Posted on 09/13/2023 6:03:03 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Well, that’s the reality for sure. 🙂
Any serious person making predictions a year ago knew that NATO was aiding Ukraine, that would have been part of their consideration, and in fact, the Ukrainian offensive was taking place then.
You were probably depending on Col. Macgregor on 9/12/22, here is his analysis in 2 minutes on Tucker’s show.
https://twitter.com/Biz_Ukraine_Mag/status/1569377619941924866
Newsweek?
Please excuse me if I take this with a grain of salt.
Oh I trust them, but would like verification.
Well a few nukes could cost a little more than three drones. I guess you think Russia is going to surrender? I wouldn’t bet on that.
Again, we’re paying for it. More than Europe and the rest of the world combined. Europe had been telling us how corrupt Ukraine was so I guess that’s why they’re not interested in handing them all their money.
So technically, my prediction was right.
Your prediction failed to incorporate reality. Your assessment matches your perceptions. You made the prediction in September of 2022.
That was after the Ukrainians rolled the Russians back from Kharkov and before the Ukrainians chased the Russians across the river in Kherson.
By September the Special Military Olympiad had been going on for over 6 months, with five of those months being Russian reverses on the battlefield, across the front.
Foreign aid promised or delivered at the time of your prediction that Ukraine had only 3 months left:
To date, nearly 50 Allies and partner countries have provided security assistance to Ukraine. Among their many contributions to Ukraine, Allies and partners have delivered 10 long-range Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS), 178 long-range artillery systems, nearly 100,000 rounds of long-range artillery ammunition, nearly 250,000 anti-tank munitions, 359 tanks, 629 armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), 8,214 short-range air defense missiles, and 88 lethal UAVs. Since February 24, Allies and partners worldwide have provided or committed over $13 billion in security assistance.
Meaning that destroying Russian warships and killing Russian sailors will have absolutely no impact on Russia's military capability, ability to wage war, or morale?!
Your logic is impeccable!
Russia should simply tell Ukraine to stop destroying the Russian fleet, because it's not a sea war!
When will those Ukrainians learn?! When will they get it into their thick heads that blowing up Russian military targets is pointless?!
Regards,
I'd say that Putin sending columns of heavy tanks into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, attacking Ukrainian airfields, and rocket-bombing civilian sites (kindergartens, nursing homes, etc.) was already a "major escalation."
Destroying legitimate military targets - warships, for chrissake! - located on Ukraine's own soil is hardly comparable!
Regards,
Why the heck hasn’t Putin won his darn border war! I am sick of this idiocy.
As Ross Perot would say, the initial invasion of Ukraine is “Mickey Mouse tossed salad” compared to the scenario that the West is flirting with.
According to a Russian Telegram channel, 4 ships were hit: 2 not repairable, 2 likely repairable, 31 dead.
That’s a very nice episode of DC Regime hope porn. Your neocon fantasy is that, an absurd fantasy.
Sevastopol is/was such a beautiful city. I hate all of the destruction this has brought to Ukraine.
The war is over! The Russian fleet is ruins! Has Putin fled Moscow yet? Insignificant damage. Don’t bother posting the pics of the gore and destruction when hundreds, if not thousands, of Ukes die in the Russian retribution for this damaging of a couple of vessels.
Someone apparently forgot to tell that to the Russians!
So you're saying that Ukraine was wrong to take out this landing craft and the submarine (and kill a dozen military personnel), but Russia was somehow right to destroy these three (unmanned) boats?
Double-standard, much?
Regards,
Which part do you think didn’t happen?
Russian air defenses destroyed on Snake Island and the Russians abandonment of the position when it came under artillery fire?
The raid on Russian air defenses on the Crimean peninsula was confirmed by Russian news sources, do you think that didn’t happen?
Do you think the attacks on the sub and ship in dry dock, and all the other attacks that have penetrated Sevastopol defenses didn’t happen?
I ask again, do you think the Russians will keep any of their 5 remaining Black Sea Fleet subs in Sevastopol now?
Reality is the Ukraine's spring offensive did nothing but cost Americans billions upon billions of war proxy dollars and cost them 10s of thousands of lives. See those tiny spots of purple? That is what tens of thousands of young men lives cost them. Hip, hip, hooray for the military industrial complex!
“All missiles were shot down”
Reporter: “Then why is everything on fire?”
“Because you are not in prison for noticing that”
These rather insignificant occurrences apparently happened. My problem is when the FR administration shills begin hyping their “beginning of the end” BS about it. This will have zero outcome on the ongoing Uke/NATO quagmire. The two vessels that were already in for repair will be returned to the Russian fleet. The admin shills boast and make these grandiose claims about Uke successes that never pan out but neglect to call attention to the Russian retaliation which always is many more times as damaging as an operational pin prick against the Russian military.
And yet you have no problem with your fellow Putin Fanbois posting since February of '22 that "the end is nigh for Ukraine."
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