re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Darth claims to be neutral and looking at this from a historical perspective. However, he only follows pro-Russia leaning sources like Big Serge

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You’re wrong kid. But by claiming this it allows you to continue to refuse to accept the reality of the situation. I follow sources from both sides of this war because I fully understand that propaganda is a weapon of war being used by both sides. The only way to come close to understanding the true nature of the war is to look at what both sides are saying, sift though the BS, and come to a conclusion based on your best educated guess given the limited amount of information available.

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Therefore his analysis is flawed but like most historians he will not admit it.

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When have I made a claim on this war that has proven wrong? I’m still the same as I’ve been since the start of this war, namely a strictly neutral observer, giving my opinion based solely on my knowledge of military & political history and strategy based on over 40 years of deep study on both subjects. I have no emotional attachment for either Russia or Ukraine. If anything, I’m far more anti-Russia than I am pro-Ukraine, based on the fact I was taught from Childhood in the 1970s that Russia is our enemy. I have no desire to see the Russians win this war.

But I also have to give my honest assessment of the situation. And that assessment is it’s a physical impossibility for Ukraine to push Russia out of its borders. And in fact, the longer this war continues, the deeper into Ukraine Russia will push. And if the war is allowed to go on long enough, Ukraine faces military collapse. The time has come for Ukraine to find an off-ramp to this war because there is no way left to it for them to favorably influence the outcome by means of armed resistance. Each day that passes, their situation will worsen. The time has come for the Western Powers, to use diplomacy to put pressure on Russia to come to the table and negotiate in an earnest manner. Will it be easy? No. It will require statecraft on a level thus far seemingly absent in Western leaders. But when the alternative is eventual collapse on the part of Ukraine, it’s the best hope for some sort of acceptable peace.

I don’t say this because it’s the outcome I want. I say that because it’s reality. It’s the reality that’s playing out right now. You see the same reports I do. Even the most pro-Ukrainian sources report daily of Russian gains. Just yesterday I posted an article from the Kyiv Post where the top Ukrainian commander openly admits they’re already in trouble. I’m sorry this pains you. But all you accomplish when you make asinine posts attacking me as some sort of pro-Russian stooge is to make yourself look like a complete arse.

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Mobilization has finally finished off the motivation of Ukrainians to defend the country, and the lack of demobilization leads to negative consequences at the front, when entire brigades leave their positions. Morale and motivation in the Armed Forces of Ukraine after two years of confrontation with the Russian Armed Forces is now the lowest in the entire history of Ukraine. The main reasons for this state of affairs are as follows:

•The Armed Forces of Ukraine have a critical shortage of manpower; some brigades have 30–40% of their personnel left. At the same time, they do not hope for mobilization at the front; even if there are reserves, it will not be until the fall. Moreover, Ukrainian men do not want to fight;

•The West is not able to provide Ukraine with military assistance in the volumes it needs. The US allocation of additional funding came too late and will no longer help Kyiv. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are still capable of slowing down the advance of the Russian army, but they can no longer win;

•the leadership style of Commander-in-Chief Syrsky, which the troops call the “paralyzing effect of a butcher.” The appointment of a general to the post of commander-in-chief has lowered morale in the Ukrainian army, since Syrsky puts the task at the forefront, and he does not care how this will be achieved.

Another serious problem is that there is growing discontent in the Ukrainian army that Zelensky and the Verkhovna Rada have made military serfs who will never receive demobilization. As the military themselves say, they now have only “four roads” from the front: Death, Captivity, Desertion, Disability. In fact, when the authorities removed demobilization from the bill on tightening mobilization, they reset the already low morale of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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WeeWee

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Get a hold of yourself. You are babbling nonsensically and embarrassing yourself. You’re too emotionally attached to this war to look at it from a reasonable perspective.

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All of that was done when US aid was stalled. US aid has cleared now.

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Are we supposed to pretend that "all of the was done" didn't happen when Europe sent over $50B? Does only American funding/support help Ukraine?

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given Ukraine's inability to push Russia back and Russia's increasing ability to push Ukraine back, Russia will slowly continue to gain ground

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Russian gains will start snowballing.

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WeeWee Get a hold of yourself. You are babbling nonsensically and embarrassing yourself. You’re too emotionally attached to this war to look at it from a reasonable perspective.

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Incorrect. Just because someone uses cuss words doesn’t mean doesn’t mean they’re upset. Sorry for calling you out on your BS. I forgot that the old people like you are as a stubborn as a donkey on a cold day. You are saying that I am emotional because I hit the nail on the head with you. I don’t have the time to do it, but I am sure that if you look at your post history over the war that with the exception of the Ukrainian breakthrough in Kharkiv in 2022 your posts are based off of sources like Big Serge who has finally dropped the pretense of being neutral. Of course I doubt your stubborn old self is willing to do that.

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Incorrect. Just because someone uses cuss words doesn’t mean doesn’t mean they’re upset. Sorry for calling you out on your BS. I forgot that the old people like you are as a stubborn as a donkey on a cold day. You are saying that I am emotional because I hit the nail on the head with you. I don’t have the time to do it, but I am sure that if you look at your post history over the war that with the exception of the Ukrainian breakthrough in Kharkiv in 2022 your posts are based off of sources like Big Serge who has finally dropped the pretense of being neutral. Of course I doubt your stubborn old self is willing to do that.

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Good lord. I quoted the guy one time and now you think I’m his disciple. Again, get a hold of yourself.

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Him, LSU Pilot, Lee B, and DNC Tiger get in their feelings really hard on this. You can tell the war isn't going well by how often they are lashing out... or in Lee B's case how often he goes on paragraphs long diatribes about how he met the Mayor of Shreveport in 1957 and that even then they talked about how important Ukraine was to Louisiana

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I get it. It’s never good for any peoples to find themselves under Russian control. And I personally have no love for Russia either. I spent the last part of my teens waiting to meet them in the Fulda Gap. But I also don’t understand the almost fanatical devotion some have for Ukraine. For some perspective, our country was founded in 1776. So we’re roughly 247 years old as a country today. In those 247 years, Ukraine has been a part of Russia for all but the last 32 years. And the fact it was a part of Russia during those other 215 years had zero impact on the US.

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Are we supposed to pretend that "all of the was done" didn't happen when Europe sent over $50B? Does only American funding/support help Ukraine?

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America allocates funds in the form of weapon transfers. The $ covers the weapons that need replacement.

It's not the money that counts, it's the ammunition and weapons that count. And an awful lot of weapons are heading to Ukraine / already in theater.