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The part that jumped out at me was "Russia's ability to absorb pain appears limitless"
Somehow I'm not surprised that this is the part that jumped out at you.
Russia's ability to take pain is obviously not limitless. For example, it apparently didn't want to deal with the pain of a future without Ukraine in its political sphere of influence.
And obviously, if they had a 'limitless' ability to absorb pain, they wouldn't have ran out of Afghanistan, despite having only suffered about half the casualties of the current conflict.
The historical idea that Russians can take more pain than anyone else is a complete myth. They do perhaps like to commemorate their historical woes more than anyone else, though, I'll give them that.
@correct horse battery staple "Russian propagandist openly blaming NATO and Brits for bringing down planes and helicopters deep in Russia "
Every dog in the street knows who it was.
If you look at a map of the whole east of Ukraine, that village is just to the right of Robtyne , The dam analogy doest really work here, the Russian lines are several km deep. If Ukr forces are strong enough here they can round out the pocket so they arent being fired on from 3 sides and then they would need to take it form there.
Why would anyone be accused of promoting Russian propaganda for posting that?
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Saw that article too, very sad, didn't bother mentioning it as would doubtless be accused of promoting Russian propaganda (via the BBC). A reminder of the huge human cost of the war, all the lost husbands, fathers, sons, brothers. All for one psychopath's imperial ambitions. If there's any cosmic justice Putin will one day have his Gaddafi moment.
The flip side of that is we could not know that it was pure bluster earlier. There seems to have been a deliberate slow ramping up of capabilities and of a gradual increase of attacks into Russia itself, which makes sense to me. The nuclear threat has always been, and always will be a factor. Slow escalation seems to be the way to neutralise that threat as much as possible.
From the BBC. Awful price being paid. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66581217
There has been a dramatic rise in Ukraine's number of dead, according to new estimates by unnamed US officials. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville has been on the front line in the east, where the grim task of counting the dead has become a daily reality.
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Is it jinxing to invoke the comments from pages back, when the counter-offensive was being accused as "failing": first slow, then very quickly. Once the dam breaks it can be very hard to stem the flow, and this is the fundamental problem with entrenched positions; if they fail you can be quickly overrun from all sides.
March forward continues
It just shows me what iv'e known all along and that's that all Putin's red lines are pure bluster. Imagine what Ukraine could achieve if they hadn't one hand tied behind their backs by the west and where actually given the equipment to finish the job. It's tragic that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives have been lost and millions displaced because of this.
Russia have already tried the nuclear sabre rattle and no one cared. Similar with the blaming NATO for this or that and trying to scare everyone into not giving Ukraine weapons.
The truth and the Russians know it is that any nuclear attack or attack on NATO or EU will bring a war that they will lose very quickly and brutally.
He had a good run, but the fondness of drink caused him a lot of trouble. Still, regardless of that, he died at the respectable age of 71.
I think as well it speaks to, perhaps, there's no precedent here to work off. Nuclear deterrents come from an analogue era of armies crossing borders, bombing dropping ordnance on cities etc; how do you prosecute a nuclear response with a drone attack?
I find it rather incredible that Ukraine is now bombing Moscow and shutting down Russian airports, without any great reaction from Putin's regime. No additional nuclear sabre-rattling, no reprisal bombings of Ukraine (beyond the usual). Russia has exposed to the world that they are helpless and cannot defend their capital city, and ... crickets?
It suggests paralysis at the top of the regime. Maybe they are starting to realise just how deep a hole they have dug for themselves.
Cardboard Drones. Trashing a country's military industrial complex like swatting flies.
Divorcing the moral imperative of Ukraine winning this war: there's an argument IMO that just like another war that took place in this exact same part of the world in 1853+, we're gonna see a huge change of how wars are prosecuted. The strategic and tactical information the war in Ukraine must be generating will quite possibly shape military doctrine for years - including how NOT to do it when it comes to Russia's dogged / stubborn reliance on artillery saturation.
Isn't that an image from Pink Floyd's the Wall? Pity that Roger Waters is firmly in the "two sides to blame" camp when it comes to the war
It’s like Christmas but better 🎄 🎅🏿 🎄
Projecting blame can help regulate tough emotions.
Projection refers to attributing one's shortcomings, mistakes, and misfortunes to others in order to protect one's ego. Blaming others (i.e. projection) is more common in those who are experiencing negative feelings and are unable to regulate their emotions. /A.Emamzadeh/
Nothing suspicious about this whatsoever/s
Yeah, bavovnas in Pskov, Bryansk, Tula, fires in gelendzhik. Thats a blue moon Ukrainian style
A coordinated drone attack by Ukraine tonight on several airbases
Jeysus these Greek wildfires are spreading all the way to Russia.
Another Russian airbase under drone attack tonight
At least four aircraft and fuel tank hit.
The best account on twitter :)
Retirement. Now replaced by stolen John Deere combine harvesters.
I wonder where will they put the Sickle???
True!!! and drank 10 pint's of Guinness for every ton. A horse of a man, I'm told. He had Irish links, the original family name was O' Stakelim, but in the Russian translation, it came out as Stakhanov. They shifted the "O" around a bit, as they do in that part of the world. A truly remarkable man by all accounts. I wonder what ever happened to him?
Yes, I'm not disagreeing with you on that. A History of the Popes will throw up some very unchristian like individuals. But the way Pope Francis pointed up famous Russians from the past, while deliberately excluding Putin, was reminding Russians that there was and could come again, a very different Russia than Putin's one. I'm sure that Putin will understand it very well, no matter what the kremlin propaganda factory churns out. Putin has been deliberately snubbed by the Pope. And there's nothing he can do about it.
Looks like the furenal wasn't much of a big deal.
Burial site of Prigozhin.
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