Half a year ago, nobody would even report on that. Now, titles are calling that impudence facing a dead end of a lost cause.
The really amusing thing is that the west seems to think this conflict will be over quickly when they decide and all they have to do is make a few offers to Russia and everything will stop and it will be business as usual afterwards.
I rather suspect Russias experience of dealing with Kiev and HATO, who probably want to freeze the conflict like North and South Korea, that Putin wont be interested in that at all and really only an unconditional surrender where all HATO forces leave and all Kievs forces lay down their weapons and Russian forces move in to the territory of the entire country to keep the peace while referendums are set up for the people to decide their future, with guards at the border so anti Russian Ukrainians and other fake Ukrainians don't move in to swing the vote. The options on the referendum will not include joining HATO or the EU. The west will say it is not fair but who listens to them any more?
Peace will break out and the west will try to infiltrate the new regions on the pretence of trying to help rebuild, but in actual fact what they will actually be doing is sowing the seeds to have another go in a decade or so... they think Russia needs them and they think Russia is stupid. They have been wrong on both counts for quite some time.
The irony of calling people internet experts but then using "Polls" to as evidence your belief is correct is hilarious.
Here is a tip, Polls are about as useful as wiping your ass with your own hands.
Polls held by an opposition group that does not conform to their agenda or make them look good are the only polls that can be trusted that you did not hold yourself.
There is no other real method of determining public opinion... even if it has been bastardised in the west to actually form public opinion.
He really looks alone, but the striking part was that the west has no intention of giving him any more assistance
Previous cover photos of him on western media have been rather positive... the Time magazine cover he is tiny and turning away as if to be leaving with the giant word Nobody above his picture... the inference is very clear... you might be a jew, but you are not Israel... don't be upset if you can't get through to us in future by phone or zoom... we are busy and you are not interesting any more because all the major propaganda victories seem to be going to Russia these days... and this conflict has been perfect preparation and testing for the Russian military to really up its game and test a lot of equipment and weapons and systems and get them working properly... the west knew they had some good stuff but likely hoped that a HATO ground force could overwhelm them before they could get their stuff working and effective... the way the German army steam rollered the Soviet Army and Air force before they had time to get their best weapons working properly and in service in useful numbers.
The Soviets were mostly fighting with Polikarpov I-16s and T-26 light tanks, while the Yak-1 and MiG-3 and T-34 and KV-1s were still getting sorted out with new ammo and training and tactics.
HATO have lost that chance and the Russians will likely have more and better drones than the west does... and know how to use them.
We see all western media declaring Ukraine is out of manpower and must hold peace talks, before they lose more territory, which was usually a trope of pro russian media, and now has become a headline on western MSM
When they had potential on the battle field the Russians were saying give up now or you will lose more territory... now they have little potential left and as the west is saying it is a stalemate because the Russians don't seem to be gaining ground and Kiev can't gain any ground because the Russian forces are too strong.
The obvious problem there is that the Russians have not be trying to gain ground, they have been holding ground and chewing up enemy forces and destroying equipment and resources on Kievs side... it is only a stalemate because the Russian forces have not been trying to advance.
As the Kiev forces collapse then pushing forwards in a few different places will lead to breakthroughs and Kiev desperately shifting forces from place to place which of course will create weak areas in other places too... too many fires and not enough firemen... so Russia should be able to advance in quite a few places at once which means well defended areas will get encircled and can be left for a bit till they start to surrender.
Eventually groups in Kiev will flee to the west which will weaken the power of the pro west people and the hard core nazis leading to more rational people taking up the reins.... killing Zelensky would just mean the west would install a Zelensky like person or worse... someone who is competent... it would be better for a Ukrainian group to rise up and take over and offer unconditional surrender...
The US demanded that of the Japanese so it is perfectly reasonable considering the circumstances for Putin to demand the same.
US debt will break a 1 TRLN $ a year of servicing cost very soon, and heading for 1.4 trln.
That's 1/3rd of the entire German economy. Just as a servicing cost.
Think about that for several minutes... over 30 trillion dollars in debt and they print their own money to solve their economic problems, but continue to borrow from others to pay for their living standards... how is that going by the way?
This is some delusional bullshit right here
There's no fixing this
Russiaphobia is a business... you can make money being Russophobic... but even when there is money in it plenty still cooperate with Russia... look at Japan still cooperating with Russia on natural gas projects in Russia despite imposing all sorts of sanctions on them...
The Europeans talking shit about Russia but indirectly buying Russian gas from third party sources they know come from Russia... paying middle man money to pretend they are not supporting Russia in any way.
The Ukros need a Mannerheim. Someone who tells them that they have to surrender in order to stop useless dying.
No, the Ukros need a fucking idiot who will keep this going and keep draining western funds to **** with Russia and China and BRICS, so that when winter comes Russia can start advancing in multiple locations and as Kiev moves forces around to fight the fires Russian air power and drones can smash them out in the open on the move and the Russian forces in places where the Orc forces are taken from can start to advance too, and in places they break through can attack other places on the line from behind and really screw them up... you don't want just any idiot, but they already have a professional... Zelensky... the job is yours.
If 90% of the AFU are there, then why in god name do they not attack from Belarus and close the effin western border. WHY WHY WHY
Because the objective is to kill that 90%... not take territory.
@Sprut-B, those self forging fragment submunitions are like lightning strikes or lasers... quite impressive and in the inventory since the mid 1990s. They had the MMW radar guided versions before that but in the mid 1990s they added an IR sensor to prevent the munition attacking just any lump of metal so all your submunitions didn't all just hit the same vehicle in the attack. The IR sensor indicates if the target has already been hit or not.