The Israel-Gaza war is “taking away the focus” from the conflict in Ukraine, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted.

He said this was “one of the goals” of Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

And he denied that fighting in Ukraine had reached a stalemate, despite a recent assessment to this effect by the country’s top military general.

Ukraine’s counter-offensive in the south has so far made little headway.

This has prompted fears of war fatigue among Kyiv’s Western allies, with suggestions of growing reluctance in some capitals to continue giving Ukraine advanced weapons and funds.

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    I hate to say it, but within minutes of hearing about the attack by Hamas against Israel, the unexpectedness of it, and the scale of it, I asked myself, “Who’s funding this,” and, “Who gains by this?” And my brain replied, “Putin.”

    Sure enough within days his puppets in our government (the USofA GOP) start talking about reducing/stopping aid to Ukraine.

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    If you think this is bad, just wait until China goes for Taiwan. “Like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.”

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      China is not going to go for Taiwan.

      Wish you guys would get this fantasy out of your heads.

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          How about you try to prove a positive instead of asking for a source to prove something isn’t going to happen, debatelord

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            1 year ago

            China is not going to go for Taiwan.

            source?

            How about you try to prove a positive instead of asking for a source to prove something isn’t going to happen, debatelord

            True, you can’t prove a negative, but at the same time that person made a firm statement, so someone else’s totally in the right to ask for citation to backup what they said.

            They could have supplied quotes from Chinese leaders stating that they were never going to invade, etc.

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                Anyone who asks someone to prove a prediction is categorically an idiot

                Nobody asked for “proof of a prediction”, but to back up their opinions that they are expressing as facts with some actual facts.