Oso planning to go pro
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/world/europe/ukraine-russia-losses-east.html"Though much of the world’s focus in the war has been on Russia’s disorganized and flawed campaign, Ukraine, too, is struggling. Ukraine’s army has suffered heavy losses, shown signs of disarray and, step by step, fallen back from some long-held areas in Donbas, the eastern region that is now the war’s epicenter.The momentum Ukraine generated after pushing Russian forces back from Kyiv, the capital, and Kharkiv, the second-largest city, has given way in the east to weeks of give-and-take over villages, heavy shelling — and a stream of Ukrainian dead and wounded from the battlefields."
The New York Times coverage has been fatalistic and doom and gloom the entire 100 days and not as informative. From what I've read the Kharkhiv Russian counterattack was only reported on Russian propaganda Telegram and there is no actual physical proof of any counterattack.From multiple sources it is not 1:1 losses. The Russians have been taking a shellacking everywhere and their losses continue to be greater than Ukraine.The Russians only strategy is to indiscriminately shell and then attempt to advance. From what I've read in the last week, is the NATO longer range guns have started to arrive and where they've been put into action are already making an impact as they are taking out Russian big guns because they out distance them. The HIMARS stuff announced this week is even longer range and no surprise they were already pre-staged in Europe. The NATO big guns are still arriving and will be taking out Russians only tactic for advancement.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/europe/putin-ukraine-invasion-100-days-analysis-intl-cmd/index.html"You have the watches but we have the time." Russia has the time.
They may have the time, but toward what end? Strategically this has been a disaster for Russia on many fronts. Whatever is left of Ukraine will be decidedly pro-West. Any sort of potential split in NATO, outside of the idiots in Turkey, has been patched. Germany has started to re-militarize. And two historically neutral countries have applied to join NATO.It's going to be another generation before people trust Russia again. They may end up lopping off a hunk of Ukraine when all is said and done, but the price they are going to have to pay for that is monumental.
I don’t know that I agree with your last statement. Russia has always been a pariah with an us-against-them attitude.
Odessa and a Russian blockade could be a enormous problem. Africa gets 40% of its wheat from Ukraine. I'm not sure what specifically we're planning to do to help but this is a tenuous and potentially dire situation.
Yea, I don't know when anyone really trusted Russia. I mean, even when tourism was open and safe, it was still kind of like, if you go, "be mindful"...
Unless you’re a fellow traveler. Bernie honeymooned there, a’ina?
The Tucker viewers are out in force this afternoon.
Putin is the bad guy. Arguing differently shows you to be a fool.