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Ahhhh … we're back to the old "Ukraine is losing the war" argument. Despite the fact that Ukraine is the first country to invade Russia since WW2, and Russia (Second Greatest Army In The World) is unable to take it back, even with the help of their most generous Iranian, Chinese and North Korean allies.
And as of today, Ukraine has cut off all Russian oil exports through its primary Baltic terminal, Ust-Luga.
And Russia holds less Ukrainian territory than it did two and a half years ago.
How about telling us how you define losing, so we can understand why Ukraine shouldn't hope for anything from negotiations other than a pat on the head from Grandpa Putin.
Drones away!
On the subject of oil exports, there's a frenzy on the Russia side of social media tonight over (yet another) massive drone invasion by Ukraine.
Further to my speculations earlier today, I reckon this'll be Ukraine trying to destroy more parts of the oil and gas storage and distribution network, probably with the terminal (or pumps governing) Novorossiysk coming under sustained attack in the near future, i.e. a determined effort by Ukraine to halt all oil and gas exports through Russia's European ports.
It's pretty clear at this stage that Russia's air defence is getting creakier and creakier by the day - it might not be long now before we see Ukrainian jets starting to reclaim their place in the skies above occupied Ukraine.
You don't have to take my word for it. The Economist is media that is extremely pro-NATO and extremely hostile to Putin and even it is running stories titled "Amid talk of a ceasefire, Ukraine’s front line is crumbling". Forbes, another pro-NATO media outlet, is running stories which describes two NATO trained and NATO equipped brigades simply collapsing through mass desertion and casualties within the space of a few weeks of each other.
Your argument is with western mainstream media.
Loathe as I am to link anything now from Herr Musk,Something is burning!
Excellent,looks like the Ukrainians are having a significant "impact" on oil production.
🤣🤣
At this stage the ordinary Russians welcome the drone attacks on the oil facilities as it's one step closer to the war being finished.
If a shell hits that wooden T-72 APC would the logs splinter into lethal shrapnel for the occupants? The same effect as ground burst shells in a forest?
The Economist has always been fairly balanced on NATO and highlighting its deficiencies and advantages, this is you attempting to project a socialist view onto capitalist media because you think it makes your argument hold more weight than it actually does.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2016/07/10/nato-stations-four-more-battalions-in-eastern-europe
https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2024/07/09/at-75-nato-confronts-its-own-frailty-and-that-of-world-leaders
You live in a bubble where in no way is Russia getting an absolute pasting from drones with its economy being devastated from sanctions and the cost of war. With the “second best army in the world” being reduced to beggars and driving golf carts into battle. You’re completely blind to the damage being done, so I’m as inclined to read your links as I am to poke myself in the eye with a shít encrusted stick.
Your posts are read for hilarity sake… ‘Ukraine better surrender… for its own good’. Classic, keep ‘em coming.🤣
From where you are sitting, what you see as "extremely pro-NATO" would be considered balanced and objective by most others.
Has it ever occurred to you that the problem might actually be you?
It's not exactly renowned for in depth investigative journalism. But more reliable than the likes of Jay in Kyiv
Heartbreaking:
Interesting Guardian article on the desertion crisis affecting the Ukrainian army. I feel for these guys, 3 years in it has to be tough to keep going, no matter how righteous the cause. War is hell:
Good need a lot more articles painting a gloomy picture of Russian Nazis expanding to the borders of other European states
It will spur more aid as they realise that Russian criminals are best kept as far away as possible from civilisation
Ukrainians are doing us all a favour tying up so many rapists, murderers and thieves in a meatgrinder in the back arse of Europe
Keep em coming lads
qThe simple solutions are quite often the best , cheapest and most efficient onesand this is a classical example - and an added bonus is the use of abundant local material. It is based on the TROJAN HORSE concept which worked a treat at the time and the Russians are using the concept to efficient and cheaply deliver MEAT to its front lines.
An added advantage also that you will probably survive longer - probably up to a week longer - IF attacked and your body is full of wood splinters as against steel shrapnel !!!!!!!!!!!
That's an important stat because in that extra week you survive Russia will send you back to the frontline to die quicker in a cost cutting exercise.
Update the bingo cards lads!
Speaking of cost cutting
“Da comrade, here’s an AK and crutch, off ya go, ooooorah”
https://bsky.app/profile/specialkhersoncat.bsky.social/post/3lgyfp4w52k2c Edited; removed link preview as contains a resting meatnik
North Koreans got a bloody nose
Buddha wept!
Ukraine best surrender today into the care of the well known humanitarian Russia.
Actually, have we taken Sand’s posts up wrong. Maybe he too is posting sarcastically? 🤔
I've been reading The Economist for several years. Bought my first issue in 2014. It's very pro-Western, pro-liberalism, pro-individualism and generally favours low taxes, minimum regulations and a small state. I read it despite being a left-leaning centrist because it is extremely well written and well researched, it owns up to its mistakes, and it is very open about its bias and it's a much lesser evil than whatever pro-Putin and pro-Russia X accounts I'm supposed to accept is gospel.
Todays Russian papers complaining about “economic problems” and “difficulties with payments”
Complete slaughter, 11k North Koreans went to war and half were killed in just a few weeks.
Russian student in moscow says Russia invaded a sovereign nation of Ukraine and is an aggressor. Seems obvious to everyone else. But in Putin's russia if any talk is posted on social media or on camera, the police break into your house or apartment in the middle of the night. Beat you up, take you down to the station and rape people with brush handles. Numerous accounts of so. So this man is very naive or very brave.
How much difference is there between the existing hard kill / soft kill systems already mounted or designed in for certain tanks , and a dedicated anti drone system ,
presume the existing hard kill systems may need to be configured for specific drone types ect ,
Obviously that's "just" self protection for an individual tank or vehicle, as opposed to protecting a group of vehicles and assets ,
Maybe the beatings have stopped and the failure of the special operation has become conventional wisdom. Or maybe he knows anyday now he'll be lifted for the front so what's the point in lying about how things are anymore.
Favouring low taxes, small state, minimum regulations makes it centre right, not centre left.
Otherwise you're spot on, it's a quality magazine and its podcast series is excellent, though ridiculously it has previously been labelled pro Putin by some of the crowd here when it dares point out the realities of what's happening in the war (the realities being somewhere between the crap posted by Sand and the false optimism occasionally pushed by the other side)
I used to have a subscription but its editorial line did side with the Iraq invasion.
I guess as a weekly it does have a more measured approach, but it does have a bias.
