This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...
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Does thinking I'm mad and making an effort to quantify my posts help sooth your embarrassment? I would have thought the award offer would have helped patch things over.
Don't worry all the Ankeny town folk will still think you're the calm, cool and collected guy that prevented nuclear disaster rather than the guy who can't identify when he's being mocked.
JMY
I thought I was responding to someone else. Nevermind.
How does this war benefit Russia?
I'm thinking Putin is a horrendous strategist.
Can someone please explain?
TIA.
I'm thinking Putin is a horrendous strategist.
Can someone please explain?
TIA.
Russia has a lot of old military equipment that they needed to dispose of and this war is essentially a grand scale version of dumping trash in ditches. That is my best guess.
If this map is accurate it shows the precarious situation that Russian force NW of Kiev that we have been reading about is in. They may be being pinned in. 😀
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Not so tough in their normal clothes.
Putin assumed Ukraine was as weak as 8 years ago.
He assumed he could compel on the battlefield what had thus far eluded him at the diplomatic table - declared neutrality from Ukraine, recognition of Crimea as Russian, and either independence for Donetsk and Luhansk, or more suitably from the Russian perspective, membership in a federated Ukraine serving as a Russian bloc in Ukrainian politics.
They expected something akin to the US invasion of Panama. A few days of shooting and then the process of installing a new regime.
Instead they had split their forces in the face of well armed and determined enemy, squandering their numerical superiority, and putting extra burden on a clearly insufficient logistics train.
“Klotzen, nicht Kleckern!” as Heinz Guderian would say.
Did they force feed him like a foie gras duck? He looks 30 lbs heavier in the after. Apparently girdles are part of the Russian military kit
US Intelligence and Biden have been calling this since before the war started. They named the date of the invasion, and recognized that the size and supply buildup up was inadequate for the undertaking (when asked the day after the invasion began if the sanctions he was imposing would be enough, Biden answered "I'll get back to you in a month" - he knew Russia was sticking its foot in it. And a good rule of war is "never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
If their communication capability is messed up as some are reporting they may not even be aware of their situation.If this map is accurate it shows the precarious situation that Russian force NW of Kiev that we have been reading about is in. They may be being pinned in. 😀
What a shame. 😈
One might wonder if through all of these communication screw ups if NATO hasn't been a participant on some of the calls just relaying bad intel/commands. Seems like it might be pretty easy to do if they're using stolen cell phones to make some of these calls back to their officers.
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-10 Celsius which is 14 Fahrenheit. Still cold, but not what you were probably thinking.
And maybe tracing the calls back to the areas where these high ranking commanders are being bumped off.
Putin seems hung upon another Napoleonic maxim: “If you start to take [Kiev], take [Kiev].”
Overruning Kherson and encircling Mariupol isn’t the bargaining position he thought he’d hold after a month.
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That's still damn cold for late March! That's Canada-level cold this time of year. Odessa is a beach town, lol.
Wikipedia says average temperature in March is 46 degrees. Record high is 65 and record low is 3 (all Fahrenheit).
So yeah, 16 Fahrenheit is unseasonably cold, but not record-cold. (average low in March is 35 Fahrenheit)
They stopped selling everything but formula and medical, for real this time. All profits from Russia will go to Ukraine.
Irradiated trees burning and smoking out Belarus. Putin takes more L’s than any genius I’ve ever seen.
Damn can't read the article... Would love to hear more about this story.
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NYT report on Russia's communications debacle:
"Raining zinc coffins" may be what ultimately leads to the downfall of the Putin regime. Or someone hits Putin in the back of the head with a Louisville Slugger. I would prefer the bat option.
My amateur map reading implies this brings them VERY close to cutting off everything south of this. It would bring what looks like the only major road junction leading south towards Kyiv well into artillery range among other things. The Ukrainians might really manage to pinch it off
:: Hindenburg chuckles ::
:: Hindenburg chuckles ::
