Posted on 02/09/2023 4:06:27 PM PST by thegagline
So, while Ukrainians are dying on a battlefield, 70,000 OTHER Ukrainians are training, eating good, sleeping, hot showers, not dealing with artillery-rockets-drone, and have all the ammo to shoot for practice
Awesome…..I’m sure the 16 and 60 year old conscripts are happy that help is coming ,
Paragraphs are your friend
With regards to the planes.
Who was going to fly them? Were they getting Cessna’s or actual combat aircraft?
It normally takes years to train someone to fly a combat jet.
Oh wait…..the Ukrainians have the Ghost of Kiev. Forgot about that guy.
Oh wait……that was complete BS.
When this started Putin’s objective was not to take on Kiev because he did not have enough troops involved to take a city as large as Kiev.
I still don’t think that is an objective of his.
The hoard is on its way.
“It’s a charnel house, that was completely avoidable.”
Of course it was avoidable. But Russia made avoidable impossible when it invaded.
“This is the discredited Domino Theory from 1963, Vietnam.”
Except that Putin’s close ally Kadyrov spilled the beans a couple days ago when he said that Poland was next. Attack Poland, and the big game is on. Will you be as giddy about that as you are about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
“Yet, there are still neocon fools here that want to continue to escalate...”
Too funny! RUSSIA is the one who is escalating this war. You guys are cheering on this new major offensive, complete with pretty much every kind of weaponry except nukes, and you have the4 chutzpah to imply THAT is not escalation?
What’s this “We” bull@#$%, tovarisch?
Russia and Ukraine, according to former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Ukraine were close to negotiating an end to the war in MARCH before we and the Brits intervened and prevent them from doing so.
We and NATO are the ones that just agreed send in tanks and talking about F-16s.
This just another of what a liar you and your ilk are.
“If Pootie-Poot has 1800 tanks left, I’ll wager there’s more than a few T-34s mixed in.”
Could be. The T-34 was a great tank for WWII. Today, not so much.
Hah!!! (-;
Link please.
“From my perspective, It looked like Russia approached their invasion with ‘kid gloves’ towards their Historic Slavic Neighbor.”
The Poles are Slavs, and Russia hates the Poles; and has invaded Poland. Pomeranians are Slavs, yet Russia invaded their lands. Silesians are Slavs, yet Russia invaded their lands. In WWII Russia brutalized Berlin; but what the Russians did to Berlin pales in comparison to the horrors it inflicted on the Poles, and especially on the Silesians and the Pomeranians.
As for Ukrainians’ opinion of Russians, I will respond to your anecdotal example with my own: I have several Ukrainian-American neighbors: They hate Russia with a white-hot passion, and that hatred goes back generations.
“It’s rather well-known thay Russia has literally thousands and thousands of tanks, APCs and armored vehicles. It’s their doctrine and has been.”
A great many of those tanks are derelicts that are being cannibalized for parts. Russia has thousands of tanks “on the books,” but not all of them are serviceable.
That was the store of tank chassis in long term storage, which had been kept for over 30 years in poor conditions. This was not an inventory of immediately usable tanks. At best its a source of hulls and parts with which to build “runners” in what amounts to a remanufacturing process.
“Link please.”
Certainly. Just type in “kadyrov threatens poland” in your search engine. And, while you’re at it, you can search for those rules you promised.
Ukraine has an air force with a few dozen operating Mig 29’s. I’m sure it’s got a couple of hundred qualified jet fighter pilots who need conversion training, not a full education.
“Russia, you lying neocon POS, negotiated the Minsk Accords...”
Russia, you lying Russian POS, is on record saying the Minsk Agreements do not apply to Russia because Russia was not a party to the conflict! Look it up!
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