Russia - threadbanned users in OP

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.

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

No.

Cowards.

Chief orc is to give a speech at 2pm today,

After threats were made against Western and US satellites in space..

How stupid can they really be

That makes for some harrowing reading. Pinning medals on soldiers for brutally executing unarmed civilians...

Briefly negative spot gas prices are far more to do with demand destruction and industries shutting down, than it is to do with more supply.

Negative prices for any commodity are never a good thing - its almost always a symptom of something very bad in the economy. We briefly saw negative oil on markets during covid lockdowns for a similar reason - demand annihilation.

He read every article on Ukraine on the internet and this was the best he could offer, so he's obviously not very good at this 'online debate' thing. Go easy on him.

That reminds me. Is the egg still around too? He posted the same kind of rubbish.