Posted on 08/25/2022 6:21:24 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a major buildup of his country’s military forces Thursday in an apparent effort to replenish troops that have suffered heavy losses in six months of bloody warfare and prepare for a long, grinding fight ahead in Ukraine.
The move to increase the number of troops by 137,000, or 13%, to 1.15 million by the end of the year came amid chilling developments on the ground in Ukraine.
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Putin’s decree did not specify whether the expansion would be accomplished by widening the draft, recruiting more volunteers, or both. But some Russian military analysts predicted heavier reliance on volunteers because of the Kremlin’s concerns about a potential domestic backlash from an expanded draft.
The move will boost Russia’s armed forces overall to 2.04 million, including the 1.15 million troops.
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Winner gets to make fun of the maximum troll on one of his cheerleader threads first after the fall of the target. :)
1. Putin's war is going well for him and the Russians.
2. I'm not an idiot.
3. Standard military doctrine is a 3-to-1 ratio of attacker versus defender, especially an entrenched defender (see Europe's West Wall, 1944).
Russia's doctrine in this Special Military Operation is a 1-to-3 ratio - a complete reversal of accepted doctrine. Ponder that for a while.
For all your globalist warmongering needs, turn to George Soros. (also sponsored by Pfizer)
*MAGA First/Anti-War/Anti-Globalist Ping*
If you want on or off this list, please let me know.
“He may return eastern UKR to Poland.”
With the 500 M1Abrams tanks Poland has on order with the US, he should realize Poland might just chase him back to Russia with a little help from Ukraine partisans. It appears partisans in Crimea are already giving Putin a hard time and chasing large numbers of the 2 million who moved there after 2014 back to mother Russia with all the bad news about the fact this is a real WAR, not a Special Military Operation. This is really going to upset Putin’s recruitment activities.
“(also sponsored by Pfizer?)”
Since I don’t know much about this 92 year old man you have been maligning recently, I decided to check on this Pfizer factoid. I despise Pfizer and would not take an mRNA vaccine if I could possibly avoid it. It turns out that Soros dumped his Pfizer shares in 2017, well before the Covid, much less the vaccine issue, existed, not to mention the HCQ and Ivermectin controversies. So stop spreading this lie.
https://stockcircle.com/portfolio/george-soros/pfe/transactions
23 GEORGE SOROS PFIZER TRADES
“The first Pfizer trade was made in Q3 1999. Since then George Soros bought shares eleven more times and sold shares on fourteen occasions. The investor sold all their shares in Q2 2017 and doesn’t own any shares in Pfizer anymore.”
[You still haven’t shown any comments by me supporting Soros except to expose your lie/misinformation. Saying Soros supports Pfizer since he dropped his shares before we ever heard of Covid is like says Fauci is a really great guy. NOT. Perhaps Soros discovered something evil about Pfizer several years before we all found out about their vaccine, which made him drop his shares in 2017.]
You post his propaganda, you post and support his agenda, you support him. You stop posting lies, lady.
OK Comrade Forest. Putin appreciates your efforts.
“Did you notice that the HIMARS terror weapons seem to have disappeared this week?”
UPDATE:
“Ukraine Strikes Key Bridges, Russian Command Post on Independence Day”
By Isabel van Brugen On 8/25/22 at 7:35 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-key-bridges-kherson-independence-day-war-1736856?utm_source=push_notification&utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=fullauto&utm=1661483592672
“We should start a pool on which city falls first, Odessa, Kharkiv, or Kiev.
My money is on Odessa.”
I pick Kherson.
But Comrade Bob, what if they actually like Zelensky and want to keep him, and do not want to be "liberated" by the Russians?
Have you seen Comrade DJ's profile?
“Did you notice that the HIMARS terror weapons seem to have disappeared this week?”
I did notice that they took out the Antonivsky Bridge this week, and struck the one at Nova Khakova repeatedly, as well as exploding more than one Russian ammo dump per day.
“1. Putin’s war is going well for him and the Russians.
2. I’m not an idiot”
That photo you posted of the soldier’s bodies brought home a taste of the horror that Putin has unleashed.
Tens of thousands killed, hundreds of thousands wounded, millions traumatized and displaced, cities destroyed.
Reminds me I need to update it, I haven’t changed it in 6 1/2 years.
P.S. Too bad your nice profile page is utterly in contradiction to your agenda.
You mean the horror that Zelensky unleashed on behalf of his globalist masters, Booboo.
Aye, Comrade DJ, all those photos of naked ladies on your profile suggests that you might be a voyeuristic pervert.
Anything posted on my page has been thoroughly vetted by the mods and JimRob. If you wish to call them that description, that’s on you.
Keep on digging !
It is the same kind of horror that Putin unleashed on Grozny and Aleppo continuing to grow in scale over time.
The mass targeting of civilians with artillery, the systematic widespread use of brutal torture, the maimed and traumatized orphans.
But this time his victims have the means to fight back.
Send more Artillery!
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