Posted on 10/16/2022 12:20:43 AM PDT by dennisw
There is growing "discontent" - both on the battlefield and at home.
He told Express.co.uk: "Russia is in big trouble because Ukraine has been making serious advances in both the northeast and in the south. Russia does not seem to be capable and have enough troops to resist Ukraine's advances at present.
"When you combine this with the botched mobilisation, you are seeing much greater discontent there as a result of what is happening on the battlefield and also at home."
"We're also seeing some of Russia's allies seriously doubting what Russia is doing and, in some cases, distancing themselves from Russia.
Putin has a very big problem on his hands which probably won't be remedied immediately by the mobilisation he is making. Those forces won't be deployed quickly enough or in a good enough state to make a big difference."
Colonel Kemp also warned some of Putin's strongest global allies are starting to cast huge doubt over his war plan.
Most recently, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan summoned Putin for a crunch meeting in Kazakhstan as patience continues to wear thin over the Russian President's war plans in Ukraine.
Colonel Kemp said: "Putin's global allies and partners are also starting to lose confidence and faith in his war plan, and that will become a very big problem for him.
"For the first time, we have seen criticism and uncertainty from the likes of China, India and Turkey - three countries he really needs to have on side to an extent.
"We have seen dissent from the leaders of each of those counties over the past few weeks, as well as very important allies such as Kazakhstan - a former Soviet state which has always been very close to Russia - is now distancing themselves from Russia."
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Here's a novel idea, don't open the article that you're not interested in and definitely don't respond to it, instead of calling for speech restrictions like some liberal.
Amazing disconnect huh? The US failed miserably after 2 decades in Afghanistan, yet somehow to some on FR, a mere 8 months proves failure.
Yes, but when half the articles promote Democrat, globalist, Deep State, Ukrainian propaganda, I start to question why I even come to a site that aligns with a site like Democratic Underground so much.
MSN…..great source 🙄, surely no agenda 🙄
falling apart at thee seams
The United States of America and our NATO alliance and our 110,000 American GIs in Europe support Ukraine in its fight against a Russian invasion and the biggest war in Europe since WWII and you want freerepublic to devote itself to promoting the enemy’s propaganda against us while squelching our sides news?
Hey, wait a minute! You left me out, Comrade!
Yep, he only had two days worth of cruise missiles and S-300s before he had to stop lobbing them into Ukraine (out of the goodness of his heart)!
It looks like we are in the same boat. Frankly, I'm a little weary of paying to be here and the result is that I have to put up with this deluge of leftist neocon trash 24/7. Why would I continue to pay to do this? I can be treated to this by leftist almost anywhere on the planet, free of charge. If I wanted to interact with leftist constantly, I'd go to the DUmp myself.
“Yeh that’s it. I see kangaroos every day. Their bounding is something to see”
If I ever get to Ozzie Land my top priority will be to see kangaroos. Everyone outside Australia is fascinated by these unusual marsupial critters. If it were up to me, I would import 1000 of them here, and turn them loose in the SW of America. Texas too. And Mississippi, if they behave themselves.
Fighting against Ukrainian Christians?! That’s a ridiculous statement, but not surprising as a tactic, considering the amoral intent for the whole world behind this proxy war to WWIII.
“It looks like we are in the same boat. Frankly, I’m a little weary of paying to be here and the result is that I have to put up with this deluge of leftist neocon trash 24/7. Why would I continue to pay to do this? I can be treated to this by leftist almost anywhere on the planet, free of charge. If I wanted to interact with leftist constantly, I’d go to the DUmp myself.”
I agree with everything that you do. I am as anti WEF and anti-globalism as they come. I voted Trump twice. I never got vaxxxed. EXCEPT that I don’t like Russian imperialism. This is Soviet/USSR imperialism, reincarnated. I go along with NATO and the Europeans here. Because my ancestors came here from Europe.
Putin is not the man you are looking for. He is satanic. He sends men off to die in his idiotic wars, for no good reason. Zelensky is an angel, compared to your Bad Vlad. Russia is 10x more corrupt than Ukraine
“ Get back to US when they have been at this for 20 years and have to walk away humiliated. Goat herders say, “Pull my finger”. ”
There’s a few major problems with that silly attempt at a parallel.
1) The US never wanted to invade and take over the countries of goat herders.
2) The US destroyed all military opposition the goat herders had in short order in the initial operations.
3) It wasn’t a war that kept us there 20 years, it was the misguided goal of “nation building” in places that didn’t want it.
4) Ukraine is next to Russia and it used to be part of it, on and off, through the years.
It’s becoming more likely that Xi will get the parts of Russia he has had his eye on.
Most likely for financial compensation…but maybe something stronger once Russia’s military has been drained.
Xi won’t incur the wrath of the West for doing so, unlike expansion into Taiwan.
Goat herders say. “Here pull my other finger”.
I think you left out “RevMom” and her nocturnal postings . . .
Other than that small Kherson area Ukraines got a very long way to go to recover the other areas Putin has annexed.
How does this end?
I hope Ukrainian people defeat the jackass Putin out of their country. AND THEN I hope they do what we need to do in this country, that is defeat the Liberal World Order.
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