Posted on 04/03/2022 1:05:00 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
“This isn’t a big forum, and a shell of what it was a decade ago, when it was neck and neck with the National Review website. IMHO, no one’s getting paid here.”
Can you expand on that decline?
[Can you expand on that decline?]
https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/nationalreview.com
https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/freerepublic.com
But you don’t even have to look at the rankings. The level of activity here has gone through the floor. We used to have new threads every minute or so. Today, we can go hours between new threads.
Breitbart, Fox News and some of the right wing opinion sites have siphoned off some traffic. But just as National Review purges have driven off a significant audience, the purges here have done the same thing, for better or worse.
Ukraine has enough manpads to overcome the defensive measures of helicopters. They also have other anti-aircraft missiles that make Russian pilots an endangered species.
There is a mountain of evidence that it was disorderly retreat from Kyiv. But I guess Russian loving eyes will never see it.
Is Russia Losing the War in Ukraine? (Featuring Scott Ritter)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter#Arrests_and_conviction_for_sex_offences
What is it with Putinists and sex crimes? Seems to be a pattern there.
The Russian Army couldn't resupply their troops during WWI. To be fair, Russia is so vast and its roads and railroads were underdeveloped back then so logistics was a challenge back then. They are supposed to be much more advanced now but some things never change like 17th Miss Regt pointed out.
The Washington Post wrote this article. No political agenda or anything in this piece.
Due to sanctions and industrial decline, Russia lacks an adequate supply of many essential spare parts. The result is that even their apparent intention to amplify their efforts in the east and south of Ukraine are likely to fail.
LOL
There are mountains of evidence for multiple suppositions. Neither of us knows for sure what is actually happening, and the truth is not dependent upon whatever either of us thinks is the case. What makes no sense is to impugn the motives of anyone who examines the same limited facts from a different perspective and might see different possibilities. I have been a part of this forum for 24 years and bear no ill well toward anyone here, including you.
So you disagree with his analysis? Or you can't so ad hominem attacks are all you've got?
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This decline in forum-based participation is internet-wide, across many interest areas.
I personally think it’s a variation of ‘dumbing down’, where the various client-interfaces are being simplified to the point that ANYONE can ‘participate’ without actually knowing anything.
Where the folks you would connect with and interact with had a certain degree of technical capability and intelligence to learn and use the less ‘user-friendly’ interfaces (usenet, chat groups, forums, etc.) - NOW, you have social media structures that are so simplified and integrated that any idiot (and I do mean ‘idiot’) can jump on and pollute the vast pool of information with their nonsense.
Facebook in particular has been destructive in this area by making participation so easy, and average content so puerile and simplistic - it’s just overwhelmed most of the ‘old school’ sources of personal interaction. People come to expect that level of ease in all areas of online activity.
Then there’s the age-old problem that people rarely learn, and almost never listen - so after years of harping the same of stuff, folks get burnt out and move on with their lives.
Really
Why are lights and water still on in Kiev
Because the Russians are scared
Is that you think
You Zelensky brigade need to look at whole pictures and juxtapose that with Putin stated war goals for years
Take the east and likely Odessa
No nato or Europe centric crap
That’s the goals ....I’d imagine he’d like a new oligarch hierarchy too and Zelensky head on platter
The fighting is in the east
The divisions near Kiev etc are most.y to say we’re here
Sure sappers hit them on occasion
But like I said ....75-80% of Ukraine is functioning
That’s not because Russia can’t flatten it
These are sit rep facts if you stand back impartial and look at it
All this other stuff from western media is just regurgitated nonsense
95% of the war reporting on this war is about human rights not territory
What does that say to you...
It says propaganda to me.
I’m completely guessing here but I thinking the Russians. Underestimated the power of the western globalist tech media cabal to spin this conflict
I sure did
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