Russia and Ukraine

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

It's difficult to imagine that Russia's strategy all along was to turn this into a long, drawn-out war.  They're struggling to keep enough troops, vehicles and command officers in the field for what they imagined would be a short, intense conflict. Furthermore, the unprecedented level of sanctions has already cratered the Russian economy - they simply can't afford to fight a long insurgency, even if they restrict their activities to the eastern portions of the country.

Boru

edit: Just saw a video (which I can't post for stupid internetty techy reasons) of Russian troops handing out humanitarian aid to Ukrainian civilians in Mariupol.

Maybe the next time they do this, they should remove the UKRAINIAN labels from the UKRAINIAN products they're passing out, so people don't get the idea that these items were either stolen from aid convoys or looted from UKRAINIAN stores and warehouses.

I'm seeing reports of Russian soldiers killing men and boys before they left an occupied town.

If true, an intervention is desperately needed.

The Russian forces no longer get to be called an 'army'. A more accurate term would be 'gangs of pillaging, raping, looting thugs'.

Boru