Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least one of the posters here is somewhat nuts
The one with the lengthy posts full of quotes, who goes off at anyone who questions his ‘expertise’ or opinions
Now, watch him call me a Russian troll!

DP... nothing nuts about quotes and citations. That poster brings a lot more weight to the table than you pro-Russia dolts ever do.

Lol and here comes the name calling! Nevermind I never said anything pro Russian

"I nEveR sAID AnyThiNG PrO RuSSiAn"

Sure, you never said I LOVE DADDY VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH! outright, yet everything you post is anti-Ukraine propaganda coming straight from Kremlin mouthpieces.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://time.com/6329188/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-interview/

{Blah, blah, blah, and other blah..}

Since the start of the invasion, Ukraine has refused to release official counts of dead and wounded. But according to U.S. and European estimates, the toll has long surpassed 100,000 on each side of the war. It has eroded the ranks of Ukraine’s armed forces so badly that draft offices have been forced to call up ever older personnel, raising the average age of a soldier in Ukraine to around 43 years. “They’re grown men now, and they aren’t that healthy to begin with,” says the close aide to Zelensky. “This is Ukraine. Not Scandinavia.”"

Does that sound like a nation inflicting 4X casaulties on Russia?

Hey, I don't mean to burst your bubble or anything, but.. yeah, it does.

"It is already raising the upper age limit for men to be called up for compulsory military service to 30 from 27, and has made it much harder for young men to avoid the draft by dodging recruiters handing out call-up papers. The law passed on Tuesday allows men who have completed their compulsory service without any further commitment to be mobilized up to the age of 40, 50 or 55, depending on their category, the State Duma or lower house of parliament said on its website. In all cases the age limit was raised by five years. Russia also maintains a "mobilised reserve" of men who have signed up to receive periodic military training and a stipend after their compulsory or professional service ends. The new law means that those from this reserve with the highest ranks can now be called back into service up to the age of 70 rather than 65, other senior ranks up to 65, junior officers up to 60 - and all others up to the age of 55 rather than 45."
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-extends-eligibility-military-call-up-by-least-five-years-2023-07-18/#:~:text=The%20new%20law%20means%20that,of%2055%20rather%20than%2045.

Russia is also shanghaing migrants and forcing them into conscription to send them to the front. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/1/is-russia-recruiting-muslim-migrants-to-fight-its-war-in-ukraine

If Russia is winning so handily and has such an advantage, then why are they resorting to bottom-of-the-barrel desperation tactics?

Time to stop or at least pause the killing, General!

General Valery Zaluzhny tells the Economist that the state of technology means that the war is at a stalemate.

"The simple fact is that we see everything the enemy is doing and they see everything we are doing. In order for us to break this deadlock we need something new, like the gunpowder which the Chinese invented and which we are still using to kill each other."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least one of the posters here is somewhat nuts
The one with the lengthy posts full of quotes, who goes off at anyone who questions his ‘expertise’ or opinions
Now, watch him call me a Russian troll!

DP... nothing nuts about quotes and citations. That poster brings a lot more weight to the table than you pro-Russia dolts ever do.

Lol and here comes the name calling! Nevermind I never said anything pro Russian

Anonymous wrote:https://time.com/6329188/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-interview/

{Blah, blah, blah, and other blah..}

Since the start of the invasion, Ukraine has refused to release official counts of dead and wounded. But according to U.S. and European estimates, the toll has long surpassed 100,000 on each side of the war. It has eroded the ranks of Ukraine’s armed forces so badly that draft offices have been forced to call up ever older personnel, raising the average age of a soldier in Ukraine to around 43 years. “They’re grown men now, and they aren’t that healthy to begin with,” says the close aide to Zelensky. “This is Ukraine. Not Scandinavia.”"

Does that sound like a nation inflicting 4X casaulties on Russia?

Hey, I don't mean to burst your bubble or anything, but.. yeah, it does.

"It is already raising the upper age limit for men to be called up for compulsory military service to 30 from 27, and has made it much harder for young men to avoid the draft by dodging recruiters handing out call-up papers. The law passed on Tuesday allows men who have completed their compulsory service without any further commitment to be mobilized up to the age of 40, 50 or 55, depending on their category, the State Duma or lower house of parliament said on its website. In all cases the age limit was raised by five years. Russia also maintains a "mobilised reserve" of men who have signed up to receive periodic military training and a stipend after their compulsory or professional service ends. The new law means that those from this reserve with the highest ranks can now be called back into service up to the age of 70 rather than 65, other senior ranks up to 65, junior officers up to 60 - and all others up to the age of 55 rather than 45."
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-extends-eligibility-military-call-up-by-least-five-years-2023-07-18/#:~:text=The%20new%20law%20means%20that,of%2055%20rather%20than%2045.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh, and throwing shade like that - you're Russian or work for the Russian's, right? Better look for a new job for yourself soon. Might find out that your pension isn't what it used to be? Just sayin'

Mossad

Dude. Wow. Don't tell me you're paid to be on here? I would've expected you to, you know, be busy with stuff? DCUMS isn't a great source of info, you know?

A lot going on today.

Solovyov standing up for Israel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbQieTSxzjA

Open arguments on Russian TV?
https://twitter.com/SergAlbertich/status/1718192739081162945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1718192739081162945%7Ctwgr%5E5dc7e060516eb0a13da420c69de96aa500cb1698%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fenglish.nv.ua%2Fnation%2Fshocking-truth-revealed-russian-impoverishment-amidst-sanctions-unveiled-on-live-talk-show-50364375.html

Putin invites Biden for pancakes and tea (*) for supplying Ukraine with ATACMS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFc_z1O-OWo

* = In Russian "pancake" (блин) in slang is used to emphasize emotion (as in, 'you're not paying attention to me'), depending on the context of the sentence. Polonium-210 placed in tea was used to poison Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.

Yet Russia has no issues deploying Thermobaric Rocket Launchers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV7CVBKzKPA

While quietly invading Georgia?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfLJCuiervI

And Kadyrov issues "shoot to kill" orders at rallies?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chechen-leader-allows-shoot-kill-075000115.html

Anonymous wrote:https://time.com/6329188/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-interview/

Some gems for the "Ukraine is totally winning" brigade:

"When I raised these claims with a senior military officer, he said that some commanders have little choice in second-guessing orders from the top. At one point in early October, he said, the political leadership in Kyiv demanded an operation to “retake” the city of Horlivka, a strategic outpost in eastern Ukraine that the Russians have held and fiercely defended for nearly a decade. The answer came back in the form of a question: With what? “They don’t have the men or the weapons,” says the officer. “Where are the weapons? Where is the artillery? Where are the new recruits?”

In some branches of the military, the shortage of personnel has become even more dire than the deficit in arms and ammunition. One of Zelensky’s close aides tells me that even if the U.S. and its allies come through with all the weapons they have pledged, “we don’t have the men to use them.”

Since the start of the invasion, Ukraine has refused to release official counts of dead and wounded. But according to U.S. and European estimates, the toll has long surpassed 100,000 on each side of the war. It has eroded the ranks of Ukraine’s armed forces so badly that draft offices have been forced to call up ever older personnel, raising the average age of a soldier in Ukraine to around 43 years. “They’re grown men now, and they aren’t that healthy to begin with,” says the close aide to Zelensky. “This is Ukraine. Not Scandinavia.”"

Does that sound like a nation inflicting 4X casaulties on Russia?

Er - is that a serious question?

Time magazine- says Ukraine running out of soldiers.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-official-says-cant-properly-154209789.html

Anonymous wrote:At least one of the posters here is somewhat nuts
The one with the lengthy posts full of quotes, who goes off at anyone who questions his ‘expertise’ or opinions
Now, watch him call me a Russian troll!

DP... nothing nuts about quotes and citations. That poster brings a lot more weight to the table than you pro-Russia dolts ever do.

https://time.com/6329188/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-interview/

Some gems for the "Ukraine is totally winning" brigade:

"When I raised these claims with a senior military officer, he said that some commanders have little choice in second-guessing orders from the top. At one point in early October, he said, the political leadership in Kyiv demanded an operation to “retake” the city of Horlivka, a strategic outpost in eastern Ukraine that the Russians have held and fiercely defended for nearly a decade. The answer came back in the form of a question: With what? “They don’t have the men or the weapons,” says the officer. “Where are the weapons? Where is the artillery? Where are the new recruits?”

In some branches of the military, the shortage of personnel has become even more dire than the deficit in arms and ammunition. One of Zelensky’s close aides tells me that even if the U.S. and its allies come through with all the weapons they have pledged, “we don’t have the men to use them.”

Since the start of the invasion, Ukraine has refused to release official counts of dead and wounded. But according to U.S. and European estimates, the toll has long surpassed 100,000 on each side of the war. It has eroded the ranks of Ukraine’s armed forces so badly that draft offices have been forced to call up ever older personnel, raising the average age of a soldier in Ukraine to around 43 years. “They’re grown men now, and they aren’t that healthy to begin with,” says the close aide to Zelensky. “This is Ukraine. Not Scandinavia.”"

Does that sound like a nation inflicting 4X casaulties on Russia?

At least one of the posters here is somewhat nuts
The one with the lengthy posts full of quotes, who goes off at anyone who questions his ‘expertise’ or opinions
Now, watch him call me a Russian troll!

Anonymous wrote:Oh, and throwing shade like that - you're Russian or work for the Russian's, right? Better look for a new job for yourself soon. Might find out that your pension isn't what it used to be? Just sayin'

Mossad

I would like my tax payer money back, tks. Or invested here at home.