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The Nepalise thing seems strange given the strong link between the Gurkas & UK army.

I think that the game Putin is playing is that he's still full on supporting Trump, and this is one way or doing it. For sure, Trump is taking flack because of his previous relationship with Putin, so now Putin is muddying's the waters by stating He'd prefer Biden to win. Now when Bidens supporter's start throwing Trump / Putin dirt around, Trumps team can say, " So What? Biden and Putin are buddies too!

Looks like the Victory Banner will soon be raised over Avdeevka - seems to have been a big collapse on the ukrainian lines today.

Meanwhile, in the real world:

Let's say you have 2 tanks, and you send them to Ukraine. Both are destroyed. You build two more, employing a lot of people and the GDP shows a big increase in production. But you still only have 2 tanks.

Apparently Russia preparing another huge assault on Robotnye. Would be a shame to see Ukraine lose their counter offensive gains here. I'm still hoping they can build on them come the summer.

Ukraine and the West in general is saying how bad the situation is getting due to lack of weapons and still the boards keyboard warriors tell us, no no everything is fine it's the Russians who'll run out of men and ammo in 2 weeks, or maybe 3 weeks, cos some guy on Twitter said so....

I wish. I’d love to be paid for my opinions. Not everyone loves Ukraine and Zelensky.

Maybe they’ve seen how the Gurkhas were treated by the British once their usefulness was over. Joanna Lumley had to sign on and help them fight for the promises that were made to them after the Perfidious Albion dumped them.

We're in broad agreement. But there are still quite a few people who keep insisting some turning point leading to total Russian collapse is just around the corner, they've been predicting it since May 2022 and I still don't see it coming, after a while it sounds almost as deluded as the rightly derided 3 day war prediction.

I always remember what the Economist defence expert said back in summer '22: neither side has the ability to win, neither side can afford to lose.

Still the most concise and to the point summary I've heard.

The 3 day war delusion and the Russia will collapse in 2 weeks delusion increasingly sound similar. As always, it's amazing how people at the extreme ends of each spectrum have a lot more in common than they'd like to think.

As for me: I'd love to see Ukraine win and Russia hammered. I just don't see it happening and I've been proved right so far. Putin gone and regime reset in Russia is the only hope of a happy outcome

Imagine being in your 20’s or 30’s fighting and dieing for an old dickhead who is inspired by history going back to the 9th century AD.