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If to improve their negotiating position, they miscalculated.

That's not known yet. Did the Russians miscalculate when they invaded Ukraine?

No ‘peace talks’ will begin while they hold these positions. They are temporary,

Not true. The Russians hold Ukraine territory, and now the Ukrainians hold Russian territory. Tit-for-tat. You come tinto my house, I have the right to go into your house. You take what's mine, I have the right tote what's yours. See how that works? .

at best, with no air cover,

Air cover is not the only way to support troops on the ground.

no trenching, no fixed defenses,

Not true. Russia tried to stop them, and met with very stiff resistance. And the Ukrainians continue to advance deeper into Russia.

INSIDE OF RUSSIA. The russkies won’t take long to eradicate them.

Like I said, the Russkies tried to stop them and met with very stiff resistance, with many thousands of Russkies dead.

Then what? How many dead for a failed PR stunt?

And, what have the Russians achieved with their invasion of Ukraine? hundreds of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands injured, tens of thousands widows and tens of thousands kids left fatherless, and hundreds of billions lost in a very costly war. Plus international condemnation, including being banned from the Olympics.

Russia is stuck fighting a war which they can't win, and the Kremlin is panicking.

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including being banned from the Olympics

What - you mean The Big Gay Human Centipede, also known as The Last Globohomo Supper?

Now that I've painted that little word picture for you, doorknob, I suppose you'll be in your bunk.