zabielski belonged to a squad of western volunteers, attached to the Ukrainian army, called the Wolverines, according to Tristan Nettles, a Marine Corps veteran who was with Zabielski the night he died. They were a group of thirteen English-speaking men: one Pole, one Canadian, two Brits, and eight Americans, all of whom had military experience. “Every single one,” says Nettles, who previously did a tour in Iraq.

Le epic wolverino squad! Just like that movie!!!

Against the backdrop of the battle of Severodonetsk, where brutal fighting remains ongoing, the Wolverines were sent on a mission to clear enemy mines near the village of Dorozhnyanka. Their objective was to create a safe path for their unit’s vehicles in advance of a Ukrainian assault planned for the following morning.

Foreign volunteers being used for more dangerous jobs, nothing new here

Two of the fighters made their way to the observation post to relay the order and resupply Zabielski and Gary with water and fresh batteries for their equipment. When they learned that they would have to stay out another twenty-four hours, Zabielski and Gary decided to move to a position they considered more suitable.

Nettles blames the thickness of the vegetation, the heaviness of the fog, and a failure to maintain proper distance between personnel for what happened next. “Stephen apparently triggered a trip wire, which detonated a mine that killed him and severely injured Gary,” Nettles says.

The bad news went out over the radio, and a Canadian fighter named JT drove a vehicle in the direction of the explosion to evacuate the casualties. But JT had trouble crossing some train tracks, and in an effort to get over, he made a serious mistake. He maneuvered the vehicle over a portion of the tracks that had not yet been cleared of mines. “Which resulted in his vehicle exploding with him still inside,” Nettles says.

Wandering around the mine filled bush at night sets off a mine, killing one of them. Another drives his vehicle right into the minefield and blows it up

They squad carried Gary out on a makeshift stretcher. Extraction of Zabielski’s body would have to wait for the following day. Already it was light out. “There was no security,” Nettles says. “We should have all been slaughtered, because no one had guns on the wood-line, and most everyone was being extremely loud, and we were very close to the burning vehicle right next to the Russian position. If the Russians had any tactical competence or courage at all, they would have sent a forward observation team, who would have seen our group with no weapons up, carrying a stretcher, and killed us all.”

Blaming his survival on Russian incompetence sounds like a weird take to me but what do I know

The Wolverines, the squad that Zabielski belonged to, is in disarray, Nettles says. “Only three of us remain now from the original thirteen,” he says. “The deaths and injuries have been in vain because it is an absolute shit-show out here,” he continues. “We had a two-hour firefight that later turned out to be against Ukrainian special forces. It is unbelievable what goes on here.”

Nettles, whose tour in Iraq was near Baqubah, with the 2nd Marine Division, says that his motivation for volunteering to fight in Ukraine is to bring attention to the plight of a South African woman, Ashley Oosthuizen, who is unjustly imprisoned for life in Thailand for drug crimes that she did not commit. “If it was not for Ashley,” he says, “I would not be anywhere near this ridiculous mess.”

“The media only tells one side,” he goes on. “I am here. I see the reality. Bridges blown up while friendly forces are still on the other side, no communication between units, friendly fire all the time.”

For example, Nettles says, “They tell us we have support, and then fire off three mortars and call it a day. They give a guy who has never used an automatic grenade launcher and then tell us he will be our indirect support at night from 1.2 kilometers away. I didn’t make this shit up. It is a fucking shit show. The Ukrainians are brave — I’ll say that. As for the rest, I can only shake my head as good men die for no reason at all.”

And this is all the juiciest bits right at the end. First of all, two hour firefights with their allies and comrades-in-arms. His motivation for fighting being some South African in Thai jail. The stories of incompetence