Russian strategy of war crimes escalation in Ukraine (winter 2026/2027)

froggy 20 points 4 comments October 04, 2026
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froggy

As Ukrainian civilians are being slaughtered by ballistic missiles and drone attacks, and their water, food, energy, education, and other infrastructure increasingly attacked, Donald Trump continues to not put in force the Graham-Blumenthal sanctions against Russia, or take any meaningful action to protect Ukraine. For any Trump/GOP voters here, this is what you’re voting for - continued war, suffering, and death in Europe and the middle-east. I hope your financial gains from it all were worth it. You’re closer to your singularity/rapture, but will you be part of the chosen ones?

netsharc

Unfortunately for Ukraine, Trump isn't going to come to the rescue, he'd prefer to have a Trump Tower Moscow. I wonder if any European leader would dare send their hardware (planes) over Ukraine, arguably "To stop war crimes" is a valid reason. It'd be politically deadly for them, all the MAGAesque populace will scream against it, and yeah it'd be risking Russian retaliation (not that Russia isn't already fighting them, with all the sabotages). And then again, what can planes do defensively, they'd have to be dropping bombs in Russia to be effective, but that'll really be a NATO escalation that Putin will use as a reason to shoot back...

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