Russia - threadbanned users in OP

It's a fantasy for most part ,

Something like 8 exist and they are test vehicles , doubt they will ever appear in large numbers , considering whats happening in Ukraine and economically in Russia I might not see production at all

So having acknowledged that Russia is as Nazi as UIkraine (and, evidently much more so) you are still fine with people claiming that 'de-Nazification' is legitimately a reason for this invasion?

That wasn't exactly my take from that. He seemed to be saying letting Putin win is the end of the idea of the UN, so if you want the principle of a rules based order that underpins the UN to survive, the west has to win; and he's being far too cagey about specific recommendations for action, but does say basically, whatever it takes.

I think he and the west would rather sit back and hope assistance and sanctions will deliver a win, but I doubt he or other western leaders believes it's enough.

This annoys me, because the west knows the most likely outcome is an eventual win for Putin at a horrendous cost to Ukraine, but they are stalling on doing more because of this faint hope.

It's like watching the Chinese commit real and cultural genocide against the Uyghurs and hoping they will have a change of heart at some point, or patching a hole in an exhaust you know won't last, but hope it will, istead of replacing it which you know you will have to do anyway, except without the tens of thousands of dead and far more with life changing injuries and suffering that could have been avoide by not dithering and equivocating and acting sooner.

how so?

RT main site is still up... Russia 1 is up but the English site doesn't give a toned down version of the Russian version..

Россия 1 isn't available on Youtube in the UK

They can be waypoint guided.

I wonder how many they are actually losing in battle or are having unexplained work place accidents.

Things must be incredibly bad if you're sending generals and high ranking officials to the front to force your men to fight. Or maybe it's punishment by Putin. Old Russian tactic.

A commander of Russia's elite paratroop regiments, Colonel Sergey Sukharev of 331st Airborne Kostroma Regiment, has been killed in Ukraine. His deputy Major Sergei Krylov has killed alongside him, along with several others from the Kostroma regiment

That's 4 Generals and 6 Colonels killed so far.

I watched a report last week where they were saying "western hysteria" is saying this is what Kiev looks like, and they cut to pictures in Kharkov, then cut to the live webcam of central Kiev....

They didn't even mention Kharkov in the report, even though it was being flattened.

No, but if the West arm the Ukrainians and the Chinese arm the Russians it's clear that the war will be prolonged and get worse. This is a key moment also in Chinese-Western relations and global politics in general

At the barest minimum there is a known hitlist of at least 2 million Ukrainians who make up the core of their civil society who are to be expunged. This list was compiled before the invasion and was know to close Russia watchers. This is straight out of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot's play books. The only effective counter to insurrgency is to punish the famliies and communities of known insurgents. The Nazis did it wholesale in WW2, the British practiced it and the Israelis do it to Palestinians in the somewhat milder form of bulldozing the homes belonging to insurgents families, and that's just scratching the surface of practitioners.

So we have a bare minimum figure of 2 million, then add war casualties and then add the loses from years of counter-insurgency measures - hello Grozny.

Millions is not hyperbole, unfortunately.