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AmericanKulak says

cisTits says

Meanwhile, the Russians executed a substantial mobilization which has added upwards of 400,000 thousand effectives to their forces. Contrary to almost-universal predictions that Russian armaments would have long-since been exhausted, and their economy crumbled under the weight of western sanctions, neither has occurred.

The problem with the initial invasion is that the pro segment of the army was material rich but infantry poor, though well trained, but had no follow on forces to keep the areas they swept through clear and stop defeated elements of the AFU from regrouping. Then, because it was kept secret, there was no logistical prep to resupply the Russian advance AND the swept through areas were reoccupied by AFU elements since there was nothing to "Hold" the roads open.

As usual, after a year or two the Russians will get their shit together, in pret...

In the war which ended with Cossacks in Paris their opponent was fighting on multiple fronts. In the other war where they "got their shit together later" everybody loves to mention not only their opponent was fighting on multiple fronts but also decisive amounts of armaments, materiel and other supplies was handed to them by the allies (read USA). And in the war between these two thir opponent was also fighting on multiple fronts but they managed to completely collapse first as an army and then as a country. Oh, and in the smallish war before that one they had their ass handed to them both on land and on the sea (this is when their previous loss of a flagship happened, btw) by an "inferior" adversary supported by the West.

Which one of the scenarios are most similar to today's war?

The one mentioned the last checks most marks, imo: the opponent is not fighting on multiple fronts, the flagship is already lost and the Western support is there (albeit too little and too late).

No, almost every war. Multiple wars against Poland-Lithuania, Sweden, the Turks. Even the Winter War in Finland.

The battle of Poltava had the Swedes' rampaging through Poland-Lithuania and all over Russia and then Peter I got the Russian Army's shit together and broke Sweden's Great Power status forever. At the Battle of Narva a year earlier, the Swedes clobbered a Russian siege relief force 4x it's size.

Eventually the Russians get their shit together and the vastness of their resources and manpower come into play. Without a huge commitment of foreign troops in Ukraine, it's over and at the very least Russia keeps/takes Donbas and Crimea.

Putin tried to pull a Georgia in Ukraine using only the modernized faction of Russian Army units, but they didn't have the manpower to hold territory and had to withdraw for their inadequate supply lines. Once the additional troops are commited, it's game over for Ukraine, barring NATO intervention.

Appearing on the bought and paid for Neo-Con, MIC show "Hannity,"

Lindsey Graham Pushes For Escalation After Russian Downing Of U.S. Drone

The GOP hawk referenced Ronald Reagan on Fox News in suggesting a provocative response to the collision over the Black Sea.

“What would Ronald Reagan do right now? He would start shooting Russian planes down if they were threatening our assets.” Graham said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lindsey-graham-ronald-reagan-drone_n_64118db2e4b0a3902d2dc759

PS: There's only one way we get to World War III, and that's through the escalation on the part of the USA & NATO.

The escalation continues ...

Putin points fingers at the US once again over Nord Stream sabotage

Moscow, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed reports of possible Ukrainian involvement in the blasts that destroyed the Nord Stream Baltic gas pipelines in September as "total nonsense."

Such an action at this depth and on this scale could be carried out "only by specialists," Putin said in a television interview broadcast on Tuesday. "This also still requires the support of a state that has the appropriate technology."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-points-fingers-at-the-us-once-again-over-nord-stream-sabotage/ar-AA18Do49

Trump was the first POTUS in many years NOT to start a new war. He resisted the Neo-Cons attempt to invade Syria and Iran. IMO, this is one of the major reasons that the election was stolen from him. Check out this article:

Donald Trump Has Got It Right on World War 3

On Thursday, President Trump released a new “Agenda 47” video for his 2024 campaign and slammed what is going on in Ukraine, and our current criminal administration:

“We have never been closer to World War 3 than we are today under Joe Biden. A global conflict between nuclear-armed powers would mean death and destruction on a scale unmatched in human history. It would be nuclear armageddon.”

“Nothing is more important than avoiding that nightmare. We will avoid it, but we need new leadership. Every day this proxy battle in Ukraine continues, we risk global war. We must be absolutely clear that our objective is to immediately have a total cessation of hostilities. All shooting has to stop.”

“This is the central issue. We need peace without delay. In addition, there must also be a complete commitment to dismantle the entire globalist neocon establishment that is perpetually dragging us into endless wars, pretending to fight for freedom and democracy abroad, while they turn us into a third-world country and a third-world dictatorship right here at home,” said President Trump.
https://www.americaoutloud.com/trumps-got-it-right-on-world-war-3/

Is this a peaceful move, or, will this edge us closer to WW III?

NATO Looking to Send 300,000 Troops to the Russian Border
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2023/03/19/nato-looking-to-send-300000-troops-to-the-russian-border-n1679663

RayAmerica says

Is this a peaceful move, or, will this edge us closer to WW III?

NATO Looking to Send 300,000 Troops to the Russian Border
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2023/03/19/nato-looking-to-send-300000-troops-to-the-russian-border-n1679663

With shotguns and pistols?

Why is China interfering with the USA's plan for starting World War III? How dare they attempt to make peace?

US Secretary Of State Rebuffs China - No Diplomatic Solution Without Total Russian Pullback (which is never going to happen)
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/secretary-state-rebuffs-china-no-diplomatic-solution-without-total-russian-pullback

GNL says

With shotguns and pistols?

birdshot and blanks?

RayAmerica says

US Secretary Of State Rebuffs China - No Diplomatic Solution Without Total Russian Pullback (which is never going to happen)

Hesitant to believe Russia will pull back. They want the land bridge to Crimea. Frankly they're idiots. Ukraine is no saint either. Negotiate a land deal. Give them their god damn road/rail and negotiate a resource deal for crops or whatever.

Ukraine is more corrupt, but Russia is just looking like a massive moron at this point. Negotiate. Give them money for the land you want with negotiations over resources. It's not complicated. They're going to piss away an entire generation of men and have demographic issues for decades. Russian women will flee to the west and Russia is fucked as usual for a century.

John Bolton is Mad that Ron DeSantis is Not Gung-Ho About Waging War Against Russia

After Florida Governor Ron DeSantis offered the reasonable, realist perspective that the Russo-Ukrainian conflict does not merit any further United States involvement, the neoconservative and superhawk wings of the Republican Party went bonkers. After the launch of Russia’s “special military operation” into Ukraine on February 24, 2023 these wings of the party consolidated to support waging a proxy war against Russia. For them, anyone who dared question such actions against Russia would be deemed a Putin apologist or agent of the Kremlin. Well it looks like DeSantis might be on the Russian government’s payroll.

Bolton said the following on Twitter on March 16, 2023:

I am disappointed by @GovRonDeSantis comments on Ukraine. Whatever the political strategy was, I think that it was wrong and in terms of geopolitics it was badly wrong. The conflict in Ukraine is of vital interest to the US and we deserve leaders who understand the importance of America’s global priorities.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/john-bolton-is-mad-that-ron-desantis-is-not-gung-ho-about-waging-war-against-russia/

PS: Has there ever been a military action or war that this psychopath hasn't enthusiastically supported?

Wunderwaffen being positioned for the WWIII: https://twitter.com/Seveerity/status/1638556341022121985?ref_src=patrick.net

Eric Holder says

Wunderwaffen being position for the WWIII: https://twitter.com/Seveerity/status/1638556341022121985?ref_src=patrick.net

BUT THEY HAVE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF THESE TANKS! AND THEY HAVE NOT EVEN STARTED USING T-34/85's!!!!

On a more serious note, owners of the largest and most combat-ready army in Europe, namely Poland, has said that if Ukraine loses, they may have to enter war with Russia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77SJi87RKJ0

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/polish-ambassador-to-france-does-not-rule-out-direct-polish-intervention-in-ukraine-war/2850995

News do not appear in Western media too much, clip is from Azerbaijani news source and article from Turkish sources.

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WookieMan says

Hesitant to believe Russia will pull back. They want the land bridge to Crimea. Frankly they're idiots. Ukraine is no saint either. Negotiate a land deal.

Ukraine won't negotiate. They "negotiated" to end the civil war in Ukraine for 8 fucking years.

Ukraine is completely a puppet government, Zelenskyy has no agency. If Russia wishes to negotiate, they have to negotiate with the United States, and does the US have ANY interest in stopping this war?

I heard Putin put some Moscow protesters in jail for a few weeks.

How horrible is that - non violent protesters held in jail for a few weeks, pending trial. Then they got a few more weeks after being convicted for blocking traffic or throwing trash.

Thank goodness this kind of tyranny doesn't happen to Protesters in DC.

WookieMan says

RayAmerica says

US Secretary Of State Rebuffs China - No Diplomatic Solution Without Total Russian Pullback (which is never going to happen)

Hesitant to believe Russia will pull back. They want the land bridge to Crimea. Frankly they're idiots. Ukraine is no saint either. Negotiate a land deal. Give them their god damn road/rail and negotiate a resource deal for crops or whatever.

Ukraine is more corrupt, but Russia is just looking like a massive moron at this point. Negotiate. Give them money for the land you want with negotiations over resources. It's not complicated. They're going to piss away an entire generation of men and have demographic issues for decades. Russian women will flee to the west and Russia is fucked as usual for a century.

How would you sell to your constituence the idea of just giving up half of your country and turning it into a land-locked rump of its former self? Then, supposedly you successful in doing that, what would prevent Pukin from going for the rest of it in couple of years? With the benefit of diminished strategic depths at his side, among other things. Some kind of piece of paper he signed? LOL

RWSGFY says

How would you sell to your constituence the idea of just giving up half of your country and turning it into a land-locked rump of its former self?

Zelenskyy got elected because he promised to end the civil war in Ukraine. If that had happened, Russia wouldn't have attacked Ukraine, or at least, Russia wouldn't have had that excuse to go into Ukraine.

Zelenskyy is just a puppet, the US wants this war, it will continue for years I expect. Hopefully I'm wrong about this but we'll see.

Ukraine is already going to end up a land locked country, it may not even exist in 5 years as Ukraine.

Don't trust DeSantis. He's willing to kill people in wars if it helps him get elected POTUS. Make no mistake about it; the psychopath Neo-Cons control this man.

DeSantis Says ‘War Criminal’ Putin Should Be ‘Held Accountable’ Days After Saying Ukraine Not a ‘Vital’ U.S. Interest

DeSantis angered Republican hawks, Never Trumpers, and neocons less than two weeks ago when he characterized the Ukraine-Russia conflict as a “territorial dispute” that is not a “vital” U.S. interests.

DeSantis had told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson:

"While the U.S. has many vital national interests — securing our border, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence, checking the economic, cultural, and military power of the Chinese Communist Party — becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them."
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/22/desantis-says-war-criminal-putin-should-be-held-accountable-days-after-saying-ukraine-not-a-vital-u-s-interest/

Can someone give @Eric Holder a new keyboard? I think his caps keys are broken.

Kremlin: We'll Attack Any Country That Tries To Arrest Putin

There's been a number of new developments including tit-for-tat warnings and threats following the International Criminal Court's (ICC) last Friday issuance of an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The most blistering and alarming attack on the Hague-based court this week has been from former Russian president and current deputy chairman of the security council Dmitry Medvedev, who said any attempt to actually arrest Putin would be an act of war.

First, on Monday he said, "It’s quite possible to imagine a hypersonic missile being fired from the North Sea from a Russian ship at The Hague courthouse." He added as part of the warning: "Everyone walks under God and rockets… Look carefully to the sky..."

In follow-up on Wednesday he said in a video statement posted to Telegram that any "arrest" would surely spark world war 3...

"Let's imagine — obviously this situation which will never be realized — but nevertheless lets imagine that it was realized: The current head of the nuclear state went to a territory, say Germany, and was arrested," Medvedev said.

"What would that be? It would be a declaration of war on the Russian Federation," he continued. "And in that case, all our assets — all our missiles et cetera — would fly to the Bundestag, to the Chancellor's office."

Medvedev was responding to Germany saying it plans to cooperate with the ICC and arrest Putin if he were to ever fly to German soil.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/well-attack-any-country-tries-arrest-putin-kremlin

The biggest business in America is WAR.

WWIII Brewing? U.S. Launches Airstrikes in Syria after Drone Kills Contractor

'No group will strike our troops with impunity...'

(Headline USA) A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded five American troops and another contractor in northeast Syria, the Pentagon said.

American forces said they retaliated soon after with “precision airstrikes” in Syria targeting facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, with activist groups saying they killed at least four people.

The attack and the U.S. response threaten to upend recent efforts to deescalate tensions across the wider Middle East, whose rival powers have made steps toward détente in recent days after years of turmoil.
https://headlineusa.com/wwiii-brewing-u-s-launches-airstrikes-in-syria-after-drone-kills-contractor/

Russia To Station Tactical Nukes In Belarus By July, Putin Says On State TV

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-station-tactical-nukes-belarus-july-putin-says-state-tv

RayAmerica says

A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded five American troops and another contractor in northeast Syria, the Pentagon said.

“Why the fuck are US contractors and troops in Syria?” An innocent American said.

Supporting Ukraine sure was worth it, wasn't it? Woke America can't win a war against China, let alone one that includes Russia as an ally of China. Way to go Joe Biden ... the worst, most corrupt, and dangerous President in my lifetime.

China Open to Strengthening Military ‘Coordination’ with Russia
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2023/03/31/china-open-strengthening-military-coordination-russia/

“The Chinese military is willing to work together with the Russian military to fully implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, further strengthening strategic communication and coordination,” Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Col. Tan Kefei said.

Tan said this enhanced cooperation could include more joint exercises and patrols, such as the five days of training held in the Gulf of Oman by China, Russia, and Iran during the week of March 15. Tan said the exercises would help the three authoritarian countries to “jointly carry out diversified maritime military missions.”

Russia: New Cold War is Over, We Are Now in ‘Hot Conflict With the United States’
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/04/06/russia-new-cold-war-is-over-we-are-now-in-hot-conflict-with-the-united-states/

"... the way our American opponents are recklessly, provocatively, and in many respects absolutely carelessly moving up the escalation ladder, the way they are blinded by their absolutely absurd certainty about their ability to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia makes one doubt their mental faculties and their common sense.”

The U.S. is “playing with fire” and was risking making “fatal mistakes”, Ryabkov said, saying the Russian Federation “will be ready to take all measures and to use all means at our disposal” if there were attempts to encroach on their sovereignty.

A little of topic here, but why would anyone use nukes when massive EMP's that rock us back to the stone age might be just as effective?

RedStar says

A little of topic here, but why would anyone use nukes when massive EMP's that rock us back to the stone age might be just as effective?

The Russians are saying that they are willing 'to use all means' at their 'disposal.' Their use of nuclear weapons doesn't rule out using EMPs as well, IMO. Whatever the case, we are playing with matches inside of a warehouse that is stacked to the rafters with dynamite.

RedStar says

A little of topic here, but why would anyone use nukes when massive EMP's that rock us back to the stone age might be just as effective?

Isn't a nuke the method to make a massive EMP?

Zelenskyy has now said he’s open to peace talks with Russia if only they let him have a few wins first, just to take back some of the territory he’s lost.
He sounds fucking pathetic.
His army is just about destroyed.
Russia will be the ones dictating terms.

HeadSet says

RedStar says

A little of topic here, but why would anyone use nukes when massive EMP's that rock us back to the stone age might be just as effective?

Isn't a nuke the method to make a massive EMP?

Yes. From what I understand of it, it's a nuclear bomb set off above the atmosphere. The atmosphere is charged, moving it suddenly creates a magnetic and electrical surge, this hits all circuits with eddy currents, and it blows everything out.

richwicks says

Yes. From what I understand of it, it's a nuclear bomb set off above the atmosphere. The atmosphere is charged, moving it suddenly creates a magnetic and electrical surge, this hits all circuits with eddy currents, and it blows everything out.

Yep, and Air Force jets like the KC-135 are actually hardened to be able take an EMP pulse and continue functioning.

US Will Threaten Europe To Implement Sanctions on Russia

Two officials from the Treasury Department will visit European allies to demand trade with Russia ends

by Kyle Anzalone April 7, 2023

The White House plans to send a clear message to its European partners in the economic war against Russia, "you are either with us or against us." Two US Treasury officials will visit European and Central Asian partners next month to demand all sanctions on Russia be implemented.

Treasury officials Liz Rosenberg and Brian Nelson will meet with leaders of financial institutions in Switzerland, Italy and Germany. The AP reports the officials will have a simple message, "1. Continue to provide Moscow with material support or 2. Keep doing business with countries that represent 50 percent of the global economy."

More here: https://news.antiwar.com/2023/04/07/us-will-threaten-europe-to-implement-sanctions-on-russia/

War Drums: China Encircles Taiwan, Says Military is ‘Ready to Fight’

Communist China encircled Taiwan as part of the nation’s latest round of military drills and simulations and now says that the People’s Liberation Army, the military arm of the Chinese Communist Party, is “ready to fight” in an offensive war against the small island that sits just off the coast of mainland China.

https://nationalfile.com/war-drums-china-encircles-taiwan-says-military-is-ready-to-fight/

BREAKING: LEAKED US DEFENSE DOCUMENTS SHOWS WESTERN FORCES ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE! …And Countries ARE NAMED in Leaked Document!

According to the document, dated 23 March, the UK has the largest contingent of special forces in Ukraine (50), followed by fellow Nato states Latvia (17), France (15), the US (14) and the Netherlands (1).

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/breaking-leaked-us-defense-documents-shows-western-forces-on-the-ground-in-ukraine-and-countries-are-named-in-leaked-document/

PS: President Truman was the first to send 'military advisors' into what was then known as French Indochina, later named Viet Nam. At first, America's presence made up a small contingency, but during the peak of the Viet Nam War, America's troop strength reached 543,000+. Could this escalate to that level?

Do we really want to risk a major war with Russia in their part of the world? Don't count on NATO, it's a paper tiger! And, if Russia gets backed into a corner, they WILL use their nuclear arsenal to defend their country.

Chances are such a low number are trainers for small groups of UA. It's too few to be advisors.

One thing I do wonder is how many Western Contractors are there.

AmericanKulak says

One thing I do wonder is how many Western Contractors are there.

Many. Who cares? Let them fucking destroy themselves. It's hysterical it's even a debate among Americans. If you want to go die, go for it if you're doing it voluntarily. Again, who cares?

RayAmerica said, “ Don't count on NATO, it's a paper tiger! And, if Russia gets backed into a corner, they WILL use their nuclear arsenal to defend their country.”

True. Last month the EU voted to send 2 billion in arms to Ukraine. These were to come from member nations who would be reimbursed for the munitions. They swiftly realized that there simply weren’t that many munitions in the EU to buy and send to Ukraine!
Paper tiger indeed.
And their citizens are mostly disarmed.