War in Ukraine

Ukraine Invasion Day 835: French planes and Russian losses

Good long update on a bunch of stuff. The stuff about not enough pilots is annoying. The west really should just send in some volunteer pilots pretending to be part of Ukraine and just light shit up.

 

This thread is so much more informative once you get used to scrolling past the pravda shills.

 

The sense of urgency at this point in western militaries is so ridiculously low it amazes me.

 

They use single digit signs for their days since balcony accident

 

Yes Sierra, Putin did put one up, but the gentelman in charge of that, unfortunately, fell from a 20 story balcony in Moscow. Accidentally of course. He did not survive so that data is no longer available.

 

They heard you the first several times, Rain Man.

 

As I read around. it’s really interesting to see how Russia apparently views the current state. They are actually quite content supposedly, they are willing to go years if needed and just grind down Ukraine and the west’s support, they feel like they can sustain indefinitely. They don’t really see a scenario where they don’t gain in the end.
It will take a large escalation from the west, one that changes Russia’s pain threshold to truly change the trajectory.

 

Amidst this flurry of activity, no one, from Sullivan to Stoltenberg on down to their stenographers at the Washington Post and Foreign Affairs can explain in clear, unambiguous language why the matter of who governs Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, Donetsk (or even Odessa and Kharkiv) is worth a direct, possibly even catastrophic confrontation with Russia. How and when did it become a paramount national security objective of the United States and NATO to help Galician ethno-nationalists regain control over a people they neither desired nor valued?

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-does-american-folly-march-on-in-ukraine/

 

What happened to this being a quick offensive for Putin? Now we're talking years?

 

It was shaping up to be a quick offensive … until Boris Johnson, likely with US endorsement, persuaded Zelensky to scuttle the Istanbul Accords.

 

Yeah, the enemy decided to fight back, the international community objected to the Russians trying to take land by armed conquest, and the Russians proved to not be as good at this war thing as they wanted us all to believe. It’s been very inconvenient all around.

 

Rain Men.

 

The irony of you posting that twice on the same page as a complaint about someone posting repeatedly is just rich.
Maybe you can make a ghost of Kyiv post for the 100th time

 

Pravda crowd gets testy when they are ignored. Post after post after post and no reaction is rough when you are a troll.

 

Are we talking about Russian Pravda or Ukrainian Pravda?

 

They had to teach many of them English before they could teach them to fly