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December 27, 2022, 09:22:09 AM
^^^ Are these coincidences? So we see that it is not Russia who is the aggressor.

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I know, it seems weird, but maybe Putin ran out of polonium or novichok.
legendary
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December 27, 2022, 07:36:32 AM
^^^ Are these coincidences? So we see that it is not Russia who is the aggressor.

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December 27, 2022, 06:19:38 AM
I think they are lucky because at least their dead bodies were found...

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Another Putin critic 'falls out a window' to his death: Sausage tycoon plummets from luxury hotel - two days after his male friend died of a 'heart attack' on their trip to India
- A Russian politician who previously criticised the war with Ukraine has died
- Reports suggest that Pavel Antov fell to his death while on holiday in India
- Antov was Russia's highest-earning official and an MP in the Vladimir region

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11574603/Another-Putin-critic-falls-window-death-Tycoon-plummets-luxury-hotel-India.html
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December 27, 2022, 03:59:58 AM
"After months in Ukraine training soldiers, Ret Col Andrew Milburn of
@TheMozartGroup
 mercenary firm gets sauced on camera & spills the beans:

Ukraine is a "corrupt, fucked-up society" run by "fucked-up people"

Ukrainian soldiers "kill dudes who surrendered," commit "atrocities""


Don't believe me, look for yourself:

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1607477025962430465?s=20&t=kyK3_nVAGEdXLQmYr3yKhw


Ukrainian slodiers seem unhappy about that, too:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IgmVFRi2eHo
legendary
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December 26, 2022, 06:58:22 PM

I feel so sad for you.

Don't you realize that 3 US companies have bought up 60% of Ukraine farmland? And don't you know that one of them is Monsanto, a company with proven records of spraying crops with poisons that kill and maim people? And you would invite them in, right?

And don't you realize that the US has supplied almost $100 billion in armament and cash to Ukraine? And didn't you know that the US is promising more?

Is the US buying up Ukraine land because they love the Ukraine people? Don't you realize that you and the Ukrainian people are selling your souls to the US?  You aren't dying in this war for freedom. All you are doing is dying for a different master.

I don't have to provide you with misdirection and disinformation. You are providing yourself with all of that. All you have to do is look at the news where the US is admitting to all of this... which is essentially making Ukraine a slave for them. Ukraine is being sold into slavery by the same people (US) who you think are helping you out. And they are getting your boys and girls to fight and die for them so they, themselves, don't even have to come in and die in your war that they provoked Russia into starting.

And you can't even see it, right under your nose.

Cool

Sources please? Monsanto is not a landowner, is a biotech company. They are not interested in owning land, but rather selling their GMO seeds to people and companies that actually produce food.

 On top of that:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/09/13/fact-check-ukraines-president-did-not-sell-farmland-us-companies/7942775001/

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The claim is baseless. Under Ukrainian law, foreign entities cannot own land. The president does not have the power to sell land, according to Frederic Mousseau, policy director at the progressive think tank Oakland Institute.

The US has supplied around 3 billion in weapons https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60774098.

US has never claimed to "love Ukrainian people" nor for that matter the people of any other country in the world. US is supporting Ukraine because they would rather not have the RF and particularly the current government pressing near the border of close allies and for many other reasons.

It is clear that there will be mutually beneficial trade agreements between EU, USA and Ukraine, which is absolutely normal between countries that share similar ideas and are becoming allies.


Sounds like you are beginning to wake up a little. The US absolutely DOESN'T love Ukraine. And they will prove it when they cut their losses and back out.

However, you used usatoday.com as one of your examples. Did you look at that website url? What does it say? USA Today. Don't you realize, yet, that USA Today is part of the US media propaganda machine? I know, I know. You have been taking lessons.

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legendary
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December 26, 2022, 05:21:55 PM
It seems that a drone attack has killed 3 RF soldiers. It would not be anything unusual, except for the fact that it has happened in the Engels base, 600 km inside the RF borders. But since that would be impossible, let's say that 3 RF soldiers died for smoking in the wrong place.

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-ukraine-war-vladimir-putin-drone-attack-hits-russias-engels-airbase-for-second-time-in-a-month/

^^^ Since the US is the cause of the war through the 2014 Ukraine coup, and the gigantic amount of funding, the US first, by backing out of Ukraine in every way, and by starting to repay Russia.
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Misdirection, disinformation and just lies every time you reply, literally from a playbook of russian troll factory, just to spread confusion so that people wouldn't know what to believe. Trying to tire people with random links they would have to follow or just flood the forums with some already debunked conspiracies and lies.

So forgive me not taking your arguments seriously. If you knew any ukrainian people or even lived near by russian propaganda you might have some empathy that you could apply to this.

And your pseudo-intellectual "US propaganda" rants just shows the lack of education, which is something that's free in my country by the way.

I feel so sad for you.

Don't you realize that 3 US companies have bought up 60% of Ukraine farmland? And don't you know that one of them is Monsanto, a company with proven records of spraying crops with poisons that kill and maim people? And you would invite them in, right?

And don't you realize that the US has supplied almost $100 billion in armament and cash to Ukraine? And didn't you know that the US is promising more?

Is the US buying up Ukraine land because they love the Ukraine people? Don't you realize that you and the Ukrainian people are selling your souls to the US?  You aren't dying in this war for freedom. All you are doing is dying for a different master.

I don't have to provide you with misdirection and disinformation. You are providing yourself with all of that. All you have to do is look at the news where the US is admitting to all of this... which is essentially making Ukraine a slave for them. Ukraine is being sold into slavery by the same people (US) who you think are helping you out. And they are getting your boys and girls to fight and die for them so they, themselves, don't even have to come in and die in your war that they provoked Russia into starting.

And you can't even see it, right under your nose.

Cool

Sources please? Monsanto is not a landowner, is a biotech company. They are not interested in owning land, but rather selling their GMO seeds to people and companies that actually produce food.

 On top of that:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/09/13/fact-check-ukraines-president-did-not-sell-farmland-us-companies/7942775001/

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The claim is baseless. Under Ukrainian law, foreign entities cannot own land. The president does not have the power to sell land, according to Frederic Mousseau, policy director at the progressive think tank Oakland Institute.

The US has supplied around 3 billion in weapons https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60774098.

US has never claimed to "love Ukrainian people" nor for that matter the people of any other country in the world. US is supporting Ukraine because they would rather not have the RF and particularly the current government pressing near the border of close allies and for many other reasons.

It is clear that there will be mutually beneficial trade agreements between EU, USA and Ukraine, which is absolutely normal between countries that share similar ideas and are becoming allies. Will the US benefit from it? Most likely yes. Will Ukraine profit from it? Yes, certainly more than anything they may get from Moscow ever.

legendary
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December 26, 2022, 10:37:14 AM

I feel so sad for you.

Don't you realize that 3 US companies have bought up 60% of Ukraine farmland? And don't you know that one of them is Monsanto, a company with proven records of spraying crops with poisons that kill and maim people? And you would invite them in, right?

And don't you realize that the US has supplied almost $100 billion in armament and cash to Ukraine? And didn't you know that the US is promising more?

Is the US buying up Ukraine land because they love the Ukraine people? Don't you realize that you and the Ukrainian people are selling your souls to the US?  You aren't dying in this war for freedom. All you are doing is dying for a different master.

I don't have to provide you with misdirection and disinformation. You are providing yourself with all of that. All you have to do is look at the news where the US is admitting to all of this... which is essentially making Ukraine a slave for them. Ukraine is being sold into slavery by the same people (US) who you think are helping you out. And they are getting your boys and girls to fight and die for them so they, themselves, don't even have to come in and die in your war that they provoked Russia into starting.

And you can't even see it, right under your nose.

Cool

Check your sources.
https://fullfact.org/news/ukraine-land-sales-zelenskyy/

They invested in the Ukrainian AG industry. Ukrainian law bans foreign companies (or individuals) from owning land in Ukraine.


You don't seem to understand proxy ownership, do you?

Consider twitter. twitter banned a large number of people and organizations, including Trump, because of their Republican slanted tweets. It started when the FBI suggested to twitter that these people weren't appropriate tweeters. So, twitter banned them, voluntarily. Then the FBI reimbursed twitter for its losses from banning those people.

Did the FBI pay twitter to ban people? No. twitter did it completely voluntarily. Then the FBI paid them for doing it.

Did the FBI pay twitter to ban people? Now, we see that, Yes, they did. Nobody knows what kinds of talk went on behind closed doors between twitter people and the FBI. But the fact is, twitter did it, and then got paid by the FBI.

Further, now we are seeing that twitter was an arm of the FBI. twitter might not have succeeded at all if they hadn't been propped up and used by the FBI to indoctrinate people in the twitter world.

The point? Just because a US company's name might not be on a Ukrainian land deed, doesn't mean they don't own the land through private agreements and money flow between them and the Ukrainians whose names are on the deed.

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legendary
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December 26, 2022, 03:44:20 AM
^^^ Since the US is the cause of the war through the 2014 Ukraine coup, and the gigantic amount of funding, the US first, by backing out of Ukraine in every way, and by starting to repay Russia.
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Misdirection, disinformation and just lies every time you reply, literally from a playbook of russian troll factory, just to spread confusion so that people wouldn't know what to believe. Trying to tire people with random links they would have to follow or just flood the forums with some already debunked conspiracies and lies.

So forgive me not taking your arguments seriously. If you knew any ukrainian people or even lived near by russian propaganda you might have some empathy that you could apply to this.

And your pseudo-intellectual "US propaganda" rants just shows the lack of education, which is something that's free in my country by the way.

I feel so sad for you.

Don't you realize that 3 US companies have bought up 60% of Ukraine farmland? And don't you know that one of them is Monsanto, a company with proven records of spraying crops with poisons that kill and maim people? And you would invite them in, right?

And don't you realize that the US has supplied almost $100 billion in armament and cash to Ukraine? And didn't you know that the US is promising more?

Is the US buying up Ukraine land because they love the Ukraine people? Don't you realize that you and the Ukrainian people are selling your souls to the US?  You aren't dying in this war for freedom. All you are doing is dying for a different master.

I don't have to provide you with misdirection and disinformation. You are providing yourself with all of that. All you have to do is look at the news where the US is admitting to all of this... which is essentially making Ukraine a slave for them. Ukraine is being sold into slavery by the same people (US) who you think are helping you out. And they are getting your boys and girls to fight and die for them so they, themselves, don't even have to come in and die in your war that they provoked Russia into starting.

And you can't even see it, right under your nose.

Cool
The US is the most aggressive country in the world and a country that lives off of selling weapons, so for them, war is the way for them to survive, to become an empire. In addition to announcing billions of dollars in arms sales to Ukraine, when war broke out, their allies also dramatically increased defense spending. It must be said that in 2021, despite high inflation, the US government has collected billions of dollars in arms sales.

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And they are getting your boys and girls to fight and die for them so they, themselves, don't even have to come in and die in your war that they provoked Russia into starting.

President Biden has repeatedly stated that Americans will always support Ukraine against Russia to the last Ukrainian, the last Ukrainian, not the American. Ukrainians are blindly becoming pawns for the US government.
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December 25, 2022, 10:49:23 PM
^^^ Since the US is the cause of the war through the 2014 Ukraine coup, and the gigantic amount of funding, the US first, by backing out of Ukraine in every way, and by starting to repay Russia.
Cool
Misdirection, disinformation and just lies every time you reply, literally from a playbook of russian troll factory, just to spread confusion so that people wouldn't know what to believe. Trying to tire people with random links they would have to follow or just flood the forums with some already debunked conspiracies and lies.

So forgive me not taking your arguments seriously. If you knew any ukrainian people or even lived near by russian propaganda you might have some empathy that you could apply to this.

And your pseudo-intellectual "US propaganda" rants just shows the lack of education, which is something that's free in my country by the way.

I feel so sad for you.

Don't you realize that 3 US companies have bought up 60% of Ukraine farmland? And don't you know that one of them is Monsanto, a company with proven records of spraying crops with poisons that kill and maim people? And you would invite them in, right?

And don't you realize that the US has supplied almost $100 billion in armament and cash to Ukraine? And didn't you know that the US is promising more?

Is the US buying up Ukraine land because they love the Ukraine people? Don't you realize that you and the Ukrainian people are selling your souls to the US?  You aren't dying in this war for freedom. All you are doing is dying for a different master.

I don't have to provide you with misdirection and disinformation. You are providing yourself with all of that. All you have to do is look at the news where the US is admitting to all of this... which is essentially making Ukraine a slave for them. Ukraine is being sold into slavery by the same people (US) who you think are helping you out. And they are getting your boys and girls to fight and die for them so they, themselves, don't even have to come in and die in your war that they provoked Russia into starting.

And you can't even see it, right under your nose.

Cool

Russia invaded Ukraine.

That's how the war started.
legendary
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December 25, 2022, 09:51:56 PM
^^^ Since the US is the cause of the war through the 2014 Ukraine coup, and the gigantic amount of funding, the US first, by backing out of Ukraine in every way, and by starting to repay Russia.
Cool
Misdirection, disinformation and just lies every time you reply, literally from a playbook of russian troll factory, just to spread confusion so that people wouldn't know what to believe. Trying to tire people with random links they would have to follow or just flood the forums with some already debunked conspiracies and lies.

So forgive me not taking your arguments seriously. If you knew any ukrainian people or even lived near by russian propaganda you might have some empathy that you could apply to this.

And your pseudo-intellectual "US propaganda" rants just shows the lack of education, which is something that's free in my country by the way.

I feel so sad for you.

Don't you realize that 3 US companies have bought up 60% of Ukraine farmland? And don't you know that one of them is Monsanto, a company with proven records of spraying crops with poisons that kill and maim people? And you would invite them in, right?

And don't you realize that the US has supplied almost $100 billion in armament and cash to Ukraine? And didn't you know that the US is promising more?

Is the US buying up Ukraine land because they love the Ukraine people? Don't you realize that you and the Ukrainian people are selling your souls to the US?  You aren't dying in this war for freedom. All you are doing is dying for a different master.

I don't have to provide you with misdirection and disinformation. You are providing yourself with all of that. All you have to do is look at the news where the US is admitting to all of this... which is essentially making Ukraine a slave for them. Ukraine is being sold into slavery by the same people (US) who you think are helping you out. And they are getting your boys and girls to fight and die for them so they, themselves, don't even have to come in and die in your war that they provoked Russia into starting.

And you can't even see it, right under your nose.

Cool
legendary
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December 25, 2022, 06:43:34 PM
^^^ Since the US is the cause of the war through the 2014 Ukraine coup, and the gigantic amount of funding, the US first, by backing out of Ukraine in every way, and by starting to repay Russia.
Cool
Misdirection, disinformation and just lies every time you reply, literally from a playbook of russian troll factory, just to spread confusion so that people wouldn't know what to believe. Trying to tire people with random links they would have to follow or just flood the forums with some already debunked conspiracies and lies.

So forgive me not taking your arguments seriously. If you knew any ukrainian people or even lived near by russian propaganda you might have some empathy that you could apply to this.

And your pseudo-intellectual "US propaganda" rants just shows the lack of education, which is something that's free in my country by the way.
legendary
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December 25, 2022, 04:56:23 PM
^^^ Gotta admit, good paint job.     Cool
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December 25, 2022, 02:26:08 PM

https://www.bitchute.com/video/mAxmHMeK72Kq/

'Beats walking' as we say in the states.

legendary
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December 25, 2022, 01:05:36 PM
^^^ Since the US is the cause of the war through the 2014 Ukraine coup, and the gigantic amount of funding, the US first, by backing out of Ukraine in every way, and by starting to repay Russia.

Cool
legendary
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December 25, 2022, 10:32:43 AM
This war is really affecting the civilians heavily. Sometimes these world leaders engage in power tussle at the detriment of their citizens. My advice is for the rest of the world's leaders outside Ukraine and Russia to try and make peace between the two rival countries.
That's easy, Russia has all the keys to do that, They just need to retreat back to Russia and pay for the war crimes they have committed. So, your move Russia! Oh not going to happen? You want invade Ukraine and maybe Finland next. Well that's not going to happen. This war is not going to have a happy end unless Putin dies and Russia gets democracy. But they never really had that do i guess we'll wait until russians overthrow their government again and see what happens next.
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December 25, 2022, 10:02:31 AM
I am surprised there haven't been any threads opened about this yet.

In recent months, Russia has massed hundreds of thousands of troops and other military equipment on the Russia-Ukraine border. It is well known that Russia wants Ukraine to be part of its county, however Russian dictator, President Putin, has claimed that the troop mass is part of a training exercise.

The US and NATO allies are sending military equipment to Ukraine to help repeal an attack, and there is some talk about possibly sending troops to the region.

Update 2/18/22:
It appears there may have been some kind of false flag operation in Dumbas, Ukraine, an area controlled by a separatist group, today, possibly involving an alleged bombing of the car belonging to the leader of the separatist group. It is possible this is part of some kind of false flag operation to create a pretext for an invasion.

President Biden today said he believes Putin has made the decision to invade and will start an invasion in the coming days.


Update 2/21/22:
It appears an invasion has begun


Update 2/23/22:
It appears there are some kind of bombings in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine

This war is really affecting the civilians heavily. Sometimes these world leaders engage in power tussle at the detriment of their citizens. My advice is for the rest of the world's leaders outside Ukraine and Russia to try and make peace between the two rival countries.
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December 25, 2022, 02:43:59 AM
Did you hear Putin fell down the stairs and pooped his pants?
Don't believe any rumors, it was Biden.

Could be both.

Could be the new normal
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legendary
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December 24, 2022, 07:06:41 PM
There are several sources and estimates between a drop of 4% and 1%, just google a bit if you need to. It is all right if you want to deny and all that, the economy does not care for it - in the end, people loose their employment, investment is reduced and everyone is worse off. Congrats on the "victory".

https://www.reuters.com/markets/russias-more-gradual-economic-contraction-extend-into-2023-2022-12-02/#:~:text=MOSCOW%2C%20Dec%202%20(Reuters),room%20to%20cut%20interest%20rates.

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MOSCOW, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Russia's economy is set to shrink by 2.5% next year, on top of a 3% contraction in 2022, a Reuters poll suggested on Friday, with stubbornly high inflation giving the central bank only limited room to cut interest rates.

Russia's economic landscape changed drastically after Moscow sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, triggering sweeping Western restrictions on its energy and financial sectors, including a partial freeze of Russian reserves, and leading scores of companies to exit the market.
I asked where did you get that for a country in the BRICS group anything less than growing the GDP by 5% is an absolute failure?

Two main reasons:

- Employment is linked to growth. Most countries only generate new employment when they grow above 2% or so. BRICS need more than that to generate opportunities for their young people, as usually population is also on the rise.
- Because investment is about risk versus benefit. A BRICS is by their own nature can only attract investment and financing by offering a great growth rate.

It is quite basic. BRICS often have "bad years" but very rarely have several consecutive "bad years", but anyway, if you think is going well out there... enjoy.

And the reason why things seem to be a bit of trouble for BRICS is, they are trying to bring world money back onto a value-trade standard, rather than the current world money system which is a fiat, debt-backed, Ponzi scheme.

Actually, all that Russia and BRICS have to do is hold out for a while longer. The big fiat Ponzi that rules the world, now, will collapse due to its own weight... its fakery.

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Another post of "when this happens" or "if this happens"... Managing countries and the lives of people is not based on your hypothesis about the apocalypses and your God intervening in the world, but in politics, hard facts and managing risks that are actually there and can actually be managed.

As I have said in previous posts, it is good that you are a patient person - patience is a virtue and one can spend a whole life wating for "holding a while longer", just until the current fiat system collapses all the sudden. Yes... I do advise you plenty of patience.

Now, how is that application for RF citizenship going BA?
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December 24, 2022, 06:38:08 PM
Do you think that American, European or Ukrainian media never lie, or do you have a special goal in life to expose lies only in the Russian media?
Never said that. But Wester and Ukrainian is ages behind Russian in making of fakes.

You were given a link to a completely official Ukrainian site, where they named the approximate number of bayraktars from 60 to 96. Everything else is guesswork. For some reason, you don't ask yourself that bayraktars have practically ceased to be talked about in the media. With a high degree of probability this means that they have all been destroyed (from 60 to 96), otherwise what's the point for the Armed Forces of Ukraine not to use them? In any case, only the General Staff of Ukraine knows the truth, how many bayraktars were in total and how many of them were lost. Shares such information, including on the HIMARS and aircrafts, during the hostilities no one will ever. Therefore, your conversations are at the level of faith. You also cannot refute the words of the Russian general Konashenkov, because you don't have the appropriate level of knowledge for this. What real evidence do you have that Konashenkov is lying, apart from your guesses?
Since when Defence-ua.com become official source? I always thought that offical source is Ministry of Defence of Ukraine or General Staff of the AFU, but not some news website which focus on military topics.

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For some reason, many in the West think that everything in this conflict is tied to Putin. Of course, I don't know the inner workings of the Kremlin, but judging by the Telegram posts of the former Russian President Medvedev (who 3 days ago met with the leader of China), Putin is generally a dove of peace against his background, and if such a repulsed hawk as Medvedev comes, then a total war can quickly flare up. If it seems to someone that Medvedev is nothing from a military point of view, then I hasten to remind you that in 2008 (08.08.08), under Medvedev, they dealt with the Georgian army in five days, which attacked the territory of South Ossetia.

https://talkimg.com/images/2023/09/10/meC7Z.png
Oh, alcochol additctive Dimon who is now playing role of clown Zhirinovsky who loves to make apocalyptic scenarios which never turn into reality. Is it really worth to pay attention to his words?

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Do they (Oryx) also always "tell the truth" like the American press? Let's see what they write about Oryx on Wikipedia:
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Oryx, or Oryxspioenkop is a Dutch open-source intelligence (OSINT) defence analysis website,
and warfare research group. It is run by Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans. Both have previously worked
for Netherlands-based Bellingcat. Oliemans also worked for Janes Information Services, a British
open-source military intelligence company.

^ One of Oryx worked with a British military intelligence company. Do you even know that the British military are among the most active supporters of Ukraine and are never a neutral side in this conflict? Also, the authors are former employees of Bellingcat. Now let's see what opinion other information resources have about this organization:
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[2016-10-22 17:53:09] Bellingcat is part funded by the UK MoD and is UKUSA aligned.
Source: archive of American investigative reporter Emma Best
So, where is the problem exactly? Do you have proofs about them publishing fakes or only problem that you found is personalities that runs website?
legendary
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December 24, 2022, 04:07:57 PM
Putin had sooo wanted peace. He had hoped that his February police action would quell the US takeover of Ukraine. But things didn't work out the way he had hoped. So, finally, he is realizing that he has to get serious.


Putin now making preparations to finish Ukraine and take on NATO with massive military buildup that includes nuclear-capable hypersonic nuclear missiles


The Russian generals who planned the invasion of Ukraine likely told President Vladimir Putin the operation would be relatively painless and very easy. Meaning, there wouldn’t be many casualties and that Russian forces would quickly reach their objectives.

Ten months later, it’s become quite obvious how utterly wrong those generals were. Not only has Russia failed to reach most objectives, but Ukrainian forces have proven to be much tougher than estimated and, with an influx of Western weapons — primarily from the United States — Russian forces are reeling and have been pushed out of areas they initially captured.

But Moscow’s military misfortunes may be about to change, and soon: As winter sets in and the ground in Ukraine becomes hard and frozen, it looks as though Putin is priming his military for a major offensive that reportedly will include two of NATO’s newest members, Finland and Sweden.

The UK’s Daily Mail reported:

Vladimir Putin has dramatically escalated the Ukraine war again by raising his nuclear combat readiness and bolstering his troops by 350,000 to turn the tide on his failing campaign, raising fears of a global conflict.

The war-mongering despot warned the Kremlin will invest whatever necessary to increase its nuclear arsenal and vowed his much-hyped Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles will be available to his forces within weeks.

New military units will be formed on Russia’s western borders to terrorize and scold Finland and Sweden for seeking to join NATO in the face of Kremlin aggression.


The major buildup of forces means that the war will be escalating as well, both of which should send pause through the ranks of Western civilian and military leaders after weeks of decent gains by Ukrainian forces and a visit to the United States by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to plead for more weapons. The specter of a nuclear conflict has now been raised dramatically as well, given that the Zircon missiles are capable of intercontinental travel and can be tipped with nuclear warheads. Oh, and no missile defenses in American or Western arsenals can stop them, either.

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