Well we know Joe's response - take a lid and back to the basement!
Posted on 05/09/2022 2:28:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24 in what his military promised him would be a one-week victorious blitzkrieg. Instead, 2½ months later, nothing is going right. Putin knows that to remain in power, the Russian people must see him as winning his ill-defined “special military operation” in Ukraine. As what the Mafia would define as the “boss of all bosses” in Russia, Putin has no official deadline for success but, in the minds of many Russians, major success is expected by Victory Day, May 9. The question now is this: What is Putin willing to do to demonstrate some sort of victory by that date? Would he go nuclear for a victory by Victory Day?
For Russians, May 9’s Victory Day is their Veterans Day, Memorial Day, and a little bit of our Fourth of July all wrapped into one. It celebrates the Soviet victory over Germany in World War II. To understand the significance of this day, remember that Russians call WWII the Great Patriotic War. That title is well-earned. In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the United States lost about 420,000 people in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific. By comparison, 25 million Soviets lost their lives in defense of the Motherland. That’s 60 times our losses.
Despite the official Russian government line that their army is defeating fascists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine, the truth about the failure of Putin’s army is becoming well known. Although no one would dare tell Putin that something must happen by May 9, the Russian dictator is well aware of that feeling in the Kremlin and throughout Russia.
Putin is not going to achieve anything resembling a total victory by that date. Everyone is aware he gave up on conquering Kyiv and concentrated all his forces on capturing Mariupol.
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“nothing is going right”
Most pro-Russian areas are now in Russian hands.
The fight is now mainly over the eastern fossil fuel fields.
It’s safe to assume, at this point, that Putin doesn’t give a shit.
Don’t know what’s going on as there is so much propaganda flying around.
I do know that I will never be on the same side as Soros, Klaus Anal Schwab, Biden, Gates and the other dregs of society.
I’m no Putin fan but it seems everybody’s a dick in this conflict.
If Iran and North Korea had a fight, I wouldn’t have a side.
If Iran and N. Korea were engaged in a bitter, high-intensity war with each other, I would advocate for arming both sides. Anything they needed - short of weapons of mass destruction.
Regards,
“ in what his military promised him would be a one-week victorious blitzkrieg.“
They keep parroting this “fact”. But it only comes from our intelligence and retired military punditry.
So is Putin ally Belarus leader Lukashenko also part of the "our intelligence and retired military punditry"?
Alexander Lukashenko didn’t expect war in Ukraine to ‘drag on like this’
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/alexander-lukashenko-didnt-expect-war-in-ukraine-to-drag-on-like-this-41619503.html
Well we know Joe's response - take a lid and back to the basement!
The fight is now mainly over the eastern fossil fuel fields.
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Misnomer - fields were drilled (fracked) in 2015-2015 and found to be uneconomical to develop. Just Orc propaganda that there is recoverable oil deposits.
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