For the same reason Zelenski appears on a green screen I suppose...their exact whereabouts are classified.
-btw here's a couple of Russian generals...both look alive and well.
Posted on 03/28/2022 10:30:33 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
The killing in action of several Russian generals and senior military figures in Ukraine has revealed the extent of the heavy losses and logistical problems encountered by Moscow's invading army.
According to Kyiv, seven Russian generals have been killed since the invasion was launched on February 24, in what Western officials say would be an unusually high casualty rate among military top brass.
It is not possible to independently verify this figure and official Russian sources have so far confirmed only the death of one general and another senior naval commander.
According to the Ukraine defence ministry on Friday, the seventh Russian general to lose his life was Lieutenant General Yakov Rezantsev who was killed in fighting in Chornobaivka outside the southern city of Kherson.
"I would treat these numbers with a grain of salt," said Colin Clarke, director of research at the New York-based research thank tank Soufan Centre.
"But whether it's five or 15 generals, the fact that they are losing any generals at all demonstrates that Russian command-and-control is extremely weak and its lines of communication have been severed by Ukrainian military success," he added.
In a post on Telegram, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's adviser Mykhailo Podoliak described an "extraordinary" death rate among Russian generals and senior military figures.
"This is a sign of total unpreparedness of the army. All this, no doubt, demoralises the Russian army -- they realise that their top leadership is completely incompetent".
The weaknesses shown by the Russian army in Ukraine, in particular in intelligence, logistics and tactical errors, have forced military chiefs to go to the front lines, said a senior French military official, who asked not to be named.
"Orders may not have been well understood or received, units could be disobedient or there is a major problem with morale.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
It always pays to see both sides. The map here gives you Vlads stance.
Having worked in Russia a few years, I apologize for the Russian, you can easily translate it. Pics for those not willing to….Vlad is winning….
I dunno... kinda hard to say who is winning at this point. On the balance of things the Russians are getting their tails kicked.
We are not supposed to remember Obama/Biden history with corrupt Ukraine and our part in installing the Soros backed government. No, shhhhh! There are no bad Nazis there!
[We are not supposed to remember Obama/Biden history with corrupt Ukraine and our part in installing the Soros backed government. No, shhhhh! There are no bad Nazis there!]
If it really is possible to astroturf a Color Revolution, then Putin was a really weak ass guy who was not capable of outbribing the CIA right in his own back yard. But that’s not true – as we found out in Afghanistan, if the people you are bribing have no real domestic base, you might as well light the money on fire for all the lasting impact it’s going to have. Not only did Putin not learn this lesson in 2014, he STILL hasn’t learned it because when his troops got to Ukraine in February, none of the people he had supposedly “bought” were anywhere to be found.
You want to know whether Zelensky is popularly elected? The population of Ukraine rising up to resist the Russian invader despite being outgunned big time - that’s your evidence that Zelensky is the people’s choice.
But there are other considerations. Stalin wasn’t the people’s choice. We backed him because the alternative was Germany ruling Russia *and* the rest of Europe. Similarly, it’s not important who rules Ukraine - as long as it’s not Russia, just as we did not care who ruled Kuwait, as long as it wasn’t Iraq.
“...its lines of communication have been severed - “
This jumps out as three years ago, we gamed out (almost perfectly - unfortunately), known invasion marshalling locations (also largely identified and published from commercial sat imagery for public consumption), and then direction of movement of larger RUS/CIS forces.
Many other factors involved here...
We had significant reason to believe Putin wanted, and would absolutely take UA, but not with Trump as US CIC. We believed both China and Russia would act to support ending Trump, and Putin would use various longstanding means/methods, and “demoralization” of US society to eliminate opposition against his offensive objectives. While entirely fraudulently based, Putin (like Gorbachev), has long been “winning hearts and minds”.
UA is a mere critical stepping stone.
When the time came however -
We argued Putin was likely to go for the 72hr to 1wk UA kill (weighted logic toward previous RUS FSB/GRU groomed pop success in Donbas, falsely believing UA society would not fight to the death). Literally a killer mitake.
If correct, we believed IF Putin ordered the offensive tonresuboesinate UA/Kiev in early Spring, the speed his supply/support vehicles would need for a 1wk UA kill would require the use of “hard ball” (paved routes) due to ground saturation, thereby reducing or cutting off flanking efficiency, and allowing for more focussed UA “react to contact” strategies, which we believed should involve “absorbing convoy LOC’s” initially, then cutting off LOC’s from the rear with initial EW buffers (EW capture), followed by destroying and blocking both the rear and lead vehicles and armor (ironically how Russian officers/trainers were teaching Shia and Al Qaeda forces to do to us on the grounding Iraq.
To escape lines of fire, vehicles and personnel are headed into the mud to get to UA’s common tree lines.
And of course this was only ground war here.
This is why many didn’t believe Putin would order the attack/offensive in the late Winter/early to mid Spring.
As in Syria, Russia will deliberately attack civilian buildings and blocks, forcing those who are alive to flee, and then route, and kill the civilians in “funnels”. In time time they will level and kill entire cities and villages.
But Putin has lottle to fear, as he has absolutely won the propaganda war among potential western hawkish segments of societies. As well, while certainly not perfect, Russia really has cut off most comms to the outside world from within UA hot zones.
I did see a comment about them running out of gas in the middle of a firefight
“...its lines of communication have been severed - “
This jumps out as three years ago, we gamed out (almost perfectly - unfortunately), known invasion marshalling locations (also largely identified and published from commercial sat imagery for public consumption), and then direction of movement of larger RUS/CIS forces.
Many other factors involved here...
We had significant reason to believe Putin wanted, and would absolutely take UA, but not with Trump as US CIC. We believed both China and Russia would act to support ending Trump, and Putin would use various longstanding means/methods, and “demoralization” of US society to eliminate opposition against his offensive objectives. While entirely fraudulently based, Putin (like Gorbachev), has long been “winning hearts and minds”.
UA is a mere critical stepping stone.
When the time came however -
We argued Putin was likely to go for the 72hr to 1wk UA kill (weighted logic toward previous RUS FSB/GRU groomed pop success in Donbas, falsely believing UA society would not fight to the death). Literally a killer mitake.
If correct, we believed IF Putin ordered the offensive to resuboesinate UA/Kiev in early Spring, the speed his supply/support vehicles would need for a 1wk UA kill would require the use of “hard ball” (paved routes) due to ground saturation, thereby reducing or cutting off flanking efficiency, and allowing for more focussed UA “react to contact” strategies, which we believed should involve “absorbing convoy LOC’s” initially, then cutting off LOC’s from the rear with initial EW buffers (EW capture), followed by destroying and blocking both the rear and lead vehicles and armor (ironically how Russian officers/trainers were teaching Shia and Al Qaeda forces to do to us on the grounding Iraq.
To escape lines of fire, vehicles and personnel are headed into the mud to get to UA’s common tree lines.
And of course this was only ground war here.
This is why many didn’t believe Putin would order the attack/offensive in the late Winter/early to mid Spring.
As in Syria, Russia will deliberately attack civilian buildings and blocks, forcing those who are alive to flee, and then route, and kill the civilians in “funnels”. In time time they will level and kill entire cities and villages.
But Putin has lottle to fear, as he has absolutely won the propaganda war among potential western hawkish segments of societies. As well, while certainly not perfect, Russia really has cut off most comms to the outside world from within UA hot zones.
Syria doesn’t agree with you. They have been holding pro Russia and ‘we love you Putin’ rallies. They sing the Russian national anthem. Huge Russian flags.
They are chechens. Under Ramzan Kadyrov. Almost exclusively but there are Abkhazians also I believe.
Thanks for the mention.
You are joking right -
This is how many surviver crowds reacted to Nero, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, and lessers like Castro, Che Guavera, etc...
Many cities and towns across Syria resemble post WWII photos of bombed out rubble coffins,due to more than 11 years of Syrian civil war, approx 13.5 million displaced people/refugees, roughly 500,000 thousand dead, and with Putin backing “King” Assad, he continues to rule with an iron fist, and will put to death, (often by torture), opposition to his policies.
Long inbread with the Assad family.
In reality, Putin is in the drivers seat in Syria, and Syria is Russia’s Mediterranean fortress, from which it can and will seek dominance of Southern Europe going forward.
Mass murdering dictators gotta mass murder and dictate —
The value of an average human by element is generally calculated to about $5. Dollars.
So if one is an evolutionary humanist, and people are simply livestock commodities, as is the thinking of most leftist minds, the human cost is nothing.
Just as the leftist of the last Century proved.
Wait till the world learns how the next round goes...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifnf12uO76U
Lots of these. Also Syria wants us to leave, but Russia and Iran can stay.
It was our bombing they object to, apparently.
Like Mosul and Raqqa after the Americans got done?
Take the log out of your eye.
Why don’t the generals speak for themselves then?
For the same reason Zelenski appears on a green screen I suppose...their exact whereabouts are classified.
-btw here's a couple of Russian generals...both look alive and well.
Think of the propaganda win if Russia could have the generals give a brief statement on camera.
Not interested in your Russian Army gay pics that prove nothing.
All I need is an extra sweater? Good.
I heard its gonna be a cool summer.
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