Russia - threadbanned users in OP

TBH, I'd pay little heed to Russki Army documents. Been there and done that

I don't believe half of these pulling outs. Nike said they pulled out of Russia months ago but they are still sponsoring athletes and sending them fresh gear to flog off on Social Media.

Yes! Thats the stuff all right. They have good traditional music and like to sing and play. That was a good example of it.

It's not real. It could be the mil sim Arma, with a lot of mods. Look at the 2d blocky trees at the bottom, a few seconds in.

What do you think should be done then OP? Any suggestions?

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Don't worry the Russian oligarch money is already set aside for rebuilding.

I suppose we can lay some of the blame for those supporting the Russian regime on the old soviet dread of thinking or saying the truth. It's easy for us in the civilised world to judge a state which is probably in the same mentality as Europe was sometime around 1890. I feel sorry for the people living there. Most probably know nothing better. The state and its institutions may be run by scum and useful idiots, but it's the people in the west who should know better. There's no good excuse for them.

In the past few weeks we've seen deliberate targeting of innocent civilians by cowards afraid to step foot near Kiev, supporting this either means your IQ is in the disabled range or you've swallowed lies so long you are just unable to tell what is true or real.

In a way, I think the far-left will be caught out on this like their excusing and denial of genocide in Cambodia, and the far-right is no better. That's definitely for the best. We need to see who these cretins are and remember their names.

Does he know you are a Putin admirer and supporter?

All this talk of retaking Kherson but there's never any analysis on the possibility of retaking Donetsk. Ukraine have a bit of land to retake before they can even think of taking the city yet they're right on the outskirts of Donetsk.

Is the reason being Russian are throwing huge numbers on the attack here so Ukraine have no choice but to focus on defense rather then attack?

So sad to hear we're missing out on the true reality.

A $60bn per-year army struggling to make in-roads against a $2bn a year army after the guts of a year? All well and good to cry "But NATO", "But the US", but all the aid in the world can't make up for a) decades of military expenditure gulf and b) will to fight.

So, as it turns out, Russia's 60bn a year is probably 60% lost to corruption, and an even further amount lost to sheer ineptitude. At the end of the day, they're trying to spend what actually filters down to the military on a colossal armed forces, like trying to make a single butter packet spread across 10 slices of toast.

Meanwhile, Ukraine was focusing on a core professional military, investing in training, and making the most of what it has, western style. They understand the days of brute force WW2 style are decades gone, and it shows.

The Russian economy in tatters, their international standing reduced to pariah status, their future utterly destroyed.

The entire world laughing in amazement at how the Russian army is basically a rotten, decrepit structure riddled with corruption and ineptitude, the whole world now knowing that if NATO ever got involved, the Russian army would be pulverized and destroyed in about 2 hours with the wave of a finger.

The USA cannot believe it's fortune - Russia is being destroyed on the ground, in conventional warfare, by a Ukrainian army dwarfed by Russia. All they have to do is provide limited equipment, and watch the worlds "second army" be annihilated by a second world country.

What an investment. They throw the equivalent of pocket change at Ukraine, and watch as Russia is embarrassed, defeated, out-smarted, and shown up for the absolute joke that they are, a medieval society of peasants and lords.

It shouldn't come as any great shock - Russia performed absolutely embarrasingly poorly against the Georgian military a decade ago, which was even radically more minuscule than Ukraine's armed forces are. Couldn't even establish air dominance in a battle of a hammer and a glass nail.

If Russia wasn't able to rattle the nuclear sabre, it would have been ground into dust on day one.

If that's your definition of Ukraine losing, I'd absolutely love to hear the criteria for how Russia is winning.

It's amazing that these African countries are so comfortable cosying up to Russia, a country which is so openly racist as to regularly throw out the n word on prime time TV and clearly views anyone not white as even less subhuman than they do Ukrainians.

I don't want to put words in the above posters mouth but I took his post to mean that even if Ukraine pushes Russia out and wins the fighting war , they still lose. I strongly believe that Ukraine will win the war in the traditional sense bar some major escalation by Russia. Thousands of their young men and women dead, country incredibly damaged and even with Western help and money will take a long time to rebuild. While lots of Russian money has been frozen or seized, I'm not sure if the majority of that money will be made available to rebuild the country. I think it's naive to think that it will all just be handed over and even if some of it it is, there will be people in the West possibly skimming some off the top as well as corruption in Ukraine afterwards. I know a lot of money has been promised to help rebuild regions etc by the EU and other countries but it's just a drop in the ocean of what they need without the frozen assets.

I really hope I'm wrong and it's a problem for the day in the future once Rusisa has been expelled. In the meantime there are more immediate problems.

EDIT: After rereading again I am wrong in understanding what they meant. Will leave the above as is though :)

zelensky publicly goading Wagner PMC. Obviously he's saying this for a reason. What's the psyop here?

The general goal of Ukraine is to prevent a stalemate which would give Russia time to build up forces. If Wagner group attacks, they would potentially lose more than if they are defending.

Here is the analysis of the winter goals for Ukraine and Russia which I found informative:

https://youtu.be/SlcceOh2gkg