A very good sumery of the current tactical situation and the problems and opportunities of the upcoming counter offensive.
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Those are the same old things that have a lot of people talking about them, including people in this thread for months. It will only matter when or if UA starts their counter and if they can do any of it.
The Northen offensive, which is one of the tactical goals in that post, has been there for months, and it has not progressed, if not regressed a bit. The concept that the UA is holding a lot of RA troops at Bakhmut to open up other fronts falls flat with it. If anything, RA is progressing in other areas, bit by bit.
Ukraine is waiting for more troops to finish their training and more equipment to arrive. Somewhere between 30000 and 40000 Ukrainians will finish or have finished their training outside of Ukraine in the last months. Once they are back in Ukraine and the promised equipment for them are in place the Ukrainian commanders can decide on where to focus their attacks but not before. The last six moths have all been about buying time for this while attritioning and wearing down the Russians as much as possible.
He is saying exactly that since he entered office, and I think the key point is: That clear stance made him the currently most popular politician in Germany.
And another detail about the restructuring of the Bundeswehr administration that could be interesting in regard to Ukraine: The new head of the planning and command staff in the ministry is brigadier general Christian Freuding - so far head of the Bundeswehr's Ukraine task force.
If it is true is a very stupid comment. Now the ukranians knows that they cant surrender in any circumstances on the battlefield
making war crimes official policy?
It's strange concept for him, he's used to the similar system of governing as in Russia. Serbian president is de facto a mini Putin.
Knowing that Wagner scum are torturers and rapists, its probably better to die on the spot anyways than slowly and painfully in some dark cellar. Wagner never cared for prisoner exchanges. They kill their own freed men with sledgehammers for surrendering.
It has been for a long time now. As soon as the third day in Kiev plan failed, they started with war crimes.
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There’s nothing official about them anyway. Joining private military is still a criminal offense in Russia, believe it or not.
The K-2 battalion released part 2 of the attack on the "Cyclops" position. After they destroyed the Russian reinforcements in part 1, they attacked the position itself now. First with shells and drones, then with infantry. Absolutely perfect playbook execution from start to finish.
I'm pretty sure they will train many armies after the war in how to use drones. It's the first big war, where drones are being used together with traditional means and they are a pretty efficient tool to spot enemy positions or correct artillery, to drop grenades or to fly in as a suicide drone. Trenches were never as volnurable as today.
I'm pretty sure they will train many armies after the war in how to use drones. It's the first big war, where drones are being used together with traditional means and they are a pretty efficient tool to spot enemy positions or correct artillery, to drop grenades or to fly in as a suicide drone. Trenches were never as volnurable as today.
I live in a great American democracy for past 20 or so years mate. As long as you avoid random shooting, opioids and violent homeless people or violent cops it is a very decent place. Once every 4 years I get to vote in a rigged and party staged primaries and then I get a choose between demented old man who failed to raise his own son the right way or a narcissistic megalomaniac who failed to raise all of his children properly and who Christians here love while the guy is a serial cheater and had few failed marriages. Place where corrupting politicians is called "lobbying".
Forgiving me for not believing that America is defending democracies around the World and not opening avenues for the flow of private capital.
Why don't I leave? Well paycheck is arriving every two weeks on time. It is the best perk of living here. There is even money left for scotch to drown a sorrow for funding American bases all around the World with the taxes I pay!
America certainly isnt what its hyped up to be but a lot people are certainly happy that you are the worlds hegemon and not China or Russia
Yeah. But you vote. And president can be a president for 2 mandates most. Unlike Russia. Among ton of other things.
However bad USA is (and it is bad) thousands of people still emigrate there or would love to go and live there.
Unlike Russia.
Russia isnt exactly a fighter for the better world and against American devils some like them to portray. And even if Ukrainian elections were rigged does that give the right to Putin to attack Ukraine?
Excuse me for the mistake of thinking you live in Serbia, your location says so.
I always tell a story about a friend who's all pro Russian and about how it's US fault Russia attacked Ukraine (plus theories how UA army keeps AA guns in residential buildings so thats why residential parts of towns are getting bombarded and its UA fault Mariupol got razed to the ground cause they didnt evacuate the people) to the point I'm avoiding talking to him by any means possible. He's also of course strongly anti American and thinks it's all US fault for everything.
Guess where he went for a honeymoon?
I'll give you a clue. It's not Russia.
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America is one of the worst democracies there is but it is still lightyears better than living in Russia. If America is an overpriced one room apartment, Russia is an improvised tent somewhere under a bridge. Both not particularly comfortable but I know which one I would pick. And you seemingly do as well since you're not living in Russia.
You actually don't need to live in the US but do anyway, all the while yearning for totalitarian Russian values ? How strange.
I don´t know the posters life story, but just packing up and leaving is generally not as easy as its made out to be.
I ain't offended, I am Serbian immigrant living in USA. I don't think Putin is good at all or that invasion is justified by any means. I do disagree that is "unprovoked", and I do think that USA could have done a lot more or actually a lot less to prevent this. Off course Russians are diplomatically retarded as if they weren't, most of this sh1t would have been prevented prior to 2014.
Anyhow, I hope for peace fast. I'm seeing some promising hints that the peace might be coming. On another hand this might be very long crisis (decades), hopefully with minimal violence.
I am not yearning for Russian values. Just advocating that USA is not force for good in this World. Better than Russia? For sure for some nations, not for everybody.
Often a lot easier when you're not from that country in the first place of course.
Imagine after so many decades and sitting on worlds richest resource fields , still not able to produce a fecking decent ball bearing
For me its basic, one country attacked the other, occupied a third of its territory, bombing their cities and towns, taking population by force, destroying their economy for years to come.
Of course we can talk about what led to this and how it happened but basically it's Russian agression against Ukraine. No buts and ifs about that fact.
As for peace its kind of status quo now, everybody is expecting an UA offensive, hopefully that or some other things will lead to the peace soon although at the moment I'm not seeing it tbh.
Majority of those people simply don't want to leave because even though they like to shit on the west and the democracy in general, deep inside they very well know that the alternative is so much worse. It is a pretty common phenomenon, I think it has to do with not matched expectations because before emigrating, a lot of people assume that it will all be rosy which never is the case. They get disappointed that a life over there is not as it was painted in the Hollywood movies.
Ffs
Peace simply cannot exist for any country bordering Russia/Belarus. You can sign whatever "agreement" but it means nothing more than simply giving Russia time to recover and prepare for wars in the future. It actually is quite sad that Europe has allowed to be fooled (or bought) by Russia for so long and some countries saw them as our allies, which was always obvious that they never were.
It´s not really a hard choice if you are from Serbia.
Its certainly harder than logging on to the web to promote Vladimir Putin's narrative about Ukraine, I'll give you that.
I think for instance here in Denmark, people from the middle east and Africa can very easily feel stigmatized and they can be absolutely correct in their critique of the Danish immigration policies and certain xenophobic and some pretty blatant racist parts of the population, but the welfare system, political stability and career oppourtunities still mean they can have a more comfortable life here than in their native country. They dont need to pack their bags while pointing out the flaws. But I get what you mean at the end of the day.
Does it pay well?
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It is to be fair. You don't need USA levels of salary to live a good life.
And of course even if their life in their home country was so appalling, there are lots of non USA countries they could (and can) choose to live and work in, where they can make much more money than they can in Serbia. Some of them even non-western if the issue is with the West as a whole, rather than the USA.
Migrants who actively make the decision to go to a Western country (ie not 2nd generation migrants who have no choice where they were born) and seemingly despise that country make me laugh.
I completely get that, pointing out the flaws is fine. But we have a lot of people who are not really pointing out the flaws but rather are actively pushing whatever it is their native country leaders are promoting, social media is full of them. A lot of them do it while they live comfortably in the western countries. Like he says he doesn't believe the war in Ukraine was unprovoked which we all know it was, the only "provocation" is that Ukraine wanted to move closer towards the west and Russia obviously doesn't like that. The sole fact that so many countries are literally begging/begged to be accepted into NATO/EU should tell you something about our neighbour, not a single country was forced to join which is a complete opposite of the tactics Russia use. But whoever is just parroting information coming from Russia always tries to prove that Russia were backed into the corner by the west.
Just type "Maidan and Azov" in unfiltered search engines like Duck Duck Go and give it a go. Lots of good reads by independent western journalists - better known as Russian propagandists for those who disagree with them.