War in Ukraine

Trump has back-tracked from his boast of ending the war in 24 hours and now expresses the hope that it will be over in six months.

 

So the whole Russians have an issue with NK soldiers having access to porn for the first time is completely made up?

 

Based on “Ukraine reports” ? Almost certainly. Russia spans 11 time zones. It doesn’t need to recruit NK troops to field troops with Asian features.

 

Why would Russia want to field troops "with Asian features"?

 

Didn’t say they wanted to. Just saying lots of Russians have Asian facial features.

 

But you are suggesting that Russia has units that are completely made up of soldiers with Asian features or is that just a coincidence when drone footage finds a unit with a lot of them?

 

I don’t recall saying they had units of Asian faces, only that there are lots of Russians with Asian faces. But so what if they have whole units with Asian faces, how do you know they’re NK. When you were in the Marines was your specialty obfuscation ?

 

don't feed the troll. ignore is your friend...
the suffering is reaching a boiling point

Russian economy on red alert as shoppers vent fury at 'nightmare' price hikes

Furious Russians have been shown bitterly complaining about the soaring cost of groceries in a revealing clip which underlines the parlous state of the nation's economy almost three years in Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine. The impact of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine and the subsequent imposition of widespread economic sanctions has significantly influenced inflation in Russia.

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Mr Geraschenko, who also shared another video by the same blogger, commented: "In November, the official (monthly) inflation in Russia amounted to 1.5%, and in December, according to all forecasts, it should be more than 2%."He cited Russian economist Vyacheslav Shiryaev, who has pointed out that if the current trend continues, official annual inflation alone will amount to between 20-30%.

Mr Shiryaev has said: "The Central Bank has already stopped raising the key rate. This is pushing up inflation even more because inflation expectations (ie fear of rising prices) have now skyrocketed.

Russians complain about growing prices for groceries and commonly used stuff.Inflation in Russia continues its growth as Putin throws more and more money into the war. In November, the official (monthly) inflation in Russia amounted to 1.5%, and in December, according to... x.com pic.twitter.com/Pz9EOX3kRW

 

No, there is a ton of drone footage showing multiple soldiers with "Asian Features" in the same unit. So in those cases, you are suggesting that it is just a coincidence or random chance that soldiers with "Asian Features" happen to be in the same unit?

 

Get back to me with tons of drone footage showing whole units of soldiers that look like North Koreans.

But I’ll undercut the whole thing by asking, so what if NK is fighting alongside Russia in the SMO ?

 

I said multiple soldiers in a unit. Not whole units of soldiers.

Why would Russia need NK soliders in the SMO? Why import troops from a completely different country, that Russian troops have never trained with, that do not have systems that are compatible with the Russia systems, and have never been out of NK before? Why do that in the first place?

 

You make my point. Russia does not need NK troops. It’s own army is growing, by the day, and utterly CRUSHING our great proxy Ukraine.

 

You just asked "So what if there are NK Soldier in Ukraine?" The point is that the only reason Russia would bring in troops they have never trained with and do not have compatible systems with is if they needed more troops. So ergo, if there are NK Soldier in Ukraine, clearly the Russians need more troops.

But I'm sure even if there was drone footage of NK soldiers with NK uniforms, flags, and weapons, you would be explaining to us how there are actually Russian troops on NK northeastern border and they trade gear and insignia all the time and that is how those NK things ended up in Ukraine!

 

putin making more friends

Moscow's relationship with Azerbaijan is spiraling in the aftermath of the deadly plane crash Russian air defenses likely caused

Azerbaijan's president has repeatedly accused Russia of covering up the cause of a plane crash that killed 38 passengers on Christmas Day, publicly criticizing Moscow again on Monday.

"The initial investigation and its results have been reported to me, but I can say with full certainty that the blame for the deaths of Azerbaijani citizens in this disaster lies with representatives of the Russian Federation," Ilham Aliyev said in remarks to state news agency Azertac. "And we demand justice, we demand punishment of the guilty, we demand full transparency and human behavior," said Aliyev, who spoke just after meeting families of the crash victims.

His comments mark a sudden and rapidly deepening point of tension between Azerbaijan and Russia as the latter has tried to maintain ties since the outbreak of full war in Ukraine. While Baku and Moscow are not close allies in the traditional sense, Russia supplies arms to Azerbaijan and has sought to be the main mediator for its bitter conflict with Armenia.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin visited Aliyev in August for two days, and the pair were photographed chatting in their work shirts on sofas in Aliyev's home, alongside the First Lady of Azerbaijan.

 

hope he is right and this deprives the russian air force of their major fuel supply

Ukrainian General Staff: Engels oil depot attack cripples Russian bomber operations

The targeted Kristal plant supplied fuel to the Engels-2 military airfield, where Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers regularly launch missiles at Ukrainian civilian and infrastructure facilities. The attack had a significant logistical impact on Russian strategic aviation, hampering its ability to strike Ukraine.

Earlier in the day, residents of Engels reported a series of about 25 powerful explosions with bright flashes in the sky, followed by a large fire at an oil depot.

Several drones were reportedly shot down by air defenses, and "the debris set fire to an industrial facility. Firefighters and emergency services are on the scene," Saratov Oblast Governor Roman Busargin claimed in his Telegram post. The attack was later confirmed by OSINT analysts.

 

If Russia retakes Sudhza AND the Ukrainians have failed to withdraw in good order AND Russia encircles and captures a huge bag of prisoners, then you will have a great point, and, yes, that will have a tremendous adverse effect on any negotiations for Ukraine. Until then, though, I have learned to stop betting against Ukraine, and this looks like another Russian gonna that ultimately turns into a Russian coulda, shoulda, woulda, but didn’t like Kyiv, Odessa, Kherson, Kharkiv …

 

More on Russia's faltering economy and its population implosion. Russia's population will likely be cut in half by the end of the century. A million people evacuated the country at the outset of the war and during conscription drives, and three quarters of a million are casualties of the war. They are short of people to do jobs, but that's o.k.--there's no money to pay them, anyway.

A Berkeley economist predicts that Russia will be in a severe recession by the end of the year.

Russia's economy faces a demographic disaster and risks seeing its population reduced by half by the end of this century, think tank says

 

In the last 12 (at most) days of this war do you think it will get significantly more intense?

"That is a war that's dying to be settled. I will get it settled before I even become president” DJT

 

China deals blow to Putin's "shadow fleet"