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Russia's Grand Strategy and Ukraine - Is Putin's war already a strategic failure?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94bqk8cB9iQ ^ | 2/19/2023 | Perun

Posted on 02/19/2023 10:21:07 AM PST by Chode

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1 posted on 02/19/2023 10:21:07 AM PST by Chode
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I’m not worried.

The CCP-owned military genius who abandoned thousands of US personnel and $85,000,000,000 of US materiel in Afghanistan in the middle of the night is conducting the war with Russia.

Orange Putin Bad is doomed!


2 posted on 02/19/2023 10:25:16 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censoprship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: Chode

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has not only been a strategic failure but a catastrophe for the Russian people. It has shown the Chinese that without nuclear weapons, Russia has no conventional ability to defend its rich Asian-Pacific territories or its Siberian treasure house. The Chinese make no secret that they covet these places.


3 posted on 02/19/2023 10:29:57 AM PST by allendale
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Absolutely, it was a failure pretty quickly actually. Now it’s just a bloody expensive mess costing needless lives which will 100% end in Russian failure.

Ukraine need only fight on, with or without help makes no difference to the eventual outcome. Help will only affect the timeline or Russia eventually giving up.


4 posted on 02/19/2023 10:35:51 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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By mid summer Ukraine will sign a peace treaty giving Russia 25% of Ukraine and Crimea and NATO will have lost 50% of their materiel so big loss for Russia.


5 posted on 02/19/2023 10:38:18 AM PST by struggle
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Of course it is. Putin and his people thought the Ukies would fold in a month at most. They thought Zelensky would jump at Biden’s offer of a C17 to take him out of the country. A year later and they’re suck in a conventional army t army ground war. He cannot back out now so he will use whatever force necessary to grind the Ukies to dust. There is no way now the Ukies can win if there ever was. They fought a good fight but somehow this has got to stop.


6 posted on 02/19/2023 10:42:46 AM PST by xkaydet65
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To: Chode

None of this is good for any of them, or us. None of it.


7 posted on 02/19/2023 10:45:15 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Russia already achieved its primary strategic objective -- annexing the 40,000 square miles of Ukraine that was mostly comprised of ethnic Russians.

The de-Nazification of Ukraine is also largely be achieved.

All the remains is destroying what's left of the Ukrainian army within its new territories and assuring Ukraine is no longer a military threat to Russia in the future.

8 posted on 02/19/2023 10:50:11 AM PST by Kazan
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To: xkaydet65

Russia alone has met and is now overmatching America and all 30 NATO member states. Hardly a rout.


9 posted on 02/19/2023 10:50:27 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (The Ukraine is dead, the head just doesn't know it yet.)
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To: xkaydet65

“Of course it is. Putin and his people thought the Ukies would fold in a month at most.”

Link please.


10 posted on 02/19/2023 11:01:56 AM PST by BobL
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To: allendale
"The Chinese make no secret that they covet these places."

X's China will be the only winner. Russia weakend. The West drained. Welcome the Chinese hegemony.

11 posted on 02/19/2023 11:09:51 AM PST by buckalfa (The older I become, the more clearly I remember things that never happend ~~ Samuel Clemens)
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To: allendale

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has not only been a strategic failure but a catastrophe for the Russian people.
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Sorry, having trained Ivan’s for three years in Moscow, my friends there report no such thing. Ruble increases steadily, all social programs, ie pensions increasing, inflation down, yes down from highs, and most( not all) celebrating the take down of US hedgemony, and most importantly huge national sentiment…keep reading western MSM, you are going to wake up with one heck of a hangover!


12 posted on 02/19/2023 11:10:44 AM PST by delta7
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It’s a strategic failure for the US, not Russia. Western economies are in dire straights while Russia continues to coast along with their gas & oil revenues. On Tuesday Putin makes his case for an investigation of who blew up Nordstream 2 before the UN. I wonder how the German people will feel once they realize we blew up a vital pipeline of theirs? My prediction is we are looking at the beginning of NATO coming apart over this.


13 posted on 02/19/2023 11:12:45 AM PST by jimwatx
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14 posted on 02/19/2023 11:14:00 AM PST by PGR88 (, )
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Russia has a smashing success it seems.

NATO NATO NATO looks weak and ineffective.

Ukraine got pummeled.

That actor guy in the green T-shirt and the Brandon clan became even more grifter wealthy.

Putin got his Donbas Crimea and landbridge to Crimea.

Everything good for everyone except the late great U.S.A., now engaged in barroon warfare.


15 posted on 02/19/2023 11:20:36 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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Putin has succeeded in emptying out weapons stockpiles in EU and also in US.


16 posted on 02/19/2023 11:30:54 AM PST by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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Russia is kicking NATO’s collective butt using prison freedom fighters, genius...maybe its time you woke up.


17 posted on 02/19/2023 11:51:11 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: struggle

“ By mid summer Ukraine will sign a peace treaty giving Russia 25% of Ukraine and Crimea and NATO will have lost 50% of their materiel so big loss for Russia.”

And we will be unable to fight in the Pacific when China does its thing.


18 posted on 02/19/2023 12:11:53 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“Racist” is the new “Nazi”.)
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To: Chode

Russia’s Special Military Operation 1 Year On: How the US Started this War & Where it’s Heading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dArKxgBRqMk&ab_channel=TheNewAtlas


19 posted on 02/19/2023 12:12:23 PM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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Failure, like when Sixth Army was within 50 yards of Red October Tractor Factory?

This isn’t Granada, and it isn’t Kuwait. It’s not Iraq. It’s not even Afghanistan.


20 posted on 02/19/2023 12:15:12 PM PST by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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