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Russia-Ukraine Warning Update: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 26
Institute for the Study of War ^ | Feb 26,2022 | Download the PDF Mason Clark, George Barros, and Katya Stepanenko

Posted on 02/26/2022 1:58:32 PM PST by tlozo

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To: AppyPappy
Why is it Russia’s business to get involved with who runs Ukraine?

Why was it Obama's?

41 posted on 02/26/2022 2:41:50 PM PST by agere_contra
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To: agere_contra

Obama invaded Ukraine??


42 posted on 02/26/2022 2:42:52 PM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: tlozo

Looks like Putin may have been a little over-confident.


43 posted on 02/26/2022 2:43:05 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Bulwyf

Seriously, is that what you really believe?

I always respected your opinion, so what leads you to this conclussion?

And, in honest discourse, I am rooting for the Ukrainians, and see them in the same light as the Canadian truckers. I could give a fig for the governments of any country, in my opinion, they’re ALL evil: USA, Canada, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, China... The list is endless.


44 posted on 02/26/2022 2:44:27 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: shotgun

The real question is will laws be passed to allow them to keep and bear arms.


45 posted on 02/26/2022 2:44:28 PM PST by Paperpusher
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To: tlozo

I can help but admire and respect the Ukrainians. To hell with Putin


46 posted on 02/26/2022 2:45:22 PM PST by Sir_Humphrey ( I wiIl not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!i)
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To: agere_contra

War is brutal.....there’s a reason why they’ve been telling people to stay home. Anyone traveling at night is a target.


47 posted on 02/26/2022 2:45:34 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: AppyPappy
Obama invaded Ukraine??

To help bring you up to speed: in 2014 Obama organised the Ukrainean colour coup, installed puppets and stole Ukraine's gold.

48 posted on 02/26/2022 2:45:43 PM PST by agere_contra
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To: Alas Babylon!

You can certainly tell who the morally and mentally confused ones are. I would never want them on my side for anything. They are worthless in their confused states.


49 posted on 02/26/2022 2:51:57 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: Meet the New Boss

Pray for the people of Kiev

Intel is that the biggest wave yet of Russian aerial bombing will happen shortly


50 posted on 02/26/2022 2:52:06 PM PST by Meet the New Boss
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To: Alas Babylon!

I have been to Ukraine. Loved the people. No different than the Russians really.

The trouble is Putin now feels he needs to hit his objective of dismantling the government there. He can’t back down. Ukraine is using propaganda to make its citizens fight. The longer this goes the more likely someone is going to really step in it, and then NATO gets involved, then everyone gets glass parking lots.

It’s terrible what is happening, but we pushed a lot of this ourselves.


51 posted on 02/26/2022 2:52:56 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: rellic
You could Nuke Washington D.C.today and I would celebrate! This is still America!

I've talked to folks who say that a big meteor hitting DC during the SOTU address might be proof that God loves 'Merica...

;>)

52 posted on 02/26/2022 2:52:58 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("Shoeless Joe" played for the White Sox; "Clueless Joe" lives in the White House...)
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To: Alas Babylon!
You’re young. I still say Peking, Chungking and Saigon. And what happened to Leningrad?

And what happened to Rhodesia? Or Burma? Or Gay?

53 posted on 02/26/2022 2:53:04 PM PST by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: McGruff

Russia hasn’t put all her assets into play yet.

And they are acting with restraint.

If Russia decides to win, they will win.

The question right now is why the restraint? And when will it end.?


54 posted on 02/26/2022 2:53:40 PM PST by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: caww

HOLY GOD CAWW.

You’ve seen the video I hope. These people were stopped at a checkpoint, pulled out of their car and then *shot dead in cold blood*. No conceivable fog of war.

The next driver fled for his life. Possibly running over one of the newly killed passengers.

There’s no possible excuse for this killing. I’m shocked to hear excuses being offered by FReepers.

Be careful of becoming invested in a narrative. Goes for all of us, of course.


55 posted on 02/26/2022 2:55:06 PM PST by agere_contra
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To: tlozo

If anyone are benefiting from this Russian debacle, it is the people of Taiwan. Putin has made a catastrophically bad decision and ultimately he will be held accountable by the political dynamic that governs Russia. IMHO Putin will be deposed within months.
Xi has taken close notice. If Russian tanks could not run over frozen ground and defeat a determined foe, how will Xi’s only child largely combat inexperienced army and navy, armed with untested locally made armaments, ships and warplanes mount a successful invasion across 90 miles of open ocean if the people of Taiwan show even a portion of the grit demonstrated by the Ukrainians?

Xi knows if a Taiwan invasion fails, he, his family and supporters will be deposed in not a very gentle manner.


56 posted on 02/26/2022 2:57:55 PM PST by allendale
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To: Meet the New Boss

So Putin ‘moves the borders’... Problem solved.


57 posted on 02/26/2022 3:01:01 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: agere_contra

So tell everyone why so called Nazi’s (PUTIN’S FAVORITE WORD FOR UKRAINIANS) would shoot regular citizens trying to leave an area under attack?

And a tape of that just magically appears on a pro Russian site. And you swallow this obvoius fake propaganda whole and spread it far and wide.


58 posted on 02/26/2022 3:04:10 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: McGruff

Many of the 18,000 who got a free rifle are now engaging in robbery and killing Ukrainian soldiers.


59 posted on 02/26/2022 3:04:43 PM PST by NorseViking
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To: Bulwyf
It’s terrible what is happening, but we pushed a lot of this ourselves.

Here's where I disagree.

WE didn't start this. The Deep State/Globalists did.

To me the alignment of opposition is the Globalist Elite, of which Putin is part of, against democratic people who just want to be left alone, who don't want to be mandated by governments on ANYTHING, whether it be a shot, what their kids learn, what some fat cat can skim off their hard labor, what some professor who is raking in big bucks from Green communists telling us no more gasoline or air conditioning, forcing us formerly free people (especially Americans and Canadians) into European-like, God-forgetting subjects.

There needs to be a new Enlightenment. Not the one of Paris 1789 but Philadelphia 1776.

But yeah, the marching boots are probably inevitable. It's still better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees.

60 posted on 02/26/2022 3:05:28 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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