There's no point in pretending that you will initiate nuclear war. Pretending would actually undermine your position.
Russia says it is a "special military operation" and "denazification".
Fedorov the mayor of Melitopol has been elected to his position by his people. He works for the people. Why should he be apprehended in a "special military operation" or "denazification" process. Also it seems another activist Olha Haysumova has also been kidnapped.
The illegal Russian cleansing has started.
Normal Russians have an obligation to bring their government to heel. At the very least Russians abroad need to explain to people in Russia that atrocities are occurring in Ukraine caused by their own army. Normal Russians should be allowed to protest freely. They also should be allowed to vote in fair elections. The Russian public enable and allow cronyism and widespread corruption.
There seems to be little contact between Putin and the Russian public. They seem to be light years apart.
The CCTV footage of fake ballots being stuffed into ballot boxes foretold at such a scenario as we have now was going to happen.
This could become another Stalingrad. As suggested by others. I see no way the Ukrainians will just give up. And even if Kyiv falls, there is no way the Russians will be able to hold it. That city is a bee hive. The Russians are about to stick their hand right in and get stung from all sides.
Fcuk Putin.
Speaking of Marianna, she gave birth to a baby girl, but everyone in Mariupol is freezing cold.
Ukraine has a lot of good weaponry , the drones and missile launchers
You'd have to wonder about non-intervention but supplying weaponry, maybe it makes sense or does it prolong the inevitable or even force Putin's hand further
It's like the nuclear threat. Saber rattling. If one missile struck a a NATO country, there would be hell to pay. I'd also question the ability of Russia to hit those convoys so close to the border.
Why do you think it will go 'lightning quick', Kermit? I know you like to hype any significant diaster to the max, but that's pretty bad, even by your usual standards.
I'd be surprised if Russia managed to hit supplies coming into Ukraine, also I don't think NATO won't respond (they can't really), they'll just take the logistic loss. It's no big deal in terms of the grand scale of things. Russia doesn't have air superiority, it's pilots are still nervous over Ukrainian airspace, not sure they want to risk a 40 mm dollar plane to take out what could be a bread truck. Maybe they might try to do a symbolic strike, but for now they are little threat to the vast amount of military supplies going into Ukraine
A shipment of big tractors, I hope.
The more advanced equipment is a whole lot more expensive than some of the less sophisticated equivalents
Will be interested to see what happens there
There's nothing lightning about the current Ru military, they've struggled to take more than one key city. Kyiv is like a fortress and Russian progress has been slow. Sadly, they are likely to start doing what they are doing to all other cities, encircle, and start to shell the city, hoping to panic inhabitants, create a larger refugee crisis and close in on supply lines. Starve it out. 21st century and we're seeing medieval style siege warfare on European cities. Very surreal.
Why would Kyiv fall quickly when Kharkiv and other cities closer to the border have repulsed all major attacks? The Russian command have been shown to be incompetent and their armour is highly vulnerable. Taking Kyiv will require infantry stepping out of their armoured vehicles and will result in them getting mown down. They will take very heavy casualties, how will that play out at home?
What is very apparent is : the highest Civil Servant grade in Russia is top of the tree...guaranteed billionaire status, multiple properties around the globe, luxury yacht, private jets, Premier League clubs. Meanwhile ordinary zjoe in Russia is barely getting by...... Animal Farm alive and kicking...we are all equal...but some are more equal..Roll out the sanctions, get a submarine out to the Maldives for some yacht shooting practice ...absolute self centred greedy, thugs, mafia in uniforms... scum.
Ukraine will be back 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
Three groups itching for the betrayal of the Ukrainians, the ‘hard left’, the ‘hard right’ and the ‘hard luck!’.
That's a good point. Ukraine has/had a thriving and very innovative aeronautical engineering and manufacturing industry.
Brilliant.
Better still let Ukraine decide for it self what it wants or not.
Belarus government has said it will send five battalion tactical groups to the border with Ukraine to replace the troops currently stationed there. It denies that this is part of preparations for entry into the war
Not just supplying weaponry - intelligence is a big weapon. One thing having weapons and another to know where to target them for maximum damage.
I seriously hope that "Western" contingency plans exist to bolster the Ukrainian defence of their capital, perhaps in the firm of hitherto unused hi-tech equipment or "unbadged entities". To a certain extent I'm wondering if the "West" are feigning weakness.
I'm not entirely sure that the Russians would have the wherewithal to quickly identify the source of timely assistance - " perhaps it was the Nazis, comrade "
At a certain point, it it comes, I think President Zelensky definitely should retreat to a safe place. This is because he is invaluable to the Ukrainian people, so much so that martyrdom would not raise his figurehead status any further, and he's an exceptional individual.
Slava Ukraini
Seems that a Mosque sheltering 80 adults and children in Mariupol has been shelled by Russian forces. Now lets see how Kadyrov and Islamic Jihad et al. react to that.
The intelligence being provided is also being seen as a reason for the number of commanders being reported as KIA, which also helps reduce unit effectiveness.
Biden really scared to make the Russians angry. Almost makes you wish the dream team of Bush/Cheney was in place, I don’t think putin would be so confident. Though…. we would probably all be dead within a week……
He's walking a very fine line. He has to denounce what Russia is doing in Ukraine in the strongest terms and make sure Putin knows America will ride to the rescue if any NATO country is invaded
WHILE
making it crystal clear that NATO will not under any circumstances launch a nuclear first strike on Russia. No room for loose talk about 'fire and fury' in this standoff.
TBH I'd prefer if he erred on the latter side
Nato or the US should consider giving them better drones especially something like the predator type which can carry a lot more firepower than the baktar drones they bought from turkey, although effective they only carry 2 weapons , where variants of the predator can carry 8 + hellfire missles and loiter for 20 + hours over a target
Please include your source with your posts.
Bush Cheney dream team ? Lol
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