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Putin dons combat uniform as he pledges to retake Kursk
Express UK ^ | Marco Giannangeli

Posted on 03/13/2025 8:04:05 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

Vladimir Putin has vowed to retake Ukrainian-controlled territory in Kursk region, Russia. Symbolically wearing army fatigues for the first time since Ukraine's surprise offensive of the Russian mainland in August, the Russian President visited a control centre used by Russian troops

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1 posted on 03/13/2025 8:04:05 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

So, pootski not thinking cease fire today then?


2 posted on 03/13/2025 8:07:37 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Musk put on a suit for a White House appearance and Putin has started wearing full combat clothing, not simple olive drab themed clothes, but actual full camouflage gear.

What is going on?


3 posted on 03/13/2025 8:08:01 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Putin showing up at Kursk means that the Russians are about to end the occupation of Russian territory.


4 posted on 03/13/2025 8:12:04 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: rktman

“So, pootski not thinking cease fire today then?”

As I just wrote on another thread, this is always the way it works. The side that is losing wants a ceasefire first, the side that is winning wants to keep the pressure on.


5 posted on 03/13/2025 8:12:52 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out anhere...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck )
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To: marcusmaximus

Ukrainian Reporter Accuses Zelensky of Jailing and Murdering Opponents – Labels Him a ‘Dictator’
Gateway Pundit ^ | 12 Mar 25 | Jim Hoft

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4304006/posts


6 posted on 03/13/2025 8:14:27 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: SaxxonWoods

Weird huh?


7 posted on 03/13/2025 8:16:14 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: wildcard_redneck

I read last night that Ukraine has withdrawn from Kursk and lost 70% of its soldiers doing so. I have no idea if that number is real (some surrendered, which also counts as “lost”). There were multiple reports that the way out was under Russian fire.

Putin showed up to celebrate the removal.


8 posted on 03/13/2025 8:16:49 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out anhere...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck )
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To: rktman

“Weird huh?”

Shocka!


9 posted on 03/13/2025 8:18:10 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out anhere...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck )
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To: SaxxonWoods

What idiots thought this whole op was a good idea in the first place?


10 posted on 03/13/2025 8:18:20 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: marcusmaximus
Russia had taken about 90% when he went in the field and told his men to finish the job.

Why "Z" did this to start with befuddles me.

11 posted on 03/13/2025 8:19:55 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SaxxonWoods

Putin would only show up to bask in the glory of victory. It is a truism of politics that in defeat the leadership is nowhere near the disaster but when there is a win they show up like flies on 5h1t.


12 posted on 03/13/2025 8:24:09 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: marcusmaximus
Get yourself an outfit and you can be a general, too.

13 posted on 03/13/2025 8:27:48 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

“Putin showed up to celebrate the removal.”

Must have hurt to be first Russian dictator to have lost homeland territory since WWII.


14 posted on 03/13/2025 8:36:03 AM PDT by TexasGator (1iI11 .I1.11.'1I1.I'')
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To: wildcard_redneck

If Russia retakes Kursk, what’s the big “victory?”


15 posted on 03/13/2025 8:36:21 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hail to Pitt!)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Ukraine retreated because their supply lines were getting hammered by fiber optic controlled Russian drones. They will remain in Kursk, just not as deep in a salient. They will remain across the border because it shortens the line of contact and is more defensible. Ukraine will not withdrawal completely, at least not at this time.


16 posted on 03/13/2025 8:41:09 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: FroggyTheGremlim
"If Russia retakes Kursk, what’s the big “victory?”"

All of the EUSSR's plans for lebensraum by taking land from the untermenschen Slavs has come to naught. The globohomos' plan for the remainder of the Ukraine is to flood it with turd worlders to finish off ff the Ukrainians as a people. If Russia is smart any peace agreement must guarantee that the Ukrainian people be protected against 3rd world colonization.

Lebensraum (German pronunciation: [ˈleːbənsˌʁaʊm], living space) is a German concept of expansionism and Völkisch nationalism, the philosophy and policies of which were common to German politics from the 1890s to the 1940s. First popularized around 1901, Lebensraum became a geopolitical goal of Imperial Germany in World War I (1914–1918), as the core element of the Septemberprogramm of territorial expansion. The most extreme form of this ideology was supported by the Nazi Party and Nazi Germany, the ultimate goal of which was to establish a Greater German Reich. Lebensraum was a leading motivation of Nazi Germany to initiate World War II, and it would continue this policy until the end of the conflict.

17 posted on 03/13/2025 8:48:48 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: budj
Neocons be dogging on Putin for dresssing like a soldier when they have been celebrating Little Z-Man for doing the same for the last three years. Here is your hero in his little get up.


18 posted on 03/13/2025 8:54:15 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: budj

When Putin walked out in the streets of Kursk Oblast…


19 posted on 03/13/2025 8:58:06 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: Dr. Franklin
"Ukraine retreated because their supply lines were getting hammered by fiber optic controlled Russian drones. They will remain in Kursk, just not as deep in a salient. They will remain across the border because it shortens the line of contact and is more defensible. Ukraine will not withdrawal completely, at least not at this time."


20 posted on 03/13/2025 9:12:10 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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