War in Ukraine

Russia has had to bring in North Koreans to fill jobs left vacant by conscription drives, and Russia is working them like slave labor. North Koreans are allowed the luxury of being able to sleep 3-4 hours a night between 19-hour shifts, seven days a week.

North Koreans tell BBC they are sent to work 'like slaves' in Russia

 

Mercilessly …

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Russia continues to commit Geneva Convention violations. This time, they are inserting Russian troops wearing civilian clothing into Pokrovsk to kill Ukrainian troops and spread disinformation.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-n...ers-disguised-civilian-clothing-infiltrating/

 

If true, only a matter of time until Ukraine catches one and puts him on display. I seem to remember many denials about North Korea needing to come to Russia’s aid until the revelation of prisoners just made the denials comedic.

 

If Russia will pass off their dead soldiers as Ukrainians in casualty swaps, what's to stop them from denying that these prisoners are Russian?

 

An article says that Trump and Zelenskyy are holding all the cards, if Trump, formerly the dumbest student to ever buy his way through the Wharton School of Finance, figures this out. Russia's economy is slowly caving in on itself. Russia is becoming more desperate by the day.

https://thehill.com/opinion/interna...o-peace-in-ukraine-with-putin-still-in-power/

 

Ukraine getting defense equipment (mostly air defense hardware) from the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Since the war started, Germany has delivered or pledged $47 billion worth of military support, much more than Donald Trump's America seems to have delivered.

https://apnews.com/article/germany-...ry-equipment-ecf467b892843343863727651e2982ca

 

The U.S. has more than 10X as much GDP as Germany, but only gives less than 4X as much aid to Ukraine. I would think we could do better, if we had a capable president.

 

The war ended as I predicted it would end from day 1.

The center of Deep State power in Congress is the Senate. Trump and Putin want a deal before the Senate is back in session. That's why this deal is happening at warp speed.

Lady Lindsey Graham is quiet because he faces a serious challenger, Paul Dans. If the election was held today Dans would beat childless, churchless warmonger Lindsey Graham.

Trump making a deal with Putin had to happen after the Russiagate hoax was debunked by Tulsi Gabbard.

RKG Jr was recently in Alaska. Do you know why?

 

Well, nothing. But very few people still believe Russian denials. Even fewer will after that.

 

Curious how much of that was equipment sitting in warehouses. Equipment that wasn’t going to be used again.

Only 20 billion of the 175 in 2025.

 

Wait a minute, I thought it was the Russians who were employing meat waves ?

Soldiers interviewed by the outlet described large-scale meatgrinder type tactics of blindly being sent on suicidal frontal assaults while being denied permission to withdraw from dangerous positions.

'Mired In Soviet Decision-Making': Report Pins Immense Losses On Zelensky's Firing Of Gen. Zaluzhny | ZeroHedge

 

Seems about right. Outside this thread I never hear disparaging remarks about Russia in my day to day conversations …

 

We all know Russians don’t have toilets. But evidently, Estonians don’t have barbers …

 

Another question: how much military aid has Trump sent to Ukraine, not including the last spending outlay authorized by Biden? Is it "not much" or "nothing"? I suspect that almost all of the military aid has Biden's name on it. Trump seems like he wants to side with Russia in this fight.

 

An interesting side effect of the drone wars: Russia has had to cut off internet access to areas of the country near the fighting to minimize the impact of drone operations, and this has caused Russians to start taking cash out of the banks for transactions. Credit cards do not work without internet access. Cash in circulation is rising by $2.5 billion per month. I wonder what happens when the banks run out of cash?

Also related to this is that Russia is developing a "sovereign internet" that will not be connected to the rest of the world. This should help keep pesky rumors from getting through to innocent Russian citizens.

Russia has been cutting the internet to stop drones — and it's driving a cash comeback

 

Only a matter of time when a portable EMP weapon is deployed against drones and low flying missiles.

 

Sure, but then the next move will be to harden drones and missiles against EMP. Reminds me of a time when a friend was being a smart ass and asked me when exactly “siege equipment” was invented. Being a smartass right back, I answered, “Shortly after the wall.”

 

Great answer lol