Can it get any funnier on Russian TV? It is about the siege of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. In the "60 minutes" program it was announced that the dictator made this decision because the plant hides secrets of global importance. One expert speculated that their unveiling would trigger a domino effect, including the possibility of influencing the re-election of French President Emmanuel Macron.
Retired Colonel Yuri Knutov explained that although the destruction of Azvostal was not difficult, it would take away Russia ... a chance to identify the people inside. Hence, Putin's "brilliant plan" is to uncover the secrets of the plant.
There all on crack
Wow, someone said before that the siege of Azovstal could be made into a film. Now it looks like James Bond could be in there, if not Rambo.
How close is Russia to collapse or am I being unrealistic?
Shergar, Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa are all hiding out down there. Its where ET went home to as well.
Reminds me... remember Rambo would blow away loads of useless Russian soldiers. And we thought, that's unrealistic. Dunno, Dunno, maybe those Ruskies may have been over estimated in the Rambo films based on what we've seen Ukraine soldiers achieve.
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For those not following the conspiracy theorist channels, those nut-jobs seem to think that a lot of high ranking NATO officials (Roger Cloutier is one) are holed up with Ukrainian Nazi's. There is also a Hunter Biden and American bio-weapon labs link as well. I think Hunter is leveraging his expertise in methamphetamine to make drugs to poison Russian schoolchildren.
Or maybe it has been Rambo along along blowing up those Russian tanks.
It makes some sense when you consider how Russia treats its troops; as disposable cannon fodder. They can’t quite grasp the idea of valuing soldiers and citizens who aren’t “important”.
Sounds like the CT forum on here got its own TV show.
I think biden and the west is doing the right thing now and that the west will prevail against Russia. However I think the shambolic withdrawal from Afghanistan by biden emboldened Putin to make this move. If the Americans had of at least kept the bodrum airbase and maintained a skeleton presence in Afghanistan the invasion of Ukraine by Putin would not have happened
Why would they be close to collapsing? They're still selling gas and oil, and while there are sanctions, I'd imagine it's not hard to go around them by buying the banned goods from China or India or somewhere similar.
Military effort collapsing or the Russian state collapsing. Neither seems imminently likely, but collapses can happen suddenly due to a combination of internal stresses not always nakedly visible.
I remember people saying, over a month ago, that the Russians only had financing of their war for another week, but they have been able to trundle on, though not terrifically convincingly.
If they are spending more (paying for the war and paying to prop up the ruble) then they are earning from selling oil and gas (oil which they have had to severely discount for China/India to buy) then it's unsustainable.
What banned goods would you be referring to?
China won't bypass sanctions on airplane parts, so they can't look to China for them.
I'd wonder if they have the manpower to sustain or even make another offensive. They will need full general mobilisation if they want to push forwards. Either that of find some way to significantly reduce the losses in manpower and equipment they are currently experiencing.
I think what they currently have mobilised is what's really left. One big last push, which has probably yet to start. But after that, if it fails, I'm not sure they have anything left in the tank other than strategic weapons.
Putin is also hamstringed by this being a "special operation" rather than a war.
Their losses so far are catastrophic. It would seem they have lost probably close to between 30-40% of their best tank forces.
Obviously, in a war-time footing, under normal circumstances, these losses could be replaced.
But they are not on a war footing, likely won't be given the circumstances, and they are also crippled by sanctions which affects their ability to build replacement weapons including tanks.
I really cannot see how the Russian military can sustain these losses and keep throwing meat into the grinder much longer. It seems they are angling for one great "prize" they can call a success before engaging in negotiations that allow them to slither home.
The Russian military won't inherently collapse but it will become increasingly ineffective under the current scope of the conflict until it eventually turns into a WWI style attrition war with no sign of resolution on the horizon.
Russia raped and murdered through Eastern Europe in WW2. They did not free anyone, they forced communist dictatorships on these countries and set them back decades. One murderous regime was swapped for another. Some argue Stalin was worse than Hitler purely based on the numbers murdered.
So no, nobody outside of Russia needs to allow any celebrations of the murderers and rapists.
they convert far more of their fuel in the blast, so outside of the intial radiation pulse, they don't leave much radioactivity after a few weeks and radioactive effects on people fall off sharply with distance
You're ruining Fallout 3 for me.
Great camera pan shots in the zelenskyy interview session tonight..panned to the train station sign a few times , here I am come get me ..big f**k you to putin
I'd actually question if they can hold the land bridge to Crimea and further afield to Odesa. Half the battle is taking it, the other half is keeping it.
Accounts from victims of Russian military rapes in Ukraine.
Told how they went from house to house and wrote down who was in the house, men, women, children. Then came back and took mobile phones away.
It goes on. It's in Russian so google translate is your friend. Horrific that this is happening, has happened very recently.
A spineless turd more concerned with serving his own ego than real integrity.
I've seen lots of posts from Ukraine about this poor young woman and her baby on social media this evening.
The Russkis sure as hell know how to lose a PR war. With every passing day, the level of absolute contempt for them from outside the country is growing.
There’s a passage in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises in which a character named Mike is asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he answers. “Gradually, then suddenly.”
The sanctions need time. Russians are tough and used to hardship, and what's going on under the bonnet of the economy will be kept hidden from the masses, but unless they reach a deal on the war the collapse will come hard when it does come.
The problem with Afghanistan ( one of them anyway) was it was either all or nothing. Neither Bagram or Kandahar bases were viable on their own. They would be a lightening rod for never ending attacks. Now, at least it's Afghan V Afghan. No more western interference to blame all their ill's on. ( of course, there's the small matter of isis to contend with, but that's a Taliban problem now)
Didn't see this posted earlier, claims that Ukrainian forces took out a command centre which had two generals in it, along with a lot of command staff
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3465606-ukraine-army-destroys-enemy-command-operations-center-eliminates-two-russian-generals.html
Russia won't stop.
The longer the war continues the less there will be left of Ukraine; the people, the culture, the way of life. That's what I said.
There's no flith in my words. The only filth is war.
Russia won't stop?
What does that mean. Russia is a corrupt, backwards, brutal dictatorship flexing muscle it thought it had, but (rather embarrassingly) finds it doesn't have the power it expected.
You'll see your show ponies march through red square next month, but know those prancing soldiers are effectively actors and not representative of actual Russian soldiers.
Russia IS stopped in Eastern Ukraine (do some research) and it only gets worse for Russia from here. But, don't worry, Russia won't be invaded. They are welcome to their dystopian paradise.
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