Ukraine is just securing its near abroad.

My worry is that Putin gets desperate to change the narrative and starts launching some really nasty ICBMs at Ukrainian cities. He’s not above launching a nuke in order to reestablish his preferred narrative and tough guy image.

Anonymous wrote:Putin on the verge of an historic, humiliating defeat in Donetsk region. Russian logistics and command/control in shambles. And it’s hard to figure out how Russia will reestablish something approaching a “front line” for a defensive posture. It’s a nightmare politically for him. When does he push Belarus to open another front?

What Putin did to himself is that no one is afraid of him and Russia any more. China believing that Russia was its strategic partner now looks silly. Ukraine is reshaping the global political landscape. Who would have known.

Where is the “Istanbul talks” poster?
Don’t you wanna come back and regale us with more hot takes?
😂

Anonymous wrote:Putin on the verge of an historic, humiliating defeat in Donetsk region. Russian logistics and command/control in shambles. And it’s hard to figure out how Russia will reestablish something approaching a “front line” for a defensive posture. It’s a nightmare politically for him. When does he push Belarus to open another front?

Belarus itself will be the next front. Need to save face because they're in shambles and panicking.

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Anonymous wrote:Holy moly. There are reports that Ukrainian soldiers have entered Izyum today. The Russian Army is completely collapsing.

Move over Vichy France there's a new surrender monkey in town.

Is it time to start laying down our next Tsar bets? If so, I'm going with the Wagner Group guy with Chechnya breaking away.

If it’s a total collapse Putin will be gone. There is no way he can survive(literally) this.

I would like to believe that, but am not that confident that is the case.

Putin on the verge of an historic, humiliating defeat in Donetsk region. Russian logistics and command/control in shambles. And it’s hard to figure out how Russia will reestablish something approaching a “front line” for a defensive posture. It’s a nightmare politically for him. When does he push Belarus to open another front?

It appears that Ukraine successfully deceived Russia into believing that their counteroffensive would be concentrated on Kherson - even passing fake intelligence to the media. So Russia poured their defenses into that area, leaving their lines overstretched. Ukraine then counterattacked to the north, around Kharkiv, and the inexperienced Russian lines are collapsing, all the way down to Donetsk it appears.

Things are moving quickly. Since this map was tweeted yesterday, Izyum has been retaken by Ukraine.

Ukraine could win without even advancing. Once the sanctions were put in place Russia was doomed. Look at how Germany lost ww1 with never having an enemy cross into their territory.
Once you lose or screw up logistics you are doomed. Russia lost this on feb 24th.
They truly are an incompetent, useless race.

Anonymous wrote:Too good to be true, but hopefully it’s true. I hope common people of Russia won’t suffer too much. Otherwise can’t wait for the crazy regime to end.

It's true. Confirmation coming in from all over. This is really extraordinary.

Too good to be true, but hopefully it’s true. I hope common people of Russia won’t suffer too much. Otherwise can’t wait for the crazy regime to end.

Anonymous wrote:Holy moly. There are reports that Ukrainian soldiers have entered Izyum today. The Russian Army is completely collapsing.

Move over Vichy France there's a new surrender monkey in town.

Is it time to start laying down our next Tsar bets? If so, I'm going with the Wagner Group guy with Chechnya breaking away.

This compilation of Russian propagandists panicking at the recent Ukrainian battlefield victories is astounding. (You can tell how much they are panicking by the number of times they say "We must not panic!". ) Usually, these commentators are full of cheerful Russian jingoism, but now they all seem tired and depressed

this didn't age well, just like everything else out of this russian propagandists mouth

Anonymous wrote:Holy moly. There are reports that Ukrainian soldiers have entered Izyum today. The Russian Army is completely collapsing.

Move over Vichy France there's a new surrender monkey in town.

Is it time to start laying down our next Tsar bets? If so, I'm going with the Wagner Group guy with Chechnya breaking away.

If it’s a total collapse Putin will be gone. There is no way he can survive(literally) this.