Ehhh sure buddy - even mighty Persia and Rome fell |
Frothy!! |
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The massive losses by the AFU yesterday explains all the extra garbage posting by Zelensky's fan club.
It took me a good 20 minutes to watch my tax dollars go up in smoke. It looked to be at least a dozen Bradleys and an equal number of Leopards (for European tax payers). No wonder you fellas are frothing at the mouth with delusions. |
| I would like to point out that the investment interests of Americans owning Russian securities have been better protected and respected by Putin than our own Treasury department. |
Ahhh the usual bullshit Russian propaganda from someone like Geroman or Zoka that comes without credible evidence. According to those guys Russia has already destroyed 7000 Leopards and 15000 Bradleys or something like that. |
You are arguing with Russian State TV, not us. "From my point of view, WWIII has already ended. We are now waging WWIV. We lost WWIII" https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-solovyov-world-war-1815082 |
Weird article, weird perspective. And why do they gloss over the fact that Russia has already been using cluster munitions against Ukraine going all the way back to 2014? |
Feel free to watch them yourself. Simplicius has helpfully collated them here: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russia-raises-stakes-with-bold-strike They start a quarter of the way down the article, after the grain deal/Odessa strikes part. Consider any video other than the drone's eye view ones as NSFW due to language (translated) at least. |
I was able to track down this 50% business, and it seems a number that Blinken pulled out of his ..., uh guitar case. No media felt it a serious enough claim to actually explain or investigate, making it par for the course for alternate-reality Ukraine. |
And no media disagreed with it, either. Given your expertise, what percentage would you say they reclaimed? |
Now what makes you think anyone in the media would dare contradict Blinken? Don't you know what they have in common? |
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Russian invaders have had a year to dig in. Every approach to their positions is heavily mined. Their artillery is locked in. There is no easy way through without air dominance. It makes sense for Ukraine to move slowly and methodically given these realities. But they've had a lot of success hitting ammo dumps and their counter-battery has been very effective in taking out Russian artillery.
There's also been significant gains around Bakhmut, which is now entirely under Ukrainian fire control. They have the high ground. It's a death zone for Russians. But this will be a long, drawn out war. There is no easy way to clear out Russian trenches. And of course Russians always escalate. Now they're destroying Ukraine's capacity to export grain to the rest of the world. Famine is a favorite tactic for Russians. Ukraine has a lot of experience with that. Millions of Ukrainians died in the 1930s due to a famine inflicted by Moscow. Throw in blowing up dams. Churches too. Russians hit the cathedral in Odesa this week. Not to mention the church in Mariupol, where they killed hundreds of civilians who had sought shelter there. There's a lot of Russian propaganda on this site. But make no mistake. Russia is genuinely evil. We've only spent 5 percent of the pentagon's budget supporting Ukraine - mostly by sending old. surplus equipment that was due to be retired anyway. There's a lot more we could do. ATACMS would be a good start. And more Patriot systems. |
Ahh same old tactic. I've seen that exact footage before. They are recycling old footage and claiming it as new losses. And incidentally, some of those Leopards and Bradleys were in fact recovered by AFU as they continued to advance, some are being repaired and returned to service. |
Numerous sources, including Russian telegram say that Ukraine has been advancing 500-2000 meters per day every day in multiple directions along the front - Bakhmut, Berdyansk, etc. On the other hand, no credible source shows Russia making much of a meaningful advance anywhere. Russia is losing territory every day. |
I think it is true if you compare to some time in March 2022, where Russia was occupying a lot of area near Belarus. It has been about the same area for a year. |