Posted on 04/13/2024 9:41:30 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The possibility of Ukraine's army collapsing cannot be ruled out, an unnamed US official told Bloomberg.
The report said, citing talks with multiple officials, that Ukraine's position on the battlefield is at its most fragile moment since Russia's full-scale invasion began in February 2022.
Ukraine's war effort has been weakened in recent months by a severe shortage of ammunition, dipping morale among Ukrainian soldiers, and the impasse in Congress over US aid to Ukraine, Bloomberg reported.
One major risk is a collapse of Ukraine's line of defense, which would allow Russia to make a major advance, Bloomberg said, citing an official speaking anonymously.
In recent weeks, building on its capture of Avdiivka, Russia has advanced incrementally in eastern Ukraine, claiming new territory and threatening the town of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Friday that the government would allocate a further Hr 3.88 billion (almost $100 million) to help reinforce fortifications, primarily in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions, which sit near Russia's border.
However, The Wall Street Journal reported in March that although Ukrainian troops were building fortifications in preparation for an oncoming Russian offensive, there are fears that not enough progress is being made.
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Should be very interesting. You can bet the usual suspects here will be very upset at the prospect of these countries fleeing the clutches of the US and our satellite nations in Europe.
They sure will.
Any decline in the Globohomo Empire fills them with NeoCon rage.
Slovakia is in the eurozone, so it has less leeway than the others.
‘Budapest Memorandum”
A double bucket of warm “spit”. Never presented to the Senate for ratification and a Bill Clinton promise. Citing the Budapest Memorandum on this site is not a way to gain credence.
I read that article.
He’s pretty proud of his work, bragging.
What I don’t think he understands is that there is a difference between being the number one googled search term across Russia because you’re a freak, piss people off, people are laughing at you, or using you as an example of what the globalist Western values are, vs. actually listening to what you’re saying and changing viewpoints.
There is a difference between being infamous and famous.
I’d imagine, he probably did more damage than good by pissing people off and demonstrating the distorted value system of the West (LGBT which is not considered cool in Russia) as well as our meddling (as a former US Army Sergeant).
2 Girls 1 Cup was also a popular search phrase a while back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Girls_1_Cup. I don’t think people were looking this up to emulate/copy anything.
And, we told the Russians no eastward expansion of NATO and broke our promise.
We had the Ukrainians sign the Minsk Accords and told them to renege on them.
But, you don't seem so upset about us breaking our word on that.
With FULL consent of the majority in all those regions.
Those regions voted for Yanukovych, who was driven out of office in an illegal WE fomented. We replaced him with puppet government hostile to both Russia and the ethnic Russian population in Ukraine.
The victims of that coup HAD EVERY MORAL RIGHT to their independence and to join the Russian Federation.
Stop pretending that everything that happened in Ukraine is result of our meddling in that country and our aggression.
You have a bad habit if blaming the Russians for responding to our and NATO's aggression toward them.
He may have wanted instant victory but he did not bet on it. He went after years of preparation to win the hard way if necessary.
Start a YouFundMe page for YouCrayneee MR.
Russian Police should have used their nightsticks.
It's a country which is attempting to resurrect its Christian heritage but is confronted all across its western perimeter by the armed forces of godless, secular humanist, western armies whose aim is to turn Russia into a Slavic version of Canada; a tame, woke, homosexual marriage-embracing, resource-rich, liberal sewer. Problem is, Russia won't go quietly.
All the imperialistic ambitions are found in Washington, London and Paris.
So?
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