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[quote=Anonymous]I read the naiveté on these posts and sigh.  I think that a lot of Americans just don't get it.  They don't understand that there is no Amazon overnight in most of the world, and that yes, outhouses still exist.  When this is your starting point, it's really, really difficult to have an intelligent conversation about Russia.

Recently Solovyov visited the Russian front lines.  After the visit he's changed his tune of how successful Russia is in Ukraine.
“Why do Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk [Dnipro] still exist?  We are no longer stationed near Kyiv! Was it a damn goodwill gesture? A goodwill gesture? And Kharkiv was a goodwill gesture? No one was executed by shooting for [surrendering] Kharkiv! No one was sent into retirement, at least not publicly. The society didn’t get any answers to its questions. I’m asking you, why did you move the frontline closer to Belgorod? We still didn’t get back to those positions! In response—silence. Silence.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vladimir-solovyov-putins-no-1-cheerleader-rips-into-russias-war-failures?source=articles&via=rss

In a rare admission, Solovyov complained NATO has far superior firepower and, if NATO engaged conventionally, implied could easily wipe out the Russian offensive in Ukraine.
"Do you want the destruction of Russia with conventional weapons, of which NATO countries have 3 and a half times more than we do?”

Military correspondent Alexander Kots made a startling revelation as well.  The implication is that the Russians have been closing down their artillery schools to send them to the front lines and also russian artillery support is down to a trickle.
"We have trained—I won’t say how many, but a decent quantity of the artillery battalions, but all of them were sent to the infantry."
"we don’t have any artillery schools left! We used to have eleven and now only Mikhailovskaya remains.”
NOTE: through social media leaks, the Mikhailovskaya Artillery Military Academy most likely trains soldiers on BM-30 Smerch 9K58, Uragan, Tornado-S 300mm Heavy MLRS, Tornado-G/BM-21 MLRS; Msta-S, 2S3, and D-30 howitzers, etc.

But is Solovyov is in the Stages of Grief?  Are you right and Russia is on the way to disintegration and become an international pariah forevermore?

Remember what Solovyov said about 10 months ago? "and if you think we'll stop at Ukraine, think 300 times more.  Let me remind you that Ukraine is just an intermediate stage in ensuring the strategic security of the Russian Federation."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnkTLKJt6K0  Of course, he went onto bragging how he had 13,727 subscribers on Telegram and 39K on YouTube, sadly not realizing that it was not a lot of people.  :(

But now he says this: “Berlin, Paris, Madrid, London, Washington should be on fire! The capitals of Nazi countries who made a decision to go to war with Russia... Why wasn’t Kyiv wiped off the face of the earth after the Nazi nation of Ukraine conducted a strike against our strategic aviation base? Stop resorting to empty, worthless words!”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vladimir-solovyov-putins-no-1-cheerleader-rips-into-russias-war-failures?source=articles&via=rss

Remember that as of 10 days ago Putin is "readying quiet mobilization of 700K troops".  “The Ministry of Defense needs to recruit about 700,000 more people for the war by February."  That's up 200K estimated just 20 days ago.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/18/russia-readying-quiet-mobilization-of-700000-troops-report/

But where will 700K sets of Body Armor / boots, 2.8M sets of uniforms, 63M monthly rations, 126M monthly (or weekly, as the case may be) rounds of ammunition, etc. come from in 30 days?

The answer is, I don't think that's the game plan.  I believe that Putin is just killing young Russian men (e.g. think 'death by police') until their relatives left behind cry out for vengeance - not against him, but against the "western nazi's".  I believe that the fathers and mothers, knowing their children are dead and bloodlines have ended, will grasp at the ghosts Putin offers, and stop caring about their future and scream out for blood and retaliation.

I really, really think you all (the far right, the Trumpers, other Russian allies, Boris and Natasha included) need to think about that a bit.  What is that outcome?  What future do millions of Russians see when their good, patriotic children are dead; they see nothing but empty chairs, failed family businesses, and there is no hope of another generation to pass along their legacy?

A message for you all - you know your own people best.  All the lies.  All the anger.  How America has been weakened by your successes, so now the US (divided) will have difficulty facing this evil.  Is this really what you all want to have happen?

SIDE NOTE: My guess is the reason why Russian propagandists claim the West is corrupt and filled with Nazi's may be because that's who the SVR and other (Russian intelligence agencies) tries to recruit in the western nations?  Looking at the current Republican party, it's not that much of a stretch.  But if the U.S. far-right or Trump naively believes that they are receiving Russian support, it likely will not end well for them - even if Russia someday becomes the supreme poobah overlord of all nations on the planet.  They all need to read Bezmenov's comments about large conservative media persons, rich filmmakers, academicians, and cynical egocentric people.
“When their job is completed, they are not needed anymore. They know too much. Some (recruits) get offended when Marxists-Leninists come to power because they hoped they would come to power. That will never happen. They will be lined up against the wall and shot”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw

Think carefully.
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