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There is a third option. Ukrainian forces begin a pushback and begin to take the upper hand.

There seems to be a lot of activity on the ground and in the air over and around Ukraine that we, as ordinary citizens, are not aware of. But there are many clues.

The OSINT Community are seeing signs that it may be possible for the Ukranians to take full advantage of Russian difficulties. NATO and USAF aircraft are feeding enormous amounts of data to the Ukranian armed forces on troop movements. The West have supplied and trained the Ukranians to use Western compatible encrypted Data and Communication equipment over the last few years.

It's highly likely, as one poster mentioned earlier, that a move against the large military column will happen very soon. If that does occur, the game is up for Russia.

Plenty of evidence the Russians are using cellphones and off the shelf retail radios to issue commands. All of them unencrypted.

I was reading that conscripts get under $25 a month for their required year whereas those with a 3 year contract get over $1000. That hardly helps morale.

Think it's highly unlikely Ukraine have the bodies to push the Russians back much as I would love it to happen .Putin will unleash whatever he has and that is a lot . Still hoping against hope he is stopped but am pretty worried for the people of Ukraine .

There needs to be investigations into people and lobby groups at least. It was found that there were Gazprom funded lobbyists who were funded to try and get countries to abandon nuclear.

Russia were also siphoning money to fund Anti-Fracking campaign's

With the exception of 2-4, I don't think any Irish politicians have been compromised by Russia. But there are NGOs constantly in the ears of government politicians in regard to Green issues. We abandoned our own gas exploration. We shut down our power production plants. We banned turf burning and then proceeded to import it from Latvia because it was too soon.

Everything was too soon. The push was hard. We could all see it was too soon. Except for politicians who were getting lobbied hard.

And I haven't even mentioned the dodgy stuff that the former German chancellor was doing with Gazprom. It's all there for Gerhard Schroeder.

Me too and I couldn’t agree more- in fact they ARE enemies of our state. Nothing innocent or misguided about these people whatsoever

It makes some sense if Russian soldiers have been kept in the dark or lied to about their mission.

Some have already shown that when confronted with the truth, that they are not on a training mission, not supporting 'repressed' separtists in Eastern Ukraine, not being welcomed with open arms for liberating Ukrainian people and they are not willing to play part in an unprovoked all out war on Ukraine including the killing civilians and indiscriminate bombing of population centres.

Some ground forces have stopped and turned back when met by unarmed local people blocking their way protesting against the invasion.

Artillery barges and missile attacks avoid face to face meeting with the people they are attacking. It is easier to sell a lie when you prevent your army from seeing the truth.

I was listening to a woman on LBC the other day and she got a call form her grandparents in Russia who told her everything was going to be OK, the Russian military are coming to rescue them. She told them about the invasion and they didn't know what to think.

She said they are decent, working class Russian people, not very educated and they only know what they're being told.

I'd imagine the ones with access to foreign news are more likely to have a view that matches us. But i spoke to a mate who is a doctor in a hospital. A Russian colleague said that Ukraine IS part of Russia and Russia sending the military to Ukraine is like the Irish army going to Galway. This was about 3 weeks ago and she went to Russia on holiday between then and the invasion so she hasn't come back yet.

Russians have different opinions on whether Ukraine is independent or not. The ones who answer a vox pop are likely to say the 'right' thing.

And their $25 is now around $17

When I listen to my home Indian media, they are saying that Selensky and current Ukraine Regime is CIA orchestrated.

How US benefits from Russia's Ukraine invasion.

Us Natural Gas exports to Europe will increase.

Russia's natural gas exports to Europe last year 199 Billion. 81% of its total exports.

Due to Uklraine crisis, Russia's exports will decline by 72.6 B.

US Natural gas will fill that gap. with a produiction capacity 1 trillion annually, Us is looking for more buyers.

Dollar will be strengthened.

As europe will be no longer considered safe.

Since EU countries joined sanctiones against Russia, bilateral trade will be shrinking. But Us does not have to worry because

Russia-EU trade 282 Billion (35% of its total trade)

Russia Us Trade ( 34 Billion)

Substantial Profits for US arms trade inductry

More and more countries providing weaponbs to Ukraine.

Germany is going to increase its defence sepnding by 100 Billion

Ukraine ❤️

No need to declare captured Russian tanks, other equipment of invaders as income – NAPC

https://interfax.com.ua/news/general/804441.html

There are "Neo-Nazi's" in every country, ironically Russia has the world's largest population of them.

In the Ukrainian presidential elections, the far-right got less than 2% of the vote, that's lower than many European countries. Despite that there's still a far-right in the country, some of them are in the military, this is not a situation unique to Ukraine. Doesn't matter, the Kremlin started an intense propaganda campaign in 2014 that the country was run by "Nazis", and the current campaign has been heavily propped up by similar manufactured propaganda to "Denazify" the country. The Russians are using the Wagner group in Ukraine, a Russian paramilitary group, literally neo-nazi's (Wagner, Hitlers favorite composer), run by a guy with a passion for the third reich and covered in SS tattoos.

Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian president is Jewish, despite that he's not going to disband military units vital to protect Ukraine just because some individuals have far-right views.

I know India has ties with Russia, but yes it's getting a little ridiculous. Maybe they are hoping for some cheap gas/oil coming their way from an economically desperate Russia.