Posted on 02/13/2024 2:14:47 PM PST by Mariner
As the second anniversary of Russia's unprovoked invasion approaches, the situation is beginning to look bleak for Ukraine.
Last year's counteroffensive brought hopes that Ukraine could capitalize on its successes in 2022 and drive back Russian forces from occupied territories in southern and eastern Ukraine.
But the offensive failed to achieve a breakthrough, and Ukraine is now seeing crucial support from its allies bleed away. Meanwhile, its troops are experiencing shortages of personnel and ammunition.
There are problems at the top, too. Its senior command has been engulfed in chaos, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy replacing Valery Zaluzhny, a senior commander, amid reported disagreements over strategy.
'It's just relentless pressure'
At the heart of Ukraine's problems is diminishing international aid. Ukraine has previously said it may not be able to successfully defend itself against Russia without US help.
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Not surprised at all
Which means the war will end more quickly, thousands of Ukrainian lives will be spared and billions in US taxpayer dollars will be saved. Sounds great to me!
Only 16 days until you payoff on our bet!
Their relatives kids, home and land were in danger in Donetsk and Lugansk. Ethnic Russians were the largest ethnic group in those oblasts.
And, that is far more of justification for Russia to invade that it was for us in the first Iraq war to save Kuwait.
Let's we fomented an illegal coup in Ukraine. Installed a government hostile to Russia and the ethnic Russian population in Ukraine. We funded and trained a 600,000 man Ukrainian army that included neo-Nazis. We armed Ukraine with weapons that could reach Russian territory. We teased NATO membership for Ukraine. And, we were running biolabs in Ukraine with deadly pathogens in them.
If Russia or China had done anything like that in Mexico, what do you think we'd do?
With respect, your about page on FR is all about political techniques. I don’t understand this one. I wasn’t even familiar with Krasovsky line, but I see your tagline on every post. I don’t think that it’s portraying what you want it to.
As an aside, I thought that Putin’s half-hour history lecture at the start of his interview with Tucker Carlson was some kind of political technique. I am not sure what its goal was, but it took a lot of time.
Why would Russia risk WW3 by resorting to nukes? Are they that stupid?
Far, far more likely, Putin's Replacement will put an immediate end to Ukraine.
...China is seeing Russia’s weakness and is starting to look at recapturing Siberia from Russia.
China will reevaluate Siberia's administration the day after The Second American Civil War is settled with the permanent division of what used to be The United States Of America, and not until then.
Of course there would be no repercussions from the West no matter what China did anywhere in the world.
Be careful what you wish for, you may get it in a way you don't want.
Russia will become war weary and pack it in—Like America in Viet Nam. This is only a Liberal wet dream.Lets see what happens this spring and Fall? Lets see what its like in 2025 or 2026?
There were rumors that NATO or Western troops were in the surround.
They’ve got a ton of drones. I assume the U.S. is feeding them the product of every intelligence and surveillance system we have. I think they’re just flat running out of men and munitions. How many rounds is a 155 tube good for before it’s got to be replaced? NATO will run out of artillery pieces long before the Russian/NORK supplies dry up. Apparently, the Russians are firing up to 8000 artillery rounds per DAY. NATO has been training the Ukes. The new Uke commander, Syrskyi, a Russian, was trained by the Russians.
I wonder when Bruce Springsteen, U2, McDonna, Lady GagMe, Cher and other assorted has-been trash is going to assemble and put out a virtue-signaling song of slop for Ukraine? 🤮
More money is the answer!! My money!!!-sarc
Why couldn’t they sit at a table and work it out like the Czechs and the Slovaks did?
They had decades to do that, but various MICs said no.
“History is watching.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKNN2DJCfzQd
I can’t find the full video of xiden’s remarks this evening, but I heard it on the radio on the way home and it smacked of abject desperation. The video linked above is inadequate to frame the desperation I heard on the radio.
So, I smiled ear to ear when I saw this a few minutes ago:
In Major Blow to Joe Biden, House Speaker Johnson Won’t Put Senate Aid Bill on Floor
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4217207/posts
>> The Ugly Americans
Damn straight.
McCain is dead. War Pig Nuland deserves to be, the sooner, the better.
[Bueller?]
Sorry, I was out sick; took the day off.
I thought they were winning? Seems like that was reported often. Battle after battle.
I noticed that there is something seriously wrong with VN - if anyone remembers that presser on Jerusalem - she was something else.
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