[Right_Wing_Madman]

No, Putin is not on his ass. ZelenskyyIdiot is on his ass. Ukraine is bankrupt Ukraine has no economy to sustain war. ZelesnkyyIdiot is incessantly begging and pleading for money and military hardware to the point that BidenIdiot had to yell at him to show more gratitude for what he is getting. Ukraine is steadily taking horrendous losses to manpower and military hardware in their failed Kherson pushes. The West/UK/US/EU/NATO are nearly out of military hardware to send Ukraine. Ukraine is on the verge of an energy implosion due to continued Russian targeting of the Ukrainian energy infrastructure. I could go on.

I got all this. So why isn't Russia making any headway in Donestk? It seems like Putin needs a Ulysses S. Grant.

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Explain to me, Sir, what exactly is the rush for Russia to make headway? Who exactly is making such assertions or demanding such results?

[MalPearce]

One thing that needs scrutiny is, exactly how many people from Donbas wanted what Pushilin wanted.

For three years the only CLAIMS - not a shred of evidence, just empty accusations - of persecution from Kyiv have been those made by the Russia-backed paramilitary leadership of the LDNR.

The one agency Russia had in LDNR (operating out of the FSB building in Donetsk) that is forensically monitoring the reality actually agrees with the United Nations that there was perhaps a bus worth of civilians dying annually as a result of ongoing shooting between LDNR militants and Ukronazis violating an otherwise stable armistice.

Basically, the FSB, the UN, the European monitors, and Ukraine, all said it was a localised turf war between rival paramilitary groups that don’t represent any government or plebiscite.

Pushilin’s office came about because a couple of hundred guys in his paramilitary group supported his leadership. He’s never won an election. The DNR declaration several years ago didn’t even canvass the views of 1000 people. Pushilin’s fake government has no legitimacy and no popular mandate.

I’ve met dozens of families that fled to the UK from Donetsk. They’re all Russian speakers, with Russian families. And they’re not Zelenskyy fans. Despite all that, they aren’t here to escape the Nazis. They’re here to escape Pushilin’s thugs and the Russians who’ve flattened their towns.

They’re integrating into communities of ukrainians, Poles and Lithuanians, that have welcomed Russian speaking Ukrainian people fleeing the war.

If Pushilin and co had overwhelming majority support from the very people they claim to represent, we’d have seen some evidence of it between 2018 and February 2022. But there’s no evidence of it at all.

I strongly believe that treating the Pushilin led Donetsk People’s Republic like it genuinely represents the will of the people is a bit like saying the Continuity IRA and Real IRA militants represent mainstream Catholic opinion in Northern Ireland.

Like Ukraine, northern Ireland has its separatists... Catholic republicans. But there are legitimate political parties representing that community. We don’t assume that the hardcore Mafia-like terrorists represent mainstream opinion in Northern Ireland when the evidence for that is nonexistent, so why assume they do in Ukraine?

[FreshPrince]

Yep,

Putards have been saying Ukraine is finished since March.

So why hasnt Russia finished the war yet? Why havent they taken the entire coast as was predicted months ago?

Wasnt the entire ukrainian army cut off and surronded back in April? What gives?

Why is Ukraine sitting on supposed new Russian territory?

MCgregor said The war would be over in 72 hrs so thats all you need to know about his credibility