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[Zoomer go Brr]

You have fallen for Russian propaganda hook, line, and sinker. Now you try to rollback on it. You posted a massive screen shot put together by the Russians which grossly exaggerated the antics of a few hundred soldiers --a rouge militia--and try to say that somehow it reflected the average Ukrainian's mentality. Yes. That what you were implying, as others have pointed out. The Anzov battalion is tiny. Even going so far as to post photos doughnuts with Anzov batt logos.

The article with the people taped to poles dated to the beginning of the war when people were breaking curfew and looting. Also, at that time, several teams from the Wagner group killed while wearing civilian clothes and actively trying to hunt down and kill President Zelensky. You are comparing photos of blown apart dead Russian soldiers (with body armor marked with 'Z' )with the crimes Bucha, where civilians were gang raped, tortured, and murdered in the hundreds (now it looks like in could be over a thousand people). In what way do the things you post show any kind of balance between Russia and Ukraine? They Russians are worse by a million miles. And now, being shown up, you back pedal and say that is not what you intended. Spare me your bullshit. That's exactly what you intended.

You and the other useful idiots on this site are not clever or intelligent. You are fools being played. I suspect you are a paid troll.

Still trying to stir up trouble over the vaccines? I thought tens of millions were supposed to be dropping dead in their living rooms by now...

Where is BP to post videos of mighty Russian soldiers' scaring off frightened America soldiers' in Syria? Ah, not here anymore because the Russian army, air force, and navy have been totally humiliated. Putin miscalculations have reduced Russia to a 4th rate power.

If it wasn't for the wrong horse, you, BP, Full Moon, and Dakardii wouldn't have a horse to back.

Guess what? Don't want to be blown apart on the road and have your dead body photographed, don't invade another country.

Lot of words for someone who just gulps up what they are spoonfed. Do you want America to send troops over there? Do you want to spend more money and blood in a war for someone else? Do you enjoy paying more to subsidize Europe’s ridiculous energy policy? I’ve already posted my views and stances, but you won’t listen.

You talk about not wanting to be blown apart but I doubt you’d have the spine to put your money where your mouth is and join the fray. Ukraine is accepting useful idiot military volunteers, go join up tough guy.

You don't understand. Zoomer is Serbian. He's still bitter over getting spanked in 1999. Now Serbia has lost Kosovo. That must hurt really bad. How many Germans still live in East Prussia? That's what you get when you launch a genocidal war against another country.

Free the Crimea!

Not Serbian, just sick of seeing talking heads and Twitter clout chasers like you guys post stupid shit about how Ukraine is some damsel in distress while the US funds the Ukrainians, supplies natural gas to the EU, Americans deal with inflation - and it’s just portrayed as “Russia’s fault.” You care so much about genocide yet you say nothing about Uighers in China or anywhere else in the world. You are the definition of “I support the current thing.”

[Zoomer go Brr]

Zoomer go Brr:

Lot of words for someone who just gulps up what they are spoonfed.

Looks who's calling the kettle black! You are full of crap, Zoomer. You're the one who is spoon fed.

And, FYI, there are a lot of ex-military on this site. So, mind your manners, bitch.

Ex-military means nothing - you see combat? As John says, post a source or confirm it or you’re just talking out your ass. Go fight for Ukraine if you feel that strongly about it, they want foreign mercenaries. Maybe you’ll get some beets and two sheets of toilet paper a month as payment.

[Zoomer go Brr]

You have fallen for Russian propaganda hook, line, and sinker. Now you try to rollback on it. You posted a massive screen shot put together by the Russians which grossly exaggerated the antics of a few hundred soldiers --a rouge militia--and try to say that somehow it reflected the average Ukrainian's mentality. Yes. That what you were implying, as others have pointed out. The Anzov battalion is tiny. Even going so far as to post photos doughnuts with Anzov batt logos.

The article with the people taped to poles dated to the beginning of the war when people were breaking curfew and looting. Also, at that time, several teams from the Wagner group killed while wearing civilian clothes and actively trying to hunt down and kill President Zelensky. You are comparing photos of blown apart dead Russian soldiers (with body armor marked with 'Z' )with the crimes Bucha, where civilians were gang raped, tortured, and murdered in the hundreds (now it looks like in could be over a thousand people). In what way do the things you post show any kind of balance between Russia and Ukraine? They Russians are worse by a million miles. And now, being shown up, you back pedal and say that is not what you intended. Spare me your bullshit. That's exactly what you intended.

You and the other useful idiots on this site are not clever or intelligent. You are fools being played. I suspect you are a paid troll.

Still trying to stir up trouble over the vaccines? I thought tens of millions were supposed to be dropping dead in their living rooms by now...

Where is BP to post videos of mighty Russian soldiers' scaring off frightened America soldiers' in Syria? Ah, not here anymore because the Russian army, air force, and navy have been totally humiliated. Putin miscalculations have reduced Russia to a 4th rate power.

If it wasn't for the wrong horse, you, BP, Full Moon, and Dakardii wouldn't have a horse to back.

Guess what? Don't want to be blown apart on the road and have your dead body photographed, don't invade another country.

Lot of words for someone who just gulps up what they are spoonfed. Do you want America to send troops over there? Do you want to spend more money and blood in a war for someone else? Do you enjoy paying more to subsidize Europe’s ridiculous energy policy? I’ve already posted my views and stances, but you won’t listen.

You talk about not wanting to be blown apart but I doubt you’d have the spine to put your money where your mouth is and join the fray. Ukraine is accepting useful idiot military volunteers, go join up tough guy.

If they are accepting useful idiots, that would be right up your alley, Zoomer.

I know you're pro-Kremlin troll. I'm undecided if you're an ethnic Russian or an alt-right nutter. You're the one regurgitating the Kremlin talking points, like Cool Breeze, who I suspect Russian too.

Do you want Russia to destroy Ukraine and lay waste to Europe? That would not be in America's interest. Better to have a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine than fight them ourselves. However, if Russia does invade a NATO country, then yes, i would want US troops to fight them and destroy them.

Hey, tough guy, if you are America, would you fight? Or would you fake disability to escape the draft? Or maybe you would just run off to Mexico...

And here is the boomer hyperbole and Cold War fear coming out - Russia isn’t going to invade western Europe, they’re anemic. They can’t even take Ukraine, why would they ever invade a NATO country? Are you seriously that delusional? This is what I’m talking about with the slurping up bullshit.

Would I fight for Ukraine? No. Would I fight for the US? Yes.

[thomasglee]

Biden's Mammoth $33BN Ukraine Package Includes Help With Wartime Propaganda

Wait! What!? You mean the US engages in propaganda? No way!

[Navigator]

I am spending a lot of the time I used to spend on the site looking at the reports out of Ukraine.

The best and most up to date are still with MilitaryLand.net, which I think is run by a French guy.

https://militaryland.net/

Right now it appears that the Russians are trying to pin the Ukrainians in place along the start lines in the Donbas area while attempting a classic pincer movement behind them from Izium in the north and from Staromlynivka in the south (this is NNW of Mariopol). Neither pincer advance is making rapid progress, but they are advancing about 1km per day. (A "breakout" in military terms generally has about a 20km/day rate of advance). They have been making this progress each day for the last month.

There is also intel that suggests the Russians to the NE of Kherson, across the Dnieper river, may be massing to make another thrust towards Krivyih Rih (Krivoy Rog), but at this point I would say that is probably a feint.

The goal for the Russians is now to take both of the breakout provinces and the southern land extending to Kherson.

Russian deaths are probably around 25K. This means their wounded casualties would be about 50-75K. This is significant (as Russia is just using its standing army), but to put it into historical perspective, Great Britain lost about 60K on just the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 (about 20K dead, 40K wounded).

I believe that a reasonable estimate for Ukrainian casualties are about 5K dead, 15K wounded. So the Ukrainians are at a 4 or 5 to 1 kill ratio. This is quite good, but also in line with loss ratios for an attack against a fortified defense. And, of course, a lot of the Russian losses are due to unrealistic plans, poor tactics, and poor execution.

The Russians have not been stopped, but are making very slow progress. One of the main reasons is that they are using 1917 tactics, with somewhat more modern weapons. Their method is for an artillery barrage, and then a "wave" type assault (think of "going over the top" as such an assault).

It remains to be seen what the Russians can accomplish by May 9, "Victory Day", but it doesn't look like they can get more than 10-15 Km more out of each pincer, which would still be insufficient to cause a Ukrainian collapse. To do that, each pincer would need to advance about 30Km from current spearhead positions. This is because the main supply route into/out of Ukrainian Donbas positions is the parallel road/rail lines going from Dnipro to Pavlohrad to Pokrovsk . You need to be within 20Km of the supply route to disrupt it with artillery fire.

In Mariopol, the Russians have no choice but to put the Avostal steel plant under siege. The reason the Russians cannot take it is that there are six stories of underground nuclear bunkers under the place, built to house/protect the workers and others from nuclear attack during the cold war. The only way to end this for the Russians is to use gas and cut the water supply (and I bet the place has decent cisterns, so that last bit may not be possible). It is literally a modern version of Fort Vaux at Verdun.

Russian ambitions are to take all of Ukraine and the Baltics, and even try to regain the old Cold War boundary, but it is impossible for them to do this without a total mobilization of both the population and economy (and even then, it is QUITE a stretch at this point). But, given Putin/Russian pride, I don't see how they can get out of this mess without attempting to do that.

The threat for nuclear use is just that, a threat. If they were about to do it, I would expect some kind of ultimatum to be issued first (such as all Ukrainians must lay down their arms and NATO accept the Russian pre-war demands).

I think that the Russians would have already used gas, but they are actually afraid of what NATO might do in response.

[Navigator]

Here are some other issues that we should keep in mind:

I have seen reports that the ammunition sent to Ukraine at this point represents close to a DECADE of NATO production. The number one expended supply in war is ammunition. Running out of it is VERY bad.

The Germans are saying one thing and doing another. They say they support Ukraine, but don't send heavy weapons. They say they are increasing military spending, but then it isn't in their submitted budgets. They say they have cut off Russian banks, but they haven't. They say they are going to get off of Russian natural gas, but they are still buying it at normal levels.

Most of NATO may be unified, but the Hungarians and Slovakians are probably pro-Russian at this point, while the Germans are actually attempting to "stay neutral".

While having Finland and Sweden join NATO is an overall good thing, the timing is now pretty bad, and will fit into the Russian narrative of "NATO wants to encircle and destroy Russia".

Putin's health does appear to be very bad, but his demise would not necessarily mean the end to this. You can always get someone even worse, and only someone who has been successful during the past 20-25 years of Putin's reign will be positioned to take over. Russia would NOT turn into a democracy if/when Putin dies. Not unless there is the equivalent of another Russian revolution. (The FSB crowd would not hesitate to do what Gorbachov wouldn't do - shoot people in the streets).

[Zoomer go Brr]

Here are some other issues that we should keep in mind:

I have seen reports that the ammunition sent to Ukraine at this point represents close to a DECADE of NATO production. The number one expended supply in war is ammunition. Running out of it is VERY bad.

The Germans are saying one thing and doing another. They say they support Ukraine, but don't send heavy weapons. They say they are increasing military spending, but then it isn't in their submitted budgets. They say they have cut off Russian banks, but they haven't. They say they are going to get off of Russian natural gas, but they are still buying it at normal levels.

Most of NATO may be unified, but the Hungarians and Slovakians are probably pro-Russian at this point, while the Germans are actually attempting to "stay neutral".

While having Finland and Sweden join NATO is an overall good thing, the timing is now pretty bad, and will fit into the Russian narrative of "NATO wants to encircle and destroy Russia".

Putin's health does appear to be very bad, but his demise would not necessarily mean the end to this. You can always get someone even worse, and only someone who has been successful during the past 20-25 years of Putin's reign will be positioned to take over. Russia would NOT turn into a democracy if/when Putin dies. Not unless there is the equivalent of another Russian revolution. (The FSB crowd would not hesitate to do what Gorbachov wouldn't do - shoot people in the streets).

Any thoughts on what Putin’s health woes are? I’ve heard Parkinson’s disease, which morphs into dementia and impacts cognition, but it’s all speculation based on his behavior and pictures.

[Guest]

Lot of words for someone who just gulps up what they are spoonfed. Do you want America to send troops over there? Do you want to spend more money and blood in a war for someone else? Do you enjoy paying more to subsidize Europe’s ridiculous energy policy? I’ve already posted my views and stances, but you won’t listen.

You talk about not wanting to be blown apart but I doubt you’d have the spine to put your money where your mouth is and join the fray. Ukraine is accepting useful idiot military volunteers, go join up tough guy.

You don't understand. Zoomer is Serbian. He's still bitter over getting spanked in 1999. Now Serbia has lost Kosovo. That must hurt really bad. How many Germans still live in East Prussia? That's what you get when you launch a genocidal war against another country.

Free the Crimea!

Not Serbian, just sick of seeing talking heads and Twitter clout chasers like you guys post stupid shit about how Ukraine is some damsel in distress while the US funds the Ukrainians, supplies natural gas to the EU, Americans deal with inflation - and it’s just portrayed as “Russia’s fault.” You care so much about genocide yet you say nothing about Uighers in China or anywhere else in the world. You are the definition of “I support the current thing.”

I have never used Twitter and I have commented on the abuses of Muslims and others in China. Many on this site have. You are simply, yes simply, repeating Moscow/ Alt-right talking points verbatim.

[Guest]

Lot of words for someone who just gulps up what they are spoonfed. Do you want America to send troops over there? Do you want to spend more money and blood in a war for someone else? Do you enjoy paying more to subsidize Europe’s ridiculous energy policy? I’ve already posted my views and stances, but you won’t listen.

You talk about not wanting to be blown apart but I doubt you’d have the spine to put your money where your mouth is and join the fray. Ukraine is accepting useful idiot military volunteers, go join up tough guy.

If they are accepting useful idiots, that would be right up your alley, Zoomer.

I know you're pro-Kremlin troll. I'm undecided if you're an ethnic Russian or an alt-right nutter. You're the one regurgitating the Kremlin talking points, like Cool Breeze, who I suspect Russian too.

Do you want Russia to destroy Ukraine and lay waste to Europe? That would not be in America's interest. Better to have a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine than fight them ourselves. However, if Russia does invade a NATO country, then yes, i would want US troops to fight them and destroy them.

Hey, tough guy, if you are America, would you fight? Or would you fake disability to escape the draft? Or maybe you would just run off to Mexico...

And here is the boomer hyperbole and Cold War fear coming out - Russia isn’t going to invade western Europe, they’re anemic. They can’t even take Ukraine, why would they ever invade a NATO country? Are you seriously that delusional? This is what I’m talking about with the slurping up bullshit.

Would I fight for Ukraine? No. Would I fight for the US? Yes.

Russia can't take you Ukraine because of the billions of dollars of support they are getting from us and others. Ukraine hasn't been abandoned. Just the opposite of what you have demanding and spewing about.

P.S. I still think you are Serbian or Russian.

[Guest]

https://news.yahoo.com/russia-ukraine-w ... 33397.html

Russia-Ukraine war latest: Former NATO commander warns that West must gear up for war

LONDON — As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hits its 64th day, a former NATO commander urged the West to prepare for a “worst case” scenario: war with Russia. Meanwhile, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday visited areas around Kyiv that were formally held by Russian forces. “The war is evil,” he said while standing beside destroyed apartment blocks in the town of Borodyanka.

‘Worst case is war with Russia’

In response to comments made by the U.K. foreign secretary over the West's needing to “double down” on its support for Ukraine, former NATO commander Richard Shirreff told BBC Radio 4’s “Today” program it was “absolutely the right approach” and that “it’s got to be followed through with significant resources, and it’s got to be done right across the alliance as a whole.”