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To: icclearly

“Russia is winning!”

No bias there, eh?

I disagree, and for the following reasons:

1.) Ukraine regularly updates its estimates on Russian casualty and equipment losses. As of this date, Russia has lost well north of 36,000 military personnel, and somewhere around 60 percent of its armored vehicles (tanks, personnel carriers, transports, etc.) In fact, the Russians have lost so many of their “modern” tanks that they are reverting to placing mothballed 1970’s era junk on the battlefield.

2.) The Russian forces outnumber Ukrainian forces by at least 3:1, and yet the frontlines are largely at a stalemate. If the Russians were affecting a kill ratio of even 1:1, then there is no way the Ukrainian military could hold them back - and yet they are doing just that. Russian offensives begin, some are successful for a time, but then the Russians “run out of steam,” and cease their forward momentum. That would imply that the Russian military are having a bad time with logistics. No surprise there since the Ukrainians have been purposely and wisely targeting Russian logistical vehicles. In fact, so heavy are the Russians losses of supply trucks, that they have had to resort to commendeering Ukrainian civilian lories.

3.) The newly-introduced M142 HIMARS are striking Russian ammo and fuel dumps deep behind Russian lines, destroying dozens by the day. And the Ukrainians have not just the M777 artillery but the modified M777-A2, which use GPS guided munitions.

Bottom line: the Russians are not “winning” - they are getting their asses handed to them by a much less superior military force. That generally happens when you invade a sovereign country, and its people are willing to fight to the last man to stop the aggression.

Say hi to Putin for me, on your next visit to the Kremlin.


47 posted on 07/14/2022 9:14:23 AM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: JME_FAN
“Russia is winning!” No bias there, eh? I disagree, and for the following reasons: 1.) Ukraine regularly updates its estimates on Russian casualty and equipment losses.

I'm sure you, Xiden, and the gay clown shyster Zelensky have a great time sitting around spinning up tall tales. You all are a pretty creative bunch.

Now I know where all of our great ideas come from:

-Hookers peed on Trump in Moscow
-Trump colluded with the Russians
-Russia stole our election
-There was no fraud in our election
-January 6th was a coup
-Two weeks to flatten the virus curve
-The mandatory vaccines are totally safe and effective

You get the picture.

Russia now controls one-third of the Ukraine territory. Now, if that is not winning, I'm not sure what is!

How about that poor Ukrainian Nazi military. They've been trained by NATO/US for eight years now. Even the clown Zelensky says they number 1,000,000, so I"m not sure who you are getting your Uke propaganda from. They are well trained and motivated for the reason you described (defending territory).

So NATO and the US are throwing everything they've got into the Ukraine proxy war, including over seventy-five billion dollars, after building up to this event for years. If the western military machine is so great, why, pray tell, after all this extensive effort, have they not decimated the rag-tag Russian army with their gee-whiz military might? I'll tell you why. For the same reasons, we totally screwed up Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. That's why. The LGBTQ woke military needs a wake-up call. Their track record is pretty dismal.

Russia has deployed about 10% of its military into Ukraine so far. On top of that, they have not launched a total war. This is a surgical procedure for them to spare the citizens and infrastructure from decimation for when they take over. The Ukes should hope they don't make it a war!

For Russia's small force, they are losing real good. See the map below. It shows what losing really looks like.

https://liveuamap.com/

If you believe Ukraine is winning while losing one-third of its territory, then you are just delusional/nuts.

53 posted on 07/14/2022 10:15:48 AM PDT by icclearly
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