re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Lyman has fallen to invading AFU forces. Ukrainian sources reporting majority of Russians had withdrawn by today. Russia reestablishing lines to the east.

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Close to half it only 1500 there, have assumed room temperature. Those trying to breakout left all of the weapons on the highway leading out and ran through the woods. Ukraine has already mined the road.

How were your several years spent in 6th grade?

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Unfortunately it appears the Ukrainian terrorists now illegally control the Lyman for the time being.

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Nice

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“Possession is 9/10th the law” comes to mind…..

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"Possession is 9/10th the law” comes to mind…..

But you have to be able to hold it to claim it’s yours.

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But if you touch it while yelling "my germs", the previous owner may relinquish it voluntarily.

Just trying to give Brian some words of encouragement.

https://ukrainianweek.com/Politics/41735

Did you read the article you posted? Ukrainians pretend to be Russian because Russians bully Ukrainians.

2nd time in a row he’s owned himself

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Looks to me like retaking Severodonetsk from the NW is viable

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One of the things that will be happening right now is that a repair car is going along the railroad from Izyum to Lyman, looking for any mines and fixing any damaged tracks. It should be complete by tonight.

So, tomorrow, Ukraine will have a direct rail connection from Kharkiv to Lyman, and trains full of new equipment and fresh troops will come to a new forward operating base there at Lyman to continue the push east. Those same trains will return to Kharkiv with damaged equipment (mostly Russian) for service and repair.

I think some Russians got out of Lyman, but a lot of them didn't. As I said earlier, I think this may have been the bloodiest day of the war. And even though it's likely that several times as many Russians died as Ukrainians, this kind of intense combat almost certainly means a number of Ukrainian casualties as well.

But I don't think that Russia got any heavy equipment out. They waited too late. I am going to guess that 100-200 tanks, artillery, big trucks, and other equipment was destroyed or taken by Ukrainian forces.

Lyman was clearly cooked several days ago, but Russia not only refused an orderly retreat, but actually sent reinforcements to Lyman ... and I think that means that they don't have much left to protect Svatove and Kreminna. I think that the improved Ukrainian logistics now mean that Ukraine can stay in Russia's operational shadow, continually hitting Russia before Russia has a chance to regroup and prepare any new defensive lines.

I don't know exactly how long it's going to take (maybe 2-4 weeks?), but I'm certain that Ukraine is now going to take Starobilsk and collapse Russian control over all of northern Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.

The only real question is whether or not Russia will still have enough heavy weaponry to stop Ukraine at the Feb 23rd lines. Personally, I don't think so, as I think that the losses at Izyum and now at Lyman, and the future losses at Kreminna, Svatove, Lysychansk, and Severodonetsk will leave Russia without much of anything to use at that point.

By the way, the capture of Lyman doesn't only improve the Ukrainian logistics for this push further east. It also now provides a straight rail connection from Kharkiv all the way to Bakhmut. One of the reasons that Russia has had some success pushing westward there was that the Ukrainian logistical situation there was simply bad, and that's not true anymore.

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which is only possible because we are funding it.

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i thought all of our funding wasnt even going to the war but literally straight to zelensky

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but literally straight to zelensky

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Then Hunter Biden

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"We love America -- we just hate our government."

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You mean the literal creed of the entire Poli Board any time a Democrat is in office?

Including advocating and supporting domestic terrorism/insurrection after losing an election?

I guess your name says it all, but I like how you decided to go back 40 years to talk about some caricature of a group that holds zero power in American politics instead of your own party that embodies every one of those talking points. You know, the party that is actually banning the teaching of history in classrooms and banning books that don’t paint America with a false narrative

There’s a reason Tucker and Fox News skew on the side of authoritarians like Orban and Putin, and it’s not because they love America and believe in its ideals

Also, by the very structure of the constitution America does not reflect the will of its people. No country where a majority of the population can vote for the highest office and that candidate loses, or a majority of people in a state vote for one party and the opposite party gain a super majority despite that, claim they represent the will of the people.