Ukraine (Mod Note & Threadbanned Users in OP)

What we're seeing is essentially a demise of Russia as a significant regional power and ascendancy of China.

Even Turkey is a stronger regional power at this stage.

No, I'm saying your explanation of those programs are 😉 Give up pal, new account, few posts, we're watching.

The Russian army failed? Sorry, did Putin sign a capitulation bill?

Just for your information: All the Russian military technics have either "Z" or "V" signs on their boards. They did this purposely to eliminate the number of such fakes (but not only for that).

So the mentioned image from Twitter is just a 100% fake.

Again - check the sources before you trust them.

The Russian military wouldn't be considered the most modern, that would be the US.

Not sure whether this is parody, but can't find anywhere in your link where it reports that. The headline is that the world spent 2 trillion on military in recent times. You should take some of your own advice and check your sources. It also states the Ru military spent around 65 bn on their military in 2021, and that they decreased their spending from 2016 to 2019 (for reference the US spent 800 bn on their military in 2021)

In terms of using old resources (like the T-62)

Russia has lost at least 760 main battle tanks (visually confirmed), add about 20% to that figure to get closer to the real number, also factor in a vast amount of tanks that will be out of actions for normal wear and tear repairs. For perspective that's more tanks than the UK, France and several European countries own combined.

They have many tanks in deep storage but the state of these is highly questionable, with earlier reports indicating that tanks had been stripped of crucial components. It looks very likely they are using T-62's, the M variant. Not too far off the early T-72's. There's a couple of photos of them already with the usual markings, inc. one apparently broken down on Russian territory. Excellent fact-check on this below.

I will comment now the "you should trust nothing", "everyone has an angle" mentality you espouse in all your posts does ring a slight bell.

May not have been to Ukraine or Russia, but that level of cynicism (particularly about politics and the entire media) and conspiratorial thinking where everyone is lying to serve an agenda or for self interest does seem a bit familiar to me from working with Russians in past. Used to be less common here I feel but it is growing steadily thanks in part to the excellent propaganda capabilities of countries such as Russia and their sustained efforts in promoting this corrosive world-view.

Oh the media (Western, Russian - all equivalents, all as bad as each other), they lie to you, the politicians and leaders (East/West, Russia or the West, they are all the same lot) lie to you, so you can't know anything at all for real unless you see it with your own eyes or hear it with your own ears. So maybe just pipe down with those opinions since you haven't lived there, shut up now, and give up hope.

Anyway, it's futile really, size of the outrage Russia has done in Ukraine this time is too big for the waters to be muddied up by this sort of message.

Russia targeting food supplies again

More deflection, twisting of words and, quite frankly, piffle and drivel from you.

The poster, McGiver, plainly said no such thing.

Why are you falsely claiming that they did?

This above is verbatim what McGiver posted when shown a BBC newsnight clip from 2014 that exposed the fact that the far right were heavily involved and fired the first shots at Maidan.

Most of the "investment" is stolen by the kleptocratic organised crime called "Russian government". That's why we see what we see in Ukraine in terms of military performance.

I would seriously doubt Russian tactical nuclear capability as well. Putin made a huge mistake by exposing the shambles that Russian military is...

If the Japs or Chinese were expansionist they would have stricken Russia easily now (in the East which is poorly defended). Thankfully for Russia they aren't. Turkey is definitely watching though.

I wonder what would happen if Turkey took advantage of Russia's exposed weakness and physically attacked Russia.Nato would have no obligation to intervene would it?

It is supposed to be a purely defensive pact.

So how can any of this be to Turkey's perceived advantage via a vis Russia?

Do Russia and Turkey have any ongoing disputes at all?Syria?

My God... :(

Looks like you're happy that people are dying. Man, are you serious? 

Why are you so bloodthirsty? Those are soldiers on both sides, but they're still people. No?

Do you want this war to be stopped at all?

V. Soloviev - is Russian propagandist.

That's why I'm saying - don't watch only public media. Neither Russian, nor Western. Look for additional alternative channels of information if you want to learn something apart from information dictated by political puppeteers.

Again, it doesn't matter - Russian or Western public media. If you'd look into one - you'll see how it blames another side. If you'd look into another - you'd see how it blames the first. They're saying not only the opposite things, but a part of truth about which the opposite side is silent. And it's always like that.

But! Both of them will be silent of something else. For example when there were several Russian/Ukrainian negotiations - just notice, most of them were closed. They simply asked journalists to leave the room. Why?

Yeah, it smells like conspiracy, but just think about it - what do they have to hide from public?

So, no conspiracy - I just tend to find anything else. If you don't believe such story-tellers like me - okay, no problem. But then ask other people, or find journalist reports, private reports.