O he is still around alright, in his panic room in his bunker fearing that dastardly Gargamel. [he of smurf fame] 😀
Lol my first thought was why are those retards parading in Moscow? "Love Ulster" on tour!
I dunno, isn't this the time he'd usually be attacking some kindergarten , or hospital, but instead silence, that dude is toast
You can rule out as much as you want,only time will tell
And it makes perfect sense to continue the offensive
And no,its common sense,for some,obviously not you,or it could simply be Ukraines intelligence trying to fool the russians again,thinking an attack will come,and its coming somewhere else,we have seen that before,to split up their forces again.
Remember Ukraine rotate their troops,new fresh troops will continue,the Kherson liberators will rest,for now.
USA has always been the power. There isn't a military on earth that comes even remotely close to their capability.
The world's second army is China, but in an actual conventional war they would be crushed. Doesn't mean they couldn't inflict damage obviously, but they wouldn't stand a chance.
Russia definitely was ridiculously over-rated as a military, but as you said, the experts knew that. What they didn't predict was a showing as utterly dismal as the one in Ukraine considering they were going up against a foe so minuscule comparatively and operating a similar level of tech.
Modern wars are won by intelligence, strike capability, combined arms, tech and effective air power. Infantry, tanks, armored vehicles, planes, are worthless without structure, leadership, tech, etc.
Look at the Gulf Wars. Iraq lost thousands of tanks/AFV's while the coalition was barely scratched.
This is why Russia has floundered in Ukraine, it's why Israel was able to beat the brakes off several numerically superior countries at once on several occasions, etc.
EU armies are weak on paper compared to say, Russia, but in any actual conventional war, they would pummel Russia regardless. Their general tactics, command control, is still stuck in the WW2 mindset of brute force.
It's mind-boggling how many countries maintain huge low-tech armies at huge expense, that are effectively useless in modern war.
Would not get the hopes up I bet he has doubles like most of the other lads at the top.
Edit as in Dictators.
Still no sign of Putin, that dude is dead, shredded into a million pieces, and will never be heard of again.
USA UK/FRA/CAN AUS/NZ were always the big fish. They need boogey men for the old budgets for armies. New Reports coming out that Germany is in worse shape than anyone thought. For example you don't spend $1m on training a sniper not to survive.
The experts always knew Russia was ****. We don't know until it's done. Who else is ****, who are overrated? I think China are ****. USA are the power now.
I will rule it out for you.
Only an incredibly stupid person could believe that Ukraine are going to attempt a landing on the opposite shore of the Dnipro at this stage.
I wouldnt rule it out quite yet
Ukraine have apparently not stopped their offensive yet,and why should they?
If they stop now,Russia will have time to regroup and start another offensive
Now is the time to take Russia ,while they are weak and on the run
Well not bigging up the nazis here but atleats they put up a good fight. The russians cant even do that. So it's like nazi failure times 11.
On a serious note what does Russia do here. They are being utterly humiliated in front of the world.
This is starting to look like Germany's invasion of the USSR.
Could be a new Union of Prosperity in charge.
But that's wishful thinking.
They may have secret squirreled in Fancy AA to Ukraine. Or the russins on the last of the washing machine parts.
This is clearly bollocks.
Reports of incoming missles around karkhiv earlier today ,no mention of hits or damage though
There seems to be no reporting of Russian missile attacks so presumably they have abated - that's either really, really good or really, really bad
Good, if someone has managed to force Putin's hand (by promising to not annihilate his forces)
Bad, if there's a big one on the way
I sense it's good though, I hope he's being sidelined
Given the definition and finality of hell, I'd be reluctant to wish it on anyone, but for these bastards, I'd be prepared to make exceptions, on the grounds that hell is where they came from, and they would only be going home.
Say what you like about Micheál and Leo but they're never going to impose a Nurse Ratched on us.
More like hot pokers in uncomfortable places. 🤐
Well, there was one video a few weeks ago when Patriarch Kirill was blessing some of the newly recruited mobilized and trying to encourage them about the future. (Which even back then, looked very bleak) telling them not to worry, they were doing God's work, and if they got killed, they would go straight to heaven. I guess a lot of them know now about eternity.
One thing to note next week, winter kicking off with temperatures plunging below zero across much of Ukraine and heavy falls of snow expected later in the week. Weather has been quite benign until now.
In the normal course of events, where there is a death in the Russian family, they do grieve, and are very open about it too. Very much like Irish funerals. Friends and Family will frequent the house where the deceased member lived and offer their support. At the graveyard, the Family and friends will gather, and if it's a family plot, they will have a table there with food and drink in plenty. After the coffin is lowered, they will take turns filling it in. Once that's done, the men will each take a glass of vodka to the grave, drink some and empty the rest into the grave. Then they will eat and drink and talk about the deceased life at the grave. And they will regularly repeat this, especially on anniversary s. All this talk about exchanging their menfolk for a Lada or death money is pure bullshit. They take the loss of family members very badly and suffer when one of them dies. That women in the video is an example of this grief, the nurse and police were there to keep a tight lid on it. Imagine in that hall, if several women had lost their menfolk, and reacted as she did, and it triggered a riot? That's why the police react quickly to any disturbance's....they have to. But at some point, it will break out of their control.
Grandson greets Grandmother who stayed in Kherson.
The Third Department under the Tsars, the NKVD during WW2, the KGB during the cold war, FSB now. Different names, same people, always been there.
Is it not straight out of the KGB playbook. Suddenly drunk or feinting carried off.
I was searching for a longer version of the video Wibbs, but cannot find it. I do recall that the same "nurse" was suspiciously close to another of the mothers a few minutes earlier who also went suddenly silent. Anyway the issue I feel is that Russians are not enured against grief, it is more that they have never had an open free society where grief was permitted for fear of it becoming a rallying cause for change. They do still feel it, they are human.
Great theatre… go to your local community centre to see similar, although might be labelled as Jack and the beanstalk panto.
They might let all of Kherson go to concentrate on Donbas and Crimea. Otherwise it might be endless attrition in Kherson with no real advantage for them.
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