Posted on 04/30/2022 7:33:55 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
“Bad news (for the Ukraine) is that the new battalions are now battle-hardened and motivated.”
The corollary to that, of course, is...so are the Ukrainians.
This fight is going to last longer than most thought. And, if Russia DOES ultimately prevail, it will become embroiled in a resistance fight that will make the French equivalent of the 1940s pale in comparison. And there will be perpetual bad blood between Russians and Ukrainians, even more than there is now; and much more than there was before the invasion.
So do you tell your boys that we've stole from him?
Yep. Low morale and poor training. Most Russian advances seem to be either due to heavy shelling, weak UA militias, UA fuel and ammo shortages
“Bad news (for the Ukraine) is that the new battalions are now battle-hardened and motivated.”
For some exposure to battle will be a formative experience like turning iron into steel. For others it may be like repeatedly bending aluminum. The problem for the new units is they haven’t been given a chance to rest and recover. They are going directly from one fight, where they got beaten, to another, but with people they’ve never worked with before.
Peter Zion opined that the soldiers in the Donbas (former Ukrainians) who may have initially been in favor of Russia have been forced into the trenches for several years with no letup and may now not be so in favor of Russia. Zion described them as “the entire adult, male population.” If I’m Russian, these aren’t the men I want behind me. Also, the new Russian general, who has reportedly had a few heart attacks, will be at the front where other generals have been killed. (Probably not a good move.)
Meanwhile, some good news:
The first family, of 3 members, was able to exit Azovstal along the corridor for civilians
Apr 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmhAeKDq4Hw
Please post the links for your posts.
I really don’t understand this “conflict” and never have.
What I have noticed is there have been a LOT of weapons moving around and not a whole lot of things blowed up.
I have a feeling that what we think is going on is not what we think. We may have a nasty surprise in the making.
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I don’t care which side you listen to, it’s pretty obvious that Vlad bit off more than he can chew.
Ivan isn’t doing well in their invasion of the Ukraine. They should have had Kyiv and Donesk in the first week or two.
Example? U.S. Seventh Corp would have the whole enchilada in two weeks. Three weeks tops.
Imho.
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Russia is failing to seize all of Donbass so Putin cannot claim a "propaganda" victory here. So what's next for him?
That is why you don’t treat the Daily Mail as a reliable source of military intel. It is sensationalist!
So are those of the Ukrainians. It’s folly to think they’re not also adjusting and reconsolidating resources for a long fight. When this settles into an insurgency.. and it will.. that will sap the Russians’ abilities even more.
Daily Snail I see.
The Ukes one is US Government welfare.
Graphic video: The Russian unit commander (Chechen) was killed by the (Ukrainian) shell at the moment of live reporting on social media TikTok that their mission was completed successfully with only one wounded.
https://twitter.com/MrKovalenko/status/1520068931800686594
Rereading my post I guess it was unnecessarily cryptic.
What I meant to suggest is that none of this makes any sense. The “conflict” doesn’t make any sense at all. I have no position on this “conflict” one way or the other.
Yet Sean Penn, a raging liberal and peace and harmony loving man feels so strongly about it that he wants to put his little liberal hands on a battle rifle and kill as many other people as he possibly can.
This makes no sense. He should want to be on a plane dropping rose petals on Ukraine.
And then I notice that insane amounts of arms are moving from all over the world into this region. And nobody finds this suspicious at all. It appears to be the HQ of the globalists. If there was no “conflict” the nations of the world could never send this quantity of arms over there. It would immediately be viewed with extreme skepticism.
Yet here we are.
What evidence on motivation?
That’s not going to buff out.
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