Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Russian losses the last three days appear to be absolutely shocking. How long can they sustain this? (if reports are to be believed)

If a scenario is created in which their economic survival depends on Western trade, all bets are off.

Especially if the West manages to mitigate the threat of nuclear attack with next generation detection/interception technology (satellite based laser ???)

Wishful thinking that the Soviet Union spectactularly went down the drain hole after their last genocidal military invasion of Afghanistan which saw the complete collapse of the Soviet Union?

Wishful thinking that their armaments and military resources were decimated following that collapse?

I think not. They're on the same trajectory atm. And they've even less hope this time of avoiding that with a lunatic with an huge ego problem at the driving wheel.

It's only a matter of time until they spectacularly crash and burn.

It's to phuck over the country. Take that footage of that car dealership further up the thread. The two security guards when they saw the Russian soldiers approaching changed their clothes for what looked like USSR threads. They went out to meet them, were frisked through the security gate. You can imagine the talk "Any Ukrainians here?" "Nope none" Then they probably told them they were free to go. And when the security guards turned their back to go back, they were shot in their backs dead.

Then the orcs robbed the place.

This is not a military force. It's a bunch of thieves, rapists, killers, cowards with a military uniform on that they expect they can get away with whatever they like.

I saw it mentioned that Kharkiv City in the north the people speak russian and in the countryside they speak Ukrainian. The Russian language was always thought of as superior and you needed it for business acumen. The Ukrainian language basically thought of as the farmers language. Now they're saying nobody will be speaking russian in Kharkiv after what the russian army are doing. Putin always thought of Kharkiv as russian even just because the people were speaking russian. That's how silly it gets out there. Any of the children the russian authorities take they have to undergo Russification in the language and history. None of this backwards Ukrainian nonsense.

Backwards Ukraine was getting too big for it's boots and had to be pushed back down under the russian boot. If it was annexed into greater Russia with russian people and Ukrainian women and children sent to Siberia in the East to become russian citizens. Then a1 for Putin.

The sooner the Eastern states are retaken and Crimea back the better. Does look like the Russian military is a spent force now. The world can not sit back and say what about it there's money to be made from these poor innocent russian citizens.

So along with planning to launch military actions against Sweden and Finland for joining Nato it seems Lithuania is getting the nod to have it's recognition as a country stripped by Russia for voting to call the invasion of Ukraine as a Genocide

I was reading that Russian speaking people in Kharkiv, Kherson and Mariupol were quite fond of Russia before the war and say them as close friends and brothers. But as soon saw all the destruction and numerous deliberate targeting of civilians along with atrocities, they quickly became disgusted with the regime and the word now is that most of them have an intense hatred for Putin and for Russia.

It was never about taking all of Ukraine, they wanted the contested eastern regions

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Is that Putins Very Naughty list as opposed to just the Naughty list which includes those countries who have said nasty things about him?

Its looking like they aren't getting Christmas cards this year

Definitely more than 150 dead

One child's experience of Russians deliberatly targeting civilians in Bucha

What is going on in Putin's mind is very much mindset psychology. If one goes back to WW2 Stalin and Communism and onward to Fascism both Russia and China are very similar. Leadership in Russia in WW2 did not give a fig for the death rate within the Russian army or civilian life. Stalin just kept sending men forwards no matter how many died. Likewise, China in a similar mode did so later in support of the Korean and Vietnam wars. No matter how many died they would send more. Putin would not blink an eye if Russia lost 100,000 in the Ukraine invasion over 12 months. He would send 100,000 more. Against that mindset what can be done? What is best for Russia now is for all political prisoners [there are plenty in jail] to be released and for a proper democratic election to take place. Breaking up Russia or dividing it up like what happened to Germany after WW2 might be a foreseeable prospect. The problem is... what to do with all those missiles! If Putin is not removed from Russia along with his band of Orcs, he will keep sending in the cannon fodder. One possible situation to develop would be for commando runs on Gas and Oil facilities in Russia on a big scale to put an end to Russia's ability to sell gas and oil.