The Looming Ukraine Debacle

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  1. yangforward

    yangforward Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No, I can't predict the future.

    Washington's neocons planned to draw Russia into a
    war in Ukraine and to 'bleed Russia white', and then
    do a regime change in Russia and gain access to the
    world's largest natural gas reserves.

    With a GDP of 13 times that of Russia, and a military
    expenditure even more in excess the US thought it
    would be an easy victory, and the world would apply
    sanctions to cut off Russian access to resources.

    And if that wasn't enough then NATO would be called
    in as well, giving about 30 times the GDP of Russia.

    But it hasn't worked out that way, at least so far, and
    nobody seems interested in why.
     
  2. Conservative Democrat

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    The basic story is easy to understand: Russia has subjected Russia to an unprovoked invasion.
     
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    Yeah that's the basic western-programmed group think.

    Which has nothing to do with reality.

    Meanwhile, even the ukrop azovs don't want to be made into sausage. Surrendering en masse and refusing to follow orders. :truce:
     
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    What is reality?
     
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    Where's the en masse surrendering ...."Bill"?
     
  6. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

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    Speaking of a looming debacle:

    Petro Poroshenko: 'I understand Putin'; Ukraine will win 'together with NATO'
     
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    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The Fascists are the one committing the war crimes -- crimes against humanity .. and I use the term Ethnic Cleansing rather than Genocide as is more appropriate. Why would the Fascist Israeli Brown Shirts present evidence against themselves ?? far too busy covering up the atrocities .. like those mass graves they found outside a hospital .. some folks still alive while buried ..others horrifically tortured ... bodies mutilated .. organs removed .. hopefully while the folks were not alive.

    I am sure the ultra Fascist Genocide Joe is mighty proud ... self declared Zionist and all :) ha ha ha .. what a moron .. Joe does not even know what the term Zionist means. ... apparently having many false memories .. the latest involving his brother eaten by Cannibals .. the mind of a mad man fading into dementia .. Trump looks great by comparison ..
     
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    Not sure it is "en masse" .. Will might be exaggerating a bit .. following ways of the Zoominator.. but never mind that .. Surrenders are on the rise .. some of the best troops .. the Azov Battalion .. refusing orders .. don't want to suicide themselves trying to hold the front line .. which is collapsing "En Masse" .. but not exaggerating ..

    I keep giving you various military summary channels to watch Zoomer .. just 15 min here and there .. ands you too could be up on what is going on. Here is some excellent commentary -- a 6 Kilometer Push .. Wow !

     
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  9. Durandal

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    Notice that the pro-Z "news" on YouTube comes from clowns and propaganda channels, not from reputable or mainstream sources.
     
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    Giftedone Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Come on now D .. you and I both know you don't have the faintest idea what a reputable source is .. we been through this before - how you don't know what propaganda is. Look friend .. just because you don't like the news .. doesn't make it propaganda.
     
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    prove it
     
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    Prove what Dayton ? .. this disingenuous oblivion tactic is getting old .. you will not accept any proof for the Holocaust in any case .. such denialism a lost cause .. Prove the earth is not flat Dayton :) LOL
     
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    WOW!....UAF been low on ammo for 5 months...and in that time frame the orcs just managed 6 km total? It's worse than I thought gifty....

    Now that UAF will get major goodies...I suspect Crimea should get liberated soon.....:).
     
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    Indeed. Ukraine's been fighting with one hand behind its back against a Goliath of an opponent, and that's all Goliath has to show for it.

    The debacle is just getting started for the fasZists.
     
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    That wasn't 6 km in 5 months Zoomie -- got things all confused again -- that was 6 km in a single day ! Front line collapsing. Is so bad that after watching .. all Durandal could say was .. ahhhhhh .. aahhhhh Russian propaganda ... which is funny .. but, not as funny as the liberation of Crimea fantasy !! .. heh heh .. such a jokester Zoomie .. always funning around .. .. but, let us be serious for a moment .. the munitions being sent are far less than the Ukes had for the Counter offensive .. and the Counter offensive was about as successful as one of your famous air bisquits Zoom .. .. I think all we can hope for is an uptick in the number of terrorist attacks for a short period of time -- and perhaps they can hold the Russians from advancing on the front line for a month or two .. or until such time as this small surge in weapons runs out .. and Russia will again advance .. and that is the optimistic scenario.

    Running out of bodies is a less optimistic scenario .. The moral is low ..the few well trained battalion refusing orders to fight .. the rest looking for chance to surrender .. currently in full on retreat mode .. nary a happy thing to report sans the occasional terrorist attack.. the only happy part of the story which turns out to be unhappy as the retaliation for these terrorist attacks is 10 X --- more harm to the poor Ukrainians

    Currently --the remnants of the Ukraine army are in retreat .. Hopefully this Arms surge can at least stop the home team from going backwards ..maybe put up some kind of defense for a short time .. Yet to see but for now they running backwards.
     
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    The Truth" - is that life is hard and dangerous ! row row row the boat .. gently down the stream .. :)
     
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    My take on this is different. I believe that Putin thought Ukraine would be easy to conquer. When it turned out not to be, he thought he could not back out while saving face.
     
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    Ukraine had an army of 680,000 NATO trained and armed soldiers.

    Nobody would call that easy.

    The reason V Putin moved in some forces, nothing like enough to
    take over a country, was to protect Donetsk.

    The Biden narrative is like most things Biden says.
     
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    okay.......based on the 4 divisions and their axis of advance south towards Kyiv and the air assault on Hostomel and the subsequent downing of the Il-76 troop planes within the first 48 hours of contact your comment makes no sense - in fact what you're saying is a load of tosh and really does denigrate the bravery of those real soldiers of the Russia Armed Forces that lost their lives in that failed attack. You can't have it both ways...from ZAPAD 2021 onwards the fate of those guys was to march into Kyiv and take by storm the Ukrainian parliament, TV studios and the killing of the leadership.....etc etc. I mean it's fine to sit behind your keyboard wanking over the latest excuses Peskov and Shoigu and all those other corrupt little c**ts come up with but the simple fact is that so far not one single operational goal has been achieved by Russian MOD so all that's happening now is that a bunch of inept officers are sending truckloads of poorly equipped badly motivated conscripts floundering round the countryside trying to make something of nothing....and UI's trying to make something out of it....
     
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    Just figuring that out now Durandal ? .. how exactly did you figure Ukraine was going defeat the Russians .. take back Crimea .. as you have been going on about as if it was a real possibility .. with on hand tied behind back ?

    What part of -- this war was lost before it started - simply on the basis of having one hand tied behind back - is now starting to sink in ??!

    and what is all the Goliath has to show - pretending Russia has gained nothing .. when they have gained everything they came for in terms of land (sans Odesa) ..near all of the Black Sea (all when Odesa falls) - 80% of Ukraines economy comes out of the region that Russia now controls .. Russia now taking land up to the Dneiper .. that will be the new Border .. and then we find out about Odesa .. which is the only big question remaining.

    Russia will continue to fight until the terrorist attacks stop .. Reset with the new Boundaries ... Russia with "Everything" to show for it .. Vlad going down in the History Books as Great Hero for the Motherland .. with a footnote about how the Fascist US and its Proxy JV Team and NATO got it handed to them .. one of the main Straws to break the US Economic and Military Empires hegemonic back.

    That is how the story is going so far mate -- don't let that western Propaganda Pablum tell you different. .
     
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    That's quite a "combobulation" like you always try to say ...not so gifty.

    "Near all of Black Sea".....where,gifty, there isn't one RuZzian tub anywhere in Western BS tovarstvoh?

    "RuZzia now controls"....what?....

    RuZzfascista is scrambling to try secure what it has before the "real goodies" show up...gifter?

    6 months and all Botox chimp has to show for is "fluid cintrol" of Avdivka?....when UAF was low on ammo....are you phucking serious?....:roflol:

    What RuZzian AD doing....can't shoot down UAF drilones that hit refineries..gifter.

    Sounds like you buck snorted and ran outta air biscuits?:)
     
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    This single package amounts to an entire Year of Russian Military Budget which is ~ 60 Billion.

    Been telling these neocon MIC fanboys for years - that in the rise and fall of Empire - As technology spreads , the cost of projecting power increases .. to the point where the empire trying to maintain global hegemony goes bankrupt.

    We are at a point in the curve where the cost of projecting power is Insanely expensive .. the ROI so negative you can't see the bottom of the well.

    More than 60 Billion was spent on the Counter Offensive which failed to dent the first line of a multi layered Russian Defense .. never- mind establish a bridgehead somewhere through that line .. never mind progress toward Crimea. The Counter offensive was a joke .. managing only to turn the Greyzone in front first line of defense into a Ukrainian Sausage maker .. the Ukrainians would come into the grey zone .. get killed .. come in again .. get killed .. human wave after human wave .. and that was all could be managed .. box upon box of Ukrainian Sausage for Xmas .. losing men at 5-10 times the rate of Russia .. sitting back on the defense .. shooting fish in a barrel .... and that is what 60 Billion plus got us.

    These folks fail to understand that this war is really really bad for the USA .. The Sanctions literally killing the US Economic Empire .. Literally a knife to the heart .. as when you wake up in the morning and look around .. and find that there is not a replacement .. but merely a competitor to the USD Sole reserve currency status .. will be the day the History Books will record as the Defacto end of US world Economic Empire.
     
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    Bin Laden and the islamicists also plotted to bankrupt the USA by forcing the USA to spend more on the military.

    They failed as badly as Russia is failing. Hence the hysterical fantasies from Putin's backers here.

    These tyrants have no concept of how big the US economy is. The military spending is barely a blip. The US has no problem bankrupting the opposition.
     
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    This incoherent ramble about "Air Biscuits" and combobulation is a post gone off the Path Zoomer ... this shouting at the wind kind of thing you call "Air Biscuits"

    Look -- "Russia controls what" -- you cry out to the wind .. when you know full well that Russia controls all of Ukraine worth having except Odesa -- which we have discussed .. wondering if / when Vlad will seize that only remaining pearl .. leaving what is ever left of Ukraine destitude and with out hope for an economic future.

    What Zoomer .. tell us what Russia controls .. What does Russia Control Zoomie :)
     
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    Putin will pay 'high price' when met with modern weaponry in US aid package for Ukraine | Poroshenko
     
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