Posted on 08/24/2025 10:13:08 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
“Russian forces would have to fight for years at the pace that they’re going.”
Speed in land taking has never been Putin’s goal. He wouldn’t have spread his forces along a 600-mile front in that case. Killing off the Ukrainian army is his Demilitarizing goal you keep hearing about. He adds 35,000 trained troops a month. Ukraine can’t come anywhere that training period or that number of new troops. If he achieves his destruction goal, he can take whatever land he wants, as fast as he wants.
He can do that because Ukraine’s backers won’t send ground troops.
Firm grasp of the obvious.
He fell for the classic “Honey Trap”: Sex for information. She pretended to need the information for a PhD thesis, which she never completed. She instead found a coauthor and a publisher and used the information for best-selling book.
No, Gen. Petraeus has full accreditation as a clown.
Iraq? We didn’t lose Iraq.
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None of our goals were met in Iraq. We lost.
Our goal was to overthrow Saddam Hussein. We did that.
The next goal was to establish a "democracy" in Iraq. We did that too.
Since Putin started the war by invading the neighbor he promised to defend from aggression, this is a “no chit, Sherlock” moment.
It is, indeed, a no shit moment. The Russian army may continue until they take Kiev or Lviv, depending upon when the last Ukrainian falls or concedes. Ukraine lacks the ability to stop them. They could go faster but then they would need to take more casualties. The Russians are satisfied with the status quo exemplified by the last dead soldier exchange where Russia provided 6,600 bodies and Ukraine provided 57.
The seperatists of LPR and DPR owe no allegiance to the unlawful, usurping movement which overthrew the lawfully elected government of Ukraine pursuant to a foreign inspired and financed revolution. It eventually led to the LPR and the DPR being recognized by Russia, and their entering into a mutual defense agreement with Russia. Ukraine committing an act of aggression against the LPR/DPR was the smooth move, Sherlock moment that inspired the Russians to honor the defense agreement it made with LPR/DPR and stream across the border with boots on the ground military support. And here we are, the Russian army is kicking the crap out of the Ukrainian army again.
ALWAYS & FOREVER
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