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This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...

Further proof that what Russia has on the battlefield isn’t properly trained. Have seen so many videos of their troops getting annihilated and thinking wtf are they thinking.

They routinely do stupid shit because seemingly 95% of them aren't soldiers and haven't been trained. Just poor bastards inducted up into a terrorist gangster’s war of conquest.
 
For any sanctions aren’t working folks,


The only thing keeping the Russian economy afloat is military spending. They’ve ceased investment and development. The numbers are bleak. Economists are referring to it as reverse industrialization.
 
Russia talks about escalation? This is escalation. One step away from them using truly nasty stuff.

Page three of the Russian playbook. They flip to it when things are going poorly. See Syria.
 
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‘Very dangerous’ situation at Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, says IAEA chief​

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, has described the situation at Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine as “very dangerous” and very unstable.

The nuclear facility has lost its external power supply six times since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago, forcing emergency diesel generators to kick in to cool its reactors.

Grossi, who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the water level in a nearby reservoir controlled by Russian forces was another potential danger. Water supplied by the reservoir is used to cool the reactors.

He told Reuters:

If the reservoir level goes down beyond a certain level, then you don’t have water to cool down the reactors, and we have seen especially in January that the levels of the water were going down significantly. They recovered somehow in the past few weeks.
He added that there had been increasing military activity in the region without giving details.

Grossi, who yesterday met with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the Dnipro hydroelectric power station, northeast of the Zaporizhzhia plant, said his attempt to broker a deal to protect the plant was still alive, and that he was adjusting the proposals to seek a breakthrough.

 

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Probably true. I'd be much more worried about Trump attacking Moscow than Biden. You just didn't know how he'd react or what he might do.

I prefer Bidens approach here, but its conceivable that Putin wouldn't have done it with Trump in office due to not knowing how he would react.
Trump would have handed them Ukraine without an attack being necessary on the scale we see today.
 
I have waited for a bit, but I guess it’s time to celebrate 50,000 posts. Many thanks to so many people who have contributed so very much. I don’t want to name names as I am afraid I will miss someone, but we all know who you are.
I hope we can soon retire this thread with Russia leaving Ukraine with their tails between their legs.

Thanks again
 
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