Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Alot of foreign news stations are leaving Russia due to Putin criminalizing independent reporting. We're about to hear a whole lot less about Russia. Will make it easier for authorities in Russia to deal with protests more harshly (than they already are)

All this tells me is this war is not good business for anyone, so it'll probably come to an end sooner rather than later and the sanctions will be dropped.

Yep, we haven't even seen such scenes in Belarus, never mind anywhere else.

According to the Pentagon, around 92% of Russia's invasion force is inside Ukraine

And the blyats keep coming

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I travelled through it one time......when I was living in Russia. You are right, the Russians should have picked some one or some where else !!! Slava Ukraine!!!!

Good God so the Ukrainians need to resort to false flag engagements now to further their propaganda?

What side are you on? Your last few posts have been pretty desperate to be honest

The Russia army is a lumbering, lazy and unskilled giant riddled with corruption and poor leadership. It hasn't improved much since it's awful showing in Georgia in 2008 against a gnat opponent.

Ukraine's military is minuscule in comparison but they're obviously being fed high-level Intel at every turn, which allows them to maximise their resources multiple-fold. That is obviously a major part in why Russia is losing so much equipment and cannot establish air superiority.

If there was zero external influence Ukraine would be in an incomparably worse position. Though arguably the outcome would be similar, just a lot more Ukrainian losses and devastation, as the invasion force was always too small for country-wide domination and occupation in the event of major resistance.

Russia has committed almost 100% of the invasion force assembled already. I genuinely can't see them getting a huge amount further. It feels like Putin is just trying to punish them now for daring to resist by inflicting as much devastation as possible before potentially productive talks.

maybe the Russians are cognizant of the fact they no longer will have all the spare parts to fix their planes so are saving them for when they need them more

Don't think they are "the most vulgar and looked down on" 🤔

Speaking very anecdotally...but people (IMO) generally like the farmers here and they appreciate their work and support the CAP + the farm subsidies and know what it's for. This is a very rural country, even still. Fact that there is such a thing as the CAP still going suggests at least some people in power around Europe and in the EU do understand the importance of food security and where food comes from. Where are you getting that viewpoint from about "people" in general disregarding or disrespecting agriculture? Let alone doing this for a generation.

Energy...I don't know...you may have more of a point there but "People" do watch the price of their electricity and gas and cost of fuel for their car. It's something govt.'s get it in the neck over quickly from large numbers of people when prices go up. While I admit they may not really know or care where it (energy) all comes from and they don't want a power plant built beside them, they are very sensitive to what they pay for it and will want someone coming up with a plan when/if it starts to rocket in cost because of this war and the sanctions.