Russia doesn't have 900,000 troops. They have a quarter of that. They are most likely counting males of specific age that fall into a category whom are unable to buy their way out of conscription service and coming up with a figure of around a million. These are the people that will be conscripted in maybe.. if they come.
They dedicated 75 percent of their professional troops to this war. It's going .... Great.
Reports of 30 Polish mercenaries killed in Ukraine. Hopefully the reports of foreign fighters trapped underground in Azovstal steel plant alongside the Azov Nazi's are not connected with NATO in any way.
Hitting a single missile might be achievable, but taking out multiples is not.
Turkey has the right to shut the Straits in times of war. Turkish government has already declared this conflict as a war. So no new warships allowed unless that is their home base / Russian Black Sea Fleet.
I've heard this is the case. Ukrainians or intel can't do an exact count. The Russians won't reveal. The Russian army is decimated. Even if the Ukrainians keep fighting as they are Russians will just run out of troops.
Only another 855,000 to incapacitate.
Saw this story yesterday about the intercepted call between a Russian soldier and his wife in which she OK'd him raping Ukrainian women as long as he wore protection, was extremely skeptical, but, multiple sources on Twitter seem to suggest it was real, still not convinced?
I'd be shocked if it wasn't already a thing. Your cable TV satellite doubling up as a high powered laser. If they had it they'd never admit it until it was used.
What else can they send without sending lads in on foot. New recruits will probably take some confront from being around this huge powerful machine... right up until a javelin lands on it and the turret falls on top of him. They literally have nothing else.
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Maybe they're further further on with this than they're letting on publicly...
I never understood why people ridiculed the original 'Star Wars', seemed like a great idea to me if it could be made to work properly. In time could even render nukes obsolete...
Definitely. If the Israelis have it the Americans have a hotter one.
I would be amazed if the Americans didn't already have something like this specifically for nukes. Considering what they have achieved in other areas of the military its hard to imagine they would go 50yrs since the Cuban missile crisis and not have come up with a solution to ensure their safety.
I see the resemblance.
I can confirm it. Lots of absolute derision from Russians at the government statement on the fate of the Moskva. It seems everyone in the country knows full well it was hit and sunk by two missiles and that the state media is lying to them (the idea that a small accidental fire on board could sink the biggest ship in the Russian fleet was obviously preposterous).
It's Kim Jug Onion.
Shots fired; and not just literally:
This would be a great yoke for the Ukrainians Video shows Israel testing its 'Iron Beam' air-defense system, which uses laser beams to intercept targets (msn.com)
It's no longer Russia's call to say when the war ends.
Noting says "Denazification" like channelling your inner Goebbels:
"I ask you: Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even yet imagine?"
Joseph Goebbels, The Sportpalast speech, Berlin 1943
I would suggest the more realistic interpretation of his words would be that once Mariupol falls and they've "de-Nazified" Ukraine by "defeating" the Azov battalion that they can then claim the special operation is over.
There was another quote today from Peskov that supports this view:
"The main task is to liberate [Ukraine] from these nationalist battalions after all. The operation continues and the tasks that have been set are well known. They must and will be accomplished. There must be no doubts about that," the Russian presidential spokesman said.
As Peskov pointed out, "peaceful life is returning where nationalist battalions do not take civilians hostage and where these nationalist battalions do not open fire on social facilities and houses."
"However, in those places where nationalist battalions are engaged in what I spoke about, there is fierce struggle and all of them must be eliminated there," the Kremlin press secretary said.
So am I.
The embarressment of losing the Moskva the straw that broke the camel's back for Putin.
Although it's hard to take this tin pot army and regime seriously. Surely you would expect the Russian population to be starting to think wtf against such statements!??
It's like challenging everyone in the pub to a fight, when it's been proven you can't even blow the froth off your pint.
he is referring to the island incident.
Nonsense; it had considerable help from an understanding and sympathetic neighbour.
She's throwing out the usual threats again:-
There's absolutely nothing stopping Russia from using them now if they decided to, other than the fact that such an escalation would have repercussions - which would be the case whether war was declared or not.
It's not like they're working to any set of rules, laws or ethics.
A lot of hot air I would suggest and a sign the actual war in Ukraine is going very badly.
The problem is Russia cant be trusted and Ukraine was neutral before Russia invaded in 2014.
Ye're going to fight everyone on the pub!!
Go home lads, ye've have had enough to drink tonight.
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