wookiemeister said:

captain_spalding said:

wookiemeister said:

Remember that time the Biden government lost 90 billion dollars of military equipment in Afghanistan ?

Billions of dollars of military equipment has been destroyed in ukraine ( oh yes, Australia has lost billions too but that’s ok they can just put up taxes). I reckon the yanks have lost a trillion in ukraine

“Billions of dollars of military equipment has been destroyed in ukraine …”

…and an awful lot of it belonged to the Russian military.

None of it, or any civilian property, to say nothing of thousands and thousands of lives, would have been destroyed if the Russians had done one simple thing:

stay at home.

They are at home

Remember that time they fought against the nazis in ww2

Its always been Russia

Ukraine was initially an invention of the soviet union , then after 1991 the US government started breeding nazis there and fuelling it with weapons and military advisors so they could use it as a battering ram against Russia.

Keep sowing the wind i say. Australia needs to send its army, navy and airforce to ukraine as a unilateral measure for muh democracy. Doubtful though – the Aussie spirit is a punch down society – attack the weak, promote the stupid. If the Australian government could get enough killed in ukraine there would be no rental crisis / house price crisis.

Wookie,

There’s some things that you seem to have forgotten.

Here’s where you can read about one of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%E2%80%93Ukrainian_Friendship_Treaty

Russia was entirely happy to recognise Ukraine as a sovereign nation in 1997, a separate entity, entitled to form its own foreign policy, with borders, the inviolability of which Russia was pleased to observe, with the treaty preventing Ukraine and Russia from invading one another’s country respectively.

A treaty freely and willingly signed by authorised representatives of the Russian government.

So, for at least a while, as far as Russia viewed the situation, it wasn’t “always Russia”.