War in Ukraine

We don’t kill dissenters anymore. We just Epstein them.

 

Agreed. Also have zero problem with Ukraine launching sorties and conducting maintenance from Poland et al. Putin will whine. That mentally challenged sycophant Medvedev will make another empty nuclear threat. But what will Russia actually do about it? If they want to target Ukrainian assets in NATO countries and call it fair game, then that’s their right. I will feel awful for any Poles living a mile away from Russia’s intended precision targets.

 

Kharkov.

 

Russia isolating the West …

 

I'm already fairly convinced he had his ex-wife pushed down a staircase.

 

You are using way too much reason with chucklehead. He can't process three sentences of logical thought, much less three paragraphs.

 

Brits claim that Putin has been humiliated again. The U.S. allowing Ukraine to fire weapons into Russia was supposed to be a clear red line that Putin would not tolerate, and yet he tolerated it. Apparently, Putin is a coward.

Vladimir Putin’s soft underbelly has been revealed (yahoo.com)

 

A Ukrainian fighter jet has attacked a target in Russia for the first time. A command node and ammo dump were destroyed.

Ukrainian fighter jet gets first direct hit on Russian soil (yahoo.com)

 

Putin is disappointed in the performance of his hypersonic missiles enough to jail the physicists behind their design. They are charged with treason.

'Spy mania': Why is Russia accusing its own physicists of treason? (yahoo.com)

 

Looks like Europe's Ukraine support is coming to an end:

Europe's political earthquakes point to geopolitical shifts - Asia Times

If Trump gets elected the same will probably happen here.

 

it is going to be interesting to watch ukraine try and assert some control or at least use of the airspace to impact the battles as more and more air defenses get taken out.

 

the propaganda worked. easier to win that battle than the one in the trenches

 

Just biding his time and hoping for western governments that are more sympathetic.

 

I don't keep up with European politics, but yes, this will likely push the EU towards settling with Russia. You would think the EU of all people, would be very concerned about Russia's intervention in Ukraine, but they are not.

 

I’ll throw you a bone …

Russia is fighting this war in such a manner as to minimize casualties, which is why its casualties are low given that this is a land war the likes of which the world has not seen since WWII and possibly WWI.

 

Never mind Russia and China decoupling from the West, Europe would do well to decouple from the U.S.

 

And no, Kyiv has not shot down hypersonic missiles. Also, if Russian hypersonic missiles are a laughingstock, the Pentagon sure hasn’t gotten the memo.

 

Most recent KIA estimate from sources hostile to the Kremlin. Compare to spectacular exaggerations which are never challenged by mainstream Western media sources …

Mediazona confirms identities of nearly 54,200 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine

By contrast, I’m seeing estimates from 350k to over a half million Ukrainian troops killed from Western sources.

 

You would think they would be worried but hey look at people here. Propaganda is effective.