Posted on 01/09/2025 10:15:37 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his generals have an artful knack for keeping the Russian military bear off-balance. On Sunday, they renewed their offensive in the Russian Kursk Oblast, once again catching the Russian high command, Kremlin, and many pundits by surprise.
Reports of a demoralized Ukrainian army fighting to retain terrain captured during the August Kursk offensive — of which at least 40 percent has been lost — have circulated among western media and Russian milbloggers since November.
So too reports that Ukraine’s 155th Mechanized Brigade — trained and equipped by France — was under-resourced in “first person view drones or sufficient[ly] trained pilots.” And that 50 soldiers had deserted the unit while training in France and another that 1,700 soldiers refused orders to transfer to the unit.
Nonetheless, as Gen. George Patton once said, “When in doubt, attack!” And that is exactly what Ukraine did, along three fronts — southern Berdin, central Russkoye Porechnoye and central Novosotnitsky.
Ukraine is using British supplied Challenger 2 tanks and extensive electronic warfare operations to blind Russian drones, allowing sappers to open lanes in minefields to facilitate their advance. The success or failure of the renewed offensive remains to be determined, but one thing is certain — it got the Kremlin’s attention.
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Wrongo. I come on this site advocating for the Russians to go the hell home. If they fail to do this, I can’t help it if the Ukrainians have to kill them.
Tell your president Putin to withdraw his invading army before it is totally destroyed.
>>>>Wrongo. I come on this site advocating for the Russians to go the hell home. If they fail to do this, I can’t help it if the Ukrainians have to kill them.
Tell your president Putin to withdraw his invading army before it is totally destroyed.
My President is Trump.
Yours, Biden and Zelensky, will soon be out on their arses...and rightfully so.
Furthermore, I don’t give a rip if the Ukrainians kill all the Russians, or if the Russians kill all the Ukrainians, as long as it’s not on my dime.
“others here saying Ukraine would collapse in four weeks.”
Russia’s losses keep accelerating.
Russia took more than half of its total casualties of the war (over 400,000) in 2024 (December was the worst month).
In 2024, for those historic losses, Russia captured a total land area in Ukraine, roughly equivalent to the size of Los Angeles County - but Russia was also invaded and occupied by a foreign military, for the first time since WWII, and that occupation continues, half a year later.
Ukraine is winning!
Nope! Russia is winning!
Not today! Ukraine is winning all battles of today.
Not a chance, because, Russia is now winning every battle.
You wish, because, Ukraine has repelled all Russian assaults.
But... but... Russia has been repelling al Ukraine counteroffensives as of late.
Wait.....
They’re both winning. And both are losing.
No matter. On Jan 20, the war will be over. All sides lose.
And all sides win.
But, Putin will still be looking to invade some other country. And NATO will grow bigger.
Putin will ask for rebuilding funds, so he can rebuild his military.
And WWIII will be imminent.
News at 11.
Firstly, please refrain from writing your Yoook chicken scratch, as illustrated by the insult you scribbled on this thread in Yookcraynian to bimboeruption. This is an English-speaking forum; an AMERICAN one, not one catering to ignorant, tribal, murderous, Second World Slavs.
Secondly, given your well documented, endless maligning and slandering of non-Zeepers here, and your indefensible attempt at defending the self-admitted pedophile and now-zotted Zeeper BabaOReally in an email you sent to me, I say you've got serious nerve lecturing ANYONE on Free Republic.
Now buzz off and leave us non-Zeepers alone or, as they say in your nasty-sounding, guttural mother tongue, "Plinotysgcnch miotchskinska gronz zplnck!"
Nah, that's too highbrow for that crew. More like boiled cabbage smothered in flniukskynitski with a big helping of propiganditski Yookska dnzutska Vindman cok. on the side
“That’s not very nice language”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4289035/posts?page=58#58
так сказал быдняк
The phrase may be sad, but quite empathetic.
PONDER:
“If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.” —Marcus Aurelius
You don’t mean to be unkind. Just become aware and accountable for your own reactions.
Actually, your assumptions and continuous accusations that target others are just reflections determined by your own behavior. Imagine the time and energy you could save by being kind and NOT spent in judging others.
But until then, such is life. :)
As one surveys the many YouTube channels' histories and verifiable AdSense income estimates, one sees the Ukraine-Russia has been, in part, a financial windfall for those "influencers" who feed war enthusiasts their daily bread. Click. Subscribe. Donate. Support.
What is fascinating, when examining one, is to learn its adjacent business activity is supported by a company in China. No comment from those who avidly consume essentially financially profitable propaganda supported, in part, by the Chinese Communists.
Because a buck is buck, a hryvnia is a hryvnia, a ruble is a ruble, and a Franc is a Franc. Butler observed so long ago, "war is a racket." For many, when all is said and done.
Figures. Zeepers are all about supporting the enemy.
It will be most interesting to watch these next months. If President Trump does not continue -- and escalate, as the neocons wish -- the Ukraine support, the "I support Trump" voices in FR who are insincere will begin griping....
Note that President Trump and his team are referring to these last few years as "Biden's war."
As of today it is still ten days of Biden-Harris with Blinken and Sullivan pulling out all the proverial stops to send money and materiel. If the neolibs/neocons were confident that President Trump would continue the Bided-Blinken trend -- that "Biden's war," -- then that push would not be happening.
>>>>You don’t mean to be unkind.<<<<
Yes, I do. Why would I be kind to someone who’s intent on destroying my country?
BTW, what’s your new fascination with things Roman? Did the Kiev Institute for Propaganda Training offer a course on the Roman Empire?
Is this another attempt at showing us how much more intelligent and well educated you are compared to the rest of us?
You’re wasting your time, “REVEREND”-mommy.
I was hoping you would get specific about the Threads yanked
and the warnings given to RevMom. Thx for recapping.
You’re provably a defender of a self-admitted pedophile. I’ve got the receipts for that deplorable behavior of yours. And you think that’s funny? A perfect insight into your twisted, black heart. Ugh. Go away.
Ol’ Bossy Britches *really* needs to have a look at that huge plank in her eye. She imperiously imparts instructions to people on how to act while she’s the worst offender of the whole bunch with her insults and false accusations.
The entire Biden Administration acts like that. Who do they think they are?
This is why we laugh at them.
That poor little Ukrainian girl that the old lecherous coot Baba has usurped probably doesn’t think it’s funny.
But Mumsie does.
The Bidens are also all about that sort of depravity.
They need to leave the children ALONE.
Do not like being laughed at, stop posting propaganda
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