I actually view the scenario involving a gangland-style execution of Putin by his own underlings as the most likely.
Regards,
Posted on 07/10/2025 4:09:48 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Everyone agrees: it's getting worse.
The people of Kyiv have, like the citizens of other Ukrainian cities, been through a lot.
After three and a half years of fluctuating fortunes, they are tough and extremely resilient.
But in recent months, they have been experiencing something new: vast, coordinated waves of attacks from the air, involving hundreds of drones and missiles, often concentrated on a single city.
Last night, it was Kyiv. And the week before too. In between, it was Lutsk in the far west.
Three years ago, Iranian-supplied Shahed drones were a relative novelty. I remember hearing my first, buzzing a lazy arc across the night sky above the southern city of Zaporizhzhia in October 2022.
But now everyone is familiar with the sound, and its most fearsome recent iteration: a dive-bombing wail some have compared to the German World War Two Stuka aircraft.
The sound of swarms of approaching drones have sent hardened civilians back to bomb shelters, the metro and underground car parks for the first time since the early days of the war.
"The house shook like it was made of paper," Katya, a Kyiv resident, told me after last night's heavy bombardment.
"We spent the entire night sitting in the bathroom."
"I went to the parking for the first time," another resident, Svitlana, told me.
"The building shook and I could see fires across the river."
The attacks don't always claim lives, but they are spreading fear and eroding morale.
After an attack on a residential block in Kyiv last week, a shocked grandmother, Mariia, told me that her 11-year old grandson had turned to her, in the shelter, and said he understood the meaning of death for the first time.
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But the leaders did use the Nazis, just like the Democrats use Black Lives Matter, Antifa, & others for the same purpose, and that was & us to sow terror & division within their own nation. A nation that Ukraine had finally gotten back after centuries. Stupidity threw it away rather quickly though.
Europe has been in the process for decades, and they are at the breaking point. We managed a 250 year run, but that streak is in serious jeopardy. Do you even realize how close we are to falling?
I seriously doubt that you do.
But you are really struggling at straws because your lies, propaganda & name calling are worthless attempts to justify your support for this conflict, because there is nothing you can bring up that justifies what was provoked on purpose by the likes of Victoria Nuland et al, an unelected bureaucrat herself along with other unelected bureaucrats, whose hatred for Russia overrode their "intelligence" capacity, but their political influence carried the day anyway. I hope there is a special place in hell for these people who are no better than the monsters that ran the U.S.S.R. In many ways they even the power that those evil monsters had the power to wield over the little people of no influence whatsoever, along with bigger people who had less influence than they.
Though I am glad that the monster Stalin was betrayed by that other monster Hitler who decided to take on Russia, and placed Russia on the side of the Allied nations. Their siding with us, perhaps didn't change the final outcome, however, it unquestionably shortened the length of the war in Europe, just as our decision to drop two nuclear bombs on Japan shortened the length of the war in the Pacific and saved many lives as well.
It's too bad that we allowed the communists in China to take over in China who had been an ally in WWII. Because then our most brightest, thought that we could win them over by brining capitalism to their nation, and the craziness continues as the Circle apparently will be unbroken.
Needless death & destruction will continue, with brief respites, because it makes riches for the few while bringing nothing but pain & sorrow to the many, and death to far too many others.
Wiki may be useful on some topics, but not on topics that Democrats support, and all of the Democrats support Ukraine.
Sadly, far too many RINOs do as well. But then again the two makeup the Uni-party that has driven this nation into nearly complete destruction from its once strong powerful, & prosperous state it once commanded.
Keep digging that hole as you expose yourself of being just like our brightest thinkers who have gotten us here to this stage of a weak shell of our former self. To whom are you politically connected, dud?
The Ukrainians have used whatever they had/have and whatever theyāve been given to wage their defensive war of survival against Putinās conquest and they have greatly improved and invented entirely new technologies to successfully fight against frontline Russian tech and aviation.
They say itās not the size of the dog in the fight that matters, but the size of the fight in the dog and Putin picked a fight with a dog that turned out to be a honey badger.
As a result, Russia has used up their Cold War supply of tanks, artillery and ammunition and has had to rely upon the Chinese, Iranians and the Norks for weapons and ammunition and the Norks for additional troops. Thatās not winning.
And the Russians are going through people as fast as they are tanks and artillery and for what? Even if they somehow beat Ukraine, there is no way they will win the peace with Ukraine for several generations, so the war will continue regardless.
Winning? Not so much ā¦ and if President Trump gets serious about aiding Ukraine to end Putinās war? Then there will be pain that will challenge the average Russianās willingness to accept any more of this totally unnecessary pain and suffering. I imagine they are getting close to that now.
Iām thinking karma is coming for the Vladster one way or another.
I think we are already in the next phase of the war.
We won't be seeing massive battles like Bahkmut or Avdiivka.
It'll be fought with mostly drones, missiles and artillery.
So they'll continue to fight but at a lower intensity.
Some of us just like seeing Russians killed. And a lot of them have been killed.
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The ultimate tragedy though is that more Vermonters haven’t been killed. Surely you could round up some zealous volunteers from Coolidge’s “Brave Little State of Vermont” to tip the scales for Zelensky.
And I applaud you for that!
Come mid-December, Russia will have been invading Ukraine for longer than the whole damn Soviet Union fought against the Nazis in WWII.
And the Soviets had two signal advantages that Putin lacks: American military aid (lend-lease) and Ukrainian soldiers.
Regards,
This will be equally true of Putin's Russia.
In fact, it will be worse for Russia because the West will not rescind economic sanctions even if hostilities cease.
Russia will be an international pariah for decades to come.
Regards,
True! Putin should never have started it!
Regards,
Last month, Ukrainian forces wiped out Russia's strategic cruise-missile-capable bombers. Fully 35% of Russia's aircraft were destroyed at airfields scattered all around the country, thousands of km from Ukraine. The damages are estimated to go into the billions of dollars.
If this is what your "next phase of the war" looks like, Putin had better crawl back into his spider hole for the rest of it.
Regards,
I actually view the scenario involving a gangland-style execution of Putin by his own underlings as the most likely.
Regards,
I don’t give a rip either way but if you go to You Tube and see the way the Ukes are using drones it’s pretty impressive on one hand and horrible on the other.
The Ukes are literally hunting Russians with these things and blowing them up.
Turning human beings into red mist.
The last thing in some of these videos is the look of abject terror on the faces of the Russians.
Again, you make assumptions. I donāt care about Ukraine. I care about Russians who are invading another country being killed. In large numbers. Because if they are not killed in Ukraine, we will have to kill them in Poland, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania.
So, the only shame is that we havenāt aided in killing more of them.
Would you please clarify? Are you talking about Russian civilians (grandmothers, schoolchildren, etc.) or Russian combat soldiers participating in the invasion, occupation, and annexation of Ukraine?
Regards,
Absolutely,
I look at both sides.
You?
BTW, before I mentioned it, did you honestly know that the 2024 Russian elections had 1,000 foreign observers from 95 countries? Probably not.
And if you don’t believe it, now that you know, you can see from other media sources from those countries that this indeed happened.
But you see, when all you read is MSNBC, CNN or Facebook news as a conservative, when all you see and hear has been censored and Russian media muted, you don’t have a clue. But what is sad, is that you’re “willfully ignorant” and brag about that fact.
You claim not to like “Official propaganda”, yet you repeat it.
The intransigent party is Putin! Look at just this week’s comments by both POTUS and SOS. Putin’s position hasn’t changed, give us everything we want, no compromise.
Are you justifying the invasion?
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