I assume there are a number of NATO AWACS operating in Poland and Romania and I wouldn't be surprised if they send real time info to the Ukrainians. If the Ukranians still have a lot of anti aircraft missiles...
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I assume there are a number of NATO AWACS operating in Poland and Romania and I wouldn't be surprised if they send real time info to the Ukrainians. If the Ukranians still have a lot of anti aircraft missiles...
What the actual feck are you on about?
Who the feck knows.
That's right you damned colonial, know your place and make me a cup of tea. Then shine my monocle.
*Please don't make the tea with sea water like last time.
If one could be a fly on the wall in Putin's office...
He’d freak out being the germaphobe he is.
Don't worry my friend,I won´t correct you, your theories are perfectly valid. I am certainly not an expert and am basing myself on bits of information here and there.
A few days ago I also thought about some kind of counterattack (when the mega convoy was getting closer). Looking at the map, I assumed that they would try to put pressure on Vinnytsia, Kirovograd, Cherkassy to prevent them from locking up Kiev, but seeing the bombing in Irpin, those supposed troops may be focusing on defending the west of Kiev.
Perhaps right now they prefer to be entrenched and maintain organization and calm than to go out into the "open field". Using a football simile, like the team that plays with the lines close together without leaving gaps instead of venturing and leaving spaces
I don't know if the Crimea thing would be dangerous and perhaps it could be used by Putin to justify bombings as well as to sell the propaganda that the Russians are being massacred.
What’s the suspected number of Russian military casualties?
Russia might see themselves like that, but I doubt southern or western Slavs see them like that. After this, maybe just Serbians and possibly Bulgarians?
He is? I know Trump is but never heard of any suggestion Putin is.
Yeah it's mostly one way traffic.
You can be sure this will be very effective when the prevailing idea prior to the start of this 'military exercise' was quite pro-Putin to start with. He had laid the propaganda groundwork much earlier -- It's a 'moral crusade' to rid the Ukrainians of the evil powers in Kyiv and to stop the genocide of their Russian brethren in the Eastern borders regions.
So it's easy to rationalise those laws: 'the Russian govt is just passing those laws to combat and protect against American efforts to spread fake news within the Russian society.'
Simple rule for dictators: If fails, always use a foreign entity and in this case their best enemy the US or the Brits (for colonial countries)
One (Putin) hand will claim to 'protect' the Russian people and the other hand to 'combat' against foreign aggression. He will look like a hero.
May have conflated the two!
How will Russians pay for VPNs next month with currency/payment restrictions?
I’m almost of the opinion zalensky needs to get out. His job supporting is done for now on the ground. They need him to live.
This man is heading towards a Churchill like status in world history… a legacy Putin could only dream of.
This man is heading towards a Churchill like status in world history… a legacy Putin could only dream of.
Bulgarians aren't completely Slav though, are they?
This might be what the Ukrainians have to do to buy time --- employ an insurgency tactic to over-stretch the Russian forces so thin that it becomes easier to pick them off bit by bit. Then it becomes a political issue for the Russians with increasing bodybags returning back to Moscow.
cheers mate
Don't worry my friend,I won´t correct you, your theories are perfectly valid. I am certainly not an expert and am basing myself on bits of information here and there.
A few days ago I also thought about some kind of counterattack (when the mega convoy was getting closer). Looking at the map, I assumed that they would try to put pressure on Vinnytsia, Kirovograd, Cherkassy to prevent them from locking up Kiev, but seeing the bombing in Irpin, those supposed troops may be focusing on defending the west of Kiev.
Perhaps right now they prefer to be entrenched and maintain organization and calm than to go out into the "open field". Using a football simile, like the team that plays with the lines close together without leaving gaps instead of venturing and leaving spaces
I don't know if the Crimea thing would be dangerous and perhaps it could be used by Putin to justify bombings as well as to sell the propaganda that the Russians are being massacred.
Crimea is tricky, but in best case scenario I see Russia falling apart much like Germany in WW1. I wouldn't be surprised (although it's a longshot) that at that point the things are so grim that Ukrainians would just have to drive in to places to conquer them. If Crimeans wouldn't mind it strongly (perhaps they'd rather be in Ukraine at that point). It's a really really longshot. But I can see the scenario.
As you've said, I do think that Ukranians are digging up and entrenching their position. Right now, Russia is still the favourite. So absorbing the initial pressure in the first 15 minutes and then looking to counter is a sensible strategy. We'll see as the days go by how it will go with sieges of Mariupol and Kharkiv (and Kyev of course). I think that really is the key.
Going to dinner and some nutter on the metro is talking on loudspeaker about Europe lying a
Nowadays, we have social media and as much as people are saying this has been seen in other wars, the scale here is completely different. It's so public and visible.
It's peak irony that Russia has been employing disgusting social media propaganda (and still does) but is now getting schooled at their own game by their smaller neighbouring country. You'd have expected the US to take on and beat Russia at this but no, it's Ukraine.
Ukrainian armed forces drop the sickest beats of 2022
When social media and war collide.
Is it really all that surprising though? If my history doesn't fail me, one of the first instances where television/radio were used widely with the general public was for WWI propaganda.
Nowadays, we have social media and as much as people are saying this has been seen in other wars, the scale here is completely different. It's so public and visible.
It's peak irony that Russia has been employing disgusting social media propaganda (and still does) but is now getting schooled at their own game by their smaller neighbouring country. You'd have expected the US to take on and beat Russia at this but no, it's Ukraine.
No. But Putin has an annoyingly large following nevertheless. Hopefully that changes.
They'll have Russia in the dictionary definition of cancel culture at this point. Boy, oh, boy.
Coca Cola refusing to join in with the rest of the world is sad. Hopefully they come to their senses if the backlash of that decision is huge. Another reason to get Cristiano to proclaim drink water instead.
Canceling an entire country. Scary to think about.
I do worry that this will only just make Russia that much more reliant on China.
Pepsi is a better company due to Mountain Dew alone.
I believe McDonalds haven't either (as of yesterday)
Well they invented Fanta for the Nazis, so no shock here.
Given how badly the US coalition beat Wagners' forces in Syria, I can understand why Western volunteers would worry Russia.
reverse iron curtain?
I have many many Serbian friends an ex colleagues. They want this to end ASAP. They don't want NATO or anyone to get involved, they have seen the backlash in their own country.
Russians might also see breathing as stealing oxygen from their troops and therefore intervention. Who is really the paranoid side if you're constantly worrying about nuclear consequences, even when you're talking about doing things on your own soil? If everyone was thinking like that there wouldn't be any help for Ukraine at all.
You can only cry nuke so many times. At some point people would stop caring and gerrowithit.
North Korea just fired another missile according to South Korea
You really do learn something new everyday here
Yep.