What is the End Game in Ukraine?
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Anonymous
They are on Russia's side. But more precisely they are focused entirely on the ills of the West and conveniently ignore the ills of everyone else because they think the world revolves around the West. |
Anonymous
OK. If it's calling for extermination of all Ukrainians, please explain how there are Ukrainians still alive in the occupied territories. |
Anonymous
According to Russia those are not Ukrainians. |
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Anonymous
You sound like you are there. How many people are in the mass graves? Why did you order them killed? |
Anonymous
I hope you're not a U.S. policy-maker, because I don't think you understand the Soviet Cold-War mentality at all. This video is prophetic to what we're seeing unfold now: https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3388292/hands-down-the-scariest-video-on-the-internet-kgb-operative-gives-interview-in-1985-about-how-russia-manipulates-american-public-opinion Why wasn't there more news and reporting about this? "261 Russian journalists have been killed since the fall of the Soviet Union" https://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/russian-journalist-murdered-is-russia-s-press-freedom-dead-a-443543.html But you can reason with the Russian Government, right? "The essence of my proposition is simple”, says the chairwoman of Parliamentary Commission on Women’s Affairs, Children and Family, Yelena Borisovna Mizoulina. “Each female citizen of Russia will be able to receive by mail the genetic material of the President, get pregnant from him and have a baby. These mothers will be receiving special allowances from the government." https://observer.com/2014/11/russian-lawmaker-proposes-mailing-putin-sperm-to-impregnate-russian-women/ If you recall Zapad-2021, Putin held war games right on the border of Ukraine before rolling in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapad_2021 A bully picks on those that can't or don't fight back. Even when they get a black eye, the tough ones don't stop because that would make them look weak. They keep going until they can't keep going anymore. The FBI better start rounding up the knowns and interviewing the suspected. Only by shaking up the network will they begin to see how badly the U.S. has been infiltrated and why the Communist officials are so confident they're superior to the U.S. |
Anonymous
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What is the end game?
Ukraine's UNGA speech https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N_tjDPJ9_c4 Russian State TV https://youtu.be/iruW9dScps0 https://youtu.be/nObMmHw_PEk You can get with this or you can get with that. The choice is yours |
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I'm not sure what your point is, but it's clear the 300K mobilization is a paper tiger.
https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/b333e5a467979b820f5ec6d771322a36 This photo was in a news article showing captured Russian munitions. Although the disarray can be explained (the Ukrainians moved them), the quality of munitions caught my eye. Although a little rust / oxidation is normal, take a close look at the tips of the three shells in the lower right hand portion of the photo. At first it looked like a normal type of round marking like this one: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/404/957/2b5.png If you enlarge it, the two on the right definitely seem to be in bad shape. Artillery rounds are like rolls of toilet paper - you use a lot of them, and they don't stick around long. This type of shell damage doesn't happen overnight.. or in a few days.. or in a few weeks.. and I don't think even in a few months (although it would be strange that the Russians would hoard precious artillery rounds a few months?). Guessing it could be this ammo is from an old cold war stockpile that wasn't meant to be used right away? Same with tanks: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-14/russia-turns-to-old-tanks-as-it-burns-through-weapons-in-ukraine Rifles: https://www.indiatoday.in/world/russia-ukraine-war/story/age-old-weapons-shaping-russia-ukraine-war-here-is-the-list-1934704-2022-04-07 Does it mean that the Russians are out of modern weapons and munitions? Of course not. But what it means is that arming 300K solders will be "come as you are" and with whatever else can be manufactured in the next few months. Knowing this, ask yourself why did Russia mobilize? OPTION A: reduce the number of troublemaker males in the cities. Plausible. Gives Kremlin control of the greatest threat to the Kremlin right now. But idle troops don't stay idle long. Will they b OPTION B: invade Ukraine. Plausible. The strategy would be to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses with sheer numbers until the Ukrainians run out of ammo? Not sure that's a good strategy? Especially if the troops get two weeks training and are sent there in time for winter? OPTION C: if you use nukes, you can expect a military response. 300K would be about right to shore up Russian defenses. But this assumes that the Russian troops play nice and do as they are told. OPTION D: Putin is losing control and this is what a wild Alpha does when cornered by the pack. If so, logic and reason are out the door. |
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Option E: He's an idiot
Option F: It takes awhile to properly mobilize. It's an escalation to de-escalate according to dumb ass Russian doctrine. The hope is that forces a ceasefire that lasts through the winter while they get their logistics in order followed by a spring attack with the new cannon fodder. In the very short term the hope of reinforcements provides a temporary morale boost to the current cannon fodder and makes then less likely to surrender. Long term the numbers might be just enough to save Crimea for them. By escalating they are hoping that the international community will push for a ceasefire because that is the only way they have a chance of holding onto some of their gains. Interestingly enough, China's response to the mobilization was a call for a ceasefire and negotiations. "Don't hold me back" on the international stage. |
Anonymous
| Option G: The units left in Ukraine are desperately short staffed. They need as many warm bodies as they can get to stave off complete collapse. They are that desperate. |
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Option H: Russia's forces in Ukraine are made up of private military contractors (Wagner), Donbass conscripts, Russian contract soldiers, and Chechens.
The contract soldiers' original contracts have almost expired. The soldiers were not going to renew them. Their forces were about to collapse because of that. The contract expirations were a ticking time bomb. The mobilization decree extended all the contracts indefinitely. |
Anonymous
| How will Russia equip and train 300,000 troops. They have lost some much equipment. Unwilling conscripts kill officers and sabotage equipment. |
Anonymous
I don't know why people keep calling Russia's government Communist when it hasn't been that for a while. |
Anonymous
They won't. IMHO, according to 1960's doctrine, I think they're preparing for nuclear war. "The independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe reported that a source in the presidential administration said Russia was seeking to draft more than 1 million people into the army." “All the men, absolutely everyone, was given a draft notice,” said Krieger during an interview with TV Rain from the back of a police van. That included men who had never served in the army, he said, who were now required to appear at their local recruitment centres." "In Buryatia, activists said they didn’t understand why local officials were recruiting so aggressively, with students at local universities receiving draft notices while they were sitting in class." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/russia-mobilisation-ukraine-war-army-drive |
Anonymous
I don’t understand where you are getting nuclear war out of this? |