[Berlin_Freeper]

I’m sure there is plenty for your Irish donkey.

[JonPreston]

My donkey isn’t Irish, he’s German. The SOB just grew a little mustache and started goose stepping.

[Berlin_Freeper]

As the temperature drops, it takes more effort to move about and you get hungrier more quickly. If supplies fail to match needs, morale sinks. Desertion, surrender, looting, and mutiny all start looking more attractive. Actual fighting, less so.

In the past, General Winter was Russia’s great ally. But now the cold months are helping Ukraine. Its soldiers are better equipped, better trained, better led, better treated, and therefore more highly motivated. Russians, by contrast, are paying the price for their system’s endemic incompetence and corruption. When you are wearing the wrong clothes, the cold bites hard.