War Updates with Stanley Tucci
I have not listened to this guy before, he's a Danish military analyst, its very refreshing to get a balanced opinion on the status of the Ukrainian offensive.
Also the talk of the Russian people rebelling has took another blow.
We we’re told mobilisation would bring them to the streets.
Seems Putins grip is stronger and Russian people would rather keep quite or else be threatened with their sons being shipped to the frontline.
Utterly depressing situation.
Probably better armed and equipped now he's shown he could take bakhmut and a few weeks later gets to the gates of Moscow with little or no losses,as it stands Wagner are Russias vanguard forces going forward
Would have been happier now if Russia had offed Prigozin.
Ffs Ukraine has another headache.
Good analysis of the offensive to date.
https://youtu.be/8fR9HJnYXoc
Nope, not madness in Russia. Most other Country's in the world it would be considered madness though. In Putin's Russia, it's perfectly normal.
A bit, actually, yeah. I'd have thought they'd be fairly sick of Ukraine by now and would prefer to face down barely-armed African rebels rather than a HIMARS strike. Doesn't seem as though Ukraine has been a happy time for them, characterised by bloody attritional fighting and bickering with the regular Russian military.
I guess that that if Wagner reenters Ukraine, then it's full proof that Russia needs Wagner at least as much as Wagner needs Russia.
The story that Putin has tasked Prigozhin with finding and killing Zelensky certainly suggests that Wagner's mission in Russia would change from an assault force to something more covert.
I just hope Israel somehow ends up winning.
Quite the CV
Also a counter-terrorism expert, and "high end protection officer" for presidents and diplomats. Also developed powers to see spirits after "waking from a coma" at age 15, which sounds like a back story straight from a comic book.
Some years ago Rhys lived and studied with Buddhist Monks in Dharamsala India, his initial intent was to become a monk but he didn't want a life of celibacy so he became an enigma.
What a circus.
So a group that undertook a mutiny against the Russian state and have been called traitors on state tv are going back to fight with the Russian army ???
Madness
Anyone actually surprised
Rhys Byrne aka "Rambo"
He previously appeared on this thread ,
Claimed to have been an Irish soldier,
French foreign legion soldier,
Exorcist,
Buddhist monk,
Ghost hunter,
Walt
..
Pretty scary stuff here- Irish soldier in the Ukrainian Army returning home having done his bit. Guy nearly died a few weeks back having been chased by a T72
Most of them look a bit Hannibal Lecterish to me.
Well, we now know where all the front line rations went......
I'm sure some Putin Bot will be on here shortly to say it's no big deal
Jesus they all look the same.
A bloated mess.
"one of only four accounts on Monday evening that had liked the post about Rzhytsky’s last run shares the name of Major General Kyrylo Budanov – the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence."
lol brilliant 😂
Must be the Ambien talking again...
Oh, Putin knew all right. As far back as the war in Chechnya, when Dzhokhar Dudayev said " When the Ukrainian sun rises, that will be the end of the Russian Empire". Who knows? maybe Kadyrov likes to remind him?
It’s ideological brainwashing (similar to the merry Irish duo of W&D) combined with the fact that after all, a lot of people did do very well for themselves in the communist systems, as long as they were able to be conniving, grasping and unbothered by ethics or logic as card-carrying (literally) members of the CP. So their kids grew up being inducted into the same “lefty” world-view that the parents and grandparents did so well out of; only the kids, now deprived of the one-party communist structure that would enrich them, carry the ideological flame more symbolically, so to speak, and are waiting out turns of events in democratic societies that would eventually deliver them to the levers of power (as they sometimes do). Corruption is a trickier beast to unleash in a democracy because of various check mechanisms that are baked in, but at the end of the day, it is a part of human nature and it’s there in all our societies on both sides of the left and the right. However, the CPs around the world have always been able to make it a fine art and to leave a big testament to human avarice and immorality by way of practicing it. It’s why I’m always distrustful of traditionally leftist politics; some western idiot lefties that sometimes cross my path don’t even know what the hell it is they are talking about, so in love are they with their idealistic ideology, and of the eastern lefties, the least said, the better.*
*I grew up in a communist country so this is my “lived experience”, if you will; there are some good things about growing up in the way I did, vs. capitalism, although very few and far between; but that is for some other post.
It seems Russian Telegram channels are starting to confirm his demise. He Becomes the most Senior Russian Military Figure to have died in the Conflict if True.
Yes, it is surprising (to me). It is enjoyable to speculate I suppose. I wonder did the Wagner march back to Russia or whatever the hell that was exactly (?) put the willies up him, make him decide to get what he can out of the US now (aircraft upgrades etc.) in exchange for dropping this veto.
Putin may not be in a position to be of use to Erdogan/Turkey in exchange for keeping sitting on the fence the way he is (relative to positions adopted by most of NATO).
Her argument can be turned on its head. Here's the essence of it-
Morgan continued by noting that Ukrainian President Zelensky himself is Jewish.
“I know, but he’s not a good one!” Barr interrupted to scream again. “Are all Jews the same for God’s sake? Talk about anti-Semitic! Just cause the guy’s a Jew doesn’t mean he likes Jews or that he is doing anything good for the Jews!” Barr railed. “Just cause they’re skin folk, don’t mean they’re kin folk.”
But, equally, it can be argued that everyone who wears a swastika is not equal to the historical, German nazis. Like she says Skin folk don't mean kin folk. In fact, nazism in Ukraine was a reaction to Russian aggression. As usual, Russia started it. I can see how the Ukrainians got a bit nazied up with those basterds in their country.
A disgraced former comedienne / holocaust denier and they give her air time? Of course it was a car-crash.
Rosanne Barr screams over Piers Morgan about Ukraine being full of Nazis something something helluva trainwreck enjoy
Yeah, Hungary's behaviour has surprised me. I've visited Budapest a couple of times and based on the people I spoke to, the museums, monuments, statues etc. and a "Red Star Tour" of Memento Park and a typical soviet-era apartment I got the impression that Hungarians absolutely hated Russia (and not without good reason).
That they keep electing Viktor Orban baffles me.
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