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Putin condemnations are expected.
Knee-jerk reactions are expected from pundits, nationalists, etc. as well.
Conversely:
“Saturday’s Telegram howl and the hard truth about ourselves
Would have we won the Great Patriotic War in 1941-1945 if we had Telegram and mobile phones with video cameras? Very unlikely.
I just imagined minute-by-minute tantrums of anonymous authors like “The Red Army retreated from the village of Vinogradovo” or “Pavlov’s building was left without windows: did ours surrender?”. Dozens of photos would be attached to everything, of which: 5 archived, 3 photoshopped, and 2 stolen from somewhere.
While our soldiers do the real fighting, losing limbs and lives, someone is sitting and criticizing like “Kupyansk and Izyum surrendered! Cowards!”. Let me remind you that from 1941-1943 Red Army soldiers retreated from Kiev and Sevastopol, and motorcycles with Wehrmacht soldiers generally drove to the outskirts of Moscow. So what? And no one whined but went about their business: they made production rates of 1000%, getting a ration of 300 grams of bread. They were happy that they were helping the Motherland.
And now everyone imagines themselves as either a political expert or a military strategist, sitting with a smoothie or latte in cozy cafes in Moscow or Kherson.
Compatriots, the leadership of the country gave us the opportunity to restore historical justice without the hardships of 1941-1945. Everyone can professionally(!) write about the situation at the front, restore public services and health care, or establish the financial system in the liberated territories. Do it.
In short, alarmists, instead of whining in comments and posts, sign up as volunteers or come to work in the Kherson Joint Civil and Military Administration. In my social affairs department, be sure I’ll give that many challenges in your life that there will be no time to criticize and whine.
Thanks to the Russian soldier preserving the peaceful sky over the liberated territories, that allows me and the team to work calmly for the sake of the future!
— Ekaterina Gubareva, the vice-governor of Kherson oblast for social welfare affairs.”
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Russia now hitting power plants with much of eastern Ukraine dark
They should have done this on day 1 and also knock out all the bridges to slow resupply like we did in Gulf War 1
Their endsieg isn’t working out so great it seems.
Steer clear of them when they’re raging.
Today:
Russian forces are on the bring of collapse.
Ukrainian victory is in sight.
Tomorrow:
Ukrainian forces are on the bring of collapse.
Russian victory is in sight.
Next day:
Russian forces are on the bring of collapse.
Ukrainian victory is in sight.
Etc.
Ukraine: Clean up on aisle one.
Bad things are coming. Russia will do something wild and destructive and overwhelming.
Bar Kochba won some victories against Rome. Then the Empire struck back. Bar Kochba, he dayd.
Either that, or Putin will be given the old heave ho from the top floor of the Kremlin.
Don’t care. Not my monkeys, not my circus.
Just stop spending my grandkid’s money in shiitehole countries via Forever Wars!!!
Trump would be against this crap.
Praise the Lord! Good can sometimes triumph over evil.
It’s good to see the PUtler fan club continuing to seethe.
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Ukraine conducting a counteroffensive at Peski. All going well and then........"
That brings tears to my eye. What a morale boost it must be for the soldiers to be greeted that way! Slava Ukraini!
I’ve owned travel maps that were harder to fold than Russia.
This is face saving, nothing more. There is a huge part of Russian society backing Putin, its not just oligarchs and the military. These protests are for show and internal consumption. When the Kremlin cracks its whip all of their chicken hawk cheerleaders will calm down and go back to normal.
I’ve seen many pictures of the locals welcoming the Russian troops in the Donbas just like that. It’s meaningless.
