Posted on 02/28/2022 9:04:51 PM PST by Nextrush
Soon they will begin to surrender en masse, "as it was one time near Stalingrad," said Alexander Semanov, veteran of the Vostok battalion and a public figure of the DPR...
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I fail to see your point.
I don’t know the final outcome of this battle and neither does anyone else.
Certainly Russia should overwhelm Ukraine.
Then again how did they get chased out of Afghanistan? Hitler almost had Stalingrad.
The Ukies may surrender rather than see the city destroyed. The Russians may decide they don’t want the urban casualties.
We don’t knew yet.
But in my humble opinion, as allies now rush in weapons and supplies - they are doing what they should have done months ago if they’d thought about the stakes.
Ukraine is a huge strategic and resources prize for whichever side controls it.
I have been here a long time and it boggles the mind. Putin is a communist dictator who slaughtered a priest today and has lied to his own people and troops. His actions are evil and completely opposed to the God loving principles of freedom we here are thought to espouse.
Hey jack, because you talk like one.
First of all Russia didn’t ‘terrorize” NATO for 70 years. Neither the Soviet Union or Russia ever laid a glove on NATO or the United States.
In fact you may have missed it but the Soviet Union collapsed.
Now, you think you have big b’s because you can say Russia is so much bigger than Ukraine. So what.
With any luck the Ukrainians will kill this dirtbag.
Stop drinking the kool aid zelensky fled kiev days ago.
Pretty easy to tell Nextrush is a Russian, isn’t it?
US-CERT and MS-ISAC meetings are discussing this as a possibility in the near future.
I’ve been here a lot longer and sadly it doesn’t surprise me a bit.
I love FR because of the comments and because it’s the greatest news aggregator on the Internet.
But a lot of people here are surly fools who are proud they don’t own a tv and haven’t seen a movie since Hatari! IOW they say a lot but know little.
Ace, how old are you? If you don’t think Western Europe was terrified of the Warsaw Pact, you missed the entire Cold War. Brilliant, the size and effectiveness of opposing forces have no bearing on the outcome of a war. Brilliant. We are extremely lucky that Castro didn’t invade us. So you noticed the Warsaw Pact no longer exists. Here’s a real brain teaser for you. What was the motivating factor for the establishment of NATO? That’s right, NATO was a DEFENSIVE alliance formed to counter the alliance that soon would be known as the Warsaw Pact. There is no defensive reason for NATO’s existence since Reagan destroyed the Warsaw Pact. But here you neocons come wanting to start the Cold War all over again by aggressively expanding NATO with virulently anti Russian members on the Russian, not Warsaw Pact, border. At least Biden, Inc. appreciates your efforts to keep its cash cow producing. If Russian propped up oligarchs run Ukraine, Biden and your pals we saw trying to impeach Trump get frozen out of all their Ukrainian kickbacks. Yeah, your right, let’s risk WWIII, Hunter loves those Ukrainian whores.
This is kind of funny!
https://www.facebook.com/irakli.komaxidze/videos/488755006168174
#the “PURCHASE DATE” of 02/28/2022 ROTFL
The APU captured the newest Russian ZRPC “Pantsyr” in the Kherson region.
Glory to Ukraine!
Praise you Lord
Ukraine will lose a war, but Russia won’t be able to take control.
Furthermore, the “people getting killed for nothing” is PUTIN’S fault. Not NATO, not the USA, not Ukraine’s.
Putin wants to create an expanded Russia with BialoRUS and little RUS (Ukraine) merged with Muscowy. He was always going to do this.
Check Telegram - there are reports on there. Mariupol has not fallen yet.
I’m highly surprised that they managed even a few days. It’s right on the border.
Putin’s fairy-tale that the Russian-speakers would support him was proven false and is being proven false.
Is it still snowing outside your offices in Moscow?
you seem to be under the misapprehension that this is a war like the Iraq war.
No, and this war is not about “NATO’s expansion east” - another boogeyman.
Ethnic Russian people, including their soldiers, see Ukrainians as basically the same people as themselves. Why do you think Putin lied to the soldiers and why do you think the Russian soldiers are “showing restraint”??
Russians have been told for decades that Ukrainians are their brothers. And they know that - there is massive intermarrying between the two and the two know that they are both derived from Kievan Rus.
The only parallel to this situation would be if the USA was led by a dictator who had been in power 20 years and wanted his name in history. AND then decided to attack CANADA (yes, that’s the parallel, not Mexico, but CANADA). Do you think American soldiers would be happy invading, in this hypothetical scenario, CANADA?
Let’s go further and say that this Biden-20 year dictator tells his soldiers to kill any Canadian resistance. Most American soldiers would refuse that.
THAT is why “Russia” is failing in Ukraine. Not because the Russian military can’t do it, but they do not have their heart in it, to attack their brothers.
Ukraine’s military on paper should have folded immediately - this is not even the comparison in Gulf War One, this should have been in days. Putin even believed that and passed the propaganda that the Ukrainians would WELCOME his troops.
Imagine the shock to Russian soldiers when their brother Slavs come up and calmly ask them why they are invading; when old ladies come and tell them in Russian “here are seeds for when you die”.
This is NOT Russian soldiers going into Chechnya or Syria.
Putin will lose - but the tragedy is if he brings Russia down with him.
Putin will lose in every scenario - even if tomorrow they conquer Kyiv and kill Zelensky, they create a martyr and they have a restless nation of 50 million who have a sense of nationhood THANKS TO PUTIN.
I’m posting those as a joke. I’m on Ukraine’s side.
I see no Putin supporters, where do you get that?
I’ve watched football games where I felt my team wasn’t going to defeat the other. That didn’t mean I was rooting for the other team.
I think Putin is getting old and has run out of time to rebuild the Soviet Union. I see why he freaked out over NATO hemming him in. The stupid part is the two sides not solving this by negotiation. Ukraine is just a pawn between NATO and Russia, and getting the worst of it.
I’m hopeful the conflict is settling into a siege of the city with low combat in other areas and it will end quickly.
Where is Z?
The deep state offices of George Soros called. Your report is late.
The internet is designed precisely to make that exceedingly difficult. Especially if they do not want to be cut off.
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