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Posted on 09/17/2025 5:20:19 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russian forces are preparing two more large-scale offensives after three failed campaigns this year, President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed on Monday (September 16). Speaking during an interview with Sky News, the Ukrainian leader said: "The mood in Europe and the US is indeed changing a little. Overall, I am glad, truly glad, that all of Russia's advances, all of their offensive missions – there have been three – and they are planning two more heavy offensive campaigns. Their last three missions have failed. In my view, this is a very important signal".
The remarks follow earlier reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin believes his forces are "winning", despite their limited gains, according to Reuters sources. Since November 2022, Moscow has gained less than 1% of additional Ukrainian territory, despite its latest summer offensive advancing at one of the fastest rates since late 2024.
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Right or wrong, I have to say, if we had lost so many men and equipment for so little gain, we’d be raking POTUS and DOW over the proverbial coals in the media and online. I can’t help but wonder what people in Russia must be thinking. There’s no way their success ratio would be acceptable to any country.
Does the average person in Russia worry about retaliation from their government if they voice disapproval of Putin’s actions in Ukraine or is that only for higher up like heads of companies etc who fall out 4th floor windows?
Well said. Russia is not only losing numbers, it is losing young men. The result will be a society in 2030, 2040, 2050 with an imbalance. Who will produce and raise the replacement generation? Will Russia suddenly welcome Hamas refugees as the replacement population? Of course not.
Of course, Ukraine is losing population also.
In WWII, Russia was losing, as I recall, about three soldiers for every German soldier they took out.
They just kept on coming. The German generals could not believe the Soviets could take such losses without giving up. In many of the earlier battles, before the Soviets gained dominance, the losses were five to one in favor of the Germans.
The Soviet Union had about twice the population of Germany.
In total, the Soviet Union lost about 10 million soldiers and Germany lost about 5 million, with the Soviets accounting for 3.75 million of those.
The Soviets lost about 16 million civilians, of which Stalin was responsible for millions. The Germans lost about two million of their civilian population.
Imagine most of the average Russians are either afraid to say or do anything, or like in st Petersburg and Moscow have been insulated from the worst so far.
Those who say Russians will take and take and never revolt have forgotten 1991 and 1917.
Seems it takes a lot, but there is a limit even for Russians
We live in interesting times. Unfortunate so many die and are injured in the process. I hope the war in Ukraine mutually ends soon, somehow.
To participate, all one need do -- like every other website that views readers as data to be acquired and sold -- is give them your name and address.
Using your anonymizing moniker as an address, the poll revealed that among Express UK readers 46 percent said they weren't "scared" and 4 percent answered "don't know." Apparently the daily messaging isn't having quite the effect that the message-makers had hoped for.
Half of those Express UK readers are "scared," and half aren't. Are you "scared?"
I have said that we have evolved technologically, but we are still the same savages we always were, some more than others 😔
Im sure Putin is feeling the pressure from too many mothers getting their sons back in body bags. Hes paying out a fortune to every family who loses someone. He’s also offering very high enlistment bonuses.
I would have to agree. I can't believe the moms feel it's worth it to lose a son over Ukraine.
If Marcus ever reported on a Russian success, I would wonder whether the real Marcus had been bumped-off.
True. The continued fall of Ukraine cities, things not to be mentioned by the victorious Ukrainian’s.
Give me a name of a Ukrainian city captured by Russia in the past 3 years.
Give me a name of a Ukrainian city captured by Russia in the past 3 years.
"Scared" is a loaded but meaningless term.
Consider: for decades during Cold War I, most Americans were scared that Mad-Vlad's Old Soviet predecessors would launch nuclear first strikes against the US.
One result was: for years nuclear armed B-52s maintained, not just readiness, but were kept in the air over the arctic to deliver a second strike in the event Mad-Vlad's predecessors launched a first strike on us.
Operation Chrome Dome 1961-1968
That's what real "scared" can do.
Are we that "scared" today?
Not really, because, for one thing, airborne B-52s are now replaced by nuclear ballistic missile submarines -- far stealthier and more deadly.
For another, even though Mad-Vlad's spokesmen -- just like his Old Soviet predecessors -- constantly threaten everyone with nuclear war, unlike the Old Soviets (who squandered ~26 million in WWII), Mad-Vlad cannot afford, and is not willing, to throw away the lives of tens of millions of Russians in a nuclear exchange.
So Mad-Vlad can huff and he can puff nuclear threats as much as he wants, it's not going to happen.
What will happen, if Mad-Vlad takes over Ukraine, is millions of Ukrainians thrown in his military meat-grinder in assaults on other hostile neighbors.
Yes, that is pretty scary.
In February of 2022, when the modernized second military on earth invaded its next door neighbor in a planned lightning strike to conquer it, I sure didn’t anticipate that we would be reading posts like those in the ending months of 2025.
Give me a name of a Ukrainian city captured by Russia in the past 3 years.
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I can’t do it. I don’t have the Russian equivalent of the Ukrainians (or possibly commie Brits) who are feeding you information.
It is Express UK's loaded but meaningless term.
"Are we that 'scared' today? Not really.... Yes, that is pretty scary."If you really want to correct or comment, here for you is their web page to do just that.
How to complain Express UK, Contacts page
I can’t help but wonder what people in Russia must be thinking.
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People in Russia think what they are told to think.
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