Posted on 10/05/2022 2:09:19 PM PDT by Cathi
And he’s got greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes.
Russia is supplementing those gains by taking advantage of Ukraine’s “all in” multiple attack fronts offensive. One Ukrainian Telegram Channel remarked that the only reason Russia was able to conduct such damaging drone attacks all the way up in Kiev last night was that Ukraine had pulled out all their air defense and moved it into Kharkov and Liman for their attacks.
Russia has just recently brought in 7 strategic bombers and are clearly planning for a strong offensive once all the pieces are in place.
It will be interesting to see if this analysis works out.
The big problems for Russia are: Where will they get the equipment?
Where will they get the men, and how will they train them?
Where will they get the air support, artillery munitions, and intelligence to conduct the "planned" offensive?
They have not demonstrated possession of these things yet.
I doubt anyone outside the combatants knows how many casualties have been inflicted on each side (their own).
During war, both sides have significant incentive to inflate the other side's casualties and minimize their own.
“The US (and probably some NATO allies) was involved in the coup in Ukraine in 2014 to put Zelensky in place as leader...”
If that were true, the US and NATO sure as hell went about it in a round-about way:
The “coup,” as you call it, was in 2014. Zelensky wasn’t even on the electoral radar then, and he wasn’t elected president until 2019, five years AFTER the “coup.” There were TWO Ukrainian presidents between the “coup” and Zelensky’s election in 2019. In fact, Zelensky was elected in REBUKE of the “coup.”
That’s a Burger King playland he’s looking at.
“- Scott Ritter, May 24, 2022”
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I don’t know why Russia is giving up that territory. Neither do you. I suppose neither does Ritter.
I understand that the Ukes are losing a lot of men and equipment in the process.
I bet we find out in the next few weeks.
Monkey Werx today speculated it’s to get their forces out of the way because they are going to use tactical nukes.
The premise I heard and I agree with is that there is no such thing as a limited nuclear war. Brinkmanship no longer exists, when so many fools believe that you can have a Tactical Nuclear exchange without escalating to Global Thermonuclear War.
Wake up everybody! If a nuclear weapon by either side is used, after the first exchange, the side that believes it is about to lose will go all in with Strategic Nuclear Weapons. When that happens, the other side, within minutes, will launch its Strategic Nuclear Weapons with warheads of each one passing each other on the way to mutual destruction.
“Yes, Ukraine is famously corrupt, but I doubt it is more corrupt than Russia.”
You’d be wrong. Russia is listed as more corrupt than Ukraine.
Please see:
https://www.factsinstitute.com/ranking/most-corrupt-countries-in-the-world/
You’ll see that Russia is way down at #136 (the lower the number, the more corrupt), tied with such bastions of integrity and honor as Liberia, Mali, and Angola).
Ukraine is ranked at #122 (tied with Eswatini).
You’d be wrong. Russia is listed as more corrupt than Ukraine.
A stupid mistake on my part.
I corrected it with the next post.
Thanks for correcting it as well.
I think we are saying the same thing.
Ukraine doesn’t have nukes.
Are you that dense? We all know who has nukes.
Right, and it isn’t Ukraine.
I will freely confess to having Russophilic tendencies
Well, at least we got THAT out of the way.
Let’s first dispense with the silly theory that Russia wanted to “capture” Kiev.
An article of faith for all Pro-Russia Propagandists. Red Flag (pun intended).
Needless to say, the Ukrainians lost Peski. It is now in Russian hands. This is the process that is being repeated ad infinitum in the Donbas.
Ad infinitum? Russia had captured almost zero territory in Donbas in over a month and has captured almost zero since. It's virtually frozen since early July. Strike 2
Ukraine simply has no hope of success waging a successful, full scale offensive. For one thing, offensive actions are hard. It’s difficult to successfully coordinate multi-brigade action - so far in Kherson, they are struggling to concentrate more than a battalion at critical points. Russia has combined armed reserves, artillery advantages, and a tremendous edge in airpower. Ukraine cannot achieve strategic objectives - all they can do is trade the lives of their men for temporary tactical successes that can be spun into wins by their propaganda arm.Well, this last one aged like milk. Seriously, he called the Kherson Offensive a failure 3 days in? Russia's Donbas Ofensive hasn't moved in 2 months. Is that a failure? And that little skirmish ongoing skirmish up in Izium, Kupiansk, Lyman, etc? Failed? "Big Serge" predicted Ukraine was incapable of crossing the Oskil just 2 days before they did just that! As with many Putin Propagandists, Big Serge spends far too much time trying to rehabilitate his previous posts and moving the goalposts. Strike 3The failure of the Kherson counteroffensive will accelerate progress towards the two tipping points, both by degrading the Ukrainian army further, and souring westerners on continuing to support Ukraine. Winter and the ensuing economic chaos will do the rest.
The war then doesn’t end. You think Putin will be satisfied with just a bite of uk? He has repeatedly said, and the pro Putin folks here repeat that they consider ukan “illegitimate country “
“Russia has just recently brought in 7 strategic bombers and are clearly planning for a strong offensive once all the pieces are in place.”
And where have these been for the past 5 months of continuous Russian retreat?
There aren’t and have never been us or non us supported bio weapons labs in Ukraine. They do not and have not had any bio weapons labs.
Putinist propaganda even stopped repeating that lie as it lost any semblance of reality and was debunked over and over again.
Debunked, was it? When and by whom?
it’s been debunked by Russia itself — do you hear any more Russian propaganda about any “biolabs”?
Nope.
Have the Russians provided ANY proof over the past 7 months?
Nope.
Furthermore THINK — why would the USA need labs in a non-NATO country rather than in Guam or Guantano bay where it could be under US control?
Let’s pretend that you are the most powerful country in the world. You have many allies, and all the money in the world.
Let’s further pretend that you want to establish a lab to create biological weapons.
You can establish this lab anywhere.
You have vast, empty miles of space within your own borders; in Nevada, or Idaho, or Alaska, or God help you, North Dakota. In those places you would have complete control over access; you could arrest anyone who drove up to the gates and wouldn’t go away.
You could put the lab on an uninhabited lagoon in the middle of the Pacific. Or in Antarctica. No one would ever want to go there to see what you were doing.
But no, you decide to place your lab, oops, no, 30 bioweapon labs, in an unstable country who is already at war with your most important enemy, 100 kilometres from your enemy’s borders. A country already overrun with sympathizers and easy iPhone equipped spies.
And nobody in Ukraine has thought to use those weapons in March when they were being pushed back????
Good question admittedly
So I ask you ought six
Why do you now believe our media ?
After decades of lies and the u precedented lies and assault on trump and his supporters
And the refusal to report news that defies their narrative
Now on Ukraine folks here quote
Washpo
The nation
Nyt
Daily beast
CNN
MSNBC
And so on
You rightfully lament someone using a leftist site
So why do you and other Z fans?
So, in other words, the presence of bio-weapons labs in Ukraine hasn’t been “debunked”. It’s just your impression, because you think you have enough information to draw a conclusion.
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