Posted on 04/04/2023 1:22:55 PM PDT by wardaddy
The Russian invasion of Ukraine recently passed the one-year mark and I fear the country is on the verge of losing to Russia.
As someone who has visited Ukraine multiple times on humanitarian missions, my last trip convinced me that the country is at a pivotal moment. Morale is slipping. I could see it in the eyes of the children. More importantly, I could hear it in the voices of their leaders, who continue to say all the right things but lack the same conviction as before.
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While the Russian invasion of Ukraine is just a year old, the nation has been in almost continual conflict since 2014, when Russian-backed separatist movements in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine declared independence, and the Russian government annexed the Crimean Peninsula. As the Ukrainians approach a decade of death and chaos, President Putin knows that the Russians will win a war of attrition.
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100% I have been in Ukraine and seen the child trafficking there. We did what we could to stop some of it. My buddy built a pretty big orphanage, but it still could only take so many kids.
lol Russia can not win, period.
Even if they somehow Russia wins this part of the war, they would eventually loose the gorilla part that would follow.
You can’t win a war against a determined local population under current rules of war.
Ukraine was unstable for decades. It should have followed Czechoslovakia’s example, and just separated into two prosperous stable countries.
moral bankruptcy
Are you serious? Wow. If true, it’s like you can’t trust anything online nowadays. Even that flag may have been corrupted.
They could have signed a deal in March 2022 and saved hundreds of thousands of lives, but they didn’t care.
This was foreseeable and inevitable. Most on this forum couldn’t see past their very poorly informed hatred of the russians, blinding them to the reality that was always there to be seen and understood.
Feel real sorry for the soldiers & their families who had no choice. Kids mostly, I’d wager.
The rest, well, not.
“They could have signed a deal in March 2022 and saved hundreds of thousands of lives, but they didn’t care.”
Give the Russian a half loaf and then they will come back later and take the rest. Never trust them.
Reminds me of when Bush, McCain and Pelosi all looked into Putin's eyes and read his soul.
Leftists and neocons certainly have some amazing super-powers.
they would eventually loose the gorilla part that would follow.
1/2 Zelensky’s latest admission: In a recent interview with Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun he declared that “We do not have ammunition. For us the situation in the East is not good.”
Zelensky’s admission adds credence to what the Washington Post recently reported regarding how poorly Kiev’s forces are faring in this conflict, especially its “severe ammunition shortages” that one of its sources spoke about.
Ukrainian Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko:
Kyiv’s forces are losing at least 500 fighters in the area of Bakhmut on a daily basis
2/2 Despite the neocon propaganda from some who post on FR, The Wall Street Journal detailed how badly things are faring for the Orkrainians:
Wall Street Journal
A Year Into War, Ukraine Faces Challenges Mobilizing Troops
3/23/23
“When Russia invaded in February last year, thousands of volunteers lined up outside military recruitment centers. *With many of them now dead or injured,* Ukrainian authorities are scrambling to recruit replacements, *often drafting those who have neither the desire nor the training to serve.* The result is a growing number of fighting-age men *who are attempting to evade service.* ... videos appearing to show men *being roughed up by enlistment officers* for refusing a summons. A disabled person *was drafted in western Ukraine and pronounced fit for service despite having no hands.* Another died on the front lines *within a month of mobilization after 10 days of training,* according to his relatives. ...”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-year-into-war-ukraine-faces-challenges-mobilizing-troops-64dcdc49
What local population? The country is being depopulated at an alarming rate.
Scorched earth, meatgrinder warfare, waged by Russia in Ukraine (which the US didn’t wage in Iraq), is meant to stop unending guerilla wars, which the US kept facing in Iraq. Notice that Maritupol has never had an uprising since it was taken by Russia?
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
At this point, both sides, and outsiders, are pushing so much propaganda that I’m taking a wait and see attitude.
It wasn’t logical to believe that Vlad would lose a war of attrition...particularly with The Big Guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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