Posted on 06/19/2024 6:48:27 PM PDT by Brilliant
Despite Moscow's threats over Finland's NATO accession, Russian bases near the Finnish border are virtually empty as Russia has redeployed personnel and equipment from these bases to Ukraine.
Source: Finnish broadcaster Yle, citing sources in intelligence, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Despite Russia threatening Finland with "consequences" if it joined NATO and pledging to increase its military presence near the border, Russian military bases in the region are far emptier than they were a year ago….
(Excerpt) Read more at pravda.com.ua ...
The Hanging Chad, the Mulligan guy from the golf course.
Zeepers are the DNCs Freepers.
Biden’s war supporters reqire a suspension of reality to accomplish the regimes pro Biden propoganda.
Good. The sooner they turn Ukraine into a parking lot the better.
Snyder’s mainstream breakthrough, in 2017, was "On Tyranny", a bestselling little book that helped make him the house intellectual of the centre-left anti-Trump movement sometimes known as #resistance liberalism.
Nothing quite like "intellectuals" to tell us about the reality on the ground... 
Will you share your hopium with me Baghdad Bob?
Good call.
BaghChad Bob?
You are defending Icky Vickie Nurland?
Ideal. 😁👍
I remember Baghdad Bob claiming Iraqi victory even as he ran away. I wonder if the two are related.
Why are all the hard-core Lefties so soft-looking?
Yep…he has that leftist soy-boi look. He also probably has that affected manner of speech so many leftist men have. I heard it a *lot* in the SF Bay Area.
You are witnessing Russia dismantling the AFU and while our government lies, this war will end this year.
Ukraine is down to 220,000 combat troops. They will lose another 17,000 KIA in these last 10 says of June. In July they will lose 55,000 KIA. They will see massive defeats along their overstretched lines. In August and September Russia will take more land than in the entirety of the war to date.
BOOKMARK THIS. Russia is bleeding the second coming of the Furher like they did the first. When Ukraine gets to the middle of July, they will be slaughtered and captured by the thousands.
Ukraine has lost 7 KIA for every Russian. At the end it will be 10-1.
Thisvwar required Russia to hold, build and then close with to destroy. Not all wars are the victory measured in captured land, but rather the destruction of one’s military.
Kudos to Team Biden.
Zelensky the man who left Ukraine as an illegimate dictator and refused to return after his 21 May expiration date. Will he ever go back to Ukraine or will he hide in the West? He knows his days are numbered and the victors will try him for crimesbagainst humanity... but the little green coward might last longer than Joe who is on 2-week replacement time.
“We fomented a Ukraine revolution/coup in 2014, caused a civil war and sided with the neo-Nazis and Ukrainian nationalists that wanted to exterminate the ethnic Russian population.
We encouraged Ukraine to ignore the Minsk Agreement it signed that would have brought peace to the region.
We armed Ukraine with offensive weapons, teased NATO membership for Ukraine and opened biological weapons labs there.
Then we built the Ukrainian army into the largest army in the NATO zone besides us, and massed it for deployment in the area of the Donbass in obvious preparation for an attack.
And finally, when Russia responded to all that, we claimed they invaded Ukraine for no good reason to annex territory.”
Yes yes yes ! So many here on FR are still living in 1962 and see Russias the evil bear !
Titles? Authors?
Did he have any of his FACTS wrong?
BTW I just read that. Wasn't high on my list, but added it to an Amazon order to make the minimum for free shipping. He agrees with me that people should kill their televisions, get off social media, and READ. But they won't. Easier to have their weltanschauung fed to them by Faceplant and TikTac. Russia Today and Sputnik and Reuters.
Russia’s War - A History of the Soviet Effort 1941-1945 by Richard Overy
Ostkrieg: Hitler’s War of Extermination in the East by Stephen G. Fritz,
When Titans Clashed - How the Red Army Stopped Hitler by David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House
CATACLYSM - The War on the Eastern Front 1941-45 by Keith Cumins
Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front - The German Infantry’s War, 1941-1944 by Rutherford, Jeff
Eastern Front Combat - The German Soldier in Battle from Stalingrad to Berlin by Hans Wijers
Russia 1941-42 by Will Fowler
Slaughterhouse: The Handbook of the Eastern Front by David Glantz, Marc J. Rikmenspoel
The Battle for Moscow by Albert Seaton
The Bloody Triangle - The Defeat of Soviet Armor in the Ukraine, June 1941 by Victor Kamenir
The Secret of Stalingrad by Walter Kerr
The Siege of Brest, 1941 - A Legend of Red Army Resistance on the Eastern Front by Aliev, Rostislav Anisimov, Sergei Britton, Stuart Savin, Igor
The Viazma Catastrophe, 1941: The Red Army’s Disastrous Stand against Operation Typhoon by Lev Lopukhovsky, Stuart Britton
War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 by Geoffrey P. Megargee
Winter Storm: The Battle for Stalingrad and the Operation to Rescue 6th Army by Hans Wijers
So you’re not talking post-Soviet here.
Check me if I'm wrong here, Sandy - but Bloodlands was not post-Soviet.
Which book I was talking about.
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