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The one that was recorded by a drone was an abject failure so they probably didn't bother wasting any more tanks and explosives in creating any more. Even for a T-55 it seemed like a colossal waste.

Yes, Zelensky said as much. He said they won't risk more Ukranian lives being lost just to satisfy demands for speedier progress in some western capitals. He said unlike Russia we have regard for our soldiers lives, we care about every solider we lose. The brigades they have held back are for when they do breach Russian defensive lines. I think with the rate Russia are losing their attack helicopters that is going to come soon enough.

They are probably being stored in the same place where the T-14 Armata tanks are being kept.

Would have to be soon. Or the other brigades been held back will have to be rotated to take over for the brigades fighting on the front line. I'm sure they have suffered a lot of dead and injured so I cannot see them staying on the front lines attacking for another month before the brigades taking all these casualties are rotated for the fresh brigades. The issue I would see then is there is not the full fresh brigades then. So when is the right time? I know when people say when the Ukrainians breech the Russian lines and they will launch all these brigades towards the breech. Only thing is how long would it take these brigades to get to this breech? Could take days for the Ukrainians to get all their forces to that point to concentrate them all. That's why I would of thought a concentrated punch from the Ukrainians to attack 1 point with all their forces.

Ukrainians seemingly in around Bahkmut and close enough to Donetsk city.

Russia has a brutal history and culture… it’s not surprising that a lot of them are like this….

Fake but fun..

This is awful, no way Saakashvili deserves this.

If anyone cares, you can register your protest to the Georgian ambassador in Ireland.

https://ireland.mfa.gov.ge/en/contact

https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-zurabashvili-586b2251/?originalSubdomain=ge

Yagan, if you mean me when you say that the people of Afghanistan want another invasion? Because its not what I think or say, its what my Afghan friends are telling me. And as for your conviction that the Taliban are the same as Afghans, no they're not. Ordinary Afghans hate the Taliban, in the same way that Ukrainians hate Russians, because of their murderous and brutal behavior. When the US kicked the Taliban out, the Taliban left behind them a trail of burnt out 4 x 4s that has been attacked not by the US, but by Afghans seeking revenge for the suffering that the Taliban had inflicted on them during their reign of terror. How about the Toyota 4x4 pick ups, with a machine gun mounted on it, and the bolt cutters for any on the spot amputations during their routine patrols? The Sports fields converted into Sharia punishment sites? Flogging, stoning, amputations etc? If the US had never invaded, I'd say that by now, Afghans would have revolted against them, and kicked them out. No yagan, they are not all the same Afghans.

Basically saying Russia are holding back in Ukraine. That they have an army of 750,000 waiting to take on the poles and Lithuanians. This is the whole goodwill gesture hypothesis. I don’t believe a word of that utter horse manure. No army could be stupid enough to hold back and drag out a war this long as a good will gesture. Risking unrest among the army ( already happened) and unrest at home. Army’s are built on stoking fear in the enemy and projecting to the enemy that surrender is the better option. Russia are not projecting that. Not since about 2 weeks into this invasion. The only card they have is bollixing around with the nuclear plant. That is the only genuine fear the Russian army are manifesting among its enemies. And once they blow that they are finished.

He also leans heavily on the Cuba/Ukraine analogy a completely defunct desperation tankie position. What parts of Cuba did the US level to the ground. How many nuclear weapons did the US try to station in Ukraine? How many Cuban children did the US steal from Cuba? How many countries in Eastern Europe were forced to join NATO? How were they forced? Why do Russia and their western tankies outright lie about this issue ???Should sovereign countries be allowed to join whatever military alliances they choose. Why aren’t these countries choosing to join the CTSO??

Opposing reality is not "interesting", it's just boring.

Putin himself has stated the reasons for his invsaion, there is war because Ukrainians don't agree with him, nor want to be part of Russia, this fella gives Ukrainians no agency in the running of their own country.

War is politics by other means, if Putins political aim was to keep NATO away from his borders, he has already lost. The NATO-Russia border has doubled since Feb 2022.

This fella is talking through his imperialist arsehole.

I'd actually wonder if there is much or any DPR forces left

The Deep State map still has a couple of units with names that have "DPR" in them....however, there's no way of knowing if they are made up of Donesk locals or just mobniks that got thrown into "local" units.

I lasted about a minute listening to McGregor until he said "In 2014 we installed a puppet regime and poured billions of dollars building up the Ukranian army for the sole purpose of attacking Russia" This guy and Tucker have been banging the Russian drum since the invasion, are they on the payroll or whats their motivation?