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Onvacation says

Are you talking about meeting the Slav ladies at the local parlor?

But without the "happy ending."

socal2 says

richwicks says

They know the ground war is lost.

The war is going to go on for years.

The war is "lost", but it will also go on for years?

What has Russia "won" in the past year other than needless death and destruction?

I don't get certain takes on this conflict. Yes it generally takes years to "win" a war. There's no evidence of that though. If "winning" is decimating your demographics for 2-3 decades have at it. Our dumb wars really didn't result in that much loss of American men in reality. We lost more young men in Chicago during the 20 years in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now throw in Baltimore, LA, NYC, Miami, etc. with the basic gang killings.

Russia is forcing itself into a corner. I think it's over, the country itself. They literally will run out of men to fight. 40 mile convoy on narrow roads and they didn't bring fuel or food? They were sitting ducks. You don't even need to be an advanced military to smash that. Blow up the first 50 cars and the road is blocked. Then the back 50 and kill or capture the middle 1,000 trucks and equipment.

They basically transferred a good amount of their ammo, vehicles, guns, tanks to the Ukrainians. Then lost men that can build, operate, maintain said equipment. Ukraine can be aggressive because if they lose something, they know they'll get more of it from the west. It will drag out for sure, but without using nukes, Russia loses this in a prolonged conflict. Russia cannot rebuild its equipment fast enough because of conscription and mercenaries. Peace talks are the only thing that stops this, but I think this takes 1M dead at least. You can't lose 1M+ men in a country with that demographic and come out on top long term. Russia is fighting the West, not Ukraine. They will lose.

socal2 says

The war is "lost", but it will also go on for years?

I have pointed out multiple times that this is a war of attrition and a proxy war between the United States and Russia. From the point of view of the United States it is to weaken Russia, and from the point of view of Russia at this point, it is to weaken NATO and the United States. Ukraine is caught in the middle.

https://patrick.net/post/1343140/2021-12-29-a-ukraine-war-and-the-end-of-russia?start=1#comment-1808895

richwicks says

Ceffer says

Meanwhile, back in Ukraine........

Who cares. The cabal that runs the United States is just killing all of us with these stupid wars. Russia will fight a war of attrition and just allow the US to continue to bankrupt the entire nation for something 99.99% of the US population has no stake in. The Middle East has been doing this for 2 decades now.

I bet if it came to war in Ukraine, Russia wouldn't even cut off their energy exports to Europe although the US might sabotage these pipelines and then attempt to blame Russia.

The United States is causing this conflict, not Russia. It's just another example of the insanity that runs this nation. The US has bombed 7 nations over the last 20 years - has this in any way benefited this nation?

I have to admit, I was uncannily lucky in that prediction. The sabotage of the pipeline was done on September 28, 2022 and I wrote that post on Dec 29, 2021, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia was on February 24, 2022.

Our fucking asshole stupid shithead goverment intelligence agencies are entirely predictable at this point, because they've been doing the same fucking thing for my entire adult life. Same fucking lies too. Saddam Hussein is the next Hitler! Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the next Hitler! Muammar Qaddafi is the next Hitler! Bashir al-Assad is the next Hitler! Putin is the next Hitler! My ENTIRE adult life.

It's not so much that our traitorous intelligence agencies lie to us, violate the Constitution, fake the intelligence to start war after war so much, it's that the "people"(?) around me don't notice it. They can't see the pattern no matter how fucking obvious it is. I'm so tired of it. I'm so tired of living in a nation of idiots.

Ted Kaczynski I know how similar feelings, but it was in regard to technology and how it WOULD be abused. He has an IQ of 160 it's said, he's really brilliant, he was a victim of MKUltra (I wasn't, AFAIK) and he just dropped out of society after a point, although he must have been funded by somebody. I can't agree with him murdering people, because it's pointless to do so, but I have some idea of how he felt. I used to joke I was the next Ted Kaczynski. I doubt I really am, but I have some level of sympathy for him.

Putin is just an old school Geopolitican, unremarkable in the 19th or first half of the 20th in any Country.

But very remarkable and infamous today for not giving service to the Washington Consensus/International Law theory bullshit that is now the Norm.

In any case, as mentioned long ago, Mearsheimer predicted all of this to the last jot and tittle a decade ago.

socal2 says

What has Russia "won" in the past year other than needless death and destruction?

socal2 says

What has Russia "won" in the past year other than needless death and destruction?

Not exactly sure who the "Kasparian mafia" is but according to this video Russia is exterminating them in Ukraine.

Booger says

Still waiting for the alleged offensive.

Now the rumor is that Ukraine will try to capture the huge stockpile of Soviet Era ammo on Transnistria.

They said winter offensive, they didn’t say what year. Those sneaky Russians we’re speculating about 2043.

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

They said winter offensive, they didn’t say what year. Those sneaky Russians we’re speculating about 2043.

Did the RUSSIANS say this or did US "news" or some lying US politician or Intelligence asset say this?

Makes a big difference, because the Smith-Mundt Act is no more.

richwicks says

Ted Kaczynski I know how similar feelings, but it was in regard to technology and how it WOULD be abused. He has an IQ of 160 it's said, he's really brilliant, he was a victim of MKUltra (I wasn't, AFAIK) and he just dropped out of society after a point,

WRONG. Ted Kacynski was just another psycho killer, no different than any other serial murderer. If he had "brains" and wanted to make a change, he would have targeted corporate leaders and politicians that were putting in place the policies he considered evil. Creating booby traps that killed random folks who happened to stumble across those traps is just another trait of a coward that likes to kill.

So, today was the Equinox which means the whatever is going on the winter offensive is over. Any notable achievements? I can't recollect any, but I could be wrong.

Eric Holder says

Any notable achievements?

Russia squandered huge amounts of manpower.

cisTits says

Booger says

Russia squandered huge amounts of manpower.

It's the Ukeys who did that. On the Russian side, Wagner Group and convicts have done most of the dying, not Russian Army regulars.

Link? Either way, this Russian military juggernaut can barely even control a sliver of a state the size of Texas. Congrats Russia! lol.

This whole thing is hysterical at this point. A bunch of morons fighting over something that was easily negotiable without the loss of life. They're all drunk idiots.

WookieMan says

A bunch of morons fighting over something that was easily negotiable

I see it as the US refusing to negotiate, and instead saying "Let's make Ukraine and Russia fight."