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Ukraine has won ‘Battle of Kharkiv’ The Institute for the Study of War says evidence suggests Russia moving to fully withdraw amid a strong Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Al Jazeera ^ | 13 May 2022 | Kate Mayberry

Posted on 05/13/2022 11:23:35 PM PDT by Cronos


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
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Russia retreating for the past 2 months

1 posted on 05/13/2022 11:23:35 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Putin’s directives to the Russian national bank and restrictions on money trades are artificially propping up the ruble. If you look at trade volumes in the ruble, it’s declined over 90% since the war has started. It’s not real.


2 posted on 05/13/2022 11:25:36 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

“Russia retreating for the past 2 months”

If they retreat any more they would’ve retreated out of their own country.


3 posted on 05/13/2022 11:37:44 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Cronos

Retreat in order to drop some Nukes, maybe?


4 posted on 05/13/2022 11:40:03 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I did not shoot the burglar. I pointed a laser dot on his head and let the cats do the rest. )
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To: Jonty30

Yea but the fallout would blow back over Russia if they did that.


5 posted on 05/13/2022 11:42:14 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Cronos
Sources in Ukraine believe that the Institute for the Study of War is the least reliable source for information on the war.

They have ties to Victoria Nuland who has a beef with Russia that goes back generations and is one of the reasons she aided the color revolution that put Zelenskyy in power.

6 posted on 05/13/2022 11:43:14 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Which sources in Ukraine are you referring to?


7 posted on 05/14/2022 12:00:54 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Guess who the director of the IFTSOW is. william ‘never met a war he didn’t like’Kristol. About as credible as toilet paper as far as what Russia is up to


8 posted on 05/14/2022 12:04:38 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Cronos
ISW is headed by Kimberly Kagan. Kimberly Kagan's brother is Robert Kagan who is married to Victoria Nuland.

ISW has prominent neocons on board including Bill Kristol.

ISW is firmly planted in the War War Party.

9 posted on 05/14/2022 12:08:24 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Long Jon No Silver

ISW = Institute for Starting Wars


10 posted on 05/14/2022 12:09:43 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Sources in Ukraine believe that the Institute for the Study of War is the least reliable source for information on the war

With General Jack Keane, Bill Kristol, Joe Lieberman, and General Petraeus on the Board of Directors, the Institute for the Study of War is infallible. The should really add the Vindman brothers.

Institute for the Study of War, Board of Directors

General Jack Keane
William Kristol
Joseph I. Lieberman, former US Senator
General David Petraeus
Kimberly Kagan
Kelly Craft, former US Ambassador to the UN
Kevin Mandia
Jack D. McCarthy, Jr.
Bruce Mosler
Warren Phillips
William Roberti

11 posted on 05/14/2022 12:16:15 AM PDT by woodpusher
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Russia retreating for the past 2 months

Ukraine should really declare victory and tell its 12 million displaced persons that they can all go home now.

12 posted on 05/14/2022 12:19:02 AM PDT by woodpusher
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

ISFPW = Institute for Prolonging Wars. See Kristol’s name on anything you should run a mile. He gets off on body bags


13 posted on 05/14/2022 12:21:04 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: woodpusher

Lol


14 posted on 05/14/2022 12:26:29 AM PDT by wardaddy (Have you ever seen more crazy assed women than on parade nowadays.....it's astounding ...and ugly.)
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To: woodpusher; Pelham

What is that adm Smith operative on this thread...


15 posted on 05/14/2022 12:28:03 AM PDT by wardaddy (Have you ever seen more crazy assed women than on parade nowadays.....it's astounding ...and ugly.)
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To: Cronos

It is going so well for Ukraine, they desperately need $40 billion from the United States by next week to continue “advancing” their surrounded and cut-off forces, short of food and ammunition.

But for America’s “assistance,” Ukrainian deaths would be dramatically falling and Ukraine’s destruction might cease.

This may end up being such a Ukrainian “victory,” no Ukrainians may be left to “celebrate.”

The only reason America’s politicians are spending a fortune we don’t have on Ukraine is because of their fear of being held accountable for their own American crimes against humanity in Ukraine, for which they should hang, and the undeniable evidence American crooked politicians have been receiving millions in kickbacks FOR YEARS via a thoroughly corrupt Ukraine.

America is “fighting” Russia to the last Ukrainian standing.

Ukraine is a gigantic organized crime syndicate to which American politicians belong.


16 posted on 05/14/2022 12:35:12 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
#6. William Kristol is the Director of the Institute for the Study of War, and he is slightly less insufferable than Max Boot.

That said, just who in Ukraine is saying their reporting is unreliable, and how?

17 posted on 05/14/2022 12:38:46 AM PDT by Widget Jr
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Hey Gnome, absolutely spot on. Hold on, I need an adult beverage to read the replies from the determinedly ignorant who run rampant here.


18 posted on 05/14/2022 1:43:10 AM PDT by SandwicheGuy ("Man is the only pack animal that will follow an unstable leader." Cesar Chavez)
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To: Gnome1949
Each of your assertions is grossly overstated but each one nevertheless contains a kernel of truth. Now comes the BUT:

The war in Ukraine is not about Ukraine nor is it about Russia.

Think of it this way, the fiasco in Afghanistan was about Ukraine and the war in Ukraine is about Taiwan.


19 posted on 05/14/2022 1:54:18 AM PDT by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
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To: Gnome1949

Russian propaganda.


20 posted on 05/14/2022 1:59:46 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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