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by SanjayMehta 11 days ago
The allies only won WW2 because the Soviets and China expended millions of lives weakening the Nazis and Japan.

Note I'm saying Nazis and not Germany: there were plenty of Finnish, Polish and Ukrainian Nazi battalions as well. It would be amusing to watch the same forces lining up to take on the Russians yet again, save for the orange lunatic with nukes, currently installing a UFC cage on the White House lawns, making the world an even more dangerous place for the rest of us.

The UFC cage fight is itself is a sign that the US is already in rapid decline. Every empire collapse has been preceded by arrogant excess. The comparisons with the Roman stadiums and Caligula write themselves.

The US and its NATO vassals have already lost The Ukraine. They just haven't realised it yet.

Iran is beating the US strategically. Here I think some of the inner circle have realised it, but the real powers behind the throne just won't give up.

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If Iran was winning strategically they wouldn't have lashed out last night wounding 63 civilians (many needing immediate surgery) by launching missles at the neighbors and killing one Indian national because they couldn't get an empty tanker in to pump/store crude in. The blockade they initiated has blocked 125 commercial ships from accessing Iran.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are so afraid they won't even allow families of people like Mojtaba Vaisi and Meysam Vaisi, two brothers and well-known cultural activists in Kermanshah who were killed by security forces, to hold funerals. To recruit people to their pro-regime nightly vigils they are having 'temporary weddings' as incentives.

In addition with the restoration of internet more and more videos are coming out of the murders the Shia Islamic theocracy conducted on their own people who no longer want to live under Islamic rule, be forced to wear hats under threat of beating/death/rape, and those videos will undermine the lame lego propaganda attempts shortly. https://eyesofiran.com/event/59879

Iran has been incredibly restrained. Notice how Israel keeps attacking civilians but Iran has been attacking military targets? Iran is letting Israel know (since they know Israel is the one driving negotiations...) that Iran can still attack them whenever they want--and they know Israel is running out of missiles for Iron Dome. Iran knows they just have to wait this out. Every day American support for the war decreases and people begin to resent Israel more and more for dragging us into the war. Iran is winning the war by every metric. This is the first war where the target ended up coming out of the war more economically powerful... it's a complete backfire.
> Israel keeps attacking civilians

Such as..?

> Iran has been attacking military targets

Maybe a few, but the vast majority of their strikes illegally targeted civilian infrastructure. Off the top of my head, there was Dubai airport (struck at least 4x), Kuwait airport, various residential neighborhoods of Tel Aviv (with high-altitude cluster munitions that couldn't possibly target military assets), civilian energy infrastructure in several neighboring Gulf states, an MSC container ship, etc. etc.

Whenever the US and NATO have attacked any country, they've always gone after power and water utilities first.

Iraq. Yugoslavia. You name it.

Use the same standards and the Iranians have been very circumspect.

Remind me how many Iranian civilians were slaughtered by the US. And I'm no fan of the cult which rules the country formerly known as Persia.

Let's just talk about ONE school: was it 160 school girls or more?

Iran - unfortunately- is winning. The Straits were open and thanks to your genius of a president, they are closed now AND have shown the Iranian regime that they can control it and monetise it.

It was very much Germany as such that lost WWII. Really.

> The US and its NATO vassals have already lost The Ukraine.

What are you on about here. NATO never owned it, but member countries helped it. Except USA big NATO countries are still helping it.

It is fascinating that EU countries became "vassals" when they went against USA wish in a major way. No one called them vassals when they were allies, the word is thrown around when they visibly diverge. Trying to stir emotions?

The EU and NATO were always vassals.

The EU was created so that the US would have one entity to control instead of many.

NATO was created as a captive marketplace for US weapons.

Coming back to the Ukraine issue, Russia is facing off 50 plus countries supplying materiel and intelligence using the Ukrainian proxy regime.

I could not care less about your emotions. I'm not a romcom writer.

That's weirdly incorrect about most stuff. I guess you are in India and reading Russian propaganda influenced sources?

If Ukraine is a US proxy then how come when Trump told them to surrender and cut all funding they said yeah right and fought on?

And if they are losing why is Russia blowing up and losing 1400 soldiers/day?

Nothing I say is even remotely incorrect. Look it up.

I guess you're in a NATO vassal state or the US and are reading NATO propaganda influenced sources?

The Ukraine (use the correct term) is NATO proxy. One of the master manipulators are the British. Trump is nobody in this game. Read Gleason's book and get back to me.

As for the Russian losses, even the BBC sponsored mediazona propaganda NGO can't justify those numbers.

While the ukronazis publish video after video of their massive graveyards, ever expanding.

Who's Gleason?
> The EU and NATO were always vassals.

No one used that word until Trump got pissed they did not invaded Iran.

> Coming back to the Ukraine issue, Russia is facing off 50 plus countries supplying materiel and intelligence using the Ukrainian proxy regime.

Russia is facing Ukraine that it invaded who is getting help from countries who find invasion disgusting or simply think Russia will invade them next.

Funny, USA moved to Russia side but the vassals did not.

Did you find the Iraq invasion disgusting? Libya? Syria? Venezuela?

Funny how oil rich countries can be invaded with impunity.