Russia and Ukraine

[The Grand Nudger]

Right. Not trying to take away anything from the current commanders who have deployed brilliant new solutions to current conditions...they have a literal fucking blueprint from history to lean on.

[Deesse23]

But don't take my word for it.  Ask Igor Girkin.

Or Vasily Chuikov and Georgi Zhukov.

After reading your link, little pockets, strewn across the city, yeah, gives Stalingrad vibes.

[The Grand Nudger]

Like clockwork - ukraine appears to be drawing back their positions in pokrovsk, flattening their defense and shortening their glocs. Russia has wasted the rough equivalent of anne arbor michigan in meat assualts only to get pantsed yet again.

[Fake Messiah]

Russia was planning to commit terror attacks against the US.

Meanwhile the Trump admin is loosening sanctions, and trying to give them their way on Ukraine.

Weak and corrupt.

In July 2024, DHL parcels exploded in logistics centres in the UK, Poland and Germany. Each of them was powerful enough to have brought down a cargo plane had they detonated onboard.

Security services would eventually trace the plot back to a group of Russian-directed saboteurs who had a further 6kg of explosive material in their possession. That was enough to give them the capability for what security officials told the Financial Times was the next stage of the plan: to attack flights to the US, and cause more disruption to the airline industry than any act of terror since the World Trade Center attacks.

It was just one near-miss incident in a co-ordinated and covert campaign of sabotage led by Moscow, officials believe, that has sown bewilderment across the continent and is steadily posing more of a risk to human lives.

Intelligence chiefs and police forces have foiled plots to derail crowded trains, burn down shopping centres, discharge a dam and poison water supplies. And these are just the ones we know about.

https://www.ft.com/content/2084e87d-d491...pe=blocked

[Leonardo17]

Also, D. Trump is distorting the facts about Ukraine. He says that Ukraine will eventually lose the war against Russia. Yet in one year (2025) Russians were only able to conquer 1% of Ukrainian territory. And while casualties are high on the Ukrainian side (some 200 / 300 thousand) they are estimated to be 2/3 times more on the Russian side.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0l0k4...d_brief_nl

D. Trump’s entire rhetoric on almost every issue is completely broken. Two days ago he said something about the EU (That the EU was on the path to civilizational collapse or something like that). And leaders like Kaya Kallas are not even reacting to such comments anymore. Every serious entity in the world are simply waiting for the end of his term.

Personally I believe that all this war is a stage to keep people from seeing how corrupt and problematic the Russian Regime has become. It already was not heaven in the 1990’s with the mafia and oligarchs controlling half the country. But Putin’s “authoritarian solution” is simply worse than that. Nothing is working in Russia anymore and everyone who can leave is simply leaving the country.

/ Corruption is a huge issue in all ancient iron curtain countries, even those who have joined the EU 10 / 20 years ago. That’s because it takes generation to switch from one type of social contract to a newer and better one.

So again: If and when this Putin regime ends, it will be a blessing both to Russia and the rest of the world. People know this despite all the disinformation and fake “savior of the world from the West” propaganda. I hope this happens sooner rather than later

[The Grand Nudger]

They're going more for savior of the western world, protector of whiteness, and champion of christianity these days Leo.