LOL! Putin's invasion is a grand collapse of ambitions. Lukashenko is a clown.
LOL! Putin's invasion is a grand collapse of ambitions. Lukashenko is a clown.
Lukashenko looks like a character from a Bond movie.
Not the Bad Guy, but one of his evil but incompetent henchmen.
We’re supplying Ukraine with ship killing missiles. If they sink some Russian ships, I wonder if Russia will go after some of our carriers.
F Lukashenko.
And Putin.
If he don’t want to risk war with NATO then he should pull back his troops to Russia.
Putin has ambitions on eastern Ukraine and the world be damned.
Given the performance of his military, it may be a short war unless he goes nuclear.
NATO continues it’s Russian provocation.
Meanwhile, there is an earlier posting on FR that Biden has sold another 40 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
I guess our military will be issued SPITBALLS to fight any aggression from Russia.
Let him know he will be one of the first to die, right after Putin.
I’m sure he doesn’t care about his country but he doesn’t want his ass to fry.
When someone threatens you with WWIII the only response is that you will roast them on a spit.
“warned Western nations of a coming World War III, unless they stop supplying Ukraine with weapons.”
Putin miscalculated when he invaded Ukraine. The Western Nations see a wounded paper tiger now.
WWIII would end quickly with the Western nations winning. The question will Putin kill millions with nuclear weapons are keep it conventional. Either way Putin will lose this.
Putin best options is to withdraw from Ukraine or pull China into WWIII. China is his only hope.
Russia has been saying this since the start.
If it does happen, NATO/The West isn’t going to be able to ask “who’d of thought” or claim to be surprised by Russia’s actions.
Or maybe Putin was creating a diversion
The Democrats must have been doing some really awful things in Ukraine.
More ruins...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t62qO6R3pE
Just frickin’ do it. Stop boasting. Stop blustering. Just STFU, and do it. Or not.
Meanwhile the war is progressing in Russia's favor. I do not have time to show detailed maps of what is happening but there are two reasonable Youtube channels which provide good daily reports based on multiple sources. These are Military Summary and Defense Politics Aaaaasia.
In the north Lyman has fallen with reports of Ukrainian troops withdrawing after a short fight. In the east the Ukrainian held city Severodonetsk is mostly isolated and now under fierce attack. Several more towns around the Popasna bulge have been taken by the Russian side. South of it the city Svetlodarsk has fallen after the Ukrainian tried but failed to destroy a nearby dam. The Ukrainian troops retreated without a fight.
Instead of holding the lines by all means Ukrainian units now seem more interested in running away. That is more healthy for them and also solves their serious supply issues. Like other supply lines the Bakhmut-Lisichansk road is now under Russian fire control. This video shows what that means.
What we are seeing now are the effects of nearly three months of Russian artillery war. The Ukrainian troops at the frontline have been ground down and those who are left are moving out before being destroyed too. The front begins to move at several points. When those points merge we may next see the tactical deep battle phase of a classic Russian deep operation:
Deep battle envisaged the breaking of the enemy's forward defenses, or tactical zones, through combined arms assaults, which would be followed up by fresh uncommitted mobile operational reserves sent to exploit the strategic depth of an enemy front. The goal of a deep operation was to inflict a decisive strategic defeat on the enemy's logistical abilities and render the defence of their front more difficult, impossible, or indeed irrelevant. Unlike most other doctrines, deep battle stressed combined arms cooperation at all levels: strategic, operational, and tactical.
The answer to me is obvious -- you're a CINO, Deep Stater or neocon stooge or all three.
https://sonar21.com/looks-like-cnn-and-rest-of-the-american-media-are-growing-weary-of-the-war-in-ukraine/
The whores that masquerade on a daily basis as news readers or pundits on the mainstream media are like any normal cheerleader. They will shout passionately on behalf of their team at the start of the game but fall silent once a total ass whipping is underway. Pretty tough to shout, “Two bits, Four bits, Six bits, a Dollar, all for Zhelensky stand up and holler”, when there is no good news to show on the nightly newscasts. The presstitutes are suckers for video showing a ship getting hit with a Ukie missile and sinking, or a Ukie jet strafing a line of stalled Russian tanks, or Ukie artillery raking the positions of entrenched Russian soldiers.
But those videos are not available. The best Ukraine can produce are clips pulled from realistic video games that even confuse hardened warriors (sarcasm alert) like Barry McCaffrey. Imagine my shock today to read this headline and story from CNN. (Note–The CNN story confirms as true the analysis that Andrei Martyanov and I have offered):
Former US soldier now fighting in Ukraine tells of days trapped in ‘house of horrors’
Kevin is part of a group of elite foreign special forces veterans, primarily American and British, who have enlisted to help the Ukrainian cause.
He says that back in March, the group spent four days in the health spa – they called it “the house from hell” – often just 50 meters from Russian troops. It was, he says, the furthest-forward Ukrainian-held position in Irpin, a suburb on the outskirts of Kyiv, as Russian forces tried to push on through to seize the capital. . . .
Despite a career as a former top-level US counter-terrorism operative, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, Kevin says it is here in Ukraine that he has faced the most intense fighting of his life. . . .
For the first time in his life, Kevin was defending against invasion by a better-equipped enemy. He, not the enemy, was the one who had to worry about airstrikes. There was no master plan, no air support – and there would be no evacuation in case of disaster.
“It was like a movie,” he says. “It was insanity from the start. We started taking indirect fire driving in – small arms fire driving in. And I was in a pickup truck, just driving down the street.”
“There’s tanks, and above us there’s helicopters. And you can hear the Russian jets flying by. And out in the open fields the Russians were dropping troops off in helicopters. And so you’re like: ‘Woah, wow!’ It’s a lot.”
Kevin and his colleagues were on the receiving end of artillery fire. During battles in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria, these foreign soldiers were calling in the air strikes and artillery bombardments. They’d never known was it was like on the receiving end. . . .
Day after day, Kevin and his buddies concluded that they, too, had had enough. Then the next day came, bringing with it new orders and new missions, and they found themselves staying on. Eventually, he says, they wound up at the sauna and gym complex where they holed up for four days, even as the building slowly disintegrated under Russian shelling.
“We call it the house of horrors, because it was literally a nightmare in there,” he says. “This was four really miserable days of really little sleep, really heavy artillery, really heavy infantry presence from the Russians. No matter how many people that we removed from their side, they just kept coming.” . . .
Kevin and his team were not sitting on Ukrainian tanks charging the Russians and defeating them on the field of battle. Nope. He and his special forces buddies were hunkered down getting to experience the receiving end of aerial and artillery bombardments. Karma is a bitch.
Kevin described the dilemma of the average Ukrainian soldier–no air support, no artillery support, no rescue. But hey, those Ukie troops sure are brave. I have a news flash for Kevin–there were brave Nazi soldiers fighting Soviet troops in World War II and they lost (thank God!).
Indonesia canceled a bid for some Russian kilo class submarines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo-class_submarine#Failed_bids
I submit that they should be called bravo delta class submarines (bravo delta: broke ****).
Venezuela has been interested in them.
Putin is at the end of his rope. His generals and subordinates know what the result will be if he orders nukes and they won’t let that happen since they have families too........
