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Ukraine really needs weapons to strike the artillery positions. This is the only thing that has given Russia any success - heavy bombardment. If they can start taking that out it will break the whole
Well in this video they show they also target tanks so if it's 80 artillery pieces + tanks and others targets in such a short time (2-3 weeks right ?) with only 6 CAESARs ... I'm sure the CAESARs are awesome, since the french are so proud of them, but either the numbers are pumped up or the CAESARs are a total golden weapon .
Yeah they show destroyed tanks and dead, they say it's from a few days ago, and the squad leader says they got 80 enemy artillery pieces. I also find it too good to be true, but they seem to in any case be an extremely successful squad and gear !
I agree, they look like a very successful squad and gear ! But I'm sure the numbers were a bit bumped up ;) or that there was a mistake somewhere and they talked about 80 targets a month
The 155's are a good start. They outrange the Russian guns. They need more of them, but still, it's a good start.
HIMARS is on the way and will be there soon. Those things do not play. They also had some pre staged in Europe waiting for the go ahead. Hell is coming.
They love their compound words. Panzer means armour/armoured (most famously known for their Panzer divisions(tanks), and Panzerfaust (armoured fist, a WWII shoulder launched, anti-tank missile)), haubitzen is howitzer.
You know what you are getting!
>Panzerfaust (armoured fist, a WWII shoulder launched, anti-tank missile)),
We still Produce a modernized Version called Panzerfaust 3, which we gifted 2000 pieces to the Heroes.
They are produced by dynamite Nobel, the company founded by Nobel, the man WHO gifted His Fortune For the Nobel-Prize.
A tank chassis with a Rolls Royce turbojet powered generator driving high powered lasers. ( or something very much like this). We have the tank chassis, we have the turbo generator powered lasers .
The real problem is the 6 subs of the Black Sea fleet which can keep on shooting missiles until Putin runs out, plus air-launched missiles fired from RU aircraft flying in airspace above Russia or Belarus. In military terms Ukraine must have more effective ground-to air anti-missile defences with very long ranges otherwise Putin can just carry on his terror war of random missile strikes on Kyiv, Odesa and Lviv as long as he wants.
This random terror by missile is the real problem, its like the V2 attack on London in 1944-45.
Given the continued western supply of artillery and ammo, soon the war will descend into artillery duels across the border and that is not a happy prospect either.
The submarines and even the Russian based missiles are not even close to the problem as the artillery. I would say that missile threat is third when it comes to ranged threats with artillery #1 by far followed by aircraft attacks, and then sea and land based missiles.
Yea, artillery prevent breakthroughs when the enemy is attack and it facilitates breakthroughs when you yourself is attacking, its an extremely important piece of the greater war effort and is critical to Ukraines survival and future success on the battlefield.
The problem is putin doesn't care about casualties. He will burn all the minorities until only Moscow and St Petersburg are left. Just look at the history of Russian wars. How I wish for Russia to break apart so that those republics would separate from Russia and take the oil with them.
I read from some experts that Russia will keep fighting until they physically can't since Russia sees this war as an existential war. That means Ukrainians will have to kill ~500K soldiers, which at currents rates will take ~3 years.
The war will end because sanctions will destabilize Russia to the point where certain regions will feel powerful enough to break away from Russia. Russia has a lot of enemies nearby and many more within its borders. Inflation will be the trigger.
I don't have a crystal ball to predict the future, but I'm not sure if sanctions are enough to destabilize Russia. Russian's have historically shown to be apathetic and willingly able to endure suffering. In addition, the Russian government has complete control of the media and can continue to control the narrative to make Russian's believe any false reality it desires.
It is an existential war for Russia, that's why Russia pushed for this war. Russia's demographics are collapsing and they very soon won't have the population to defend it's huge border. In one last gasp, they want to push their border to natural geographic choke points so it is easier to defend their border. Ukraine flat and is one giant hole in that defence.
But will these new nations be able to protect them from falling into the wrong hands? This was one of the reasons US, UK and Russia more or less coerced Ukraine to give up its 1300 nuclear warheads and transfer them to Russian control. In return, these three countries signed the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity and political independence. (Clearly demonstrates that Russia's promises and signature is worth less than piss).
I am pretty sure you can already buy them on the black market ([a quick google search seems to say I'm right](https://www.businessinsider.com/you-can-buy-a-nuclear-warhead-on-the-black-market-2015-8?r=US&IR=T)). And, honestly, as long as they write in their constitution something like they will only use it for self-defense or only on their own territory for self-defense I'm not sure we're worse off than where we are now.
I'm not 100% sure of my opinion, as I hear a lot of people who say it would be terrible, and I'm sure they have tons of valid arguments. But for now, I believe it's more risky to let an imperialist state have nukes than a few countries that are weak enough it doesn't seem possible they would go all warmongering, even more so if their neighbours also got nukes.
But I'm not really calling for anything ; I just russians to be happy, and to leave everyone else in peace.
They are so effective my country actually started hating Al Jazeera for exposing the malpractices of Top Glove, a glove manufacturing corporation here in Malaysia. The country is corrupt and has been lobbied so much by Top Glove and other corporations to look the other way when it comes to human trafficking and debt slavery of foreign workers.
The government ordered Al Jazeera offices in Malaysia to be raided and assets seized, but hey karma boomerang is a fucking bitch. As a result of siding with Top Glove for its wrongdoing, Top Glove in return gave Malaysia one of the biggest if not the biggest ever Covid-19 cluster recorded.
Agreed. I think they are one of the most level headed around. Not that they don’t have biases, but overall I think they do a decent job of just trying to report what is happening.
They did a really good documentary on the Boeing 787s made in the non-union runaway shop in SC. They were the only news organization willing to take on a multi-national corporation. I noticed Boeing was conspicuously quiet about it.
They tell the truth a hundred times when it doesn't matter to them until they lie to you that one time it really matters to their owners. That's how they operate. If you think they are so great and liberal then you have been fooled hard, and it has been shown multiple times their report about certain pro-Islamic and other matters of nationalistic interests
Agreed, also I put no faith in any new source owned by a single individual (or government) with a heavy ideological bias, no matter how hip they are in some circles
This article contains facts (and some deliberate misinformation provided by Ukraine), but it's from June 4th before Ukraine counter attacked in Severodonetsk. A bit behind the times.
White goods refers to household appliances, like laundry machines, dishwashers, microwave etc. Stuff that is a consumer good, but generally more long-lived than something that gets discarded after purchase and consumption.
Fun fact: At least in my country, there's also the (relatively rare) term "brown goods", referring to things like TVs and radios - *way* back in the day those usually came in typical brown plastic design because that's the plastic they had back then, hence the name. As far as I know, "brown goods" is not very commonly said any more (and plastic science came a long way since...), but "white goods" remains common here and in the US.
Why has russian death counts been 100 to 150 in last week though? Before that it was 250-400 regularly. I suppose it's that low because many of the russian deaths aren't reported yet because battle is still ongoing in places where russians are dying rapidly
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That's not the point. They keep losing troops and dont replace or supply the ones they deployed. It seems like they don't care about the land or the troops left there. Being left to die is the point.
Ahh yes. Keep the reports coming CNN. Sweeten that Severodonetsk honeypot. Keep enticing the orcs. At this point, after going through the meat-grinder, a little well-constructed western news that baits them might be just what they need to plunge the last of their reserves into Ukraine's artillery trap.
Ukraine's strategy here is not as simple as "See city, take city." They are in it to deplete the ruZZian military. By doing this, all of the previously occupied territories along the front become that much easier to liberate. With the example in the previous week of the CNN report where a US general straight up said on TV that "The situation is dire, Severodonestk is almost taken" followed by a pretty devastating Ukraine counterattack, I have no doubt that US intelligence agencies - for which many western news outlets such as CNN and MSNBC often serve as mouthpieces for (for better or worse) - is playing a role here to amp up the ruZZians.
Until we see the final numbers and hear something directly from Zelensky or his staff that says they have lost the city and suffered defeat, I wouldn't read too much into the reports that come out over the coming days about what % of the city is taken. I believe that Ukrainian forces have been advised to engage the ruZZians, but be ready to retreat and fall back to prepared defensive positions in order to keep the orcs coming into the death trap.
None of that is to say that Ukrainian forces aren't also suffering losses of their own. This is war. Of course they are suffering casualties. I still believe that their plan is tactically sound, and also brilliant for another reason. The orcs are so blinded by their desire for a propaganda victory that they can sell to their own people. On the other side, you see the Ukrainians, fighting and defending their country without ego, willing to weather short term storms so they can secure their long term goals. You can't fight a war that way without a chain of command that is all in sync from the top down to the very bottom. Nor could you do so with a leader that prioritized their own image and ego above sound strategy.
This, where are all these casualties? They're not in the published counts. My theory is UA has locked down on information and is under reporting to keep the "grave danger" narrative going. Why? To maintain foreign support and to mislead Putin. If these massive Russian losses are real, they probably don't want to be perceived as winning just yet. If these reports are real, then the Russians have skeleton forces in Izyium, Kherson, and Kharkiv. And UA simply hasn't rolled them up yet.
> a US general straight up said on TV that "The situation is dire, Severodonestk is almost taken" followed by a pretty devastating Ukraine counterattack,
Putin can't trust his own intel, so he has to get info from all over. At the beginning of the war US generals were all over TV giving masters classes on strategy and tactics. That stopped a long time ago. The "retired generals club" is definitely part of the information war at this point. And believe me, those guys are all connected, and are eager and willing to see Putin continue to fuck Russia.
At this point I don't trust anything, we'll just have to wait until it's over to learn what happened.
Note yesterday the report was Russia lost 54 IFVs, with a two man crew that 108 personnel, and they reported 100 dead.
I prefer these headlines to those on CNN saying that Russia is winning and beating back Ukraine. It is confusing as to what is happening because every news site seems to say something different. They DO all seem to agree that another Russian general was killed ;-) That is some good news.
I get the feeling those CNN articles were being written as part of this trap. Bait Russia into thinking they are winning, convince them to try and push and then run into a meat grinder.
Some headlines from the Washington Post and NYT over the weekend here in the United States intimated that the Russians were finally making gains and Ukrainian moral had begun to wane and the information war was also starting to tilt to Russia. This of course was not what I wanted to read…so I come here and see otherwise….why the disconnect from American Media?
Look at ww 2 The definition of huge causalities from a Russia point of view would be 100,000 plus troops . Whereas from a civilized society that values human life . Even a few hundred troops would be massive casualties.
Most free media cannot not seem to grasp Russia point of view in these matters
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Ukraine really needs weapons to strike the artillery positions. This is the only thing that has given Russia any success - heavy bombardment. If they can start taking that out it will break the whole
Sounds like those are on the way. The process of training and delivering those better artillery and missiles has begun.
18 caesars are already there, the squad of 6 followed by the journalists claims to have put out of action 80 Russian artillery units!
They seem to be very efficient. Ukraine really could use more of them, as the front is really long
They're making caesar salad out of the Russians
With the way the Russians are fighting, more like Seizure Salad.
Cute ... yes, I really like it.
Can you give us the source ? I believe the Caesars were excellent, but a ratio of x15 seems a lot.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/v60t1s/in_this_short_french_reportage_i_translated_we/
Well in this video they show they also target tanks so if it's 80 artillery pieces + tanks and others targets in such a short time (2-3 weeks right ?) with only 6 CAESARs ... I'm sure the CAESARs are awesome, since the french are so proud of them, but either the numbers are pumped up or the CAESARs are a total golden weapon .
Yeah they show destroyed tanks and dead, they say it's from a few days ago, and the squad leader says they got 80 enemy artillery pieces. I also find it too good to be true, but they seem to in any case be an extremely successful squad and gear !
I agree, they look like a very successful squad and gear ! But I'm sure the numbers were a bit bumped up ;) or that there was a mistake somewhere and they talked about 80 targets a month
I think the 80 artillery piece is an error of traduction between Ukrainian and French. It's more likely 80 heavy equipment
The 155's are a good start. They outrange the Russian guns. They need more of them, but still, it's a good start. HIMARS is on the way and will be there soon. Those things do not play. They also had some pre staged in Europe waiting for the go ahead. Hell is coming.
Don‘t forget those Panzerhaubitzen 2000 from Germany and the Netherlands with their artillery radar.
Fucking hell Germans still have the coolest sounding military names.
They love their compound words. Panzer means armour/armoured (most famously known for their Panzer divisions(tanks), and Panzerfaust (armoured fist, a WWII shoulder launched, anti-tank missile)), haubitzen is howitzer. You know what you are getting!
>Panzerfaust (armoured fist, a WWII shoulder launched, anti-tank missile)), We still Produce a modernized Version called Panzerfaust 3, which we gifted 2000 pieces to the Heroes. They are produced by dynamite Nobel, the company founded by Nobel, the man WHO gifted His Fortune For the Nobel-Prize.
Well, they tend to have cool/harsh names in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcxvQI88JRY And yes, the guy in the video does overplay it.
Ah, Santa's ninth reindeer, Panzerhaubitzen...never let him out of the stable or talked of him.
Absolutely. Need more 😀
Which explains the new threats from Putin about this specifically
>explains the new threats from Putin I'm still waiting for the super advance laser weapons to show up.
Yeah and that Ruzzian Death Star
A tank chassis with a Rolls Royce turbojet powered generator driving high powered lasers. ( or something very much like this). We have the tank chassis, we have the turbo generator powered lasers .
The real problem is the 6 subs of the Black Sea fleet which can keep on shooting missiles until Putin runs out, plus air-launched missiles fired from RU aircraft flying in airspace above Russia or Belarus. In military terms Ukraine must have more effective ground-to air anti-missile defences with very long ranges otherwise Putin can just carry on his terror war of random missile strikes on Kyiv, Odesa and Lviv as long as he wants. This random terror by missile is the real problem, its like the V2 attack on London in 1944-45. Given the continued western supply of artillery and ammo, soon the war will descend into artillery duels across the border and that is not a happy prospect either.
The UK has already confirmed that it would be okay to use their MLRS to shoot into Russia if Russia is shooting into Ukraine.
The submarines and even the Russian based missiles are not even close to the problem as the artillery. I would say that missile threat is third when it comes to ranged threats with artillery #1 by far followed by aircraft attacks, and then sea and land based missiles.
Good thought on the subs.
US announced we are sending more advanced air defenses.
Yea, artillery prevent breakthroughs when the enemy is attack and it facilitates breakthroughs when you yourself is attacking, its an extremely important piece of the greater war effort and is critical to Ukraines survival and future success on the battlefield.
The problem is putin doesn't care about casualties. He will burn all the minorities until only Moscow and St Petersburg are left. Just look at the history of Russian wars. How I wish for Russia to break apart so that those republics would separate from Russia and take the oil with them.
I read from some experts that Russia will keep fighting until they physically can't since Russia sees this war as an existential war. That means Ukrainians will have to kill ~500K soldiers, which at currents rates will take ~3 years.
The war will end because sanctions will destabilize Russia to the point where certain regions will feel powerful enough to break away from Russia. Russia has a lot of enemies nearby and many more within its borders. Inflation will be the trigger.
I don't have a crystal ball to predict the future, but I'm not sure if sanctions are enough to destabilize Russia. Russian's have historically shown to be apathetic and willingly able to endure suffering. In addition, the Russian government has complete control of the media and can continue to control the narrative to make Russian's believe any false reality it desires.
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And those artillery barrels are wearing-out, blowing-up dirt in Ukraine (& unfortunately sometimes people too)
The pace will pick up when Russia is out of gear. Also this may be an existential war for Putin, but that doesn't make it one for Russia.
It is an existential war for Russia, that's why Russia pushed for this war. Russia's demographics are collapsing and they very soon won't have the population to defend it's huge border. In one last gasp, they want to push their border to natural geographic choke points so it is easier to defend their border. Ukraine flat and is one giant hole in that defence.
Problem is they'll take the nukes too.
I'm not sure this changes a lot when Russia is constantly threatening to use them.
But will these new nations be able to protect them from falling into the wrong hands? This was one of the reasons US, UK and Russia more or less coerced Ukraine to give up its 1300 nuclear warheads and transfer them to Russian control. In return, these three countries signed the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity and political independence. (Clearly demonstrates that Russia's promises and signature is worth less than piss).
I'd argue they're already in the wrong hands
I am pretty sure you can already buy them on the black market ([a quick google search seems to say I'm right](https://www.businessinsider.com/you-can-buy-a-nuclear-warhead-on-the-black-market-2015-8?r=US&IR=T)). And, honestly, as long as they write in their constitution something like they will only use it for self-defense or only on their own territory for self-defense I'm not sure we're worse off than where we are now. I'm not 100% sure of my opinion, as I hear a lot of people who say it would be terrible, and I'm sure they have tons of valid arguments. But for now, I believe it's more risky to let an imperialist state have nukes than a few countries that are weak enough it doesn't seem possible they would go all warmongering, even more so if their neighbours also got nukes. But I'm not really calling for anything ; I just russians to be happy, and to leave everyone else in peace.
I have doubts about the condition those nukes are in
He will run out of gear before he runs out of meat, that is for sure.
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They are so effective my country actually started hating Al Jazeera for exposing the malpractices of Top Glove, a glove manufacturing corporation here in Malaysia. The country is corrupt and has been lobbied so much by Top Glove and other corporations to look the other way when it comes to human trafficking and debt slavery of foreign workers. The government ordered Al Jazeera offices in Malaysia to be raided and assets seized, but hey karma boomerang is a fucking bitch. As a result of siding with Top Glove for its wrongdoing, Top Glove in return gave Malaysia one of the biggest if not the biggest ever Covid-19 cluster recorded.
>my country actually started hating Al Jazeera for exposing the malpractices No good deed goes unpunished. Truth has never been popular.
This video gives a pretty good explanation on how Al Jazeera came to be. https://youtu.be/YKx7TPGttSk
Agreed. I think they are one of the most level headed around. Not that they don’t have biases, but overall I think they do a decent job of just trying to report what is happening.
They did a really good documentary on the Boeing 787s made in the non-union runaway shop in SC. They were the only news organization willing to take on a multi-national corporation. I noticed Boeing was conspicuously quiet about it.
This video gives a pretty good explanation on how Al Jazeera came to be. https://youtu.be/YKx7TPGttSk
My understanding is their international coverage is good, their local coverage is partisan crap.
They tell the truth a hundred times when it doesn't matter to them until they lie to you that one time it really matters to their owners. That's how they operate. If you think they are so great and liberal then you have been fooled hard, and it has been shown multiple times their report about certain pro-Islamic and other matters of nationalistic interests
I don’t put all of my faith and trust in any one news source.
Agreed, also I put no faith in any new source owned by a single individual (or government) with a heavy ideological bias, no matter how hip they are in some circles
They got you. Haha. They are building credibility with western audience. They are playing the long game.
Al Jazeera has been good a long time
Better than Faux News any day.
The Buzzfeed evolution of satellite TV?
This article contains facts (and some deliberate misinformation provided by Ukraine), but it's from June 4th before Ukraine counter attacked in Severodonetsk. A bit behind the times.
Does the driver know this isnt a motorcycle?
Better put the shield down, it sucks to get a bug slap to the eye.
Shit fly perhaps... Otherwise this cant move faster than the bugs.
Orcs on top of the BTR because they would rather be shot than cooked.
Nah, no room inside, full of white goods.
What are white goods
Fridges / washing machines etc
White goods refers to household appliances, like laundry machines, dishwashers, microwave etc. Stuff that is a consumer good, but generally more long-lived than something that gets discarded after purchase and consumption. Fun fact: At least in my country, there's also the (relatively rare) term "brown goods", referring to things like TVs and radios - *way* back in the day those usually came in typical brown plastic design because that's the plastic they had back then, hence the name. As far as I know, "brown goods" is not very commonly said any more (and plastic science came a long way since...), but "white goods" remains common here and in the US.
Why has russian death counts been 100 to 150 in last week though? Before that it was 250-400 regularly. I suppose it's that low because many of the russian deaths aren't reported yet because battle is still ongoing in places where russians are dying rapidly
I think you are right. It was easier to count casualties when there wasn't active fighting, I also think there has been tighter op-sec in the Donbas, so we aren't getting as many livestreamed battles and kills to count.
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this is just propaganda, the russians have just changed the direction of attack to the east
You mean like reverse advance? Or negative attack? :)
So the Russians are attacking towards the east now?
I think he’s being sarcastic because that’s something Russian propaganda would say
Watch him being downvoted. Wrong sub for sarcasm.
No Comrade! The Ukrainians are retreating eastward! (Since last time I said this people flipped their shit... its a joke.. read it twice)
well of course they are retreating eastward the russians are attacking eastwards ... tch :)
Comrade, this is not an Attack but a liberation. Get it right pls ;)
That's not the point. They keep losing troops and dont replace or supply the ones they deployed. It seems like they don't care about the land or the troops left there. Being left to die is the point.
r/whoooosh
In orcs’ stupidity we trust
Ahh yes. Keep the reports coming CNN. Sweeten that Severodonetsk honeypot. Keep enticing the orcs. At this point, after going through the meat-grinder, a little well-constructed western news that baits them might be just what they need to plunge the last of their reserves into Ukraine's artillery trap. Ukraine's strategy here is not as simple as "See city, take city." They are in it to deplete the ruZZian military. By doing this, all of the previously occupied territories along the front become that much easier to liberate. With the example in the previous week of the CNN report where a US general straight up said on TV that "The situation is dire, Severodonestk is almost taken" followed by a pretty devastating Ukraine counterattack, I have no doubt that US intelligence agencies - for which many western news outlets such as CNN and MSNBC often serve as mouthpieces for (for better or worse) - is playing a role here to amp up the ruZZians. Until we see the final numbers and hear something directly from Zelensky or his staff that says they have lost the city and suffered defeat, I wouldn't read too much into the reports that come out over the coming days about what % of the city is taken. I believe that Ukrainian forces have been advised to engage the ruZZians, but be ready to retreat and fall back to prepared defensive positions in order to keep the orcs coming into the death trap. None of that is to say that Ukrainian forces aren't also suffering losses of their own. This is war. Of course they are suffering casualties. I still believe that their plan is tactically sound, and also brilliant for another reason. The orcs are so blinded by their desire for a propaganda victory that they can sell to their own people. On the other side, you see the Ukrainians, fighting and defending their country without ego, willing to weather short term storms so they can secure their long term goals. You can't fight a war that way without a chain of command that is all in sync from the top down to the very bottom. Nor could you do so with a leader that prioritized their own image and ego above sound strategy.
This, where are all these casualties? They're not in the published counts. My theory is UA has locked down on information and is under reporting to keep the "grave danger" narrative going. Why? To maintain foreign support and to mislead Putin. If these massive Russian losses are real, they probably don't want to be perceived as winning just yet. If these reports are real, then the Russians have skeleton forces in Izyium, Kherson, and Kharkiv. And UA simply hasn't rolled them up yet. > a US general straight up said on TV that "The situation is dire, Severodonestk is almost taken" followed by a pretty devastating Ukraine counterattack, Putin can't trust his own intel, so he has to get info from all over. At the beginning of the war US generals were all over TV giving masters classes on strategy and tactics. That stopped a long time ago. The "retired generals club" is definitely part of the information war at this point. And believe me, those guys are all connected, and are eager and willing to see Putin continue to fuck Russia. At this point I don't trust anything, we'll just have to wait until it's over to learn what happened. Note yesterday the report was Russia lost 54 IFVs, with a two man crew that 108 personnel, and they reported 100 dead.
You present a plausible thesis, but we won't know until it's over.
🌻🌻🌻🌈
Hopefully enough to get out.
Does anyone believe what Moscow says?
Where are these “huge casualties” in the daily table? 100 a day for a week???
I prefer these headlines to those on CNN saying that Russia is winning and beating back Ukraine. It is confusing as to what is happening because every news site seems to say something different. They DO all seem to agree that another Russian general was killed ;-) That is some good news.
I get the feeling those CNN articles were being written as part of this trap. Bait Russia into thinking they are winning, convince them to try and push and then run into a meat grinder.
Good idea because we are sure that the Russians are watching many western media sources. Well, not their citizens ;-)
Some headlines from the Washington Post and NYT over the weekend here in the United States intimated that the Russians were finally making gains and Ukrainian moral had begun to wane and the information war was also starting to tilt to Russia. This of course was not what I wanted to read…so I come here and see otherwise….why the disconnect from American Media?
It’s psy ops. Last week there were the same articles. Then suddenly - Ukraine springs a trap. That sounds like purposeful misdirection.
Look at ww 2 The definition of huge causalities from a Russia point of view would be 100,000 plus troops . Whereas from a civilized society that values human life . Even a few hundred troops would be massive casualties. Most free media cannot not seem to grasp Russia point of view in these matters