Russia - threadbanned users in OP

The 10:1 ratio isn't a number made up on here. It was provided by the Ukrainians themselves and when we look at the evidence in front of us it's a claim that's easy to believe.

I don't remember anyone claiming that the Ukrainians aren't losing people either. If the orcs are being killed at 10:1, or 7:1 or even 5:1 then that is a trade that Ukraine is willing to make. The orcs are going to crack long, long before Ukraine does if that rate of loss continues.

I wonder if a referendum was held now after having carried out a well organised promotion of same in Crimea and overseas where refugees from Crimea are - and the franchise was extended to all those that were ‘forced to leave Crimea over the last, say, 15 years, then what might be the result. ?

Putin would have ABSOLUTLY no problem in carrying out a referendum in the morning because he would be 100% certain of the result . And so would you and I - irrespective of wheather anyone turned up to vote or not

I would say it’s waiting for the counter offensive

The edits the russians made revealed more about their state than anything about the counter-offensive.

Russians built a 70km long trench system in Zaporizhzhia,

One of the longest trenches seen in the last 100 years.

Pretty pointless. The front is 10times that size. To put troops in a trench that long and defend it would take 100k troops and that would be pretty undefended at that

As well to build defensive trenches they should never be in a straight line for more than 10-12 metres as the trenches are undefendable if they are ever infiltrated from just above. Trenches need strong points, and living area every hundred meters or less.

What they have dobe is a massive waste of men and resources.

Tank trap?

Thank you.

Someone else has noticed the orcs have compromised Gatling…

I don't think he's compromised. I think he's just starting to fall for the orc propaganda.

He needs to start looking at this with his eyes and stop ignoring all the noise.

The orcs looked invincible at Kyiv, they looked invincible at Kharkiv, they looked invincible at Kherson. Each time the orcs collapsed against a force that didn't even have the weaponry that it has today.

Who , in their right mind, would want to negotiate a solution to the conflict with such a di——ad.

and why should Ukr even think about negotiating with Moscovy if that what it thinks about Ukr.

God help any individual , country or organisation trying to bring both sides together

3 and 4 are correct, the other points are Kremlin spin.

I wonder can we start an alternate view of Russia to counter the projection "don't look at me" spin from the Kremlin?

1. Russians have allowed themselves get a dictator into power.
2. This dictator compares his rule of Catherine the great. A ruler of German heritage.
3. This dictator will use any Russian as cannon fodder but especially the subjects from the disadvantaged areas who cannot bribe the enrolling officers.
4. This dictator has expansionist views and sees war as a distraction to his disastrous rule of Russia where there is religious strife among Russian Orthadox and Muslim followers.
5. The economy is built on primary resources and Oligarchs control the industries. Oligarchs which now also have private armies and security forces. Corruption and stealing is seen as normal in Russia.
6. Putin learned lots while in east Germany. From kidnapping children of politicians to espionage to media controlling the narrative and how it's reported or not.
7. The Kremlin sees people as pawns on a chess board to be moved around and keeps moving ordinary people to control the population.
8. Putin is an admirer of the ways that Hitler ruled in wartime. And has used the tactics of the Wehermacht. From the demonisation of your opponents to justify war, to wartime propaganda of Goebbels, to the stealing of children to be raised in Russian doctrine.
9. This dictatorship rules solely on fear. Expats abroad have learned this to their cost. With killings, hangings, stabbings, poisoning, of those and their families from this dictatorships tentacles.
10. Russia has many admirers of how Hitler ruled and has white supremacy followers and who would call themselves Nazi even if the Kremlin deny they don't exist.

Feel free anyone to add more.

History repeating itself after a fashion...when a massive trench and fortification system was built to protect France from a German invasion after the first world war.