Posted on 12/26/2021 11:02:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Putin does this every years...and the west goes nuts every year.
Too many boys missed their mamas. Too many mamas missed their boys.
According to the Art of War, the advice and corollaries of the advice:
Appear strong, when negotiating. Build up the appearances of your forces.
Appear weak, when about to attack. Start pulling them back.... can just use regular troop rotation as the underlying cause, and then tout it as pulling back.
Lol...didn’t he just add ten thousand troops to the border a week ago?
Keeping Troops sitting on alert for weeks is never a good plan. Especially around the holidays. It’s also very expensive to an economy that barely bigger than Texas’.
Russian troops want to be home for Orthodox Christmas-January 7.
RE: Russian troops want to be home for Orthodox Christmas-January 7.
If true, they’ll be back. Too soon to relax.
Wouldn't it be nice if we had troops protecting our borders and stopping the invasion?
The underpaid Ukie conscripts wanted to be home last year...but the corrupt puppet regime in Kiev won't let them.
True, but Putin will wait to see what concessions he can get from Biden at the talks scheduled in early January.
The whole thing was a bluff anyway.
Check Hunter Biden’s bank account.
Hi.
In my secret poll I asked 20 oligarchs from three countries. All bordering on each other a question. Not a yes or no answer acceptable...
“Do you think that Vlad is going to invade Ukraine?”
All 20 said nyet, bad for business.
5.56mm
Putin ‘effing with a vegetable.
If you look on a map of Russian force bases that may not be all that far depending on the units involved.
See here for Russian bases and forces in Ukraine region
https://informnapalm.org/en/intelligence-data-on-1st-and-2nd-army-corps-of-russian-federation-in-occupied-donbas/
Russian Military Forces: Interactive Map
https://www.gfsis.org/maps/view/russian-military-forces
Putin does not need troops on the border to make the EU nervous. He can shut off the gas in winter to make Europe pay attention to him.
Easy as (pretending to be) taking candy from a Baby.
So how much money did Biden slip them under the table?
“The whole thing was a bluff anyway.”
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Russia’s going to make a move on the Ukraine, it’s just not doing it now.
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