How is the annex? Plenty of plants I hope.
Yeah, right.
So says the purveyor of everything slanted to the Left, the NY Times.
Putin sits in the Kremlin, sipping his imported champagne, while these poor bastards are out in the field, getting mowed down in a hail of bullets
life in a police-state dictatorship ...
The Russians will soon double their losses.
‘This isn’t Russian roulette, it’s like the suicide of lemmings’: Putin’s marine brigade of 5,000 men is all but destroyed in one of the most brutal battles since the start of the war
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11746903/Putins-marine-brigade-5-000-men-destroyed-brutal-battle.html
********** I feel bad for the dumb Roooooskies that Vlad is killing off. At his end, Hitler said the German people were not worthy of him.
Ukraine is winning the propaganda war. In your mind.
" There are two main uses of the conscripts in this tactic: as “storm troops” who move in waves, followed by more experienced Russian fighters, and as intentional targets, to draw fire and thus identify Ukrainian positions to hit with artillery.This is how the Russian government treats is own army. The pro-invasion posters response? Filling threads with sexual insults.Either way, they have become an integral component of Russia's military strategy as it presses a new offensive in Ukraine's east: relying on overwhelming manpower, much of it comprising inexperienced, poorly trained conscripts, regardless of the high rate of casualties."
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Some military analysts and Western governments have questioned Russia's strategy, citing rates of wounded and killed at about 70% in battalions featuring former convicts. On Sunday, the British defense intelligence agency said that over the past two weeks, Russia had probably suffered its highest rate of casualties since the first week of the invasion.
Because they are the smart, moral, ethical people and its really those siding with Ukraine's right of self defense side are deluded. 🙄
Putin is saving lots of money on the prison budget...
This is how both Stalin and now Putin gets rid of crime/criminals. They are what W..E.B DuBois called “cannonfodder” for the Communist Party protests in the US, using blacks as their frontline advance troops.
Same principle, different place!
Mass infantry attacks and indifference to troop losses are traditional to the Russian military but are a sign of desperation and near certain failure against the phenomenal destructive power of modern weapons and munitions. In the current context, that illustrates the inability of Russia to adopt modern military methods and that the new offensive will be a bloody failure in a strategic sense. At most, it may make enough territorial gains for Putin to claim victory, which seems to be what he expects to do no matter the cost in Russian lives.
[ he estimated that half of the men in each assault were wounded or killed, ]
Putin cannon fodder .......
OMG, here we go again. This Russian “Human Wave” nonsense has been around dating back to the nazi propaganda in the Second World War. Oh wait, Ukraine…NY Times, yeah this makes sense. Propaganda is their purpose.
NYT, hahahahahaha!
The goal will be to retake the old Soviet empire. Russia strategically has to control the ground routes of invasion. Which happens to be west of Berlin
That is why the West is trying to sacrifice Ukraine.
Decimated is one in ten. This sounds like a massacre.
At the outset of the Special Military Operation Ukraine had a larger army in the field than Russia. That is no longer the case. Russia destroyed Ukraine’s tank brigades and now Ukraine is begging desperately for replacements. Ukraine’s Army has been decimated by the Russian tactic of using artillery to attack and destroy fixed entrenchments. Even if NATO decided to mobilize and send its own troops to reinforce Ukraine, that would not be enough to “expel” Russian forces. Russia is fighting for its homeland.
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Russia’s so-called “conscripts” are military reservists, plus an estimated 100,000 volunteers who signed up. Ukraine, by contrast, is kidnapping 16 year old boys and 60 year old men off the streets in places like Kiev and Odessa. I find it hard to believe that Milley really believes the crap he is spewing. If he does then the United States military is in grave danger with a moron like that in charge.
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Russia enjoys advantages in personnel, tanks, artillery, ammunition, electronic warfare, combat aircraft, helicopters and hyper sonic missiles. There is zero evidence that Ukraine has more courage, resilience or tactical skill than the Russians. In fact, the real asymmetry is that Russia has more trained soldiers than Ukraine by a vast margin.
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Ukraine, with the help of the West, is sleep walking into the slaughterhouse. Ukraine and NATO’s refusal to wake up and grasp the reality of what is happening is likely to lead to the destruction of both.