The explanation I have heard from military experts on British radio for there being so many dead generals is that the soldiers don’t want to fight and are disobeying orders or not advancing, and so higher ranking officers are having to go to the front line to ‘encourage’ them than would normally be the case
Pricks.
Mans appetite for war is voracious and history is littered with conflicts that were dastardly crimes against humanity.
But all of those had a sense that an ending would eventually come as they were conventional wars, and life could continue (with the exception of the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). With so many nuclear weapons in the world right now, and almost all immeasurably more powerful than those dropped by the Enola Gay, all this talk of reduction of stockpiles is pointless. Even a handful of the most powerful of them, and the subsequent lasting effects, would destroy most of life as we know it. At frequent times in history despots, tyrants and crazies such as Putin, Hitler, Stalin, etc, get to have total control of their country... and subsequently abuse that power.
I've read a lot recently about how Putin is bluffing, he's not bluffing, he's mad, he's not mad, yada, yada. Whatever, he's still made that threat, and no-one is going to call his hand. I don't see any way the nuclear threat will ever go away in it's entirety, not now with Putin and not ever. Now that the world has seen that Putin can achieve impunity just by holding that threat, I believe that even when he's long gone that no country will realistically be either willing or want to disarm on a nuclear level. It's immensely sad that future generations have to be born into a world full of fear and foreboding, and that politics, religion, ideology and nuclear weapons is the most toxic mix imaginable.
Ironically the recently launched $10 billion, James Webb telescope will train its eye on very distant worlds to see if they are habitable. We have our own habitable world right here, which at some point - possibly now or certainly in the future, will be uninhabitable. And all because of mans greed.
That there is life out there in the vast cosmos I have no doubt. I also have no doubt of what their singular view of us would be.
RTE news did a report from polish border showing some of the stuff that had arrived from Ireland…..one of the locals held up a pair of red high heeled shoes 👠 to make the point that this is the sort of stuff that is not needed. ……Surprise surprise…..some posh bird clearing out her wardrobe 😡
That's spectacular.
I've seen that many senior officers killed in combat In a two week period,and people still think they have a chance against the combined Nato forces
I was very supportive of peace efforts a few days ago , but I suspect this would be another waste of time. Having said that, Israel would only host if Russia gave the nod that it would negotiate rather than demand surrender. Would be a shame if Putin's plane suffered a 'technical' problem on the way to Jerusalem....
Only reports are that Volnovakha has been retaken (great if true), but hardly a lifting of the siege
RTE News saying on their bulletin this evening that there is probably more need now for food rather than clothes (non perishable items obviously that can be transported over long distances and which won't go off).
I know a deal is difficult to see being agreed its just how far can the war can go I hope Ukraine can be free and exist without a threat just wondering how that that can come about in reality .
Putin didn't want Ukraine in the EU either, so that probably would have been another term of the deal. The people of Ukraine would have seen such a deal as a complete sell out. 'Give up your right to self-determination. Stay within the Russian sphere of influence. Be content with stagnation.'
Yes, lives would be spared if Ukraine just stayed obedient to Russia, but it's happened so much in human history that nations are willing to put their lives on the line for a principle that it should tell us something - people want the right to make their own decisions and live their best life, even if it means sacrifice. Even if it means losing the battle. Here's another chapter of that.
He's going to have to rebuild his military before the next adventure. Root & branch. Not just build more tanks, it will be a decade long process at least.
No offence to the people’s generosity and I'm sure well intentioned but I’d say most of that was a load of old clear-out tat. You’d have to question the economics of then transporting it over 2000km
Eh.... It's not 'liberation' or 'denazification' of Ukraine. It's an invasion, pure and simple.
Russia’s most popular late-night talk show host, Ivan Urgant, who has been dubbed Russia’s version of American television host Jimmy Kimmel, is believed to have fled to Israel with his family following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Urgant’s talk show, which has aired daily since 2012 on Russia’s state-run Channel One, was taken off the air on February 21, only three days before Russian troops invaded Ukraine, in what commentators say was a result of his anti-war views.
On February 24, the popular comedian posted a pitch-black square to his Instagram account, followed by more than 10 million people, alongside the caption “Fear and pain. No to war” in Russian — a slogan that has since been heard in anti-war protests across Russia.
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I'm not sure being compared to Jimmy Kimmel, one of the least funny talk show hosts, is a good thing. Suffice to say totalitarian regimes always go after comedians and entertainers. They'll replace him with some sterile regime stooge.
Didn't know Frank Spencer had joined the Russian army 😂
The only way Ukraine can guarantee its safety, security and sovereignty going forward will be to join NATO and the EU (even if this takes a good few years).....otherwise it would be at major risk of being invaded again by the rogue and criminal regime to its east.
That scenario only kicks the can down the road until Putins next venture.
Russian tanks find way to prevent javelins from penetrating via their upper armour
https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1502758799861497863
The minions need to make a move before they are purged...
I was talking to a chap recently at a hospital appointment,him and his wife knew nothing about ukraine but like that posted on Facebook about doing a clothing collection , expecting a bag or two from friends ,in 3 days they had to hire a box van to take over 200 bags of clothes handed into them,
Absolutely not, what is the point of the Ukrainians sacrificing everything for a status quo. If Putin has to relinquish Donbass or Crimea then he will be gone, that should be the goal and he knows it.
A compiled list of killed/captured Russian officers to date.
The current estimate is that at least 20 generals are involved in the liberation and the denazification of Ukraine....... There is no modern parallel to this many high-ranking officials dead this early on in an invasion. Operation Barbarossa would be close maybe. A CBS report from a day or 2 days ago, citing the US estimate of 5000-6000 dead, 15000-18000 wounded, which in itself is already at least 10% of all Russian forces. Estimate goes higher with known 3000+ POW and around 15k missing/deserted. A quarter of military equipment in the invasion has been destroyed or disabled.
General Patton: "No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”
He lied to Putin, what a heinous crime especially so considering he can only be told what he wants to hear! The wheels are definitely starting to come off if Putin is turning on his minions.
If there's going to be a diplomatic solution here, the price will almost certainly include lifting sanctions. No way Russia agrees to withdraw without sanctions being lifted. Similar to the blackmail Iran is doing now re: nuke deal.
There is no point in any deal that leaves Ukraine defenceless against Russian depradations. Crimea and Donbas is one thing. But not a neutralised Ukraine left without an army or its core territory and resouces that it needs to rebuild.
That will be a truce not peace and Russia will be back in a few years for round 3 to grab the rest. How many Ukranians will disappear then.
Last poll I showed had support for Ukraine pretty much equal across both sets of voters in the US, bipartisan support for military aid, some Republicans looking for more intervention and so forth
Some people just had their brains broken by Trump.
I would not be happy for Putin to get anything but he will not be pushed back out of the country much as we would like it to happen so if some deal could be got at least it would save lives and the country from being flattened .Its a very long shot Putin will be ousted anytime soon sanctions will take time and he does have allies around the world unfortunetly to keep him afloat .
For some reason I can see putin standing up in the UN saying it wasn't him ,and his generals went Rogue and invaded while holding a gun to his head.
Great footage here, but i'm more interested in what seems to be the Ukrainian Pogues
Sad but true, when people organize a collection looking for good used clothing, shoes etc. a lot of people consider it a good idea to "donate" stuff that has long been past its sell by date, on the mistaken assumption that "sure they will be glad to get it!!!" As if the poor Ukrainians have not had enough misery heaped upon them.
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