Ukraine Crisis
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Russian fighter, Lt. Col. Astakhov Dmitry Mikhailovich, condemned his commanders in a video published by the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN. Mikhailovich said his men had been duped into believing they were rescuing the country from Nazis, and were surprised to be met with a fight.
An unnamed senior US defense official told Voice of America on March 1 that many of the Russian side are conscripts with no experience of real fighting.
"Some of them weren't even told they were gonna be in combat," he said, per VOA.
Ben Wallace, the UK's defense secretary, said much the same to BBC radio on March 2.
"We've seen a number of anecdotal reports by young Russian soldiers saying, didn't even know I was here, I thought I was on exercises, no one told me I was going to war, no one told me I was going to kill Ukrainians,'" he said.
A sense of moral purpose is essential, Wallace said. "So there's huge amounts of low morale in the Russian forces," he said.
An unnamed senior US defense official told Voice of America on March 1 that many of the Russian side are conscripts with no experience of real fighting.
"Some of them weren't even told they were gonna be in combat," he said, per VOA.
Ben Wallace, the UK's defense secretary, said much the same to BBC radio on March 2.
"We've seen a number of anecdotal reports by young Russian soldiers saying, didn't even know I was here, I thought I was on exercises, no one told me I was going to war, no one told me I was going to kill Ukrainians,'" he said.
A sense of moral purpose is essential, Wallace said. "So there's huge amounts of low morale in the Russian forces," he said.
Lies. Here's the truth:
Oil/gas companies, right now, have over 9,000 unused approved permits to drill in the US. Of the 37+ million acres under leases onshore and offshore to the oil and gas industry, nearly 60% are not being produced. Petroleum companies have been buying leases and letting them sit idle because their strategy is to let the price of oil go up so they can reap huge profits from higher prices.
Production was cut during the pandemic due to the drop in demand, and they have been slow to ramp production back up, but that is no fault of Biden's at all. The petroleum industry's current strategy is to let the price of oil go up so they can reap huge profits from higher prices. OPEC is doing the same thing. Hysteria over Russia's warmongering in Ukraine also drives the price of oil up.
The petroleum industry will eventually ramp up production and bring the price down, but they are taking their time to do that because, for the time being, they want higher prices and more profits.
Arthur Brain
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Okay, it has happened but not in the age of nuclear weapons and not with the likes of Russia & China in light of that. Sure, Germany, under the Nazi regime was a completely different country than it is presently and the same with Japan. Obviously that's something to be thankful for along with an overall progression away from many things decades past that were prevalent, including racial segregation.
Minority fringe elements are a problem in as much as any of them ever getting control which on an optimistic note is far from likely.
I hope WWIII never comes about. Still, isn't there a bit in the bible where it describes destruction to the extent of not a stone standing upon a stone? What happens with a blast wave from a nuclear bomb?
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Arthur Brain
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Chances are they weren't told and were flat out lied to. It's Putin's MO after all. His whole invasion is based on the lie that Ukraine poses a threat to Russia and that it's a neo-Nazi regime. He doesn't care.
Arthur Brain
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Since when are far right wingnuts discerning where it comes to who/what warrants admiration? There's undoubtedly a sizable amount who think Trump is right with his remarks regarding Putin's invasion...
Why is the ability to lie equated with intelligence? Toddlers can lie readily.
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Arthur Brain
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It shouldn't be really.
Blind, irrational democrat hatred for conservatives is just like blind irrational white democrat KKK hatred for blacks. Lost people slap disrespectful labels on people they wrongly think justifies their blind hatred of them for impure political reasons.
When wicked leaders think wrong things that can cause them to do very bad things to the people they have some control or influence over.
I feel sorry for the soldiers. They are in this because their wicked leaders are using them like disposable pawns. Wicked leaders are like that. They bring suffering on massive numbers of people just to further their wicked agendas, while they do not suffer at all.
I can see why you voted for Trump.
Those Americans who think leftist global warming fears and agendas have not driven gas prices through the roof are either ignorant or stupid.
Political leaders who lie to their own people are wicked.
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It's gaslighting. They're pushing a lie that they know is a lie with the expectation that the large majority of Americans who are idiots will believe it.
Meanwhile if you talk to any experts in the field they'll tell you that it's because of regulatory changes made by the Biden administration when they first came into office
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WRONG... I can see why you're an idiot.
You're lying if you think that oil companies aren't sitting on thousands of permits to drill on 37+ million acres onshore and offshore. They have it, and they'll get to drilling in their own sweet time.
You're also gaslighting, lying or an idiot if you say you don't know that the price of oil is set by the global market. In other words, OPEC has a lot to do with it. And we can't quite force them to increase production if they don't want to.
OPEC did not dictate American oil prices under Trump, but after Biden shut down significant portions of American oil production he then begged Russia and OPEC to lower prices that were skyrocketing in America under his leadership.
You're lying. The pandemic caused American production to drop. Oil companies have yet to ramp production back up:
Analysis: US oil companies are in no rush to solve Biden's gas price problem
US oil companies used to ramp up production at even the slightest hint of higher prices.