Posted on 12/20/2022 7:39:44 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
They never had a chance.
Fumbling blindly through cratered farms, the troops from Russia’s 155th Naval Infantry Brigade had no maps, medical kits or working walkie-talkies, they said. Just a few weeks earlier, they had been factory workers and truck drivers, watching an endless showcase of supposed Russian military victories at home on state television before being drafted in September. One medic was a former barista who had never had any medical training.
Now, they were piled onto the tops of overcrowded armored vehicles, lumbering through fallow autumn fields with Kalashnikov rifles from a half-century ago and virtually nothing to eat, they said. Russia had been at war most of the year, yet its army seemed less prepared than ever. In interviews, members of the brigade said some of them had barely fired a gun before and described having almost no bullets anyway, let alone air cover or artillery. But it didn’t frighten them too much, they said. They would never see combat, their commanders had promised.
Only when the shells began crashing around them, ripping their comrades to pieces, did they realize how badly they had been duped.
Flung to the ground, a drafted Russian soldier named Mikhail recalled opening his eyes to a shock: the shredded bodies of his comrades littering the field. Shrapnel had sliced open his belly, too. Desperate to escape, he said, he crawled to a thicket of trees and tried to dig a ditch with his hands.
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No Biden stooge, you support Biden. Biden IS US policy. Without Biden you have nothing. You support Biden. You will never shed that.
not unlike what’s happening in the usa
A little trivia note, I used an AR-15 in Army basic.
“I find that very disturbing—for Russia, because demographically, they are in tatters”
Very good point. One of the worst things about this war is it aggravates the real long term threat to Russia.
The Russian Far East has half the population it did in the Soviet Era, and it is shrinking every year. Just across the border are 1.5 billion land hungry Chinese.
“”The danger of course is that with multiple military and paramilitary groups operating, Putin’s death (natural or otherwise) could set off a civil war in Russia.””
That Wagner group could prove to be a problem.
—> So how you think the battle went was the Ukrainians launched a doomed suicide attack,
No. I’ve always thought Ukrainians are knowingly cannon fodder until a false flag is promulgated to “force” NATO to attack Russia.
The New York Times. A bastion of truth and integrity.
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(Do I really need the sarc tag?)
Garbage simpleton talk from a sour Putin Stooge.
That’s as stupid and childish as saying celebrating NASA achievements is supporting Biden.
You neocons, aka democrats, cornered the market on simpleton back in February. If you support this proxy war, you support Biden. What's worse is you support all of the rest of this globalist crap and those wielding it. You can't escape that. Embrace it lefty.
You can spam the same simpleton crap all you like sour Putin Stooge.
Fact is I Support Ukraine and not Joe Biden just like I support NASA but not Joe Biden.
You NEVER have any criticism of Putin.
Why is that Putin Stooge??
You have to resort to lying which comes as no surprise since you posted this propaganda tripe. I don't have to justify my remarks to dumb leftist. Show me where I praise Putin. You clowns get bent because you can't make US praise Zelensky. Any lack of praise to your idol is automatically praise for Putin. It's DUmb and you like it that way. Biden stooge. Go find some new propo to post. This one has run it's course.
I don't have to justify my remarks to dumb leftist. Show me where I praise Putin.NAILED you and made you squeal like little Putin Stooge pig. I didn't say you praised Putin. Go ahead idiot, by your standard show me where I have praise Biden. You are too easy, kiddo LoL!
By your standard then you don’t support our brave military because Biden is the commander in chief.
Your lowest common denominator simpleton argument has painted you into a corner.
You really don’t like me calling Putin Stooges, Putin Stooges.
Suffer, Putin Stooge.
Cheer on this proxy war bidenista. Every time you cheer, you praise Bidens policies. You can't escape it. You will never escape it. Here, let me pat you on the head, Fk Putin and Fk Zelensky. Fk Russia and Fk The Ukraine. Fk Biden and Fk those supporting him and this proxy war. Now, run along to find your next propaganda piece. I can wait.
Cheer on this proxy war bidenista.Having NUKED your simpleton argument, let me now bury the ashes...
Putin invaded, not Biden - you have no point because it's not other way around.
Putin created the war and you support it, like a good Putin Stooge who never criticizes Putin nor his failing Terror Invasion.
BTW Putin Stooge, when are you calling for the immediate disbanding of our Military due to Biden being President?
You're just dumb. I expect that when I interface with democrats. You don't disappoint.
Thanks for giving me another chance to rub in your ignorant face that you have no reply about being a Biden Stooge hypocrite, according to your childish reasoning, because you don’t denounce the US Military. 👏
I expect that when I interface with democratsDemocrats must be owning your stupid azz. LoL!
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