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Posted: 11:48 - 14 Apr 2024 Post subject: |
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Particularly low blow even for the Russians:
Ukraine war: Russian double-tap strikes hit civilians then rescuers too
tl;dr fire artillery/missiles at civilians, wait for emergency services to turn up, fire again Fuck UN conventions, this doesn't even square with what Putin's said in the past about post-conflict Ukrainian-Russian relations.
As far as we can tell the best case scenario for the Russians is to steal annex Luhansk & Donetsk, add Zaporizhzhia & Kherson in the peace talks and form a new Russian region of "East Ukraine." Install puppet pro-Russian government in Kyiv. Job done, let's go home lads.
These sort of very explicit targeting of civilians may demoralise but regardless of how the war turns out I can see Russians of all walks of life needing to watch their backs for one or two generations ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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BBC surmises 50000 Russian soldiers have died since the conflict began. Sounds pretty bad but they don't say how many Ukranians have died.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-68819853
An American intelligence has it's own ideas. President Zelensky has said 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since 2022. US officials, however, believe at least 70,000 have died and many more are injured.
Ukraine are lowering the conscription age from 27 to 25 to get some new cannon fodder for the front line.
I can see the US scaling back support for Ukraine even if Trump doesn't get in and if he does Ukraine can say bye bye to US support. It will be interesting to see if the EU (especially Germany) throw more weapons at Ukraine to make up for the US deficit but it's not likely. The EU can talk the talk but they won't walk the walk when it costs them so much.
In reality I can see Ukraine forced to the negotiating table by the end of the year.
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Kawasaki Jimbo wrote: | If NATO overstepped its remit and went to war with Russia when Russia hasn’t attacked a NATO country, Putin would have carte blanche to attack whoever he wanted to. Right now there are red lines. You really have swallowed the EU Kool-Aid.
The UK is helping Ukraine, it’s providing equipment and financial support, and probably intelligence too, but it is sensibly not sending UK armed forces into battle.
The Russians don’t have air superiority anyway, in part thanks to ground-based defences. |
That is the problem. Why Biden and Scholtz are creating imaginary red lines? NATO and the West are creating our own red lines. This is the worts strategy ever helping Putin not NATO.
Thank god for Macron and David Cameron. Instead of creating our own red line we should have strategic uncertainty not helping Putin by creating red lines and saying what we will never do. The US has failed miserably implementing nuclear deterrance principle. Instead Putin is doing nuclear blackmail now, because of the miserable red lines crap.
The only leader we have now working for NATO and Ukraine to win is Macron.
Macron has embraced the concept of strategic uncertainty.
The purpose is to deter an adversary by complicating its risk assessment. If Russia knows for sure if French or other NATO troops are or will be deployed, it can calculate accordingly. Russia can make its next move knowing where NATO’s chess pieces are or how they will be moved next. But if Russia does not know, calculations become more difficult.
Not creating no fly zone was big strategic mistake because of the weak Biden leadership. If we had Ronald Reagan this war could have been prevented. ____________________ Adrian Monk: Unless I'm wrong, which, you know, I'm not...
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