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Has Operation Vivaldi turned into a rout of Putin’s forces? | Members Q&A

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Sep 27, 2026

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  1. Packed with useful information as is usual with Col. Phil.
    But the final segment really annoyed me, not because he was wrong, but because he was right, in the sense that he accurately represented the Biden doctrine and that of all Ukraine’s allies. (Not the U.S. obviously, that is now little more than a putler client).

    The Biden doctrine:
    1/ we pretend the Budapest Memorandum doesn’t exist
    2/ we will help you defend yourselves but never provide enough to defeat the enemy
    3/ we refuse to engage with the enemy because his doctrine says he will nuke us and we don’t want that!

    Phil is right about Nato too. It is structured so that Ukraine can never join. Furthermore it is filled with cuntz who will never accept Ukraine : France, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary, the U.S. since Biden and probably many more.
    We know only that the U.K. wants Ukraine as a Nato member, as do the Scandies, the Balts and; who else? I don’t know. Maybe Holland?

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    • IMHO, God forbid, Ukraine should fall under Russian dominance, Europe is fucked beyond repair. Europe would face two countries with two powerful armies well experienced in the art of war. Too bad the morons in Europe don’t see that or if they do see it, are ignoring the real security danger.

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      • Ukrainian authors, such as Volodymyr Kukharenko, have been warning of this reality these past four years or more.
        But it was only on Soshul Meejah, so not important, at least according to certain individuals.

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      • That’s the big question, Sir Cap: do they see the danger and choose to ignore it, or are they just too stupid to fully realize what a russian-dominated Ukraine means for Europe. I think there are both types of shitty politicians across the continent.

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    • This war has shown me that in essence, the West is weak, greedy, cowardly, and quite pathetic. The only bit of feint light I see in this pitch black tunnel are the midterms. No Western country was willing to take over the lead from the US. Maybe once Congress is cleansed of the fascist GOP, we will once again take the Western children by their hands and lead them back out into the light. They are lost without us.

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