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Calling someone a RuZZian on FR is considered an insult.
Calling someone a Comrade on FR is considered an insult.
Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA. The biggest winner of the war.
“More than three decades after Reagan left office, most Republicans still believe that America is a force for good.”
“Alleged Russian informant detained in Zelensky assassination plot, Ukraine security service says”
“The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) says it has detained a Russian informant “who was preparing a Russian airstrike in the Mykolaiv region during the visit of the President of Ukraine.”
The alleged informant “on the eve of the recent trip of the President of Ukraine to Mykolaiv region, was gathering intelligence about the planned visit,” the SBU said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was in the region at the end of July.
The SBU said in a statement that the alleged conspirator “tried to establish the time and list of locations of the approximate route of the Head of State in the territory of the region.”
However, SBU agents had obtained information about the “subversive activities of the suspect” and adopted additional security measures.
In monitoring the communications of the woman, the SBU had established that she also had the task of identifying the location of electronic warfare systems and warehouses with ammunition of the armed forces.
According to the investigation, the perpetrator was a resident of Ochakov, southern Ukraine, and a former saleswoman in a military store on the territory of one of the military units of the region.
She allegedly traveled around the territory of the district and filmed the locations of Ukrainian objects.
The woman has not been named.”
A strategic win for the USA. The biggest winner of the war.
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please do not keep repeating this stone cold lie. You do not make friends by repeating this on this board.
The war is strategic for the democrat party in general and the biden administration in particular. but the war in Ukraine is not strategic for the USA. Here’s a comparable.
The war in the Ukraine is about as strategic for the USA as the wars in afghanistan and Iraq.
The Russians are second fiddle to the chinese. This is a great reversal of the cold war era when the chinese were second fiddle to the russians. The natural balancing act that the USA should have done was to do the inverse of what Henry Kissinger did in 1971. But too many players had an interest in a war in the Ukraine—including the Russians, the democrats, the US deep state, the bidens and various players in Europe.
imho the whole thing is a tragedy. as much for the USA as for the Ukes. The USA is currently being invaded. All the invaders will be brought to polls to vote in Nov 2024. The war in Ukraine enables the biden administration to do this to the American people.
The Russians are continuing to dig in the south. New trench lines seem to be forming regularly.
imho this kind of warfare does not play to Uke strengths.
The whole deal is getting behind those trench lines.
It almost looks like the better place to attack now is in the north—where the Rus have fewer defense lines. So a sharp punch would get Ukes behind Rus lines where they could then take some serious ground before the Rus built new fortifications.
In the south, the best places to punch imho is a helicopter crossing of the old dneiper lake of about 2k-4k men just behind the Rus defense lines. Then an a push to the northeast along the south bank of the dneiper. At the same time there would be an attack from the front —also along the lake.
The two sides once linked up would create a corridor to the Rus rear where 10-20k Uke soldiers could go through and just bypass most of the rus fortifications so the entire rus front line in the south would be cut off from resupply.
For this to be successful there could be no gradual build up of Uke forces along the north bank of the dneiper. All the pieces would have to assemble in a couple hours from disparate parts of the Ukraine so no build up would appear to rus spy sattelites.
For this to be successful the Ukes would have to have air superiority. That may not be in the cards any time soon.