War in Ukraine

The real question we need to be focusing on is how long can Russia continue to keep losing the number of troops they are and still expect their young men to keep signing up going into year four of this conflict. They are close to almost 1 million causalities either KIA or WIA and you cannot hide that fact from the populace back in Russia. There is a book called the Black Tulip about the Soviet's war in Afghanistan that is likely going to be very relevant very soon.

 

I'm not an 0302, dude. But keep guessing.

 

Senior grunt then ? No matter. It’s like asking a fish what it’s like in the ocean.

 

Forget about the speculation portion of this, the headline, if true, signals some major problems there.

 

Thank you for continuing to show your complete ignorance. Keeps putting a smile on my face and make others here laugh.

 

Looks like Ukraine's special forces conducted a raid behind enemy lines and managed to kill 330 troops. Quite an impressive feat, even if it turns out to be only 330 casualties instead of deaths. In addition to the chaos and killing, the mission also managed to disrupt food and ammunition logistics for Russia.

Russia's milbloggers are also reporting that a large number of Russian troops are trapped, surrounded on three sides by water and Ukrainian troops on the fourth.

Ukrainian raid behind enemy lines kills 330 Russian troops

 

Since we are talking about subs, it has been about a year since this happened:

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/b...oyed-russian-navy-kilo-class-submarine-212238

 

oragator did this a lot back during the election. Styling a lot of propaganda as “insider info.”

 

Proper way to fight a war instead of just targeting civilians.

 

Absolutely a terrible idea. Ukraine's ability to fire into Russia is one of the biggest advantages that they have right now. And something they fought hard to get approval to use US munitions for.

 

And it's not like you can trust Russia anyway. They violated just about every agreement they made during this war.

 

Russia has a little financial problem. Apparently, the sanctions are working pretty well, and as the global economy heads towards recession, it means that less oil is needed this year versus last year. Russian oil income in July is down 27% vs July of last year. Europe also has a new way of capping Russian oil prices to make sure that Russia loses money on every barrel of oil they export. Russia's budget deficit in the first half of the year was $46 billion, and things are only expected to get worse from here.

The key pillar of Russia's war chest is cracking. The timing couldn't be worse.

 

Why Trump sanctions will work and Biden’s flopped:

Trump raises India tariffs to 50% over Russian oil purchases

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will raise tariffs on imports from India to 50 percent, targeting one of the United States’ largest trading partners over its purchases of Russian oil.

Imports from India were set to face a 25 percent duty starting after midnight Thursday as part of the White House’s sweeping attempt to overhaul the international trade order. The additional 25 percent tax will begin in three weeks, according to an executive order Trump issued Wednesday, which accused India of “directly or indirectly importing Russian Federation oil.” The order said the tariff was a response to Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine.

 

We have been hearing Russia is going bankrupt and cant fight this war for almost 4 years now from the lefty slanted fake news media. Its nonsense and even if Trump ups the sanctions it wont change anything if there is no agreement that makes it clear Donbass area wont be controlled by Ukraine and that there will be no NATO troops in Ukraine officially. The best thing for all parties is for Ukraine to agree to a deal that has both sides stop fighting. The globalist gamble in Ukraine has failed. They provoked Russia and things didn't turn out like they hoped.

 

It is truly rare that anyone gets so much wrong in a 5-sentence post. I salute you, Mr. Wrong-Way Fever!

Russia's impending bankruptcy has only been newsworthy for the last year or two. It has not been going on the entire war. It's not the "lefty slanted fake news media" that is reporting this--it is the well-informed intelligent media reporting it, and they are reporting it because it is true. Russia's own finance minister has confirmed it. You don't seem to know much about warfare and money's role in conducting a war. Soldiers do not want to risk their lives for nothing. The best thing for all parties is for Ukraine to receive as much foreign aid as possible and kick Russia's ass back to Russia. It won't help Putin, but that's nothing that a little visit to the Hague won't cure. Even Russia would benefit, as the West would (hopefully) re-build it in its own image, but without the weapons factories and massive military that it does not need, especially after swearing off invasions of its neighbors. The West did not make any globalist gamble in Ukraine--Russia did. Putin gambled that he could reinstate the Soviet/imperialist dynasty without too much trouble. He was wrong. Ukraine did nothing to provoke Russia--you are deluding yourself. Things have turned out better than Ukraine probably could have hoped after the first week of the war. They pushed Russia's army away from Kiev, and they have mostly been defeating the Russian military ever since, slowly giving up land in exchange for dead Russian troops. Russia has had over a million casualties from this war, and the number goes up every day that they are still in it.

 

This is what I meant when I said you should try some other sources of info the other day.

 

You do know Russia never intended to go into Kiev I hope and its actual objective was taking that Donbass area that we had Western Ukraine shelling the people there.

Literally comedy gold below in early 2022 and then in late 2024 about bringing Russia to its knees but expected out of the Biden administration. The same admin that had people saying the war could mostly be won by social media posts and crazy mess like that.

10/27/24 - "In 2022, the architect of the sanctions, Daleep Singh, predicted they would bring Russia's economy to its knees. But Russia's economy is predicted to grow over 3% this year, according to the International Monetary Fund – that's more than the U.S. and Europe."

Economic shock and awe: The strategy behind the economic sanctions against Russia

How Russia's economy grows despite thousands of Ukraine war sanctions

 

Reminds me of Andrew Dice Clay bit about the Japanese: "...where are all these Japanese coming from? Didn't we drop a couple of bombs on those guys a few years ago? What was in those things... [expletive deleted] fertilizer?!?!?"