Like Napoleon and Hitler did?
The issue I have with this fanciful invasion scenarios is: Who on earth would want any territory from Russia (excluding Kaliningrad, and some ex-Chinese territories, maybe)?
I think it's not about invading and occupation I think it's more to do with revenge than anything and settling scores from WW2 till the fall of the Soviet union and independence
Video doing the rounds of Russian 8th company who took turns giving a lone Wagner guy a hiding before dumping him In a tent ,all fun and games until a larger force of Wagner group arrived on the scene,
beating will continue until morale Improves coming from the Wagner group.....
Where else would you get it
The main value of this so-called threat of invasion of Russia is that Putin has been using it as justification for everything he does. For the domestic audience, he is seen as the one and only protector of Russia, and the Russian way of life. A blanket permission to attack any part of Russian society he deems a threat to his regime. For the rest of the world, he uses NATO encroachment as a justification for his invasion.The fact that in recent history, no one has attacked Russia, is conveniently forgotten by Putin and Russians in general.
That’s not entirely correct. In terms of hardware, yes, there was little change, but in terms of command philosophy, senior officers became less unilateral in their style, and NCOs became more of a thing. The US and Ukraine had quite a number of cross training events over the years between 2014 and 2022. (Actually, it started before 2014, but I suspect it kicked up a gear after then)
Well, there was a suggestion that the GLSDB would be in Ukraine on Wednesday...
I'm Not so sure ,
Any Russian attack on a part of nato , would be preceded by the usual hybrid war bull , so western media reports about the unfairness of x region that should be part of russia ,being mistreated by what ever country - the first region to be acquired would be inconsequential, northern finland ,rural romania,a marsh in the baltics , somewhere already considered a buffer zone..
The playing of it as a minor issue ,a russian occupation would bring no material change,but trying to block it would be devastating,
The usual politicos would be pre-primed,
But the big thing would be a suitable continent wide crisis, real or manufactured, a distraction to make it harder to Focus on this minor invaison all the way over there ...
I still don't see any attack or any kind invasion of any NATO countries,even against the weakest links in the alliance,NATO troops are already based in and re-enforcing the Baltics to Moldova , even with hybrid warfare I don't see it happening,
Sounds like they were in crimea by then ,
I hope you're right -
If it happens , it'll happen at an opportune moment for russia ,
Could be after an inter-nato spat , because the poles want Nato to help them fund their new korean weapons systems , while the french are busy in Africa and the brits are struggling to parade their carrier force in asia ,and germany is having a pacifist revival ( they haven't gone away you know )
Google “Evaluation of Russia by Finnish intelligence Colonel” to compliment this post . It gives a riveting account of the background to what Russia is to day, how it is managed , etc, etc. It’s on U tube and is just over an hour long
If its up a few years i think i may have watched it , but i'll go back and rewatch ..
I assume this is it "field east "
This is the subtitled version , there are a couple of terrible computer voice english versions , but i do remember listening to it in a normal human voice translation,
Actually I'll go back to you ,
Where do think something could likely happen or there's an inherent weakness, there was a similar question the other day ,
Yes and no to a certain degree by 2014 we had started to see NATO joint exercises inside Ukraine, the US marines In Particular became regular visitors to train and work alongside newly formed Ukrainian marines ,I know the national guard regularly had units training the Ukrainians along side other NATO countries Germans and the British, but during the initial invasion and occupation in 2014 they were pretty poorly led and equipped, post 2014 the best units operating against the Russians were civilian militia battalions the Azoz and others based off football hooligans at the time ,all the while alot of the senior members of the military were Russian officers, in previous threads at the time you'd see new American equivalent such as hummvee (some not fit purpose) and counter battery radars arrive on a Monday to Ukrainian unit's and by Thursday the Russians would be parading the captured vehicles and radars ,donesk airport was another they got feck all support from the military Leadership at the time, Ukrainians and Russians at times only separated by a concrete wall and sandbags ,they fought to the point the Russian just demolished what was left of airport which entombed Ukrainian soldiers, but not far from the airport the Russians set a artillery fire base in a quarry if I remember correctly, which was used to pound Ukrainian positions,but yet civilians could walk up on the high ground surrounding the positions while the Ukrainian military never went after the positions to knock them out,
it's not knocking them but it years to make effective changes in some cases didn't happen until 2020s invasion for changes to happen,
The EU funding for ukraine has cleared today after all objections were dropped and all 27 state's are in agreement....
It's about Time
And the story that doesn't seem to want to go away Valerii Zaluzhnyi is to sacked this week according to multiple sources now
A formal announcement on the dismissal of Ukraine's top commander could come by the end of the week, according to a report.
"Questions have been swirling over the future of General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, after several reports emerged this week that he had either been fired or resigned.
One report suggested he had been offered a different role, but refused. The Ukrainian defence ministry itself denied the rumours.
But two sources close to the matter have now told CNN that General Zaluzhnyi was called to a meeting at the president's office on Monday and told he was being dismissed,
Followed by a short statement from the Ukrainians it wasn't true ,
But they wouldn't answer the question what wasn't true, did or General Zaluzhnyi resign or was he sacked
Deal agreed
The Russian land this side of the Urals is one of the largest tracts of the most fertile soil in the world, same as the south west of Ukraine.
When the Stop the War coalition start going on non stop about how NATO must stop provoking and threatening Russia then you know the orders are in and the comrades tank engines are revving .
A Russian ship took on some sea water.
It was rightly totaled. Cost 60 to 70 million$.
Eastern Ukraine - Donbas and Luhansk regions contain billions in untapped gas and mineral reserves.
Seems to be various claims its old video,
This was coming from Ukrainian accounts the same ones are now celebrating it
Scum boat. Straight to the bottom of the sea with you.
Now over to the US. They need to sort it and do the right thing.
Would any of the 50 billion be military aid?
Oh, that's just beautiful!
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