Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

I don't believe you. The information I posted in the point you are replying to has English translation in any case and clearly shows the level of destruction Ukraine has inflicted on putin's terrorists attacking their country.

I do believe that putin's terrorists are treating their own badly even if you find that hard to believe yourself.

What is this one quote supposed to prove?

I would completely expect the Russian military to be larger now than it was in 2022. The same is true for Ukraine.

I would also completely expect the Russian military to be getting better at some things compared to 2022, if they weren't, they would be beyond incompetent. Again, same as Ukraine.

Getting better from a base point of being effectively useless for a supposedly well-funded and modern 21st century army as we saw in February 2022 doesn't say what you seem to think it says.

That single quote does nothing to refute the obvious reality on the the ground in Ukraine, and the obviously reality about the war in a wider sense. Russia botched the invasion spectacularly in 2022 due to a combination of crap leadership, crap training, crap logistics, crap combined arms capability, etc.

You can dance around the situation any way you please, but all you have to do is look at a map and whisper to yourself "This is the state of play in the third year of Russia's invasion of Ukraine".

If you showed today's map to anyone in January 2022 you would be laughed out of the room or off the internet because it would be so absurdly unthinkable, and because it was inconceivable that the Russian military would perform so perfectly terribly.

Experts across the world, including US military, literally never thought it could be possible for a military so reasonably well funded and equipped to perform so badly, no-one was giving Ukraine a chance.

The biggest factor in Ukraine's success is Russian incompetence - I don't know why you're directly interpreting that as people saying that every Russian is stupid. From a military POV, the whole invasion has been a titantic botchjob for the history books due to military incompetence.

You can pretend that this is all part of Putin's mastermind scheme to grind Ukraine down, but to quote Trumps infamous press person, that is presenting "alternative facts".

I think the Bingo card needs updating as we enter the 4th year

I vote for “USAID” to be added to the list

I still don’t get the fascination Orwell Road dwellers have with it

Correct it is a unnecessary war. It's an invasion by one side to grab land, which can be ended at any time of that sides choosing.

Oryx is a site that uses visual confirmation of losses on both sides. A leak of Russian losses in 2022 showed it was within around 10% of actual losses (it'll always be an undercount)

Bellingcat is an independent OSINT investigation site which helped uncover e.g. the men who poisoned the Skripals, and e.g. did extensive investigation work on the shooting down of MH17

In complete contrast:

The Grayzone is an anti-Western, anti-NATO blog site which spreads pro-Russian and pro-authoritarian info. They claimed that Ukrainian forced "staged" the bombing of the Mariupol theatre and that the Ukrainians used human shields. That Assad didn't use chemical weapons. It's garbage tier nonsense lapped up by Putin apologists and supporters.

Posters have been endlessly patient with you in this threads - I thought for a moment your posts might be turning a corner, nope.

Again here's the description of the term Campist because it's highly relevant in these threads

"A leftist who supports any country/organization simply for being opposed to the United States or the West, including authoritarian governments who would otherwise not follow leftist beliefs."

I am gonna call yourself out on this weird coordinated “concern” with USAID that this week yourself and few adjacent amigos have been showing

Over in parallel thread you are crying crocodile tears about a certain Middle Eastern city being destroyed, yet fail to acknowledge the role and millions that USAID played in keeping the inhabitants of that destroyed city alive and fed for over a year now (while the neighbouring Arab/muslim countries do nothing)

Thanks for highlighting that you don’t actually care about the current affairs of these two wars (in both this and parallel thread) and it’s just another wedge issue that Russians are using to drive divisions

What's that now… dredging through the scraps of 60 years ago for an analogy? And not even a good one. If you were using Cuba as an analogy, Putin would have had to be looking at the US directly ratcheting up its military presence in Ukraine, docking vessels in port and helping to construct missile launch sites which might pose a direct threat to Russia. AND you'd have to ignore the fact that the US and Cuba were already militarily flexing their muscles at each other. Whereas Ukraine… a military threat to Russia in the year 2022… what a comedian.

Good job on trying to derail the thread with your anti USA vendetta though.

Looks like Ukraine are heading for a gas crisis in the next month, possibly other places in Europe as well this coming year. Very important time the next couple of months and hopefully it warms up a bit.

Ukraine's storage is now under 10% and a big part of it's gas infrastructure was destroyed at Poltava the other night in a missile attack.

After Zelensky cut Ukraine and Slovakia off from Russian gas supply which pushed Dutch TTF prices up 40% they now are paying far more from EU countries whose storage is also dwindling pushing up prices of gas and electricity up further.

Slovakia managed to get supply from Gazprom and have enough now the Turks have helped out also with transit. However transit of the EU gas to Ukraine now comes through Slovakia.

Fico commented on it in a video yesterday

"Gas has been flowing to Ukraine through a reverse pipeline for several days now. Gas without which Ukraine will freeze.

Slovakia plays no role in this. The suppliers are foreign companies. However, we have the moral right to consider methods for stopping foreign supplies to Ukraine in the amount of about 7.5 million cubic meters per day," Fico said.

These supplies put even more pressure on the price of gas on the European market, Fico added.

So not only have they cut themselves off from cheap Russian gas and lost transit fees, they now have to pay far more like everyone in Europe will and pray the country they cut off does not cut them off.

Yet another thinly veiled “Europe is gonna freeze” threat

Forgetting that this didn’t work the last time Russians tried it

And yet again you selectively misrepresent economic data

Same Tankie's different day

What a fantastic word salad… can anyone decipher what he's asking/ claiming??

Russia "restained itself" did it? Was that push to take Kiev was them "restraining" themselves? The West is a "paper tiger"?

Here's how it appears when you don't apply Orwell Road's filter to the past 3 years since the Putin's first attempt on Kiev. What we saw was a poorly informed gamble to take Kiev with blitzkrieg tactics and decapitate the Ukrainian state. The Russians didn't count on the Ukrainians having enough fighting spirit to repulse their attempt on the capital, and the Kremlin had been badly misinformed about the quality of their very best troops. They were forced into an embarrising retreat while they lost scores of senior commanders early in the conflict due to them having to mirco-manage their own troops at the front. As it turned out, the "second best" military in the world was made almost entirely of conscripts, with only athin corps of career officers to lead them in battle. The rest had left over the years to seek their fortune with the Wagners.

Putin is the one who gambled and lost. He contines to lose each day this goes on, which is why the Russian propaganda machine is so energized in churning out opinions like the one being shared by certain people online.

Now we have a Ukraine that is being armed with second-hand 90's era NATO gear, while NATO proper still maintains its latest equipment. Meanwhile, the Russians have been reduced form Soviet stocks from the 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s…to finally civilian Ladas and donkeys. They are using up equally old munitions while risking the launching systems that use them. Once those systems are gone, they have very little capacity to replace them.

Russia tried it's best in 2022 to annex Ukraine. They failed, and contunue to fail…much like these failed attempts to swing our opinion with these Potemkin Fanatasies of a failed West, and a Mighty Russia.

Since Trump has come in weapon's have continued to flow into Ukraine and the Russians are currently struggling to advance. Is this a knock on effect of Russia going all out before the election to make as many gains as possible? They're certainly stalled in Kursk right now which they want to retrieve the most.

There was talk that once Trump won the election or got in that aid was arriving at an unbelievable pace. Could be a combination of both factors but here's hoping February continues to be a miserable month for the Russian's. I've no doubt though that more aid to completely stall the Russians is the only way to make them rethink.

I am not sure even Putin himself could bring himself to type such an absolute crockpot of pure waffle divorced from reality.