The footage and reports on some of ten reddit pages makes it seems like a near rout of Russians forces from Lyman. It reads that rather than surrender the Russians attempted to retreat along the main road which may have been mined, AT2 rockets, artillery, etc, etc.
This looks like a very bad idea from the Russians, how bad, we'll find out in a couple days I'd say.
If they were unarmed and getting drunk, there's a good chance that the Ukrainians would know about it thanks to US intelligence. In such a case the Ukrainians could leave a much smaller shadowing force in place, or even send such a force in to set them running.
That’s probably the objective. They won’t even need to be armed, just sit at the border for the winter getting drunk. Could actually be a smart move by Putin for a change.
Ah, but did he say whose plan?
Likely his only source of income now. That's really hitting rock bottom. but to be fair, his previous should inspire the rapists the russian army has conscripted.
Sure, the A bombs were (and are) terrible weapons, but to balance out the situation, have a look at the movie " Hacksaw Ridge". A true story about a non-violent US soldier who refused to carry a weapon or kill any one because of his religious beliefs, but still wanted to serve his country. He was some man for one man, for sure, a true hero. It's not for the squeamish though, as the battle scenes were very true to life. A bit like the opening scenes from "the search for Private Ryan" or Enemy at the gate". Putin threatening to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine (and possibly further afield) in this day and age is inexcusable. But them all of his actions to date have been inexcusable.
Every now and again some weird Irish commentator pops up on my twitter feed to claim that all the Russian massacres were actually carried out by Ukraine and America is the biggest threat to peace in the world. As it happens they all seem to be SF supporters but Im sure that’s just a coincidence
The debate on those two bombings has raged since the war and not to anything like a satisfactory conclusion. The reality as usual is likely six of oen, half dozen of the other.
Putin is not going to nuke anything. All this talk is only for russian public consumption to show how strong and cool he is. It worked for the last 20 years. He knows if he crosses the nuke line its all over for him.
For anyone who's not familiar with him, Scott Ritter is a former American marine who also happens to be a convicted sex-offender. He now makes pro-Russian Youtube videos and claimed, amongst other things, that the Bucha massacres were actually carried out by Ukraine.
Same way Russia Liberated Mariupol.
Drive everybody who is not pro-russian out of the area and level everything to ensure that they don't come back. That way you can rebuild with Loyal citizens.
I mean the Kremlin has said the end goal is to liberate the non-occupied areas of the “annexed” territories. A tactical nuke would almost guarantee that goal.
I’m not saying he will, but it’s a possibility and by the sounds of things the prime directive is liberation. I imagine, by any means necessary.
20,000 orc's heading to Belarus, yeah I know Belarus won't do this and Belarus won't do that,
But 20,000 orcs on Ukraines flank while they are pushing forward could cause the Ukrainans to redeploy forces to secure the border and flank with Belarus which in turn could slow the advance on Kherson and elsewhere
Interesting definition of ‘liberate’.
Although I suppose you could say death is the ultimate liberation
to liberate it?
Why would Russia nuke what it says is its own country???
Putin's been told in no uncertain terms what'll happen if he tries to use a nuke. The response will be decisive and make the Russian military look like the amateurs they are.
He had on going acute mental health problems.
But he was drafted anyway.
It is time for all non sub human Russians to rise up and stop pretending they don't have internet access and feigning ignorance, what the scumbag bollíx is doing is not cost free for Russia, it's rather expensive and will have a detrimental effect on all their futures.
F!@Kin cowards.
Might have something to do with that canal near Kherson that can supply Crimea with fresh water. Although Russia would like to control all of Ukraine, it's worth looking at which areas they currently occupy that are most resource-rich when working out what they'll defend more heavily.
The Japanese were looking for a way out before the first bomb fell. After Operation Meetinghouse, they knew the game was up and by the late spring of 1945, the home islands were blockaded. Nothing got in or out without Allied knowledge or interference. In Suzuki's cabinet, only the Army and Navy ministers (Anami and Yonai) were for in favour of holding out and their reasoning was that they didn't want the Emperor to be harmed in the event of the war ending. The American demand for unconditional surrender stuck in the craw of the Japanese, as it would with any nation.
Hirohito, himself, had demanded that they make it possible to bring the war to a close and, in fact, dispatched Prince Konoye to Russia to try and get them to mediate between themselves and the Americans. But Stalin had had other plans. He'd promised Roosevelt at Tehran that Russia would come into the war against Japan 3 months after the German defeat, which he duly did. So he had no intention of passing any information onto the Americans about the Japanese envoy's mission.
Of course, the Americans had been well aware of all this because Purple had been picking up Japanese coded messages for a long time. They understood very well that a slightly modified surrender demand would have, more than likely, ended the war peacefully. But that would have meant that the atomic bombs would have remained untested on actual targets in wartime conditions. If they had so wished, they could have let the Japanese know that they had no intent of harming Emperor Hirohito in any way. In fact, he wasn't even on their radar as they had rightly understood that the Emperor was really only a nominal figurehead (despite being head of state) and not somebody that was at the forefront of decision making as far as the war was concerned. Even as the war played out, the Japanese Emperor largely escaped Allied attention after the war ended because he was never the target of such attention in the first place.
But testing Fat Man and Little Boy proved to be too much of a temptation, especially on the virgin targets that were chosen. There's a reason why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were targeted and not the capital and seat of Japanese power, Tokyo. Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki hadn't been bombed, but Tokyo was a shell of a city by 1945. So the results of the test would have been pretty much null and void. But there was never any compelling reason, other than to test a new weapon for the potential future war with Russia, for the atomic bombs to be used.
"Now you've got Lyman, that's safe. That's going nowhere. Are you going to try for Kreminna?"
"Yeah, I think I will Bob"
The mood of Russian commenters online is very sombre and downbeat. Retreats and defeats in Ukraine are a big shock to the system - they were assured by Putin throughout this year that such retreats would never happen and 'everything is going to plan'.
I assume after making this statement, he went back to his regular occupation of firing off a gold AK-47 on Tik Tok.
The battlefield setback prompted the Chechen leader and hardline Moscow ally, Ramzan Kadyrov, to comment that Russia should consider using low-yield nuclear weapons in the face of such defeats.
Chapter 1, paragraph 6 of the Study on NATO Enlargement:-
Chapter 1 : Purposes and Principles of Enlargement
B. Principles of enlargement
6.States which have ethnic disputes or external territorial disputes, including irredentist claims, or internal jurisdictional disputes must settle those disputes by peaceful means in accordance with OSCE principles. Resolution of such disputes would be a factor in determining whether to invite a state to join the Alliance.
And Chapter 5, paragraph 72:-
Chapter 5: What are the implications of membership for new members, including their rights and obligations, and what do they need to do to prepare for membership?
B. What Prospective New Members will need to do Politically to Prepare Themselves for Membership
72.Prospective members will have to have:
Demonstrated a commitment to and respect for OSCE norms and principles, including the resolution of ethnic disputes, external territorial disputes including irredentist claims or internal jurisdictional disputes by peaceful means, as referred to also in paragraph 6 of Chapter 1;
This is absolutely heartbreaking. A young lad with his whole life ahead of him was forced into taking his own life.
His final words "We have all become captives of a maniac, who gives us the choice of either jail, or the army, or the choice I made" should be heard and heeded by every single Russian citizen. May he rest in peace.
Yes, and no attempt to dress it up either. The press are admitting that it's a big military setback.
Sadly I would probably assume he was suicidal and this was a good excuse. This is an assumption based on the article saying he was previously treated in a mental hospital.
A person with no serious mental health issues, if they feel that strongly, will most likely try and get out of the country.
I did watch the video and guessed where it was leading, just didn't know who he was. Unspeakably sad and a timely reminder that not every Russian man is a fascist murderer as some idiots here would claim.
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