Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Reminder why Ukraine needs enough support to create a stalemate. You'd much rather they are halted and completely ruin one city rather than progress slowly and destroy multiple. It's interesting how they have held Toretsk and Chasiv Yar for a while now. Povtrosk is holding pretty well too. Vuhledar was lost because it got flanked. Vovchansk held after being attacked head on. I believe the old style Bakhmut approach isn't working too well anymore for Russia. Hence why they're fighting smarter now and attacking the flanks. We see this with Povtrosk and Vuhledar. They're trying it with Chasiv Yar also.

Vovchansk.

Maybe on the books and maybe on the films.

In the western world now there's Russian money and influence everywhere. Doctor Zhivago was just barely lucky to be wrote and made into a film in the west and this in a time of the USSR cut off from the west.

The Kremlin does what the Kremlin does to stop any films being made what they term as undesireable.

In the western world now there's Russian money and influence everywhere.

Look no further than London and Dubai.

There's no doubt that Russia has been meddling in western countries, but often it's with players that do it for their own narrow ends. Orban is a classic example as he was involved in anti Soviet activities as a young man but later aligned with Putin because his Hungarian revanchism aligned with Russian revanchism.

Oops, there goes another Russian export …

India has sharply reduced orders for defense equipment with Russia and is now buying more from Western suppliers, officials said, a significant policy shift for a nation traditionally reliant on arms from Moscow …

Russian-made weapons are often cheaper than Western ones. But they need frequent repairs, which affects their desirability and makes them costlier in the long run …

The war in Ukraine has accelerated India’s reduction in buying Russian weapons. A delay in supplying anti-missile shields is proof of Russia’s strained capacity …

Remind me again: what does the I in BRICS stand for? The guys Russia is counting on to create a new economic order and save them from themselves? Who'd have thought it'd be a good idea to demonstrate in real time how crap your weaponry is against a real army, and how absolutely shïte your supply chains are.

Why are they interviewing him?

He has been listed by America as being a paid Russian shill.

Very disappointing from Newstalk giving him airtime.

I dont know, I mention the Houthi's by way of they being the latest in a long line of "Volunteers" willing to figh (and die) for Putin. We will find out soon, I imagine.

First of all, I guess, Putin is just an ex-KGB thug, who has sururrounded himself with similar. The one common denominator was that they were all YES men. In a society saturated with corruption, the most competent man /woman for the job were not necessarily selected. (selection criteria been based more on theft capabilities) The system simply doesn't exist in today's Russia to even begin to produce what you have described. In WW2, Stalin, with all the resources of the USSR at his disposal, would still have lost the war because his production facilities were not up to the job, and supply by the UK and the US were what saved the day. With manpower, it was a different story in WW2. He could have and did many times order frontal assaults against German pre-prepared positions, Imagine German designed machineguns….and the havoc they could and did cause? Putin doesn't have the human resources or even a fraction of them that Stalin had. So now all he wants is replacement's in any condition. Putin is racing against the clock….