And what possible way has Ukraine lost this war?

Russia’s goal was to topple Ukrainian government and see his complete control over the entire country in 3 days.

Here we are, 3 years into the war and Russia has lost something like 14,000 vehicles, over half a million casualties, and what have they achieved exactly?

Besides turtle tank technology of course.

Quiet and no IR signature. Run electronics for days or weeks without generating IR signatures.

Fun fact, there are over 5 billion tons of naturally occurring uranium dissolved in the ocean.

More accurately, this would be like if the United States conducted a drone strike on a Mexican taco stand in Tijuana.

Conflating Bellingcat with the CIA is a hilariously bad take.

“Last year marked the final year of project funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) that provided funding for Russian-language workshops at no cost to journalists and human rights researchers based in Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia and the Caucasus. We continued our project for the Swedish Postcode Lottery (SPL), which among others supported free trainings on ideological extremism for organisations in Europe.”

You seem to be misinformed. Also, provide proof that the NED is CIA, because that is quite a claim!

That is however a claim promulgated by the propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist State:

The United States has long used democracy as a tool and a weapon to undermine democracy in the name of democracy, to incite division and confrontation, and to meddle in other countries’ internal affairs, causing catastrophic consequences.

Link: https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/zxxx_662805/202205/t20220507_10683090.html

The US just vetoed a ceasefire agreement in the UN security council.

It’s funny, it’s pretty similar to what the US government did when they sent in settlers out to the west. Once over enough settlers staking out clams of land, it ended up crowding out the native Americans which led to conflict, and then you ended up with Custer killing bison on the Great plains.

When you are arguing that words have no meaning, you have already thrown away your own argument.

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War does not automatically equate to being a genocide just because people due. Otherwise, every war in history would.be genocide.

There are Arabs & Palestinians that serve in the IDF too and have killed Palestinians. There are other Arabs in Jordan and Syria who have also gone to war against Palestine.

You are using incindiary rhetoric to win an online argument, but your description doesn’t fit the facts.

What about when the Palestinians tried to overthrow the Jordanian government, and when they successfully did it to Lebanon?

Mixed use buildings for actually quite common in much of the world and can work quite well. See what you do though is you put them on the market for anybody to rent, and not force people to live in your company housing.

If you go into any major city you’re going to run into mixed use buildings.

Short answer is nope. Commercial and residential building codes are very different, as are the engineering requirements.

It’s not that there might not be plumbing, it’s that there is zero plumbing in most office buildings aside from one clustered section for floor where there’s 5 to 10 toilets for each gender.

On top of that, you have completely different mechanical systems. An office building for instance may have one single mechanical system for the entire building, whereas an apartment would need separate mechanical systems for each individual apartment.

Then you have the kitchens, bedrooms and interior partition walls that are vastly different than an office building, plus the requirements for exterior windows which precludes larger office buildings with deeper floor plates from being converted at all without demolishing the interior portion of the building. Curtain wall systems that may or may not be compatible between an office and residential building (non-operating windows)… Not to mention the stair and elevator systems are probably not going to work either.

So in the end you’re probably looking at gutting the building down to the structure and removing every piece of the building including the outer envelope, roof, all of the electrical plumbing and mechanical systems… In the end it may or may not be cheaper just to build a new building from the ground up.

Source: am architect. And yes, I have done conversions like this in the past.

So basically this is going to cause a world War of social media echo chambers

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-6-2023

Well according to the Institute for the Study of War, he is the current commander of the Vostok battalion in Donetsk. A lot of people reject the idea that the so-called rebellion in danetsk and luhansk was a grassroots movement, and was instead orchestrated by the Russian GRU and FSB to whittle away at Ukraine.

Therefore, that would lend credence to the idea that Khodakovsky is in fact a Russian commander, despite the fact that he was born in Donetsk. He did however relocate to Russia after 2018 before returning for the war.

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I am less interested in the details of this particular event, as I am more concerned about the truth. I merely provided alternative sources of information that cross-referenced and corroborated the material in the article as being mostly true.

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As for a Kupyansk, I’m not at all surprised because as you say, there has been give and take along the border for the entire duration of the war. And since Russia still has its inventory a large amount of artillery, any town is at risk of attack.

What part of this is incorrect?

“Can we bring down Ukraine militarily? Now and in the near future, no,” Khodakovsky, a former official of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, said yesterday.”

The Kyiv Post is quoting Alexander Sergeevich Khodakovsky from his telegram channel, the Russian commander of the pro-Russian Vostok Battalion. He was involved in the uprising in Donetsk back in 2014 and continues to this day to be involved in the Ukrainian war.

https://t.me/s/aleksandr_skif?before=2851

In this case, they are quoting a primary source. So irrespective of your opinion of their journalistic integrity, this appears to be factual information.

Here’s another source from Reuters that discusses the Ukrainian Marines retaking Urozhaine:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-recaptures-urozhaine-donetsk-region-russian-forces-2023-08-16/

This is a typical poisoning the well ad hominem.

Judging by their history, probably not. Just like people’s everywhere, Hawaiians have a very violent history full of warfare!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nuʻuanu

“Caught between the Hawaiian Army and a 1000-foot drop, over 700 Oʻahu warriors either jumped or were pushed over the edge of the Pali (cliff). In 1898 construction workers working on the Pali road discovered 800 skulls which were believed to be the remains of the warriors that fell to their deaths from the cliff above.”