Russia - threadbanned users in OP

They could try running as one big group towards Kyiv in order to strangle Zelensky. Think of the rolling news coverage.

The Ardennes offensive was reversed because the huge Allied air force that had total air superiority was grounded for the first few days by bad weather, once the weather cleared, it was "clobberin' time." The Germans were also short of men, supplies - particularly petrol; the plan envisaged raiding American fuel dumps along the route of advance - and time because of Soviet advances in the east. None of these constraints apply to the Ukrainians, so while the attack will almost surely run out of steam at some point - unless the Russian army disintegrates completely first, which I wouldn't rule out completely, it's hard to see what the Russians are going to bounce back with.

If Putin decides to use those WMD , be it a nuclear strike or chemical weapons, he has been warned in no uncertain terms what the response will be and that is, he will not have any military worthy of the name. Navy and air force gone completely. as be any land based assets. His successor will want to be very stupid or crazy, to continue Putins mad vision, and invite further destruction on Russia. Plus, if it goes down to the wire like that, how would Russians themselves react? Revolt? or what?

600000-700000 people have already fled the country since the "partial" mobilisation was called.

Russia doesn't have modern gear for all of their current troops, any mobilised reserves will have even worse gear. Maybe they'll be able to form new units by next spring, but they won't be well equipped.

And Ukraine have reserves too,

They could try to mobilise all 140 million souls in the Russian Federation, but it would make no difference. Once Ukraine restores its territorial integrity, as it is well on the way to doing, no other force in the World will be able to take it again, not with ummatchable western weapons and technology.

It will become the hardest frontier on the planet, eclipsing the Korean peninsula and Ukraine's permanent reserve force will be in the millions, along with a rejuvenated Air Force as well as the very best in offensive and defensive missile technology.

Russia cannot match any of this, short of the dreaded nuclear attack and if that happens, all they do is sign their own literal and political death warrants and end the Russian Federation as an entity, forever.

Whirrrrr @&^%$....tk, tk, tk, clink - does not compute.

Oh look another there's a clique post

@Manic Moran what were the actual Total of Abrams tanks lost to enemy fire during the Iraq war, not including the 11 Lost to friendly fire and destroyed to prevent capture.

Don't be ridiculous, even Russia doesn't have enough vodka to enable such a scenario.

Ah come on now, World War Z was not a documentary film about Russia's invasion!

Well, one of the many reasons that Putin wants Ukraine is that it is apparently very wealthy in terms of mineral and gas / oil deposits, and not to mention its agricultural wealth. So, I guess that the Ukrainians will be more than happy to pay their way and I'd say that they will not forget their friends who supported them in their time of need. And of course, Russia will owe them (Ukraine) stratospherical amounts in reparation.

Especially when the man who has his hands on the levers of power sees himself as being the Tsar of all the Russia's.

What are you talking about? Nuclear's always been an option, just a pants on head stupid one and non-viable.

There are a few posters who pop up here from time to time repeating pro-Kremlin propaganda who are clearly trolling. To be fair to you, I don't think that you are one of them. I can tell from some of the things that you say though that you are likely consuming more of this content then objective information. That has distorted your view of this conflict - but from your perspective, everyone else has the distorted view of it.

• All Ukraine's successful counter-offensives have been due to the sacrifice of thousands of their troops per settlement - whereas Russia goes out of their way to conserver their own troops lives
• Russia hasn't really taken this conflict seriously - just wait until they do though
• Russia has an untapped reserve of 20-30 million troops that they can readily call up and send to the front if they choose to do so

These are all common tropes that are hallmarks of Kremlin disinformation that you see all over their online information spaces (Repeated by pro-Kremlin Youtube accounts and Twitter accounts and ultimately their Ministry of Defence and TV Propagandists).

There's a reason why the majority of the people on this thread don't believe them - and no it's not because we're all a bunch of Western cucks who are mindlessly regurgitating talking points from MSNBC and The Guardian. No, it's because they're all clearly not true. They're preposterous lies that are very easy to debunk. If you don't see why then, again, I would advise you to do an audit of what information you are consuming because it is not serving you well.