Some excerpts from a good article here:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/29/europe/ukraine-war-victory-hopes-dim-intl/ind...




Analysis by Tim Lister, CNN
7 minute read
Updated 10:32 AM EST, Fri December 29, 2023


As December came to a close, Ukraine suffered the biggest Russian air attack since the start of the full-scale invasion. Russia fired 158 drones and missiles – including hypersonic Kinzhals – at targets across Ukraine on Friday, killing at least 18 people and injuring scores more. Zelensky said Russia used “nearly every type of weapon in its arsenal” in the strikes.


The Russian way of war, absorbing hideous losses of men and materiel but throwing yet more into the fight, has blunted the Ukrainian military’s tactical and technological edge, as its top general admitted in a candid essay last month.

The mood in Moscow seems grimly determined: the goals of the “special military operation” will be achieved, and the fighting will continue until they are.
President Joe Biden speaks at the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

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As the long frontline becomes ever more calcified, the Kremlin senses greater skepticism among Kyiv’s Western backers that Ukraine can recover the 17% of its territory still occupied by Russian forces.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is relishing the much more partisan atmosphere in Washington, where many in the Republican Party are questioning the purpose of sending Ukraine another $61 billion worth of aid as requested by the Biden administration, assessing that it will achieve little on the battlefield.

But the Russians’ vast reserves of manpower and hardware (Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu boasted that he could raise 25 million men if necessary) mean they can continue bludgeoning the smaller Ukrainian military, making incremental gains at enormous cost.

He won't tell anyone - it's a State secret - so he says.
Estimates are from 100,000 to half a million or even a lot more.

How much Ukrainian property and infrastructure has been destroyed?
I've heard estimates as high as US$ 1 trillion - and possibly more.

90% of the beautiful city of Mariupol has been destroyed as just one example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mariupol

Baronvonrort wrote on Dec 30^th, 2023 at 4:33pm:



Did you read the article?


But the Russians’ vast reserves of manpower and hardware (Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu boasted that he could raise 25 million men if necessary) mean they can continue bludgeoning the smaller Ukrainian military, making incremental gains at enormous cost.

Baron -
Ukraine can't win any more than Hitler could win.
Russia is too large and has too many men to send into the meat grinder.

Russia doesn't care about how many of their own men are killed -
they have no respect for human life - they are not normal human beings -
they are psycho killers.
Stalin sacrificed 25 million Russian people to beat the Germans.
Putin is no different - Russians are crazy.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 30^th, 2023 at 5:23pm:


ukraine is taking far more losses than the russian federation is in order to defend.. uh... can't figure that out yet, but it's definitely worth dying over

Baronvonrort wrote on Dec 30^th, 2023 at 10:03pm:


probs gonna be the same result eitherway

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The US Patriot missiles are shooting down Russian planes.

Israel is proving Russian air defences are no match for F35 in Syria.

Russian tanks are steel coffins when put up against decent ATGM.

Soviet comrades helped old ladies across roads in Poland and East Germany for 40 years. Six million others wanted to but were dead fighting Germans. Putin thinks krauts want to invade Russia again. Krauts want to use the big missiles and they have all Europe in NATO now. As Putin lost .3m troops for 150km in Ukraine, the whole country will take 2million Russian dead. 2mill for Poland. 2 mill for Germany, again. Then they can help old..

Another reason for Putin to crusade for the Third Rome, golden churches and nuke hell-fire. Old Nick was Slavic too.

Old Nick was in Darwin.
https://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/old-nick-given-a-right-royal-r...

Putin is insisting that NATO men in Ukraine will cause nuking which will divide Europe into 2 groups: the dead and the living.

Bobby. wrote on Mar 5^th, 2024 at 7:03am:


Putin Invaded Ukraine and you expect them to cave like cowards....Ukraine was not part of NATO and Zelensky had no leverage to force them to join the fight....Putin is an evil dictator who should be opposed by the whole free world....By your reasoning any country who is attacked by a superior power should surrender!!!

philperth2010 wrote on Mar 5^th, 2024 at 4:13pm:



Phil,
you don't know your history.

Do a Google search on how Paris was declared an open city  11 June 1940:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_city

Bobby. wrote on Mar 5^th, 2024 at 6:29pm:

but not on 10th May.

The Dragon is the Middle-East.
It was as good as Europe could get with Mr St George.

NATO countries are helping Ukraine to hit targets in Russia
which could lead to a strike by Russia at NATO.

Scott Ritter said it could lead to a nuclear strike by Russia
as Putin has threatened - it's not a game.

if i could borrow one of brians yawns

it was the case 12 months ago that eventually ukraine runs out of ukrainians and does a deal.

nothing has changed in the last 12 months except a lot more ukranians are dead.

vlad is going to get a bit of eastern ukraine and zelensky is going to go live with george clooney in hollywood and the USA military industrial complex is going to record great shareholder dividends

the sooner they declare it over the less of the young ukranian men will die (that is , if there are any of them left)

Russia has not used tactical nuclear weapons yet because Ukraine is not worth being targeted by such weapons.

Ukraine is lashing out and NATO members are shooting from their mouths.

Russia has not yet used its full might and maybe did not want to reveal to NATO its most powerful weapons, apart from the fact that Ukraine is not worthy of being targeted by Russia's most powerful weapons.

It is certain that Russia is holding back weapons it might need to use against NATO countries.

UK, Germany, and France are in dire economic circumstances and if the war came to their cities their economies would collapse.

The UK is already engaged against Yemen and may have to recall its forces from the Red Sea.

There is also the possibility that other US-enemy countries may take the opportunity for a free hit if the current wars widen to world-class status.

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Ukraine showing Russian navy is just as vulnerable as their AF.

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Bobby. wrote on Mar 5^th, 2024 at 8:20pm:


Excellent content  👍🏽

A Russian tactical nuclear strike on the sites where NATO personnel are present would probably be enough to prevent more shenanigans by NATO.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/06/russia-ukraine-zelensky-missile-...




By Isabelle Khurshudyan
Updated March 6, 2024 at 12:12 p.m.



KYIV — A Russian missile strike appeared to target Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, landing near his motorcade in the Black Sea port city of Odessa, where the president was meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Zelensky and members of the Greek delegation were not harmed, despite the missile landing some 500 feet away, Greek officials told the Protothema news outlet. The Ukrainian presidential office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Foreign leaders have made frequent trips to Ukraine throughout the country’s two years of war with Russia, and this isn’t the first time there has been a strike on a city at the same time as one’s visit. But Wednesday’s incident stood out for how close the missile strike was to both Zelensky and Mitsotakis — what some Western leaders condemned as a new low for Moscow, which has committed thousands of atrocities against civilians throughout its invasion.

European Council President Charles Michel wrote on X that the attack was “another sign of Russia’s cowardly tactics in its war of aggression against Ukraine.”

“This is reprehensible and below even the Kremlin’s playbook,” Michel added.

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said on X: “No one is intimidated by this new attempt at terror — certainly not the two leaders on the ground nor the brave people of Ukraine. More than ever, we stand by Ukraine.”

Explosion at rail bridge deep inside Russia shows Ukraine’s reach

Zelensky and Mitsotakis were visiting the Odessa port when, about 10:40 a.m., air raid sirens were heard. The explosion then occurred within minutes.

“We witnessed the strike today,” Zelensky told reporters afterward. “You see who we’re dealing with; they don’t care where to hit. I know there were casualties today; I don’t know all the details yet, but I know there are casualties.”