Guessing you missed the posts about Ukraine getting Western tanks and will be given F-16's? May want to scroll back and read from about page 90'ish and catch up. Also, it was the Russians who were mostly fighting with the 1920's era gear. And don't worry. The World saw the video where the Russian military used incendiary weapons on the civilians in Bakhmut. Everyone is acutely aware of the rows and rows of high-rise civilian apartments that were burned up, with women, children, elderly. I'm sure those videos will be shown many, many times once those who committed those War Crimes are prosecuted. But I think you're not understanding how many losses of Russian soldiers are really happening. I think you need to re-read the articles again. Do you see Ukraine running 33 crematoriums at full capacity? Does Ukraine need to build massive corpse storage warehouses? Did Ukraine order 21 mobile crematoriums from China? "After noting that the situation is very difficult, Simonyan decided to sing verses from an old Soviet song, “The March of the Red Cavalry.” Other panelists awkwardly looked down, as she sang and then reiterated the lyrics about moving forward and never backing down." “People ask when, where and how our special operation will end. It will end when all the ‘nerus,’ all the ‘vyrus,’ everyone who wants to turn us into yahoos, everyone who directs them, everyone who brainwashes them, will suffer infamy and shame. It may take 3 months, 3 years or 30 years, so be it. What other choice do we have?” Solovyov replied: “Our other choice? Reduce the whole world to dust. Just not yet.” Smiling, Simonyan replied, “And we will go to heaven.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/rts-margarita-simonyan-belts-out-song-on-russian-state-tv-in-awkward-push-for-more-troops-in-ukraine Here you go. You know the meaning of this song. https://wendemuseum.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/budyonny_3.jpg Now do you understand? |
| This war is stalemate. Our European Allies cannot afford this war. Time to make peace. |
No it’s in American strategic interest to make Europe a junior partner of the us and have Slavs fight each other as is in their nature |
Take it up with Luke Mogelson, dear. He's the one who wrote it. To your other screeds, I will repeat: Ukraine has never made their military losses public. |
Ludicrous. They are still just ramping up. And they are delivering weapons that despite being old stock from the 1990s are still far more technologically advanced than the best Russia ever had. The only way there will be peace is when Russia withdraws. |
Isn't Russia still claiming only 16,000 losses in this "3-day Special Operation" despite reality being far closer to 200,000 dead and permanently disabled Russian troops? |
And screwing all of the families of dead mobiks, the dead sons of mothers, the dead grandsons of babusas, the fathers of children, the dead husbands of wives, all cheated out of the pay and promises because Russia lied to them and told them he is still alive and fighting or that he went awol when in fact he's either a corpse sitting unclaimed in a refrigerated rail car-turned-morgue or rotting and half buried on a hillside in eastern Ukraine where he was left there by his fellow choloviks |
Shrug. Did you read Mogelson's reporting that Ukraine's army is made of mostly working class, rural, poorly educated boys? Since the middleclass and the educated had the wherewithal to either flee or buy their way out? It's not that different you know. . |
There is no true reporting about this war. From either side. |
There's a big difference between the "working class rural boys" of Ukraine compared to the rural boys of Russia. Many of Russia's fighters come from far flung places like Dagestan and Ingushetia where they don't even have paved roads or indoor plumbing. And Ukraine's boys are fighting because they know their survival is at stake, their morale is high, as opposed to many of the Russian mobiks who are just in it for a few dollars and don't understand what the purpose is. |
Shrug. Mogelson is impressionable, but has no clue about the big picture. |
Ahh there it is. When confronted with damning and damaging facts, it's the ole #bothsides defense |
Well he was in the trenches with these boys, and you're here on DCUM so I'm all done deciding which one of you has the big picture. |
I see. So why are there no middleclass educated boys in their army? Isn't their morale high as well? Dagestan and Ingushetia aren't far flung at all. |
Ah but has he been in the trenches with Russian troops from Ingushetia, sitting there with 100 year old Mosin Nagant rifles and a few boxes of ammo and no proper gear and no supply of food or other logistics, wondering why they are there, considering that the stolen washing machine is worth more than their promised service contract? |