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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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Good. That means they don’t need our $40 billion tax dollars now.


21 posted on 05/14/2022 2:02:48 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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Remember the Cold War myth that Russian soldiers were indomitable 10-feet-tall super-warriors? Afghanistan and now Ukraine put the lie to that notion.


25 posted on 05/14/2022 3:07:56 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Кчерту Путина, Kчерту Россию)
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On Saturday reports showed Russian units had not attempted to hold their lines against counterattacking Ukrainian troops around the city.


28 posted on 05/14/2022 3:24:49 AM PDT by Cronos
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Long term, Russia is cutting it’s own throat.

Russian Oil Production May Fall To 18-Year Low On EU Oil Embargo

“Russia’s oil production is already falling and will continue dropping in the coming months and years as Moscow will not be able to redirect to China and India all the volumes it is losing in Europe—its biggest oil market before the invasion of Ukraine. Restrictions, combined with the lack of access to Western technology to pump harder-to-recover oil and enhance production from maturing wells will hit Russia’s oil industry not only in the near term but also in the long term, analysts say.”

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Russian-Oil-Production-May-Fall-To-18-Year-Low-On-EU-Oil-Embargo.html


32 posted on 05/14/2022 3:37:49 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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Ukrainian servicemen ride a motorcycle on a road outside a village recently retaken by Ukrainian forces near Kharkiv on May 13.


35 posted on 05/14/2022 4:08:25 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen )
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I have been following this guy for about a month now. He is pretty balanced.
https://youtu.be/d0zvbjjwCkg


41 posted on 05/14/2022 5:34:03 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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With Nuland,Kristol and Keane involved here, ISW is the closest thing to an official mouthpiece for Uke propaganda.
What they don’t mention is that the Rus withdrawal from Kharkov has duped the the Ukies into giving up their advantageous artillery spotter positions in tall buidings there. Rus lured the ukes to move artillery closer to the front lines so now they can’t shield them at hospitals,schools,and residential areas which limited Rus strike capability as they try to avoid civilian collateral damage. Now that Uke artillery has been lured out, the Rus can shell them more efficiently.


52 posted on 05/14/2022 7:29:28 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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Thank you for your research & info given!
I really appreciate four posts & comments.


65 posted on 05/15/2022 7:08:38 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (et, so me )
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