[lump in the melting pot]

Boldface highlights are mine. Author of thread is a professor of Political Philosophy at The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka). He is a Russian academic, in Moscow. For full disclosure, here is the Wikipedia entry for Shaninka, for all the NWO tinfoil hatters to chew on. However, if you read that link, go ahead and also read his post from February 22nd, Putin is about to start the most senseless war in history, in which he accurately predicted many of the geopolitical developments due to russia's invasion of Ukraine we have seen so far, including Sweden and Finland's entry into NATO. So, dismiss his analysis at your peril.

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“Putin is about to start the most senseless war in history”

Umm no.

The most senseless war was one that lasted nearly 20 years and just recently ended in utter failure, like leaving Saigon level of failure....

[marktwain]

There are many contestants for the most senseless war in history.

WWI is a very good one.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

If only some useful idiots don’t step in to save him.

You Called?

[BenLurkin]

"This time we have the entire Reich focused on defeating Russia."

[2banana]

Well, a silly thread.

Doesn’t discuss the actual reasons of the conflict.

Doesn’t discuss the west will tire of it just like every other one.

Doesn’t discuss that there is actual a large percentage of the Ukraine that doesn’t want to be a part of this corrupt country. And voted to peacefully leave it. But the Kosovo method doesn’t work here

Doesn’t discuss the absolute calamity of winter in the EU. Freezing in the dark doesn’t even begin to describe what is coming.

Doesn’t discuss the absolute corrupt tyrant Zelensky is.

The war is going to come down to outlast and attrition war.

The west is like “Oh look...a squirrel!”

Over a totally avoidable war.

[canuck_conservative]

even if this war ended tomorrow, the damage to Russia is permanent

loss of trust, loss of military reputation, loss of international standing, loss of European energy markets, losses to the economy ... Russia has lost a lot already, and will lose more if this continues (which it will)

[blueunicorn6]

I don’t like Putin.

I don’t like Zelensky.

I don’t like this war.

I don’t like the Democrats sending billions of dollars to ‘Ukraine when they can’t tell us why they are doing that.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

WI'd actually put as No.1 on that list that the Russian military has been exposed as completely hollow in terms of equipment, logistics, supplies, and maintenance. Once you get past the modern equipment with which the active Russian army was initially equipped, there was just nothing behind it. The alleged huge reserves of tanks, APC's, and artillery were not maintained, and had degraded over the decades to the point of uselessness. Things like rust, dry rot, water damage, etc. - not to mention theft, cannibalization, and corruption - destroy those reserves. They literally had tanks stored outside in the elements for decades.

So once they started taking heavy losses in that equipment - and the artillery tubes began to fail because of the number of rounds fired through them - they could not be replaced other than in dribs and drabs.

You can't win a modern mechanized war without good logistical and maintenance systems unless you win it fast. And the Russians didn't do that.

Mobilized men without proper equipment are simply cannon fodder in the modern era. And I would imagine that those are the kind of conversations that they're having inside the Kremlin. They're looking at their supply chains, looking at what equipment they have in reserve, and coming to the conclusion that what they are doing now is not sustainable.

And though Ukraine is suffering some of the same things, they're getting greater logistical support from the West, sending damage equipment to other Eastern European countries to be repaired and refitted, etc..

Also unlike Ukraine, Russia has military border concerns other than just this particular war. Ukraine will use every last tank, every last artillery tube, and every last round of ammunition in its possession in this war because it is a war of survival. But Russia can't afford to do the same. It needs to retain some decent troops and equipment in other parts of the country to protect its other strategic national interests.

This war has been a disaster for Russia.

[tlozo]

First: Motivation. Russian army has no business in Ukraine.

Japanese plastic model manufacturer Tamiya introduces 'Russian invader' figurine series

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

Thank you for your post. I greatly appreciate.

[NKP_Vet]

He is not fighting against Ukrainians. He’s fighting against the best military equipment the US has and many other countries. US special forces have been there since it’s started. With corrupt Biden and the Uniparty of war mongering RINOs and demoRATS bankrolling the war he could last 10 years and bankrupt the United States. Would not be happening under Trump.

[Grzegorz 246]

“Russia is simply running out of idiots.”

That's the only part i can't agree with. Kacaps are idiots by default.

[dennisw]

Doom on all dumbass tyrannical invaders....and Ping. What bothers me most, is European whites (Ukies vs Russians) out there killing off each other. We already have enough browns who want to hijack Europe and America. May God help us!

[ransomnote]

The real reason Putin is moving more slowly, but will return with devastating firepower in about 4 weeks is that he tried to avoid damaging the infrastructure but corruptocrats like the Biden regime made sure to send the Ukraine 60 billion dollars, some of which Biden types kept for themselves.

 

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