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Posted on 08/15/2025 12:52:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Ukraine hit two Russian cities with drone attacks the day before President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were set to meet in Alaska.
Ukraine hit the cities of Rostov-on-Don and Belgorod. Reuters reported:
Thirteen people were wounded, two seriously, when a drone struck an apartment building in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, the acting regional governor said. Three civilians were wounded in the city of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine, according to the governor of that region, who posted video appearing to show a drone striking a car in the centre of the city.
Meanwhile, Russian troops have been making significant gains in the Donetsk region. They’ve “pierced Ukrainian lines in a dramatic advance that could compromise the defense of the region,” according to reports. The Kyiv Independent reported earlier this week:
Over the past few days, Moscow’s forces advanced 10 kilometers toward the Dobropillia-Kramatorsk highway by leveraging its numerical superiority, the Ukrainian monitoring group DeepState reported on Aug. 11.
Manpower Shortage
Experts see Russia’s recent advancement as another sign that the Ukrainian military is falling apart. They “point to broader systemic issues within the Ukrainian military, such as the severe shortage of manpower and poor strategic vision among the top command,” The Kyiv Independent reported.
Ukraine’s manpower problem has become a major talking point around this war. Vice President J.D. Vance brought it up all the way back in February when Trump famously chided Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and told him he didn’t “have the cards.”
Territory Issues
Some see this latest push by the Russians into the Donetsk region as the Kremlin’s way of bolstering its position ahead of the meeting between Trump and Putin. Russia has made it clear that an acceptable deal will have...
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And I predict it’ll continue after the meeting as well.
Shocka.
Looks like someone is trying to Sabotage the Trump Putin Meeting.
Whoever could it be?
BINGO!
Over the past few days, Putin has intensified the war, deploying suicide commandos on motorcycles in an attempt to establish a bridgehead. Ukraine’s defense forces decisively repelled the attack. As Trump noted about a week ago, Russia appears to be undermining itself in this conflict enduring a staggering loss ratio of ten Russian soldiers for every Ukrainian. The Kremlin’s leadership has already caused over a million young Russian men to be killed or wounded in this neo-Soviet war, which Russia seems unlikely to win. At best, they might achieve a pyrrhic victory.
How come that the Russian leadership is so weak and incompetent ?
Russia is 30 times the size of Ukraine, 40% of Russia’s national budget is oriented towards war - and STILL they remain in this unwindable quagmire after 4 long years... !
This is another proof of the incompetence of the Russian politicians... (true “kaput” mentality) too busy constructing luxury villas and eating caviar while they’re letting the rest of Russia rot.
Says the globalist Ukraine ‘bot.
E. Pluribus Unum goes into his porn folder again.
That's your guy. If he's doing porn and you support him, that says a lot about you.
“Says the globalist Ukraine ‘bot.”
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Smile...
You have never denounced the GINSCA. Right?
GINSCA : Globo-Islamo-Neo-Soviet-Commie Alliance.
That Alliance is composed of IRAN, Russia; North Korea, China.
It’s a large GLOBALIST organization which directly wants to destroy America.
They Represent America’s traditional enemies.
Why do you support such globalism?
“How come that the Russian leadership is so weak and incompetent”
If Ruzzia is so weak, why isn’t Zelensky going on offense and taking his land
back from Ruzzia?
Suicide commandos. Right. Effing spook.
“If Ruzzia is so weak, why isn’t Zelensky going on offense and taking his land
back from Ruzzia?”
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If Russia had only been around 20 times bigger than Ukraine, the Ukrainians would probably have taken back their territory already. However, and as I said earlier, Russia is 30 (!) times bigger than Ukraine (and is the world’s number one nuclear power). That size that gives Russia a sufficient advantage, just sufficient enough to hold on to the ground they sneakily managed to steal right in the beginning of the war with “little green men” and starting a secondary invasion ok Ukraine with... NO war declaration... thus an act of terrorism / Al Qaida style.
No Russian fighting without Putin’s orders...
“If Ruzzia is so weak, why isn’t Zelensky going on offense and taking his land
back from Ruzzia?”
Russia has taken no major cities.
In 18 months Russia has had 400,000 killed with no major gains in territory.
Russia is going broke. Vlad has no cards left to play.
“Russia appears to be undermining itself in this conflict enduring a staggering loss ratio of ten Russian soldiers for every Ukrainian.”
Total BS.
More total BS.
If you look hard enough you can find quotes of Russian losses that exceed their national population.
Russia is faced with an insoluble equation: how to finance a war in the long term, for which expenditure is soaring while budget revenues are falling, against a backdrop of tightened sanctions.
Between rising taxes, falling hydrocarbon revenues, inflation, and crises in employment and foreign investment, with a labor market short by 4.8 million workers (about 7 percent of the country’s labor force), and with the value of foreign assets in Russia dropping by almost 20 percent between December 2022 and March 2024, Russia has embarked on a risky gamble from which it will not emerge unscathed.
Now spinning at breakneck speed on the momentum of its “war economy,” this Russian spinning top cannot slow down, or it will fall. But it may soon run out of momentum as well as finances. Russia’s economic future after 2024 rests essentially on the price of oil from the Urals and on the quantities exported, two subjects that are all the more uncertain for Russia in the near future.
Russia may soon no longer be able to rely on its depleting financial reserves. With no possibility of borrowing on international financial markets, and constrained by a limited domestic financial market (in the context of China’s gradual disengagement), Russia risks nothing less than bankruptcy in the medium term.
https://warontherocks.com/2024/09/russia-is-on-a-slow-path-to-bankruptcy-but-how-slow/
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