[Berlin_Freeper]

Ukrainian ambassador reads texts from Russian soldier before he was killed: 'Mama this is so hard' (Video)

[ifinnegan]

Geez. What overwrought - and blood thirsty - rhetoric.

[Pikachu_Dad]

A bit quick on the outcome their bud !

[Long Jon No Silver]

Commies at the Guardian just can’t get over the fact Russia isn’t a commie state no more.

[chajin]

Hatred is the ugliest of emotions. But for oppressed nations, hatred is a hidden treasure. Buried deep in the heart, it can sustain resistance for generations.

"Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength." - Quintas Arrias, "Ben Hur"

[madison10]

Doubt that! We are only a few days in

[algore]

truly the war has not yet begun.

it is much to early to be talking about losers.

on the other hand, rational and logical vs Irrational, this can go badly sometimes

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yep. Putin thought the Ukrainians would not fight and all he would have to do is roll into Kyiv like putting on an old fashioned Soviet military parade.

[tet68]

The sad part is that had he limited himself to the Donbas as he announced, he could have pulled it off without so much blood shed.

[jimwatx]

Ukraine will be left an unmanageable (and much smaller) sh*thole when this is all over, what exactly will they have won then? An economic basket case dependent on the West’s aid just to eke out a minimal existence. They may even lose all access to the sea depending on how this shakes out. Zelensky’s trash talking Russia is just going to make things worse. Ukraine is now ruined for the foreseeable future.

[dowcaet]

The same people who have been misinforming us about COVID the last two years are the same ones giving us news about this conflict. Everything being reported about the situation in Ukraine should be viewed with a lot of skepticism right now.

[Robert DeLong]

Pure BS.

[BusterDog]

Putin is up to something quite radical. He has totally conceded the fake news war, and is highly focused on the real life ground war. Turns out he's a traditionalist.

Here is a take on his strategy:

Putin is playing chess while the rest of the world was playing checkers. When America wages war, they seek to destroy all the infrastructure, take down the power grid, and destroy the water supply. US troops then move in as more of a mop-up operation. The West is judging Putin by the same way the US wages war and they are so wrong. Putin is not using that strategy of a video game for he wants to take Ukraine intact for it also has the richest land in the world for food production – hence Stalin stole all the food and killed 7 million by starvation.

Putin is NOT backing away from resistance, he is encircling it the classic way war is traditionally fought – you laid “siege” to the city by surrounding it, and starvation forces their surrender. That often takes time, but you then have the city and the people. You do not raze it to the ground and kill everyone. Anyone who has studied ancient war strategies should see what Putin is doing and the Western press is either deliberately putting out propaganda, or they are complete idiots.

Putin seeks to install a new government with minimal casualties to civilians. Every dead civilian creates a blood enemy of their survivors. But the US way means it then costs billions in aid to rebuild what they destroyed – i.e. Iraq. Putin is NOT using that strategy and the Western press is judging him by American standards of destroying everything and winning in a few days.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/world-war-iii-beginning-stages-now/

[Bayard]

This is why the 2nd Amendment matters.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Toespi]

The world will find out when this monster thinks he has lost the war. I truly believe the only thing thing that will bring him down are his generals and advisers who surround him. I hope they blow the evil bastard away.

[hawkaw]

That 40 mile long line of equipment heading to the capital is quite worry some. I hope the Ukrainians can hold out.

[bigbob]

Putin will end up occupying Ukraine, the question is - what then?

Putin needs Ukraine and he’s not going to just give up.

[SkyDancer]

Local Home Depot is out of blue and yellow spray paint.

[windsorknot]

I don’t know about the war, but Pooty has lost his mind.