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Who is winning in Ukraine? | Sober analysis by Douglas Macgregor | Against The Trend
Against the Trend ^ | October 3, 2022 | Colonel Douglas MacGregor

Posted on 10/04/2022 2:00:56 PM PDT by Cathi

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To: Openurmind

True that! Hi-MARS + accessories + expedited delivery fees.


21 posted on 10/04/2022 2:18:10 PM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: Magnum44
Just ask any one of the Freepers here.

Ask one. Don't ask two.

22 posted on 10/04/2022 2:19:37 PM PDT by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: Cathi

Those who are laundering the money we are sending are winning.


23 posted on 10/04/2022 2:20:08 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: UNGN

Case in point. We never would have won WWII if we had social media then. The Battle of the Bulge took weeks to fight, Omaha Beach wasn’t cleared for 2 months, and Okinawa took almost 90 days to secure. The armchair QBs on here would have insisted we replace our entire military command in 1942 if they had their neocon say in it, FFS.


24 posted on 10/04/2022 2:21:45 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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To: Cathi

I’ll tell you who is losing: the American taxpayer...


25 posted on 10/04/2022 2:21:50 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: EEGator

Yes


26 posted on 10/04/2022 2:23:06 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: tlozo

Oooh, a map! And in color, too! The Ukrainian PR dept. is pulling out all the stops now!!


27 posted on 10/04/2022 2:23:32 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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The White House has announced a new aid package for Ukraine. It will amount to $625m and will include four HIMARS, artillery systems and armored vehicles. This was announced by Biden in a conversation with Zelensky.


28 posted on 10/04/2022 2:30:56 PM PDT by Cathi
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To: tlozo

Hmm all i need is to look at the map trends to know who is winning. Btw didnt mcgregor say russia would win in 3 days? Yes thats the guy.


29 posted on 10/04/2022 2:31:06 PM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: Cathi

Lol yup I agree, made a comment to someone about Christianity I know dangerous topic and was called an inbred POS, amazing amount of information about me, my character and family history this person gleaned from my post 😀


30 posted on 10/04/2022 2:33:05 PM PDT by blitz128
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To: Cathi

+1👍
Don’t feed the Trolls. A mistake made by to many on this site over the last 6 months.


31 posted on 10/04/2022 2:34:38 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: Prince of Space
Oooh, a map! And in color, too!

With a picture

32 posted on 10/04/2022 2:34:41 PM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: Cathi

One point that is spot on - nuke fever is cultivated by western media. Chance of a nuke originating from russia is zero. They won’t use one on Uke territory [probably the only tactical option for nukes at this point] bc it will blow fallout over Russia proper and millions of russian citizens. Won’t happen. I do not doubt the russkie will retaliate if the west deployed one, though, then we’re all crispy.


33 posted on 10/04/2022 2:35:43 PM PDT by TonyinLA ( I don't have sufficient information to make an informed opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: kosciusko51
I’ll tell you who is losing: the American taxpayer...

You’ve got that right.

34 posted on 10/04/2022 2:35:45 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: FreshPrince
Btw didnt mcgregor say russia would win in 3 days? Yes thats the guy.

There have to be better pro-Russian sources than this guy. He is on record with predictions that were just wildly wrong. It's not even debatable.

35 posted on 10/04/2022 2:38:11 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Cathi

Does the Russian flag fly over Kiev?

How long has this conflict lasted?

The answer to those questions prove Russia hasn’t won.

Is Ukraine “winning”? A country attacked and invaded by a much larger neighbor doesn’t “win”. They survive, and hopefully kick the invaders out.

So it’s an invalid question.


36 posted on 10/04/2022 2:40:39 PM PDT by jdsteel (PA voters: it’s Oz or Fetterman. Deal with it and vote accordingly.)
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To: Cathi

“Who is winning in Ukraine?”

No one really. Ukraine is fighting and bleeding to take back territory that should have never been taken in the first place. If they “win” all they will win is the privilege of rebuilding shattered cities and towns.

Russia is losing and has lost much more than just this war.

The war revealed so many of Russia’s weaknesses and the problem is that the Russians are unable to resolve these weaknesses because the problems are fundamental flaws in Russian culture and the Russian psyche.

Russians are a deeply emotional and deeply feeling people but they are also afflicted with a fatalism similar to that of the Muslims. As individuals and as people they are all too often resigned to their place in life and they give up too easy. I don’t see that getting fixed by an authoritarian dictator like Putin.

Maybe it will never be fixed.

So for now with all things being equal the Ukrainians are slowly defeating the Russians. That doesn’t mean I think the Ukrainians are military geniuses because much of the reason the Russians are being defeated is caused by Russia and Russians.

It’s too much for me to put into a FR post but I guess what I’m trying to say here is that Russia vs. Ukraine isn’t just a military conflict but a cultural conflict.

The Ukrainians have hope for their individual and collective future and the Russians seem to be demoralized even before this war.


37 posted on 10/04/2022 2:43:43 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: xzins

Pretty funny but I completely agree with you


38 posted on 10/04/2022 2:43:47 PM PDT by genghis (Cathinkngact only reason go after puthan 5nu0 inbbiedComlpln)
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To: crz

It is as good as it was for Afghanistan, Iraq, and from my era, Vietnam. We might have spent a whole lot of money, but at least the Deep State got richer and more powerful. //S//


39 posted on 10/04/2022 2:44:25 PM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: MeganC

Russia has already lost the war

Mother Russia is withering toward collapse internally


40 posted on 10/04/2022 2:46:13 PM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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