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Putin humiliated as terrified Russian officials shut down Crimea bridge and flee overnight
Express UK ^ | 8/17/2022 | Jon King

Posted on 08/18/2022 11:51:37 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

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To: marcusmaximus
Trains seem to be running on schedule to feed the mighty Russian war machinery too.

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https://youtu.be/EG72Uv37bew

41 posted on 08/18/2022 2:29:21 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: ransomnote

Have you read the news? Ukraine is winning and winning BIG. The Russians are giving up in droves and fleeing for their lives. We need not give Ukraine any money—they don’t need it—Russia is folding up. They are completely on defense and having to give up land. They can not stand against Hero-Ukraine soldiers. One Ukraine is worth ten Russian Whimpey boys. Their hand held rocket launchers have taken out the Red Air Force, and Rocket systems have sank the whole Russian Black Sea fleet. The war will be over in two weeks. The truth shows Ukraine is going to win—just one major push—and its all over.


42 posted on 08/18/2022 2:30:48 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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For those laughing that the Russia doesn’t have air superiority over the Ukraine, I’d like to inform you that Russia is generally acknowledged to have air superiority over all other nations. Now, consider the size of the Ukraine....

Putin is not committing ALL his resources to the region the size of the Ukraine. He could, if he wished, turn the region to dust. But Putin doesn’t want to make the region uninhabitable.

There are times that Putin withdraws troops for tactical reasons and the propagandists shriek that he’s quitting, he’s defeated, his troops outnumbered. No - the Ukraine never had the dominance it pretends to have - that’s just to get money, donations. Putin retains substantial portions of his military in other regions and is selectively deploying limited amounts of weapons and soldiers - just enough to get the job done.

Russia is not losing. The Ukraine is not winning - the farce continues and the demands for payola and weapons continue. I wonder who’s really getting the money world leaders and Biden send?


43 posted on 08/18/2022 2:44:00 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Gunslingr3

Putin is using and has used a fraction of his military capacity and would/will commit more weaponry if he needs to, but thus far he is winning. Yes I know the MSM is claiming the opposite is true - and biden sends money etc.

Putin is trying to leave a functioning region intact so you won’t see piles of sand and rocks where cities used to be. Leaving, redeploying etc. is not ‘running away in shame crying’.


44 posted on 08/18/2022 2:56:32 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote
Putin is trying to leave a functioning region intact so you won’t see piles of sand and rocks where cities used to be.

Ukrainians don't know lucky they are. Hard liners in Moscow want to go at them much harder and Putin has resisted, so far.

45 posted on 08/18/2022 3:04:36 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: marcusmaximus

Yep.

As some really famous dude said about Russia that applies to putinistas:

“An riddle in an enigma wrapped in a mystery.”

Or something like this.


46 posted on 08/18/2022 3:07:01 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: Vaden

I have no idea who will win what other than the side most willing to spend both blood and treasure.

Otherwise, “not my circus, not my monkeys”


47 posted on 08/18/2022 3:13:03 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: ransomnote
Putin is using and has used a fraction of his military capacity and would/will commit more weaponry if he needs to, but thus far he is winning.

I agree he hasn’t committed 100% of his military, so it only constitutes ‘a fraction’, but what fraction do you think it is?

Putin is trying to leave a functioning region intact so you won’t see piles of sand and rocks where cities used to be. Leaving, redeploying etc. is not ‘running away in shame crying’.

Do you imagine Hitler ‘redeployed’ from France after Patton showed up? That’s the logic you’re employing to explain Russias failure and retreat at Kharkov, Nikolaev, Kiev, Hostomel, etc. Now they’re ‘redeploying’ aircraft from Crimea to try and keep the Ukrainians from blowing up anymore of them on the ground.

48 posted on 08/18/2022 3:18:50 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: Gunslingr3

Guess you need to watch the result to learn that Russia was never at risk of losing - nothing I post will counter your belief in the reports from our lying treasonous MSM who just happens to be trying to indict our President on false charges AGAIN.


49 posted on 08/18/2022 3:23:28 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: House Atreides
The video you posted was of Ukraine suddenly having one less UAV in its inventory.

This supposedly is the missile tracking device stationed by the bridge that was responsible for shooting down that drone.

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50 posted on 08/18/2022 3:30:26 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Gunslingr3
Oh, why don't you concentrate on killing some more Donbass residents!? The Ukrainians are the new Hitler's of this world.

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51 posted on 08/18/2022 3:38:53 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: marcusmaximus
From your source two days ago:

 

Ukrainian TV channel 24 claimed yesterday (August 16) that Moscow had ordered the Crimean Bridge shut overnight out of fears of an attack from Ukraine, according to the Kyiv Post.

The newspaper cites unnamed sources as saying local Russian officials were expected to flee the peninsula on Tuesday night.

 

And here it is two days later, and the bridge that the Ukes say "must be destroyed" is still standing, and the Russians are still in charge of Crimea.

At this point this ridiculous British propaganda is beyond embarassing.  One wonder's who's getting paid off to push this nonsense.

52 posted on 08/18/2022 3:52:58 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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...who’s getting paid off to push this nonsense.
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Absolutely everyone pimping the entire NATO/Ukraine grift.


53 posted on 08/18/2022 6:15:10 PM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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