Has Zelensky altered the course of the war - or fatally poked the Russian bear? Experts reveal just what Ukraine hopes to achieve with Kursk offensive and whether it could prove a tactical masterstroke

UK Daily Mail ^ | 13 August 2024 | By David Averre

[marktwain]

Nothing in Russian history suggests anything remotely like this will occur.

Except of course, the whole war of the Soviet Union on Finland before and during WWII.

Finland lost territory, but they survived as an independent state.

Or, a more recent example, the war in Afghanistan.

Or the attempted invasion of Poland by the new Soviet Union in 1919-1921.

As trading material for negotiations, if Trump is elected in November, this makes perfect sense.

[for-q-clinton]

This is silly. Poke the russian bear? come on...there are in a war with each other. Russia is doing everything they can to win already.

[nickcarraway]

What would you suggest, mass suicide?

[nickcarraway]

Russia was supposed to take all of Ukraine within 2 weeks.

[ANKE69]

Why don't you ask spamming poster boy Maxi? He writes this gibberish on a daily basis.

8/13/2024, 11:54:22 AM · 15 of 27 marcusmaximus to JoSixChip

Putin stronk! Kyiv in 3 days!

8/13/2024, 11:23:03 AM · 15 of 51 marcusmaximus to kiryandil

Dyumin stronk! Kill mishka bare hands

[CarolinaReaganFan]

Daily mail...LOL
they should pay you trolls enough to afford better propaganda.

[njslim]

The chances the Russians will use tactical nukes just went up a few dozen times.

So Putin nukes himself ......

Brillant tactic, why stop at Kursk, should go on and nuke Moscow

[DesertRhino]

No, there is not a single instance I am aware of where someone invaded Russia, that they surrendered, gave up land, or overthrew their leader.

Try to keep up.

[kiryandil]

[kiryandil]

that Putin’s Russia jad mpt beem banned

Big Gulp Harris is selling her patented word salads to ordinary consumers now?

Say it ain't so!

[bosco24]

“The Russians will not use nukes on their own territory or territory they hope to control.”

Are you saying they wouldn’t use nukes on their own territory for political reasons or operational tactical reasons.

I think it would be unwise politically to use tactical nukes but operational it could work splendidly well and end the battle instantly.

The blast area would not be like the Chernobyl disaster. The blast area will have much lower radiation levels and the levels will decay down quickly.

During the Desert Rock exercises between 1951 and 1957, the US Army conducted nuclear tests in the Nevada Proving Grounds where hundreds of soldiers would march and maneuver around the detonations.

They were able to function just fine as they didn’t drop over dead or experience short team problems. Some of the troops did experience long term problems years later but that was years later.

In a tactical situation (little nukes), the troops can function moving into the blast area right after the nuclear explosion. Of course, your situation would be grim if you happened to be in the blast area when the nuclear explosion occurs.

[kiryandil]

Help me, Obi-wan!

I'm being attacked by an angry door knob!  

[Chad_the_Impaler]

Nothing in Russian history suggests anything remotely like this will occur.

False Dmitry I was deposed in 1606. He was hacked to pieces, cremated, and his ashes were shot in a cannon toward Poland.

[adorno]

Typos are not the same as word salads. Only people with common sense would know that.

that Putin’s Russia jad mpt beem banned

I know people might not take the time to try to figure it out, but, checking the letters around the typo letters might have given them a clue...

thus... jad would become 'had'' and mpt would have become 'not' and... beem would have become 'been'

Contextually, even anyone with simple common sense would have interpreted the whole phrase without needing to have it interpreted for him.

You are so busy anxiously wanting to find the next Harris verbal gem to plagiarize, that you forget to engage your brain, whatever there is of it.

[Allegra]

Whaaaat? You mean this dude?

[kiryandil]

"Jad Mpt Beem!!"

[DesertRhino]

You have it ass backwards. He was a Catholic and a Pole. Installed in subterfuge. The rose of and spat him out, returning him to his sponsors. Russia has never been beaten by invasion. And they have never responded to an invasion by overthrowing their leader and installing a puppet of the enemy.

But thanks for playing.

[Allegra]

[Allegra]

OK, let’s try that again. 😁

[Veto!]

I think you’re right. Russia will not hesitate to get rid of them.

And then what?