Recent content by Eric the meek

I'm sorry I don't have the answer that you seek. What I will say, is nothing is forever. Not Putin. Not the Russian empire. Not Trump. And not Trump's intransigence. Things will change. In the meantime, it is in Ukraine's interest to keep the US (and Europe) onside. Which it is doing. Take...

Why are things so bleedn obvious to us and the rest of the world, but not to Trump? Why did Trump replace Kellogg with Witkoff? That was impossibly stupid.

It's sometimes necessary to highlight these offensive operations, especially at times when a ceasefire is being trumpeted by the side making the offensives. It's as we all suspected. It's all bollocks.

When your role is that of peacemaker, language such as 'Ukraine will be crushed very shortly' is inexplicable. It is 100% NOT the language you should be using. For a start, recent history of the war suggests the opposite, but even if that were not the case, that is the language of mindless...

What I also find hard to rationalise, is that he seems to think the audience will swallow this utter nonsense. He must have a very low opinion of his audience. Perhaps that is a function of being able to completely control them and kill untold numbers of them since he rose to power in late 1999.

You're probably right, in that it might just be an extension of the way that Russia created groups of - fake - wives and mothers of missing soldiers, to provide a soft landing area for - real - wives and mothers of missing soldiers, who were in search of a voice and might have caused unrest...

I'm not sure if there is an adjective that adequately describes this. It's one of the weirdest things I've yet seen in this war.

Drone activity over Yelets, 385 km south of Moscow:

I feel this has got potential for Ukraine to do exactly that, or more precisely, make Putin think they will disrupt the parade, or blow up the bridge etc. Pictures of Ukrainian troops still in Kursk, memes of someone holding the Ukrainian trident in Red Square, Big arrows pointing at the Kerch...

Agreed. All of that. His arrogance led him to repeat the 'joke' 53 times. He believed - fervently - in his own ability, without countenancing the possibility of anything happening that would prevent the inevitable - his stopping the war within 24 hours.

YNWA being sung now.

Stat from Sky Sports: Liverpool have scored 15 goals against Spurs this season, 11 in the League.

He'a a republican, but I'm not sure if he's a MAGA supporter. Judging from list of the 53 times he says Trump said he would stop the war in 24 hours, suggesting that it wasn't said in jest 53 times, I would guess that he isn't.