Putin’s embarrassing one-tank parade hints at catastrophic losses in Ukraine

Atlantic Council ^ | 9th May 2023 | Peter Dickinson

[Cronos]

It would be hard to image a more fitting symbol of Russia’s declining military fortunes than the sight of a solitary Stalin-era tank trundling across Red Square during the country’s traditional Victory Day celebrations on May 9. For the past two decades, Vladimir Putin has used Victory Day to showcase modern Russia’s resurgence as a military superpower, with dozens of the very latest tanks typically taking part in each annual parade. This year, however, the only tank on display was a T-34 model dating back to World War II.

Inevitably, the embarrassing absence of tanks at this year’s Victory Day parade has been widely interpreted as further evidence of Russia’s catastrophic losses in Ukraine. Social media was soon buzzing with posts poking fun at the Kremlin. “Modern Russian military equipment can be found much more easily at Ukrainian military trophy exhibitions than at the Victory Parade in Moscow,” noted the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s official Twitter account. Others were less subtle. “There was one tank at the parade in Moscow! We laugh all over Ukraine,” posted Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko. “There are farmers in Ukraine with more tanks than that,” quipped another Twitter user.

Tuesday’s one-tank parade was the latest in a series of blows that had already cast a shadow over preparations for this year’s Victory Day celebrations. In the month preceding the holiday, more than twenty cities across Russia canceled plans to hold military parades. While security concerns were officially cited, these cancellations fueled speculation that Russia simply doesn’t have enough military equipment available to stage regional parades, with the vast majority of tanks and other vehicles having already been sent to Ukraine.

[Allegra]

For $100 billion homeless vet facilities could be built in every major city and large town in America. I'm damn sure that finding volunteers to work at these shelters wouldn't be difficult. Even if just half of our homeless vets' lives were improved because of such efforts it would be a great thing.

America sent men to the moon. We could do this, for sure. We owe it to our veterans, especially the ones who got messed up in combat situations.

Amen. I heartily agree with that.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Where are the memes for this?
A goldmine of an image for memes

[jmacusa]

Perhaps you could tell me Alex how the Russian Army, which is currently getting it's tail kicked in Ukraine, and which , if reports are correct and they appear to be , has lost more than half it's armored strength, has had it's air force all but swept from the sky, it's navy chased back to port, with it's flagship, the Mosokva is at the bottom of the Baltic, it's conscript army, poorly equipped, poorly trained, poorly motivated and sent into battle drunk is going to be a threat to the armies of NATO?

[wardaddy]

I’m against pimping a war with china

Put me down on your list

[alexander_busek]

Perhaps you could tell me Alex how the Russian Army, which is currently getting it's its tail kicked in Ukraine, and which , if reports are correct and they appear to be , has lost more than half it's its armored strength, has had it's its air force all but swept from the sky, it's its navy chased back to port, with it's its flagship, the Mosokva Moskva is at the bottom of the Baltic Black Sea, it's its conscript army, poorly equipped, poorly trained, poorly motivated and sent into battle drunk is going to be a threat to the armies of NATO?

Despite the conspicuous incompetence and venality of its leadership, the Russian Army has killed on the order of one hundred thousand Ukrainians.

I don't want it to kill any N.A.T.O. soldiers or civilians, too.

Clear?

Regards,

[Rocco DiPippo]

You still don't "get" it? Let me say it again v-e-r-y * s-l-o-w-l-y.

Ugh. By that obnoxious bit you've self-identified as a condescending, haughty a-hole. So be it, since I have found that the vast majority of Youkazoids are "missing something" and they use their Youkamania to fill in that blank; that hole in their psyche, whatever it may be. Or maybe they are just fat, bored and unmotivated and rooting for their football/baseball/basketball team has lost its luster. Who knows? But something's definitely "off" about them. . .

OK, now it's my turn: So, because Congress is pissing away trillions of dollars $100 billion of US taxpayers' hard earned cash is just a "rounding error." What In The Eff. . ??!!

I'm going to cut to the chase: Are you or have you ever been a government drone, you know, one of those talentless, unmotivated hacks who slide into so-called "public service" because they can't make a go of anything on their own? The reason I theorize that is because only such parasitic dross, (who need not worry about what it takes to create actual wealth), would consider $100 billion, (actually we're now past $150 billion for Youcrayne) as a "rounding error," or just a number, even in a trillion dollar context. The fact remains: ~$3.5 million per homeless vet would go very far in helping them get off the street and towards a better existence. Sure, for some of them nothing will help, but for most it would. And no, the real issue isn't "Democrat policies." There are several huge issues which explain why America is insolvent and increasingly corrupt. Don't have time to write a novel laying it out here but I'll give you a clue: A lack of dignity and virtue among huge numbers of Americans, especially concentrated in its political, "elite," entertainment and bureaucrat classes.

You said, Democrats could solve the homeless problem tomorrow, if they wanted to, yet in an earlier reply you said, in so many words, that it couldn't be solved for our homeless veterans. OK, oh Master Of Logical Consistency. . .

And now, for the biggest howler I've read in months, crazy, but precisely in tune with corny, boilerplate Youkazoid sentimentalities: In the meantime, the last time we saw the genuine heroism of Ukrainians defending against Russian invaders -- ORCS -- was those firemen climbing steps in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.

The Youcraynians slugging it out with the Ruzzzziiiiaaaannnss have no bearing on my life, the lives of my family members and the lives of my friends and countrymen. Period, end of story. Oh, wait a minute, actually the whole mess does, in the form of outrageously high utility bills (+300% in one year) because of Europe's idiocy in helping prop up one side of the conflict in callous disregard for the well being of its own citizens. (I currently live in Italy). The AMERICAN first responders who rushed into the Towers on 911 had a huge effect on me and everyone around me - they were brave Americans willing to risk their lives to save other Americans. They are, and were, my countrymen. Can you see the difference?

OK, one more example, a theoretical one, and I gotta run: There are two bordering nations in Africa slugging it out, blowing each other up and wrecking each other's shit. It's a classic he said-she-said situation as to who provoked whom into throwing the first punch. Nevertheless, there are brave soldiers on both sides some of whom engage in extraordinary acts of bravery and heroism. Guess what, I still don't GAF enough to get involved and throw ~150 billion to prop up one side or the other in the conflict, especially while my country's circling the drain 5,000 miles away because of massive, fiscal irresponsibility and a lack of virtuous behavior among its citizens and bureaucrats,

Final thought: It is disturbing that Youkazoids, including you, seem to see war as some glorious, black-and-white, good guy vs. bad guy, heroic adventure - your comment about ORCS creeped me out bigtime man, and that's because I have seen war up close and it is positively vile; it is not like a sports match, video game or fantasy novel. The realities of it are not even remotely reflected in the jingoistic bullshit that Youkazoids freely employ as they "cheer their team on."

Ugh.

[BroJoeK]

Rocco DiPippo: "Ugh.
By that obnoxious bit you've self-identified as a condescending, haughty a-hole.
So be it, since I have found that the vast majority of Youkazoids are "missing something" and they use their Youkamania to fill in that blank; that hole in their psyche, whatever it may be.
Or maybe they are just fat, bored and unmotivated and rooting for their football/baseball/basketball team has lost its luster.
Who knows?
But something's definitely "off" about them. . ."

I am sorry to see that you seem now to have evolved from posting ridiculous arguments to babbling utter nonsense.
I must assume that's because you have nothing more serious to say.
That's too bad.
If you perceive a sense of "condescension", you can immediately eliminate that by first, acknowledging what I posted and second, giving it a serious response.

So far, I've seen neither of those from you, hence my effort to s-p-e-a-k * m-o-r-e * s-l-o-w-l-y.

Rocco DiPippo: "OK, now it's my turn: So, because Congress is pissing away trillions of dollars $100 billion of US taxpayers' hard earned cash is just a "rounding error."
What In The Eff. . ??!!"

Sure, to Democrats $100 billion is just chump-change, a rounding error when they are in the business of buying votes and fundamentally changing America into a "Democratic People's Republic".
There is always money, trillions of dollars, for Democrats' pet projects -- borrowed, of course, inflation injected into the US economy.

Also, to Republicans, $100 billion in a worthy cause is no problem, once all the Democrats' corruption is eliminated from the Federal budget.

So let me repeat the basic, fundamental truth here: it's not about the money.

Rocco DiPippo: "I'm going to cut to the chase: Are you or have you ever been a government drone, you know, one of those talentless, unmotivated hacks who slide into so-called "public service" because they can't make a go of anything on their own?"

Obviously, your mind is filled with ridiculous fantasies, and you need to ground yourself in facts.
Here's a fact: I did once work for the Federal government, 50 years ago, I served in the US Army and "stood guard" for three years in Germany, near the Fulda Gap, to stop the Old Soviets from doing in West Germany what they are now doing in Ukraine.
We were successful because we did not look weak enough to attack.

Rocco DiPippo: "only such parasitic dross, (who need not worry about what it takes to create actual wealth), would consider $100 billion, (actually we're now past $150 billion for Youcrayne) as a "rounding error," "

Here is the latest data I can find:

"Of the $113 billion approved in 2022, about three-fifths ($67 billion) has been allocated toward defense needs and the remaining two-fifths ($46 billion) to nondefense concerns such as general Ukrainian government aid, economic support, and aid for refugee resettlement.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) provided cost estimates of the four funding packages at the time each was passed. In total, CBO estimated that $6.6 billion of the $113 billion would be spent in FY 2022 and another $37.7 billion in FY 2023.
Furthermore, CBO estimated more than half of the approved funds would be spent by the end of FY 2024 and more than three-fourths by the end of FY 2026.
To date, the Biden Administration has sent Ukraine roughly $26 billion of direct military aid, mainly in the form of military hardware, training, and supplies."

I read that to say that $26 billion has actually been sent, the rest is planned deliveries in future years.

I'll repeat -- the real issue here is not the money, we have plenty of money to address every major legitimate issue, including homeless veterans, as soon as we can stop Democrats from p*ssing away $trillions on insane vote-buying schemes.

Why is that not obvious to you?

Rocco DiPippo: "And no, the real issue isn't "Democrat policies."
There are several huge issues which explain why America is insolvent and increasingly corrupt.
Don't have time to write a novel laying it out here but I'll give you a clue: A lack of dignity and virtue among huge numbers of Americans, especially concentrated in its political, "elite," entertainment and bureaucrat classes."

So, you just admitted what you claimed to deny -- it is Democrat policies which grow out of, as you identify, at least in part, "a lack of dignity and virtue among huge numbers of Americans"

Government spending is policy -- when you spend $trillions on insane vote-buying schemes, to the overall detriment of the country, rather than focusing money and laws where they can do the most good, that's Democrat policies causing problems they pretend to fix.

Rocco DiPippo: "The fact remains: ~$3.5 million per homeless vet would go very far in helping them get off the street and towards a better existence. "

I'll say it again: if Democrats wanted our homeless of the streets, they'd be off the streets tomorrow, it's not about the money.
Instead, Democrats are doing everything they can think of to increase the numbers of homeless, because that works for them politically.
Yes, it's cynical and evil to the core, but Democrats' political power is fundamentally based on such tactics.

If you can't grasp that, then you've been living overseas for too long.

Rocco DiPippo: "You said, Democrats could solve the homeless problem tomorrow, if they wanted to, yet in an earlier reply you said, in so many words, that it couldn't be solved for our homeless veterans.
OK, oh Master Of Logical Consistency. . ."

Well... first, go back and read again what I posted.
I said throwing all the money in the world at the homeless will not solve the problem so long as the real reasons are not addressed -- physical & mental illnesses, and/or drug addiction.

I said Democrats could solve the homeless problem tomorrow, if they wanted to, meaning, by addressing effectively the real problems, but they don't.
Instead, they pretend to be helpless and so adopt **policies** which only encourage addiction and dependence on government handouts.

Is that clear & consistent enough for you?

Rocco DiPippo: "And now, for the biggest howler I've read in months, crazy, but precisely in tune with corny, boilerplate Youkazoid sentimentalities: In the meantime, the last time we saw the genuine heroism of Ukrainians defending against Russian invaders -- ORCS -- was those firemen climbing steps in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001."

Then there's something seriously wrong inside your own brain, and you need to figure that out, and fix it.

Rocco DiPippo: "The Youcraynians slugging it out with the Ruzzzziiiiaaaannnss have no bearing on my life, the lives of my family members and the lives of my friends and countrymen.
Period, end of story. "

And yet, in the very next sentence you admit there is a strong bearing on your well being at stake in Ukraine.
My argument is: that is far from the only matter at stake in Ukraine.

Rocco DiPippo: "The AMERICAN first responders who rushed into the Towers on 911 had a huge effect on me and everyone around me - they were brave Americans willing to risk their lives to save other Americans.
They are, and were, my countrymen.
Can you see the difference?"

No, they are exactly the same -- the brave Ukrainians willing to risk their lives to save other Ukrainians, they set an example of courage and self-sacrifice that we have arguably not seen since September 11, 2001.

If you are unable to see that, then I'm telling you there's something wrong inside your head, which you need to find and fix.

Rocco DiPippo: "two bordering nations in Africa slugging it out, blowing each other up and wrecking each other's shit.
It's a classic he said-she-said situation as to who provoked whom into throwing the first punch.
Nevertheless, there are brave soldiers on both sides some of whom engage in extraordinary acts of bravery and heroism.
Guess what, I still don't GAF enough to get involved and throw ~150 billion to prop up one side or the other in the conflict,"

Right, I understand your point, it's the same one made by others here, my good FRiend, jmacusa, for example, and similar to opinions expressed by public figures I respect, notably Tucker Carlson.
It is a legitimate and honorable argument, and, in my opinion, the only argument against aiding Ukraine that is.

But, sadly, it's also wrong, no matter who makes it, or how much I respect them.
And the reason is because Russia and Ukraine are not just two small countries in Africa, or even Armenia and Azerbaijan, whose border dispute sometimes escalates into outright warfare.
In those cases, we are relatively indifferent to the outcomes, and would only work seriously to facilitate peace negotiations.

But Russia and Ukraine are a very different matter, beginning here:

1. They are numbers 1 and 2 in Europe in size.

2. They are numbers 1 and 6 in Europe in population.

3. They are numbers 2 and 10 in Europe in GDPs (PPP).

4. Russia was said to be the world's number 2 military and is still number 1 in nuclear weapons.

5. Russia is a major global revisionist power, meaning they want to change the American led world order to better suit them.

6. Russia is also a proven serial empire builder by military conquest whose current position is roughly equivalent to that of Germany in 1939 having successfully invaded the Rhineland (Chechnya), Austria (Georgia), the Sudetenland (Ukraine 2014) and Chechia (Ukraine 2022?).
   So, we must ask, which country will Vlad the Invader target next, Poland?

7. All of the Russian propaganda attempting to justify their invasions of Ukraine are pure lies and nonsense, and anyone tempted to believe a word of it is just deluding themselves, and for what reason?

Rocco DiPippo: "It is disturbing that Youkazoids, including you, seem to see war as some glorious, black-and-white, good guy vs. bad guy, heroic adventure - your comment about ORCS creeped me out bigtime man, and that's because I have seen war up close and it is positively vile; it is not like a sports match, video game or fantasy novel.
The realities of it are not even remotely reflected in the jingoistic bullshit that Youkazoids freely employ as they "cheer their team on.""

We can certainly agree that war is terrible enough to be avoided in all but the most extreme circumstances.
But when a foreign nation invades your country, that is the most extreme circumstance possible, and then you have no choice except to fight for your very existence.
Ukrainians must fight for their very existence, and we should not turn a blind eye to their plight.

As for Russians, I'm certain they are as good as most human beings and so deserve the same respect and deference we'd give anybody else.
Until as armed soldiers, they cross the border into Ukraine, and then by definition of historical norms like "Just War" "jus ad bellum" and "jus in bello", they become pure evil, monsters, ORCS, who must die, or surrender or retreat the h*ll back to Russia.

There is no honest excuse or justification for what Vlad the Invader has ordered his fellow Russians to commit in Ukraine, and therefore we must be unequivocally on the side of Ukraine's national defense.

Anything else and we will soon see the world revert to wars among empire builders invading and annexing weaker neighbors.
That is what we fought two World Wars to end, and now we are going to just roll over and let it return?

No.

[Rocco DiPippo]

Whoaa! This really is your life! Lolol!

Good luck, Youkazoid! Hope your team wins only because it would be a shame to start reading about Youkazoids jumping off bridges in droves if it loses.

You really need to get out more; find a constructive hobby, sign up for a Youkazoid dating site (you can now shack up with a chin-haired, Youkazoid gal for a 2 lb bag of potatoes and bottle of Stoli!), go volunteer somewhere to get out of the house a few days per week or best of all, stop playing fake, online policy expert and military strategist, book a ticket, get on a plane to Youcrayne and go fight, side by side, with your "ORCS." You will last five minutes, at most, before you're pissing yourself and crying like a baby as the Ruzzziiiaaaannn artillery turns your position into something resembling the moon.

Ugh.

[BroJoeK]

Rocco DiPippo: "Whoaa! This really is your life! Lolol!"

Naw... but I began lurking on Free Republic in the late 1990s, began posting around 2004 and have been an automatic monthly contributor since circa 2010.
Over the years I've make many thousands of posts.

History was my college major, so I'm a history-buff.
I never worked in the field, but I still get very interested in history related debates, especially where it seems to me that one side is blasting away with ridiculous historical nonsense and the other side is struggling to get the truth out.

Rocco DiPippo: "Good luck, Youkazoid! Hope your team wins only because it would be a shame to start reading about Youkazoids jumping off bridges in droves if it loses."

As of today, there seems to be no danger of that, and indeed, the Russians have performed rather poorly, even in the beginning.
Ukrainians have seen three major successes, at Kiev (March '22), Kharkiv (May '22) and Kherson (Aug-Nov '22), winning back around half of territories Russians took in February.
Whether their much vaunted "spring offensive" will repeat those successes, we'll see, I suppose.

Rocco DiPippo: "You really need to get out more; find a constructive hobby, sign up for a Youkazoid dating site (you can now shack up with a chin-haired, Youkazoid gal for a 2 lb bag of potatoes and bottle of Stoli!)..."

Thanks, I served in the US Army, in West Germany for three years, "standing guard" to prevent the Old Soviets from doing there what they're now doing in Ukraine.
That was 50 years ago.

Rocco DiPippo: "...go volunteer somewhere to get out of the house a few days per week or best of all, stop playing fake, online policy expert and military strategist..."

As for "fake, online policy expert and military strategist," you should certainly follow your own advice.
What the h*ll are you doing here anyway?

Rocco DiPippo: "...book a ticket, get on a plane to Youcrayne and go fight, side by side, with your "ORCS.
You will last five minutes, at most, before you're pissing yourself and crying like a baby as the Ruzzziiiaaaannn artillery turns your position into something resembling the moon."

All of the estimates I've seen say the ratio of Russian to Ukrainian battle deaths is at least 2 to 1.
The Ukrainian fighting retreat from Bakhmut over the past nine months is especially noteworthy for giving up very little ground at very high costs to the Russians.

Since Vlad the Invader's "special military operation" began in February 2022, our Russian apologists here have posted as if Russian victory is both imminent and inevitable, and yet, it turns out to be neither, rather more illusory than anything else.

So, Ukrainians seem to be doing just fine without whatever help a 75 year-old man might provide.
Clearly, my calling is elsewhere.

On Free Republic, for example.

Russo-Ukraine war, showing Ukrainian counter offensives:

[Rocco DiPippo]

[jmacusa]

No sane person would go to war for aggrandizement or dubious gain but you're dealing in the realm of fantasy if you think this Russian rabble would any kind of threat to the armies of the West. Western arms, most notably those supplied by the US have taken the teeth out of the Russian bear and rendered him little more than a stumbling bum with a gun. Clear? Regards.

[Cronos]

No, more like “Ganeemead is a Russian troll”

[Cronos]

On 20th april 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4056328/posts?page=1#1
“Ukraine is losing this conflict and losing it badly”

If they already fell in march, why are you saying they “are” losing in April?

Then on 28th May 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4066863/posts?page=51#51
“you have about two weeks before the big collapse”

Fyi, there was no Ukrainian collapse in June 2023, rather Russia lost at Mykolaiv, losing any chance of taking Odessa.

And also on 16th May 2022 you wrote
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4063755/posts?page=5#5
“Look for mass surrender of Uki forces within the next two or three weeks.”

Err.. no mass surrender of troops in June or July, or indeed anytime during this Russian invasion.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4054049/posts?page=35#35
[4/11/2022, 8:43:14 AM · 35 of 88
ganeemead to marcusmaximus
What are all you nato shills gonna do two weeks from non when ukraine surrenders

Ganeemead on 10th December 2022 “Bakhmut has been liberated. “
Then on 24th January 2023 “Ukrainians are going to lose in bakhmut”

Ganeemead is are so persistently wrong, it is hilarious:

3rd Feb 2017 https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3520807/posts?page=3#3

“A real Russian invasion of Ukraine would last 24 hours...”

8th April 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4053272/posts?page=37#37
“And those claims of 30+ US-funded biowar labs in Ukraine are real. One of them was working on aerosolized rabies (what could go wrong...) and another was working on a DNA-based weapon specifically designed to kill people of Russian ancestry.”

10th April 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4053770/posts?page=69#69

“Whatcha gonna do two weeks from now when Ukraine surrenders”

11th April 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4054049/posts?page=35#35

“What are all you nato shills gonna do two weeks from non when ukraine surrenders a”

15th April 2022 - in response to article about the sinking of the Moskva
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4055196/posts?page=21#21

“This is fake news.”

12th May 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4062513/posts?page=11#11

“What are you clowns gonna say three weeks from now when Ukraine surrenders?”

15th May 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4063358/posts?page=9#9

“Russia has total control of the air over Ukraine.”

17th May 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4063897/posts?page=5#5

” Look for mass surrender of the entire Ukie military within a couple of weeks”

28th May 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4066863/posts?page=187#187
“There is one nation on Earth which above all others offers a possibility of white people thriving and making things of themselves and that nation is Russia,”

10th June 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4070021/posts?page=71#71

“Today’s news says that ukies are totally out of artillery ammo.”

26th June in response to an article about Ukraine winning back Kharkiv
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4073984/posts?page=48#48
“The population DOES support Russia. Bigly... Zelensky is wrong and he isn’t getting a square inch of that territory back.”

11th July 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4077483/posts?page=35#35
“Russia is not even mobilized or at war in this thing. They view it as a police action... You haven’t even started to see what Russia is capable of.”

11th July 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4077533/posts?page=1#1
“The war in the Ukraine will be short, not long. Contrary to what today´s Western casino politicians and MSM talking heads tell us to expect, come 2023 — or even before “

12th July 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4077841/posts?page=7#7
“Whatcha gonna do three weeks from now when kraine surrenders “

31st July 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4077109/posts?page=42#42

“Look for Ukraine to surrender in about a month and a half and nato to be forced to disband a week or two after that.”

31st July 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4082240/posts?page=33#33
“In two months Ukrfaine will have surrendered unconditonally and NATO will have disbanded”

15th August 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4085817/posts?page=23#23

” Putin’s ideal win would be to have Ukraine surrender and the last ukronazi be killed on the same day.

I just hope that happens a week or so prior to the November elections and I believe there is a good chance of that.”

29th August 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4089097/posts?page=66#66
“Putin will shortly be in a position to simply order nato and the EU to disband.”

30th September
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4097177/posts?page=127#127
“Ukraine likely a footnote in history books by December or January”

3rd October 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4097942/posts?page=20#20
“Total outcome is that Ukraine has lost the war and will cease to exist in two or three months...”

8th October 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4099231/posts?page=24#24
“Nothing about “ukraine” is legal. The place is about three months away from disappearing from maps.”

18th October 2022
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4101512/posts?page=52#52
““Ukraine” may not make it another 18 days....”

ganeemead on 23rd October
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4100910/posts?page=129#129
“HOHOs and nato don’t have any coming months; Hohostan enters the stone again about five days.
Isn’t it grand? The gallant nazi hohos and the mighty nato war machine humbled by toy airplanes..”

ganee on 4th November in answer to a post about “Ukraine retaking Kherson from Russia”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4105943/posts?page=22#22

“Russia is not withdrawing.”

=================GAnee on 14th November
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4108728/posts?page=19#19
“The war between Russia and Ukraine WAS quick, basically over around June.”
—> wait, on
11th July 2022 you wrote that
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4077483/posts?page=35#35
“Russia is not even mobilized or at war in this thing.”

so if in July it wasn’t a war, then how could “the war be over around June”????

21st November
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4110854/posts?page=44#44
“war is...No need, over in a month or two...”

30th December
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4119698/posts?page=51#51
“It isn’t like hohos don’t know how to fight. Put them up against Somalia, Sierra Leone, or MdongoMlulu i.e. make a fair fight out of it and they would likely give a reasonable account of themselves. But Ukraine vs Russia is ridiculous.”

Man, you are consistently wrong about Ukraine.

Consistently.