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I didn’t necessarily mean corrupt, I mean more the mentality is ineffective even without the corruption.
oh don’t get me wrong. this is not going to be easy for Ukraine (Black Hawk Down wasn’t easy). I am simply saying history shows that disciplined forces tend to win out over undisciplined forces.True.
Nevertheless. Extremely bad stretch of weeks ahead for the Ukrainians.
The Russians have piled in massively more troops and equipment than at any time before in the war for this next offensive.
Yet the Ukrainians have not been able to move the Russians out of Bahkmut and while they moved the Russians out of Kherson they have not been able to move them out enough to avoid daily shellings.
Just saying. Huge kudos to the Ukrainians and yes the Russians have been pathetic but no one should make any presumptions about what lies ahead. The Ukranians are in a tough spot. (and so is Putin). Putin is prepared to reduce everything east of Poland to a parking lot to win. And Poland too for that matter. And he is pulled up the timing of this next offensive because he wants to move before the new, big round of equipment from the west arrives. It works against him because he is not fully ready. But he also knows that if he does not wrap this up before the new equipment arrives, tanks, longer range missiles etc that it will only get worse.
The Russians are completely incompetent. Unfortunately they will continue to kill many, many Ukrainians every day with that incompetent and this war has at least another two years to go.
Speaking of Zhukov. One of the most respected Russian generals since Zhukov was/is
General Leonid Ivashov. He is also one of Putin's biggest critics. It may be interesting for some to do a quick read of what he said just days before the invasion. Yep. He was not wrong and even though he is a hard liner he was also firmly against Putin's self destructive move. link below.
A retired Russian general’s criticism may signal a larger problem for Putin
Retired Russian Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, the head of the All-Russian Officers Assembly, has gone public with a statement that calls for Russian President Vladimir Putin to resign o…
That’s the conventional wisdom. The Russian logistics were especially awful at the beginning of the war. They were sending in the troops with MRE’s that were expired, vehicles with cracked, sun bleached under inflated tires, troops were using cell phones to communicate with command and other stations, tanks and platoons going into harm’s way with zero air support, perimeters not covered, troops demonstrating incompetent training techniques, awful reconnaissance, underestimating the enemy, stinking leadership, and poor planning coupled with vehicles that have poor maintenance schedules. It’s taken a ton of re-shuffling,, new leadership, re-training, and reinforcements along with adapting to get them even halfway decent.
Bad analogy. You should say, just imagine if China or Iran or Russia set up shop in Canada or Mexico or South America with missiles aimed at the US after Canada declared they’re going to join an alliance to contain or destroy us…and an American president in our lifetimes had gotten 100,000 plus American servicemen killed in under a year during an attempt to eliminate these Canadians from the earth who posed a strategic threat to our existence long after the Cold War ended! And the Canadians were spreading a culture of LGBT sodomy, atheism, secularism, and post-modern thinking while closing down canonical Orthodox parishes? Shoot! Maybe that American President was just looking out for his nation?
Six months ago “evil” Putin was said to have cancer and mere months to live….then….his people were primed for a full revolution overthrowing this vicious despot! Then….Russia would lose the ruble to oblivion! Then….Russias economy would collapse….then….they’d nuke Ukraine!All the problems with the Russian Army being noted, nevertheless there is the expression "quantity has a quality of its own" and that is certainly true in this war. Ukraine faces massive, massive numbers of Russia soldiers in this current offensive that is shaping up. They are outnumbered at least ten to one in every place they go.
The Russian Army- both high command and front line soldiers have disgraced themselves in every possible way. Nevertheless the next two months for Ukraine are going to be very difficult. Very difficult. There will continue to be many, many Russian killed and wounded but that is not even a consideration for the Russians.
But if Putin can't make this current offensive- that is just beginning to start- work, he is in tough shape. The knives are out for him back home from the hardliners, and he has to deliver. Putin is lost in space. He recently put both Gerasimov and Shoigu in charge of the whole war- the same two who told him he could take Kiev in three days.
And he just made Kadyrov - the Chechen Jihadist- a full general in the Russian Army because he wanted to get all of his jihadi troops in Ukraine. Now Kadyrov/sp is running around announcing that he is going to take Poland. How does that help Putin or anyone else? The last thing that Putin needs right now is to have one his generals telling NATO that they are planning on attacking a NATO country. The arrangement with Kadyrov is a strange one. He is not a Russian and is supposed to be just an ally but Putin made him a full general in the Russian army too to get his troops. Putin fomenting Christian on Christian violence is bad enough but he continues to bring in the jihadists to put down the Christians too. What a mess.
Anyway. Very tough time ahead for the Ukrainians for the next two months, regardless of all their past accomplishments. Putin has to deliver. If he does not deliver, Kadyrov and the Wagner Group thug have plans for Putin.
Poland, he said. Sigh.
A key ally of Putin said he wants to invade Poland next, ignoring Russia's inability to capture Ukraine
A key ally of Putin said he wants to invade Poland next, ignoring Russia's inability to capture Ukraine
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said it was his intention to turn to Poland after Ukraine, while predicting that the Ukraine war will end this year.www.businessinsider.com
It speaks volumes to hear a man say these words, brother: I WAS WRONG. Not the first time in my 48 years. Like you, I was brainwashed by the pravda from Ukraine, the neocons, the RINOS, Fox News and all the rags. Yep. If you’re trying to use my old words against me and shame me, I welcome it. Ask my buddy Rus here if I’ve always believed the same things I do now. I don’t. Go back to 2007 or so and you’ll find a hardcore Catholic papist in me! Go back to 2012 and hear a guy who still believed in public education! Go back to 2003 and read where I backed the Iraq War. Yep. You can shame me with quoting back my words. I’m ok with it. And it doesn’t shame me at all.
Yep. The Iraq War—-Approximately 177,000 national military and police from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraqi, and Syria allies died. between 275,000 and 306,000 Iraqi civilians killed by direct violence since the U.S. invasion. But hey, that was ok!!! These folks in here wouldn’t have called Bush an ethnic-cleansing megalomaniac.
Yeah, it’s a liberal echo chamber. We need TAW modern and TAW classic. This place has changed….
You must’ve missed my post here where I clearly laid out what an awful job Russia did for the entire first year of this war.
Actually, it's the other way around. It is the Putin apologists who ignore 2014 and beyond.
except they aren’t remotely close to being halfway decent. they have lost more flag officers (generals and admirals) in less than a year than any modern war. the ones who have survived are being too quickly reshuffled. that means that they are still incredibly poor. of course, stuff could change, but it hasn’t happened yet.
I'm wondering how accurate our intel is, though? In an era of propaganda where the United States has ceased to be an honest player and has lowered herself to become more akin to a third world country, I no longer trust much of what we're being told. We were told the COVID vaccine was amazing, so I got my shot and booster. Thank goodness my family was ok, but it's coming out that it wasn't as safe as we were told. Plus the benefits were not the glorious stuff we were told. We're being told 24/7 about the beauties of LGBTism when my wife, as a doctor, sees how they truly live their lives, and it's not only disgusting and soul-destroying, it's health ramifications are terrifying. We are told that Asian hate is all around us and it's white supremacy and Donald Trump driving it, but then we see most of the Asian assaults are from minorities, not white folks? We hear "stats" on gun violence that actually point more toward handguns being the major cause of death, not "assault" rifles, yet the media tells us it's the AR-15 that we must all ban ASAP. Biden is going around blathering on about how Republicans want to eliminate Social Security when they've said nothing remotely like that. You hear the Ukrainians claiming they've killed 200,000 Russians and they've only lost like 15,000. Then they dish out some other stat. We see states re-electing Democrats when only 20% or so of the entire state are registered Democrats. We have elections where more voters voted than we have registered supposedly propelled a geriatric catatonic Marxist to the presidency. "Statistics" and "facts" in 2023 give me pause. Can I trust that the Russians are being decimated? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
Reverence goes both ways. You revere a Jewish atheist who shuttered canonical Orthodox parishes accusing clergy of spying. You revere a country that is knocking down Catherine the Great statues and statues of Pushkin in favor of a gay porn star, Billy Herrington along with other secular scum whom the West admires with glee. LGBT activism is on fire in Ukraine and Zelensky has openly spoken about eventual gay "marriage" kicking in, and for now he said he's hoping for civil partnerships. Gay pride parades have been growing in Ukraine. So, you support a gay rights president, a cancel culture president, and someone openly hostile to canonical Orthodoxy. But hey, that's ok. We all have the right to our opinion. Forget the fact that you believe the Monroe Doctrine only applies to your country, but not to other super powers, but that's ok, too. You have that right.
