War in Ukraine

Wait, are you one of those crazy MAGA-type election deniers ?

 

Brush up all you like. You had it correct the first time. A child looking at a map can tell what country Crimea belongs to.

 

A child would have never been so foolish as to have poked the Bear.

 

Elderly are less able to defend themselves or be able to move quickly if there is a dangerous assault on their town, hence the need to evacuate early and stay far away from the fighting. They are also more likely to get welfare assistance in other countries, because they are not considered able-bodied and able to work, and there is more sympathy for the elderly (they are less likely to commit crimes, for one thing). Also, elderly do not have a feeling of invincibility that younger people often have. Ukrainian elderly have been more likely than those in other wars to stay put, but a fair number of them evacuated, along with women with children, which is also understandable to anyone with a working brain. Do you need me to explain why women and children are more likely to evacuate a war zone than adults without children?

Were you dropped on your head as a child?

 

More failure and humiliation for the Putinator. Another terrorist attack, this time in Dagestan. On Jewish synagogues, no less, further weakening Putin-Hitler's argument that he is no Hitler. Not a good look for the leading Nazi in the world today, Adolf Putin. Christian churches were also attacked by the Muslim radicals.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/24/europe/dagestan-putin-extremism-pledge-failure-intl/index.html

 

Does this mean you are doubtful on the claim?

 

Which claim precisely? That Russia claims Crimea is theirs? No, I don’t doubt that they claim it. I just agree with the rest of the world that it isn’t theirs just because it used belong to long-dead Russian empires and some Russians got left behind when their empire broke up. It has happened throughout history when empires break up. Absolutely nothing new about it. People either need to return to their mother country or join their new one.

 

Sorry, misread you. I thought you were referring to the Russian tracking station, not the area reference

 

Turns out the “rest of the world” is getting smaller and smaller.

 

The Ukrainian state and its military are falling apart.

Under the new mobilization law the Ukrainian military is said to recruit/mobilize some 5,000 men per day. This is sufficient to replace current losses which are above 2,000 men per day. But the quality and level of training the new forces have is way below the level needed to survive on the frontline.

Losses are high because the mass use of Russian FAB glide-bombs is eliminating all identified agglomeration of forces. Ukraine has found no way to counter these.

For lack of armored vehicles several of the new brigades which were supposed to be mechanized will be pure infantry forces. They will be able to hold positions until they are bombed but will not have the means to attack.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/

 

Yes, but how does that compare with Russian recruits, trained to dig with shovels and sent forward with a rusty rifle in human wave attacks to draw out the enemy? Are you foolish enough to tell us that the human wave attacks are a "trope" that never happened?

 

Chinese nationalism and an inability to treat people with mental problems has led to a spate of knife attacks on foreigners in China. The latest attack was on a Japanese mother and child. They are in fairly good condition, but the Chinese people that rushed in to stop the attacker were severely injured.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/25/...ld-stabbed-china-bus-stop-intl-hnk/index.html

 

When Will Russia Launch A Decisive Ukraine Offensive? | ZeroHedge

I've pointed out on many occasions that the Russians have the capability to launch a strategic offensive in Ukraine basically any time they want to. But what I have not addressed is conditions. What would they want it to look like? How would they know when to "roll tanks?"

Critical to this analysis is just how successful the Russian decision to adopt a "ground and pound" approach to destroying the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been. Despite the full and enthusiastic backing of NATO and a Ukrainian numerical advantage for much of the war, the Russians have maintained a lopsidedly positive loss-exchange ratio against their enemies throughout. Ukraine is going into demographic collapse while Russian society at large has barely noticed the war.

Matt Davies pointed out some time ago that the Stavka has placed a heavy emphasis on efficiency in this war. Many Russian decisions at the operational-strategic level can be explained simply by their seeking the most efficient means to inflict mass casualties on the AFU with the lowest risk to themselves. Thus, any decision to transition to high-speed, mobile warfare from low-speed, positional war can be expected to follow that rubric. In other words, the Russians will launch an offensive to rout the AFU after its back is broken in positional war, rather than attack seeking to "change the game" and defeat the Ukrainians in mobile war. The "game" heavily favors the Russians and they're not in a rush to change it!

 

Lol! Was I dropped on my head as a child? Whatevs....

You are clueless about the actual demographic make up of those 6.5 million, and simply wish they were a bunch of feeble old men...

Wish away...

...but it'll never be more than wishful dreamn.

 

This jibes with earlier estimates which had Ukraine losing upwards of 60k per month …

 

Pretty much what I figured

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...-peace-with-2024-06-25/?utm_source=reddit.com

"Two key advisers to Donald Trump have presented him with a plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine - if he wins the Nov. 5 presidential election - that involves telling Ukraine it will only get more U.S. weapons if it enters peace talks.
The United States would at the same time warn Moscow that any refusal to negotiate would result in increased U.S. support for Ukraine, retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, one of Trump's national security advisers, said in an interview

".Under the plan drawn up by Kellogg and Fred Fleitz, who both served as chiefs of staff in Trump's National Security Council during his 2017-2021 presidency, there would be a ceasefire based on prevailing battle lines during peace talks, Fleitz said"

 

^ I’m sure that Putin will react favorably to being pushed around by Orangehead.

 

“But you can believe us this time!”