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Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:16 pm, June 25th, 2023
In the most strategic areas Russia has defence lines that are at least three lines deep, not including the few km’s of ‘grey’ area between the two forces…an area which the Ukrainians have barely managed to penetrate over the past two and half weeks….in ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:51 pm, June 25th, 2023
Joe90 weighs in with his usual impeccable level of trusted, levelheaded, unbiased sources..."Drew Pavlou Aussie human rights activist, fighting totalitarian regimes. Anti-Kremlin, Anti-CCP"....lol.Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:33 pm, June 25th, 2023
I believe it was pretty clear that the Soviet Union was on the way out at the time...however Putin has popularity levels Western leaders can only dream about....over 80% " In May 2023, over 80 percent of Russians approved of activities of the Russian ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:31 pm, June 25th, 2023
"But then again the forces against putin in russia could well decide to seize the moment…and the mercenaries could likely swing in behind that..and again march on moscow.."....that will only happen in the fantasies of people who have consumed too much ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:56 pm, June 25th, 2023
Yes, I agree, I have been a DPA subscriber/patreon going back to before this conflict….he is probably about the most neutral source on the net that I know of anyway…he is also pretty good on Middle Eastern/Asian geo-politics in generalComment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:45 pm, June 25th, 2023
Okay...well for a start the truck going up on the highway doesn't get hit with a missile....how does it explode...who knows? I have seen no evidence at all that Russian units conducted artillery strikes on RostovDo you really believe that if the Wagner ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:56 pm, June 25th, 2023
Whew!! that's a relief ..."All media ought to be relativised"...yep, at the very least...probably unsavable at this point.Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:44 pm, June 25th, 2023
Dude are you being serious?....come on you really have to try and source some unbiased information better than that pal...no really, I know the neutral information out there is few and far between, but don't be so lazy. "Fascinating stuff"..gtfoComment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:29 pm, June 25th, 2023
Please tell me you aren't using the BBC as one of your sources of information on Putin or the war in Russia.... like this bit though.....agree 100%... ..."just another posture in the eternal battle between Labour & National to see which is more ineffectual ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:07 pm, June 25th, 2023
Sorry if that was condescending...I don't know any real facts from that situation...who does?, no one on this forum does...I have read and watched lots of opinions from both sides...I can tell you that the only thing I do know for sure, is no one knows ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:00 pm, June 25th, 2023
...btw your assessment of US airpower has never been tested against a serious opponent….so who knows how it will play out in the real world...but more importanly...how about you settle down there with your awful “before then sending their bombers in to ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:46 pm, June 25th, 2023
I am not sure where you are getting your information from, but even according to Ukrainian and Western sources I have seen, Russia has artillery advantage. I am also unsure on where you are sourcing your information on the underwhelming effectiveness of ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:26 pm, June 25th, 2023
"to make a hit on the Ukraine President in Kiev"....you know the Russians can do missile strikes anywhere in Kiev any time they want to right?Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:21 pm, June 25th, 2023
If I had to actually spell out to you the bullshit and fantasy contained in the avalanche of misinformation that was spewed out yesterday...or to put it another way, all that rubbish, you are suggesting reads to you as facts that need to be disproved... ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:10 pm, June 25th, 2023
Interesting historical analysis there Sanctuary…why didn’t you bring that game to TS yesterday instead of rattling off all that cockamamie that you did?...it does nothing but add further layers of fog to an already incredibly mucky subject, one where none ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:12 am, June 25th, 2023
I am not going to comment, because I don't know the answer to any of those questions...but I will say, as far as the Ukrainian counter offensive goes, the Russian army seems to be holding the line pretty good without Wanger....I think people over estimate ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:59 am, June 25th, 2023
Well I would wait until I knew some actual facts for a start pal....come on.Comment: Open mike 24/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:54 am, June 25th, 2023
I love the way this guy, with a straight face, actually puts up a NYT piece on Putin/Russia lol.... BTW, what do you thing all those Ukrainian Right wing militia are?....do you really think they are loyal to Zelensky? The Waffen SS was pretty damn close to ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:30 am, June 25th, 2023
Yesterday on TS I witnessed the most condensed, unadulterated, pure misinformation written down in one small space...well probably since these same bunch of clowns were hard at work on this same forum spewing out their Trump/Russia fantasies.....the stuff ...Comment: Open mike 24/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:22 am, June 25th, 2023
"Either way this is the start of a Russian civil war"....really...according to who exactly?Comment: Open mike 24/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:18 am, June 25th, 2023
"Let's face it, what we see in most of Western media has an optimistic spin, aimed at citizens of the nations which help fund and supply Ukraine's defense. I find nothing wrong with that, as long as the average reader adjusts for the slant"... Are you ...Comment: Open mike 24/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:13 pm, June 24th, 2023
"Good luck with KH. even acknowledging your email would be a surprise"....actually I heard through a friend that most emails at at least read internally by the interns(?), which is something..you never know...planting seeds etc. I have over the years got ...Comment: Open mike 24/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:48 pm, June 24th, 2023
Yes I agree to a degree RNZ can at times be pretty good on domestic politics...but, when you really start thinking about it for while, you will see that RNZ, like pretty much all western 'liberal' media that I can think of are, when push comes to shove, ...Comment: Open mike 24/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:58 am, June 24th, 2023
... forward to your response. Best Adrian ThorntonComment: Open mike 24/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:52 am, June 24th, 2023
"The end-result is a hardcore of Trump followers whose world-view swings around Trump's latest handful of 'alternative facts'".....yep that is true, however it is exactly the same as RNZ, CNN, BBC, Washington Post (etc) readers and listeners whose own ...Comment: Open mike 24/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:15 am, June 24th, 2023
If anyone still still held on to any illusions that Biden, the Clintons, the Democratic party, the heads of the CIA and FBI were not just a bunch of lying, corrupt sacks of shit who make Trump look like a fucking amatuer…. House Judiciary Committee hearing ...Comment: Open mike 21/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:49 pm, June 21st, 2023
I am not quite sure why people are still handwringing over Labour's lack of movement on banks-supermarkets-fuel industry....Labour have made no secret that their economic ideology is laissez faire Free Market Capitalism...I mean seriously, just like ...Comment: Open mike 20/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:05 pm, June 20th, 2023
"The fact is that Obama is an unindicted war-criminal" as is every POTUS since WW2... there is good reason why the USA is seen as the biggest threat to world peace in the world....because they are! People Worldwide Name US as a Major Threat to World Peace. ...Comment: Open mike 20/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:57 pm, June 20th, 2023
You do understand you can both be anti US proxy war in Ukraine and neither support or like Putin and also point out Cortez's and the Democrat's and their supporting media (sadly including RNZ) outrageous double standards/hypocrisy on anything to do with ...Comment: Open mike 20/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:34 pm, June 20th, 2023
I hear you....it sure is a minefield at times.
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