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.
No. As in Mariupol, the Russians established humanitarian safe egress corridors and declared cease-fire intervals for civilians to evacuate (e.g., from the Azovstal complex), but the Ukrainian forces (Azov battalion types in this case) forbade the civilians to leave on pain of death. Plenty of testimony to this fact, as a general policy of the UAF. Ultimately, the civilians were able to evacuate...and the UAF forces were kept bottled up until they had to surrender. (The Russians learned to do this in Syria. It offered an easy path to surrender, and they were happy to have any of the opposition surrender, instead of fight.)
The Russians are not terror-bombing. The Ukrainians are capable of doing it all on their own---ever since 2014, with the Donbass as the punching bag. The Russians are only going after legitimate military targets. The Ukrainians do use human shields; they insert themselves in homes, offices, schools, kindergartens, in order to establish headquarters or fire bases. They will even put artillery in back yards and fire from there (I've seen the videos). To do this is a war crime...or maybe you are indifferent to war crimes?
The Chechens are very well behaved in their interactions with the public. What there is to see. No complaints from the liberated, as the Chechens have been taking the lead in going after the neo-Nazis.
What communists? The past 30 years are frozen for you? Your accusations have a lot of dust on them, like you are reading old magazines.
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.
No. As in Mariupol, the Russians established humanitarian safe egress corridors and declared cease-fire intervals for civilians to evacuate (e.g., from the Azovstal complex), but the Ukrainian forces (Azov battalion types in this case) forbade the civilians to leave on pain of death. Plenty of testimony to this fact, as a general policy of the UAF. Ultimately, the civilians were able to evacuate...and the UAF forces were kept bottled up until they had to surrender. (The Russians learned to do this in Syria. It offered an easy path to surrender, and they were happy to have any of the opposition surrender, instead of fight.)
The Russians are not terror-bombing. The Ukrainians are capable of doing it all on their own---ever since 2014, with the Donbass as the punching bag. The Russians are only going after legitimate military targets. The Ukrainians do use human shields; they insert themselves in homes, offices, schools, kindergartens, in order to establish headquarters or fire bases. They will even put artillery in back yards and fire from there (I've seen the videos). To do this is a war crime...or maybe you are indifferent to war crimes?
The Chechens are very well behaved in their interactions with the public. What there is to see. No complaints from the liberated, as the Chechens have been taking the lead in going after the neo-Nazis.
What communists? The past 30 years are frozen for you? Your accusations have a lot of dust on them, like you are reading old magazines.