Posted on 08/23/2025 6:56:17 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
It is a curious thing when a superpower begins to run out of the two things it needs most in war: fuel and men. Yet that is precisely what seems to be happening to Russia in Ukraine. After more than two years of fighting, Moscow’s once-vaunted war machine is showing unmistakable signs of exhaustion.
When Russia launched its invasion in February 2022, it relied heavily on professional soldiers but the disastrous battles outside Kyiv and Kharkiv shattered that backbone. Thousands of seasoned fighters were lost, and the logistical chaos that followed forced Russia into an embarrassing retreat from northern Ukraine.
The Kremlin’s answer was Wagner. The mercenary army, battle-hardened from Africa to the Middle East, became the spearhead of Russia’s offensive. For a time, Wagner succeeded. In the brutal fight for Bakhmut, it won headlines, captured territory, and gave Moscow its only significant victory of 2023. Yet those same battles consumed Wagner’s ranks, and the rebellion that followed sealed its demise. The Kremlin had sacrificed its sharpest blade.
Since then, Russia has leaned on a far weaker substitute: poorly trained volunteers and mercenaries recruited from among ordinary citizens. These men have been thrown into grinding assaults in the south and east. For a while, they produced modest gains. Some analysts even warned that Ukraine’s lines were close to breaking, or that the war was sliding toward stalemate. The pressure on President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government was intense.
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Today, Russia faces a crisis that no artillery barrage can solve: firstly its own fuel shortage. Videos emerging from Crimea show gas stations with long lines and dwindling supplies. In Moscow, the government has gone so far as to ban price hikes at the pump—an extraordinary intervention that signals just how tight supplies have become. Exports of gasoline have also been restricted.
(Excerpt) Read more at azernews.az ...
I had forgotten about the the “Putin is Dying” Threads.
Thx for a trip down memory lane.
The fact that you write like a six year old raised on comic books means that no one can take anything you say seriously.
And long range drone attacks are not missiles.
A nice pictorial flourish to your flubbed rhetoric, as BigGraphicsMarcus does his thing.
If "Putin lost the war" two years ago, what's been going on since then? Looks like war, to most of us.
If "Putin lost the war" two years ago, then your arduous work since then has been false, as you also stated "Putin's botched invasion ends by [ last ] Easter."
Losing two years ago, and then the "invasion ends by [ last ] Easter, it seems there's no more reason to lobby President Trump over the war -- which was lost two years ago.
Maybe I'll tell MY president in an email that the war -- Secretary of State Rubio termed it a "proxy war" -- is over. And has been for two years, because MarkMilleyUs said so. And then the invasion was over because the very same MarkLindseyGal said so.
But you avoid answering the real question.
When are Ukies going on offense and take their land back from Ruzzia?
Yooks need a lot of warm male bodies to do that.
Bodies that Yooks don’t have apparently.
Dumb articles. One says Russia is a goner then the next says Russia is picking on poor widdle ukraine, the child molesting, human trafficking, democrap US taxpayer money laundering operation.
Well then by all means, let them keep fighting and fighting and fighting. Let all of the bloodshed and death go on indefinitely. That will make you zeepers very happy.
Just do it without any more money or equipment from the U .S.
Ukraine will want all its territorial losses reinstated, including Crimea. Russia will lose more than territorial gains, they will be forced to pay reparations and face war crimes.
The best generals have big egos. If Shoigu and Gerasimov had given Prigo the ammo he needed, Russia would have captured the remainder of Donetsk.
>> The news I’m praying for: Trump brokers a peace treaty, stupid war ends.
^^^^^^^ THIS. LITERALLY PRAYING FOR THIS! ^^^^^^^^
>> Biden wouldn’t let them
WTF? You’re joking, right? pResident Joe Biden wouldn’t let them? BIDEN??!?
Oh I get it, you’re talking about Educatrix Jill...??? Or crackhead Hunter?
C’mon man.
Yeah, but what’s Christian Bwa-haha’s take on the matter?
Tell your mom to tell you to tell Tucker to tell The Putin to tell Trump to tell Khamenei to tell Netanyahu to tell Macron to tell Starmer to tell Kaja Kallas to tell Friedrich Merz to tell Lukashenko to tell Ursula von der Leyen to tell Little Zee to surrender.
Peace by Easter! - maximummucus
marcusridiculous
mugasms galore!
>> I had forgotten about the the “Putin is Dying” Threads.
Yeah he’s got cerebral cancer palsy multiple sucrosis of the livver.
Really bad case. Nasty stuff... have you seen how hard he grips that table to keep his big toenail from twerking? He’s a goner... gonna be dead before Zzzzellinsskyyy reaches Moscow!
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