I've been hearing this same "Ukraine army is getting slaughtered, about to collapse... blah blah blah" on hear for half a year. There were people here in March, swearing, that Russia had already taken Kiev and that the Ukrainian government was hiding in Warsaw. Meanwhile Russia has gained but a few miles in the East since March and saw their army routed in the North.
Russia's state media was positive it would last weeks if not days for a total victory, that is the media who's messaging only gets approved by the Kremlin.
And now those same Russian state media sources, instead of predicting victory, are making excuses for the massive failure of their military. "Mutants!" It's laughable.
This has been a complete embarrassment.
The Russian military is a joke. Exposed as a bastion of corruption full of ill equipped, ill trained, conscripts. The government there pumps money into tanks only to get explosive tin cans, while some Russian billionaire uses the money to build a yacht... and throws Putin his share of the proceeds.
Joke country, joke army, can't even subjugate a small nation on it's own border.
And good, because Russia is a total dictatorship and Putin has openly touted his continued belief in the USSR. The more Russia suffers the better for the free world.
You hear it because it is true, and getting worse. Surrendering troops are now youngsters and middle-aged guys who had been conscripted. Ukraine has press gangs roaming about to collar any man who is not currently serving in the UAF. People run away from them. I can't help if "people here" went off the deep end and made claims in excess of reality. That seems to be a pasttime. But the Ukrainians have made lying claims incessantly from the beginning, so be advised you are drinking Kool-Aid.
I don't read the "state media," just some threads on Telegram. They have not been under-cautious. It was never entirely clear what the phases of the Special Military Operation were going to be. It is getting clearer. For that reason you might enjoy the opinion of retired Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor, who expects the Russians to go Full Throttle in the near future: https://t.me/intelslava/33656 I don't know anything about "mutants" Nor does anyone else I read (Intel_slava_z, azmilitary1, and ukr_leaks_eng on Telegram).
I think you have been deeply misled about the Russian forces. The Russian economy has only gotten better since the Soviet Union days, and in those days we accounted them a formidable adversary. During the SMO, some field commanders have been awarding "purple hearts" to tanks who have survived (mutliple) Javelin hits. The efficacy of the western weapons is beginning to show a tattered ear. The M777 howitzers have optical sights that cannot survive extended operation (their mounts break). Have you really considered the geographic extent of the territory they have liberated and put under control? I have read that it would correspond to the American eastern seaboard (or more). I notice you don't say a word about the extent and difficulty of "clearing" cities that had been oppressed by the Azov battalion types.
I doubt you know much about Putin. Your description does not fit with the man who in 2010 made "The GULag Archipelago" required reading in Russian high schools. Have you read it? Not an advertisement for the USSR.
I know quite a bit about Putin. You know he is KGB? You know he constantly laments the collapse of the USSR? You know he went from a middle class KGB agent to a billionaire during the 90s when the Russian economy was embroiled in corruption?
Putin is the bastion of corrupt government.
You site the Army's "Douglas MacArthur"... a man who has been dead for 50 years as predicting the end in 30 days.
I will leave it at this... let's revisit this in 30 days. I fearlessly predict that the Russians will have lost territory in the south, gained a mile or 2 in the East and you will be here telling me that the Russians are on the brink of total victory! A victory that they have been on the brink of for almost 6 months but somehow keep getting humiliated.
Again, Russia has, for half a year, failed to subjugate a small nation on their border. This was supposed to be one of the greatest military mights on earth... yet they're now sending tanks built in the 60s to the front line, they can't operate in enemy air space because they keep getting shot down and their only way to advance is through artillery barrage.
Joke army, joke country, with a one of the most corrupt world leaders in modern history.
Well, you didn't know that Putin made the most telling indictment against the Soviet Union required reading for impressionable minds, over a decade ago. Kind of defeats your cartoon characterization.
My apology about the typo; it is difficult to resist, but I corrected it in the original. It is Douglas MacGregor, which is plainly evident in the article I referred to you---which I can safely assume you did not read. You don't know anything about him, either. He commanded a tank formation in what I think was Gulf War II.
I expect you will see chunks of the Donbass permanently under the Russian flag, with all Russian citizens. That is happening now. Ukraine has nothing left, and it is not getting better. Even the West is having second thoughts at throwing more money at a losing enterprise. The economic sanctions have been an immense backfire, with Russia floating high and the West sinking into inflation and energy poverty. The Russians are essentially the only ones who are operating in airspace, based on their use of Su-25s to take out Ukrainian ground forces, and air-launched precision missiles to take out critical targets.
You are really good with Ukrainian corruption (involving Joe Biden), Nazi genocide against the Donbass for the past 8 years, the establishment of forbidden biological weapon research facilities, and the profuse use of civilian shields (war crimes) in their conduct of combat? I wouldn't want to sleep with that in bed next to me.
Both sides are using Su-25s against each other, neither side are able to cross over the lines into enemy territory with them.
Ukraine has a corrupt government it is true. Russia's government is just as corrupt, if not more so. It is a country ran by a few billionaires who have made their fortunes swindling the country. Getting paid huge government contracts and skimming half off the top for themselves. Russia has killed civilians with bombings far away from the front, they attack to cause terror, they did the same thing in Syria, the same thing in Georgia and Chechnya... they accuse Ukraine of using human shields... meanwhile they block any paths for civilians to evacuate.
Russia is also employing Islamic mercenaries and Chechen terrorists in their army. Not too surprising because the only allies Putin can muster are either communists or Islamist.
I've been hearing this same "Ukraine army is getting slaughtered, about to collapse... blah blah blah" on hear for half a year. There were people here in March, swearing, that Russia had already taken Kiev and that the Ukrainian government was hiding in Warsaw. Meanwhile Russia has gained but a few miles in the East since March and saw their army routed in the North.
Russia's state media was positive it would last weeks if not days for a total victory, that is the media who's messaging only gets approved by the Kremlin.
And now those same Russian state media sources, instead of predicting victory, are making excuses for the massive failure of their military. "Mutants!" It's laughable.
This has been a complete embarrassment.
The Russian military is a joke. Exposed as a bastion of corruption full of ill equipped, ill trained, conscripts. The government there pumps money into tanks only to get explosive tin cans, while some Russian billionaire uses the money to build a yacht... and throws Putin his share of the proceeds.
Joke country, joke army, can't even subjugate a small nation on it's own border.
And good, because Russia is a total dictatorship and Putin has openly touted his continued belief in the USSR. The more Russia suffers the better for the free world.
You hear it because it is true, and getting worse. Surrendering troops are now youngsters and middle-aged guys who had been conscripted. Ukraine has press gangs roaming about to collar any man who is not currently serving in the UAF. People run away from them. I can't help if "people here" went off the deep end and made claims in excess of reality. That seems to be a pasttime. But the Ukrainians have made lying claims incessantly from the beginning, so be advised you are drinking Kool-Aid.
I don't read the "state media," just some threads on Telegram. They have not been under-cautious. It was never entirely clear what the phases of the Special Military Operation were going to be. It is getting clearer. For that reason you might enjoy the opinion of retired Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor, who expects the Russians to go Full Throttle in the near future: https://t.me/intelslava/33656 I don't know anything about "mutants" Nor does anyone else I read (Intel_slava_z, azmilitary1, and ukr_leaks_eng on Telegram).
I think you have been deeply misled about the Russian forces. The Russian economy has only gotten better since the Soviet Union days, and in those days we accounted them a formidable adversary. During the SMO, some field commanders have been awarding "purple hearts" to tanks who have survived (mutliple) Javelin hits. The efficacy of the western weapons is beginning to show a tattered ear. The M777 howitzers have optical sights that cannot survive extended operation (their mounts break). Have you really considered the geographic extent of the territory they have liberated and put under control? I have read that it would correspond to the American eastern seaboard (or more). I notice you don't say a word about the extent and difficulty of "clearing" cities that had been oppressed by the Azov battalion types.
I doubt you know much about Putin. Your description does not fit with the man who in 2010 made "The GULag Archipelago" required reading in Russian high schools. Have you read it? Not an advertisement for the USSR.
I know quite a bit about Putin. You know he is KGB? You know he constantly laments the collapse of the USSR? You know he went from a middle class KGB agent to a billionaire during the 90s when the Russian economy was embroiled in corruption?
Putin is the bastion of corrupt government.
You site the Army's "Douglas MacArthur"... a man who has been dead for 50 years as predicting the end in 30 days.
I will leave it at this... let's revisit this in 30 days. I fearlessly predict that the Russians will have lost territory in the south, gained a mile or 2 in the East and you will be here telling me that the Russians are on the brink of total victory! A victory that they have been on the brink of for almost 6 months but somehow keep getting humiliated.
Again, Russia has, for half a year, failed to subjugate a small nation on their border. This was supposed to be one of the greatest military mights on earth... yet they're now sending tanks built in the 60s to the front line, they can't operate in enemy air space because they keep getting shot down and their only way to advance is through artillery barrage.
Joke army, joke country, with a one of the most corrupt world leaders in modern history.
Well, you didn't know that Putin made the most telling indictment against the Soviet Union required reading for impressionable minds, over a decade ago. Kind of defeats your cartoon characterization.
My apology about the typo; it is difficult to resist, but I corrected it in the original. It is Douglas MacGregor, which is plainly evident in the article I referred to you---which I can safely assume you did not read. You don't know anything about him, either. He commanded a tank formation in what I think was Gulf War II.
I expect you will see chunks of the Donbass permanently under the Russian flag, with all Russian citizens. That is happening now. Ukraine has nothing left, and it is not getting better. Even the West is having second thoughts at throwing more money at a losing enterprise. The economic sanctions have been an immense backfire, with Russia floating high and the West sinking into inflation and energy poverty. The Russians are essentially the only ones who are operating in airspace, based on their use of Su-25s to take out Ukrainian ground forces, and air-launched precision missiles to take out critical targets.
You are really good with Ukrainian corruption (involving Joe Biden), Nazi genocide against the Donbass for the past 8 years, the establishment of forbidden biological weapon research facilities, and the profuse use of civilian shields (war crimes) in their conduct of combat? I wouldn't want to sleep with that in bed next to me.
Both sides are using Su-25s against each other, neither side are able to cross over the lines into enemy territory with them.
Ukraine has a corrupt government it is true. Russia's government is just as corrupt, if not more so. It is a country ran by a few billionaires who have made their fortunes swindling the country. Getting paid huge government contracts and skimming half off the top for themselves. Russia has killed civilians with bombings far away from the front, they attack to cause terror, they did the same thing in Syria, the same thing in Georgia and Chechnya... they accuse Ukraine of using human shields... meanwhile they block any paths for civilians to evacuate.
Russia is also employing Islamic mercenaries and Chechen terrorists in their army. Not too surprising because the only allies Putin can muster are either communists or Islamist.
Speaks a lot about him.