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This Great Deal will bring Peace and Security to the whole Region.

On paper only. As long as the Iranian regime continues in power, the agreement will be violated over and over again.

The 'agreement' only extends the current situation. Duh!

Most don’t understand the techical meaning of the word casualty.

Sounds like most people have a problem. So, if you know the answer, why don't you educate them on the definition? Or are you part of most people who don't know the definition?

And, btw, there is nothing technical about what 'casualty' means. It's not that 'nuanced'.

More nonsense from a Z-bot.

Z-bot? Really? And here I thought you were one of the more educated FRutinistas.

Anyhow, nonsense from a FRutinista can only be answered with more nonsense. Post something intelligent and coherent, and you should expect an equally respectful answer.

Define casualty.

Education costs money. How much will you pay for me to educate you?

Hillary is a liberal, therefore, one of you. Graham is a republican, on my side and on the side of Russian opposition.

Try to get things right for once.

But I also know neither side is much at telling the truth.

On Ukraine's side, they have to be telling the truth. Ukraine estimates more than 1.5 million Russian casualties. They had better have their numbers right, because, planning for defense and future offensives, depend on getting their numbers correct. Launching an offense or preparing a defense, all depend on knowing exactly what they're dealing with.

Getting their numbers wrong is what's devastating the Russian side. They launch offensives believing the lies from their generals and commanders on the battlefield, and Putin also plans using those big fat lies. Thus, the Russians suffer about 35,000 casualties each month, and over 400,000 casualties per year.

Ukraine is having major success because, they're not lying to themselves or to their allies.

So, while there may be a little lie here and there, Ukraine cannot get their war status incorrect.

But it is part of the old empire

England had an empire. Spain had an empire. The Romans had an empire. They all went the way of the dinosaurs. Should we have the dinosaurs come back to life? The Soviet Union is dead, and just like the dinosaurs, they should stay that way.

This war in Ukraine is a “dumb” war.

It was started by that "dumb" a-hole, Putin. Can you please talk to him about stopping it?

It was caused by dumb decisions

True. Dumb Russian decisions.

over many years

True enough. Putin was planning it for many years.

which we had control over

How did 'we' or anybody have control over Putin, a dictator. How many dictators do you know of that allows outside interference to control his/her actions?

we were in the leading role

Where the heck did you get that idea? It was always Putin in the leading role on whether or not to invade Ukraine.

in the position of power.

True, we have power. But the power to decide to invade was with Putin. Now, our power and that of Europe and that of Ukraine, are teaching Putin many lessons. I'm pretty sure he's been regretting his stupidity for the last 4+ years, but he dares not pull out of Ukraine. He'd be too embarrassed to admit that he's an idiot that devastated his country and Ukraine. The Ayatollahs went the same way Putin should.

While we talk about the Russians wanting to rebuild the Soviet Union and other nonsense, the truth had the Russians put in a position where they can articulate a direct and eminent security threat to themselves unless they take immediate action to stop us after October 2021.

Putin himself said that he wanted to reconstitute the Soviet Union, even if under a different title.

All the garbage Putin and Russia 'articulated' was pure fabricated BS. There was no security threat to Russia before Putin decided to invade. The NATO countries were there and in fact, European countries have always been at Russia's borders, and now, even more NATO allies are at Russia's borders, because the Russian invasion made them realize that the Russian threat was always real and imminent. Putin caused NATO to increase in members, just as the Soviet Union 'created' NATO.

The whole rest of your post was junk, attempting to defend the indefensible Russia.

My analysis?

Russia was a paper-tiger, militarily.

Russia was/is ill-equipped economically to fight a long-lasting war.

The results from the war show that, my analysis is spot on.

Be careful what you wish for. His successor will likely be a hard liner.

Yeah. Putin Part Deux.

Just wait till Ukraine finishes developing its own ballistic missiles, and removes the Kerch Bridge

No need to destroy it. Just make it unusable for military transportation, which Ukraine already did. If destruction was the goal or needed, Ukraine would have done it years ago.

Military Summary Channel

YOUR preferred source for what's going on in Ukraine, is TOTAL GARBAGE...

The Russian propaganda channel has no facts or truth within it. But, Putin and his advisers and generals and commanders love it.

Is the military summary channel objective/truthful in any way?

The short answer is no, the Military Summary Channel is generally not considered an objective or entirely truthful source.

While the channel brands itself as providing neutral, objective daily updates on the Russo-Ukrainian war using interactive maps, defense analysts, intelligence communities, and critical viewers broadly categorize it as a pro-Russian alternative media outlet.

If you watch it regularly, it is helpful to understand how its bias shapes its reporting:

1. Systematic Narrative Bias

The channel heavily emphasizes Russian tactical progress and military strength while consistently downplaying or omitting Ukrainian successes. It frequently uses dramatic, hyperbolic language to describe Russian operations (e.g., using terms like "Doomsday," "Collapse," or "Crushing Blow" in titles and commentary) to frame Russian actions as decisive breakthroughs, even when territorial gains are minor or highly localized.

2. Unverified and Outsized Loss Claims

Independent observers note that the channel regularly reports massive Ukrainian equipment and personnel losses—sometimes relying heavily on Russian Ministry of Defense claims or unverified Telegram footage—while rarely providing equivalent coverage or scrutiny of Russian casualties and hardware losses.

3. Sourcing and Framing

The channel utilizes open-source intelligence (OSINT) and geolocated footage, which gives it the appearance of raw, objective data analysis. However, objectivity isn't just about showing a real piece of video; it's about the context. The channel heavily curates which geolocated clips it highlights, shaping a specific, pro-Kremlin narrative of the battlefield layout.

The Takeaway: In modern conflict tracking, no single source is completely without bias. However, the Military Summary Channel leans heavily toward the Russian perspective. If you look at its maps to see geolocated frontline shifts, it is highly recommended to balance it against independent OSINT groups (like the Institute for the Study of War or DeepStateMap) to get a more accurate, complete picture of the conflict.

Sounds like propaganda to me. Where has this tactic been for the past five years or so? Did the drones only show up now? If it was easy, it should have done a long time ago.

Pay attention. The Ukraine of 4 years ago is not the Ukraine that's kicking Russian ass on the ground right now.

What a shame. I look forward to celebrating the victory over Ukraine every spring. One year it will happen.

You're going to be waiting for a million springs and a million years, but even then, Russia will not exist anymore.

You'll have to bring Putin's ghost back to life, and get him to reconstitute the old Soviet Union and have him launch a new invasion of Ukraine. But by then, Ukraine will be part of the NATO of the future, as the strongest nation within that allied force group. So, even the future Putin will be losing again, and your dream will still be unattainable. ;-)

which connects occupied Crimea with the motherland

Two keywords there.

Occupied is correct. The Russians don't belong there.

Motherland is incorrect, since Russia is NOT THE MOTHERLAND for the occupied territory of Crimea.

You’re on the same exact side as the globalist tyrants.

No bigger globalist tyrant than Putin, which you apparently support wholeheartedly.

Any 'globalist tyrant' I support, lives in the U.S. Can you name them?

Right now, it's a stalemate.

Not really. When Ukraine controls all the supply routes, it controls what shipments get through to the Russian troops and bases of operations. Right now, Russians are being starve of food and fuel and ammunition and their operations are hardly operating. Their trucks are all burning from Ukrainian drone and missile strikes, and the Russian defense systems are virtually non-existent.

What good is a military that doesn't have the stuff to be effective at offensives and at defense? Retreat is the only path forward, and Russians have already started retreating in many areas.

The Europeans are not going to do what the Russians tried to do.

That is utter bullshit.

The FACTS say different, so you are the one with the utter bullshit.

Russia is the largest country on Earth.

Yeah, mostly empty and useless territory. They might as well own parts of uranus.

They neither want no need more territory.

Putin says you're full of krap. He wants Ukraine and ALL the former Soviet republics back, because, they were the best parts of the USSR.

What they don't want is NATO staging weapons on their border ("Ukraine" is Russian for "borderland")

A definition does not mean that it belongs to Russia. And, it's a dumb definition when any country has a right to being free and independent, and since 1991, Ukraine has been recognized as a sovereign country; it's hasn't been part of the Soviet Union or Russia for nearly 4 decades.

and the Ukraine Nazis slaughtering Russian-speaking Ukrainians.

That was Russians slaughtering Ukrainians and the pretending that it was Ukrainians conducting the terrorist acts. Plus, if Ukrainians near Russia did speak Russian, that was still no excuse for Russia to intervene in Ukraine internal matters. Also, Russia/USSR, when they controlled Ukraine, FORCED Ukrainians to speak and write Russian while also forbidding them from using the Ukrainian language. Forced 're-education' of a people, does not equate to those people 'belonging' to Russia. If the Ukrainians were not punished for using their own language, Russian would be a completely foreign language, with only a tiny percentage understanding Russian.

Try to understand the history as to why things are as they are, and you won't sound so ignorant.

It's Europe that is bankrupt.

So is the U.S., yet we and Europe continue living our lives without having to take over other countries, unless they are a threat to our well-being. Ukraine and Europe were not threats to Russia, and the Russians had to fabricate threats from the west to justify the invasion of Ukraine.

It is Europe that wants to cut up Ukraine and divide it's resources among themselves,

Stop imagining and fabricating things. NOBODY in Europe has stated such an idiotic thing as you say. YOU sound exactly like Putin, with your fabricating of lies.

and then they will cast their eyes upon Russia itself,

Nobody wants to conquer Russia and then have to rule it. It's nonsensical. But, changing the politics and government would be ideal for Russia. In fact, Russians have adopted a lot of the cultural ideals of western countries, which is a no-no for the former KGB agents ruling Russia today.

the country with more natural resources than any other country on Earth.

The most important 'natural resource' for any country, is its people. Russia is very lacking in people with incentives and ideas and ambitions. They just exist from year to year, using only what's available inside their country and stealing technology from the western powers which are a lot more modernized than Russia. The only resource Russia has that's worth anything to them and the world, is oil. Whatever other natural resources the land contains, is either useless or too expensive to tap, or too cold and distant to be worthwhile developing.

Their war has decimated the Ukrainian population.

People always flee wars. The Russians lost perhaps 2 or 3 as many people fleeing the war. Plus Russia has lost at least 5 times as many military age men as Ukraine; lately it's more like 9 times as many casualties for each Ukrainian casualty.

And still, Ukraine has about 800,000 to 900,000 men in uniform, while Russia is virtually out of men to send to the meat-grinder. Plus, not all the Ukrainians in uniform are in the war-front: the deadliest "Ukrainians" doing battle against the Russians, are the drones and missiles and artillery, most of which the Russian troops don't get to see, until it's too late. About 96% of Russian troops are being killed by Ukrainian drones, so, the Ukrainian troops don't even have to be in the battlefield.

They want them gone, and are using their war to camouflage their true agenda.

That's a whole lotta BS! Ukraine is now the strongest military in Europe, and Ukraine will dictate terms for it's EU membership and NATO membership.

Putin wanted to take over Ukraine, but what he ended up doing was creating the most powerful country in Europe, going forward. Major backfire to Putin, and YOU!

I've been paying attention.

Then you are not one of the few here on FR that believes Russia stands a chance at winning the war.