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You left out the thing that is into sex with dogs.
www.thegatewaypundit.com
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lidblog.com
time.com
www.voltairenet.org
Again, more than two active duty real-life "kill people" types just said, "Russians are LARPing. They can END Ukraine in a day, this is a ploy."
Obligatory: This wall of text made my eyes bleed.
A long read but weaves an interesting point of view.
I'm not so sure about the quantities of the modern stuff.I tend to disagree with some of that. Remember Russia doesn't view casualties the way we do. Western countries are extremely averse to casualties where Russia is viewing them more as pawns to achieve an objective.
I think Ukraine is putting up a better fight than was expected and Russian losses are far higher than being reported. (but so are Ukrainian losses)
Russia is seemingly trying to prevent wholesale destruction to infrastructure. They seem to want Ukraine as an asset not as a liability.
Russia isn't using their best equipment or best battalions.
As an example you may have still heard that the airspace is somewhat "contested" and it's not Russian dominated yet. Russia has an extensive array of missiles, stealth fighters (su57) , strategic bombers (tu160, tu95, tu22) and tactical strike bombers (su34 fullback). Now I don't think the SU57 is on the same level as western stealth fighters but it should be able to mop the floor with Ukrainian Soviet era planes. There should be constant su57s over Ukraine right now blasting anything that takes off. Russia should be cratering every airfield in Ukrainian control preventing anything from taking off.
Why haven't they?
Russia has an extremely extensive inventory of artillery, rockets, missiles and modern heavy armor. Why aren't they using it? Why are all the destroyed pieces of armor we see consist of mostly older models of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles?
Very confusing.
I don't proclaim to know what's going on but I certainly do not believe what's being reported. Ukraine is saying don't worry everything is fine but their actions seem to speak the opposite. Russia hasn't really said much at all either way. They are just steadily and incrementally advancing. Ukraine is winning the propoganda war but I think the true picture paints a different story.
I'm just trying to absorb information, ignore every talking head pundit and then myself try to analyze the most likely scenario of what makes sense for me.
I think Russia is still in control, they are still calm and confident. They are not desperate. They are still planning to occupy Ukraine. What their next move is, I'm not sure of yet but they're saving their best assets for that.
However I do find some things very befuddling that I just can't make sense out of that are not adding up.
Edit, for comparison here is the US war in Iraq timeline.
The invasion phase began on 19 March 2003 (air) and 20 March 2003 (ground) and lasted just over one month,[26] including 26 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq. The capital city of Baghdad was captured by Coalition forces on April 9, 2003
2003 invasion of Iraq - Wikipedia
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When the USSR broke up, Ukraine agreed in a multi party arrangement to give Russia their nuclear weapons (The soviet weapons that had been installed in Ukraine).
It is proclaimed on the interwebs that this is a rather elaborate hoax video, but someone went through a lot of effort if that is true.
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When the USSR broke up, Ukraine agreed in a multi party arrangement to give Russia their nuclear weapons (The soviet weapons that had been installed in Ukraine).
Part of that agreement included a clause from Russia, the UK, and the US that we would guarantee their security.
The US and UK agreed to this because we were concerned about the security of those weapons if left in Ukraine at the time. They were not in a position to guard them appropriately, and the last thing we wanted were hundreds of nukes sitting around guarded by a single poory trained night watchman.
So, it seems like we are obligated under that treaty to get involved. It also seems that we signed that treaty with the same pen we used for the treaties we signed with the Indians. Who knew it still worked after all that time.
Budapest Memorandum - Wikipedia
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If Ukraine hadn't entered that agreement they would be the worlds 3rd largest nuclear power today, right behind Russia and ahead of China.
I can guarantee Putin would not have invaded if that were the case.
Because we learned that lesson when Hitler invaded Poland.
Many countries have a similar problem. Effeminate "boys" in their military. China, Korea, and others. Yet the US military is the only "woke" military that I know of. Hard times make hard men. Hard men make good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make hard times and the cycle continues.
If Russia supplies "Russian-backed Separatists" in Donbas, the media narrative was that it is called a civil war.
I have seen far too many pictures of burned out convoys to come to any conclusion other than either:
I can't speak for him but I have had a bone to pick with putin for many years. I searched my posts about him and as far back as 2016 calling him out for being a pos or a dictator. I have a hard on for dictators getting their comeuppance. Putin deserves to die a slow, painful death from radioactive poisoning (karma). But, it would be better for everyone if he's shot quickly so that he doesn't rage quit on the way out.
I've seen them this morning referred to as "tank farmers". They find russian vehicles out of gas and harvest them.
