What’s the neocon end game with this? ‘murican boots on the ground?

Anonymous wrote:Russia is exposed as a paper tiger. Ukraine has the GDP of Kansas & Russia is struggling.

Not sure that GDP is the relevant metric here, what with the billions we’re pouring in and all.

Anonymous wrote:Once America’s transexual troops move in its over. They don’t subscribe to Mother Nature, math or physics. Nuclear fallout they eat for lunch.

For the visitors confused by this post, this seems to be regurgitated Russian propaganda seen back in Russia. The West is portrayed as morally corrupt, inept, and inferior to Russian nuclear weapons, etc. This post was written by someone who probably doesn't have clarity as to what the currently approved propaganda lines are, so is unauthorized (or just afraid) to post anything that could be turned against the Russian storyline.

I posted earlier about why a War of Attrition doesn't favor Russia. Russia does have 3 times the population, but it's spread across over 25 times the land area. That, combined with the population issue means that Russia will probably halve it's population in two generations; with the corresponding reduction in national productivity and output. Yada, yada, yada.

On a more humorous note, Lavrov finally figured out that India has been taking him out to the cleaners. Apparently he doesn't understand the concept of a money launderer getting a cut of the action, or that a currency is only as good as what it can buy? He probably should have caught the hint when the Indians laughed at him at Raisina Dialogue 2023?

"Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov broke silence on reports claiming that his country had halted trade with India in Rupees. Lavrov explained that discussions on the issue are underway and that double conversion charge was the roadblock that traders are experiencing. Earlier, the Modi Govt had rejected reports that Russia had suspended trade with India over Rupee payment"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8FWCBm4zbE

Lavrov: "We accumulated billions of Rupee's in accounts in the Indian banks, and we need to use this money but, for this, these Rupees must be transferred into another currency."
Reuters Report: "With a high trade gap in favour of Russia, Moscow believes it will end up with an annual Reupee surplus of over $40 billion if such a mechanism is worked out." "Russia is not comfortable holding Rupees and wants to be paid in Chinese yuan or other currencies."

On a more sobering note, the question is why the Russians are retreating on the Kerch Bridge?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqm4GT264pw

Also, I think the drone attack on the Kremlin could have been an inside job - someone in the Russian hierarchy looking to discredit Putin. Watched the videos and it's strange that the explosion minimized damage to the Kremlin itself? Why before May 9th, since much more damage could've been caused?

The pressure inside Russia will only rise now that the doors to a way out are closing.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-kazakhstan-extradition-fsb-officer-ukraine-war/32199350.html

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Anonymous wrote:Ukraine and Russia will both be ground into the dust

Slavic people are not going to be around in the long run

Their birth rates are extremely low and are not productive economically.

Western Europe has the economics

Asia has the people and economics

Africa has people

Slavs will be subsumed by others in the long run

Ukraine is doing what it is being directed to do - be an ulcer on the belly of Russia to bleed it out

Slavs will become slaves again?

Didn’t expect my post to be quoted from the front page but I stand by my forecast

And to answer your question, in a way yes - that is the unfortunate and sad song of the slavic people.

Come on now. China doesn't enslave its dependents. It's much more of a servitude thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Ukraine and Russia will both be ground into the dust

Slavic people are not going to be around in the long run

Their birth rates are extremely low and are not productive economically.

Western Europe has the economics

Asia has the people and economics

Africa has people

Slavs will be subsumed by others in the long run

Ukraine is doing what it is being directed to do - be an ulcer on the belly of Russia to bleed it out

Slavs will become slaves again?

Didn’t expect my post to be quoted from the front page but I stand by my forecast

And to answer your question, in a way yes - that is the unfortunate and sad song of the slavic people.

Russia is exposed as a paper tiger. Ukraine has the GDP of Kansas & Russia is struggling.

Anonymous wrote:Ukraine will launch its counteroffensive, take back Kherson and Zapor.. (sp?), then it’s a drawn out not too intense conflict. Russia becomes a completely closed off regime under sanctions (Iran style), Ukraine tries to rebuild while launching small scale attacks on Russia (like they do now, with drones).
It goes on for a decade or so.

Disagree. I think this will be a high intensity conflict for about a year. Military hardware and soldiers are ultimately finite resources. At the current rate of destruction, Russia will run out of Armored Personnel Carriers by the end of the year. It's not much better with their working tanks - key word being working. Ukraine too, of course, is suffering from attrition. They cannot compete with artillery. But unlike Russia, they have an increasing supply of advanced western weapons and just as importantly trained soldiers. Those Russian soldiers currently getting wrecked in the trenches near Bakhmut often have less than two weeks of training. And the head of Wagner recently stated that he's losing 27 percent of his soldiers every month. None of this is sustainable.

It's unclear when and where the Ukrainian counteroffensive will occur. Certainly sometime in the next couple of weeks. HIMARs are presently hitting every fuel and arms depot they can find. There are reports that Russians are both leaving and burning documents in Melitopol. It's a largely indefensible city. If Ukraine takes it, Crimea is cut off. And Crimea is already precariously supplied. Regardless, there will be hard fighting in the months ahead. But I cannot see how this lasts longer than a rear. It will be boys fighting with sticks and stones at that point. It's a genuinely awful war.

Ukraine will launch its counteroffensive, take back Kherson and Zapor.. (sp?), then it’s a drawn out not too intense conflict. Russia becomes a completely closed off regime under sanctions (Iran style), Ukraine tries to rebuild while launching small scale attacks on Russia (like they do now, with drones).
It goes on for a decade or so.

Anonymous wrote:Ukraine and Russia will both be ground into the dust

Slavic people are not going to be around in the long run

Their birth rates are extremely low and are not productive economically.

Western Europe has the economics

Asia has the people and economics

Africa has people

Slavs will be subsumed by others in the long run

Ukraine is doing what it is being directed to do - be an ulcer on the belly of Russia to bleed it out

Slavs will become slaves again?

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Anonymous wrote:We went from an assertion above that a huge chunk of Ukrainians simply wouldn't care if Russia came in to dominate them to "does everyone who speaks Spanish belong to Spain?"

Do you think the Ukrainians in Crimea objected to Russian takeover?

Some of them most certainly do. I hope you don't ascribe all of the facility and ship explosions and untimely deaths of various Russian-installed officials and sympathizers in Crimea and other Russian-occupied areas over the last year to lucky drone strikes and Russian workers just being careless with cigarettes, do you?

Of course some, but it sure looks like the vast majority did not, far more than 'a chunk'.

Anonymous wrote:Russia is winning unfortunately. Now that attention is turning to China they are winning the battle of attrition.

Of course they can strategic nuke at any time and end it or just destroy all infrastructure and drive out the population.

Russia is suffering hugely from attrition and Ukraine's feints and spring counteroffensives are already starting to make a dent and push Russian lines back. Additionally, Russia is evacuating several regions, such as Zaporizhzhia, and they pulled their Navy ships out of Sevastopol because of improved Ukrainian abilities to attack them.

At best, Russia could try and drag this out for another year, but beyond they're done.

Russia is winning unfortunately. Now that attention is turning to China they are winning the battle of attrition.

Of course they can strategic nuke at any time and end it or just destroy all infrastructure and drive out the population.

Anonymous wrote:“Big news”- a cruise middle downed?!? So what. Country is being destroyed. Don’t buy into the state media propaganda.

DP... Everyone, including some western analysts, had claimed that Russia's new hypersonic missiles were too fast and impossible to shoot down. So yes, it is big news.

“Big news”- a cruise middle downed?!? So what. Country is being destroyed. Don’t buy into the state media propaganda.

Big if true