Posted on 03/07/2022 5:16:03 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Russia's invasion of Ukraine appears to have ground to a halt with no significant territory captured despite a weekend of heavy fighting, with Kyiv's men claiming to have taken out dozens of helicopters and recaptured a city this morning - sparking hopes that the unlikeliest of victories may be on the cards.
Putin's men renewed their bombardments on Mariupol, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv this morning as his forces also tried to surround Kyiv in preparation for an assault, but have not significantly advanced their frontline since the city of Kherson and nuclear power plant at Zaporizhzhia were captured last week.
Meanwhile the Ukrainian armed forces claimed to have destroyed up to 30 Russian helicopters that had been moved to Chornobaivka airport, near Kherson, overnight and to have retaken the city of Chuhuiv, near Kharkiv, killing two Russian commanders - Lt. Col. Dmitry Safronov, and Lt Col. Denis Glebov - in the process.
Russia also tacitly acknowledged the loss of two other commanders - Colonel Konstantin Zizevsky and Lieutenant Colonel Denis Glebov - whose funerals were held in Russia at the weekend.
Video also emerged which appeared to show Ukrainian defence forces based in Odessa, the country's largest port, exchanging fire with ships overnight - one of which suffers a hit. Ukraine's ministry of defence has since claimed the vessel was destroyed.
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US intelligence believes Russia has committed 95 per cent of the invasion force it had assembled on Ukraine's border to the fight, meaning significant reinforcements to push its attacks forward are unlikely to come soon - and could simply run into many of the same logistical problems that plagued the early assault.
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Now - 0.0066 ruble's to the US dollar.
2008 - 0.43 ruble's to the US dollar.
Operation Barbarossa, Hillter’s invasion of the Soviet Union, commenced on June 22, 1941. Hardly the mud season.
They were going to invade on 1 May, but the uprising in Yugoslavia really pissed of Adolf, so he had his army put them down first, taking 6 weeks off the timeline.
Imagine if they started Barbarossa on May 1st? They wouldn’t have stopped outside Moscow with the first winter’s snows in late October.
Which just might have been going on all along.
I saw a video clip on this thread or another of a long Russian convoy sitting in the snow, simply abandoned. The convoy was very long, longer than the lens on the camera could resolve. The doors on the trucks were open, and Ukes were rummaging around in the back, pulling out the contents. I had to wonder where the Russians went? There had to have been hundreds of them with that convoy. There was no battle damage that I could see, so I assume they just fled at the first sign of an attack. But where could they go except deeper into the Ukranian wilderness, that disorganized collection of one-year conscripts who thought they were on a training mission.
Idiot.
First of all, the first rule of Troll protection is do NOT feed the trolls. Replies is what trolls want. As you said, trolls don’t listen to facts, so what’s the point?
And who is or isn’t a troll in regard to opinions on Free Republic is highly overblown.
Is a troll someone who doesn’t agree with you? That’s not a troll.
Someone who posts spam from weird blogs and alt web sites without any comments? That is a troll to me.
Start with the assumption we’re all conservatives here, and most importantly, so many of us have a legacy of posts upon all kinds of subjects, usually from a conservative viewpoint, I really think it is extremely rude to call someone a troll who’s been here a long while.
Sorry grey_whiskers, but that just makes you look petty and does not enhance your argument.
In any case, I always advocate civility here. But after 24 years as a FReeper, I’ve lost it a few times but have felt highly embarrassed after, and try to apologize.
I am asking you as a FReind to do better, just as I promise to try.
They were right? OR was Putin goaded into invading so Joe could have a major diversion meme for his SOTU address to divert from Covid, inflation, employment, trucking protests and the coming loss of the house and Senate in November?
Yes, unfortunately this happens too often.
But being conservative usually goes along with being Christian—not always, and I respect everyone’s religious viewpoint—but it is promoted as a God-fearing values site by Jim.
As Christians, you KNOW we should strive to be more considerate, or at least not attacking others personally.
I will continue to call people on it here when I see it. Just don’t call me Alas Karen. I will not ask to speak to the manager...
“encircling a city and just sitting there will get the job done”
Sure, that worked great for the Germans at Leningrad.
Come on man, disagree, but don’t personally attack.
Beside, just saying “Idiot” isn’t an argument.
What makes Taiwan a jewel is the semiconductor manufacturing sector.
It's frighteningly easy to sabotage in ways overt and very, very subtle.
In one piece of equipment simply replacing a few (like maybe four or half a dozen) aluminum screws with stainless steel will hopelessly contaminate process steps downstream. That happened unintentionally here, it wasn't detected for weeks, and very nearly bankrupted the company.
Multiply that by "minor" software changes in precision manufacturing and test equipment, add in taking a hammer to others, and salting the earth, and overnight Taiwan becomes a burden, not a prize.
Perhaps they started years decades ago?
” those blond Ukrainian refugees happen to be women and kids only, dudes staying to fight”
I know a Ukrainian who was trying to get her family out and apparently they are only allowing men who are 60 years or older to drive people to the border. Anyone younger caught on the roads heading out is going to be in trouble.
I responded more mildly than I was attacked.
And given that attack my response was pithy and apt.
hilarious fantasy
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I respect you and your opinions, Dude, I really do, but I just don't see the personal attack in quoting ruble exchange rates...
And anyone who is pro-Ukraine, just stop with the personal attacks also. Make your case without calling people here Putinistas, Putin lovers, etc.
I was being called a mercenary traitor.
That was the entire point of the post.
I took the high ground and attributed the attack to personal cognitive limitations, again in contrast to the traitorous motivations that were attributed to me.
As noted above isolating the fissile uranium isotope is challenging, requiring vast amounts of energy, and large physical plants.
No one seems to want to talk about refining plutonium. It's a relatively simple chemical process, could be done in a space the size of a typical warehouse, and with suitable effluent control, not very observable.
Neutrino detection and source location is a thing now?
If the boffins are doing it onesy twosy in various labs around the world, wouldn't that 'render the sea transparent' to locating nuclear submarines by classified military big budget labs in select major powers?
There’s a lot more going on here than is being reported. You’re right, a long column like that and everyone from has vanished?.
My guess is there are probably a lot of senior Russian commanders and lower ranks and units who are making deals with local Ukrainian forces, paying big bribes to just dump everything and run away, nobody gets hurt. These young Russian kids aren’t dumb, they don’t want to die to Putin. They have smart phones back home, computers and girl friends, a decent enough life. They aren’t going to die for some ex-KGB thug.
I’m guessing the Russians would rather face their own officers and people than leave themselves to the Ukes.
Just my take on it.
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