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WW1 was probably the dumbest war in history and created a shitload of problems and after effects we're still dealing with today.

That being said, we should have confiscated foreign German-owned property for the Kaiser's Sabotage at Black Tom and for those merchant ships that were bombed, when we were neutral, but just that and nothing more.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1637682427056234497?ref_src=patrick.net

@JackPosobiec
I can’t believe Russia is doing this to Ukraine. All the leaders who did this should be in jail

Oh wait, that's Iraq.

Patrick says

JackPosobiec
I can’t believe Russia is doing this to Ukraine. All the leaders who did this should be in jail

And just once I want to see the video footage of all of the shelling Russia keeps doing on Ukraine civilian apartments and civilian dwellings.
I bet the smart internet slueths would point out, the shells are coming from Ukraine's side and not from the Russia offensive front.

As much as I don't like being aligned with RINO squishes, Hollywood or Europe - I'd still rather be in their "support" camp as opposed to ethical paragons of North Korea, Iran, Syria and China that support Russia's monumental embarrassment of an invasion.

Even if I were to believe every lame-ass Russian criticism of Zelensky and Ukraine (secret Jewish Nazis pedophiles!) - it wouldn't change the fact that Russia illegally invaded their neighbor and totally botched the war to make it unwinnable for them while getting hundreds of thousands of people killed.

If Russia had even a modest battle success to point to suggesting they could turn the tide - it would be one thing. But people have to be delirious to think that the Russian military (along with Wagner) who can't even manage to conquer Bakhmut is somehow going to get it together and conquer more Ukrainian land.

The quickest way to end the needless death, destruction and world instability is for Putin to stop invading their sovereign neighbor. Yet there are alot of people in the West who are seemingly cheering Russia on to continue fighting this losing war.

socal2 says

Even if I were to believe every lame-ass Russian criticism of Zelensky and Ukraine (secret Jewish Nazis pedophiles!) - it wouldn't change the fact that Russia illegally invaded their neighbor and totally botched the war to make it unwinnable for them while getting hundreds of thousands of people killed.

No tickey no laundry, all we have to show for those MSM claims is their say so. They didn't even get a photo essay or any video of said incursion.

Zelenski could be bombing the shit out of his own people he wants to expunge for all we know. And probably is, he's been doing it for 9 years already.

The time to have done anything was when he first invaded Georgia, but that Jive Ass Mother Fucker first black President was too busy trolling Americans and gloating how he was destroying America to our faces. While he watched Putin do every last bit of everything. That now that the Biden Criminal enterprise is being paid by Ukraine to help them cover their crimes against humanity. We're now supposed to care?

I want Putin to have Ukraine, there I gifted it to him.

Don't like it too bad, it's mine to give away. Just as much so as Biden has the right to give that Nazi Zelenski every last cent to our name.

AmericanKulak says

Alternative history?

The Czar didn't honor his alliance with France, and German troops made the French pay at Versailles in 1915 like 1870 part two. No US in WW1, No UK with massive loss of men, United British Isles with the Irish not leaving thanks to a return of a seasoned Ulster Division ready to put down the Fenian Bastards, but perhaps getting devolved government, no Depression, and no Communism.

The German government would remain in place (a Constitutional Monarchy for all the propaganda about the Autocratic Kaiser of the Huns; Germans got universal male suffrage decades before the UK).

France and Germany and the UK wouldn't have lost 10%, 15%, and 12% of their male population. The Empires would have continued, with the Germans slicing off a bit of Alsace or gaining access/control of some French overseas colonies.

Germany would gain European and overseas colonies at French expense to expand elsewhere, and very possibly become a rival commercial nexus to the Anglo one. No 1.5M...

We can all dream, and that was a nice scenario. However, let's not forget the banksters were causing the Sepoy Rebellion in India as early as 1857, with the goal of killing white colonists families, entire families including women and children (thousands of them killed indiscriminately by the agitated rebels in the historical time line, and nearly a million Indians too in the backlash war/bailout by the British government), so none of them could withdraw money from the bank.

BTW, the Czar entered the war on behalf of Serbia. The French found themselves having planned on Czar coming to French rescue in case of invasion by Germany but turning out having to enter the war because war started on the East (Balkans and Polish frontiers then occupied by Russia, Germany and Austria after the 3rd Partition of Poland); that's how the history books usually describe it. In reality, the banksters likely arranged the incident in Sarajevo in order to have a mass liquidation of European bank account holders.

Tenpoundbass says

No tickey no laundry, all we have to show for those MSM claims is their say so. They didn't even get a photo essay or any video of said incursion.

I don't get this claim. There are literally thousands of hours of reporter front line and drone footage from the first days of the war to today available on Youtube, Liveleak and other streaming channels. I've seen dozens of hours of Russian propaganda talk shows with Russian ultra-nationalists losing their shit over their grinding losses and recommending using nukes and attacking NATO nations. Are we to believe all of this is fake?

Tenpoundbass says

The time to have done anything was when he first invaded Georgia, but that Jive Ass Mother Fucker first black President was too busy trolling Americans and gloating how he was destroying America to our faces. While he watched Putin do every last bit of everything. That now that the Biden Criminal enterprise is being paid by Ukraine to help them cover their crimes against humanity. We're now supposed to care?

No argument there.

But because Obama and Biden totally fucked up 10 years ago, doesn't mean I am going to cheer on Putin and his crap-ass drunk Russian military getting hundreds of thousands of people needlessly killed in Ukraine because I want to see Biden and the Democrats suffer politically.

My consistent goal is to end the death and conflict as soon as possible. If I thought Ukraine was just barely hanging on and Kiev was about to fall turning into Stalingrad, I would be urging Ukraine to stop fighting and try to negotiate a ceasefire as it was a lost cause.

But it is the opposite. Russia continues to flail and fight a lost cause despite throwing more and more bodies into the meat grinder. They still haven't captured Bakhmut. How massively pathetic is it that Russia has to rely on prisoners from Wagner? It's a sad joke!

How does Russia win when they've already burned through some of their best troops, equipment and got more people killed in a single year than all of their wars combined since WWII? Russia doesn't have an endless supply of cannon fodder to throw into the fight like they did in WWII. Besides, in WWII the Russia soldier was more motivated by the Commie propaganda and fighting a defensive war as opposed to a war of naked aggression.

socal2 says

How does Russia win when they've already burned through some of their best troops, equipment and got more people killed in a single year than all of their wars combined since WWII?

LOL! Unlike the US, Russia largely avoided fighting significant wars after WWII. They didn't fight any major war except for in neighboring Afghanistan, where they gave up after losing 15k KIA, contrasting to about 50k KIA each for the US in Korea and Vietnam. The Democrat Secretary of Defense McNamara under the "Civil Rights President" Lyndon B. Johnson even tried to send low IQ population to die in Vietnam as a policy (goes to show the cynicism behind BLM).

Russia can win and is winning the conflict in Ukraine by putting a 1:7 to 1:10 kill ratio on the ground, taking full advantage of Zelensky's role of maximizing Ukrainian deaths; the tool of choice seems to be mass artillery. The initial use of light rapid reaction forces in the opening weeks of the conflict was apparently an attempt to minimize Ukrainian (and Russian) casualty. Putin was an agent of WEF/Globalists himself (at least until the lead up to Georgian conflict in 2008); he sensed the globalist cabal was trying to backstab him and recycle his money (just like they recycled Saddam's, Qaddafi's and tried to recycle Assad's; not to mention earlier examples like the Shah's), so tried to minimize the scale of conflict. There is never any doubt to the eventual outcome of a full-blown war between Russia and Ukraine: millions of Ukranians would die due to war, lack of electricity, heat and water, etc., so that they can not withdraw from banks the money they have saved (or looted from other Ukranians) during their 30 years of exporting cheap labor, and tens of thousands of Ukranians would be trafficked in whole (sex trafficking) or in body parts.

Reality says

Russia can win and is winning the conflict in Ukraine by putting a 1:7 to 1:10 kill ratio on the ground,

Where on earth are you getting these numbers? If this was even remotely accurate, Ukraine would be out of men by now and Bakhmut would have fallen back in November! Nor would have Russia lost all of the land they conquered in the first months of the war.

In virtually every conventional war in modern times, the attackers have 3X the casualties of the defenders. And since Russia is relying on poorly trained convicts and Ukraine is being armed with much more sophisticated weapons and motivated to defend their country - the death rate for Russia is likely much higher.

Ukraine is indeed running out men. That's why they are press-ganging boys and elderly men (and women in some cases) in west Ukraine cities like Lviv. What Russia has done at Bakhmut is rolling Erik von Falkenhayn's original plan for Verdun in WWI (pinning opponent to a fortress that they have to defend, then instead of taking it right away pummeling it and its exposed supply line with artillery superiority in order to bleed the opponent white) and Stalingrad in WWII into one battle.

Take a look at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdwFmjiXkX4
MacGregor actually knows how to conduct a battle; he was the commanding officer at the last major tank battle in world history so far, Battle of the 73rd Eastings during Desert Storm. The legacy media has been lying to you.

Don't have alot of faith in MacGregor, even if he is Tucker's favorite military pundit.

I remember MacGregor telling everyone a couple months ago that Ukraine was being "bled white" the day before Ukraine took back Kharkiv and the Kherson area. Russia has made no significant gains in all that time since despite losing tens of thousands more men in their failure to take back Bakhmut.

Where is the big new offensive Russia has promised all winter long?

Also, Ukraine conscripting eligible Ukrainians to defend against an invader is not a sign of weakness - compared to Russia having to empty its prisons, use poorly trained soldiers from far-flung ethnic provinces- while relying on North Korean/Iranian munitions and 40 year old tanks cobbled together with electronics from kitchen appliances.

I am not going to pretend that Ukraine is totally winning or kicking Russia's ass. They are a much smaller army holding their own defending their country against an aggressor. But to pretend that this pathetic Russian military and Wagner criminals are achieving a 1:10 kill ratio is beyond laughable - IMO. If it was even remotely true, the war would have been over last year!

cisTits says

Ukrainian losses to Russian artillery. Where the fuck have you been?

All I see are videos of Russians laying dead in their trenches or open fields after fruitless attempts to advance their battle lines that have stayed stagnant ever since Ukraine took back much of Kharkiv and Kherson.

I also see lots of videos of poorly trained Russian Mobiks complaining to their superiors that they are poorly equipped and led and don't want to be cannon fodder.

I actually feel sorry for some of the Russians trapped in trenches looking helplessly up at the sky as cheap drones drop grenades on them.

Also, remember at the beginning of the war with all the Jihadi Chechens fighting for Russia and their Tik Tok Rambo videos? Not seeing too many of those videos these days. Long gone are the days where Russia was cruising through cities and towns with combined mechanized, air and ground forces.

socal2 says

Don't have alot of faith in MacGregor, even if he is Tucker's favorite military pundit.

MacGregor happens to be one of the few outspoken military experts (himself being the commanding officer at the last major tank battle in human history so far) who are not bought and paid for by banksters. Tucker Carlson may or may not be a bankster agent, but at least less obvious than most of the legacy media clowns, and war-losing bitches (yes, history has seen a long line of them since at least Madam Pompadour) whipping desk-jockeys into line at the top of the cardboard cut-out administration running the White House. Even the desk-jockeys in uniforms know the war is a losing game and wanted to avoid it, but couldn't resist the war-mongering and war-losing bitches.

What you don't seem to understand is that warfare east of Poland (and north of the Zagros moutains to Yellow River line; i.e. the entire Eurasian hinterland) is not centered on the taking of specific geographical points like on the coastal Eurasia, but focused on the destruction of enemy fighting forces and fighting capacity. Russian forces were not pushed out of Kherson City, but voluntarily withdrew across the river when it became obvious that long-range missiles taking out of the bridges supplying the city bridge head would put Russian forces at risk when they were not committed to push far beyond the bridge head and link up with Donbas interior yet. Russians never took Kharkov, but had only formed a thin screen around half of the perimeter early in the conflict. If you have studied WWII, you'd know that Kharkov changed hands between Nazis and Soviets at least 4 times; i.e. the area is flat plain with little to no defensible position. Ukrainian decision to commit reserve forces there to grab miles of flat land and subject their core mobile reserve forces to artillery strike and bombing while on the move served only a propaganda purpose while achieving very little substance.

At Bakhmut is where Russian forces substantially destroyed the reconstituted Ukranian army. If you think Ukrainians press-ganging boys, old men and women into fighting is exercising their draft law rights, do you think Nazi's recruiting boys and old men into the battle of Berlin was sign of their pending victory against the Allies too (like the Nazi propaganda was telling them)? While governments can draft whoever they want when things get desperate, drafting boys, old men and women is usually the sign of impending collapse.

OTOH, Russian recruitment of criminals is actually a sign of a government having plenty reserve and not in a hurry to commit their core reserve force. A historical parallel would be LBJ's secretary of defense MacNamara's policy of deliberately recruiting low IQ males (another way of saying young black males at the time) to be cannon fodders in Vietnam. The US was far from scraping the bottom of the barrel for men power, but prefer to dispense with the disposables first. IMHO, Russia is being used as a bludgeon tool to kill European bank account holders and pension / asset management account holders, so it is training up far more fighting men than being used up in fighting. If you care about European lives at all, better promote peace instead of the training up of more and more Russian soldiers, who previously had little appetite invading Europe (aside from possibly immigrating individually) but once plucked out of their civilian lives may find invading and taking over parts (or all) of Europe more profitable/enjoyable/thrilling than their previous staid life of eaking out a living in the icebox of Eurasia interior.

The reference to online videos showing Ukrainians killing Russian soldiers is just silly. Most of the real videos showing that are very old and from the beginning of the conflict when Russians tried to use a light mobile force in a surprise attack (similar to Germans using a single battalion of paratroopers to take over Norway by organizing a military parade through Oslo); once that ruse was exposed and element of surprise lost, of course the Ukrainian ground forces with heavy equipment would have the upper hand in a fight deep inside Ukraine, where supply from Russia would be difficult. The slow steam-roller operation on the Russian-Ukraine frontiers since then has been very different. Much of the recent videos claiming to be showing killing Russians are actually screen grabs from video games! Goes to show the desperation among the pro-war and pro-Ukrainian-staying-in-the-fight propagandists.

BTW, all the talks about Wagner running out of ammo is also bullshit: the biggest fly in the ointment in carrying out Erik von Falkenhayn's plan for Verdun during WWI was some German units being too high quality and wanted to grab the French forts quickly instead of following the plan and hunker down while letting artillery superiority destroy French reserves and exposed supply lines. So the nonsense talk to discourage Wagner fighters from pushing forward too fast.

The neocons have bet the farm on the Ukraine conflict. They (the neocons) will lose - this is the final bankruptcy of the neocon agenda. The $!00,000,000 they have wasted on this neocon fantasy will effectively bankrupt this nation, in the sense that this nation can't print any more money without completely impoverishing the lower classes; not that the neocons care.

RWSGFY says

But why waste so much money on some border dispute in Europe when Americans couldn't afford food? Hitler didn't do anything to us. In fact he was great antiglobohomo leader if you think about it.... And I'm sure their central bank was much less evil than our central bank, because everybody knows nothing is more evil than our central bank.

Nazi Germany's banking system is far superior to what we have today. They got out of crushing poverty by just changing that and in a decade, they had gone from hyperinflation to a nation that was only defeated because literally EVERYBODY ELSE opposed them.

Germany wasn't defeated because they were "evil", and nobody went to war because they were "evil". That's the cartoon history we're all taught.

The Holodomor ended in 1933. It might have been MENTIONED in high school history, but it was just a footnote but we hear ENDLESSLY about "the holocaust". I'll tell you this, if you ever realize just how much propaganda you've been fed, you'd be angry. Most people have no idea.

Dad’s Army: List Of Russian Army Equipment Deployed In Ukraine Older Than Our Parents



As the average age of the authors of this (tongue-in-cheek) article is 25, we thought it would be illustrative (and frankly amusing) to list every equipment type currently spotted in use with Russian forces in Ukraine that predates our parents. For those reading this that have themselves managed to survive the 70's – rest assured, much of this equipment has undoubtedly weathered the ages far worse than you have. We only consider equipment sufficiently archaic to be included here if it entered service prior to 1970, which should mean that to all but the senior among our readership it was properly outdated by the time they came of drinking age.

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2023/03/dads-army-list-of-russian-army.html

richwicks says

RWSGFY says

But why waste so much money on some border dispute in Europe when Americans couldn't afford food? Hitler didn't do anything to us. In fact he was great antiglobohomo leader if you think about it.... And I'm sure their central bank was much less evil than our central bank, because everybody knows nothing is more evil than our central bank.

Nazi Germany's banking system is far superior to what we have today. They got out of crushing poverty by just changing that and in a decade, they had gone from hyperinflation to a nation that was only defeated because literally EVERYBODY ELSE opposed them.

Germany wasn't defeated because they were "evil", and nobody went to war because they were "evil". That's the cartoon history we're all taught.

The Holodomor ended in 1933. It might have been MENTIONED in high school history, but it was just a footnote but we...

At the end of WWII, the head of the German central bank was imprisoned, while the head of the Japanese central bank, who copied wholesale from the Nazi war economy playbook, was appointed head of the Bank of Japan. We needed the nips as a base for Korea; meanwhile the US had starved 1,000,000+ German POWs to death in the aftermath of WWII.

This is well worth viewing: Princes of the Yen. This is about the controlled demolition of the Japanese economy in the late 1980's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Ac7ap_MAY

EDIT: as @richwicks has claimed, the skeletons in the konzentrationslagers were the result of Allied embargoes. The US murdered millions of Jews and German POW's in the later stages off WWII by completley cutting supply (food) lines.

WAKE THE FUCK UP!

https://palexander.substack.com/p/so-let-me-see-if-i-get-this-straight

So let me see if I get this straight: Biden, Romney, Pelosi, and Kerry sons are involved with energy contracts in the Ukraine? All function as directors for energy companies in Ukraine?

Do you understand the problems we have, they ain't simple for the entire DC crowd is corrupted, crooked! These people are high-crime bandits, thieves, kleptocrats and Kleptoblicans

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-season-is-here/

First, the collapse of our project for using Ukraine to destabilize Russia, an enterprise so feckless it could have only been conceived by the dead-of-brain. Our geniuses of foreign affairs screwed the pooch on this one. It’s almost too obvious that they never cared about the people of that sore-beset land. Notice, they do not even use the word “peace” in any of their confabulations about what’s going on there, because it is the opposite of what they seek, which is…chaos unending.

Thus, others will end the project for us — namely, our antagonist there, Russia — and the regime of “Joe Biden,” for the second time in its mortifying two years-plus of rule, will be left holding its limp, generative member in its collective hand, another humiliation for our over-reaching imperial soldiery — and the deluded empty suits commanding it. Will they be able to pretend this time, as they did in Afghanistan, 2021, that there’s nothing to see here, folks? Just a blizzard of press-releases declaring “mission accomplished” or some-such other craven bullshit? I don’t think so. The reaction may be enough to bum-rush “Joe Biden” and Company out of office. His grotesque family rackets (including the Ukraine grifts) will finally and magically come to the public’s attention, and that’ll be all she wrote for “JB”— except for the historians waking from their own long catatonic spells to record the disaster they will swear they couldn’t see coming.

Patrick says

https://palexander.substack.com/p/so-let-me-see-if-i-get-this-straight

So let me see if I get this straight: Biden, Romney, Pelosi, and Kerry sons are involved with energy contracts in the Ukraine? All function as directors for energy companies in Ukraine?

Do you understand the problems we have, they ain't simple for the entire DC crowd is corrupted, crooked! These people are high-crime bandits, thieves, kleptocrats and Kleptoblicans

I don't think there's any evidence that Romney, Pelosi, or Kerry has anybody working BS jobs in Ukraine for bribes. I hear this a while ago, tried to verify it, and came up with nothing. What children precisely, what companies do they "work" for, what year did they start their "jobs"?

Couldn't find that information, spent about an hour trying to find it. I think this is just BS rumor or misinformation planted by the intelligence agencies.

The psychopaths aren't merely evil, they are ridiculously incompetent. They sit around their Satanic hutches, venom dripping from their reptilian fangs. As with Kommunism, they have no viable schemes after they have engaged in as much subversion and destruction as they can manage. It's a lot more burnt offerings than constructive endeavors, whatever fake Satanic inversion virtue signaling they foist out there. They aren't Illuminated they are Delusionated, truly the viciously and irrevocably insane.

If you have ever hung around with really rich people, they are surrounded with toadies and sycophants, catering to their every idle delusion. Think the Peter Ustinov gladiator slave trader in the original 'Spartacus' movie, ingratiating himself with the Roman nobles with incessant flattery. These toadies have convinced these maniacal elites that they can control the future with the current level of AI and technology. These idle delusions and secret handshake bullshit are now being writ large across the world landscape.

Ceffer says

The psychopaths aren't merely evil, they are ridiculously incompetent.

They aren't incompetent.

They just underestimate the the intelligence of everybody. They equate power with intelligence, because they are sociopaths. The equate morality and principles with stupidity.

Ceffer says

These toadies have convinced these maniacal elites that they can control the future with the current level of AI and technology.

The have undue influence on the world now. AI can help a lot, if they don't force their version of it to lie, and I bet they don't. They need accurate information.

As I mentioned some time ago when this started, Ukraine will become another Middle East shithole. Now England is supplying nuclear material that will fuck the country for decades, and kill the Ukrainian soldiers. Get ready for Iraq 2.0

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-military-warns-uranium-shells-will-cause-irreversible-harm-all-ukrainians

A“small number” of U.S. military forces are performing onsite inspections of weapons caches in Ukraine to ensure military aid to Kyiv is being properly accounted for, a senior U.S. defense official told journalists earlier this week.

The defense official said there have been “several” such inspections, but they did not specify how many U.S. personnel there are in Ukraine and where the inspections were performed. Similar inspections were carried out prior to the war, but they were suspended after the Russian invasion commenced on February 24.

It is unclear what prompted the decision to resume onsite inspections. There have been unverified reports alleging the misappropriation of Western aid, including purported black market transactions and even instances of Western-supplied arms being sold to Russian-affiliated actors by Ukrainian intermediaries. The Finnish police have raised alarm over the trafficking of Western-donated weapons from Ukraine by smuggling rings, according to the Moscow Times. These warnings were echoed earlier this year by Europol.

White House officials insist they have not seen evidence of U.S. military aid being used for illicit purposes, citing Ukraine’s “intense” need for these weapons to fend off the Russian invasion. “Thus far, intense internal demand for use on the battlefield by Ukrainian military and security forces within Ukraine is assessed to be impeding black-market proliferation of small arms and guided infantry weapons,” read a State Department document, according to NBC News.

When asked about the risks of direct engagement with Russian forces, Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder reaffirmed, without providing details, that the inspections are being conducted away from the front lines. “In terms of personnel that are conducting these inspections, my understanding is they would be ... well far away from any type of frontline actions,” he said. However, the Kremlin has repeatedly said it will treat all foreign weapons shipments on Ukrainian territory, whether on the front lines or not, as legitimate military targets. Russian forces have made good on those threats over the course of the war, launching strikes on foreign aid stockpiles as deep as the far-western Lviv region near Ukraine's border with Poland.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-forces-deployed-ukraine-fight-weapons-smuggling-205682

If the Biden regime feels it had to send inspectors after declaring any smuggling of any significance being Putin Propaganda, there's a problem.

cisTits says

Because draconian capital controls have been imposed. You can't have a bank run when withdrawals are extremely limited, duh.

Potato gets an ultimatum:

https://twitter.com/NatalkaKyiv/status/1639734472806367235/mediaViewer?ref_src=patrick.net

And now the shit is truly getting real - the legendary weapons used to defeat Hitler are now closing in on his Zionist grandson Zelensky:

https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1639735735057096707?ref_src=patrick.net

RWSGFY says

Because draconian capital controls have been imposed.

@RWSGFY - how do you know? Show us what makes you believe this.

What you said may be true, but I bet (and I may lose the bet), that you're totally full of shit, and just pulled this out of your ass.

AmericanKulak says

If the Biden regime feels it had to send inspectors after declaring any smuggling of any significance being Putin Propaganda, there's a problem.

The inspectors are there to make sure that the foreign occupied foreign city state of DC gets it's cut of the laundering and black market sales. LOL! Corruption auditors.
They don't want those Ukey leaders bailing to Switzerland taking the whole vig with them without the proper tributes.

"Zelensky Admits Ukraine Already Ran Out Of Ammo... Zelensky’s admission adds credence to what the Washington Post recently reported regarding how poorly Kiev’s forces are faring in this conflict..."

You read that correctly: Ukraine Ran Out Of Ammo! See https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-admits-ukraine-already-ran-out-ammo

Without Ammo, Is Ukraine surrendering?

If not then what are they shooting? Throwing rocks?

The_Deplorable

NuttBoxer says

As I mentioned some time ago when this started, Ukraine will become another Middle East shithole

Does Ukraine have huge oil reserves???

If it does, it would explain a few things.