Trump may lose another buddy soon.
Will Tucker openly weep?
Normal news covers the death of the Queen, Fox memorializes Pooty, confused that manly naked horseman manliness didn't defeat all.
Chaos is a recipe for change...
And so many rumours are swirling...
And freshly minted Russian passports are worthless apparently...
Russia is now a laughingstock in Chinese social media
A wounded animal is the most dangerous and seems like a rout is coming up, could even be less than a few weeks or days with the way things are going.
In my opinion this may be the most dangerous time period in all of the war.
What Putin needs is not another lead general, it's a good psychiatrist. However, I won't hold my breath.
Where?I wonder about Putin deciding to use a tactical nuke.
Where?
Kyiv? Ukraine still won't surrender and now NATO is involved.
On the front line? Which battle group? It still won't change the calculus of the Russian army which has very little good gear left, and very few good infantry left. Ukraine still have HIMARS, HARMs, PzH 2000, M777's, etc and now also NATO entering the battle sphere.
Russia's nuclear weapons are useless in this scenario. Russia's generals would know this. They would tell Putin to gtfo.
Putin is a tough nut. The oligarchs are aligned with him. They may not like him, but they fear him. FSB and the other alphabet organisations inside Russia are more problematic. They are mostly smart folk and they won't like being made scape goats. If they align with the Generals...Alternative, Russia backs out of Ukraine and Putin manages to keep everything together.
Okay? Really?
Wow!
Find myself doubting all the good news but there is no denying it now!
most people dont realize how short range the mig29, su25, su27/30/33/35 are. the long range loiter air superiority of the USAF has never been on the table. they are good at intercepting a looming nato 'invasion' of russia but dont do well outside of that homefield advantage.
Looking back to the time when Ukraine stopped Putin from taking Kyiv and started to take some serious blows in the east, it seems Ukraine was playing Rope-a-Dope at that time, having Putin's troops exhaust themselves physically and materially, while keeping its strength in reserve and building up energy for delivering a whole lot of pain after the Russians have seemingly played themselves out(?).
Lets not re-write history. There is already enough of that with Republicans.
The Ukrainians were doing whatever they could to hang on. At that point, there definitely was no glorious master plan of retaking their land 6 months later in an epic counter attacking.
The possibility of him getting Mussolini'd should weight heavy on his mind if he tries it.Yup, I wonder about that too. This entire invasion was about Putin wanting to be the glorious conquerer who restores Russian empire. Except they are getting the shit kicked out of them. Which is humiliating. I wonder about Putin deciding to use a tactical nuke.
My view of the turn of events in Ukraine is based on how the Ukrainians progressively and effectively turned the tide of battle into their favor by skillfully employing/deploying whatever assets they could prepare in advance of the expected invasion and ultimately how they took advantage of the growing list of advanced weaponry their western allies provided for their use.
I'm not seeing how my view of those events is somehow rewriting history. Could you explain a bit further for clarification? I always see comments on my opinions as a learning experience and your reply intrigued me enough to ask for more input.
Not a problem for me if you don't feel like pursuing this any further.