Russia - threadbanned users in OP

They are making progress though. When you step back and try not to get sucked into the propaganda being churned out on both sides, sure, Russia completely miscalculated the assault on Kyiev, but unfortunately they are gaining ground in the Donbass region, which was their original aim.

Fair enough their military is not the powerhouse it was originally thought to be, and has been a humiliation for Putin, but their sheer numbers, and their willingness to sustain massive casualties, can't be ignored.

Germany had a far better trained and technically advanced military during WW2, but the sheer numbers Russia had meant they won in the end.

I hope I'm wrong, but I can't see a way that they will be beaten and withdraw from Ukraine. I fear a long drawn out conflict which will destabilise and destroy Ukraine.

Oh, look at all those Russian speaking Transnistrians queueing patiently to welcome all their Orc compatriots about to arrive from the the Orc motherland.

Whoops, sorry, my bad...

"People continue to leave Transnistria en masse, fearing an escalation of the conflict. The whole world already knows where rusnya there is a threat to life Because for the sake of carrying out propaganda purposes, in order to accuse the other party of crimes committed, they are ready even to kill civilians."

Why would you want to leave your Russian speaking separatist aspiring region to presumably the greater Moldovan state that you don't like and where people speak Romanian, when more Russians seem likely to soon arrive. Surely you prefer your own kind to Moldovans?

Orcs are funny.

Imagine all the stepladders he could buy

Comparisons with WW2 are not at all valid.

Russia only defeated a brutal German invasion after losing countless millions of men, around 90 thousand tanks, millions of civilian casualties, thousands of towns/cities in utter ruin, etc.

It was a titanic ideological war with unprecedented scale and there's no way modern Russia has the means or appetite to get involved in a death-struggle of that nature or anything even remotely close to it.

Their armed forces are nowhere near the size they were back then relatively speaking and their modern day industry isn't remotely capable of supporting such a conflict either.

I mean Russia has already set it's armed forces back by years by its disastrous adventure in Ukraine. This was never meant to be a "war", it was meant to be a short, sharp victory with probably a few hundred casualties anticipated. Clearly they had zero plan B.

Contextually their modern day military and industrial capability is nothing whatsoever compared to what it was in WW2, even if they were on a war footing, which they are not.

Back then they could replace tanks, planes and equipment faster than they were losing them, even when they were losing hundreds every day for years.

They absolutely cannot do that these days, neither with tanks, planes, men or missiles, even if Putin declared total war tomorrow.

These actually sound like a decent Russian couple, unlike some of the sociopaths / psychopaths we have heard on recorded audio recently. Both of them seem to regret the war and the wife says she is having sleepless nights at the thought of the many Russian soldiers being killed (something her fascist government claims isn't even happening).

No discount, you don't know where the money is going. Whatever discount you were planning on giving, donate it directly to the Ukraine armed forces.

And what are you going to do about it even if it does. You have a fairly decent chance of getting a terminal illness throughout your life. Now you could sit there for 20yrs worrying about getting an illness or you could plod along until that day comes, if it ever comes, and deal with it then.

Baz Luhrmann was on the money when he said

Don't worry about the future

Or worry, but know that worrying

Is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing Bubble gum

The real troubles in your life

Are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind

The kind that blindsides you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday

And there we go.....bringing it back about the English.......fook me.

BTW where are you getting your 3000 figure from?

These are UK figures - but the its mainly in England.

Lots of stuff on Kremlin TV tonight about WW3 and nuclear war. But I reckon this is a sign of desperation and that the "special operation" is going very badly. If that's the only card they have to play, it's a weak one.

Fair play to him

It isn't though. Never has because we think we are special and don't need to involve ourselves in minor things like the defence of the free world. That's for others to do, we can't be arsed.