I think the case that got everyone's attention was a POW, I actually think that hiding a body bag would've been easier.
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A day after Putin said conscripts would never be used.
It's surprising that they've even admitted this. I wonder if it's a subtle hint from their Defence Ministry that they're not happy with Putin's plan
Wonder if the UA can make use of what's abandoned.
This whole affair is really sad and appalling and it seems that despite the terrible military organisation or lack thereof from Russia, It's apparent that Putin has Nato at Checkmate and unless something drastic changes, Putin will get a lot of what he wants.
What is crazy though, is that any country with Nukes will now see that they could potentially take over other countries and just threat Nukes to pretty much get away with it.
Russia have proven loss of life or quality for its citizens matter very little.
What is crazy though, is that any country with Nukes will now see that they could potentially take over other countries and just threat Nukes to pretty much get away with it.
Russia have proven loss of life or quality for its citizens matter very little.
This isn't how I'd describe the situation at all. Russia's economy is going to collapse. This is turning out to be a terrible move by Putin.
Only the kind of "checkmate" that you didn't think of the opponent taking en passant.
I have been hearing this kind of stuff in bold since yesterday. I hope everyone remembers how supplying weapons was far more direct and quite damaging to either US or the USSR during the Cold War. Smuggling Stinger missile launchers from Pakistan into Afghanistan when that tech was brand new looked like more of a provocation than now providing jets over 30 years old to Ukraine. Also, need I say about the Viet-Cong receiving state of the art SAMs to decimate the US Air Force during the Vietnam War?
And if NATO keep on arming Ukraine with drones, which are offensive weapons to an extent, why would that be less of an issue anyway?
17,000 in the last few days. Another indication Putin is fecked and will have to negotiate at some point.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/us/politics/us-ukraine-weapons.html
At this point, we may aswell send fighter jets from the west, he’ll only make it up anyway that we did if we don’t.
Then we can reverse Lie and say there Russian jets with British and American stickers made by the Chinese.
Then we can reverse Lie and say there Russian jets with British and American stickers made by the Chinese.
Any short range ballistic missiles that NATO can ship to UA? They really need to take out those artillery positions. Or it's all cruise and that requires completely different infra.
The bolded part is a key point, they were in an open warring context. And because they couldn't settle it directly did it through proxy wars, I don't think that we are currently in that context and if the US aren't careful that's what could happen and what I assume they want to avoid. In fact it could be something that Putin seeks?
I agree, the west won't go into either of those places. But unlike when Putin went into Georgia and there were no sanctions, if he does it again, now, I expect the West will actually react this time.
It was clearly a huge mistake not to react to the invasion of Georgia in 2008. Putin has followed the exact same plan in Ukraine.
A day after Putin said conscripts would never be used.
As poorly as they're performing, you'd figure they'd not want folks to think this is an all-professional force invading Ukraine.
Ehhhh... more like Poland's, but sure.Fair enough. So the ball is in the US court...
But the number of combat troops is what, a third of 190K? 3/5s? The use of 190K is a bit misleading.
Not included in the tweet - Russian troops are disorganized, logistically inept, in poor morale, and lacking in coherent C2 to make significant progress against an increasingly well armed Ukrainian military and popular resistance.
At this point, I am more worried about the Russian, willfully or not, sabotaging one of the nuclear power plants.
Basically, yes - they are buying rubles with foreign currency to try to set a floor for the exchange rate. Two points on which I am not clear is how much of their foreign currency reserves is still accessible ( as opposed to frozen overseas) and how they actually settle USD transactions through a US correspondence bank given the Russian Central Bank is sanctioned.
They also had a classical music concert in Maidan Nezalezhnosti today:
Russian inflation rises by 2.2% in just 1 week up til March 4th.
"Since the military offensive began late in February, prices for new domestic cars soared over 17% and the cost of television sets jumped 15%. Some medicines and vegetables became 5% to 7% more expensive in the seven days ending March 4. ... Retailers have already started restricting purchases of “socially important” food staples in recent days "
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-for-russia-as-inflation-rips-through-economy
"Since the military offensive began late in February, prices for new domestic cars soared over 17% and the cost of television sets jumped 15%. Some medicines and vegetables became 5% to 7% more expensive in the seven days ending March 4. ... Retailers have already started restricting purchases of “socially important” food staples in recent days "
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-for-russia-as-inflation-rips-through-economy
UK visa situation gets worse. Centre in Rzeszow is seemingly unable to finalise many (or all?) visa applications, so after fleeing from Ukraine, taking hours or days to cross the border, and proceeding to the closest UK visa centre in Rzeszow where you have an interminable wait to be seen, people are now being sent to Warsaw for a second appointment. Can you imagine?
Its called 'sabre-rattling'... unless of course they were going to use 'stealth-jets'!
I think Putin is using "The Madman theory".
"Nixon Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman once wrote that Nixon had confided to him, “I call it the madman theory, Bob. I want the North Vietnamese to believe I’ve reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war. We’ll just slip the word to them that, “for God’s sake, you know Nixon is obsessed about communism. We can’t restrain him when he’s angry—and he has his hand on the nuclear button, and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
"Nixon Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman once wrote that Nixon had confided to him, “I call it the madman theory, Bob. I want the North Vietnamese to believe I’ve reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war. We’ll just slip the word to them that, “for God’s sake, you know Nixon is obsessed about communism. We can’t restrain him when he’s angry—and he has his hand on the nuclear button, and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
Just in Mariupol
I think so too. And if we let Putin get away with murder because he is holding the nuke threat over our heads, he will just continue doing what he wants. The world needs to call his bluff.
The Terrorussian army.
Looks like Ukraine will be land locked in the next few days. Have to hope diplomacy produces something before they then begin their encirclement of Kyiv, what we're seeing now is going to be nothing in comparison.
The Russians don't even have control of a single major Ukrainian city at this point. If they think they can bumble their way into controlling the entire country, they may want to reassess, especially given the looming economic Armageddon inside Russia.
People keeping saying Putin might escalate and start using Aleppo/Grozny tactics in Ukraine...
He's doing it, he is already doing it and has been doing it for some time.
He is talking about segregation by nationality, not race, to reduce tensions when people are attempting to flee the country and be processed at the border.
Not sure why that journalist has decided to spin in that way. But that keeps happening for two weeks now anyway.