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The Ragtag Army That Won the Battle of Kyiv and Saved Ukraine
Wall Street Journal ^ | Sept. 20, 2022 10:49 am ET | James Marson

Posted on 10/06/2022 11:06:20 PM PDT by Zhang Fei

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To: tlozo

Is that Ashli Babbitt?


21 posted on 10/07/2022 2:53:35 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: roving; Kazan

What does this have to do with the post? Some forums have rules about changing subjects.


It’s cut and paste spam. Check posting history for proof.


22 posted on 10/07/2022 2:53:58 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: popdonnelly

Yes, they defend themselves in ways that Russian serfs and slaves never would. And that drives Putinas crazy.


23 posted on 10/07/2022 2:55:57 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Zhang Fei

Wall Street Journal account

has many omissions and paints a generally incorrect picture of what really happened to the doomed invasion. Reads like a CNN drive by recounting.

Your elite Russian formation were mostly wiped out - along with the overall commander of the invasion - in the first hours and never received reinforcements.


24 posted on 10/07/2022 3:36:20 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Gene Eric

Considering the real Ashli Babbits guts, if she were in that spot in Irpin on that day ... yes she would have taken out a tank.


25 posted on 10/07/2022 3:51:56 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Zhang Fei

So Ukraine has been saved... Finally. Won’t have to hear about it anymore.


26 posted on 10/07/2022 4:05:24 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Biden is laundering billions back to the Biden regime, with Zelensky taking his cut, of course.


27 posted on 10/07/2022 4:05:32 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: buwaya

I’ll have to dig out my VHS player this weekend to watch that Documentary about partisans. What’s it’s called. Oh yea. Wolverine’s!!😂😂😂😂
Probably should have added a couple of Zzzzz in for effect at the end.
You guys Rock!
Happy Friday.


28 posted on 10/07/2022 4:06:57 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: Kazan

>> - In reality, Ukraine will be left overextended and vulnerable just as Russia’s 300,000-strong mobilization begins shaping the battlefield. <<

UH, no. It doesn’t work that way. Just because Russian advances can lead to Russia being overextended doesn’t mean Ukrainian advances lead to Ukraine being overextended. Home-field advantage means a ton in warfare.

Strategically, what Ukraine needs to do is push Russian back across the Dneiper at Kherson before the 300,000 enlistees engage. If they achieve that, they’ll be LESS over-extended, not more. I’m a little surprised that they haven’t tried to punch a hole through Zaporizhzhiz oblast to isolate the two Russian battle zones (Kherson, Donbas).


29 posted on 10/07/2022 4:07:11 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Zhang Fei

full article

https://archive.ph/DM5wf


30 posted on 10/07/2022 4:53:44 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: Kazan

“In reality, Ukraine will be left overextended and vulnerable just as Russia’s 300,000-strong mobilization begins shaping the battlefield. “

ROTFLOL!


31 posted on 10/07/2022 4:54:39 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: catnipman

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!!!!

I MEAN IT!!!!!!!

SERIOULY!!!!!!!


32 posted on 10/07/2022 5:37:25 AM PDT by _longranger81
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To: tlozo

Nice photo op. I like how the only thing she has in her magazine pouches is her cell phone.


33 posted on 10/07/2022 5:39:24 AM PDT by Trinity5
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Russian posters don’t understand that being critical of Democrat presidents doesn’t mean this forum is anti-American. That’s how they end up posting a lot of generic anti-American drivel from communists, who are dripping with American hatred no matter the policy in question.


34 posted on 10/07/2022 5:40:03 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: Kazan

Are you seriously pinning your hope for novorossia on 300,000 untrained, unmotivated and under-equipped mobiks, when the VDV, wagnerites and spetznas couldn’t get it done? Good luck with that...


35 posted on 10/07/2022 5:40:36 AM PDT by lump in the melting pot (Believe nothing until it is denied by the Kremlin)
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To: Zhang Fei

Really good article with the ring of authenticity.


36 posted on 10/07/2022 6:13:22 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin (0 OOP )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Nobody has claimed they won the war. The article is about the early-day heroics that stopped them from losing it.


37 posted on 10/07/2022 6:15:13 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin (0 OOP )
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To: ifinnegan
"五毛"

5 hands?!
38 posted on 10/07/2022 7:04:18 AM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Zhang Fei

While a rollicking article, it is a major puff piece for Ukraine.

I root for the Ukes, but this was a fun and unbalanced piece.


39 posted on 10/07/2022 7:20:09 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Who was Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: Kazan

Bullshit. Russia’s “300k mobilization” is proving how weak Putin’s army is.


40 posted on 10/07/2022 7:21:13 AM PDT by willfulknowledge
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