If they strap a bomb to me and I explode I'll be totally fine, right?
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I don't agree with this thread, Putin at this stage of his life can't be negotiated with, only deterred. There will always be some idiot in Washington to come in with a new naive viewpoint. Putin himself has to create an off-ramp that he can live with, he won't listen to anyone in the West.
I don't know. The Ukrainian people have made it pretty clear they don't want to be conquered. They appear completely unified and their determination can only have grown as the atrocities of the Russian armed forces have gotten worse. You may be right, but I don't see it going down that easily for Putin.
The sneakiest sneak who ever sneaked
Ah I wouldn't have put a pin on me being an idiot if I was being sneaky, I just didn't want my stupidity confusing anyone but me.
fecking hell, that's genius but also bloody horrific.
Yep, street scenes look like an apocalypse and corpses are everywhere. The Russians won’t open a corridor there.
The intel suggests Russia is struggling to even hold their ground around Kharkiv and Kyiv. I don’t see that playing out.
Where are a few people getting the idea from that Ukraine has put up the resistance it has so far, and the West has implemented the sanctions it has, only for the Ukrainians to suddenly get cold feet and decide that a bit of Putin dictatorship would be the better part of valour? Maidan lasted longer than this, over three months, and that was entirely on the civilians. Russia will have to level major cities before people surrender.
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The Russians don't have months, let alone years. In 3 - 4 weeks from now their cumulative casualties - killed, wounded, desertions, surrendered, captured - will be reaching catastrophic levels.
Fair enoughSo are we the Nazis now? I lose track.Denying people McDonalds and other consumerist tat is obviously more heinous than starving and freezing civilian populations to death.
We will look back and wonder how RT was allowed to be broadcast in the West until a week ago.
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I wonder what can be interpreted from this. Mass desertions and resignations within the FSB?
An internal fear of the war (and with it Crimea) being lost?
I'm a bit hesitant to just accept that she really confirmed it to be mostly FSB people. But if that were true, then I don't think it's, because they get a great price in the middle of a war, so probably, because they see a real risk that Russia will have to let go of Crimea or that they need the liquidity because of the sanctions?!
They're nearing Kyiv?
Can someone remind me which nation was allies with the Nazis at the start of WW2 because I keep forgetting.
Each day it seems they advance at least a little. What is more in doubt than their ability to achieve some advance is whether then can take Kyiv before the attrition to their numbers and equipment is too great.
BBC reports:
"The Russian economy will shrink by at least 15% this year, according to an assessment from the Institute of International Finance (IIF), a financial services trade group.
The IIF had previously predicted that Moscow's economy would grow by 3% in 2022, but now says that sanctions imposed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine "have led to a drastic and unprecedented tightening in financial conditions, which signals a deep recession".
Experts warned that the decline could be even sharper should there be additional Western boycotts of Russian energy supplies.
Such a move "would drastically impair Russia's ability to import goods and services, deepening the recession," the IIF said.
"The Russian economy will shrink by at least 15% this year, according to an assessment from the Institute of International Finance (IIF), a financial services trade group.
The IIF had previously predicted that Moscow's economy would grow by 3% in 2022, but now says that sanctions imposed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine "have led to a drastic and unprecedented tightening in financial conditions, which signals a deep recession".
Experts warned that the decline could be even sharper should there be additional Western boycotts of Russian energy supplies.
Such a move "would drastically impair Russia's ability to import goods and services, deepening the recession," the IIF said.
You mean another “special military operation“ when they invaded Eastern Poland and massacred 22,000 Polish officers at Katyn? I forget who it was too….
All getting ready to move to Kiev?
They would keep their apartments in Yalta as vacation homes if that were the case. More likely, they are preparing to get reassigned domestically to quell a massive uprising once the economy fully tanks.
Thought this was an interesting read even if its fake (the fsb whistleblower bit at bottom).
Retrospective nazi calling in response to a madman's propaganda machine meant for internal consumption in Russia? Really?
We know who it was and its irrelevant.
Also you're very selective in framing it. Stalin was the most and possibly only opponent of the Nazi's in the 30s on the international stage. Segregationist US didn't have an issue or the British elite who socialised with their German counterparts.
What happened in Poland was a last ditch attempt to keep the Germans at bay, not an alliance, a disgusting pact though.
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Makes sense but so would keeping property assets?
Realistically, I think the Russian government is about to tank, which means the party will be over for all, including corrupt FSB elites with Black Sea homes in Crimea. Owning property won't mean much when they would simply be lucky to be alive 12 months from now.
Based on the evidence of the 30s, who would have seemed the biggest maniac? Hitler had camps open in Germany and was clearly a vile individual but had done nothing at that stage to compare to the holodomor or the Great Terror. Plus, killing 22,000 officers is not a defensive strategy - it is a decapitation strategy aimed against a country that had only regained its independence from Russia 20 years earlier.
I hope you're right.
Stalin obviously; he was a genocidal maniac, but that still doesn't validate the one eyed retrospective analysis which forgets his previous and subsequent ideological and military opposition to the Nazis. What he did in Poland was disgusting but it didnt make him a Nazi.
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They may have gained some inches but have lost some in other areas.
They have bypassed Cherihiv to approach Kyiv but were easily repelled it seems. This is where that video of that clumped up tank column taking artillary fire comes from. The re-supply road to Chernihiv is now blocked however.
Hearing mixed reports on Hosomel, but apparently Ukraine is making good progress further North-West:
We barely know anything about Ukraine troop movements but we do know there are thousands of well armed Ukrainian/foreign legion soldiers making their way over from the west. If these reports of a successful push NW of Kyiv are true, we may see the Russians becoming the ones being encircled in the coming days.
A few years ago I realized that I knew almost nothing beyond the very basics about the Eastern Front of WWII, so I decided to read a couple of books about it to know a little bit more. I also ended up getting a bit of the history of internal USSR politics around the time, and what shocked me about Stalin was the randomness of the violence. It went beyond what you might call just politically useful (persecution of opponents or even internal rivals), and got solidly into paranoia and maybe even bloodlust territory. I don't think its a great debate as to who was most violent, hard to lead to anything. But Stalin's brutality still stands out as you read about it, not just the numbers but the nature of it too.
What's the rough estimate of the Ukraine Army plus men who have stayed back to defend...it must be in the hundreds of thousands??