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Post by whatagain on Aug 25, 2023 15:51:57 GMT
I just don’t understand how Prigozhin didn’t see it would come.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 25, 2023 15:59:16 GMT
I think he knew it was inevitable and that he was a dead man walking.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 26, 2023 2:19:54 GMT
If he is in fact dead.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 29, 2023 17:46:10 GMT
This vlogger calms me whenever I worry about how they are getting along in Ukraine.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 18, 2023 12:30:43 GMT
Apparently the Russians have lost close to 2400 tanks since invasion and Ukraine less than 800. Among them about 16 Leopard 2 of which more than half can be repaired and whose crews are still alive. A result much better than with Russian tanks.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 23, 2023 13:41:34 GMT
pretty good shot!
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 1, 2023 18:28:30 GMT
615th day of the Ukraine war which most people seem to have forgotten. Just saying.
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Post by bjd on Nov 1, 2023 19:01:28 GMT
I had been thinking the same thing. One one hand, there will perhaps be less pressure on Ukraine to push its counteroffensive faster to satisfy outside onlookers and weapons providers. On the other hand, Putin must figure that he can bomb and destroy even more without as much attention being paid to his actions.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 1, 2023 20:20:21 GMT
I watch an update every day from a Ukrainian reporter who, as far as I can tell, does have verifiable facts. Well, I did. A few days ago his daily updates stopped and of course there are all sorts of theories as to why that is so.
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Post by mich64 on Nov 1, 2023 22:18:58 GMT
I too follow a few reporters and newspapers on-line each day for updates. I hope the reporter you follow onlyMark is safe. Most of the ones I follow say when they will not be posting and sometimes give a time frame knowing that many people worry about their well-being.
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Post by onlyMark on Nov 2, 2023 5:57:34 GMT
He said a few months go he had to stop for a few days because of illness but he came back. This time nothing has been said.
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Post by fumobici on Nov 2, 2023 14:13:27 GMT
The war appears to have reached a phase where neither side is capable of generating the force necessary to do a successful ground assault and significantly move the lines of contact. The Ukrainians and their allies should perhaps now focus on making the cost of maintaining the occupation of occupied areas of Ukraine so painful that the Russians withdraw "voluntarily" rather than through attempting frontal assaults into fortified defensive positions. The West consequently needs to supply massive quantities of weapons that can reach targets at stand-off distances, air power assets to launch and protect them, and air defenses that can prevent Russia from successfully using similar tactics themselves. The obvious downside of moving to this mostly static, attritional phase is that it could easily go on for many years before one side or the other finally breaks.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 24, 2023 17:47:11 GMT
Tomorrow, Ukraine is celebrating Christmas on 25 December for the first time since 1917. That's nice, but I'm sure they would have preferred to receive the 60 billion dollars from the US or the 50 billion euros from the EU which do not seem to be arriving.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 11, 2024 6:33:16 GMT
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Post by bjd on Jan 11, 2024 7:46:12 GMT
Kerouac, you article doesn't link to anything.
As Western (mostly US) support for Ukraine flags, Putin wants to move as far as possible in getting advantage before Ukraine is forced into some kind of peace settlement. He's just waiting for Trump to be elected.
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Post by whatagain on Jan 11, 2024 11:00:05 GMT
However Russia still lost 50 MBTs (main battle tanks) since around Christmas. That is roughly 2.5 per day. They have now lost over 2600 tanks since the invasion. According to Oryx site, widely accepted.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 11, 2024 13:12:21 GMT
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Post by fumobici on Jan 11, 2024 15:31:28 GMT
I can't understand why The West refuses to supply Ukraine with the means to deter such attacks. It's not just immoral but stupid as well.
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Post by bjd on Jan 11, 2024 17:47:48 GMT
Another thing is the wishy-washy way the West has approached it all. First saying, "We can't supply tanks", then eventually supplying some; "we can't supply long-range missiles" then doing so. If they had supplied more heavy weapons at first and provided air defence, it would perhaps have been a different story by now.
And Fumo is correct -- it's stupid.
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Post by whatagain on Jan 13, 2024 12:58:20 GMT
It is the story of too little too late. There is an interesting what if about Europe invading Germany instead of signing the treaty of Munich.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 13, 2024 13:00:11 GMT
The new French minister of foreign affairs is in Kviv today. I hope he didn't go empty handed.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 14, 2024 11:52:28 GMT
Ukraine to have sunk another major warship of the Baltic Sea. In total Ukraine claims ms to have disabled a third of the Russian fleet. Ships cannot easily be replaced.
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Post by fumobici on Feb 14, 2024 18:01:35 GMT
Imagine losing your Black Sea fleet to a nation with no Navy. There's stupid, then there is Russian stupid.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 15, 2024 4:59:53 GMT
I can't understand why The West refuses to supply Ukraine with the means to deter such attacks. It's not just immoral but stupid as well. The official line is that the West doesn't want to get into a war with Russia. As far as the not just immoral but stupid angle -- politics & the posturing of nations are filthy, self-serving, and entirely hypocritical. But you knew that. Both of us come from a country that just gave murderous land-grabbing Israel $14.1 billion in "security assistance" while simultaneously earmarking part of the $9.2 billion in "humanitarian assistance" for the people in Gaza that we're helping Israel hammer out of existence.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2024 12:07:08 GMT
So, Putin managed to get rid of Alexei Navalny. Now I guess he can declare war on the rest of the world.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 16, 2024 14:40:32 GMT
Amazed he lasted so long. At least he didn’t fall out of a window.
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Post by bjd on Feb 16, 2024 15:13:27 GMT
Putin has absolutely no shame. A little Stalin.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 16, 2024 15:23:24 GMT
It's shocking but not unexpected. Whether or not he was 'done in' by Putin the blame ultimately lies at his door. Navalny's wife doesn't know whether to believe it but his lawyer is on his way to Siberia to check. What a world we live in.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 16, 2024 16:43:40 GMT
I am really shocked that you are criticising Russians, of now or even when they were Soviets. After all their efforts they did to support the people. When they educated the Ukrainians in 1923 to eat less for their own good, when they spent fortunes to try to educate the opponents who didn't understand how good communism was, lodging them in touristy hotels in the Woods of the Kolyma, when they burned diesel to help their comrades repel a dramatically misguided idea to become capitalists in Prague, in Afghanistan and now fighting against the whole world to root out nazism from liberal infected good ukrainian citizens. Tss.
Meanwhile in Ukraine experts say Russia lost the equivalent in tanks AND in MEN of the force that originally crossed the border to liberate their fellow neighbours.
Luckily the flow of volunteers from schools and prisons to fill up the ranks as cannon fodder never dwindles.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 16, 2024 17:58:46 GMT
Well, Zelinsky had lunch in Berlin today and is having dinner in Paris. I hope that both hosts have prepared doggy bags.
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