Then I'd suggest you wake up and smell the coffee, China supports Russia. Authoritarian leaders around the world - in Brazil, North Korea, Cuba, Byelorussia, Syria and elsewhere - support Russia.
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One of those retired generals that tweet had a thread about Russia’s strategical options and this is the pincer move he described. He said it would be very difficult with Russia’s logistical problems but they may try it.
Nice reference to a good movie. I hope there will be more of those along the way.
Something has to be done quickly to support those 30,000 Ukrainian troops. With that kind of open terrain, they will definitely need such heavy weapons.
High treason in a time of war… that won’t go well for them.
Take a page outta the old WWII playbook and hit the pincers in the flank as their logistics train becomes extended. Suddenly the hunter becomes the hunted.
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In a normal war I'd totally agree with you. But we're talking about soldiers who've been sent under orders to commit a genocide. Ethically you have to balance the possibility of any Russian soldier going back to Russia after a peace deal and then coming back in 2 years time to further the genocide.
Excellent news.
There was that really interesting tweet thread a while ago that showed they don't have the demographics anymore to just throw thousands of men to pointless deaths. The kind of generations of cannon fodder they had through the centuries don't exist now.
His words have a slightly different connotation — he's not talking about creating a new unified state or something like that. But he's talking about a scenario where the entire Eurasia is a relatively homogenous space, obviously, even though he doesn't say it out loud in this case, united by the same (Russian) cultural & political values. Basically expanding the infamous Pax Rossica.
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Maybe but have you seen his daughter?
Nope, does she look more like Uncle Paul?
I hope so since current Russian casualties are already a colossal demographic disaster in itself. But the fact that Putin raised the age for volunteering military service to males up to 60 years of age is quite worrying as to how far his ego is driving him. What would be next after mobilizing old men? Women? Teenagers? I swear I don't even want to imagine that, but the possibility exists with that man in charge and the propaganda machine still on overdrive.
Gross.
Please redirect this aspect to the war crimes thread
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You would think at some point the Russian military would realize that their limited supply of precision weapons would be better spent on the Ukrainian Army, considering that’s who is currently kicking their asses back into Russia, but with the way they’ve conducted this whole invasion you’d also immediately think that maybe the Russians just don’t know what the hell they’re doing.
That begs the still-unanswered question as to who is commanding in that madhouse. A proper competent general in charge would not allow any waste of valuable weaponry on civilians instead of the real opposition.
Either their weapons can't target, or they have no good intel on the Ukrainian Army, or they just want to try a terror campaign (besides the sheer immorality, never works). In any case they're incompetent criminal fecks. I hope NATO steps up assistance in terms of arms, intelligence and anything else that can be done to smash them in the east.
Edit: feck it
There's a US bill about to pass congress that offers lend lease to Ukraine until this conflict ends.
Quite right. From reports a week or so ago, it was clear that there is no theatre level military commander coordinating the whole invasion. Seems the whole thing is being conducted ad hoc based on whims of local commanders and whoever shouts loudest in Moscow.
Agreed. I’m torn between believing that they know they’re going to lose and are therefore spitefully causing as much damage as possible or they believe their own bullshit and think this is actually an effective war strategy.
I can take a guess who's commanding the whole show, roleplaying a certain gent that declared himself head of Stavka in July 1941. Haven't dictators always thought they know best about all things?
Are you thinking of one by Kamil Galeev, I think his name was? He's done a number of quite interesting ones with a slightly different slant.
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I read the same piece. The retired US general seemed to think that the Ukrainians would badly struggle in the wide open terrain in this part of the country, unless they could be kitted-out with heavy armour (Soviet era tanks) asap. It's a very different battle to the one they have been successfully fighting in urban and semi-urban areas elsewhere in the country, and one where the Russian armour and artillery will be far more effective.
