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Russia’s war lacks strategy, only aim is to bring suffering - analysis
The Jerusalem Post ^ | JANUARY 2, 2023 | SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Posted on 01/02/2023 3:54:03 AM PST by tlozo

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To: tlozo

“It invaded Ukraine and caused millions to suffer, but it is the victim, in its own analysis.

A message of strength was broadcast on other Russian media, portraying Russia as having weathered the storm of Western sanctions and aggression, even as Russia is the one doing the aggression.

This attempt to transform the Ukraine war into a defensive war in which Russia is the victim is part of the Moscow narrative. Having annexed areas of Ukraine, Russia can now pretend to be “defending” its lands. Moscow has claimed it won’t conduct peace talks if the annexed areas are on the table. In essence, it is trying to force Ukraine to negotiate over how much land Ukraine will lose.”

putin/russia invaded Ukraine. This is putin’s war against Ukraine. period!

It was supposed to take days, now they are into the 11th month. putin is not only evil, he is stupid!

putin is making russia a pariah nation...evil and stupid


61 posted on 01/02/2023 6:41:44 AM PST by Sunsong
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To: Travis McGee

Clown


62 posted on 01/02/2023 6:53:21 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: Jan_Sobieski
"Why would you have to build it up if it were not destroyed?"

Because it wasn't there to start with.


63 posted on 01/02/2023 6:55:02 AM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Travis McGee

We don’t hear about the civilian casualties in “our” wars. So it seems that Americans think we have nice wars.

Thx for posting.


64 posted on 01/02/2023 6:56:03 AM PST by xenia ( “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell)
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To: JonPreston

Clown 2023


65 posted on 01/02/2023 6:56:21 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: dennisw
Denny the Dimwit


66 posted on 01/02/2023 6:58:17 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: tlozo

Destroying the Globalist oligarchs and preserving Christianity, to start.


67 posted on 01/02/2023 7:13:25 AM PST by Gratia
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To: Justa

I was in the US Army from 1988 - 1996. The Concept of “Shock and Awe” was developed in my last year. I saw its implementation in Iraq in 2003.


68 posted on 01/02/2023 7:15:42 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: WMarshal

None of which is possible with Russia’s current attacks, which are aimed at electric infrastructure or civilians, not industry. And the power is already back on from the last mass attack of 120 cruise missiles.


69 posted on 01/02/2023 7:34:30 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Toad of Toad Hall

Supplies from Kyiv? Thats not where they’re coming from. Why not just directly attack the rail lines then?


70 posted on 01/02/2023 7:36:45 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: MeganC
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Russia’s war lacks strategy, only aim is to bring suffering - analysis, MeganC wrote:

I personally enjoyed Ukraine’s attacks on Russia over the weekend. I hope your Russian friends and family are thrilled to get a taste of their own terrorism hitting them in their cities and neighborhoods.

Wow. You're sick!

But your post is similar to others I've seen which rabidly thirsts for Russian citizen blood. I've been taken aback by the Ukrainian propagandists here trying to convince us that EVERY person with Russian DNA is evil and MUST be exterminated. Ethnic cleansing - the Ukrainian shills can't keep their hands off of it, neither can the neo Nazis who form the core of the Ukrainian military.


71 posted on 01/02/2023 7:36:47 AM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Toad of Toad Hall

A completely made up ratio. Per Russian sources 600 Russkies might have died yesterday in bombings. You want us to believe 4,800 Ukrainians died yesterday top with no evidence? No photos of the carnage?


72 posted on 01/02/2023 7:38:14 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Travis McGee

Weird logic to attack the USA for taking down Saddam but then using it to justify Russian behavior.

It’s bad when America does it, but good when Russia does it to Ukrainians.

Your perspective on Russian morality, one of the most corrupt and godless nations on Earth, is also on the level of a comic book.


73 posted on 01/02/2023 7:44:39 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I’m not rooting for Russia.

I’m pointing out glaring hypocrisy.

Gooses > Gander.


74 posted on 01/02/2023 7:46:45 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Toad of Toad Hall

Again, this is just Russian crap you are regurgitating without evidence. It is the current party line to explain away why Russia has just been retreating everywhere since July. “We’re retreating victoriously while the Ukrainians advance in defeat!”

But there is simply no evidence for any of this other than the fake news you repeat here without providing any sources, because you know if you provide a source, it’ll go back to some neo-nazi Russian.


75 posted on 01/02/2023 7:49:20 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Gratia
Destroying the Globalist oligarchs and preserving Christianity, to start.

Ramzan Kadyrov and Chechens, helping Putin to fight for Biblical Judeo/Christianity!


76 posted on 01/02/2023 7:50:07 AM PST by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
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To: JonPreston

You have been corrected on your lies about Minsk many times. You have never offered a rebuttal. So why attempt to spread your lies again when you know what will happen?


77 posted on 01/02/2023 7:51:28 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: ransomnote

Every week or so Putinists jerk off with memes about freezing Ukrainians or Europeans to death.

Attempting to erase that history and turning the narrative around is desperate and hopeless.

Just own your sadistic glee and run with it.


78 posted on 01/02/2023 7:56:31 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Where were you when America used the same tactics on Yugoslavia and Iraq?


79 posted on 01/02/2023 7:57:05 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat)
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To: Gratia

Are you serious? Both sides are WEF men. There is no good side. It’s a proxy war. How can folks take sides when Ukraine, Russia and The U.S report propaganda? Nobody is fighting for patriots.


80 posted on 01/02/2023 7:58:54 AM PST by M_Continuum
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