[Williams]

Putin must be threatening your paycheck.

[Petrosius]

Did you catch the display of Russian equipment in Kyiv?

[PIF]

Oh look! The Russians have old and obsolescent American military equipment! We tremble ... oh oh oh no ... not.

When they manage to reverse engineer them - assuming they can get the chips and materials, American weapons will be another generation or two ahead.

Losers.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Took these photos yourself on your lunch break, did you?

[HereInTheHeartland]

We are on to you Rooskie!

https://www.voanews.com/amp/how-russia-s-disinformation-campaign-seeps-into-us-views-/7566503.html

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Any thread like this is a bug light to zeepers!

Man do the careen into the zapper, snapping and sizzling as the fry.

It their destiny I guess.,,

[HighSierra5]

Same thing happened in Afcrapistan and Vietnam.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion! Russia collusion!

[Widget Jr]

A few captured vehicles is not much comfort when Russia has not won. Oryx's, estimates on both sites total vehicle losses and destroyed, based on visual confirmation. It is certainly under counting on both sides, while having consistency throughout the conflict.

Russian, losses / destroyed: 15,464 / 10,952
Ukraine, losses / destroyed: 5,545 / 3,857

Putting captured equipment on display has not solved Russia having at least 2.5 to 3 times Ukraine's losses on any given day.

[freeandfreezing]

Russian airshow acrobatics

[delta7]

Time to quit. Excuses, Hopium, pin prick attacks, etc, etc,,,Everyone in the world knows the Ukies can never retake Crimea and the five Russian provinces.
That is fact.

Everyone realizes the Ukies are simply spent, no manpower left, arms depleted, relying on Western welfare payments and equipment just to survive.

The war cheerleaders have only Hopium left to soften the blow of defeat. The latest $60 billion flushed down the Ukie toilet is just barely enough to keep the Ukies government salaries and nation running till November…fact is money simply can not buy what they need- manpower.

[Miami Rebel]

I love the In Our Times podcast series on BBC. I heartily recommend it to one and all. Offering a wide variety of panel discussions on science, literature, religion, and history, it’s available on the BBC Sounds app for free.

The most recent discussion is on Julian the Apostate, but the one before covers Napoleon’s “100 Days,” his last campaign from his return from Elba to his defeat at Waterloo and finally to his abdication and exile to St. Helena.

I mention it here because in hearing it I realized that NATO is a direct descendent of the Seventh Coalition, the alliance that came out of the Congress of Vienna. Finally the allies realized that the only way to take on Napoleon was a true unified strategy, since Napoleon had again and again demonstrated the ability to pick off the nominal allies if they attempted to match him individually.

A united US/European alliance is impossible for Putin to match, and funneling its materiel resources into Ukraine has and will continue to stymie his dreams of conquest.