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God such a WWI mindset...

That's the problem nobody is fighting back we seen some violence in one particular area but that died down,

They can't all be that afraid, there has to be a natural leader somewhere in the whole of Russia who can stand up and say No we've had enough of this shite it's time for change,

The whole population can't be that subdued surely??.

Yes Josip, I was in Bulevar Revolucion and Trg Republica that day when Kostunica took power, and Milosevic was removed. I heard Kostunica's speech and where he stopped a crowd that wanted to go out to Dedinje where Milosevic lived, and finish him off. He said that the Rule of Law is restored, and Milosevic and his cronies will face justice in the Courts. ( Kostunica was himself a Lawyer or Advocaat in Serbian) and he wanted a clean legal beginning. The protesters , whom came from all over Serbia, even had a mechanical digger to help them sweep away the barricades. But the People were helped by the fact that Milosevic had lost the support of the military and police. His factory of lies had run out of power. You made the point that the first protests failed, (as they did) but back then, Milosevic had enough public support to hold on to power. By 2000 he did not, and that's why he lost. And this is where the Russian story differs from the Serbian one. Depending on who you listen to, Putin still has anything between 60-80% popular support. He does not care how many protests are attempted, be they held by 10'000 people or multiples of 10'000. If his police fail to stop them from starting, for sure his military will, with machine guns if necessary. The Serbian police and military would not have done this, to turn their weapons on their own people, most likely they would have turned them on Milosevic. And that is where they differ from the Russians, Serbs have always been independent minded, Russians always look for leadership, and Russian society encourages this. " Do as we tell you, not as we do"

That's all they have how are we going to beat Ukraine well we're doing to dig trenches and everyday we will send men over the top sooner or later the Ukrainans will either run out of bullets men ,but will stay the course matter what,

It's like when we had certain individuals telling us that we would only be happy when every Ukrainian had fought to the death, it's not the Ukrainans getting slaughtered in empty fields in rural ukraine

It's very difficult to assess what the long term outlook is for Russia. The population are so brainwashed and "serf like", that one wonders if they could ever handle concepts like freedom and democracy. It's a country unlike any other in Europe. I was watching the 1420 YouTube videos from Belarus this week and the contrast with the people there with Russians was huge - you could easily imagine them transitioning to being a democracy and even being an EU member in future.

A lot of the crowd in the stadium yesterday especially the younger people didn't seem too interested in what he was saying, although some commentators claim most of the population support the war.

Hard to know really but if the figures are true that 200,000 have been killed by the Ukrainians then if it drags on for another 12 months there will be a lot of unhappy Russian parents.

Bakhmut made it to the anniversary and stopped Russia getting a major PR win. It will make it to March but with more settlements on it's northern side this will probably be the month it falls. Hopefully the AFU can hold the northern side. It would be a shame if Russia didn't have to conduct a costly block by block siege of the city considering how fortified it is.

As for the Russia economy as Sky mentioned they had 10 years to plan for this economically. In the past year that big cushion they built up has collapsed. It's only downhill from here the longer this goes on.

Mobilising another 500k will surely look great on paper as unemployment will be practically zero, and other 500k will probably leave Russia meaning nobody will be stuck for a job.

But economically the country will be restricted with productivity and the cost of waging this war is astronomical. And again they've built up a massive cussion in terms of stockpiles of military hardware and equipment but they're burning through that faster then anybody imagined, adding another large cost in replacing them.

Ideally Russia would be harder hit but the end result isn't too bad. The last thing Ukraine needed was an economically thriving Russia and that's not the reality.

Leopards in Ukraine live and in colour ,but only 4 of them

Are you trying to suggest that video is a hoax? She deliberately harmed herself while pretending to be on the frontline?

Tell me again. What have you ever done?

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Like what comrade .

Bakhmut Falling for how many months,and your expert opinion of how Russia are going to break through and the Ukrainan lines fall and the Russians Heading back to Kiev or something similar.

Everyone loves a tryer

It's made up.