Huhhhhh?
From day one when he told off his ministry and the other day he briefed Shoigu/the other fella this has been his body language.
Surely you could see that.
Tank without a trained crew is pretty useless,however infantry support might cover for it to some degree
Looks like he is holding on and getting ready for a rough ride
I wish people would stop with the 'giving them some type of victory ' bullshit. They need to be sent home in tears with a busted face. Letting them have victories does nothing to stop this type of thing in the future. They need to feel defeat, so they know they cannot act with impunity.
They wont be making any more missiles without western high grade semi conductors anyway
His body language is very inward facing, it suggests subconsciously he is trying to protect/comfort himself. I have seen other videos of him in the past and his body language is very different. Legs open, arms relaxed, no tension in him.
I don’t know if he sick, but he is definitely showing stress. And if he is sick (cancer/neurological) stress can really exacerbate the situation.
Correct - if these were false flag attacks, the Russian media would be shouting from the rooftops "Look at what those horrible Ukrainian Nazis have done now" (and they're not doing that).
I think he looks unnaturally laid back and strangely calm, but a bit wired inside, like he is drugged.
"And Germany has reached an agreement under which eastern European partners will supply Ukraine with a new batch of heavy weapons "in the next few days" and Germany will then replenish the stocks, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht says."
War in Ukraine: Latest developments (yahoo.com)
So leading from the front by waiting for others to do it
Expect a reversal of the replenishment agreement when it's needed
From looking at the online pics, its a mangled twisted wreck of steel and concrete. With interlinked sub-terranean spaces, its a booby trapping mine layers dream, and a snipers paradise. No, I doubt very much if even Spetsnaz, ( never mind conscripts or even the much vaunted Kadrovski's) would be too eager to attack it, even after a massive bombing campaign. While the chances are that it would be overcome eventually, it would extract a extremely high price in Russian lives.
Here he is on February 18th. His right hand is shaking and a very strange movement from his right foot. possibly Parkinson's disease or a stroke?
Russian TV crew were no expecting this. I wouldn't think it will be shown are there 9 o clock news.
Of course in an ideal world but in the real world that won't happen, Ukraine is getting just enough weapons to keep fighting but nothing like what it needs to drive the Russians out of the east of the country.
That the German hunger plan didn't come to fruition is neither here nor there. It was still planned. Another competing plan was the extermination of the Ukrainian populace to make room for German colonists. As so often with the Third Reich, competing agendas made for half-arsed implementations (thankfully) and the starvation of 20 -30 million as envisaged by the Germans never came to pass. This doesn't alter the fact the there was no special place in the Nazi heart for Slavs, they were still seen as sub-human; to be used as required and then discarded. The phrase "fighting side by side" is what the Americans and British were doing (and even that had its problems) and is not at all comparable to the relationship between Nazi Germany and conquered Slavs.
I'm not being "watery" on anything. If they do anything to break the law then the law should come down firmly on them. I will cheer the law on in that case - in fact I hope they do something illegal and get their just desserts good and hard.
I was referring to this bit:
The Irish people would be doing a severe injustice to our Ukrainian friends by just standing aside and letting these people walk out streets.
Orlan drone caught alive and kicking,will it be turned from the Dark Side?
I think this is significant.
Didn't even send them a few spring rolls and a battered chicken ball?
The Russians are worse than ISIS according to a U.S. Marine training Ukrainians:
Interesting interview. He also thinks that Ukrainian troops might even be superior to US and British soldiers in certain aspects.
we could see a drone swarm in combat in Ukraine before the end of this. Maybe a drone dogfight if this becomes the new North Korea in the east which turns into a frozen conflct
@Francie Barrett - U.S. continues to see no indications that China has provided military assistance to Russia for the war in Ukraine: Pentagon
Not really.
I never believed for a minute that China would become embroiled in a war of Russia's making. Xi is far too smart and astute for that.
The big show of friendship and future trade between them, pre-war, would have been mainly due to the courting of Xi by Putin, with the short term aim of requesting support for the war - as was indeed the case.
China has sat back and watched crude Russian tactics, poor decision making, the decimation of their troops, the nuclear threats and the reaction of the West. What he sees is a huge country that is no longer a major power in the world and is on a deeply downward spiral. There is absolutely no need for him to offer assistance. He's going to have his fill of cut price everything from Russia, regardless, now that Putin has burnt his bridges with the West. The other aspect is that the Chinese economy would be absolutely pulverised should similar sanctions be imposed on them.
I'm no fan of China but Xi is a shrewd cookie. He's no doubt had many conversations with Putin since this invasion kicked off but he's realised - as have we all - that Putin is a loose cannon who cannot be dealt with rationally. China will intervene only if the nuclear threat becomes a reality, even if only a single strike. But what might surprise most people is that it's my belief that in that eventually China would then turn on Russia.
Bravery.
If its a false flag its a pretty embarrassing one for Russia, it would mean they are going to tell their population that Ukraine is able to hit Russia just 250km away from Moscow and almost 1,000km from the Ukrainian border. That would represent a sizeable lack of national security. Who knows though, maybe they want their population to believe they were hit close to Moscow to justify a tactical nuclear strike on Ukraine.
Im not saying anything about Ukraine "giving them some type of victory" - they're your words, not mine.
I'm talking about what Putin will want to try, even need, to pass off as a victory in the event they're humiliated.
And resetting back to square one will be an impossibility as a victory for him irrespective of how much control he has over the narrative in Russia.
I'm not suggesting that a saving-face opportunity should be given to him for one minute.
If they are accurate that's approx $150 million of kit destroyed. Another expensive day for Moscow.
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