Is anyone still claiming the Russian's bombed that children's hospital? I never heard anything more about after the NATO summit ended. In case anyone cares, here's some pictures of downed ATACMS and what evidence usually looks like. Note the lack of hastily applied grease-pen numbers:

You can use body exchanges, like POW numbers, to get a rough estimate of actual casualty ratios:

That's a more than 6-1 in Russia's favor.

I'm sure the Ukranian shills will be along shortly to claim Russian soldiers just despawn like in a video game when hit, or some other such nonsense.

Another American died in Ukraine:

Too many dudes believe the lies told here, that Ukraine is inflicting 6-1, or 10-1 casualties and the Russians are out of fuel/ammo/men/shovels/etc...
They think this is another Iraq or Afghanistan and it will be a turkey shoot, just mowing down Russian meat waves. Then the artillery starts falling...

More trouble in paradise:

Too many Ukrainians are attacking the body snatchers. Time to crack down on people who want to survive the year.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's been a vibe shift over the last few weeks, and it seems Ukraine is preparing to start negotiating. The only problem, it doesn't seem like Russia has any interest in stopping now:

Russia is recruiting about 30,000 men a month. What's interesting is that Ukraine is also recruiting roughly 30,000 a month as well. But Russian losses are about six times higher than Ukraine. They're making modest gains with their offensive, but at enormous cost. It's a genuine meat grinder for poorly trained Russian soldiers. Ukraine just needs to hold on for another year or so. Russia is losing approximately 1000 soldiers every day, so 30,000 soldiers every month, not to mention all the hardware - tanks, BMPs, artillery etc. It's completely unsustainable.

Ukraine has never made its losses public so not sure what underpins your formula.

Actually they did. 31,000 is it. They are winning bigly. Russia loses a million people a day, and Ukraine will take Moscow in two weeks.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's been a vibe shift over the last few weeks, and it seems Ukraine is preparing to start negotiating. The only problem, it doesn't seem like Russia has any interest in stopping now:

Russia is recruiting about 30,000 men a month. What's interesting is that Ukraine is also recruiting roughly 30,000 a month as well. But Russian losses are about six times higher than Ukraine. They're making modest gains with their offensive, but at enormous cost. It's a genuine meat grinder for poorly trained Russian soldiers. Ukraine just needs to hold on for another year or so. Russia is losing approximately 1000 soldiers every day, so 30,000 soldiers every month, not to mention all the hardware - tanks, BMPs, artillery etc. It's completely unsustainable.

Ukraine has never made its losses public so not sure what underpins your formula.

Anonymous wrote:There's been a vibe shift over the last few weeks, and it seems Ukraine is preparing to start negotiating. The only problem, it doesn't seem like Russia has any interest in stopping now:

Russia is recruiting about 30,000 men a month. What's interesting is that Ukraine is also recruiting roughly 30,000 a month as well. But Russian losses are about six times higher than Ukraine. They're making modest gains with their offensive, but at enormous cost. It's a genuine meat grinder for poorly trained Russian soldiers. Ukraine just needs to hold on for another year or so. Russia is losing approximately 1000 soldiers every day, so 30,000 soldiers every month, not to mention all the hardware - tanks, BMPs, artillery etc. It's completely unsustainable.

Anonymous wrote:There's been a vibe shift over the last few weeks, and it seems Ukraine is preparing to start negotiating. The only problem, it doesn't seem like Russia has any interest in stopping now:

It's a big driver of inflation in Russia. The Central Bank has raised interest rates to 18 percent with no signs of slowing down. And with so many men gone or lost, employment is a problem. Russia is looking at year or so of stagflation, but it should tip into hyperinflation sometime in 2025. And with the government spending more than a third of its budget on military expenditures, there's not much they can do. Russia is thoroughly screwed no matter what. Their invasion of Ukraine has been catastrophic on every level.

There's been a vibe shift over the last few weeks, and it seems Ukraine is preparing to start negotiating. The only problem, it doesn't seem like Russia has any interest in stopping now:

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Let's hope the "Ukrainians" don't shoot down the exchange plane this time.

Life comes at you fast. Wonder if that shiny new NATO membership is already losing its luster:

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Anonymous wrote:How much of Ukraine has Blackrock bought up?

1 billion dollars worth and counting

Russian propaganda referring to the reconstruction funding:
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ukraine-reconstruction-bank-guided-by-blackrock-jpmorgan-ready-action-this-year-2024-01-16/

lol. Keep trying though.

So your retort is that Blackrock hasn't bought up the country yet, but is poised to in the future? What do you think "investing" is? Its not charity.

Anonymous wrote:How much of Ukraine has Blackrock bought up?

1 billion dollars worth and counting

Russian propaganda referring to the reconstruction funding:
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ukraine-reconstruction-bank-guided-by-blackrock-jpmorgan-ready-action-this-year-2024-01-16/

lol. Keep trying though.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like NATO is finally figuring out that Ukraine can't win this conflict. Seems like they underestimated Russian manufacturing and over-estimated what sanctions could do:

The Russians are rapidly heading towards a million casualties. They're losing more than a 1000 soldiers every week. And for what? Best case scenario they keep Crimea and Donbass - which they've had since 2014!

This was an incredibly stupid and destructive invasion. Russia is looking at decades of international isolation. They've lost their main energy market - Europe - forever. Their demographics are absolutely destroyed going forward. They're losing an entire generation of men into the meat grinder. Their weapons systems are basically ineffective against 40 year old cast off technology from the West. NATO is exponentially stronger as a result of Russia's catastrophic invasion.

And yet there are still troglodytes claiming this is a great victory for Russia.

The Republican Party gets more pathetic with each passing day.

I think you're driven more by ideology than fact. Russia is welcome pretty much anywhere in the world except Europe and the US. Their energy sales TO EUROPE are climbing. However bad their weapons are, Ukraine hasn't been able to counteract them successfully. 20% of Ukraine is gone. There will eventually be a truce (which, I never tire of pointing out, could have been had last year in Istanbul with less territory loss).

Truce? You mean the break Putin wanted so that he could finish training his two Combined Arms Armies? Lol. If Zelensky had capitulated at that suggestion, Ukraine would've been finished, since they would've had the time and resources to properly train. Instead Russia had to prematurely engage both CAA's and were eventually wiped out taking Adviika, right?

But you already know this, so keep pointing out Russia's failure to conduct a "special military operation" in four days. I agree with the article that said Russia will exhaust it's current attack strength in less than two months. Putin and the Kremlin must show progress to prove themselves right. Russia must take Ukraine at all costs to prove Russia is not a failure. Russia must force Ukraine to fully capitulate because if Ukraine, a former piece of the USSR, cannot be made to obey, then there is no hope the rest of the World will follow. All Ukraine needs to do is hold on, attrit, and give up territory little-by-little to let the Russians think they're making progress. Take out suppy truck by supply truck, plane by plane, one by one. Let the Russians overextend their supply chains until they can't even resupply their own front lines. Let the Kremlin starve their own troops, while preserving and resupplying the valuable Ukrainian military. This is the strategy for success in Ukraine.

And Russian inroads to Africa are collapsing as well. More signs that Russia is failing globally.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/russia-launch-international-payments-crypto-100055253.html

Even the Russian propadandists are mocking their own US presidential election candidate picks.
"Who stood next to the suddenly healed ear?"
"Trump's holy ear?"
"Yes, that's right!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4au9noht71g

BTW - I have other predictions. Last year I said either Solovyov or Shoigu would be out by 1 Jan. Shoigu was out, just five months late. Now I think it's Solovyov's turn by this February. Within three to five years, after Russian intelligence has changed hands, I would expect all those lovely files about the people they've compromised to be valuable open market commodities? At that point the history books on this (and other) elections can be fully written. That assumes the ultranationalists don't escalate into a nuclear war - never discount the last acts of a failed KGB agent, so desperate to re-live the greatest moments of the USSR - so vigilance and decisive actiion within critical moments may be necessary within the next two years.

The War in Ukraine has been nothing less than a complete disaster for the Kremlin, who could've withdrawn from Ukraine at any time. Had they focused all their resources on Ukraine from the start, they would've succeeded. Had they not started the war on Ukraine, they could've focused on destabilizing the US and likely succeeded. But, as it stands now on their current trajectory, Russia is the one on track to destabilize in about 11 months time, without hope of recovery. Anything that happens to Russia from this point on are the own fault of the Russian leadership and the idiots who listened to them.