Shows what a total puppet he always was.
Posted on 09/07/2022 11:43:55 AM PDT by BeauBo
Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen warlord who is one of the biggest supporters of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, has said that he wants to quit.
In a video on his Telegram channel, Mr Kadyrov said that he had been president of Chechnya in Russia’s North Caucasus for 15 years and didn’t want to “outstay” his welcome...
He was promoted as Chechnya’s leader by Mr Putin in 2007 and has been a vocal supporter of the Russian president ever since, backing the initial invasion of Ukraine in February with his fighters.
Mr Kadyrov’s father, Akhmat, had fought Russian forces in the first Chechen war in the mid-1990s but switched sides for the second war a few years later.
He was made leader of Chechnya by Mr Putin in 2000 but was killed by a bomb in 2004.
Mr Kadyrov’s video suggesting that he may quit as Chechnya’s leader comes as the Kremlin’s six-month war in Ukraine stalls...
Despite their feared reputation, Chechen fighters have generally underperformed in Ukraine.
They have been mocked as the “TikTok battalion”, a reference to their interest in filming themselves messing around with weapons and captured motorbikes.
Chechen fighters were prominent in the first few months of the war but this has since waned.
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Shows what a total puppet he always was.
He’ll retire to Tuscon, live in a gated community.
Horror moment Chechen officer killed as he brags about defeating Ukrainian forces
“BoBo, you previously reported Ramzan Kadyrov was killed on April 30th”
You are confused, that was one of Kadyrov’s underlings that was killed. Kadyrov himself is no idiot, he is going nowhere near the meat grinder that are the front lines.
“I guess he learned the lesson from his dad - when Putin says leave, move out smartly, or he will have you killed.”
Chechnya is effectively an independent state within Russia. As long as Kadyrov publicly declared his loyalty to Putin he was left to rule the region as his own fiefdom.
He has 12 kids. I expect we will see one of them declared Ramzan II.
On what basis did anyone in Ukraine, the United States or NATO indulge the fantasy that Ukraine had a snowballs chance in the fiery realms of Hell of matching up with Russia?
As of today, Russia claims to have destroyed the following equipment deployed by Ukraine since February 24:
290 airplanes
152 helicopters
1,889 drones
373 anti-aircraft missile systems
4845 tanks
825 multiple rocker launchers
3,369 field artillery and mortars
5,343 special military automotve equipment
This means that Russia not only has destroyed Ukraine’s stockpiles that existed at the start of the war, but it is eliminating planes, tanks and MRLS systems subsequently provided by NATO and the United States.
Has Ukraine destroyed some Russian aircraft, helicopters, tanks and armored vehicles? Yes. But so what. Russian losses are only a minuscule fraction of their total strength and Russia, unlike Ukraine, has factories that are continuing to produce equipment and weapons lost or expended during the course of this conflict.
So with these numbers in mind, carefully consider what is happening to Ukraine’s military force in its current offensive. It is being decimated. Capturing a rural village or two or pushing the Donetsk or Luhansk militias backwards a few kilometers is tactically insignificant.
The truth of the matter is that Russia is relying on the Donbas militias to do the bulk of the front line fighting because it is home for those militias. Claims that the Russian military has suffered major casualties is delusional because the Russian forces are in the rear and providing fire support–ground and air–to the Donbas militias. Yes, there are some Russian troops on the frontlines in some places, but the cold, hard fact is that Russia has not committed a significant portion of its total military forces to the battle. Not yet, anyway.
The reality, which the United States and NATO are loathe to accept, is that Russia’s defeat of the Ukrainian military is inevitable; even if the United States or NATO made the suicidal decision to send their own forces into the fray.
Irving Berlin once had Bing Crosby ponder this age old question…
What can you do with a warlord
When he stops being a warlord?
Oh, what can you do with a warlord who retires?
Yeah, retirement can be problematic when you’re a warlord.
These figures are silly. Ukraine never had these numbers of planes, tanks and etc. The figures are implausible by a factor of 4X at least, even assuming the effective elimination of the Ukrainian military - which of course opens the question of who are the Russians still fighting?
Allied aid does not make up the difference. At most 20-30 combat aircraft and @400 tanks were supplied so far to Ukraine.
So your figures are off by much more than 4X.
Begin with math, and stick to it as much as possible.
4/2/2022, 6:27:44 PM · 89 of 90
Kazan to Salohcin
“Encircled and about to die if they don’t surrender in eastern Ukraine. That you don’t know that means you nothing about what is actually other than propaganda you’re getting.
It’s likely all going down next week.”
.......5 months later......
“you previously reported Ramzan Kadyrov was killed on April 30th”
No I didn’t, and that is not what the article that you linked said either.
The General of a unit that he sent into the Ukraine was killed, and I posted on that.
What is with all the bold typeface, and repeatedly posting the exact same cut and pasted screed every day?
Trying to convince yourself?
Too painful to watch reality, as it unfolds?
Bottom Line: Russia not stronk. It’s military is being decimated.
NATO planners can count, and know how many HIMARS it will take. The budget has been approved.
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