Imagine a country being attacked trying to disrupt airfields the attackers are using. How awful of them. Exact same as bombing hospitals and levelling civilian population centres.
But but but both sides….
Assad, with the help of Russia, laid siege to towns and cities in Syria and was shelling/barrel bombing them at the same time. Nothing went in or out. The people that managed to survive surrendered in the end. The Russians are going to do it to Kyiv, trying to destroy it without having to fight in the streets. Rather than setting up ambushes on street corners etc, Ukrainians should be focussing on not allowing the encirclement. There's no point in having their snipers and ATGM crews deep within Kiyv if the Russians aren't going to enter the city centre.
I'm not a football fan at the best of times, but I've never felt so disgusted by footfall fans today for arguing how Chelsea supporters will be put out if sanctions against Abramovich may affect their beloved football club. Because you know, the mindset of a football fan, is nothing is more important that football, and who really cares about some trivial invasion that has lead to millions of people flee their own country, no mind the deaths that have ensued.
Interesting article in the Financial Times:
"Russia’s techies flee country they fear is ‘flying into an abyss’
I cannot link it as it may show up under a paywall
Of interest at the moment:
There are currently 3 x KC46 refueling aircraft leaving Alaska, tracking down the Russian coast, probably heading for Japan.
These are the replacement aircraft for the venerable KC-135.
Japan seems to be getting all of their orders at once!
Russia must be watching this encompassing buildup with consternation
In a war with NATO forces all they would have left after a couple of days would be their nuclear button option. They'd be utterly and completely routed. This 'special military operation' has proven that to the world once and for all.
Russia isn't a particularly big market for anyone. Their economy is only 3 times bigger than Ireland. Pathetic, really, so long after the fall of communism. And way behind the republics that won their freedom from Russia.
Jesus Christ…you actually talked about “Final solution”. You both sides crew really are brainwashed
The EU should open corridors to young educated Russians to speed the demographic collapse of Putler's dump.
Russia have been planning this for the past 7/8 years…. Just look at how they moved their reserves out of dollars and tried to implement its own payment systems. It’s not like they forget to check their equipment before going to war. It’s a game of chess with the next 50 moves already thought out…. The 2 curve balls were Ukrainian resistance and Germany’s response
what are the chances the Russia Invasion tips the west/world into a recession in 2022? On a seperate note all these companies pulling out of Russia and no longer operating in Ukraine is sure to put a dent in many share values, prolonged bear market anyone?
You also have to remember Ukraine mobilised when the war started - they will be forming new units from the reserves all the time. Russia hasn't mobilised, and their whole army isn't in Ukraine. Russia can bring in more troops, but that's difficult to justify when it's just a special peacekeeping operation in the Donbass. And their supply lines are long, everything takes time. The war can end quickly if Russia takes Mariupol (likely) and Kyiv (less likely), but if that doesn't happen, then it becomes less likely Russia can "win".
Nuclear war is a Yes.
Reading a few different reports of the situation today and yesterday. Looks like Russia is making gradual progress toward Kyiv, maybe 5km closer today, the English and American intelligence seems to be expecting a significant attack on Kyiv by Sunday. Everywhere else there are incremental gains by Russian forces, seems to be they want to encircle key cities to siege them, whilst also bypassing to focus on taking smaller towns/villages. Ukrainian forces are knocking out armor, but don't seem to be conducting any strong largescale counter-attacks (so far)
The Russians are playing tiddlywinks and just learned that Ukraine wants to play rugby.
1. Home advantage. The guy fighting to stop his wife and family being raped will fight 10 times harder than a conscript.
100% agreed.
2. With Russia's vast army, why are they relying on conscripts?
Vast armies tend to. To make up the numbers around their professional soldiers.
3. Ukraine IS getting massive help from the West.
Agreed.
4. Russia is imploding. Time is not on their side.
I agree, but how much time is the problem CW. Unless there's an internal coup... and even then I would be willing to bet that wouldn't be so popular among a large enough percentage of the population who really do see putin as a good leader for Mother Russia. Initally anyway. And a nuclear capable nation imploding is hard to predict and a bit worrying too.
5. Evidence (ref Kyiv convoy) that the Russians haven't a fûcking clue how to fight this war.
I agree in one way. Yes they ran out of logistics when they ran out of trains to move men and material. Major screwup. On the other hand the fact the same crazy long convoy remained in place for day after day pretty unmolested is a worry as far as the Ukrainian's ability to blow it to bits. Considering it was a massive and strategically very important target, with TARGET in big red letters written miles long.
I wouldn't write off Ukraine. I'd back them in fact.
I wouldn't and haven't and do back them 100%.
Yes thats what happened. But now its payback time, and quite a lot of the Kadyrofski have been "eliminated", not too much on view now of the big assembly getting ready to "Sort out the little Ukrainian problem". Plus Kadyrov is now under attack himself, and from isis no less, but also from other Muslims, especially ones from Syria who have suffered under the Russians in Syria. His Islamic credential's are being called into question. Now aside from the large Nr of Martyrs,( whats left of them) coming home, that could mean big trouble for him in not alone Chechnya but in the wider Islamic world too.
Ironically no, it's based on various US and EU intelligence sources. Oh and the open comms the Russians have on their unencrypted conversations because they don't have military comms for all of their units.
Gas...
I can see shoigu getting the bullet also shortly.
They couldn't get shag all in a conventional battle with NATO forces, and in rolling out the nukes, there is no victory, for the land they would inherit would be radioactive and unsuitable for much of anything.
I don't know why Boris Johnson is suggesting today that Russia may use chemical weapons. Surely he can see that making this statement has echos of Tony Blair's "15 minutes to hit the UK, Weapons of Mass Destruction" stuff. It's not like it did Blair any good, and it's not like Johnson needs to convince anyone of the barbarous intentions of the Russian state.
We are seeing them. Look up RT accounts and other blatant Russian profiles they are posting tiny amounts of Ukrainian equipment captured and in many cases the same pictures of the same equipment every few days.
Is it a wonder civilian casualties are far higher than Ukrainian military. Because the Russians are murdering people in the towns between cities because they are getting absolutely hammered when they approach anything remotely built up.
Indeed, and in exchange they got a vassal state run by a lackey (Kadyrov)
As we've seen in Syria, the Russian doctrine is to surround a city and bombard it. Their military is also heavily artillery based. This is precisely what's happening in Ukraine now, they have difficulty taking cities, so instead they park outside, encircle as much as they can and just start to bombard.
She'll be regretting that. Just doing it for the social media likes as she doesn't think the sanctions will last.....
Well......
They'll be back to a 10 year waiting list for a Trebant, as was the case in the glorious USSR.
A must have for any model collection...
Their figures and your fancy graph is unadulterated waffle.
Ironically isn't the whole Intel on the Ukrainian defense progress based on Twitter accounts?
Theres no chess games going on here. What your seeing is a military that operated under vast embezzlement of its finances and a leadership both internal and external taking a cut of it and telling dear leader multitudes of lies to cover the gaps that are missing.
Putin is so far removed and surrounded by people afraid of him that tactically they are up their own arse.
Now that's some high level 24 carat trolling right there. 🤣🤣🤣
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