Russia - threadbanned users in OP

It's what the Ukrainians call them, along with rashists and other terms. They never call them Russians. Personally I am quite comfortable in taking their direction as to appropriate nomenclature, and feel they have several times over earned the right to define it.

That would be big alright

Ukraine forces would be at Inhulets nearer Kherson City if true

Putin has been the master troll for years. He has normalised brazen behaviour and I think he's been the poster boy for the likes of Trump and Orban etc. That he normalised having the Chechnans and the Wagner group committing atrocities for him, murdering opponents all over the world.

Destroying Putin is massively important, and possibly more important is to destroy the networks he built round the world, whose only role is to ferment trouble, support loons that will challenge the establishment and try and sow dissent of any kind throughout Europe and god knows where.

It is more of a parody at wokeism these days. Indo describes Musk in their article as:

Elon Musk is a very wealthy white guy. And very wealthy white guys believe they are entitled to weigh in on everything. Ideally, wealthy white guys would be ridiculed for this, and sometimes they are. But there are also times when their wealth and power allows them to force others to take them seriously. And that can be dangerous.

While other very wealthy white guys like Bill get a free pass when they offer their view take on world affairs. That is funny.

You don't have to like it ,

They have been called orcs early on and will continue to be called orcs till every last one has been anilated and all of Ukraine is liberated

I do wonder if this guy is directly paid by russia ?

It is effective though. I have heard this theory that putin was actually provoked into this invasion/genocide on various US platforms and Americans believe it. They then go the Joe Rogan experience and recycle this theory and sound very adamant about, like they have the real truth and the main stream media isn’t given putin fair and balanced coverage.

Musk would identify with Putin, his methods of working are similar. Enrich himself with other peoples money, come up with an idea then ask others to implement it. Blame them if its not going fast enough, blame them if it doesn't work, Fire with impunity, bully and silence, push an image of being a disruptor for good when really his only interest is power and wealth. Berate how the rest of the world works, if only everyone were like me. Rinse and repeat.

Here's some text from an older post of mine that explains it.

" I think it's a mixture of poor training, paranoia and a very different theatre of operations compared to Syria. Russia knows that there is now a pretty strong SAM threat in Ukranian airspace, with both Russian built high altitude units and low level, shoulder-launched systems. There is also a major Overwatch operation of Ukranian and, to some extent, Russian airspace by both NATO and US aircraft with Radar and Signals gathering systems.

Russian pilots train less than 100 hrs a year. They are also not used to multi-aircraft, multi-objective operations. This is why, in Syria, you only saw one or two flying missions.

Finally, Russia do not train in a Red Flag type of scenario ( I'll let you Google Red Flag for a reference..). NATO are much better at launching multiple platform, multi-role and multiple target missions in one foul sweep. Putin knows this. He knows that Nato have everything in place to hit Russia in one night, conventially, that would destroy the Russian military infrastructure. Hence the Nuclear threat.

This is why there is a massive sub hunt going on at the moment. The West needs to account for every single sub at the moment, including the one that left the Northern base yesterday.

It's an attempt to dehumanise them so that the deaths are more pallatable. 60k orcs dead is a lot easier for most people to digest than 60k men. It's standard in war, German's were called the huns and pictured as Gorillas for eg.

I've been a little drunk on the successes of the UA in the last few weeks, celebrating every win, and Russian loss, but I have to remember that there are many variables in this war - Ukrainian skill and grit, Russian mismanagement, continued Western support, and the emerging influence of the weather. I've never felt so optimistic as I do now, but I won't sleep well until the Russians finally sue for peace.

Problem is you are trying to defend open countryside. The front was probable over a thousand KM long.

It's virtually impossible to harden that length of area in a few months. Even if you do you need artillery and air cover to protect against attack. As well you need tanks and APV's to have a mobile for e to counter attack any incursions.

This is where Hitler failed in Normandy. Remember the Allies got ashore under tremendous fire, but Hitler failure to commit his tanks and reserves allowed the allies to secure bridgeheads.

The Russians have no tanks or artillery and there airforce is unable to fly as they will be shot out of the sky