@Garry
The main problem is, while u know about weapons, you know basically nothing about the culture of the Ukraine and the Russian World.
I remember for 8 years you basically said "Russia doesn;t need the Ukraine, it should let it rot".
Absolutely I stand by those words because there are going to be regions of the Ukraine that will always hate Russia and Russians and they should be left as a separate neutral state that is not part of Russia.
Crimea voted to be Russian and these four new regions of Eastern Ukraine have voted to become part of the Russian Federation too, but not every region is going to want to be any part of Russia and Russia should accept that as their right to not be part of Russia.
Russia should not save people who don't want to be saved.
Let them stew in their hatred for Russia and Russians and eek out a living in limbo.
The west will try to absorb them but Russia should make iron clad agreements so that is unlikely or there is a cost... like a land bridge to Kaliningrad in return for the far western most radicalised parts of the Ukraine.
You sidestepped the fact it had been Russia for nearly all the last 1100 years
I don't sidestep it at all... it is UN agreed that the people on a spot of land can choose their nationality for themselves... the way the Crimea did, and they way the Palestinians are not being allowed to at the moment.
For 50,000 years Australia was Aboriginal... can they rise up and kick all the white people off the country?
The US was a British colony... things change.
Eastern Ukrainians have decided to become Russian citizens because of the way Kiev treated them the last 10 years... in 2014 they didn't want to join the Russian Federation... they just wanted to be able to speak Russian and trade openly with Russia. After 10 years of war they have had enough of being Ukrainian... but other Ukrainians who have only been bombed and shelled for the last going on three years by Russia probably still blame Russia because most have never heard Russias side of things yet.
When the Ukrainian Army collapses and Russian troops come in to keep the peace and referendums and elections are organised the people of the Ukraine can have their say, but their choices will be restricted to choices acceptable to Russia and there will not be 20 million Ukrainians from the west getting to vote.
You sidestep the fact 50 % of the population basically considers themselves Russian.
If it was 50% then they failed to have any influence on the facts on the ground and happily went to war with Russia in the name of the great west democracy circus...
If they don't stand up to nazis then they wont stand up to Russians either...
Most of the other 50 % is certainly a "fraternal people" albeit poisoned by GAYTO and Nazism to some extent or other.
Yeah, lots of serial killers are basically good people... they just need to take their meds and stay away from the bad guys that lead them on dark paths.
My point is simple, if Putin capitulates after the price Russia has paid then it WOULD be clear he is a Washington plant.
Yeah, so you say... but I would respond by saying... look at the Russian economy. Look at western economies. Look at the position Russia is now in with BRICS and relations with all sorts of countries around the entire world, especially China and Saudi Arabia and Turkey and Iran.
I would say if there are plants involved it is in the west and they have played their cards beautifully to destroy the evil western illuminati and their white colonial hold on Africa and Asia and Central and South America... their house of cards is coming down. Even now the world is turning on Israel... the jews were the worlds victims and can do no wrong, but it is not working any more and it seems they might be going to be held to account.
But what is your definition of capitulates?
Do all Ukrainians need to be mercilessly slaughtered, or all assimilated and converted in country religion and language to Russian?
Putin is pretty much stating that there is no one to negotiate with in Kiev any more because even when he was in power he could not be trusted, and now his term has ended he has no authority so whether he can be trusted or not is moot.
You call ME an idiot for criticising a complete sellout? Words fail me...!
I call you an idiot for entertaining such ridiculous accusations made by his enemies and those who propagandise for your enemies.
Look at what YOU were saying for 8 yrs! Look in the mirror!
I stand by what I said... if there was no west pushing for war with Russia and if Kiev had followed the Miinsk agreements to the letter this could all have been sorted out peacefully with Crimea being Russian but the rest of the Ukraine remaining the Ukraine with no language or religion being banned.
That is not what happened... to the point where Russia really had no option because war was coming and it came down to whether they struck first and did some damage or they waited for Kiev to strike and perhaps receive some damage and try to respond against an advancing enemy force with its tail up.
I can't fault Putin for anything he did because at the time it always made sense... including the pre-emptive Self defence attack on Ukraine.
MOving on, I love Putin as a "father of the Nation"... on the civil side. But he admits himself. He fucked up.
He admits he did wrong based on what those evil bastards in the west revealed... Merkel and Holland openly lied to his face about wanting peace and creating peace and created what is essentially a bloody civil war on Russias border with the express purpose of getting Putin out of office and crippling the Russian economy and perhaps dividing that country up too like they did to Yugoslavia... though to be fair Yugoslavia was a frankensteins monster to being with.
He was wrong because he accepted the word of liars... but at the time he had no reason not to accept their word.
You could argue that Kiev not following Minsk 1 or 2 and blaming Russia for not fulfilling its part of the bargain was a hint because essentially Russia had no part in the agreement to follow through on... but Germany and France being arseholes is just normal diplomacy in Europe for the last 30 years...
Read that again. He admits it himself. He admitted he REGRETTED standing aside for 8 yrs. He HASN'T made the right decisions on the strategic side.
He admits it now he knows what they were doing... do you think everything that happened would have happened if he knew what they were doing?
He admits now that he made a mistake but short of inventing a time machine and going back and warning himself that they are evil and can't be trusted then if he had a chance to do it all again he likely would have done what he did based on what he knew then.
Based on what he knows now is not relevant because he didn't fucking know.
And he won a landslide victory because the powers that be value unity. There was no real alternative. They do NOT value flim flam ostrich in the sand "lets wait and see" BS re the Ukraine for 8 yrs.
Bullshit. If he was no good for the job they have had plenty of opportunities these last 25 years to vote for someone else.... and apart from Medvedev they have not.
Might come as a shock but just because he is president of the Russian Federation he does not have access to all knowledge and truth all the time so when he needs to make choices and decisions sometimes he has to make judgement calls.
80& of the Russian voting public think he is the best man for the job... you suggesting there is no alternative.... hahahaha... you live in the UK don't you... Sunak and Johnson and May... in the US Biden or Hillary or Trump... if Putin was a flim flam ostrich with its head in the sand the west would love him.
And Russia would be in the toilet.
If Putin keeps on with the appeasement style BS,
What fucking appeasement? It is all in your head, which is why I am calling you an idiot.
He says he is open to negotiations... you take that to mean he will accept the idea of Russia surrendering and the US winning just before the election because he is a US plant. But he also says negotiations need to take into account the situation on the ground... which is dominated by Russian forces moving forward and slaughtering 15 thousand Orcs a week... that does not sound like he is giving up anything at all... in fact I would say he is going in to those negotiations from a position of strength.
The Pukraine could have been crushed in a fortnight in 2014... or at any time til around 2021 or so.
First of all why.
Why would Putin invade a soverign state because the US just funded a coup to overthrow the leadership... keep in mind at that point the Lugansk and Donbass and other regions were not interested in joining the Russian federation... that was only the Crimea and they did that.
Second how would the Russian military perform in that conflict because there was no experience with drones as per the Syrian conflict, and western sanctions hadn't kicked in yet so most of the food Russia consumed came from the EU, and a lot of military production used western sourced components and of course all the progress Russia has made economically and militarily would be immediately wiped by western sanctions... and of course the relationship with China and India was different 10 years ago too. The Indians probably would have supported Russia but would China?
Russian force crushing Ukrainian forces in 2014 would probably have led to HATO forces entering Ukraine and perhaps even a rushed entry for the Ukraine into HATO to try to protect the assets the west was in the process of stealing.
Putin must now try and redeem himself and ensure such fuckups never occur again.
Of course... I write in my diary every night to never make mistakes... because that is how things work... you say you will never make a mistake and you never do.
Kazakstan, Belarus, the Ukraine, ANYWHERE in the Russian World and near abroad. He also needs to learn the meaning of the word deterrent and set up a proxy tit for tat situation vs GAYTO devils.
Hahahahaaha.... and the US is using violence to force Russia into the western world.... as a slave... how is that working?
Sometimes that is counter productive... in fact I would say that if you wanted Belarus to join the Russian federation the best way would be to let them see what the EU and HATO are doing to the Ukraine and Georgia and soon Finland and Sweden.
You think Russia gives a shit about Palestine? It's not about Palestine. Russia should be doing proxy wars vs America not piss around on legalistic BS.
It is all about international law, which will always put Russia on the other side of the fence from Israel and the west who don't care about fences or why they are there.
So Putin also talking "bullshit" in your mind because he regrets sitting on his arse for 8 yrs?
He made a lot of decisions back then based on what he knew and what he believed to be true. Several of the people he was negotiating with have since revealed the truth, which had they revealed at the time he would not have done what he did.
Hindsight is 20/20 but not something to judge someone on.
Even the village mong can work out Russia could have finished the job in a fortnight not 2 yrs if it started years before.
And 1,000 years ago they could have done this or that as well, but making claims about what would have happened are meaningless and pointless because it didn't happen and it wont happen.
Anyone who claims it would be over in 3 days or two weeks is an idiot too BTW... nothing ever happens that quick...
Your words here on Putin "He was lied to. Hardly his fault".
So who you gonna blame? The pixies?
Living up to the term idiot I see.
I blame the LIARS. But lets just blame Putin because its is always Putins fault... western propaganda says so.
He's the President of Russia with decades experience. And you say "it wasn't his fault"?
He should be surprised the Empire of Satan lied to him?
And you call ME an idiot?
Yes, I call you an idiot.
Even if he knew Merkel and Holland were lying I rather doubt he would have invaded the Ukraine.
He hasn't invaded Finland or Sweden either... he is not invading many countries at all... it is not his thing.
BTW look at the two members who liked your post... I rest my case... a nazi and a stalinist...
It's impressive to think there are pro russians thinking it's a good idea to give Poland more territories to increase their size thus giving nato more grounds. Poland is literalery sending weapons to kill as many russians as possible. Why would a normal russian with its full working brain think it's a good idea to give them ukrainian lands.
Because these territories were traditionally occupied by Poland... and if the west accepts that then Russia can say the rest of the Ukraine was traditionally Russian territory...
I suspect western Ukraine will be neutral and independent and hopefully land locked.
The Russians used Belarusian territory as a springboard at the start of the SMO. That "implicates" Belarus as an enabler - meaning that they are already involved.
Only in the sense that all of HATO is involved too... the conflict has not spilled onto their territory to a significant degree... and I suspect like HATO they want to keep it that way.
Things might change even more dramatically with the attack on the Russian strategic radar site,
Any credible proof there was an attack on said radar site?
This is all theoretical though. Pretty sure that Poland doesn't want to touch any of these lands with a 10-foot pole. They are interested in arming them to the teeth against Russia to the last Banderite, and nothing more.
Agree, they are cowardly westerners who love war that doesn't directly effect them in terms of body bags... so as long as they have a proxy to do the fighting and bleeding and dying they are happy.
Senator and former head of "Roscosmos," Dmitry Rogozin, commented on images circulating online after a drone attack on the "Voronezh-DM" radar station. This station can detect ballistic nuclear missile launches up to 6000 km away.
So he is commenting on images circulated online... he was not aware of the details via official channels?
Doesn´t matter, part of the bomblets will survice and continue the flight to the vicinity of the target area.
Especially when more often than not THAAD and Erint and PAC-3 often don't hit or kill.
Good job the UA has plenty of officers to replace them with. Ahhhhh!
In Ukraine, a criminal case was opened against 28 commanders for failure in the Kharkov region.
That will be the point though... they probably have too many officers so finding some guilty of something and then demoting them means they can be sent to the front line... but being officers their planning and leadership skills will perhaps help them to lead an insurrection, or maybe just a huge group of Orcs to surrender while taking down the nazis trying to shoot the ones that surrender...
Not anymore.
I would say in the entire country the Ukrainians have more troops, but along the line of engagement the Russians are able to distribute their forces to get local superiority and with their mobility and tactics they can drive the orcs back in a way that traditionally would require a 3-4 times advantage in men and equipment.
They have fire power advantages that they are using effectively, and of course corruption means the fortifications they are currently fighting through are not really slowing anyone down.