Leopold

Does that guy have balls, though?? I mean, he's lost his leg up to his thigh, poor guy, so why not more?

Hey

Is that you??? Is this what happens to you if you fail at the front, as so many of your countrymen have, and yet manage to survive, as so many haven't???? Do you find yourself on an American website, trying to talk shite to good boys and dropouts who have become T-shirt college fans???

Nah. That guys a veteran. That guy has fought for Ukraine, so he probably has balls, both literally and figuratively.

It's okay, JB. I understand. No hard feellings. In fact, feel free to rub one out on me. It's not for me, but apparently it's your thing and I don't kink shame, you sicko:

So, the Russians were able to take less a thousand km in a year, lose some of that land back to the Ukrainians, and the Ukrainians are not only gaining a lead in technology and the drone game they are exploiting it to the point of dismantling not only major Russian businesses and entire industries but their logistical and financial foundations of the country as a whole.

All for a parcel of land smaller than Oklahoma City.

Well done, Vlad!!

JB!!!

Here, I learned some Russin for you, you Ruskie Bisch:



How's mommy's basement been treating you?

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Where in hell were the AD?
Was the swarm of drones and missiles so large that they just overwhelmed the AD?

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Possibly.

It's also possible that the Russian Air Defense is as capable, well-trained and ably manned as the rest of their military, which is to say they are completely incompetent and their against their will.

Either way, this continues until the war ends.

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Now they like Rybar

Shameless.

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I'm largely indifferent on Rybar as a source either way. Ukraine taking back their own granny hamlets doesn't change the trajectory of this war in any meaningful way - we're still going to be dealing with it come the 5th anniversary in February. It does, however, indicate that Rybar is indeed neutral if they are willing to report changes in advancement by both sides - good on them.

There is one small change, though, if these new findings are true. If the Ukrainians are, indeed, taking back some land then it means

Ukraine's winnning. :nana: :usa: :cheers:

Why, thank you for asking!!

A couple of reported ways of dying:

Killed by a car bomb in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast.

Killed by an explosive device in Moscow.[

Circumstances unknown; death reported by Ukrainian and Russian sources.

Killed by a car bomb on Yasenevaya Street in Moscow.

Killed at the bombing of Colonel-General Aleksandr Chayko's 55th birthday party in Moscow, arriving to the party in a vehicle with flashing emergency lights.


I would start biking to work if I was a remaining General....

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Russia is mobilizing for total war

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THEY'VE BEEN MOBILIZING FOR FIVE FUC'KING YEARS WHEN DOES IT START TO HAVE AN EFFECT

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Ukraine cannot match such enormous capacity on its own.

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No, but Europe can, and has multiple individual countries like France who have larger GDP's by themselves, and they are handing the Ukrainians all the weapons and financing they need to continue to kick the Russians teeth in.

And none of this answers the fundamental question of

WHEN DO THE RUSSIANS ACTUALLY LEARN HOW TO FIGHT??

Sending crap soldiers with crap guns using donkeys to get them there when you haven't fed, trained, armed or motiviated them has resulted in NOTHING.

Goddamn I'm amazed at the world's stupidity sometimes.

Well here's a poll from You.gov from earllier this year that shows that American's favor Urkaine 61% to 3% for Russia:

Poll: Americans favor sending more aid to Ukraine

It also states that

22% of Americans would maintain the same amount of aid
31% of Americans favor more aid
11% would decrease aid, and
13% would stop military aid altogether

So there's my source and that looks like a big advantage to me, and I'm willing to bet that it's gone up since then.

Now, let's all give TexAg a big hand for recovering from his hangover to join the conversation and show off his cool sunglasses:

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More "anything that isn't good for Ukraine is pro-Putin" rhetoric from the European establishment.

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Well, yeah, that's what happens when you have two nations fighting for their lives in a stupid war. Most people, European or not, understand this.

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At least from what I've seen, every single bullet point the AfD gets criticized for being "pro-Putin" on is something that is actually meant to help Germany.

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Not when the Russians have declared their intention to take over the European continent multiple times, threatened Germany multiple times, and even sent drones to attack a German airport. The AfD is selling out their own country for power and happy to take help and credit from a man who intends to either a) install them as puppets; b) cut their throats; or c) (and most likely) both.

We just talked about this - Russia is not going to stop. They are going to keep attacking and there is no middle ground. The reason for 'keeping oil prices down' is based on the strategy the Russians had before the war, which is to get the Europeans dependent on cheap Russian oil and then use it to blackmail them into submission, something that has already failed, like all of Putin's grand designs in this war. Any pretense otherwise is beyond naive.

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We are far too loose with labels nowadays on all sides of the aisle and internationally as well.

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Not here we aren't.

Putin is a fascist, a killer, and a loser, and anyone who makes peace with him is a fool and a walking dead man.

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Can they fully mobilize? I ask because they’ve threatened this for months now.

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They've been threatening it since 2022 when Putin signed a decree for mobilizaton:

Politico: Full text of Putin's 2022 mobilization decree

The hard answer is 'kind-of.'

They can continue to bring in 'recruits' by the hundreds of thousands but considering they are probably losing between 300k-500k a year to the meat grinder there isn't much chance of them building up a much larger army anytime soon.

The word is out that if you get sent to the war you're not coming back and nobody wants to go - would you? Keep in mind, they emptied out their jails three years ago and have nothing to show for it. So any chance of Russians going willingly, unless it's a 65 year old deep in debt with nothing to live for, is pretty much a 'no.'

So, no, they aren't going to mobilize like everybody is afraid of. But what if they did? What if I'm wrong? What would happen if they did manage to pull it together and force, say, a half a million men into their ranks? And there wasn't a revolt? What would happen?

Well, because the Russians lack an actual organized infrastructure and in-processing system they are going to fail to organize, train, and stand-up their new recruits in an organized and effective fashion. Then they are going to fail to get them to the front in an effective manner because they can't protect them or mass them in any way. And since they are untrained, disorganized, unwilling, and in many cases unarmed, you're just sending men to die by drones.

So what happens is just an extension of what has been happening - the Russians will send untrained, unmotivated, victims or naive dumbasses who believed the lies to die by the tens of thousands in small groups that take little to no ground. And that's before we discuss the political fallout.

So, no, by most measures they can't.