Russia is losing the war in Ukraine

AAQ, mdd’s views on this matter is from being an excellent student of history, especially Russian history, as well as a very careful follower of current events.

Gotta love Alternative History.

I hesitate to accept Ujm’s praise.
Chiefsmerel, my knowledge of history is based on solid sources.
Always…, on which matter?

Always…, I understand that legally Ukraine is a sovereign country. So what business does Russia have getting involved there? However, if you know that originally they were one country for centuries and then again from 1654 till 1991, and that the dukes of Moscow had in the interim always wanted to reunite with the western parts of the original Russia, and that many people in southern and eastern Ukraine want the reunion now, and that they and Russia resent tremendously the anti-Russian brainwashing and falsification of history conducted by Ukrainian nationalists in Ukraine, you start to see the Russia’s view on the situation.

back to history: ok, I understand that area of Moscow was somewhere between old “Rus” of Kyiv and Novgorod – was it part Rus or more Ganza, not sure. How does that support Moscow’s claim to be in charge of Kyiv? It would rather support Kyiv’s claim on Moscow (and many other Russian and Belorus cities). If the claim is simply “one culture”, “one nation”, similar to Nazi’s claim on Austria, Sudeten, ..
then maybe Moscovites should propose a weak and fair union? I understand they do have some organization that is joined by their satellites. I am talking about genuine partnership where Ukraine is an equal partner, like early EU. Would this make more sense that bombing the most Russified areas of Ukraine?!

Also, maybe pass to your Russian friends – they do not understand how voting works. They annexed most of the pro-Russian part of Ukraine 10 years ago. That means. remaining voters are more anti-Russian and will elect an anti-Russian government. I am not even mentioning those who changed their views.

Ganza never played a big role there, even though Novgorod was a member of the League. Moscow was a small city/town in the later Kievan Rus’ period. To be continued…

Always, wrong guess. Try again.
So, in the 13th century, Rus’ was overrun and demolished by the Mongols. Its’ north-eastern part fell under the overlordship of the Golden Horde, a Mongol state, but they were allowed to retain their government structure with a broad autonomy, and the local leaders were dukes descendant from the old Grand Dukes of Kiev. The western parts of Rus’ were divided between Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. They, however, did not retain autonomous government structures and just became parts of the Grand Duchy or colonies of Poland. Eventually, the north-western parts overthrew the yoke of the Mongols and formed an independent Russian state. After Chmelnitskiy, imach shmo, rebelled against the Poles, his people decided to become an autonomous part of Moscow’s Russia, and Russia agreed to defend them against the Poles.

I meant, the north-eastern parts threw off the yoke of the Mongols.

jackk > How many more people is he going to send to their deaths for a war that he is losing?

Apparently, many nearby countries are not accepting people fleeing the draft. This is a very Rosh Hashonish question: what is a real teshuva?

These Russians were comfortable going to work while their country is attacking the neighbors, but are planning to flee when they personally are affected. So, is this teshuva mi’ira? Is it accepted or dismissed as self-serving? Some apparently fled when the war started but then came back as draft did not appear likely.

Maybe the safest way for the draftees is to get to the other side and fight for Ukraine – then they have a higher chance to survive. Although, they will be tortured if caught. Maybe, they should promise Ukraine that they’ll work somewhere far from the front and then ask neighbors to let them proceed on a bus directly to Ukraine.

Right now there’s a real risk of Russia going nuclear. If Russia does use tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine, then a serious risk develops of a direct war between the United States and Russia. That war could be conventional or could go nuclear, between two nuclear armed states.

I don’t believe the average American has any idea how close to reality these dangerous scenarios potentially are right now.

The USA is not going to nuke Moscow if Russia nukes Crimea. Ukraine should be willing to do some compromise to end the war but Ukraine would rather the entire world to be blown to smithereens rather than to do give an inch to end the war.

Yes that’s correct. We could all be heading towards a major WWIII if we don’t wake ourselves up NOW ASAP to serious Teshuva and Achdus together. Don’t tell Hashem that Hashem the ruler of the entire world didn’t send us a warning with enough time for us to wake ourselves up from living in Denial and think we can fool Hashem that we don’t see his direct message and tragic wake up calls sent straight to klal yisroel for us to wake up to serious Teshuva and Achdus together ASAP.

What happened the minute Yonah Hanavi came to Nineveh and told the King the dvar Hashem? The king immediately shut the entire city down to serious Teshuva so their lives can be saved hopefully with sincere Teshuva…..

We can’t fool Hashem the king of kings. Let’s not be fools and then ask ourselves why there’s so much non stop tzaros in klal yisroel when we all know that it could’ve been avoided from the very beginning if we only woke up and FACED REALITY IMMEDIATELY and accepted Hashems call for serious Teshuva and Achdus ASAP together like in the story of Purim…..

Let’s wake up now in the aseres yemei Teshuva and beg Hashem to forgive us and accept our sincere Teshuva and Achdus together as one loving nation

May Hashem deem us worthy to send Mashiach immediately so the kohein gadol does the yom kippur avodah this year in just a few days from now.