Ukraine invasion

Mark Milley says Russia has LOST the war: Chairman of Joint Chiefs claims Putin has been defeated 'strategically, operationally and tactically' and is now a 'global pariah'
  • Speaking in Brussels, Milley said Putin 'thought he could defeat Ukraine quickly, fracture the NATO alliance, and act with impunity. He was wrong.'
  • Ukraine is preparing for new Russian push as one-year anniversary approaches
  • The US. has provided artillery, ammunition, air defenses, and armored vehicles to Ukraine, with Abrams M1A2 tanks on the way
 
Top retired Russian general says Putin is leading his country to defeat and humiliation in Ukraine and blames the President for uniting the West with disastrous invasion
  • Retired army colonel-general Leonid Ivashov has been a vocal critic of Putin
  • Now, he has said the carnage in Ukraine as been worse than he imagined
 
Anybody want to go (re-education) camping?
It's uncanny how much the world is becoming as Orwell foresaw. Post-Soviet Russia seems to be sticking very closely to the 1984 script despite it being 75 years out of date. I wondered if Vlad's bedtime reading consisted of alternating sessions of 1984 and Mein Kampf, which would go a long way in explaining how he arrived at his solution to the Ukrainian question.
 
Convicted murderer released from jail to fight for Putin's Wagner thugs 'becomes second mercenary to be beaten to death with a sledgehammer' after he was accused of 'treason' for surrendering to Ukraine
  • Dmitry Yakushchenko, 44, was bludgeoned to death with the sledgehammer
  • He was accused of 'treason' for defecting to Ukraine after arriving on front line
  • It comes after Wagner fighter Yevgeny Nuzhin was executed with sledgehammer

 
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Second posting.

Here's bonus
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Another clumsy Russian falls to death out of tower block window.
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Top Putin defence official, 58, plunges 160ft to her death from 16th-floor tower block window - the latest high-ranking figure to die in a mysterious fall
  • Marina Yankina, 58, was discovered by a passerby at the entrance of a house
  • She was a key figure in the funding of Vladimir Putin's illegal war in Ukraine
 
Putin will deliver major speech within days amid fears Russia is amassing fighter jets on Ukraine's border for major new offensive
  • Russia is expected to launch new offensive to mark anniversary of invasion
  • Putin will deliver his annual State of the Nation speech on February 21
 








 
Another clumsy Russian falls to death out of tower block window.
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With all the blundering off balconies and the butter-fingered cigarette butt conflagrations, I'm beginning to think that the Russians are a somewhat careless race.
 








 
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- Ukrainian forces continue to lose ground along the line of contact;
- Bakhmut faces encirclement by Russian forces which Ukraine admits is using heavy artillery shelling, not "human waves" to destroy Ukrainian positions;
- NATO begins to admit to limits of what it can send Ukraine in terms of weapons and ammunition;
- Efforts by Western nations to increase production will still fall far short even after several years of expanding production lines;
- US announces plan to train Ukrainian forces to fight on less ammunition, using maneuver warfare instead;
-This requires long periods of complex training to be effective and is impractical for Ukrainian forces;
- The US is signaling that it is simply attempting to draw out the conflict for as long as possible;
 
With all the blundering off balconies and the butter-fingered cigarette butt conflagrations, I'm beginning to think that the Russians are a somewhat careless race.

And that's the difference between ordinary Russians, Oligarch class and western democracy. Ordinary Russians have no skin in the game, so couldn't care less, because they will never do better under Authoritarian dictatorship regimes.
 
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