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Massive Russian assault's are ongoing in Kursk and no coincidence just before Trump gets in. No doubt they'll be taking huge losses for the regained territory.
These are some of the losses from November/December. The January montage will be something else. I just hope there's no collapse and this incursion lasts another few months at least. I also hope Sudzha puts up a lot of resistance. Make the Russians level it to Ruble.
Looks like another Russian mobilisation in 2025. Not exactly a sign thing's are going well. Putin going for broke in 25/26. If ever there's a sign to properly arm the Ukrainians now this is it.
He's obviously not going to stop until he has at least the Donbass.
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To better generate confusion they mix lies with the truth.
IMO the distortion when it comes to certain subjects on all these platforms and websites just shows the massive amounts of Russian and Chinese influence accounts and "bots" (either directly operated by them, or paid for by them) running riot on the Western/English language internet.
I think they are usually present in US/European newspaper/TV station open comment sections and threads that are in any way connected to either country on every large social media site, spreading propaganda and FUD. At the moment, both countries have open access to our information sphere via the internet/social media, and are using it very well to attack us. I mean TikTok is Chinese ffs with the CCP likely having input into their operations. To me that is the equivalent of major newspapers/TV stations with KGB members sitting on the board or ensconsed in the C-suite during the Cold war! It seems deeply naive and trusting. It's not the 1990s-00s any more, and is no longer appropriate for the world we live in (if it ever was really).
Of course it's not just them. There's also some democratic countries (or maybe "managed" democracies/autocracies is more accurate), typically I think led by wannabe dictators/extremely corrupt politicians that run loads of same campaigns using the same tactics, polluting the internet with talking points lined up from a set script on whatever the topic of the day is.
The dictators (and amoral and corrupt politicians) learned well from the "Arab Spring" and took to heart the power of the internet/social media to influence people and upend societies.
It is a tough nut to crack given we want to keep our freedom of speech. However this has been a known problem for guts of 10 years now. With advent of generative AI, very high quality machine translations etc. it will likely get worse, and will spread to more countries that might have been somewhat protected by language barriers. Even if it is hard, there are still many things that can be done. The political inaction over it increasingly disturbs me given how serious the problem looks + the corrosive effects it has on politics, public discourse and trust etc. in countries targetted.
The Ukrainians keep hitting Russian industry and economic hubs night after night lately. Russia's response to this appears to be entirely ineffective. They seem to have found gaps to work their way in and cause havoc.
You'd wonder how sustainable things are for Russia right now.
More drone activity,hopefully they'll reach the intended target!
Did Ukraine have a shot at taking out the paranoid midget,Putin the great-est loser in russian history ? When ? Where ? How ?
He probably has a personal bodyguard force , but Rosvgardia is his personal force , answerable to him directly, not to the Army ,or to the ministry of Defence,nor to the FSB ,
And since they're responsible for internal security, they'd be looking over a lot of powerful shoulders..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_of_Russia
There were only ever rumours, so there is no certainty. Budanov said in an interview that there had been several assassination attempts on Putin but that they had failed, he did not say Ukraine was behind any of them or give any time fram as to when they were.. There is a claim that looks like it originated in Russia that they caught wind of a plot and asked the US to intervene and prevent it.
No juicy details like where when and how. I view it with the smoke fire principle. Finding references to it seems a lot harder now than it was at the time I first read the rumours.
The measure of it is not money, it is the logistical nightmare and slowing down effect that matters.
Someone has the be the focal point though, Alexei Navalny was probably seen as that for years but with his death, they need articulate people they can rally around. I agree that he's made life difficult for himself, but you gotta admire the sheer spheres on the man. And hopefully he does inspire more.
Clown orban earning his keep…….
It could soon be time to throw Orban out the window
I disagree, brave words and peaceful means could never be a solution for Russia's perennial default state of autocracy. The FSB are in power and there is no peaceful route to ever changing that. Only large amounts of violence and bloodshed can ever change things in Russia.
The only thing that needs 'throwing' is Hungary out of the EU.
Hungary needs to be forced out of the EU, sadly.
Soon? It's long overdue.
what a prick. he'd see things differently if Hungary were in Ukraine's position!
yeah, I hate the way people say “why don’t Ukraine just stop the war”? as if they have any choice about it
What a truly odious individual and thats me being very generous I think. Never mind the fact that he is very much a threat to democracy and the EU in a general sense.
Nah, he'd be a perfectly willing Quisling.
The Russian embassy on Orwell Rd has organised it's two pier ornaments.
(Note.. it's the usual head chopping and putting on sticks and making videos for social media. Gloating.)
The skulls of Ukrainians are found in Russian nightclubs.
http://x.com/PulseOfUkraine/status/1880225977621414182
If Hungary were in Ukraine's positon AGAIN.
That's what's so baffling to me about Orban. He rules a country that quite literally has a museum in it's capital city dedicated to the brutality and barbarism of it's occupation by Russia(in days as the USSR), called the "House of Terror".
You'd think if any country were to be strongly opposed to Russia, it'd be one that only managed to throw off the shackles of their oppression by Russia in living memory of large proportion of it's population.
Every country has soup taker's and you can be guaranteed Orban would be straight into the new Russian regime that ruled them.
Romania has discovered the remains of 2 Orc drones on it's territory.
With the much hyped Trump inauguration you can see the strategies for both sides to gain leverage. Russia going all out in Kursk and the Donbass to show they've got momentum.
Meanwhile putting a big effort into holding Kursk but also striking Russian fuel depots. I'm very impressed with what they've managed to hit in the past week. The strikes on Engel's airbase has reduced the bomber activity which has an instant impact on the frontlines. Hopefully Ukraine can keep strikes on depots going.
It's an interesting aspect of his political past that when agitating against Soviet rule his party banned anyone over 35 from membership as it was felt they were too sympathetic to the Soviets.
Just as he rode on the anti Soviet wave he then switched to revanchism for the ethnic Hungarians areas in surrounding countries, primarily Romania.
Now he is as much against the young Hungarians who see themselves as Europeans as he was once against those over 35.
Hungarian demographics has the voting bulge firmly in Orban's demographic with younger Hungarians far more interested in their EU citizenship than Make Hungary Great Again.
Russia sending them around the back door to avoid the main Ukrainian air defences.
Here we go again. Another oil depot goes boom. How many this week?
Break their income sources to stop their war.
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